Guild Wars 2

Sooo… Winter’s Bite now has an activation time of 1 second? Seriously ANet?

Also trapes now take A LOT longer to activate/throw

Surely this is a bug!?

It happens only when “Trapper’s expertise” trait is on. I am sure it is a bug. Trait cant affect the skill to downgrade it.

what the heck. no wonder it fails to go off so much lately. it also continues to flash after the yellow bar is filled.

first pets got broken now this too. thanks.

The aftercast seems to be like a whole second or more, from pressing winter’s bite to returning to auto attack it’s nearly 3 seconds, wtf. Not only that, the animation looks absolutely ridiculous as well now.

Okay, this is related, I posted this in another thread:

Kolisch.4691:

So far, what we know about this is that:

1. GMaster trait (Trap Potency) will now also increase trap cast time by two times (which is bad), while also increasing radius (good but at the expense of the cast time? noooo).

2. If you don’t use either Master (Trapper’s Expertise), or GMaster trait, you can bring the cast time back down to the normal 1/2 seconds.

So — If you choose to untrait the Master trait, you only lose ground targeting but get another trait of your choice while maintaining the added radius (from bugged GM trait). If you un-equip only GM trait, you lose the condition duration. So for those foregoing Master, it might not be such a big nerf to those holding points in PvP — they basically get a free Master trait out of nowhere.

For now my choice is taking off the master trait. It temporarily fixes the winter’s bite cast time, while trading ground targeting for another extra slot in Master Trait slot (we still get the added radius if you read my quote). In WvW it will be missed… but still OK in PvP where we fight on points.

I’m not using any traits related to traps and my winter’s bite is still at 1s (actually a lot longer than that).

Its a bug,the devs already came and said the patch screwed up cast times across the board. Who knows when it will get fixed lol