Guild Wars 2

I noticed it ~~2 days ago on Svanir Shaman. I stayed like 2 meters from him and when using Lifeblast I saw “Out of range!”. The effect stopped when I changed position. This happen mostly when staying for some time in the same place, situation or place doesn’t matter. Today I noticed that projectile just goes next to target, not even touching it, popping “Out of range!” at the same time. I noticed it only PvE.
Anyone with this problem? It can be quite annoying.
I also noticed that sometimes I can see nothing. I mean I can’t see numbers, I can’t see “Out of range!”

I have the same “out of range” problem with Svanir Shaman on my necro.

I have also noticed this problem, very annoying. Any chance a fix is coming for this? This happens to me on quite a few bosses in PvE, not just shaman.

yep tons of out of range here too eventhough i am in range.

Every necromancer I’ve asked has reported this bug, which has persisted for atleast a few months now.

Life blast will randomly and persistently say ‘out of range’ for no apparent reason, even when well within range.

Seems to happen with Champions the most, but I believe that it’s more likely because it’s more noticeable here. I’ve had it happen with gauntlet targets constantly.

Bump.

Still an issue today.

It seems something was changed with the skill – perhaps an attempted fix? Now instead of ‘out of range’ errors, there’s simply no text, nor damage numbers (or damage).

The skill simply fails to connect, no damage.

I don’t know if it matters, but I experience this with my Charr necromancer consistently, fairly tall even for Charr standards.

It’s incredibly disappointing as the skill takes a full second to cast, and fails to hit so often.

Just adding my voice to those who’ve noted this issue. Seems to occur mostly with large bosses (both champs/legendaries, as well as those big meta bosses that are more like objects). It was particularly noticeable the other day when I was fighting The Shadow of the Dragon. Luckily I was just repeating the fight for fun and could afford to not use my lifeblast, but still… :/

Here’s some footage I recorded today.

Turn annotations on for a break down of skills and combat log

I apologize for blurry 720p and some stutters, still learning recording software settings – Already tweaked it to hopefully be better for future recordings.

Basically in summary though: 3 times engaging the Champion Chief Ogre Engineer in BL Keep.

First engagement: 2 hits, 4 misses.
Second: 2 misses
Third: 2 misses, 6 hits, 6-7 misses.

That’s a really terrible track record. The skill is pretty horribly unreliable.

The wiki would suggest that the Chief Ogre in the previous video does have a projectile blocking skill on Fire Bomb. Why it would be on fire bomb of all things is beyond me…

But that still doesn’t change the fact that Life Blast doesn’t connect for no apparent reason all too often.

Here’s another clip from today doing the Hydra Queen. For the first 14 seconds, Life Blast misses again and again and again. It isn’t til she’s knocked back and I reposition a little, that I finally get some connecting hits.

When I enter death shroud a second time, it continues to miss repeatedly until I enter point blank range. As soon as I move away, it starts missing again.

Perhaps it’s an issue with the skill being blocked as it passes through allies? Or maybe certain allied reflect/absorb skills are affecting it? I don’t know.