Guild Wars 2

After several months and many patches, this skill is still horridly bugged and absolutely needs a fix.

Very often the warden will spawn and then simply stare at the mob. This happens close to 50% of the time, seemingly more often in situations where you actually need the reflection.

Fix it please.

bumb – undo changes or fix it. it’s a hardcore bug.

Second this. Pretty please!

There are other threads about this issue too:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Phantasmal-Warden-bugs-post-patch
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Illusionary-Warden-bugged (this one is about other skill but Phantasmal Warden was mentioned there too)

This is the only thing I don’t like about the current patch
Anet even said like 5-6 weeks ago that they we’re looking into it, but nothing has happened. It would be stupid postpone the fix to the balance patch…..it’s a pretty annoying and serious bug.

not just iwarden

fix the sword 3(leap) as well pls. doesnt always work properly.

Still bugged. I thought it was fixed but no, I stared at it yet again and died before it did ANY damage.

Yeah, please fix this!

Bump.

/15char

Basic Underlying Mesmer Problem
or
Bump

iWarden runs to a structure and stands admiring it…

bumpity bump.

/15char

Well, a good news (not sure if it was a fix or what else though). Recently I did an event at Kessex Hills where it was required to destroy those centaur’s catapult-like thing (I can’t recall its name, Tru.. something :P) and for some reason I spawned Phanstamal Warden while that static thing was targeted and you know what? Yes, Phantasmal Warden began to hit it for a few secs and so soon it spawned.

After playing a few fractals last night, I can safely say that it’s definitely still bugged.

Yeah I thought so, I was lucky at that moment then. I’ll watch it again in other situations.

Yep, definitely still bugged. Quite a shame it doesn’t seem to be important enough to fix.

yep still bugged. anet, if u cant fix it, please just revert it to the old one. the iwarden is useless as it is in its current form.

While collecting power cores last night and this morning in Lornar’s Pass and Gendarran Fields, I had the Warden fail to attack multiple times. It was very obviously not working because I often was using it as the initial pull to hit a clump of mobs. In one instance, I summoned it, it stood next to a mob, I swapped to pistol, summoned the Duelist, which hit, the mob started running for the duelist, THEN the warden followed and attempted to attack.

CoF P2 destroyer nest spawns.
iWarden spawns.
I look at her.
She looks at me.

“Really damp in here. My hair is ruined…”
“HIT THE kitten NEST ALREADY SRWE5AF@RGNREPG$#G!#QWHG)R#@H%!!!!!!”

Korossive.7085:

CoF P2 destroyer nest spawns.
iWarden spawns.
I look at her.
She looks at me.

“Really damp in here. My hair is ruined…”
“HIT THE kitten NEST ALREADY SRWE5AF@RGNREPG$#G!#QWHG)R#@H%!!!!!!”

I have had a similar issue on many different types of objects. The shards in Jormag pre, for example. Target the shard, summon Warden, Warden spawns inside the shard and proceeds to do nothing at all.

i was fighting a mesmer last night and he used an iwarden on me. i stealthed and then the iwarden did absolutely nothing to me at all. it just stood there not attacking me at all.
i hate using focus atm as the phantasm is broken. please anet just revert it. it was great before u changed it. i loved the iwarden soo much before the change, now im trying to avoid it…its that broken

Ok wait, I must be doing some mistake here… what skill is this thread about? As I posted above, recently I have tested Phantasmal Warden on a centaur’s “catapult-like” thing on Kessex Hills and it did as expected, same happened with other mobs. It executed its move (whirlwind attack with 2 axes) and stopped 5 secs later, but it restarted so soon I shot the mob too. However, Phantasmal Warlock did nothing while the target didn’t move, and even so it stopped shooting a few times. Phantasmal Disenchanter worked fine and did as expected.

The Warden, the problem doesn’t happen 100% of the time, but it is fairly frequent.

Another patch, another failure to fix this skill. Please stop breaking my class Anet.

So now that they’ve gotten a hotfix going for breaking illusions, hows about we get a reply about our iWarden?

Agreed, had the same issue at Marionette 10 minutes after the last patch went live.

shadow.6174:

Ok wait, I must be doing some mistake here… what skill is this thread about? As I posted above, recently I have tested Phantasmal Warden on a centaur’s “catapult-like” thing on Kessex Hills and it did as expected, same happened with other mobs. It executed its move (whirlwind attack with 2 axes) and stopped 5 secs later, but it restarted so soon I shot the mob too. However, Phantasmal Warlock did nothing while the target didn’t move, and even so it stopped shooting a few times. Phantasmal Disenchanter worked fine and did as expected.

You mean this little problem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99EEcUU2YyY

So about this fix thing….could we get a response please?

Pyroatheist.9031:

So about this fix thing….could we get a response please?

• An update into the progress since this was posted..

Kirk Williford.2653:

Hey folks,

Thank you for the reports — I will have the team look into this!

• Also any feedback from the devs on the moving vs stationary

*But really, regardless of any plans for iWarden, a rollback to the previously working order is needed. You should be fiddling with it testing side after that to get it working as you properly want it.

Auserker.8754:

Basic Underlying Mesmer Problem
or
Bump

I like this xD
Anyway yeah +1 for a warden fix

Pyroatheist.9031:

After several months and many patches, this skill is still horridly bugged and absolutely needs a fix.

Very often the warden will spawn and then simply stare at the mob. This happens close to 50% of the time, seemingly more often in situations where you actually need the reflection.

Fix it please.

I’d say its probably more than 50%.
I’ve noticed if you have Wardens Feedback equipped the failure rate goes through the roof.

Also here is a video with a little less going on in it, I suppose I might get some video from an opponents point of view with 3 wardens chasing them around doing nothing in the spvp’s tomorrow.

You just, just in case there is somebody out there who wants to call this a visual bug or something asinine like that.

bump ò.ó!!

Agreed. This, plus the fact that focus swiftness doesn’t stack with any other swiftness has caused me to competely give up the focus until this is fixed.

Yep. And the disturbing bit is that the team supposedly was looking into this months ago. Apparently they decided it wasn’t worth fixing.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Yep. And the disturbing bit is that the team supposedly was looking into this months ago. Apparently they decided it wasn’t worth fixing.

After the latest patch video, when i heard them talking about mesmer it seemed like they didn’t quite know how the class works. I doubt another issue will be fixed anytime soon. Like sword 3, doesn’t chase uphill or if you swap weapons and use it immediately nothing will spawn and it will go on cooldown.

The saddest thing is that they never needed to try to “improve” the warden in the first place! It was fine as it was yet someone randomly felt the need to try to “improve” it, and now its broken for months?

/Two-finger clap

yeah exactly iwarden was my favorite phantasm. id worked perfectly and now its not doing anything. why not just revert the change?

also i think we are too much depending on ai mes should get more options to not use ai as much. in wvw ai is really bad and thats the reason why u dont need mesmers for anything else than veil.
the obstructed bugs are sooo annoying and i cant hit anything on walla, cant hit unbuilt oil can barely hit cannons, phantasms go into full cooldown after an los bug and then all the ai dies before u can shatter them. so we really dont have much left than the gs autoattack and maybe 1 berserker that hits a few targets and maybe chaosstorm. everything else is too slow, bugged or too weak.
so if ai is soo hard to fix then give us new skills that are aoe and deal dmg.
other classes have issues with ai too like necro has a ton of minion bugs and ranger pet is awful.

Also, on a class that has so little access to condition removal, having your iWarden running around or not attacking removes an all important source for anyone running focus. If the iWarden doesnt spin, the temporal curtain light field cant be landed on him for condition removal.

In this condition heavy meta we Mesmers need our iWardens working. Other classes can spam a single skill to remove conditions. We have to combo two long cd’s on a single offhand. The least you can do, Devs, is fix the thing immediately after breaking it. We are customers. Where is our service?

Please fix wardens! They were such lovely creatures before the bug.

Please fix this!!!!!!

Bump from me too in the hope of a fix

We want our mesmer class software inconsistencies corrected as soon as possible.

I’m sure we’d all like to know a time line for the mesmer fixes.

Some indication would helpful.

Bump.
Please? Pretty please?
*puppy eyes*

Bump. Please fix this already.

Fhaeris.9237:

Bump.
Please? Pretty please?
*puppy eyes*

Who can even resist to those... lol

Yep, I’d love to see some communication here.

yes we need this phantasm to get fixed. its terrible and makes focus not worth taking with u.
revert the changes until u got a solution instead of just letting it sit there the way it is. it was working great before that.

ahem

Bump

/15char

Yeah, so I’d love to see this skill fixed if that’s alright.

Yes me to, we need to see some love for our super class.