Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I posted this before, but I had to take it down, so I put this post up.

What do you mean it is intended? Did Anet say this? It summons an illusion, therefore it should count. According to the wiki (haven’t tested this) the scepter gets the cooldown reduced only if it blocks, which is strange, but it makes sense seeing as only when it blocks, the illusion is created, however is not reduced properly (another bug). These are annoying and ungrounded exceptions (that is if this is intended). They added IC to 25 points because it was too good of a trait to have so low on the tree, and that makes sense. If a Mesmer is spending so many points on that tree because they want that trait, it’s not honest, correct or appropriate to cripple it by making exceptions that are not grounded with the descriptions of the skills. Such exceptions not in accordance with the descriptions of the skills and traits are bugs and problems in the system that need to be fixed. If fixing means to appropriately reduce the cooldown, or take the illusion summoning aspects of these skills off, then so be it, or maybe the fixing means to reword Illusionist celerity by adding “does not apply to illusionary riposte and illusionary counter” which would be silly, but that’s the current state anyway.

I guess my point is I don’t see this as anything but a bug, since there is no rational explanations within the structure of the Mesmer Profession that supports Illusionist Celerity not reducing the cooldown of illusion summoning skills.

2 things:
Illusionary Riposte (sword off hand) causes daze in a line and has a short cooldown, so it goes well with Runes of Perplexity (dunno if you want to include it in this build though).

Second thing, since you’re doing PU and Mender’s Purity, Mantra of Healing is much much better. You can cast while invisible (not necessary to be honest, but why not since you have PU) and take 2 conditions off instead of 1, every 10~15 seconds.

With the traits Blade Training and Illusionist Celerity equipped, Illusionary Riposte should have a 40% reduced cooldown (9 seconds), but instead only has a 20% reduced cooldown (12 seconds). While the tooltip for sword skills 3, 4 and 5 do not display the correct recharge time, Illusionary Leap and Phantasmal Swordsman register a 40% reduced cooldown with these traits equipped, but Illusionary Riposte does not.

Please fix this bug,
Thank You!

I saw this too, but didn’t really payed too much attention to it.

Stylo.6259:

I was accosted by zombies in IoJ borderland today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spFAP42NQ2o

I loled, Literally

Natronix.9827:

Just got back from Dominican Republic, ready to play again! Rawr.

Wonder hows the match up looking

Cool, where in DR did you go?