Guild Wars 2

Hello community!

I know warden bugs out sometimes but I have a question regarding summoning the iWarden on turrets, is it 100% it will fail to attack? because it would be a super nice counter to rocket-turret but for some kitten reason it never start it’s kitten attack.

Anyone else experienced the same bug?

iWarden bug? never had that before, must have gotten bugged w the recent patch!

jokes aside, iWarden fails 95% of the time against non regular stuff, and even against the usual foes, it has a pretty high chance not to spin

During my duel with rylock, i never saw warden fail to attack

It not only id warden broken, but all are broken all our puppets are broken with very bad AI

Just the other day was doing some pve in dry top. Summon the sword man, it appeared on the ledge above me. I wished I had taken a picture. It did nothing till I killed MiB.

Anyway, the class puppets are very broken at the moment. Let’s hope the have a fix for them in the up coming patch.

Hmm yeah, I can’t agree that all phantasm are completely broken but it’s kitten frustrating when you succesfully trigger an attack but it doesnt work, iWarden is ment for defensive use which can be crucial on the outcome of the fight.
another thing is illusionary leap and tilted ground but that’s another story ^^

yep. the every time I see it spin on a turret, I actually heard the Hallelujah chorus from Handel in my head.

Blades of Sabatine.5639:

Just the other day was doing some pve in dry top. Summon the sword man, it appeared on the ledge above me. I wished I had taken a picture. It did nothing till I killed MiB.

Hah, I’ve had this too – Dry Top is particularly bad for illusion pathing issues.

magical giant.8650:

Hmm yeah, I can’t agree that all phantasm are completely broken but it’s kitten frustrating when you succesfully trigger an attack but it doesnt work, iWarden is ment for defensive use which can be crucial on the outcome of the fight.
another thing is illusionary leap and tilted ground but that’s another story ^^

If you try then in dry top you see that they are all broken. The gs and pistol are the most stable for me. Don’t really use staff so can’t say how stable that one is. But they all bug out one way or the other in dry top.

So.. it is not that the illusions are broken, it means dry top is not meant to be a place for mesmers to be around. check

Navi.7142:

So.. it is not that the illusions are broken, it means dry top is not meant to be a place for mesmers to be around. check

woa, i knew it, its not our phantasms thats broken, tyria is broken, it all makes sense now!

Wyrden.4713:

Navi.7142:

So.. it is not that the illusions are broken, it means dry top is not meant to be a place for mesmers to be around. check

woa, i knew it, its not our phantasms thats broken, tyria is broken, it all makes sense now!

Yeah. It did need a long time for me to figure this out, but I think I’ve got their message now.

Don’t worry, that seems to be normal. When encountering a Turret engi, i thought “well, focus may suck as weapon against mobile targets, but the damage isn’t bad against stationary ones, and the Blocks would prevent it from hitting anything, right?” and equipped my focus, only to run into the same problem as you. Unfortunately i cannot say if this is due to the turrets being turrets, or simply due to iWarden being broken as a whole

I would love it if our focus-phantasm would get a projectile-blocking (or reflecting if traited) version of the WarriorsWhirling Axe move, instead of it’s current version of Whirling Defense. It would allow for movement during the Attack, and make it less useless than it’s now, although it’s movementspeed in-Attack should probably be reduced by 33%, lest we have more raging Warriors complaining about someone else being better at something than themselves (see standard-Warrior reaction to the thieves stolen skill).

But right now? The Cooldown is pretty high for what it does at the moment; 25s untraited!? Really!? Right now it’s not really viable for Phantasm Builds (unless you intend to fight rooted enemies… and even then it probably won’t work), Shatterbuilds cannot really use Fokus as a whole (the Phants cooldown is too high to use it as (*) shatterfodder, and the possible interrupt on TC doesn’t justify having only one useful skill), condibuilds.. well, focus doesn’t really give anything to condibuilds either, so the only builds capable of effectively using a fokus would be Interrupt/Lockdown Variants, and then mostly due to TC, and not because of iWarden…

pls, a-net, fix that kitten Warden

(*)edit: hat to insert this, because the ‘as’ + ‘shatterfodder’ was combined into ‘kittenerfodder’ by our smart automatical censoring service