Guild Wars 2

Hi there.

Yesterday, i found that the skill Heat Shield from the weapons on the Claw of Jormag event (flamethrower, bazooka, barrel – not sure about the names) has a bug with the cooldown.
Usually the cooldown is 30 seconds after use but with this process it becomes 3 seconds after it has served its purpose.

The process is simple:
- Cast the heat shield to provide defense for the attack.
- Half-second/1 second after activating, and serving is purpose to protect the player, cancel it.
- The heat shield goes on a 3 second cooldown, as other channel abilities go when they are interrupted by an attack, instead of the normal 30 second cooldown.

With timely activation and de-activation the player can avoid most attacks from Jormag, at least in the first phase of the battle, like the fear, ice rain and the spine column (i also don’t know what to call that attack).

For now i don’t have any screenshot or alike to show it but tomorrow if i do Jormag, and i remember to do it, i’ll take some.

Thank you for your attention

Thanks for bringing it to attention.

MORE people need to learn to heat shield cancel if they’re going to just be standing in the same spot taking every attack.

Those are two conflicting posts.

Not sure if what you say is a bug, but in case it’s a exploitable thing you better report it through a proper channel, that’s reporting it to exploit@arena.net. Reporting exploits through forums isn’t allowed.

This has been posted very often in the forums as help against the fear spam.

So i think ANet are aware of that and since it hasn’t been changed they are
mostly fine with it.

This has been in the game for well over a year. It acts like many of your skills that are accidentally activated and then interrupted by cancelling into another skill. It resets the cool down to 3-4 seconds. It isn’t just an trick with the Bazooka, but something that affects many other skills.

I would imagine that it is alright with the developers since it has been around. It also may one of the reasons why Claw spams certain move so much in phase one. It would be to counterbalance the early cool down trick.

• edited to better clarify

shadow.6174:

Not sure if what you say is a bug, but in case it’s a exploitable thing you better report it through a proper channel, that’s reporting it to exploit@arena.net. Reporting exploits through forums isn’t allowed.

I was not sure if this was an exploit or something known around (neither i found out a better way to report it) so i made this post.
I also tried to search the foruns for posts related to this but since i didn’t find any report i assumed it was something somehow it went by unnoticed or was already burried in the forums.
Thank you for the tip anyway

By the way:
- The screenshots i promised go in attachment.
- If something here, or the entire post is against some rule, since i’m not sure weather this fits the bug or exploit category, please just say so and i’ll delete it.

As far as I remember, this is the way the skill worked for the entire lifetime of the game. I thought everyone uses the shield skill by canceling it near the end of its channeling, and the challenge is to cancel it an instant before completion to have the short cooldown.

At least this is how I use it after I found that out by myself, probably soon after release. And I am not the kind of person who finds out things first by himself. So if there is a person in the game who don’t know this “trick” yet, he either has not yet visited that event, or never took the bazooka, or never used the shield skill.

I don’t even get why you would post this. it is barely an exploit. it offers no super advantage over other players, it is confined to one area of the game where it really only reduces some minor annoyance on an easy but tedious fight that needs to be overhauled it’s self

Allumno.4601:

I was not sure if this was an exploit or something known around (neither i found out a better way to report it) so i made this post.
I also tried to search the foruns for posts related to this but since i didn’t find any report i assumed it was something somehow it went by unnoticed or was already burried in the forums.
Thank you for the tip anyway

I also don’t know if it’s a bug, exploit or whatever, I just took the opportunity to remind the proper way to report those. Also, search in this forum is broken as the most already know, no wonder why you couldn’t find it :P

Working as intended. As Buttercup.5871 said above, please use this feature!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Survival-at-Claw-of-Jormag/first#post4295167