Guild Wars 2

Hey,

First of all, let me apologize for posting this thread twice. I previously posted it in Mesmer, but some of my guildmates told me I should have posted it here. I don’t really know how to contact the forum people to have it moved… so I decided to post it again here. Please have mercy on my ignorant soul.

Anyhow, Illusion of Life, the Mesmer skill that allows for rezzing people in the heat of battle, is currently bugged. It has been for a while. Let me explain how the skill used to work, and then I will explain how it works now.

In the Past:
I would see an ally go down at the foot of an enemy we have almost killed. I throw Illusion of Life under him giving him the boon of Illusion of Vengeance. For a short amount of time, he is able to keep fighting. If within that short time, he kills an enemy, he rallies 100% of the time. If he does not kill an enemy and does not die while in Illusion of Vengeance, he will go back to the downed state he was previously in.

In the Now:
A couple times in parties, my party mates have been downed within a sliver of health of the boss we are fighting. The two instances where I tested it on two people at the same time were the Icebrood Wolf at the beginning of CoE and the Crab closer to the end of Path 3 of CoE. Both party mates went to downed at the exact same time. I put Illusion of Life under both of them at the exact same time. And they got up with Illusion of Vengeance going at the same time. This is where the bug comes in though. Within 2 – 3 Seconds after I get them up, we kill the Bosses and they immediately go back to downed. It is as soon as the boss dies too. And they definitely contributed hits to the boss to get him to die after they were given Illusion of Vengeance. The duration of their Illusion of Vengeance had not run out, and they did not die again due to some insta-kill.

Instead of rallying, they simple went back to down state, which makes the use of this skill only good as a delaying tactic. If someone went down, I could throw it on them so they could run as far from the battle to rez themselves after the duration runs out and they go back down. I really hope this isn’t working as intended. I do hope this is a bug and not some kind of balance thing. Please let me know so I can stop wondering… Thank you!