Guild Wars 2

Upon previewing Shields with light armour (for HoT), the following boots appear to conflict with the Shield, changing it’s wielded position to be inside of the character’s arm.

I fear this is not a simple preview glitch, as the same behaviour is exhibited with certain light armour chestpieces and stowed 2H weapons, which is not restricted to just the preview.

The following boots cause this issue with the shield:
[Archon Boots]
[Flame Legion Shoes]
[Heritage Shoes]
[Invoker’s Boots]
[Path of Koda]
[Priory’s Historical Shoes]

I did not test non-Charr cultural boots.

The shield clipping through the arm is displayed in Image1.

This existing issue of 2H weapons and chest pieces is shown in Image2.

I have already submitted my first HoT related bug report on this issue of light boots and shields conflicting.

Off the top of my head, no other new armour/weapon combinations bringing new unforeseen conflicts comes to mind.

Where did you get the code for the Shield from Heart of Thorns? Are we sure that will be released as shown?

I’m confused. That shield is the Flameseeker Prophecies, the current in-game legendary shield, yes? So, how is the image provided showing any possible HoT armor/weapon issue?

As for the clipping shown there, it is bad. But hopefully it’ll be fixed by the time the expansion happens. So, the clipping in the first image might not even come up in-game. Now, the clipping in the second one is indeed a common problem with certain armor/weapon combos (especially on charr).

Ohh! I get it. You are looking at what Light Armored professions might look like if any of them get a Shield as their new weapon in Specializations.

Well, it is hard to say what might happen, and previews don’t always show weapons and armor as they appear in-game.

While we’re on the subject. With the possibility of a shield on my mesmer, can we please have a fix so that the fractal shield is an actual separate item instead of a morbid cancerous growth on my back/arm?

I don’t see how this is a bug with HoT. Definitely artwork issues with the current game, but since you’re not doing this test on HoT code, it isn’t a bug.

Yeah I agree it has nothing to do with HoT.

I think Surbus was testing current light armor combinations with shields in preparation for Mesmers (likely) getting a shield specialization in HoT. He wasn’t saying that the clipping is a bug with HoT, but rather that the clipping issues between shields and the armor pieces will become a problem if not addressed before Mesmers begin to use shields in the expansion.

I am just saying it’s too early to report this as a bug. We can’t weild shields yet as Mesmer. It’s likely once the expansion hits this won’t be clipping. If it does then a report would be appropriate. In my opinion it’s just junping the gun and making a problem out of something that may not even be a problem.

First thing I did with access to Chronomancer in this beta was to test this issue.

Confirmed.

This is even the case with the new Mesmer shield phantasm.

Update. As of the latest patch this issue appears to have been fixed.

I am overjoyed, thank you Anet!

Now time to add Shield skins to my to-do list.