Guild Wars 2

After playing lots of PvP round with my druid, I noticed that Ancient Seeds really goes off a lot less frequently than I would expect. I tried using it on PvP golems and it was just fine (triggered each time on every golem with an AoE knockback) but then when using it on the Profession NPCs it seems to work rather infrequently. The roots mostly don’t even appear in the first place.

Can some people test around with this a bit? I’d like some others to get some opinions on it before I call it bugged. In normal PvP rounds I feel it so rarely that I seriously consider taking Grace of the Land from now on.

I’m rather new to the bleed and condi build with my druid, but I experienced too, that ancient seeds doesn’t hit nearly as often as I would think it should.
I played on the HoT maps and there are a lot of monsters that (rightfully?) are rather immune to many of the conditions that should trigger ancient seed. So in my case it is probably not a bug.

I intend to run some tests in the PvP lobby the find out more, but it will have to wait for now. If I’ll find anything interessting, I’ll be sure to post it here.

There could be a couple of different reasons. There is the icd which might proc on random stuff that you don’t realize, there are traits and stuff that reduce condi duration which lets people run out of the roots before they can reapply, and perhaps the cc is being stun broken before you can hit them again so the trait doesn’t proc.

yeh, its because the icd.
your pet may trigger the trait when you dont need it and is 10s icd if they didnt change it. some mobs also trigger it because you knockback them a little when crit or whatever.

sometimes the roots arent shown but you can see the immo is applied.
i hate how the trait is designed. its so frustrating.

Hi. I felt the same thing other did, like not seeing it proc as much as i would hope. So i went to the wikia and saw theres a bug right now that makes ancient seeds NOT proc on spike trap.
I have just tested it on the dummies and its true.

I see it proc, the problem for me is that the vines don’t actually spawn fast enough. multiple times in matches I’ve seen the vines appear BEHIND the person it should have immobilized, effectively doing nothing.

Yeh the vines is completely bugged, it’s being like this from forever, this kind of bugs you could see it with the elite entangle.