Guild Wars 2

Since feature patch, if running with Harmonious Mantra trait and you get downed and get back up, you lose a charge (3->2) on your mantras. Quite annoying.

I’m pretty there is at least 1 other case where this happens but I haven’t been able to pin-point it.

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Found another, using a tonic then coming back out causes you to lose a charge (3->2)

So I can probably assume any transformation causes it.

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The downed one might not be true, I may have transformed just before being downed, I don’t remember. Will test in a little.

I haven’t noticed the first case you pointed out, but I’ll be sure to watch for it next time I get downed with mantras prepped.

The second case you’re observing occurs when you cross a level scaling transition, which will only happen in general PvE areas. For instance, if you’re in an area where you’re downscaled to level 10, you can prepare your mantras to three uses as normal. However, if you then cross into a zone where the downscaling changes so that you’re now level 11, your prepared mantras will be reduced from three to two uses. You can use these and reprep the mantras to get your three uses back, but it’ll keep putting them back down to two uses everytime you cross a level scaling transition.

Since there are no such transitions in PvP, dungeons, fractals, or WvW, I don’t expect that particular cause to come into effect in those places. I don’t believe leveling up has any effect similar to this, but I haven’t bothered to take note.

I haven’t levelled up on mesmer since I hit 80 1 day after launch so I can’t relate to that.

Also I only WvW so these cases are from in there.

I may actually have transformed just before being downed, I can’t remember I’ll go test.

Transforms definitely didn’t get rid of a mantra pre-patch though.

I realize this is an older post, but I figured I would toss out that this is still happening. Harmonious Mantras drops it’s benefit on prepped mantra’s whenever your dynamic level changes. Kind of a big deal in general pve, as much roaming as is involved in it. Makes me wonder what other things are getting messed up in DL switches that we aren’t able to see from front end tells.