Just to add, this bug was introduced after the latest patch.
Legendary Dragon Stance: Fixed a bug so that active facets, besides Facet of Nature, will now immediately be removed when the player invokes another legend.
These issues have been noticed since HoT launched, not just the more recent patches. It seemed random at first, and to have gotten worse, but that’s more anecdotal than anything.
Also the reason you might see it cancel while in combat, is that your ‘effective level’ can change while in combat.
I honestly never notice this issue till now, its going to the point where I have to reactivate my facets every 30sec or so, really irritating.
whether I’m out of combat or in combat.
Can we fix this glint facets deactivating bug please? I’ll have 3 active which does NOT drain your energy, but any time I jump maps or use a wp my facets turn off. It’s really annoying. It never did this in beta so I’m not sure why it’s happening now.
Not to mention the Jalis vengeful hammer thing where they stop working even when fighting mobs or champs (not even around walls). Though this is a totally different bug….
I’ve seen this running around open world areas. For example, running through Lornar’s Pass with Light, Elements, and Nature enable (net positive upkeep of +1) I see Light and Elements deactivate and have to be reapplied occasionally (note that Nature does NOT do this). This is out of combat (I haven’t yet noticed whether it happens in combat as well).
Edit:
Further experimenting seems to tie it to moving into or out of the area of an available heart. I can consistently get facets to disable by crossing this “line” (at the dolyak farm heart just south of the Durmand Priory).
Further edit:
While hearts seem to trigger it (or at least some hearts but not all), that doesn’t seem to be the only cause. Running up or down the west staircase at the Durmand Priory will also do it.
Same here, I was running around the map, sure that I had the 3 facets activated, they were not. In my case they disappear as I pass by a new area or a waypoint.
yes this is a really annoying bug i encountered way too often during map completion. as it was said before my suspicion is also that when your downleveled level changes they get reset.
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Ah, I see it now. I read some other places and I think have confirmed for myself that it’s related to (caused by) effective level changes, which is the reason you don’t see it in level 80 maps (such as the new ones) or cities.
Seems to be every time your effective level changes.
Just confirming what others have observed. When I’m in a level 80 area like Verdant Brink I don’t see the issue. But when I’m down-leveled in one of the core Tyria areas and working on map completion the facets shut themselves off all the time.
Just confirming what others have observed. When I’m in a level 80 area like Verdant Brink I don’t see the issue. But when I’m down-leveled in one of the core Tyria areas and working on map completion the facets shut themselves off all the time.
I can confirm as well. While I was gathering Hero Points on my Herald in Verdant Brink and Auric Basin all my facets stayed on (unless I ran out of energy ofcourse).
Then I figured I’d gather some Hero Points in the Human and Sylvari starting areas and all my facets kept shutting themselves off every time my character was transitioning through areas where my level was dynamically adjusted.
I’m really hoping this will be fixed soon as I like the Herald’s facets (especially the perma-swiftness while exploring) but it is getting beyond annoying having to reactivate them every few hundred meters in every zone under level 80.
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So, my own experimenting of this issue has resulted in the following:
It affects every upkeep skill, except Facet of Nature and (for some reason) Protective Solace.
It occurs when moving to new areas of a zone, specifically, it occurs whenever your character’s effective level changes because of downleveling.
This is why this bug for the most part only seems to occur in Central Tyria; if the area you are leaving and the area you are entering has the same and/or no downleveling, upkeeps are not removed.
Hopefully we won’t always have to deal with this “feature” whenever we are in low level zones, as having to constantly reapply upkeeps gets pretty tedious after a while.
I originally thought this bug was related to discovering new zones/switching from one ‘area’ to the next. But as others have pointed out, definitely seems to be related to level scaling.
It’s mildly annoying at best and frustrating at it’s worst in central Tyria when you notice it happening though, especially in the middle of a conflict.
The bug where facets wouldn’t quit right away upon legend swap was fixed 10/29/15 but appears to have been reintroduced on 11/4/15 when the glint facet bug was fixed.
i noticed that… when you are walking on a map that changes your max level… the utilities skills got disabled when your stats change… but i didnt had that problem on maps that are all level 80
I am having this issue recently in spvp and its getting extremely annoying, as it puts the facets on a 3 sec cd when deactivating them. It has actually gotten me killed a few times as i went to activate the facet heal, or reveal a stealth only to find i couldn’t, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why this is happening, as it happens at completely random times.
I am having this issue recently in spvp and its getting extremely annoying, as it puts the facets on a 3 sec cd when deactivating them. It has actually gotten me killed a few times as i went to activate the facet heal, or reveal a stealth only to find i couldn’t, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why this is happening, as it happens at completely random times.
That sounds more like running out of energy, as that will put them on the interrupt cooldown, and sPvP doesn’t have the level change that is triggering this issue.
Edit: This isn’t to say there may not be an issue in sPvP that is causing it, I do not know.
Also happens in WvW, I’m currently in the green spawn area in Eternal Battlegrounds and no facet lasts linger than 2 seconds before switching itself off with no CD.
I notice this bug happens sometimes right after you get done swimming and are walking on dry land. Most of the time you can fix it by swapping to your other stance and then back again.
I’d like to confirm this has been happening to me in WvW more specifically in EB(Not sure about Desert BLs). It seems to work fine inside the keep but as soon as I leave the keep I have issues.
This happens in combat as well, which makes it pretty much unplayable..
Here’s a video showcasing the bug, and sorry in advance for the low quality, I forgot to configure OBS
Not sure if there is water in the new WvW map, but it sounds like you went underwater. Change your underwater legends to Shiro/Mallyx and this won’t happen anymore.
I have had this happen on rare occasion after using a waypoint, though (not sure on the exact sequence that causes it), which might be the case here. A legend swap should fix it.
Also happens in WvW, I’m currently in the green spawn area in Eternal Battlegrounds and no facet lasts linger than 2 seconds before switching itself off with no CD.
This also happened to me after leaving water in EB yesterday. Facets literally wouldn’t stay on for more than 2 seconds. It was like trying to light a damp match.
(Henceforth this bug shall be known as the “damp match bug”)
This also happened to me after leaving water in EB yesterday. Facets literally wouldn’t stay on for more than 2 seconds. It was like trying to light a damp match.
(Henceforth this bug shall be known as the “damp match bug”)
Issue fixed once I switched stances though
This happened to me, it only goes away if I switch to another legend and back again. Very annoying.
That happens if somehow the legend stance buff is removed(it shouldn’t be) as it’s used to help control the upkeep skills. Is this any adventure or just specific ones? More information would be useful.
Roy, really simple to recreate bug.
1. On land, enter Glint stance.
2. Enter water – your legend will automatically switch to something else (or blank if you don’t have one chosen yet).
3. Leave water and you return to Glint stance.
-When you activate any Facet when you come out of water in Glint, they will immediately shut off by the next pulse of the Facet-
Workaround fix, switch your stance to your other option on land. And then switch back to Glint. It will be fixed and Facets will again remain on. The workaround issue is Legend swap still has a 10s cooldown even when out of combat.
1. On land, enter Glint stance.
2. Enter water – your legend will automatically switch to something else (or blank if you don’t have one chosen yet).
3. Leave water and you return to Glint stance.
-When you activate any Facet when you come out of water in Glint, they will immediately shut off by the next pulse of the Facet-
Workaround fix, switch your stance to your other option on land. And then switch back to Glint. It will be fixed and Facets will again remain on. The workaround issue is Legend swap still has a 10s cooldown even when out of combat.
No, the problem is that you have Glint selected underwater still and it no longer works. The workaround is to select Shiro and Mallyx as your underwater legends.
I noticed during our guild puzzle that if other revenants were around and we all had the speed buff on and it hit 30 seconds of swiftness our facets would turn off and go off almost instantly after turning them back on.
Yeah, i noticed the bug while i was in the swampland fractal
I am able to reproduce this 100% now.
It went as follow:
Make sure you have glint equipped on both land and underwater sets.
Enable the facets while on land.
Then go into water so you get your underwater loadout.
Go back to land, now your facets will keep disabling themselves.
