Guild Wars 2

Good day folks! I hope everyone is having a fine weekend and such! As many of us know, there is a bug regarding Death Shroud wherein our utilities are greyed out for some period of time when we leave Death Shroud. This bug has been recorded and documented many times. Here is a quick video I slapped together to showcase the issue in a little more detail:

Video

In an attempt to repeatedly replicate this bug, I have made some minor discoveries that will hopefully lead to a solution.

1) The issue occurs primarily when Life Force is allowed to deplete to zero. In my tests, I had a 100% “success” rate with this bug when allowing Life Force to dissipate naturally while in Death Shroud.

2) The delay, for me, comes out to be almost exactly one second. However, this was only timed/recorded under ideal circumstances (out of combat, engaging in no actions).

3) I have not been able to replicate this bug when cancelling Death Shroud prior to exhausting Life Force. This doesn’t mean such an issue doesn’t exist, but I have been unable to replicate it.

Some Notes:

• The tests were conducted at various levels of initial Life Force. That is, some tests started at 100% Life Force, some started at 10%, and so on. Every case resulted in a one second delay.
• The tests were, unfortunately, far from exhaustive. As one can see, I was wearing armor and I had trait investments, which could potentially influence results. Regardless, I had zero investment in any Death Shroud related traits (including zero investment in the Soul Reaping).
• I put all of this together in fairly short period of time, so there may be some mistakes.

I will gladly add any other notes offered by the community.

Take care everyone! Have a nice day!

Put this in bug reports as well I’d say.

I’ve been suffering from this lately as well.

This has killed me many times in PvP trying spam my heal when my of runs out.

OmegaProject, you are the hero with your effort to document bugs.

All necromancers are grateful.