Guild Wars 2

In the mists near some golems I found that the Big Ol’ Bomb does not actually work as a blast finisher either in or out of combat. I also found that Throw Mine and Mine Field, both listed as blast finishers, are not (the setup parts, not the detonate parts). Is this intended and the tool-tips are wrong, or are the skills bugged?

Side note: all other fields and finishers worked great.

With the engineer, I can’t be sure.

So many tooltips are just plain wrong that I don’t even trust the description and just rely on testing it myself.

I believe this is a bug. I have yet to trigger a blast finisher with my Big ’Ol Bomb, either.

I might be derping here, but do you mean to say that you expected setting up mines (i.e. not exploding the mines) to be a blast finisher? Do you expect setting up the mines to do damage too?

As for Big Ol’ Bomb not being a blast finisher, it has to be a bug. And yeah, a lot of our tooltips and traits don’t work properly (Elite Supplies, Rifle Mod, Tool kit not helping tool belt recharge, etc., etc.)

PotatoOverdose.6583:

I might be derping here, but do you mean to say that you expected setting up mines (i.e. not exploding the mines) to be a blast finisher? Do you expect setting up the mines to do damage too?

As for Big Ol’ Bomb not being a blast finisher, it has to be a bug. And yeah, a lot of our tooltips and traits don’t work properly (Elite Supplies, Rifle Mod, Tool kit not helping tool belt recharge, etc., etc.)

For mines the tool-tips say the finisher will work for both deployment and detonation. It does not work for deployment, so either the skill or the tool-tip is wrong. I expect blast finishers to work only on detonation, and that the tool-tip is wrong. I’m just bringing it to ANet’s attention now that they have official forums.

Eviator.9746:

PotatoOverdose.6583:

I might be derping here, but do you mean to say that you expected setting up mines (i.e. not exploding the mines) to be a blast finisher? Do you expect setting up the mines to do damage too?

As for Big Ol’ Bomb not being a blast finisher, it has to be a bug. And yeah, a lot of our tooltips and traits don’t work properly (Elite Supplies, Rifle Mod, Tool kit not helping tool belt recharge, etc., etc.)

For mines the tool-tips say the finisher will work for both deployment and detonation. It does not work for deployment, so either the skill or the tool-tip is wrong. I expect blast finishers to work only on detonation, and that the tool-tip is wrong. I’m just bringing it to ANet’s attention now that they have official forums.

From my perspective it seems more like a common sense thing, but w/e.

PotatoOverdose.6583:

From my perspective it seems more like a common sense thing, but w/e.

Of course it’s common sense! My OP was rhetorical. Let me be more overt so that nobody else thinks I’m an idiot:

ArenaNet: The throw mine tool-tips are inaccurate as they are not blast finishers. On the other hand, if you wanted throw mine to be blast finishers, please make them so.

Jeez.

BoB, when it did work as a blast finisher, did so immediately on its deployment, and not one its actual explosion. So it would allow one to believe mines could do the same.

Eviator.9746:

In the mists near some golems I found that the Big Ol’ Bomb does not actually work as a blast finisher either in or out of combat. I also found that Throw Mine and Mine Field, both listed as blast finishers, are not (the setup parts, not the detonate parts). Is this intended and the tool-tips are wrong, or are the skills bugged?

Side note: all other fields and finishers worked great.

You should certainly push ESC, go into Support, and click Report Bug, filling out the appropriate details on these skills.

I’m pretty sure some of the tooltips are wrong.

And on the other hand, some skills aren’t working correctly.

the Big O’l Bomb did work as a blaster finsiher before as you can see here.

sadly it doesnt work anymore =/

Yeah, it didn’t work in BWE3 though. We had a hearty discussion about this on Guru and other forums.

They really need to fix these glaringly broken issues, or at least actually explain what the correct usage is. Forget about class balance until you actually fix what was originally intended to work, and doesn’t.

I still dont know how to pull of combo finishers. >_>