Guild Wars 2

Two of the traits in the Engineer Firearms tree are bugged when they apply to the Elixir Gun skill.

Rifled Barrels is meant to increase the Elixir Gun skill range, and does, but also increases the duration of the conditions on some of the skills and decreases their cooldown. The Elixir F skill, for example, has a 5+ second cripple and swiftness buff with Rifled Barrels and less than 3.5 without. The cooldown is naturally 8 seconds, but drops to 5 with Rifled Barrels.

With Fireforged Trigger active, the normal cooldown drops to 6.5 seconds, but with both Fireforged and Rifled Barrels active, the cooldown remains at 5 seconds — the current default for Fireforged Trigger.

Cooldowns and condition durations change for other skills with Rifled Barrel active too. It actually increases for Super Elixir, and the durations for Tranq Dart go from ~1s Weakness and ~4s Bleeding to ~3s for both.

What the heck is going on with Rifled Barrels?

I’ve tested this tonight, and this bug is still present. Rifled Barrels does the following to the Elixir Gun’s skills:

Tranquilizer Dart:
Weakness duration increased from 1 second to 3 seconds.
Bleed duration decreased from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.

Elixir F:
Cooldown is ALWAYS 5 seconds, with or without Fireforged Trigger.
Tooltip states a change in durations for Cripple and Swiftness, but this is not true.

Fumigate:
No change.

Acid Bomb:
No change.

Super Elixir:
Cooldown is ALWAYS 20 seconds, with or without Fireforged Trigger.
Tooltip states various changes to the skill, all of which are not true.

Maybe this bug will get fixed if I refer to it as an exploit. As in, Rifled Barrels makes my Elixir F ability’s cooldown 1.5 seconds faster, and the tooltip says that the Cripple duration is 5 seconds. This basically means that I can apply infinite crippling.

Also, the tooltip alleges that I get a 6-second Swiftness boon from it, meaning that I would get infinite Swiftness as well.

Now, in all honesty, from testing it I know that the only part of that tooltip that is true is the part about the 5-second cooldown, which is still a better cooldown than intended.

But maybe ANet should check my numbers, because the tooltip DOES imply that I get infinite Cripple and Swiftness… What if I actually do? What if I actually have a super unfair advantage that must get fixed immediately?

(I’m kidding, but please fix this. The bug has actually reduced the ticks on my bleeds and increased the cooldown on my Super Elixir.)

my engineer does have infinite swiftness … 5 sec cool down, 6 secs of swiftness, just keep hitting my med kit.

So does mine, with upkeep. Med Kit Stimulant and Elixir B. And some people get infinite swiftness from Infused Precision or Speedy Kits.

That wasn’t really my point. My point is that a trait that’s supposed to only increase the range of attack skills shouldn’t be changing how my skills actually work.

I believe there is a similar issue with the short fuse skill. It’s supposed to reduce the cool downs on all grenades, but ice grenade has a 20 second cool down and poison grenade has a 25 second cool down (regardless if short fuse is equipped or not).