Guild Wars 2

Hello, This bug has been there for a very long time. It happens under the following circustances.

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0. During the whole process, the character is out of combat.

1. When none of my utility slots (#7/#8/#9) is equipped with Portal, I trigger one of those utility skill, for example, #7.

2. Now #7 is cooling down. The CD clock’s ticking.

3. Then I swap one of my the other two utility slots, both of which are not in CD, to Portal.

4. The portal abnormally goes into CD, with the same timer as the CD of the #7 utility skills.

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Known Solution:

During step 3, swap one of the 2 unused utility to something else than portal, and then swap either of those 2 to Portal, then the bug does not occur.

However this is very annoying, time-consuming and inconvenient, when you find somethings wrong, trying react and adjust yourself to the situation before you’re forced to enter combat.

Thanks for spending time looking into this. I really hope this will get fixed.

p.s., Oh and, by the way, I heard that about 10 hours ago, 2 thieves just used some sort of bug/hack to ninja the waypointed Garrison in JQBL. I’d suggest you take this as your priority and make sure it will not happen again, especially before the second season starts. I don’t even want to imagine the wrath such thing could cause if it ever happen again during the season.

p.p.s., According to other sources, I’ve learned that the bug occurs the other way around as well, i.e., when you trigger your Portal twice, getting it into CD, and then swap one of the other 2 utility skills into something else, the swapped skill goes into CD with the same timer.

By any case, do you have any of the mentioned skills in the underwater skill bar? If yes, what are their places? I heard somewhere that the same skill which is in different slots on terrain and underwater bars may be part of the problem.

Lishtenbird.2814:

By any case, do you have any of the mentioned skills in the underwater skill bar? If yes, what are their places? I heard somewhere that the same skill which is in different slots on terrain and underwater bars may be part of the problem.

Almost.

Skills in the same slots on land and underwater share cooldowns. When you use a land skill, that skill AND the skill in the same slot underwater goes on cooldown.

So if on land you have: Blink, Feedback and Mantra of Resolve (in that order) and underwater you have Mantra of Concentration, Portal and Signet of Midnight, then using Feedback on land will cause Portal to go on 40s (32s if traited) cooldown, even though you do not have portal equipped on land.

Workaround is to equip 3 useless utilities underwater.

Virtuality.8351:

0. During the whole process, the character is out of combat.

1. When none of my utility slots (#7/#8/#9) is equipped with Portal, I trigger one of those utility skill, for example, #7.

2. Now #7 is cooling down. The CD clock’s ticking.

3. Then I swap one of my the other two utility slots, both of which are not in CD, to Portal.

4. The portal abnormally goes into CD, with the same timer as the CD of the #7 utility skills.

Hmm, I tested it with several skills of different types (instant skills, mantras, signets, ground target based…) and none of them caused Portal to go into abnormal cooldown. :S I did exactly as you mentioned: triggering a skill of a slot and then swapping other slot to Portal. Portal never got into cooldown.

Maybe it can happen underwater, I haven’t tested there yet.