Guild Wars 2

Regarding the new patch change to Empower.

Empower: This skill’s might duration increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.

The tooltip does indeed state the might lasts 10 seconds, however it doesn’t actully give you 10 seconds of might, it only gives 8 (possibly even 7 on the last tick).

So the tooltip got changed but the skill didn’t – this can be reproduced very easily – simply activate empower and hover over the might icon (on yourself or other allies) and you can see it only lasts 8 (or 7) seconds.

So are no other guardians getting this?, it’s easy yo test it out to see (i was kinda expecting more guardians to notice it).

Just start empower when not in combat and hover over the might buff icon and you can see it never goes over 8 seconds (sometimes 7), same goes if you get any allies near you to do the same test.
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It may not seem like much, but considering it was in the patch notes as a buff and it doesn’t actully work it is something that needs fixing.

Yep got the same issue.

I am, it’s not even 8seconds infact the duration has been reduced to 7seconds.

Probably it’s the same since it just refresh to 8 per channeling. They just forgot to add the 2 sec bonus

Bump so they notice

I’m guessing a lot of guardians aren’t noticing this issue, after all it is pretty hard to spot – i mean who really hovers over a buff icon to check the duration?.

Anyways, can we get a response on this to let us kow you are aware of the issue please.

Nov15 Patch Notes:
Empower: This skill’s might duration increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.

This has not been applied. The skill is bugged. Please fix it.

Meh, give these guys a break. Testing whether the skill lasts 10s or not before the patch goes up is something that can only be done in rare, convoluted circumstances that are extremely difficult to mimic on a test server. You guys just expect too much.

It may not seem important to you, but it’s still a bug.
The difference of 2 (it’s actually 3) seconds is a 25% increase, which is significant.

It was posted on the patch notes but the change was never made,so we report it in hopes that someone notices.
It’s a simple change that doesn’t require much testing,so this could be hotfixed for tomorrow’s patch.