Guild Wars 2

Well I didn’t want to post a thread in the bug forum since I have no reproduction conditions, so I’d just thought I’d make an inquiry with other people.

Does anyone else have issues with the trapper runes not activating the stealth and super speed on trap use? I have it happen a number of times where I’ll throw down a trap, it goes on cooldown and everything, but it just doesn’t grant me any stealth or super speed.

I’ve only noticed it in WvW (haven’t played the build in PvE, no trapper runes in PvP), and only while in combat. And no, it’s not that I’m being revealed by a lingering damage tick as I’m neither stealthed nor revealed, and it should still give me the super speed regardless of whether or not I become revealed right away. It’s happen both when dropping the trap on top of enemies or when throwing it up on a wall or space nearby.

In any case, it doesn’t happen too frequently, but I have no idea why it’s not working like it should be.

So yeah, is this a known issue that I’ve just failed to find information on? I’ve never heard anyone talking about it before.

Nope, i’m experiencing it too for a while. There are 2 situations when it happens:
1. When you drop a trap and swap weapons before you get the stealth, you wont get either of the super speed/stealth.
2. randomly, like you said, you drop it and just keep walking but nothing happens (happens about 1-5% of the time i think)

Anet needs to fix these asap.

The server delay might have some role in it. There’s already a delay in place between putting the trap down and the rune effects activating, so it might be possible that it occasionally gets lost in the server lag. I’m no tech expert though, so I’m just making a wild guess.

Seem to be more or less working for me throughout this weekend. Then again, maybe I’m not fully paying attention but when I run them I don’t recall them not working I guess.

I usually swap between two builds and right now back on the trap set. I do know sometimes it appears like it isn’t working but that is usually when I’m flipping a camp and have all the guards bundled together. One of them will toss their dealies that trip me up or hits me and I don’t get it.

I made a mental note and will see how it goes the rest of the day (will try and pay more attention – lol ).

Holl.3109:

Nope, i’m experiencing it too for a while. There are 2 situations when it happens:
1. When you drop a trap and swap weapons before you get the stealth, you wont get either of the super speed/stealth.
2. randomly, like you said, you drop it and just keep walking but nothing happens (happens about 1-5% of the time i think)

Anet needs to fix these asap.

I’ll try and see if I can replicate it via weapon swapping when I next run the build. From my recollection, it seemed to be happening even when I didn’t swap weapons though.

I think it may also have something to do with dropping the trap right on top of enemies. Perhaps the trap “triggers” before it is “set”, so because the trap was never “set” you don’t get the stealth or super speed. However, I don’t seem to be able to get this to happen consistently.

At least I know I’m not alone.

Holl.3109:

Nope, i’m experiencing it too for a while. There are 2 situations when it happens:
1. When you drop a trap and swap weapons before you get the stealth, you wont get either of the super speed/stealth.
2. randomly, like you said, you drop it and just keep walking but nothing happens (happens about 1-5% of the time i think)

Anet needs to fix these asap.

You can see it pretty good in your last vid, you mention it yourself in the vid comments. Perhaps Anet has some use from it.