Guild Wars 2

Greetings,

I just finished Wollam the Plunderer in Honor of the Waves, and noticed something really awkward with Elixir U, which I only use underwater. It randomly goes on full cooldown for no reason while not giving Quickness, or any of the other negative debuffs. I am unable to replicate it anywhere else, even under lag. As soon as I fight with players nearby for long enough, Elixir U will do nothing – and this is completely random. I have tried everything. Dodging mid cast will put it on normal interrupt cooldown. Knocking myself back puts it on interrupt cooldown.

I’m really at a loss here as I can’t figure out what causes it. It doesn’t seem to be a consistent condition, or set of conditions. I activated Elixir U 12 times during the fight, and 4 times it did not grant Quickness or anything else. Interestingly enough, it didn’t trigger Cleaning Formula 409 either.

I really noticed this yesterday. I use Elixir with grenades on land & it would not give quickness or the negative effect. I would have to play with it more & really pay attention but it happened enough to make me angry. lol

Hah sounds like many rifle skills. Anyways its also been happening to me on slick shoes. If you ever want to make your own life miserable do rifle+elixir u+slick shoes.

I made a post about this a few days ago. i still use elixir u currently i think it still triggers CF409 and HGH but i haven’t noticed im so use to our RNG as it is i just make do with the cards i get dealt.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Post-Patch-Elixir-U-Problems/first#post1529541

It does activate HGH.

Elixir U sometimes doesn’t work for me. I get nothing as OP said. I use Rifle and Elixirs.

Bump! Bump! Bump! Bump!

I’ve tested this quite a lot and it just doesn’t work even when I’m standing still (sometimes) fails a lot! like maybe 3 times out of 10.

Yea, Elixir U, upon activation, frequently does absolutely nothing except trigger the full cooldown. It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m doing.

i dunno if its just me but it seems to have a way higher fail rate if you got the static discharge trait enabled.

also make elixirs not count as projectiles or make them activate even if they are reflected.

It’s not a bug, just a feature to our class rngness. Anet just needs to fix the tooltips to:

Drink Elixir U, gaining quickness and a random utility skill from another profession.

Breaks stun
Quickness
Haste
Frenzy
Nothing

AsmallChicken.9634:

It’s not a bug, just a feature to our class rngness. Anet just needs to fix the tooltips to:

Drink Elixir U, gaining quickness and a random utility skill from another profession.

Breaks stun
Quickness
Haste
Frenzy
Nothing

No! this… “upon activation, frequently does absolutely nothing except trigger the full cooldown. It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m doing.”