Guild Wars 2

The Engineer Mortar Elite skill has some extremely buggy behavior, the shots will start to “pile up” and get massive delays, when this is happening skills can also get their cooldowns triggered but will never fire.

Here’s a video that demonstrates this.

In addition to this, the mortar will never crit, which I can’t be sure is a bug. However nothing else in the game behaves like this so I’m going to assume it is.

Yeah it’s a terrible problem I’ve experienced myself when attempting to actually use this skill an even remotely viable build. When looked at just from a bug fixing perspective (not to include the fact that it is a terrible skill), it needs alot of work to simply function as intended.

I’m honestly not sure if it’s worth fixing, as even if it did function correctly, there’s still no room for it in any Engineer builds I know of. I feel any development time put into the Mortar Elite would be better spent completely redesigning it than bug fixing it.

It’s just such a low priority because it’s so terrible. No one uses it, so it’s not seen as an issue ANet needs to address, but in the big picture it means Engineers are limited in build choice between two class Elites instead of three. Reduced elite skill build diversity by one third is something Engineers have had to accept and suffer with since we reported it in Beta.

I’d love to use the Mortar more. This is why I can’t.

UP!
wtf? 1year from GW2 release and bug not disappeared.
How i can use skill’s when they dont work ?
this is private self-maded server ? (like pirate WOW )

Just posting to confirm that this bug is still in the game as of the most recent patch.

That bug still exists. Repair it please…