Guild Wars 2

Have you also experienced that Life Blast works very poorly in the PvE world? I am mainly thinking of world bosses now. Taidha, Maw etc. it doesn’t register unless I am standing very close to the bosses. It might get a hit or three but then seizes to work.

What are your observations on this matter?

I’ve experienced this too, on the same bosses. Very annoying since DS is my go to for auto attacking.

Standard projectile bugs, I’d imagine. See if staff autos have the same issue.

I have noticed this happening also and ive only really seen it crop up after they messed around with adding Dhuumfire to it via the trait.

I do not use the Dhuumfire trait but what normally happens is your attacks will register at first and then nothing. Doesnt matter how close I am or where I move to none of the attacks even register but it only appears to be lifeblast that is affected as the rest of the skills within DS hit.

In the end I just have to exit out of DS.

Staff auto attacks work just fine. It’s just sad you spec for burst and have to use staff auto attack for long range attacks, when it often is the only valid means of attacking an enemy, as the marks don’t trigger on everything.

Many traits are build around LB, which you can’t put to good use.

Hopefully they’ll do something about it.

No, it’s a bug specifically with Life Blast. Life Blast will constantly be ‘Out of Range’ for no apparent reason, even when point blank with a target. It seems particularly bad on champions, and large scaled mobs. Half the time, I can’t hit EoTM champ lords for example.

Almost every necromancer I’ve asked reports the same issue. I’ve seen two recent threads in the game bugs forum and have reported it ingame as well, but it’s been like this a few months at least.

Yeah its definitely an annoying bug and funnily enough I notice it happening more in WvW or EOTM against champ lords. Its almost as annoying as someone knocking them out you’re well just as you place it down.

It’s an annoying bug, but I’ve found that allowing the life force bar to fully deplete is enough to get Life Blast working correctly again.

Sors Immani.8429:

It’s an annoying bug, but I’ve found that allowing the life force bar to fully deplete is enough to get Life Blast working correctly again.

Exiting out of DS whether its by depleting the lifeforce bar or by exiting out manually fixes the problem. It does appear to be random when it happens which is a bit of a kicker, only reliable method ive found to replicate it is fight a champion/lord in EOTM or WvW.

It happens to me every single time on Maw.

Yeah im starting to get this alote all over the place, this is a bug that needs to be fixed its an absolute game breaker for some necro ds builds, it should of been fixed the first moment it appeared…

Four months later and this is still persisting.

For an auto attack skill with such a lengthy cast time, there’s nothing more disappointing then waiting for life blast to consume life force, charge, barrel towards your target… and then not connect. Hooray!

Please fix this broken skill.

It seems to work on most normal mobs, but it fails consistently on larger targets, particularly champions and legendaries.

Edit: It seems something was changed however in these four months: Instead of getting ’Out of Range!" for no apparent reason, the attack simply misses, and no popup for damage or out of range text shows.

Over the last four months, plaing mostly on my necro and life blasting a lot more often than I had been, I have yet to ever see this bug. Even against the world bosses, I still have perfect Life Blast accuracy.

On Maw, though, it might be the stupid cyclones he summons that are body-blocking your life blasts.

No there definetly seems to be a problem with LB’s projectile. I have seen this bug irregulary but quite persistent on PvE mobs. Especially in EotM and the new Silverwastes map.

Yesterday I managed to get no hit with Life Transfer even though I stood in the middle of a pack of mobs. But that could be because of the weird edge the fort’s entrance has. You can’t place a mark on there either or move the cursor (with the mark selected) over it.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Over the last four months, plaing mostly on my necro and life blasting a lot more often than I had been, I have yet to ever see this bug. Even against the world bosses, I still have perfect Life Blast accuracy.

On Maw, though, it might be the stupid cyclones he summons that are body-blocking your life blasts.

Please give me your perfect hits.

Here’s EotM footage I got today.

I apologize for the blur and stutter, I’ve fine tuned the settings since recording this.

In summary: Of 23-24 casts, only 8 connect. I’ll be recording more hilarious broken-ness in the future in better quality.

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This is happening way too often, need a massiv report in game bug topic

Sinzaku.2980:

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This is happening way too often, need a massiv report in game bug topic

Agreed.

http://youtu.be/QYcFYFWRcSA

More footage of life blast clearly not working.

The first 12 casts all miss. I don’t even get a ‘miss’ text. I just cast, and the bolt just seemingly disappears into thin air. I did a quick count, and saw 6 casts connect, 23 misses. It’s ridiculous.

I notice that the only hits are from when I’m basically point blank on the target/inside the circle – though even this sometimes doesn’t guarantee a hit.

Bump.

I’ve noticed this on almost every keep/tower lord in EoTM, consistently failing to hit the Balloon Pilot, Basilisk, Owl, Charr Igniter. Also was missing as 400-ish range Megadestroyer near the shore today, and the Risen High Wizard in Cursed Shore.

I recently came back to GW2 and came looking if there was a known bug for my Lifeblast often bugging out now. I am very saddened to find a thread that was started 7 MONTHS ago about this. Shots that clearly should have hit suddenly all miss. I can’t distinguish a pattern for when it starts or when it stops.

Koalachan.3451:

I recently came back to GW2 and came looking if there was a known bug for my Lifeblast often bugging out now. I am very saddened to find a thread that was started 7 MONTHS ago about this. Shots that clearly should have hit suddenly all miss. I can’t distinguish a pattern for when it starts or when it stops.

Welcome to the world of necromancer, where bugs are our way of life. There are some that are even older than this, sadly….

Had some recent observations that made me post additional info in this Bug Report: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Life-Blast-misses-almost-figured-out-old/first#post5097405

Can you guys confirm whether this matches your observations?

I can see that being the problem, since it(for me)only happens on Champs, and there’s usually a lot of allies around. Though I’ve not experienced this in large WvW groups. The fact it’s still a bug all this time with all the threads and reports is just sad. This thread is almost a yr old!