Guild Wars 2

Could it be that Life Blast is bugged if you are standing too near to your target?
Lately in PvE when we … cough … stack on bosses it seems Life Blast is simply not doing any damage. When I shoot, there is no “missed” or “obscurred” or anything and most importantly, no damage number. It simply vanishes doing nothing.
When I then move a little bit backwards to a distance of maybe 2 -3 Meter it suddenly appears to hit with a damage number.
This bug sometimes occures and sometimes not. Seems to be a position problem.

Anybody else having this Problem?

I am as well. Like you said, it seems there’s a small blind spot that’s developed. I first noticed it when running AC story, against Kasha Blackblood. It happened again against Adelbern

I’ve been getting the Out of Range message pop up with Lifeblast when I’m clearly within 400-600 range. It has happened multiple times in multiple different logins. Never seen this before.

I believe the LB projectile actually starts a bit in front of you, and generally you have to hit people in the feet area, whereas you tend to target people in the center. So chances are you’re just unable to hit the hitbox (despite the visuals hitting).

Certain projectiles simply don’t hit when you are in melee range.
spectral grasp can hardly be followed up with a projectile, (if the skill works that is) if your target doesn’t get stuck on a pebble.
only thing i can imagine would work (and highly unadvisable) is walking backwards while casting.

Reported this bug before the patch about 5 months ago , i guess there is little you can do about it.

Note that if you’re standing too close to some big target, the number appears on higher position than usual.

During the megadestroyer fight, life blasts were reporting out of range while axe autoattacks were connecting fine. I would assume something is wrong.

Fun fact, almost all bow projectiles start in your hitbox, but all “magic” projectile blobs (so ele staff 1, DS1, mesmer clone rubber, guard 3s orb) start outside of your hitbox. The important necro exception is UW DS1 (which continues to be our best auto attack, having perfect hitbox detection, starting inside you; which now causes a bug of self applying vuln; having a responsive cone of attack and cast time with ok damage and scaling)…

Yes..I thought it was a one off the first time it happened during a1v1. After it happened a few more times I realized something was up. I use life blast up close frequently to pressure players and don’t ever remember it dry firing like it does now.

yeah it happens with lich form and in DS. in pvp is pain sometimes to hit enemy even when they stud in place (reviving, downed etc). i don’t get any feedback not a miss not a hit. lost many times just due this crap when i was hiting ppl at 10% hp, is just a nightmare.
imo it should be in bug section.

On borderlands i have LB just randomly dissapear as if it was hiting some pebbles on the ground.
Also i get a lot of out of range thingy.Especially on Svanir shaman and Ulgoth unless they ahve some shield that causes it.

Turn on auto targeting.