Guild Wars 2

When traiting Malicious Sorcery and Illusionist’s Celerity, the recharge is not properly updated for the Illusionary Counter skill. Screenshots below.

1. Image 1. Base recharge, no traits slotted.
2. Image 2. Illusionists Celerity slotted. Recharge properly decreases to 8.
3. Image 3. Malicious Sorcery slotted. Recharge properly decreases to 8.
4. Image 4. Illusionists Celerity and Malicious Sorcery slotted. Recharge does not properly decrease, stays at 8.

Hey Skcamow did you try using the skill and checking? I know that before the patch the tooltip would say it decreased it with IC, but actually didn’t, whereas with Malicious Sorcery it did. The same with Illusionary riposte, the tooltip decreases but IC doesn’t actually apply it.

@GreenLentil, yes I did:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-Update-Notes-10-15-13/first#post3028038

Kitten, that probably means that Illusionary Riposte is still buggy and the CD’s don’t stack.

GreenLentil.3927:

Kitten, that probably means that Illusionary Riposte is still buggy and the CD’s don’t stack.

That would be correct. It’s the same bug where these two counter spells are not considered Illusion-Summoning attacks.

I just noticed tooltip description cooldown and in-game cooldown aren’t same with/without Malicious Sorcery, Illusionist Celerity, or both trait.
I tested iCounter with/without trait. Let’s see this pic. This shows iCounter cooldown time. iCounter cooldown 8s is only when it ends without blocking with Malicious Sorcery.
Mesmer got Scepter skill buff, but it won’t work with trait.

So, understanding that pre-patch there was a “bug” with blade training/malicious sorcery stacking with illusionist’s celerity for decreased cool downs, the “bug” remains post-patch and it’s highly disappointing given the fact that one of the primary mesmer buffs was for the scepter.

If Illusionary Counter and Illusionary Riposte are not considered by Anet to be illusion summoning skills, fine, but the fact Illusionist’s Celerity works with them when taken alone would say otherwise. Definitely a mixed signal there.

Anet, please fix these traits/skills so they work together or inform us they aren’t intended to.

Per a request today from Tyler Chapman in the Mesmer forums to post bugs here, can I get some dev eyes on this one to confirm if the issue described in this thread is a bug? It affects both illusionary counter and illusionary riposte.

Just FYI for those that haven’t noticed, this bug was stealth fixed with the last patch. Both Illusionary Counter and Illusionary Riposte have proper recharges when Illusionists Celerity or weapon specific recharge are taken alone, and when taken together. The tool tip is incorrect for Illusionary Counter when both IC and Malicious Sorcery are taken together (showing 8s), but the tool tip is correct for Illusionary Riposte when taken with IC.

Thank you Anet! Just fix the Illusionary Counter tool tip now and we’re good.

Not quite. Counterspell, Riposte and Counter Blade seem to work with both cooldown traits now, but Counter (scepter 2 w/ block triggered) gains only 10% reduction from Celerity (10s to 9s CD), and does not benefit from Malicious Sorcery.

You’re right, thanks for pointing that out.

So Anet, two more bugs still here:

1. Illusionary Counter block does not reduce recharge of the skill if using malicious sorcery.
2. Illusionary Counter tool tip.