Guild Wars 2

I can understand A-NET not wanting players to circumvent stacking bloodlust on one weapon then equipping another by having a stacking sigil on a water weapon.

But..This fix is no good because if a player is not circumventing and just has a stacking sigil on a water weapon and nothing else. They can stack underwater just fine. When they come out of water they will have thier stacks. Until they swap weapons. Using the weapon swaping function. When I say weapon swaping I am not saying removing weapons and equipping another. Happened on my warrior. When I swapped from my gs to my axe the stacks disappeared.

I’d say, Show the proof. Take a video, or a few screenshots.
Otherwise, you didn’t have the stacks on your current weapon set.

I’ve made a handy video to demonstrate that it is working as intended.
http://youtu.be/bTSVtJYBvOY

How is it supposed to be intended? I can certainly make a video but your video isn’t what I am talking about.

You must not have been aware that. As long as you had a stacking sigil on your water weapon you could stack on land then unequip the weapon and still retain the stacks. This was as recent as last week.

Obviously that is circumventing the new way A-NET wants people to play. Thats fine that needed to be nerfed. Thats not what I am talking about. I am talking about losing stacks do to weapon swapping as seen here.
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UyZw06LG4M

As far as I am aware you only lose stacks if downed or unequipped a weapon neither of which occurred.

Quite obviously, you don’t have a stacking sigil on your land weapons. So what you are seeing is a bug, not a nerf.

Arena Net fixed the exploit that allowed you to maintain your stacks on land by putting a stacking sigil on your water weapons.

So the solution is simple. Make sure you have a stacking sigil on your currently in use weapon set, be it land or water.

On a side note, Arena net was gracious enough to let us keep our stacks, provided we don’t dive below the surface.

It was with the April 15th patch. Now If you switch to a weapon set that doesn’t have bloodlust on it, you will lose your stack. This means, intentionally or not, if your underwater weapons don’t have that sigil also when you go in the water you lose the stack because you are switching to a weapon set that doesn’t have it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_bloodlust
As a result of the April 2014 patch, the Sigil of Bloodlust — and presumably, other “stack on kill” Sigils — have been significantly degraded. If you are an Elementalist, all accumulated stacks are lost any time you change weapons, even if the new weapon has the Sigil of Bloodlust. If you carry dual weapons with Bloodlust Sigils, you no longer get two stacks for each kill. If you are a profession with weapon swap capability, you will retain your accumulated stacks only as long as one of your two weapons has the Sigil of Bloodlust.

The only way to keep your stack is to have one on an underwater weapon and on a land weapon

Astral Projections.7320:

The only way to keep your stack is to have one on an underwater weapon and on a land weapon

As it was intended.