Guild Wars 2

Half of my skills don’t work uphills. Can we please get a fix to this?

I’m not sure if it’s the same issue or not, but I was noticing today that Searing Fissure would only work (apply burning) a portion of the time. Sometimes I’d land the foe directly inside the combo field and yet they’d take no damage and get no burning.

I tried all kinds of experiments to see if I could figure out what made it work sometimes and other times not. I’m not sure it is an uphill versus downhill issue since sometimes I could make it work downhill. Whatever the root cause is that triggers the occasional failure, it is frustrating. Can anyone confirm what behavior triggers the failure for sure?

I’ve tested uphill and downhill and the results aren’t consistent so I’m not 100% sure that elevation is what’s triggering this. It seems like Searing Fissure is about 80% success and 20% failure. But what’s interesting is that even if it fails and does no damage or burning, the combo field is still usable.

Anyone else seeing the intermittent failure in skills like Searing Fissure and if so, know what the trigger is for sure?

Orion Templar.4589:

I’ve tested uphill and downhill and the results aren’t consistent so I’m not 100% sure that elevation is what’s triggering this. It seems like Searing Fissure is about 80% success and 20% failure. But what’s interesting is that even if it fails and does no damage or burning, the combo field is still usable.

Anyone else seeing the intermittent failure in skills like Searing Fissure and if so, know what the trigger is for sure?

I assume Searing flames is like 2nd skill on hammer because I have a lot of issue with it. And 3rd Hammer.

If theres a small inconsistency in the road path itll stop it

Yep, I’ve had major problems with Mace #2 and Hammer #2 if there’s any sort of elevation change in terrain, even a slight one. It’s really frustrating, since those 2 weapons were my favorite to begin with, and #2 is critical to both of them.

Not to repeat a cliche, but I’m surprised the abilities made it out of beta in this poor of shape. It’s not hard to reproduce, I was noticing consistency problems by the time I was L8 or so (and I’ve been gone for the game for 2.5 years).

In one of the recent articles they mentioned that builds would be spaced out a bit more and only major bugs would be addressed in quick builds. In my opinion this qualifies as a major bug. Like you said these skills are critical for basic combat functionality – they need to be reliable.

Also down skills have a lot of problems. At all hammer skill 2 and 3 as well as mace 2 and axe 5 have a lot of problems with unsteady terrain. This should really get fixed asap

this is genuinely weak. any target >1 terrain levels higher than you can safely ignore one of your weapon abilities. only because the game engine can’t accommodate. not good.

NeroBoron.7285:

Also down skills have a lot of problems. At all hammer skill 2 and 3 as well as mace 2 and axe 5 have a lot of problems with unsteady terrain. This should really get fixed asap

Yeah especially hammer 3rd is terrible downhill

Hammer 3 seems to only travel a finite range even if the levitation adds some to the trajectory, so you often see yourself slamming the air above and missing. :P

But ye a fair bit of terrain stuff. At the same time some things are unsolvable (such as the shiro teleport) without changing the skill and will always glitch at times, it’s a design problemthat’s been around since the dawn of modular 3d terrain i think.