Please bear with me while I update for the June 2015 specialisation patch

If you have discovered a new bug please make sure you post it to the Official Bugs Forum first and foremost.

I will not be listing bugs which I think can be used to exploit unfair advantages in PvP settings. (Although I do forward those directly to Anet)

Next to each entry you’ll see a ∞ link which you can right-click and copy for a direct link to that specific issue (incase you want to post a reference to it in another thread).

Specialisation Traits

Zeal

• Zealous Blade ∞
  Master II
  When using the Greatsword skill Binding Blade the player does not receive any healing from either the initial blade strike or the subsequent tick damage. Players also don’t receive healing from the bolts cast from Whirling Wrath.

• Expeditious Spirit ∞
  Grandmaster I
  Sword of Justice command skill will fail to trigger if activated within 10 seconds of previous usage

Radiance

• Right-Hand Strength ∞
  Adept II
  The 15% extra crit while using a 1 hander weapon is not reflected on the character panel. This is most likely due to the fact it only applies to your main-hand weapon, and isn’t a general stats boost.

• Renewed Justice ∞
  Minor Master
  Will only trigger if the defeated foe awards XP.

• Wrath of Justice ∞
  Master I
  1. Does not activate immediately when using Greatsword skill Leap of Faith – however if you wait 2 seconds after triggering Virtue of Justice, the bind effect will work as expected
  2. Is not affected by Perfect Inscriptions (see below)

• Perfect Inscriptions ∞
  Grandmaster II
  Does not grant a Light Aura when activating Signet of Resolve, Signet of Courage (elite) nor Signet of Wrath via Wrath of Justice or reduce its cooldown.

Valor

• Stalwart Defender ∞
  Master I
  Does not award +180 bonus toughness if you have no other active toughness passive bonuses. ( therefore it will never work in PVP, and only work in WvW/PvE if you have toughness awarded by food or WvW faction bonuses

Virtues

• Indomitable Courage ∞
  Grandmaster III
  1. Swapping this trait in/out gives Virtue of Courage a new cooldown timer, allowing for double activation.
  2. Couragous Return will not reset Virtue of Courage when this trait is enabled ( because of the alternative timer )

Hammer

• Symbol of Protection ∞
  1. Has a tendency to form itself in the ground below or floating above the guardian in uneven terrain or areas with several layers like the Orr ship.
  2. If the target dies just before the third auto-attack lands, the symbol can be placed twice resulting in double tick damage and twice the amount of protection stacked.

• Ring of Warding ∞
  1. Enemies may exit the ring without stability if timing their jumps or dodges correctly.
  2. Cancels the knockdown animation from enemies affected by banish.

Staff

• Orb of Light ∞
  The orb may rarely get stuck in the terrain or more commonly in WvW fortress doors prompting you to detonate it.

• Symbol of Swiftness ∞
  Can fail to apply swiftness if a player runs through the symbol between ticks ( This is more likely if the player is already under the effect of swiftness ).
  Traiting Writ of Persistence for larger symbols can further alleviate this issue.

• Line of Warding ∞
  1. Enemies may pass through the line without stability if timing their jumps or dodges correctly.
  2. Cancels the knockdown animation from enemies affected by banish.

Sword

• Sword Wave ∞
  1. The third auto-attack chain often can miss structures or be obstructed by the terrain.
  2. Bizarrely, this is a piercing projectile attack which can also be reflected back at the caster.
  3. If the target dies before the third auto-attack lands, Sword Wave can repeat multiple times until it strikes another target or sometimes striking a target more than once.

• Flashing Blade ∞
  1. The teleport component may put you inside the terrain unable to move afterwards, may sometimes fail to teleport to a target that should be able to like on a ledge.
  2. Sometimes players will encounter a rubber-band effect after teleporting where they suddenly snap back to their original location.

Shield

• Shield of Absorption ∞
  1. Detonation can fail if attempted too quickly.
  2. The projectile absorption was broken in a patch and only lasts for 2 seconds instead of the stated 4.

Torch

• Zealot’s Flame ∞
  Does not apply 6 seconds of burning as described by tooltip:
  1. Very often applies just 3 seconds of burning
  2. Occasionally applies a second pulse of 6 seconds of burning after first 3 has expired ( totalling 9 )

• Zealot’s Fire ∞
  Frequently fails to hit a moving target at range, becoming “obstructed” even on relatively flat terrain.

Scepter

• Orb of Wrath ∞
  Enemies can make the bolts fly in crazy angles with small strafing movements.

Mace

• Protector’s Strike ∞
  1. The blocking component will consume itself and other sources at the same time, like Aegis or Shield of Wrath stacks.
  2. The skill will fail to block any attack from enemies that were not previously aggressive towards the player, meaning that if you preemptively cast the skill, move into aggro range and the mob hits you, it will not block any attack.

• Faithful Strike ∞
  Only hits 1 enemy, despite indicating a target limit of 5, and the other 2 auto-attack chain skills cleaving up to 3 targets each. However it does heal up to 5 allies.

Utility Skills

• Hammer of Wisdom ∞
  The push-back mechanic pushes enemies through Line of Warding and Ring of Warding.

• Judge’s Intervention ∞
  Teleporting towards the end of a fall from any height will allow the guardian to avoid all damage on impact ( provided there are targettable hostiles nearby ) – probably a feature!

• Signet of Mercy ∞
  1. The tooltip is ambiguous, should indicate it rallies downed players, not revives, as it does not revive a defeated player.
  2. Can fail to rally a downed player while poisoned with very low hp, user reported it brought him to 70% instead so maybe the poison cut the healing and it did not heal enough to rally?

• Purging Flames ∞
  Due to ground targetting, this skill is very hard to use effectively underwater.

• "Retreat!" ∞
  Cannot be activated whilst jumping or falling, like other shouts can despite having a 0 cast time.
  It can still be chained mid-channel with other skills.

• "Save Yourselves!" ∞
  PVP only: Is not listed in the hero panel build editor skills list ( but is still selectable in the utility slot bar ) – probably due to the pvp/pve boon duration skill split.

• "Feel My Wrath!" ∞
  Does not play the voice audio. ( available from the original Tome of Wrath #1 skill )

Elite Skills

• Renewed Focus ∞
  1. Sometimes it may start the animation and not offering any protection for the 3 seconds, if you move the spell will not go on cooldown and you can cast it again.
  2. Dodging while under the skill effects will often stop Virtues from being refreshed, and the Elite is forced into cooldown ( although invulnerability is unaffected ).

Other Issues

• The boon Quickness continues to affect leap distance ( even after the 7/7 patch ) for skills like Leap of Faith and Mighty Blow. Approximately, the former will have the leap distance reduced from 600 to 460 and the latter from 300 to 240 ( about 20-25% shorter ).

Notes

• Auto Attacks chains won’t start by themselves on enemies being hit by symbols, for example symbol of wrath without the player activating the auto attack chain by himself before the symbol is cast, is this intended or bug?, if the enemy is being auto attacked and then the aoe field is laid down the auto attacks will continue normally.

CHANGES

2015-07-31_____________________________________________

• Removed: Invigorating Bulwark now applies for 10 seconds
• Removed: Wrath of Justice no longer puts Signet of Wrath into full cooldown
• Removed: Judge’s Intervention now correctly receives cooldown reduction from Monk’s Focus instead of Smiter’s Boon

2015-07-19_____________________________________________

• Updated: Zealot’s fire incorrect burning duration. ( thanks SineDen.3514 )
• Updated trait positions, copied from incorrect wiki order
• Removed: Radiant Fire only proc’ing on burning targets ( after tests )

2015-07-15_____________________________________________

• Added: Faithful Strike’s lack of cleave

2015-07-14_____________________________________________

• Finished updating weapons and utilities
• Added: Courageous return not working with Indomitable Courage
• Added: Leap distance affected by quickness (still)
• Added: Missing Feel My Wrath audio
• Added: Save Yourselves missing from PvP hero panel build editor
• Added: Underwater ground targetting issues with consecrations
• Added: Issue with Purging Flames and Merciful Intervention underwater
• Added: Issue with Stalwart Defender not awarding toughness
• Added: Radiant Fire only procs when target is burning
• Updated: Zealous blade not awarding heals for Whirling Wrath bolts ( thanks SineDen.3514 )

2015-07-07_____________________________________________

• Removed: Symbolic Avenger damage multiplying bug
• Removed: Some (not all) signet light aura issues

2015-07-04_____________________________________________

• Updated: Many traits and skills from June 23rd patch ( still alot to do )

2015-03-27_____________________________________________

• Added: Radiant Retaliation not functioning as advertised
• Updated: Shield of Absorption bugged duration

2014-07-24_____________________________________________

• Added: Zealous Blade not healing with Binding Blade.
• Fixed: Virtue of Courage correctly represents Indomitable Courage trait in tooltip
• Fixed: Signet of Resolve correctly represents Perfrect Inscriptions in tooltip
• Updated: Permeating Wrath with tooltip fixes
• Updated: Supreme Justice with tooltip fixes

2014-07-13_____________________________________________

• Added: Purging Flames only cleanses 1 condition when Consecrated Ground is traited ( thanks Fashion Mage.3712 )

2014-06-04_____________________________________________

• Fixed: Other players can now hear Guardian Shouts

2014-04-27_____________________________________________

• Added: Retreat cannot be cast in the air ( thanks Minae Iss.7054 )

2014-04-23_____________________________________________

• Removed: Runes of Grove, Earth, Strength, Lyssa now function as advertised
• Removed: Zealot’s Defense graphical glitch
• Updated: Symbol of Swiftness ( removed out of date reference )
• Updated: Zealot’s Flame – burning application

2014-02-06_____________________________________________

• Added double Symbol of Protection issue with Hammer auto-attack ( thanks Brutaly.6257 )

2014-01-27_____________________________________________

• Added long-standing issues with the Sword’s third auto-attack ( thanks psy.5437 )

2013-10-31_____________________________________________

• Removed: Vengeful trait now correctly shows retaliation increase in skill tooltips (thanks seekerking.2875)

2013-10-24_____________________________________________

• Removed: Purging flames now correctly removes 3 conditions on cast – (thanks xFireize.6318)

2013-10-21_____________________________________________

• Added: Channelled skill tab-switching bug – (2013-10-15 patch, thanks Harbinger.8637)

CHANGES ( continued )

2013-10-18_____________________________________________

• Fixed: Perfect Inscriptions now correctly displays passive signet effects
• Fixed: Pure of Voice now only removes and converts 1 condition as intended
• Fixed: Toolbox flame effect now syncronises with Supreme Justice traited.
• Fixed: Master of Consecrations now displays correct duration/cooldown information in tooltips
• Fixed: Shield of Absorption no longer displays dome ad infinitum when placed in auto-attack mode
• Fixed: Signet passive effects will now apply upon entering a PvP zone.
• Added: Virtue of Resolve/Battle Presence when traited with Absolute Resolution does not indicate 25% passive healing bonus
• Added: Signet of Resolve does not remove 2 conditions when traited with Perfect Inscriptions ( reduces cleanse time to 20% instead )
• Added: Master of Consecrations display duration twice for Sanctuary
• Added: Purging Flames only removes 1 condition on activation most of the time.
• Added: Indomitable Courage does not show reduced passive recharge for Virtue of Courage
• Added: Wrathful Spirits does not reflect 50% damage increase in the tooltip
• Added: Permeating Wrath facts are not reflected in Virtue of Justice’s tooltip

2013-09-18_____________________________________________

• Added Zealot’s Defense shield rendering issue (2013-09-17 patch, thanks Heartnet.5340)

2013-09-04_____________________________________________

• Remove Protector’s Strike infinite block bug (2013-09-03 patch)

2013-08-27_____________________________________________

• Reworded Intro & Clarified various entries
• Removed entries marked as fixed
• Reformatted Thread

2013-08-18_____________________________________________

• Added Zealot’s Fire and Zealot’s Flame issues (thanks Extremely Ferocious)

2013-08-13_____________________________________________

• Added Pure of Voice extra condition removal (2013-08-06 patch)
• Clarified Supreme Justice entry (thanks icojeglup.4580)

2013-08-06_____________________________________________

• Removed Sword of Justice, command skill issue – now functions correctly (2013-08-06 patch)

2013-08-04_____________________________________________

• Added Protector’s Strike bunny-hop-block issue ( thanks Serval.6458 )

2013-08-02_____________________________________________

• Added Sword of Justice, broken command skill (2013-07-23 patch)

2013-07-24_____________________________________________

• Added double healing effect of Monk’s Focus with Merciful Intervention (2013-07-23 patch)

2013-07-23_____________________________________________

• Added sPvP arena “Passive Effects” issue ( thanks Dirame.8521 )
• Removed Symbol of Faith AoE issue (2013-07-23 patch)
• Clarified Symbol of Swiftness issue (2013-07-23 patch)
• Removed Leap of Faith applying multiplied stacks of vulnerability (2013-07-23 patch)

2013-07-21_____________________________________________

• Added Supreme Justice display issues ( thanks Finnway.2183 )

2013-07-16_____________________________________________

• Clarified Leap of Faith/Blind Exposure ( thanks Cake.4920 )

2013-07-08_____________________________________________

• Added Rune of Lyssa with Tome issue ( thanks Lord Sarok.4369 )

2013-07-04_____________________________________________

• Original bug list imported. ( thanks Apraxas )
• Removed Shield of Absorption’s effect on siege projectiles – There are now no guardian skills that can block siege projectiles ( including Zealot’s Defense )
• Added more information on Purging Flames’ condition removal
• Added more information on Symbol of Swiftness issues.
• Added Blind Exposure and Greatsword Leap of Faith vulnerability effect.
• Added more information on Renewed Justice
• Added Judge’s Intervention
• Added Rune of Strength general bug.
• Added additional Renewed Focus issue.
• Virtue’s duration tooltip now correctly reflect Virtue Recharge rate buffs
• Virtue of Justice burn duration tooltip now matches the base 4 ticks of burn damage
• Updated Perfect Inscriptions fix from May patch
• Refraction no longer roots you after cast, and cast time has been reduce to 0.5 seconds

GL with this sir

Cheers! Hope you can find a way back into the game soon ;-)

Ok been through, added and removed some. Should be reasonably accurate

Great list, hope to see them fixed soon

Please dont forget the rune of lyssa #6 bug with tomes. Doesn’t activate upon activation of the tomes.

ok thanks, will add that – If I remember correctly it does activate if you manually cancel the transformation, although it’s been a long time since I used a lyssa set.

“Hold the Line!” lacks of character voice-over, while early beta version had it. Don´t know what happened to that :P

It does play voice overs occasionally and somewhat of a random context

Hey, glad you are updating the list

Tarsius.3170:

• Renewed Justice
  Several users report that it may fail to renew itself upon dealing the finishing blow on a foe. This appears to only apply to enemies that do not award XP.

Tarsius.3170:

• Symbol of Swiftness
  Will only add 1 second per tick to an existing swiftness boon.
  Can fail to apply swiftness if a player runs through the symbol between ticks ( This is more likely if the player is already under the effect of swiftness ).
  Traiting Writ of Exultation for larger symbols can alleviate this issue.

Not bugs

Tarsius.3170:

• Leap of Faith when combined with Trait Blind Exposure
  Blind effect causes 3 stacks of vulnerability multiplied by the number of AoE hits the skill achieves. Hitting 5 targets will produce 15 stacks of Vulnerability. All other blind skills produce the correct 3 stacks regardless of AoE effect.

This has nothing to do with blind exposure, Leap of faith hits aoe and applies an aoe blind for each target hit. For example, if you hit 5 targets, you are really applying 5 blinds to each of the 5 targets. That might be a bug but its relation with blind exposure is consistent.

Another thing to at least take note of is that Consecrated Ground works underwater. Well its not a “bug”, its probably unintended as its afaik the only ground targeted skills underwater and it pretty much makes them terrible

Yup thanks, I’ll re-word the Leap of Faith description.

Although the Renewed Justice and Swiftness issues aren’t technically bugs ( more like quirks ) – they are worth including because they can catch out ( or just plain annoy ) people who aren’t aware of how they work.

I noticed a few trait bugs the other day.

• Supreme Justice: The increased burn duration when activating Virtue of Justice is not reflected in the tool tip.

• Protectors Impact: This doesn’t activate when you are launched or knocked back. It might be bugged.

• Zealot’s Speed: I tried a symbol-heavy build yesterday and this never activated.

Strenght in numbers trait says 150 toughnes in trait selection screen but it still says 70 in toolbar.

Finnway.2183:

• Supreme Justice: The increased burn duration when activating Virtue of Justice is not reflected in the tool tip.

Thanks. Also the fire effect on the toolbar doesn’t take account of that trait, so it’s harder to tell if the next attack will cause burning.

Finnway.2183:

• Protectors Impact: This doesn’t activate when you are launched or knocked back. It might be bugged.

Tested in the Mists by letting the Warrior NPC knock me off the cliff and it did create a symbol of protection when I landed. It’s harder to test in other scenerios, anyone else come across this?

Finnway.2183:

• Zealot’s Speed: I tried a symbol-heavy build yesterday and this never activated.

hmm I could get this to activate in the Mists – what other traits did you have? – something else might be blocking it.
Note there is a 30 second cooldown, so if you healup and then drop back down below 25% it won’t proc again.

Reclusiarh.2674:

Strenght in numbers trait says 150 toughnes in trait selection screen but it still says 70 in toolbar.

Thanks, I had this one noted but I’m unsure whether to include issues that don’t effect gameplay. I wonder if I should create a separate section for tooltip issues?

I am not sure if it’s a bug or scam, but Virtues trait line only gives .83% reduction in recharge rate, instead of 1% per point. At 30 virtue points , I have cooldowns of 23s, 46+1/4s. and 69+1/4s; respectively for my F1, F2, and F3 virtues. I had never had Virtues above 5 before, so I just noticed this.

xFireize.6318:

I am not sure if it’s a bug or scam, but Virtues trait line only gives .83% reduction in recharge rate, instead of 1% per point. At 30 virtue points , I have cooldowns of 23s, 46+1/4s. and 69+1/4s; respectively for my F1, F2, and F3 virtues. I had never had Virtues above 5 before, so I just noticed this.

Yup, it’s actually just a little misleading.

When you put points into virtues you are actually increasing your “Virtue Recharge Rate” and not reducing the cooldown itself.

Virtue Recharge Rate

Base Skill Cooldown / ( 1 – Points In Virtues% )

in other words: 90 / 1.3 = 69.23

Dang that is quite a disappointment. Thanks for the clarification, though.

BUG;
- All passives seize functioning upon entering a Custom Arena. (Passives I had on my bar include; All virtues, Signet of Resolve and Purity(trait))

The workaround for this is to either get killed or activate all the skills to kick-start their passives.

Thanks, added. Apparently you can also switch the signets in and out of your utility slots to restore the passives

2013-08-02_____________________________________________

• Added Sword of Justice, broken command skill (2013-07-23 patch)

2013-08-04_____________________________________________

• Added Protector’s Strike bunny-hop-block issue ( thanks Serval.6458 )

2013-08-06_____________________________________________

• Removed Sword of Justice, command skill issue – now functions correctly (2013-08-06 patch)

just gives out word.
orb of light. staff skill 2 still bugged and have to detonate to have it recooldown

Hey guys, I just traited Supreme Justice in Virtues, noticed that still says “Cause burning every 5th attack” on Virtue of Justice icon instead of 4th as the trait makes it.

2013-08-13_____________________________________________

• Added Pure of Voice extra condition removal (2013-08-06 patch)
• Clarified Supreme Justice entry (thanks icojeglup.4580)

Seems to me that the cooldown reduction for virtues gained through the virtues tree is bugged. Resolve has a base cooldown of 60, speccing 20 points into it (20% reduction) and it is at 50 seconds, surely this should be 48? It’s the same for justice and courage too.

Nope that’s right ( scroll up ten posts or so ) – you’re actually increasing Virtue Recharge Rate not reducing your cooldown ( I’ve added this one to the FAQ, thanks )

Quoting on the part: “On using Merciful Intervention with Monk’s Focus traited, the caster will receive an double proc of the MI healing effect provided the player successfully teleports to an Ally ( this equates to 5880 of base healing ).”

I don’t think this is a bug; it is balanced against other builds. This skill is highly inclined on support and self healing. It is neither offensive or defensive. Also, this skill is interruptible unless traited with Focused Mind and does not break stun. Buildwise, Altruistic Healing has similar effect but the usage and technique of attaining such healing is relatively on boons unlike this one which heals a large amount in one cast.

True, it is certainly a welcome quirk regardless of whether it’s a bug or an undocumented feature – either way I’ll keep it listed until it is confirmed or fixed.

2013-08-18_____________________________________________

• Added Zealot’s Fire and Zealot’s Flame issues (thanks Extremely Ferocious)

Anet has now asked that all profession bugs should be submitted individually to the official bugs forum

So please post there in the future. Naturally if you suspect a bug but are unable to test it reliably you are welcome to post here and I’ll see if I can help reproduce it.

I might try and rebrand this as a “Known Guardian Issues” thread and link it off the FAQ if I can’t get it restickied, since I think it’s primarily useful to the guardians themselves so they are aware of the quirks of their chosen profession.

Regardless, my thanks to everyone that submitted reports and helped compile this list.

Since I just saw the old Rune of Strength bug in this list, I think it has been fixed some time in the last weeks. Did a small test (n~30) on the PvP training golems and the result was almost exactly what I expected with active 6th bonus. Maybe someone can try to reproduce it, but I think we can take that one off the list.

€: Did another test and the runes did not work. So nothing to see here, move along.

oh nice, will give that a test – I’ve wanted to try working those into a build for a long time

hmm just tried it in the Mists with 12 stacks of Might from a PvP Steady Staff – I showed exactly the same damage increase with or without the 6th rune equipped – so it still seems to be bugged, perhaps it’s different in PvE

This game seems so full of bugs … as I said, my numbers from Thursday seemed pretty convincing, but another short test (though I didn’t do the calculations) half an hour ago looked more suspicious. I’ll do a larger series later and post the results here.

if in PvP then use the steady weapons, otherwise the results can get muddied by RNG.

Also if you’re switching out the 6th rune, make sure whatever you replace it with has the same base stats or if you are a just measuring the difference with and without Might bear in mind that the +35 Power from 1 Stack of Might can get affected by damage multiplying traits and sigils

Thanks, but usually I know how to create proper controls. However, I did another, larger test series with n>100 and the results are consistent with the broken 6th bonus. So even though I’m pretty sure I made no mistake on Thursday, it’s obvious that the bonus at least does not work consistently, which makes the runes worthless.

hmm we’ve seen bugs before where certain effects won’t work on entering a zone and require you to un-equip and re-equip every item for the effect to work again… perhaps something like that occurs? Or like Rune of Vampirism where a damage piece of armor will prevent the leech from working until re-equipped

Tested un- and re-equipping, it does not work. So whatever the reason for my results from Thursday may have been, those stupid runes are definitely still broken. A shame, since they would have opened up an interesting route for runes.

Here is something I noticed recently although I’m not sure if it’s a bug or it’s supposed to be like this: when I fight a ranger in 1v1 and I use Judge’s Intervention this always teleports me to the ranger’s pet, not to the player even though I always have the player targeted before I use it.

It could be because the Ranger used a skill that made you lose target selection ( such as Hunter’s Strike/Hide In Plain Sight stealth ) and JI will automatically acquire the closest targetable enemy which would probably be their pet.

This is an awesome list. Thanks for putting so much work into it!

Thanks for the re-sticky Josh, I really appreciate it.

I’m restructuring the thread as we speak and will post an update shortly

2013-08-27_____________________________________________

• Reworded Intro & Clarified various entries
• Removed entries marked as fixed
• Reformatted Thread