Guild Wars 2

In the Trait:Virtues, number VII “Elite Focus” reads “Elite skills last longer” but when combo-ed with “Renewed Focus” it allows you to cast the Invul while moving, It no longer becomes a stationary skill. I mean is it a glitch? Because the description says nothing of it, and the wiki doesn’t either, or is it just not written there?

Wow, are you serious? That’s either a potentially awesome buff to Renewed Focus or a bug. I haven’t seen any documentation commenting on it. A couple of questions:

1. Does Elite Focus actually lengthen the duration of Renewed Focus Invulnerability?
2. Does Elite Focus allow you to _ immediately_ begin moving while casting Renewed Focus, or after the first three seconds?
3. Have you tried it without Elite Focus?

I’ll try it when I get home.

Eveningstar.6940:

1. Does Elite Focus actually lengthen the duration of Renewed Focus Invulnerability?
2. Does Elite Focus allow you to _ immediately_ begin moving while casting Renewed Focus, or after the first three seconds?
3. Have you tried it without Elite Focus?

I’ll try it when I get home.

I’m going to test it right now.
But I can answer the first question. It increases the cast time of Renewed Focus, and thus the Invulnerability.

Edit: Tried it. Without Elite Focus the skill works as described, so you can’t move. With the trait, you can move your character, but it has no animation outside of the cast-animation. You just glide across the ground. So it certainly looks like bug.

I was about to retrait and pull some points off Virtues, but after hearing this I’ll probably be taking it up to the max.

I hope it’s just a case of buggy animation and the skill is actually working as intended ( making a true Elite if you ask me )

Ah, i see someone has finally decided to report this. It was fun while it lasted =(

Just tried it on my asura guardian and I didn’t see the effect described in PVE or WvW – server related?

I tested it on a Human. Maybe that’s relevant.

Eveningstar.6940:

Wow, are you serious? That’s either a potentially awesome buff to Renewed Focus or a bug. I haven’t seen any documentation commenting on it. A couple of questions:

1. Does Elite Focus actually lengthen the duration of Renewed Focus Invulnerability?
2. Does Elite Focus allow you to _ immediately_ begin moving while casting Renewed Focus, or after the first three seconds?
3. Have you tried it without Elite Focus?

I’ll try it when I get home.

1 yes it lengthens it from 3 to 5 seconds
2 immediately
3 yes and you can’t move

I mean if this is a buff to the skills that’s great, I mean renewal focus wasn’t a horrible elite but it was very situational, now it’s got a lot more used, kiting while invulnerable, and getting out of sticky situations. This makes it a good elite.
I just don’t want to use it so much and then Anet just take it back to how it was. I truly believe every bunker should be running it now.

Oh and I use it as an Asura in sPvP

Might it be an interaction with an additional trait? – like the 0 cast time one?

I’m running 20 points in Virtues atm, so using the second slot for Elite Focus

@Tarsius: When I tested it, I only had the first two minor traits and Elite Focus, with no other traits.
It looks like a bug.
Goomba, did your Asura have some kind of movement animation, or did it just slide across the ground?

I hope this will be an actual feature, but alas we are Guardians so it will be patched out very soon.

Shame really, as it would make the RF elite awesome as i keep not getting my inv and renewed Vitrues when i accidently move in combat (gotten to the point of i’ll actully lift my hands from the keyboard/mouse on casting it )..

Yeah I’m on an Asura, and slide across the ground, well hover actually because me channel makes me hover. And I don’t think that just because there is no moving animation it’s a bug, because when you’re sliding around with the channel animation it tells everyone, he is channeling RF.

They made a bug that you have to spend extra trait points to make an elite as powerful as it should have been in the first place?! …!