Guild Wars 2

So, since Illusion of Life had been nerfed to have a disgusting long cast time, it has also been extremely buggy ever since.

Whenver allies under Illusion of Life kill a target, they get downed again instead of rallying completely. Is this intended? If it is, then this skill essentially has been made the worst reviving skill out of all of them. Even Guardian’s Signet of Mercy or Elementalists’ Glyph of Renewal(/Revival?) is much better than this, since they actually revive targets.

Will this get fixed any time soon or no? Many of us would appreciate a fix to this, since i’ve been using this a lot in Pugs and it’s been a lifesaver many times;mainly vs. bosses, since it’s useless against any encounter where you can actually rally.

I’ve seen a .gif showing the exact issue with this. If anyone got that one saved, feel free to post it too.

After-edit: Realized i should have probably posted this in the game bugs section, but whatever. Things get more attention over here.

IoL is peculiar – as every revival skill. It is not inferior to others, just different. Why ? Semi cast, long range and AoE. That’s why it brings you in Vengeance and not completely revive you (that’d be OP). In PvP this is often used and nice and somewhat balanced. In PvE it’s useless, especially where it counts – at bosses.

IoL (and Vengeance) got a change a few months ago. You don’t rally anymore by anything (unlike when you’re downed), you need to kill something and get exp for it. And this doesn’t work for most (all?) boss minions.

Illusion of live is bugged, the Wiki
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Illusion_of_life

And a screenshot of the tooltip.

EDIT: Allies will only temporarily be rallied unless they kill an enemy before Illusion of Life wears off. If they do not rally, they will be downed again. Sounds like there is a chance like vengeance skill not to proc rally.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-01-28
Illusion of Life: This skill should no longer allow players to rally off of creatures that grant no experience.

The wiki is not a 100% dependable source, neither are ingame tooltips.

Nretep.2564:

neither are ingame tooltips.

If the tooltips are incorrect why the hell even have them?!

Nretep.2564:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-01-28
Illusion of Life: This skill should no longer allow players to rally off of creatures that grant no experience.

The wiki is not a 100% dependable source, neither are ingame tooltips.

he’s not talking about people failing to rally off zero XP creatures. The bug manifests in that if you kill a creature while under the effects of IoL, you are (usually) immediatly downed, instead of rallied.