Guild Wars 2

Mesmer’s Phantasmal Berserker is still showing inconsistency with its attacks. It does not reliably lands 4 hits on tested stationary golems in Heart of the Mist. The missing attacks occur in both of its initial and subsequent attacks. As of the current state, it’s at a loss of 50-75% of its overall damage.

The Mesmer community is really looking forward to see this bug be fixed asap, since Nov 15th patch introduced this bug unintentionally.

My tests in the mists show that it’s not missing at all. However, others are making wild claims about the 2nd pass always missing or doing low damage. With all the conflicting reports, I think there might be some additional factor influencing Berserker behavior such that some characters are buggy while others are working fine.

I hope all mesmers that read this bug report post sufficient data to help narrow this one down. If we can isolate the problem, ANet will have a much easier job of fixing it.

Here’s a suggested list of things to post: character race, gender, size, zone, target, terrain. Why these data points? Your clone is a duplicate of your character. I’m suspecting a subtle “obstructed” issue — likely for mesmers with different parameters than mine.

My mesmer is sylvari, female, minimum size. Tested on mists golems near the 25p test targets (chief). Terrain is flat. Observed closely in Frost Gorge on various widely different elevations. Berserker performed fine in all situations for me, with damage typically 4k/pass while wearing full berserker pve set.

Race: Human (minimum height)
Gender: Female
Zone: Heart of the Mists
Target: Golem – Heavy (the others too for that matter)
Terrain: Flat (except for maybe that little podium the golems are standing on)

My iBerserker is missing all sorts of hits. Tested it several times and I never get 4 hits in one “swing”.. even on a stationary target.