Guild Wars 2

Apparently smoke bomb from autodefense bomb dispenser trait isn’t a smoke field, and yet is has almost identical funcionality as smoke bomb from bomb kit. Is that intended?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Autodefense_Bomb_Dispenser

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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Smoke_Bomb_

Even though the text “smoke bomb” in the Autodefense Bomb Dispenser links to Smoke Bomb they’re not the same skill. I can’t remember specific instances, but this isn’t the only time two skills/abilities share a name yet perform differently.

They used to be the same in the past. In some patch pretty long time ago(~1 year?) the auto one got nerfed or kind of adapted to some other skill changes. Whatever, they removed the smokefield intentionally, so no, its not a bug.

Between the Aug 25 2015 and Sep 7 2015 wiki versions the “Does not provide a smoke field” note was added.

No mention of anything relating to such a change at that time in the patch notes, but that’s no surprise.