Guild Wars 2

I have noticed for a few months now that when I am in a large group (30+) either in WvW or PvE, if I drop Healing Rain and then go into it and fire Arcane Wave, nothing happens. No AOE heal, it just sort of fizzles, the skill goes on normal cooldown, and I get nothing for it. I have also seen the effect in Geyser.

At first I thought it was some sort of weird skill lag, because I noticed that although I pushed the usual key combination, the water field was not appearing before the arcane wave was fired (although it was pressed afterwards), so I very carefully started watching for the appearance of the field before firing Arcane Wave and it definitely is simply not causing a blast finisher. It never happens in small groups (like a dungeon run).

A separate issue is that sometimes skills do not fire at all, which definitely messes up play as elementalist, since a lot of what you do is lay down fields and blast them.

Zarenda Mal.1364:

I have noticed for a few months now that when I am in a large group (30+) either in WvW or PvE, if I drop Healing Rain and then go into it and fire Arcane Wave, nothing happens. No AOE heal, it just sort of fizzles, the skill goes on normal cooldown, and I get nothing for it. I have also seen the effect in Geyser.

At first I thought it was some sort of weird skill lag, because I noticed that although I pushed the usual key combination, the water field was not appearing before the arcane wave was fired (although it was pressed afterwards), so I very carefully started watching for the appearance of the field before firing Arcane Wave and it definitely is simply not causing a blast finisher. It never happens in small groups (like a dungeon run).

A separate issue is that sometimes skills do not fire at all, which definitely messes up play as elementalist, since a lot of what you do is lay down fields and blast them.

In a crowded scenario, there’s usually another field under you, the one which is cast first counts, so your field has no effect there, except that it’s the only one placed.
But I often encounter a situation where the combo finisher message (for example: “Area Retaliation”) doesn’t appear at all, which seems weird at least….

Exactly what STRanger said. Also, if you watch your boons & floating numbers, even if the message doesn’t show you still get the effects. In regards to the delayed appearance of the field, just wait until the skill has finished casting, then blast. It’ll work. Sometimes there’s a delay in the field showing up visually (happens back at home where the internet connection is slower) but the server knows it’s there and the combo should work properly.

What do you mean by skills not firing at all? Any examples? I know conjure frost bow messes up half the time when you hit 4 too soon after casting it an the bow doesn’t ever spawn but the skill goes into full cooldown. It’s especially prone to doing this in fire attunement with staff #4…