Guild Wars 2

This happened to me once and I thought I must have missed smth, but today it happened constantly, when fighting some D/P thieves in EB (With CI lockdown and MtD condi shatter).

I try to cover my MI, Heal or Mantra Channel with Shatter f4 to gain distortion. But the cover doesn’t seem to have any effect on interrupts. They constantly interrupted me, while Distortion still lasted.

Is that normal? A bug? By design?

There is a bug where distortion activation is delayed if you don’t have IP traited. That’s the only thing i can think of, anyway.

So I take it, being interrupted while Distortion is active, shouldn’t normally happen?

If it’s WvW it is more than likely lag. The bug with distortion without IP is also real.

I’ve even been stunned mid dodge roll, or so the animation on my screen tells me. It’s hard to miss when your toons feet are situated somewhere over their head.

Watch this video:
https://youtu.be/uudHN4IwsXc

At about 1:20 i use distortion and you can see the invulnerable icon (+ the master of reflection icon) popping up, going away, and popping up again. I didn’t get hit in between but it seems like i was vulnerable for like a second during F4 at that moment.

Note that this was with IP traited.

Iavra.8510:

Watch this video:
https://youtu.be/uudHN4IwsXc

At about 1:20 i use distortion and you can see the invulnerable icon (+ the master of reflection icon) popping up, going away, and popping up again. I didn’t get hit in between but it seems like i was vulnerable for like a second during F4 at that moment.

Note that this was with IP traited.

It does look like something goofy is going on. Look how your clone counter ticks down slower than when you shatter at 4:45.

If I’m not mistaken, there are a few unblockable interrupt skills which I believe supersede distortion. But a more experienced Mesmer might be able to correct me.

MightyMicah.7451:

If I’m not mistaken, there are a few unblockable interrupt skills which I believe supersede distortion. But a more experienced Mesmer might be able to correct me.

Nothing supersedes distortion. Not even something as absurdly powerful as a trebuchet shot. If you position yourself at the precise point of impact and pop distortion, the trebuchet shot will fizzle.

Iavra.8510:

Watch this video:
https://youtu.be/uudHN4IwsXc

At about 1:20 i use distortion and you can see the invulnerable icon (+ the master of reflection icon) popping up, going away, and popping up again. I didn’t get hit in between but it seems like i was vulnerable for like a second during F4 at that moment.

Note that this was with IP traited.

What happened there was that the immediate distortion was from IP, you can note that it was 1 second long. The 2 clones you had up were targeted on someone that had gone into stealth, and this causes the shatter activation to be delayed by a second or so. You can see this by watching the clones — they stand there for a second or so before popping. After those 2 clones finally pop, you get another 2 seconds of distortion.

Yeah, i would much prefer for clones to shatter instantly against stealthed targets. Not only for F4 (which doesn’t really care about the target) but for all other shatters as well. I often use F2, or sometimes F1, to dispose of my clones when i’m up against a /D thief and know he will CnD off a clone the next second.

I’ve interrupted with engi downed state #2 at least 3 times through distortion when I know it shouldn’t have in the last month or so. Not sure if any of those times were in any of my recorded matches, but if I find one I’ll post it.

Iavra.8510:

Yeah, i would much prefer for clones to shatter instantly against stealthed targets. Not only for F4 (which doesn’t really care about the target) but for all other shatters as well. I often use F2, or sometimes F1, to dispose of my clones when i’m up against a /D thief and know he will CnD off a clone the next second.

I’d much prefer illusions chase stealthed opponent (as most skills activated before stealth) until they actually dodge, surely I’m not the only one? lol

I had another mesmer complain that my Signet of Domination was bugged and was passing through distortion (sPvP). I did not see it happen and had no way to test or verify whether or not it was the case. I also didn’t have any reason to doubt (or for that matter, believe) what the player was saying. I sort of assumed it was a lag issue having no other thing to base it on.

Sounds like it might be related to this same issue.

Honestly, until someone actually gets a video of this occurring, I’m quite fine considering any and all complaints of this nature as one of a couple things:

1. Lag
2. Clones not shattering immediately
3. Disable applying just after distortion ends or just before the distortion gets applied

I’ve played this game just a little bit extensively, and I’ve never ever seen a single problem even remotely like any of the things stated here, so I have a very hard time believing them without video proof.

It is weird that you say it happened constantly, since the chance for that should be incredibly low.

Hmm I’d wager there is some kind of bug, then. I was feared out of a distortion multiple times. I assumed it was an unblockable fear but I suppose even that shouldn’t have feared me. Interesting…

I’ll just add, that whilst the ‘blur’ on Blurred Frenzy is counted as a separate effect for all intents and purposes, yesterday in a match a thief was heartseekering me THROUGH the blurr effect, multiple times in a row (as in within the single activation of Blurred Frenzy). So there may be a common factor between how blur functions and how distortion does that we aren’t entirely aware of; the same factor that is the link to the same distortion bug described.

I’ve only very recently been hit through distortion in a similar manner. Worth mentioning of course.

Recently ate CC and tons of cleave 1 second after popping a distortion with 3 clones up. Definitely went on cooldown so no chance of a misclick, unfortunately haven’t got more details on what happened.

Is it possible the change to stability may have somehow messed with distortion? Just spit balling something out there.

Pretty much until someone can produce a vid this isn’t happening.

Sometimes I might swear a hit or whatever has gone through a distortion or dodge, lag aside on vid I can see the hairline splits of seconds they’ve occurred between hitting f4 and taking a hit, or spawning a decoy clone which dies instantly in a quarter of a split second before I can hit f4, which I was relying on to be there for distortion only to be downed in the same cleave. I might even see the distortion icon go black with the press of f4 but not process on the release of the key cause the physical movement was to slow. It just gets that close of a shave you can’t tell.

I’ve had this happen to me every so often, always figured it to just be lag as I mostly do WvW however as of late it has been happening way more. I’d say minimum 2-3 times a day for me now.

CobraPolo.1723:

I’ve had this happen to me every so often, always figured it to just be lag as I mostly do WvW however as of late it has been happening way more. I’d say minimum 2-3 times a day for me now.

Well, if it’s happening that often it should be easy for you to record and show that it’s actually happening. As I and Ross said earlier, until somebody catches this on video, it should be assumed that it’s not actually happening.

I’ll wait for someone else to record it :p got better things to do with my time. I need to maximize it playing as RL work limits my time. yes its probably just one click to start recording but its the time to install and upload i don’t have time for

Hmmmhmm; I kinda wanted to start recording a while ago. Reason why I didn’t do so yet, is mainly because I would need to switch to full screen instead of windowed fullscreen… and I like the ability to quickly reply to someone in ICQ while respawning or being queued or whatever. With fullscreen, I couldn’t see what’s going on ingame while doing so. ^^