Guild Wars 2

One of our most important builds that includes Shouts has been bugged since the game was first released and up to this date the devs have not noticed it.
Please fix this, it is game breaking when they do not work.

Problem:

• Shout “Hold the Line!” is bugged with the trait Pure of Voice.
  Sometimes it will remove a condition and sometimes not, both on yourself and on your allies. Also it will never give you or your allies the opposite boon.

• Shout “Save Yourselves!” is bugged with the trait Pure of Voice.
  Sometimes it will remove a condition and sometimes not, both on yourself and on your allies. Also it will never give you or your allies the opposite boon.

The shout will transfer from your allies to you, all their conditions but nothing will be removed. For instance lets say you have 3 stacks of vurnerability and a burning condition and your nearby ally has 3 stacks of vurnerability and a poison condition, you will end up with 6 stacks of vurnerability, a poison and a burning condition.

The rest of the shouts “Retreat!” and “Stand your ground!” work properly both on yourself and your allies.

The tests were made with:

• 0/0/0/30/0 only the Pure of Voice trait selected and
• A normal 0/5/30/30/5 build with Pure Voice selected among other traits.
• The tests were both done with allies nearby and without any allies nearby.
• The tests were both done in the Heart of the Mists with the Practice NPCs and in a PvP map against players that helped with the tests.

I like this using that trait too but I’ve had similar results when using Hold the Line in particular. It’s been mentioned on here before and I’m hoping it gets fixed as some of my favorite guardian utilities are shouts.

It doesn’t work all of the time, but it appears to work for me most of the time. It’d be much more powerful if it was 100% effective, so I hope it gets fixed soon.

Well there’s a big patch today, cross your fingers that it’s among the bug fixes.

I tried to search the News and Announcements in the hope the updates notes might mention if this was fixed but the forum search didn’t come up with anything.

Does anyone know if this has been patched?

It has not.

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6/6 Sup. Rune of the Soldier works with every shout every time.

Kenmichi.4918:

6/6 Sup. Rune of the Soldier works with every shout every time.

That’s awesome. Wish it would work correctly and remove 2 per shout with both of them.

Im pretty sure this already have been patched, not sure if it works tho, gonna try it when I remember to :P
I dont think “Save Yourselves!” works at all with Pure Of Voice

Meow.5794:

Im pretty sure this already have been patched, not sure if it works tho, gonna try it when I remember to :P
I dont think “Save Yourselves!” works at all with Pure Of Voice

It has not been patched. And neither has missing sounds from shouts and the ability for your allies to hear your shouts >.>.

Stand your ground i used it in wvw and sometimes its not remove condition too

It’s disheartening to hear about such bugs.

We listed this since shortly after release. It has been sitting in the bug thread since then. We have had many patches, including 2 large ones: The Karka and the Living Story one. None of them have addressed this and I have not seen a dev mention it anywhere. Hopefully the WvW patch finally fixes this.

hopefully!!! this will just make Honor line work as intended. at least one grandmaster trait is fixed now. though i was highly hoping PoV woulda been fixed by now. that’s why i’m so eager for class notes all the time.

Confirmed that Hold the Line is still bugged, sometimes removes a condition, sometimes doesn’t and never converts a condition to a boon with Pure of Voice.

Save Yourselves seems to still be bugged too. Never removes a condition and never converts to a boon. Very disappointing.

We got Battle Presence finally fixed last patch, would be nice to get this fixed too as it’s been broken forever and been in the bugs list for ages.

I have been having some troubles with even removing things like poison.

Especially on myself.

This is with Purity, Pure of Voice, AND a full soldier runeset =(

I don’t understand it. Many times it works like a charm. Others…..I am sitting on 8 conditions…

It works-sometimes. BUT fear not, it will be fixed on time. The same post could have been stated about Battle Presence (it is not game breaking, but “trait-breaking”), and they fixed-and improved it-when the time was right. Purity of Voice is usable as of now, as long as you are OK with it not working 100% of the time.

I also want it fixed ASAP, but there must be reasons behind their delayed bug fixes madness.

On that note, one “bug fix” I wish they fixed is the shout voice priority-that everybody had a chance of hearing your shouts, not only yourself (especially since we are able to listen to many of the Warrior’s shouts-it makes no sense at all, and shouldn’t be intended gameplay, IMHO.)

Hold the line has various voice bits, but they do not always sound, not even for the player using them.

If you want to use shouts for condition removers, unfortunately you are forced to use Superior Runes of the Soldier 6 set bonus (Shouts remove a condition) and avoid using Pure voice because it’s a waste of a trait at the moment.
It’s sad that after 6months this very important trait has not been addressed yet.

OneManArmy.5617:

If you want to use shouts for condition removers, unfortunately you are forced to use Superior Runes of the Soldier 6 set bonus (Shouts remove a condition) and avoid using Pure voice because it’s a waste of a trait at the moment.
It’s sad that after 6 months this very important trait has not been addressed yet.

The real problem is that Pure of Voice works some of the time, so it takes a while to notice that it doesn’t work on your own. If it was clearly broken, even a newbie would realize and not take it.

Star Ace.5207:

It works-sometimes. BUT fear not, it will be fixed on time. The same post could have been stated about Battle Presence (it is not game breaking, but “trait-breaking”), and they fixed-and improved it-when the time was right. Purity of Voice is usable as of now, as long as you are OK with it not working 100% of the time.

So in a way, it’s like the Six have returned. You can pray to them and they’ll answer sometimes when they feel like it (Might as well get some RP mileage until they fix it)

yeah still waiting…