Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

Yesterday during an AC run I found out that the charges for Ice Bows are bugged with certain classes.
1 attack now counts for 2 charges and with Guardian it could cost up to 3-4 (or more) charges per attack.

First off all I did only test it with the Ice Bow but I will test it with the other elemental weapons as soon as my friend is online.
Secondly Autoattack was turned off for this so that’s not the problem.

Here’s what I noticed.
The problem occors with the multiple hit attacks like Frost Volley and Frost Fan but mostly with Ice Storm.
The Water Arrow (Autottack) and Deep Freeze appear to be fine.
Profession wise the same goes for the Thief, Warrior and Engineer they all look to be fine as an attack just counts 1 charge per attack.

With Necromancer Frost Volley and Frost Fan looks fine but the Ice Storm suddenly takes two charges instead of 1.

With Mesmer and Ranger it’s odd sometimes the attacks do cost 1 charges but mostly the Frost Volley, Frost Fan and Ice Storm cost two charges for some reason.
We did notice that on ranger if you hit for example the “Harpy Nests” the attack suddenly counts for 1 charge instead of 2 which makes it even odder for me.

Guardian is a total different story as I believe it might be related to two Virtues traits namely Supreme Justice and Permeating Wrath as attacks can cost 3-4 (sometimes even more) charges per attack.
Turning those two traits off will make an attack cost 2 charges and in some cases even just 1.
It might also might be triggered by Radiant Fire but I haven’t seen a real difference with it turned on or off.

I did file a Bug report but as it’s hard to make screenshots of out it I’ve uploaded two video’s to Youtube one with me as my Guardian and a second with my friend on his Ranger.
https://youtu.be/z7t0yaRkP7c
https://youtu.be/6lgCilWWYkc

And here’s a third one with my friend on his Ranger attacking Harpy Nests where the attacks suddenly cost 1 charges when you hit a nest.
After he attacked the Harpy + it’s nest which cost one he did an Ice Fan which suddenly costs 2 charges.
https://youtu.be/Fitv838lAvI

For all video’s it’s better to view it in theatre mode instead of full screen as the quality is good on threatre mode but it’s terrible on full screen.

As I haven’t seen this on the forums before nor on the wiki have more people ran accros this problem?