Thank you. That explaination helps a lot. There is still one thing confusing me though. In the few raids I have been on, we have been dropping the PAs from so high that I don't think they are attacking at all. They are falling out of "activation range" and just standing there drawing aggro only from their presence. Have we been doing it wrong? Do we need to hover lower (and risk becoming targetted ourselves) in order to keep the phantoms actively attacking?
I suppose the optimum position would be to hover just out of Hami range so that the phantoms would attack as they initially fell while they are still in active range and then could just stand there once they hit the ground. It would be hard to tell when you are at that range without risking getting too low.
I guess the ideal PA dropper would have phase shift. He could phase out and come low to keep the PA active and then rise up out of range and phase in when PA recharged. I doubt there are many illusionists that could do this. I would have trouble justifying taking the invisibility pool when I have invisibility in my primary power set.
Anyway, back to my question. Have we been doing it wrong on the last few raids? Do we need to hover lower so that the phantoms actively attack Hami, at least as they drop, or is it good enough to just keep the phantoms positioned near Hami?