Guild Wars 2

It happens to me all the time where I use the skill, it goes on full recharge, takes my adrenaline, and makes the firing animation but the skill does nothing. This was happening before the patch as well.

Does anyone know what causes this or how to avoid it?

It’s been happening to me as well. But I’ve only noticed it since the update.

Arcing arrow does the same thing, too.

The best I can figure it is that it’s suffering from the same bug earthshaker does where if you target it to a place that has a slight slope to the ground nothing happens.

Not a bug but a odd interaction with projectile reflection/block skills such as wall of reflection, smoke screen, whirling defense ect.

Basically if the shot lands in or goes through the reflect/block skill it gets destroyed instead of reflected (since it is a ground targeted aoe).
To counter this just make sure the projectile itself lands before it makes contact with a reflect/block skill (the middle of the aoe circle indicator needs to be infront of said skill, since this is where the projectile lands).

I am unsure if it works like this with all skills, but i am 100% it interacts this way with ranger’s whirling defense – when warriors use combustive shot directly on top of me and i use wd, the whole skill disappears upon the projectile making contact with the wd animation, but i can still see the red danger circle as if the skill has landed.

I guess that part of it makes sense but it also happens to me when I am clearing a camp and there is no one else around.