Guild Wars 2

XI: Evasive Arcana(Arcana 3 Tier Trait) has a bug. when attuned to earth, It says It’ll create a spell ‘Churning Earth,’ but It’s not. If Churning Earth looks created, but the truth is that created ‘Ring of Earth,’ even its effect is Churning Earth. They took a bleed, even they had to take 8 bleeds, if Churning Earth created… and its damage is poorer than Ring of Earth casted by weapon skill.
And Its range is too weird. even enemy is in range(in a look the effect shows to me), They don’t take that.

Screenshot: It gives 1 bleed, not 8 bleeds.

Glad someone has already screenshot this bug. I thought it wasn’t hitting at all because I expected 8 bleeds, but it looks like the actual spell effect is a equivalent to a ring of earth. The range is quite odd on it, as sometimes it completely misses the target even though the spell goes off right on top of them.

I’m beginning to wonder if the EA churning earth was pulled for balance reasons and substituted with a ring of earth effect. If this is the case, some clarification in the visual effect or tooltip would be most welcome.

I have an even more confusing bit to add to this.

My THIEF creates a ring of earth (the spikes) when I pick up some items or sometimes dodge. Can’t work this one out.

This is working as intended. The churning earth that gets created by evasive arcana is a much weaker form. It is churning earth because it is also a combo finisher. Ring of earth is not a combo finisher.