Guild Wars 2

So I was trying out this build last night, which, I realize was made back in September so things may have changed. However, as I was testing it I found that the fire aura created through the combination of Ring of Fire and Magnetic Grasp doesn’t give Fury and Swiftness like the other auras that are actually part of your skill set do. Is this a bug or did they change that?

Honestly, with anet, who knows?

But it was changed without being mentioned in the notes, so we can hope it´s a bug.

if you insist you can make it proc from Zephyr’s boon, but it’s really random like 1 out of 20, it’s a bug.

Alright, Thanks guys. Hopefully they’ll fix it soon then.

I really hope it’s just a bug & the Elementalist gets a large bug fix soon.

I thought only the auras cast from your skill bar give the Fury/Swiftness.

Signets too if you have the trait that procs the fire shield, best part of that trait.

These auras used to activate elemental shielding and zephyr’s boon, but that was changed a while back saying it was unintended.

Navzar.2938:

THese auras used to activate elemental shielding and zephyr’s boon, but that was changed a while back saying it was unintended.

The ‘unintended’ part was about the blast finishers from EA.

Hekmatyar.8725:

Navzar.2938:

THese auras used to activate elemental shielding and zephyr’s boon, but that was changed a while back saying it was unintended.

The ‘unintended’ part was about the blast finishers from EA.

No, they were separate nerfs. Anyway, it was nerfed because players could keep up protection fairly easily using it along with elemental shielding.

Navzar.2938:

Hekmatyar.8725:

Navzar.2938:

THese auras used to activate elemental shielding and zephyr’s boon, but that was changed a while back saying it was unintended.

The ‘unintended’ part was about the blast finishers from EA.

No, they were separate nerfs. Anyway, it was nerfed because players could keep up protection fairly easily using it along with elemental shielding.

I can’t remember anything about this, do you happen to have a link to the exact patch or dev quote? It’d be very disheartening to hear it was another intended nerf.

I thought it was a bug considering it still activates, just not as reliably as it used to.

On second thought, forget what I said, I’m an idiot. I’m still triggering traits from all of my other combo auras… I assumed it was one of their stealth fixes like aura duration.

The bug is with Magnetic Grasp not properly giving Leap finishers, NOT with combo field auras in general. Doing something like a blast finisher in an ice field to give yourself Frost Aura will get you your aura boons every single time. Its just Magnetic Grasp that doesn’t work right with finishers since the last patch.

Whether its an intended fix or a bug is another issue. Magnetic Grasp never listed a Leap finisher in its description, so it may be that they fixed it by removing the leap (and didn’t completely fix it since it still gives you a Leap finisher icon) or it may be that its supposed to be a Leap finisher and they just messed it up when they were trying to fix the “getting stuck” bug.

Weird thing is, the fire shield animation appears, the fire shield effect just doesn’t apply.

Navzar.2938:

Weird thing is, the fire shield animation appears, the fire shield effect just doesn’t apply.

Well, it does apply if you get stuck long enough for it to activate a.k.a, getting self-stunned for around 5 seconds.