Guild Wars 2

From the bug compilation thread:

Death Shroud
(NB0001) Rune of Svanir “Become a block of ice” will trigger after entering DS and receive foe damage. (Ignores %HP trigger)
etc, etc

As we all know, Death Shroud ignores HP triggers. What this means is that traits like Decaying Swarm and Siphoned Power and armor runes like Infiltration and Svanir, which are supposed to activate only when you’re below 25 and 10% HP respectively, will fire immediately upon taking any damage whatsoever in DS.

While this occasionally works to our advantage (Siphoned Power gives free might stacks, wohoo), it is mostly an annoyance.

Regarding this bug, I had a random thought: what if it’s due to the game effectively considering our “HP” to be 0 when we’re in DS because of the second health bar? If this is the case, wouldn’t that mean traits like Close to Death, or Heartseeker, or any other equivalent ability that does extra damage when a target is below a certain HP threshold also hit us harder when we are in DS?

Does anyone know the answer to this question? Maybe we’re dying faster than we ought to

edit: Oddly enough, I just tested Last Gasp, and that seems to be the only %hp trigger that works correctly. Maybe because Spectral Armor is hardcoded not to activate while in DS ?

This is most likely linked to that Death Shroud was originally Necromancer downed state, so the game most likely considers us to be at 0% while in it

Swadow.6213:

This is most likely linked to that Death Shroud was originally Necromancer downed state, so the game most likely considers us to be at 0% while in it

Ah, I did not know that. If true, a thief for instance could potentially be doing 20% more damage to us in our shroud through traits alone, and then if he likes to spam heartseeker…

I will go in sPvP on my thief and spam heartseeker on any necro I see, and report back with my findings =D