Guild Wars 2

There’s a bug (probably for some time and already reported) that causes a dropped Battle Standard to not revive other players when they are inside a damage field. The banner will heal them for some amount but won’t rally them.

This isn’t really a bug, but rather an interesting mechanic with how insta revive skills and poison interact. War banner doesn’t actually revive, it heals for a set amount. This is essentially the same thing as a revive, however if the downed person is low on health and poisoned it won’t actually fully revive them. Hope that helps!

Yeah, it has been in the game for some time (from the launch) and no, it’s not a bug it’s a feature.

Sure, the tooltip says it revives fallen allies, but it’s better that way than stating “It heals for a set amount of HP that can be reduced by poison and it might not actually revive your ally if some criterias are met”

By the way, reading wiki helps with skills :P

Yeah, I was able to figure out how the “revive” mechanic work with the Battle Standard. But did we already get a dev saying that it is WAI? Because the way it currently is working seems like a very dirty workaround for me…

If it is WAI, they should at least change the skill description to “Heals fallen allies by a large amount”.

It fully heals your downed teammate for 100% hp and if your teammate is below 33% and Poisoned, then he won’t get revived (because it then heals for 67%).