Guild Wars 2

I Run COF p1 alot and noticed that while im on the gate controls my axe #1 skill does NOT bounce off the gate controls. This disappointed me becasue there is another enemy near the controls, That means that IF my axe would bounce it would bounce off the controls to the flamethrower mob and back to the gate controls (Double damage!!)

So my question is: Is this a bug or working as intended?

If it’s not bouncing, then it sounds like a bug. If you haven’t submit a bug report in game.

However…you also may want to consider something other than an axe on the gate controls. Almost every other weapon except for greatsword will probably do more single target dps than the axe to take out the controls quickly and since you don’t need to kill the enemy with the flame thrower, it doesn’t really matter if you get the deflect damage.

Personally, I’d recommend popping quickness and using the longbow while using something like a raven or jaguar at the same time for their F2 burst.

I guess it’s a bug then, I’m going to send a bug report

I use Signet of the Wild with Sick em’, Quickening zephyr and the river drake F2 skill while using sword,I can get it down in 4-6 seconds using this combo. I read that sick em stops working when using your F2 ability so it’s kind of worthless unless you use it after your F2 ability. people suggested longbow for the controls but i decided to try axe because of the bouncing effect, since that doesnt work im going back to sword. I should try longbow though!

using the river drake i can kill it in about 3seconds using QZ+the Signet of the wild. about a 2seconds channel time, and it bounces from controller to enemy and back(if lucky, sometimes the mob will move away and they lightning wont bounce). if it gets the bounce off and hits the controller again, it will take ti down ~85-90% of its health. normally most of the time i spend killing it is me actually running up to it.