Guild Wars 2

It is now more than one year after release and this bug still persists. The elementalist under water skills Rock Blade and Forked Lightning sometimes fail to hit their targets. When the bug strikes

- the projecticles fly straight past the target, usually above them, very closely,
- no “miss” floating text appears,
- if you are not in combat, you do not enter it
- you do not pull a mob that is not in combat, or generate any aggro otherwise,
- both skills are always affected together, i.e. either both work or both don’t.

Steps to reproduce: log in as an elementalist, go under water, attack some mobs with Rock Blade or Forked Lightning. It is nigh impossible to do Daily Aquatic Slayer without encountering this bug several times.

It appears to be completely random when the bug happens. Changing positions generally does not alleviate it. Sometimes it seems that the projectiles start hitting again, but I have not found any pattern as to when they will hit and when they don’t.

The two skills have in common that both shoot three projectiles in a spread pattern, which is what I assume is connected to whatever causes the bug in the first place.

I would just like to add that I have the same problem with Heat Wave (which makes sense as it also fires three projectiles when used). I don’t think I’ve ever hit anything with it :P

This is really annoying. I have fired it at point blank range for 10 seconds while an enemy is chomping me, and not one hit landed. It’s not every time or any specific enemy type. It has happened a lot to me with barracuda but also with other types. It just seems to think the enemy is higher than it is.

This bug still persists as of 2012-12-19.

Mephane.8496:

This bug still persists as of 2012-12-19.

I can confirm this bug as well when I wanted to do my daily underwater kills earlier today. Very consistent behaviour and easily replicated.

/signed

I have the same issues on both my Elementalists. It isn’t just those 2 skills either. Sometimes it’s so bad that only the aoe-type skills work ( fire #2, lightning #2, water #3, etc). So basically I often can’t hit anything unless I use skills that just smash an area all around me wildly.

Please to fix, Devs?

Bunch of ele skills fail to hit their target, i’ve seen it happen with Meteor and Ice Spike the most. You can cast a meteorshower right above a npc guard in WvW and sometimes nothing will happen.

I can confirm this as well. It makes underwater combat nearly impossible.

As I noted in my own report, the vertical hitboxes of the trident projectiles are too small. This will most often occur against small creatures like barracuda. Really this is an easy fix (increase the hitbox size), the devs just don’t appear to be poring through the forums for bugs to fix.
#thanksScarlet