Hi!
Could you check XII trait in chaos (Prismatic Understanding). It looks like it isn’t working at all. It didn’t cloak me for longer. Also does this trait only affect user or everyone else?
Thank you.
Be aware that PU doesn’t lenghten the duration of The Prestige, and that is intended.
@loseridoit : spatial surge used to have way more than “in line” AoE on objects (not PC/NPC). On HotW C1 boss, you could hit all of the totems from anywhere in the room (which shouldn’t be possible as they are in triangle formation). Now it doesn’t, it has way less of a lateral range.
As for blurred inscription : no it doens’t work on anything but F4. I just (re)tried it to be extra sure
Been this way since beta, I’m no dev but I think it is the expected behaviour.
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Well, it gives the same effect, with the same effect icon. One would think it’s the same thing 
Facts are: Masterful Reflection works only on F4, nothing else.
On another topic : is it me or Spatial Surge’s AoE against objects (such as training dummies or door) got reduced ? It was “ludicrous” before, now it just seem “quiet lenient”.
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Attack a keep and you get 10pts. Hold the keep for the second hour and you get +2 points. Holding a keep for each additional hour after the second will net you +1 point. Defending a keep against invaders that spawn orange swords will give you +5pts once per hour.
This way if you actually played the game the way it was meant to be played and actually defended an objective you would be rewarded. If you capture a point you’re still rewarded. If you run unopposed for 8 hours, when people login later in the day to reclaim the tower, they’ve effectively countered all the points you contributed by doing nothing but capping points and alt+tabing and reading the forums all day.
And then best way to maintain a lead is to totally abandon the map to the ennemy. He’ll get some starting points and virtually nothing after those. Yay for metagame
Just think about something : why are those people unopposed ? Because you (as in “your world’s players”, not you personnally) weren’t there. Why should they be punished for you not defending your map ?
It being inconvenient for you isn’t a balance issue.
@ those who cry about the confusion nerf : let’s wait and see how far they nerf it before complaining, please. We could very well see a mere 5% reduction in confusion damage, wich wouldn’t kill any spec. Not saying it’ll happen, just that we don’t know. No point in crying before being hurt
1. Seems to use your own stats, but tbc. At least it has an independant critical roll (can critic when caught projectile didn’t).
2. You get alls econdary effects. Yes, you can create clones if you catch a scepter attack from another mesmer
3. Invincibility doesn’t block friendly projectiles, so at least you can catch things like wind of chaos bounce while distorting. Couldn’t test it on ennemy pojectile yet, or with an aegis up. Glad custom arena’s are coming, it’ll help science a lot
Not sure if mentioned before or if this is a new bug introduced 2-3 patches ago.
Illusions/copies will, occasionally, attack non-targeted mobs, be they hostile or yellow. One instance was yesterday in Vexa’s lab they were attacking sharks instead of the kill-bot upon summon through the glass floor hexes. Other times it will happen in the open world with mobs in close proximity (<20m). This can be deadly if your are in a very close fight.
Clones summoned by Deceptive Evasion always behaved like that. They attack the closest elligible target, not your selected target. Dunno if it is that you are witnessing, just saying.
Anyone else seeing a checker board when their clones shatter? cuz i sure am
This bug has already been mentionned, and confirmed by ANet
Quaggan happy. Quaggan has guild merit now, foo!
Wrong ? I rather like it, personally. But it is good you posted the screenshots, it’ll help people make an informed choice
I don’t know if this is specific to Mesmers or just stealth in general (since I don’t use thief I’m not sure if this applies to everyone). But the elementalist’s lighting attack (the auto attack with the dagger I think it is – the one with the beam of lighting) seems to stay on you for a good couple of seconds even while in stealth. It doesn’t do a target reset which is very frustrating because if you get hit by it and try to decoy or mass invis that beam will stay on you and follow you around (while doing dmg) and by the time it wears off or whatever, your stealth time is up lol. A bit silly, and it’s been around for a long time now (several months). Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet.
It is the same for all channeled skills. Our Spatial Surge and Confusing Images behave the same. Still a bug, but not specific to a class
And this is why you find that in the bug thread
iLeap isn’t a stun, merely a cripple (well, not even anymore) followed by an imobilize. So any condition cleanse will allow you to walk out of blurred frenzy range. The mesmer is rooted while doing it, like the warrior HB, so he’ll just hack & slice air while you get your CD back
Tested it as proposed (steady weapon, no trait), it works with clones.
Edit : in fact, it doesn’t. My test sample was just too small 
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Excuse me ? avoidance through clones? You must have a different GW2 than me because when I use clones, the mobs just run straight through to me.
In some rare cases the do attack the clone.
When downed mesmers now even more can lay still and wait to die (just like Necro’s) coz the mobs just keeps on hitting you, the teleport is insufficient to give any advantage, if they now even look less at your invisibility, well I’m getting totally disappointed in the mesmer
In beta, the mobs indeed saw through our clones. But since release, they aggro clones just fine. Not always, mind you, but we aggro rarely enough to be nigh unkillable in PvE as stated.
But yeah, now when downed, we’ll probably die. Like almost every class out there, so it hurts, but it isn’t necessarily undeserved.
Couldn’t make it this time. Did you finally get Grenth ?
also it would be nice if you was able to reflect moamorph(unsure if possible), and then echo(if possible(unsure)) it again after, and then make your moamorph
I doubt you can reflect it, since ANet stance on Elite is that they can’t be reflected (Dagger Storm was adjusted for that). As for the capture, you’ll need to try to catch it while invincible, and tell us the results, as that’s the only case I didn’t try (silly me). Disclaimer : no other case worked.
Casting Echo after absorbing a friendly projectile will apply the projectile’s effect on yourself. As with absorbing enemy projectiles, the initial projectile still applies its effect on you; essentially giving you a second helping of its effect.
Perhaps this has been discovered already (in which case I feel stupid for not realising and making such a big deal about it), but… well, I know I’ll be seriously considering adding Mimic to my builds.
Already mentionned in the post about which skilled ared underused
About the effect of echoed bouncing projectiles : behaviour depend of the projectile and of Illusionnary Elasticity.
- Siren’s call w/o IE (3 targets) grant you a boon and that’s it. With IE (4 targets), it gives a boon then strike the foe. Given you capture at the second strike, without IE it should do the same as with IE, and with IE it should hit one more target.
- WoC w/ and w/o IE (2 and 3 targets) : gives you a boon, no projectile fired.
- Mirror Blade : can be caught, but do nothing, with or w/o IE.
- Magic Bullet, with mimicer and shooter having IE : you “lose” one bounce. You catch the stun, you inflict daze, blind and confusion. You catch confusion : you get nothing.
Other cool facts :
- mimic reload while echo is active. You can fire echo and catch another missile immediately if you waited long enough.
- echo doesn’t seem to have a timer, or a very long one. I kept a projectile more than 30 minutes for the test, fired alright.
- echo isn’t split between underwater and on land. A projectile can’t be fired outside of it’s natural environment, but you can still get the side effects. You can catch a WoC and get a boon from it underwater. A Siren’s Call will give you the boon too, but even with IE it won’t fire anything.
- echo display a 1200 range, but for boucing projectiles, you need to be slightly under bouncing range to get the shot, so more like 400 in most cases.
- mimicing a bouncing projetcile prevent the original one from bouncing any further. Catch a magic bullet as first target (with stability, obviously), and no one will get dazed or blinded. Exception : Mirror Blade. Because Mirror blade is just weird.
- you can mimic reflected projectiles, and reflect echoed projectiles. Seems obvious, but mesmers knows what “unexpected behaviour” means :P
- echoed projectile get it’s own critical roll (verified) and critical bonuses (to be tested further). You can catch a standard killshot and make it a critical one. If you survived, that is. Try it on snipers in Caudecus Manor, you can do more than 10k on trash mob
- you can catch projectiles while under stability (necessary to catch stunning or KDing missiles), and you can catch at least friendly boucing projectiles while invulnerable.
- for targetted projectiles, merely getting in the way won’t do. You have to be the target to catch the missile. Can’t stress enough the importance of having the aggro for an efficient use of mimic.
Now, more tests can be done :
- Effects of all boucing projectiles of the game, to consolidate the behaviour. Is it really on a projectile basis, or can a trend be determined ?
- Can we catch an ennemy missile while invincible ? If yes, can we catch and echo Moa Morph ? (for maximum trolling capability)
- While catching ennemy mesmer bouncing projectiles, is the opponent having IE relevant ?
- Are the modifiers from traits conserved by mimic ? Does an opening strike from a ranger keep the vulnerability when echoed ? Does an ennemy Siren’s Call with IE strikes back the ennemy even when you don’t have IE ?