Guild Wars 2

I’m making this post here because it effects the entirety of the game. PvE, PvP and WvW are all effected.

There are currently two “bugs” in the game that are ruining the experience of a lot of players.

The first one revolves around the incredible damage engineers can pull off with grenades. While it might not have as much an impact in PvE it’s making PvP pretty trivial.

The second bug revolves around guardians shouts stacking quickness and damage.This impacts all parts of the game, especially WvW where large blobs of players can take a gate down in under 30 seconds with just melee weapons.

For a game that takes PvP seriously, and is pushing hard for it to be competitive and fun I’m astonished these bugs have not been patched yet. I think a lot of players who’ve played E-sport type games will concur that if there’s a game breaking bug/exploit/build most companies would be quick to address it with a hot fix.

Again, these things effect all phases of the game, I suppose people aren’t really complaining about the PvE effects because everyone benefits from more loot, but when it starts to diminish the enjoyably of the other game modes I think something should be done.

Just my opinions, feel free to respectfully disagree.

The bug has only been around since the big patch, and they are buried in a set of conditionals. With the way code works in most games, you can have something totally unrelated to the feature causing the problem, as state monitoring in games is nothing short of voodoo magic.

As a fact of life, knowing a bug exists, and wanting to fix it, are not the only steps to fixing the code.

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As for E-Sports, the only difference between an exploit and a strategy is if the other team is using it. Its nice to see PvP get a taste of the “we changed this thing, and now your game mode sucks” situation that WvW has suffered for the better part of 3 years.

Except WvW gets to have some fun with the bug for a change.

I came in expecting to see something about the candy corn nodes that are STILL popping up since they started the Halloween celebrations 2 YEARS AGO

grifflyman.8102:

I think a lot of players who’ve played E-sport type games will concur that if there’s a game breaking bug/exploit/build most companies would be quick to address it with a hot fix.

You clearly have never played Starcraft 2.

The guardian shouts were fixed already… It’s symbolic avenger that’s bugged.

Video of gates being melted in 30 seconds with no siege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nAIZpVcguY

Video of guardians doing insane damage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlU76B50hvs

grifflyman.8102:

Video of gates being melted in 30 seconds with no siege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nAIZpVcguY

Yes but it’s not shouts. Before you start calling out bugs know your stuff.

While I have personally retired my grenade Engineers until the hyper damage bugs are fixed, I have no issues with people continuing to play their favorite characters.

Anet have said that they know, and are not likely to ban the people using these bugged skills.

Hopefully they are fixed soon but anything beyond how I play is out of my hands.

They just disabled the symbolic avenger trait (the one that causes the stacking bug in guardians) pending a fix for next scheduled release.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Update-Symbolic-Avenger-Trait/first#post5238515