Guild Wars 2

I don’t think this is a bug, you can “spam” the blind anyways with eagle/hawk. This just enables you to do the same with other pets. It requires more micromanagement and you kind of “sacrifice” their F2 ability, so eagle/hawk have still an advantage.

Until Anet says that skill canceling qualifies as bugs/exploits, which other classes can and do use/abuse – then no, this isn’t a bug.

Still though, since it seems things that benefits rangers gets fixed much sooner than any other issues/bugs in this game, across all classes, expect this one to be nerfed within the next seven days or so. Since everyone knows we’re the most op class out there.

Thats really nice to know!

I was noticing a crap ton of blind coming off of rangers I was fighting, so this is probably what it was.

Not that you can’t do something similar with the birds already, but I’ve ran into people doing it with wolves and such.

Yea it’s most likely a bug because it’s supposed to be on f2 attack similar to wilting strike , invigorating bond. Taunt isn’t linked to the f2 but it has an ICD … I’m sure they’ll patch this up with something like ‘on successful f2 attack will blind enemies in a radius’ type patch. Of course, it will be sad when we see this get fixed and engi 100 nade bug will still exist. Rangers are always the first to get their stuff fixed , usually only when it helps the ranger as we still have many bugs right now that hurt us and probably won’t be fixed for months.

Ah anet always fixing game breaking bug… (lol………………………………………… lolololoolol) Sad!

This is the exploit I found (I mentioned a possible exploit in my beastmastery traits thread). It works with the taunt as well (those traits function exactly the same except a 15s ICD). Not pleased it was announced like this (bug report it and move on) but oh well.

Know that it means you won’t be able to land Wilting Strike (weakness) but a blind every 4s and taunt every 16s might be worth it if you aren’t using birds.