New combat tonic transform effect bug with clone spawn?

I've run around a lot in wvw with the olmakhan combat tonic, and since this patch there seems to be some weird bug that lightning flash of the tonic transform every time a clone spawns - even with Deceptive Evasion (and especially annoying with Deceptive Evasion).

I can't pinpoint what is causing it, but assume it has something to do with the new system of moving all tonics to the novelties section?

It makes using combat tonics like this olmakhan tonic (please can other people confirm if this is happening with other combat tonics) kind of unpleasant - because the transform flash effect is always going off with clones spawning. Before this patch this didn't happen.

Edit - for clarity and from a little more testing it seems the clones spawn first and then transform with the associated visual/sound effect (like a lightning flash). Before they would spawn already transformed.