Guild Wars 2

Some of my guildies and myself were wondering if Mossman is currently acting as intended.

Now I’m sure everyone knew it was easy to bug him pre-patch, and many people might not have fought him legit prior to this patch.

But from my numerous experiences before the 28th, when Mossman came out of stealth he would give you time to react to either dodge his Axe Throws or his Charge-up melee attack.

After the 28th patch, the two times I have fought him now, I’ve noticed alot of times you will get hit before you even see him come out of stealth, like he is charging his melee attack while stealthed and hitting you the same time he unstealths.

Was wondering if anyone else noticed this change and if the devs were aware of this and if it was acting as intended. Not sure if it was an un-intended bug like the Ice Elemental causing agony before you even had time to react or if it was an intentional change.

Don’t think this is a bug but instead a buff. And yes it is new

i didnt fight him yet.. is this new attack thing confirmed all the time happening or just once?

randomfightfan.4091:

Don’t think this is a bug but instead a buff. And yes it is new

I dont think being attacked by something that you cant see is ever intended. I just think its divine retribution for all the times people have been bugging him.

I should also let you know that he is still easy as he maintains a single target all the time so that one guy can kite him around the hut and be fine. Is how I owned him on my thief

Ioflux.4369:

randomfightfan.4091:

Don’t think this is a bug but instead a buff. And yes it is new

I dont think being attacked by something that you cant see is ever intended. I just think its divine retribution for all the times people have been bugging him.

THIS!!!!!

I have the same… issue?… feature?

Also, I have not noticed it before, but we had several instances when mossman just came out, spawned 2 wolves then dissapear. Did it like 6-7 times in a row. Then appeared like at the other side of the Map. I am not sure if it is intended or not as the wolves do nothing, Mossman (luckily) does not heal meanwhile and no matter how quickly you kill the wolves, they just spawn and spawn…

the wolves are a good thing fyi. easily kitable, easily killable (even when downed) and provide a free rally.

I think he just got mad that everyone bugs him 24/7 and started taking advantage of the fact he’s invsisible.

Ioflux.4369:

randomfightfan.4091:

Don’t think this is a bug but instead a buff. And yes it is new

I dont think being attacked by something that you cant see is ever intended. I just think its divine retribution for all the times people have been bugging him.

You must not have ever played WvW.

Writetyper.1985:

I think he just got mad that everyone bugs him 24/7 and started taking advantage of the fact he’s invsisible.

lol maybe, still waiting on a dev to see if it’s really intended or not.

Churchill.8714:

Ioflux.4369:

randomfightfan.4091:

Don’t think this is a bug but instead a buff. And yes it is new

I dont think being attacked by something that you cant see is ever intended. I just think its divine retribution for all the times people have been bugging him.

You must not have ever played WvW.

You must not realize that they are trying to fix the culling cause its not intended for people to be killed by things that hasnt loaded on their screen. Try harder.

Then why is culling present in PVE zones now? And why is it now worse in WvW?

Churchill.8714:

Then why is culling present in PVE zones now? And why is it now worse in WvW?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intended

I think the results show the true intention.

Clearly having trouble fixing a bug/issue means its intended till they fix it.

i find him to be an annoying punk now more-so then the hungerbloom, however if anything was changed i’d be happy with a simple ‘cooldown’ on his stealth ability so he is forced to spend a certain amount of time visible before being able to use it again.

It’s not so bad. Previously he followed you for minutes if you avoided him by looking at the boss icon on the map, now after a while he gets out without a contact.

I was taken by surprise yesterday too as we did him on level 33 and people were constantly dying to him.

We’d done him conventionally a number of times before and couldn’t exactly point out what was going wrong.

This would explain a lot.

I think it’s about a 5 second invis cooldown? My timing was a hair off but I think a well timed evade when he is about to pop solves this? I’m not sure but I think that works if timed well.