Guild Wars 2

When playing mesmer in wvw I am not able to blink while I have a portal on the ground. If I do, then my portal goes into cooldown for the same amount of time as my blink skill. The portal does not disappear, but I am unable to open it for roughly 20 seconds after blinking. This bug was more severe before the recent patch. It used to be that portal was put in to cool down after using any utility skill on mesmer. Please fix this as portal bugs have been plaguing me for months now. I love love love a good portal bomb but I have not been able to do them at all. It is particularly frustrating that it seems not everyone has this problem. Please enable me to portal my guild to glory once more! I have video recordings of the bug in action but it seems I cannot attach that here.

What traits are you using?
And what other skills do you have on the right half of your bar? (including underwater skills)

I wasn’t able to reproduce this in pve (these skills should behave the same as in wvw) with these two skills, even when using the traits that effect them. There has to be some other interaction that is causing it.

Only reason I can think of for this to happen, is if you have portal underwater in the same slot as blink. If this is the case, be sure to have portal in the same slot on land and underwater

I always have similar issues in WvW, that if my Blink is in cooldown, and I switch another skill to Portal, then Portal would immediately go with the same cooldown with Blink. This also happened on Mantra of Concentration just now.

I believe this happened when HoT launched til today, and it’s still an issue, and I’ve reported this a number of times.

This is extremely annoying because I cannot switch to Portal and take someone immediately because I use Blink all the time and it’s most of the time in cooldown.

However, reading the above comment, I just realized that indeed I have Portal underwater in the same slot as Blink on the ground. I just removed that Portal skill from my underwater skill, and it seems to be fixing this issue.

Thank you for the tip and I hope this could help the others hitting into this extremely annoying issue.