Guild Wars 2

When I come out of DS my utility skills load a lot slower than my weapon skills. It almost feels like I have to wait an entire consume condition cast time to use any of my other skills.
I am wondering if this is supposed to happen?

Also I have been having a problem with Dark Path lately. I know the radius is only 240 but I have noticed its really delayed. I have even seen it pop when I am out of DS.

Its amazing the more you play PVP the more you notice nuance problems with certain skills.

The inability to use heal/utility/elite skills when knocked out of death shroud by damage or running out of life force is a bug.

So basically try and exit DS before it runs out is the best I can do to avoid this?

Zemarca.6218:

When I come out of DS my utility skills load a lot slower than my weapon skills. It almost feels like I have to wait an entire consume condition cast time to use any of my other skills.
I am wondering if this is supposed to happen?

Also I have been having a problem with Dark Path lately. I know the radius is only 240 but I have noticed its really delayed. I have even seen it pop when I am out of DS.

Its amazing the more you play PVP the more you notice nuance problems with certain skills.

You are not alone

I can confirm that utility skills do load 1-2 secs slower then weapon skills when leaving deathshroud.

Havent seen " dark path " beeing cast outside DS yet , tho i do know that the channels ( LT ) will continue even if your DS runs out.

Yeah the delay is there only if you let your life force run out (by just standing there or by being hit). It’s pretty bad. The upside to letting it run out is that Death Shroud cooldown will count from when you first entered. So.. if you enter into Death Shroud, you wait about 10 secs and let it fully run out, when you exit, you will have the utility skill delay, but Death Shroud will be recharged. Still, I think the delay is unintentional. It’s best to try to save a dodge as it runs out to buffer the damage you would take during the delay… or at least that’s what I try to do. Or yeah, just exit DS :P

I don’t know what you mean about Dark Path being delayed. Do you mean the cast time, projectile or?

It can be channeled while outside of Death Shroud, if your life force runs out as you press #2.

It is a bug, and it totally sucks.

Also, Dark Path is a projectile. It doesn’t take effect until it reaches your target, not when you cast it. Therefore, it is totally possible to throw out dark path and then leave DS and be ported. In fact there are some “combos” that you can do if you want to make it very difficult for people to get away right when you get there (generally priming a skill with a cast time, such as Dark Pact or Locust Swarm so they cast right as you hit your target).