Guild Wars 2

I started playing my Herald today and my facets, after turning their passive effects on, keep turning themselves off without causing the active effect. It’s really annoying and it keeps happening nonstop. Anyone else experiencing this bug?

in pve while exploring maps?

Are you sure it’s a bug and not you having too many active so you run out of energy to sustain them?

I have the bug too, facets keep turning off as soon as I activate them.

Yeah, while exploring in PvE. I’m not running out of energy as it happens while I’m not in combat at 50% energy.

Scowny.1654:

Yeah, while exploring in PvE. I’m not running out of energy as it happens while I’m not in combat at 50% energy.

Take a look if they deactivate while your level downscale. Like moving from level 17 area to 16 on the map

Okay, not to second guess you but I wanted to make sure I haven’t been having this bug at all, but I’ll check on it later today

I can confirm this bug. Not 100% sure what causes it, but it seems that anything which switches you out of Glint legend makes the game bug out. The result is that the Facet you activate instantly deactivates 1 second later. This is not the downscaling bug since I’ve had this happen in fractals and max level content.

For example, entering and leaving underwater has caused this. My guess is, the “fix” for turning off Facets when switching legends has some interesting side effect on other such situations. Getting down leveled might also cause this, but I’ve not tryed this yet.

Switching to your other legend and back to Glint seems to fix it though, until you reactivate the bug.

Folks, You need to set your underwater legends to something other than Glint. That is the cause, because they no longer work underwater and bug out.

As Cyninja said, you can fix this by swapping legends.

Misguided.5139:

Folks, You need to set your underwater legends to something other than Glint. That is the cause, because they no longer work underwater and bug out.

As Cyninja said, you can fix this by swapping legends.

Thanks! I had this problem last night while standing in ankle deep water.

Also an easy fix for this is to just swap legends. They should start working afterwards. Does for me anyway.

Didn’t they fix this issue a while ago now? Guess they might of forgotten some areas, but who knows..

Rhovanion.8234:

Didn’t they fix this issue a while ago now? Guess they might of forgotten some areas, but who knows..

No, this is a different (but similar issue) resulting from making facets no longer work underwater in the most recent update.

Myself and another herald were getting this bug at the exact same time while fighting Mossman in fractals a day ago

I also experienced this bug after coming out of the water in Bloomhunger.

This bug is happening to my revenant in WvW. Didn’t enter any water, nothing turned off my glint aspect. Zoned in… all aspects cycle once for 3 seconds. I do get the buff, but then it turns off all by itself. Facet of Strength turns off .5 seconds after activating.
Facet of Chaos turns off after cycling once, but doesn’t go no cooldown, so at least we can get perma-protection.
All that said, this is more piano-playing than engineer.

Toad.8043:

This bug is happening to my revenant in WvW. Didn’t enter any water, nothing turned off my glint aspect. Zoned in… all aspects cycle once for 3 seconds. I do get the buff, but then it turns off all by itself. Facet of Strength turns off .5 seconds after activating.
Facet of Chaos turns off after cycling once, but doesn’t go no cooldown, so at least we can get perma-protection.
All that said, this is more piano-playing than engineer.

Does swapping legends fix it?

It happened to me in Tangled Depths. I was barely moving, it kept turning off immediately. I think it start to happen after I came out of the water.
Fixed after swapping to Shiro and cast Impossible Odds.

FLiP.7680:

It happened to me in Tangled Depths. I was barely moving, it kept turning off immediately. I think it start to happen after I came out of the water.
Fixed after swapping to Shiro and cast Impossible Odds.

I can confirm this, also on the same map.

FLiP.7680:

It happened to me in Tangled Depths. I was barely moving, it kept turning off immediately. I think it start to happen after I came out of the water.
Fixed after swapping to Shiro and cast Impossible Odds.

The solution has already been posted. Change your underwater legends to Shiro and Mallyx.

Same bug happened to me in SilverWastes, it gets fix by switching legends but it is very annoying indeed.