Guild Wars 2

Hi there, i’m writing about a possible bug/exploit with the Arcane Wave skill. It happened more than once in Wv3 that looking at the combat log i could see 5 different damages dealt to me with the same arcane wave. there were obviously coming from a single cast because everytime i saw it i’m sure there was only one elementalist. Anyone else noticed it?

Could you post a screenie next time it happens?

That does sound a bit strange, I’ve never noticed that. I do remember in TERA the Priest’s AoE skills would hit multiple times if the target was right in their face. I don’t know that Arcane Wave is supposed to work that way, though lol.

Are you sure you’re actually taking that damage?

It could be a combat log bug. I’ve never had arcane wave hit more than once.

Don’t know the situation, but if there’s enough chaos you might only be seeing 1 ele of many that are performing a group Arcane Wave spike.

Shockwave.1230:

Don’t know the situation, but if there’s enough chaos you might only be seeing 1 ele of many that are performing a group Arcane Wave spike.

This would be my guess. Culling ftl.

Shockwave.1230:

Don’t know the situation, but if there’s enough chaos you might only be seeing 1 ele of many that are performing a group Arcane Wave spike.

A well coordinated Ele Army?

Arcane Wave is a combo finisher so it wouldn’t surprise me if you were hit by multiple invisible elementalist at the same time.

Don’t list these kinds of bugs until we get real fixes…. aw man…. now we are going to get another nerf next week…. Not only are we repetitively told that firing behind us is bad (it’s magic….. why not?) but now this? At this rate they are going to give us another nerf like after BWE2 before we even get a buff….

I’m mostly kidding. Any bug fix is a good bug fix, but what about the negative ones? Huh?!

I’ll post a screen if i see that again. Anyway even if i’m not sure i actually took the damage or if it’s only a combat log bug, i AM sure they were coming from a single elementalist. I think it’s pretty impossible to land everytime 5 perfectly consecutive attacks like that: in the combat log they were stated all in a row, even if i was attacked by multiple enemies. I’ll look again for it.

Well, I can think of a way to get 4 arcane hits right in a row, but circumstances would have to allow it. Arcane blast, wave, shield, and the shield from 25% hp trait. I don’t know if the combat log would show it as such, though.