For the past few days, i’ve had a quite annoying bug with the soul spiral skill, in short: during a fight, after using skill 5 executioner’s scythe the cast time of soul spiral stops randomly and goes on 3.9s cooldown like if i had changed a weapon during a cast time of any other skill, but is not possible since i’m in reaper’s shroud.
I’ve already spoken with the support under “report a bug” section, and they’ve told me to post it here to gain more attention from the developing team.
Here is the text of the mails, along some videos with proof:
First mail:
Last night i’ve encountered a bug while recording that happened to me and others a few times in the past as well. Here’s the video:
Some people say the skill 5 animation blocks the skill 4 putting in cooldown like it would be change weapon in the middle of a cast, but that’s not the case.
Here’s just one example of the tests i made with that group today, but none of us encountered this issue once again… We have no idea what triggers it. It can’t be the fact that i’m spamming skill 5 and 4, because we tried many times and still works perfectly fine. The issue is not in my gameplay either, because i’m not cc locked by anything, i’m not stunned or knockback or anything else because also the other skills would have gone into a cooldown.
What’s most annoying of this is that it puts you out of focus during the fight, the skill is supposed to activate and deal damage plus do it’s combo with the chilling field, instead we’re left with nothing and with a big question mark in our head of what happened.
Response:
Thanks for reaching out to Guild Wars 2 support about the behavoir of that skill. I noticed that in at least one of the occurrences, you had 12 stacks of stability. I also noticed that, as you mentioned, your other skills aren’t exhibiting typical behavior of a character that’s affected by crowd-control and it appears to be a separate occurrence. I’d like to get some more information before I forward it on. Are you able to replicate this skill behavior outside WvW? For instance, when queuing those skills around training dummies does the same thing happen? Have you taken any more video since that recording that shows the skill behavior? If you have, please forward a link to it in your reply. I’ll wait to hear from you.
My second mail with more information:
I can’t seem to be able to replicate it manually… but i have a few ideas on what might trigger it.
Tonight the bug happened 4 times again, 3 on ring of fire borderland (green map), the same map of the other 6 that were in the video, and one time tonight in eb while i was tagged and fighting. I’ve managed to catch 2 of the 4 times it happened (because the other times i’ve forgotten to record…)
My ideas are:
After you press skill 5, if the 4 is pressed but not casted and you get a rapid change of ground level, it goes on cooldown (i think this because in the first clip, i’m moving down the ramp, and in the second i’m nearly falling as well)
What makes me think that it is not related to that though, is the fact that the third time it happened, was while fighting at south outer bay where the terrain is flat (really close to the gate as well), and the fourth time it was in the tunnel between ogrewatch and pangloss, i was tagged and was walking backwards when it happened.
Post mails thoughts:
I don’t know if it’s possible to replicate it in pve, also because i’m never anywhere close that, and i can say it’s not map related, because it has now happened on all wvw maps (haven’t tried os/eotm). What i can say it seems not to happen when i have changed build from corruptmancer to the old double wells/backline necro on full berserker with staff/dagger-warhorn.
Also, i’m not sure, but i think i noticed it happen on axe #2 skill, but i wasn’t recording, but i am almost sure that it happened… maybe it’s a bug related to having axe equipped?
If i will have more information i will make sure to post an update