Guild Wars 2

as the title stats,Phoenix returning to me interrupts Evasive Arcana
is this intended?

i love using Scepter/Dagger
it has ridiculous amounts of combos to get up to 25 stacks of might easy
but anytime i use Phoenix,then turn into Earth Attunement to dodge roll/Earthquake/Churning Earth,my Evasive Arcana doesn’t proc,and i often end up bugging out and Earthquake doesn’t even work sometimes

which brings me to the next issue:
anyone else notice this skill’s returning visual effect interrupting or delaying other spellcasts?

When you level up

Phoenix interrupts all dodges. We’re just going to have to plan around the knowledge that it’s going to happen, and try to avoid situations where you need to dodge while phoenix is out.

Yes, this is an extremely annoying bug. I’ve bugreported it a long time ago but nothing changed so far.

I also like to play S/D and combo 6 blast finishers into a monster stack of might, but this bug can make it very clunky at times. It actually killed me several times too.

What I changed is to cast Dragon’s Tooth before Ring of Fire because it has such a long time before it hits and just use Phoenix at point blank range to proc the animation instantly. Then switching to Earth, dodge to proc Evasive Arcana into Earthquake into Churning Earth, with Arcane Wave mixed in somewhere.

This also happens for other classes btw, skill animations cancelling a dodge roll. This actually allowed Guardians to shorten their #1 chain attack when using a Hammer for a while. I really hope this gets fixed sometime soon. What I hope for actually is to switch the targeting system of Dragon’s Tooth and Phoenix, but that’s off topic :P

yes,i use Phoenix at point blank too and it still happens,and Dragon’s Tooth before Ring of Fire
but even off topic
what do you mean about the targeting system?

personally i think Dragon’s Tooth couldn’t be any better
it can hit things past 900 range because of the explosion,and it’s a heavy-hitter fast-recharge that can get past Obstructions

standing with my back against a wall casting it?
i finally feel like a true mage!
it works in the Frozen fractal,aswell,on the boss when he teleports up…
hope that doesn’t get changed

Phoenix shouldn’t have been changed from it’s original intended,though…..when it traveled between players actually FOLLOWING them
right now it’s useless except,as stated,point-blank range,which is stupid for a mid-range weapon on a scholar with no base vitality OR toughness….

off topic: well, it’s just my personal opinion but I would love it if we could cast Dragon’s Tooth ground targeted like Phoenix and have Phoenix just fire at your target. I think it would be a lot more useful like that. Phoenix should then just follow the target until it hits, the player dodges or runs out of range and then return, giving the caster vigor and NOT interrupt his dodge-roll :P

Awesome as it is for the current Dragon’s Tooth to disobey line of sight, I’m afraid that this will change in the future. Necromancer’s Epidemic and Corrupt Boon spells also got changed the same way and before that it were the Mesmer phantasms. This change will make it even harder to hit than it already is. I really hope they won’t break the set instead of fixing it. S/D could do with a tune-up.