Guild Wars 2

Am I going crazy, or was Point Blank Shot on the Longbow previously much faster? It shows as 3/4s casting time in-game. The wiki lists it as 1/2s.

I don’t know about casting time, but has the range been reduced? I remember when the game started that the range was 900, and 1200 when traited.

I wanted to bump this because not long after I created this thread, it was corrected in a minor patch and set back to 1/2s.

Unfortunately, with the Wintersday patch this skill is again incorrectly set to 3/4s which makes the skill much harder to use correctly.

Wallach.7291:

I wanted to bump this because not long after I created this thread, it was corrected in a minor patch and set back to 1/2s.

Unfortunately, with the Wintersday patch this skill is again incorrectly set to 3/4s which makes the skill much harder to use correctly.

I haven’t noticed any difference… but i have noticed i’ve been able to hit people with it from a further range even without the trait…

I actually noticed this too. theres a huge build up now

I didn’t even notice. I don’t tend to use it much or if I do I am not in an emergency situation. I will pop my traps and evade before I use the skill.

There was an update a few minutes ago. Could someone test it to see if they fixed it? It seems a bit faster to me but it could just be placebo.

Still wrong. Wasn’t in the patch notes either.

A small patch was just deployed; while not in the patch notes, Point Blank Shot has returned to the appropriate 1/2s activation time. Thanks again.

Bumping this to say that it’s been broken… again.

I feel like you may want to investigate your Perforce (or whatever other system you’re using) because with how many times this has happened it seems like someone’s committing build changes that has this error in it locally.

Wallach.7291:

Bumping this to say that it’s been broken… again.

I feel like you may want to investigate your Perforce (or whatever other system you’re using) because with how many times this has happened it seems like someone’s committing build changes that has this error in it locally.

You should probably post that in the ranger bugs section.

Not a bad idea, I suppose.

Someone seems to have noticed this thread in the past and corrected it a few times, though.

Bumping because I have found the root cause of this, and I feel a little foolish. Not one to not be able to own up to my own mistakes, however.

From what I can tell, this has never been “fixed”, I’ve just been changing my traits.

The actual bug at play here is this: the trait Eagle Eye (20 Marksmanship) incorrectly sets the activation time of Longbow 4 from 1/2s to 3/4s. Removing the trait fixes the issue.

Wow, good catch Wallach!

Holy crap… good catch. I’ve felt that this skill was messed up too but couldn’t put my finger on it. Yet another reason to be depressed while using longbow.

Please post this in the bug section!

neverborne.4736:

Holy crap… good catch. I’ve felt that this skill was messed up too but couldn’t put my finger on it. Yet another reason to be depressed while using longbow.

Please post this in the bug section!

I did, both in our sticky and on the official bugs forum shortly after I updated this.

Given that I worked QA for so many years I’m a little embarrassed I went so long without really looking into what was happening. In my defense my “main” was an Engineer at the time. :P

Does the actual cast time change with the equipment of that trait? Or is it purely a tooltip error?

O wow, so that’s why!

I always found that skill so terribly slow.

edit:
Just ran some tests myself and it’s indeed true and not just a tooltip difference either. It’s a very big difference in cast delay.

The official bug topic is here:
http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-Eagle-Eye-trait-bugged/first#post1738799
It was burried on the 3rd or 4th page already before I replied to it.

Amazing catch! Used to always have eagle eye on but now I will try running without it.