Guild Wars 2

Mesmer Prestige not blast finisher after 3/1

The hotfix to the bug previously introduced on the cool down of the Prestige skill, seems to have introduced yet another regression issue, unless I’m mistaken and forgot how it’s supposed to work. There is no longer a blast finisher on this skill, and hence no longer any chaos armor being activated on this skill when used inside an Ethereal combo field. Please check it out. Thanks.

Bumping this one up and confirming. I tested it with an ethereal and a light combo field, both with and without the Prismatic Understanding trait. Hopefully this will get fixed soon, given that the loss of the blast finisher drastically reduces the usefulness of this skill.

Blast finishers in combo fields are gone from torch on entry and exit. AoE Blind and burn still apply. Have not tested 2Feb13 however.

The skill is no longer performing the blast finisher combo on fields since the patch.

Any other mesmers can help confirm it? I hope I am not the only one facing this problem.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-Prestige-not-blast-finisher-after-3-1

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-torch-bug

I’ve also tried this earlier today and couldn’t get any blast finishers to go off, but I was having this problem before the patch anyway. Prior to patch I’d only sometimes manage to put chaos armor on my group while other times it would not work or just work on me. Now it just doesn’t work at all.

Yup, I can confirm this. I was really excited to use the torch, but I’ll wait until this is fixed.
C’mon anet, hotfix plox!

I was thinking of finally buying an exotic torch when I noticed they don’t trigger blast finishers anymore which ruins one of the main reasons I wanted to use it. Fix an exploit in two days causing a bug that most likely won’t be fixed for a while. -_-

I’m not quite sure why it was necessary to change this skill into one that didn’t work, but last patch it gave two blast finishers although it had a channeled stealth during which you could do nothing.

Now you can do not attacking actions during the stealth, get knocked around (as usual), but the blast finishers aren’t there at all.

So we went from 2 blast finishers to none. The whole point of the torch is that it is a support weapon for support builds. Now it does nothing supportive, and the phantasm it summons doesn’t benefit from condition damage or duration.

So now we have a weapon with no blast finisher and a phantasm that doesn’t get improved in builds that should improve it (condition/support builds).

Please hotfix this. I only get to play on weekends, but I didn’t play much this weekend because my build sucks in group play now. Yes, I used the torch in previous patches.

Yes, the blast finishers are gone. We need an anet response on this immediately.

Man that blows. Just as I scrambled the money for a named exotic torch, heh.
But yeah, I can confirm this as well.

I guess its because of the recent 02/26 patch addendum that makes The Prestige always perform its cooldown.

Cauldron.1653:

Man that blows. Just as I scrambled the money for a named exotic torch, heh.
But yeah, I can confirm this as well.

I guess its because of the recent 02/26 patch addendum that makes The Prestige always perform its cooldown.

It did occur on that patch. When they fixed the cooldown glitch, they broke the blast finisher.

It is important that yall notice the phantasm isn’t working with traits while you’re working on this weapon!!!!

Confirmed. Tested with ethereal, fire, and water fields.

throwing my torch in the toilet, cuz this is where this weapon belongs.

*edit im saying this, because to be blunt, its one of the weapons considered by many to be a useless weapon and if the change was intentional it makes it even worse.
i was one of the few to champion how good the torch was compared to other offhands.

Torch does like 50% of the damage that other offhands do. iMage is just terrible and often not even worth summoning to shatter.

I was telling everyone how i finally found a blast finisher on my mesmer and it stopped working.. Not going to play mesmer anymore untill its fixed

LaMisT.1863:

I was telling everyone how i finally found a blast finisher on my mesmer and it stopped working.. Not going to play mesmer anymore untill its fixed

this will probably only take anywhere between one and six months °points to bugs still there since release° :x

Please make this a priority. Only blast finisher we have and is one of the top reasons to use this weapon.

Please fix, Torch is already barely a viable weapon when everything is working correctly with it.

I’m sure it will be fixed….

in next month’s patch. They can hotfix the shatter bug and give us a temporary (yet still present) GCD on shatters, but they can’t even give an eta on this and Ileap.

And is anyone surprised by that? I feel we are the redheaded step children.

3/7 FIXED

Thank you