Guild Wars 2

his move is supposed to go:

1. throw hooks at players, who get
2. pulled if they don’t dodge it, and
3. place a bomb (red circle warning), which
4. blows up and knocks back.

however, part 4 happens immediately upon being pulled. the bomb explosion visual occurs after the delay that would’ve made it possible to avoid the massive damage, but there’s no avoiding it as it is now. except dodging the hooks, of course, but the move is rather quick, and much more dangerous with the bug in place.

Strange, I duo’d this a couple hours ago. And guess why (didn’t take us many attempts actually) we died each time? I got sloppy with my reflect. Place your reflect directly on her and you can just dps uninterrupted. The pull has both an animation and sound effect too do it’s very clearly choreographed.

(it is a him, though.)

yeah we decided that having a couple of mesmers would’ve made it a lot easier. ;P unfortunately, we were in no such resourceful position.

the bug might’ve been an instance thing, dunno. place seems rather random… we had to abandon an earlier run because belka didn’t initialize properly.

It is either she or he has very female-ish voice and wears female clothes.

haviz.1340:

It is either she or he has very female-ish voice and wears female clothes.

i thought the same, initially. but i think male is right.

thomasgjkgwdn.4760:

i thought the same, initially. but i think male is right.

You do know wiki is being written by players? She’s wearing human female medium armour.

haviz.1340:

You do know wiki is being written by players? She’s wearing human female medium armour.

yeah, i do.

when we fought “it”, i kept going back and forth between “she” and “he”, because i just couldn’t tell… so after reading a bit in places, i settled on “he”. but… looking at (or rather, listening to) something like this makes me think SHE again.

still not entirely sure… (i’ve been traumatized! i trust nothing)

The red circle is for the second explosion.

robertul.3679:

The red circle is for the second explosion.

nope, the combat log clearly states that “big ol’ bomb” (or whatever it was) does huge damage – except yonder bomb hasn’t actually gone off at that point. doesn’t make sense to have 2 explosions, one “stealth”, and another visual. it’s a bomb, after all.

This was changed with the Dec. 10 patch, and I don’t think anyone has found a reason why. No dev comments as far as I’ve heard, and no reasonable explanation provided by players.