Guild Wars 2

+1 to all this.

…. Don’t worry they’ll fix it in the major patch at the end of the month, is what we have hoped for every month since introduction… Anet… c’mon is your QA doing that badly?

The real problem is how they are doing things now….

They would just: “Is this a problem with RNG boxes giving something usefull for once to the players? No? Well, MOVING ON!” (with Trahearne voice)

While i know that engies and necros have some (sorry, a lot) of issues since launch, its sad to see in the mesmer case something that worked and now is just broken.

Excellent list. If this bugs you as much as me, please update your thread to add the constant Obstructed issues/bugs since the “siege nerf”. It was lazily implemented many months ago and if there is a hill in between your target you will not be able to hit them.

Same with the glass on Kyhlo at the Clock Tower and Greatsword. You can’t hit that glass.

Navi.7142:

I tried to stay only with the berserker bug because I think that is the most annoying bug that HAS to be fixed right now.

Imo the bounce and clone targeting issues are more annoying/dangerous - that might be a question of personal preference and playstyle though. As I’m doing a lot of PvE in different zones, I have severe issues with critters, yellow mobs and inanimate objects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0918gFXVht8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T6nPo5jJuU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYHmS93Ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUJuwQJH9Y

Jon, do you need more information in that particular thread here?
How can we help you still more?

I am 100% sure amongst all the pages they confirmed that the dmg is just a visual bug, i.e. on low priority list it seems. You will not be able to kill anything faster when it’s fixed.

About the irregularities, I agree it should hit properly and about time to be fixed too.

i hate it too It really gets annoying that my clones just stand there and do nothing while i’m fighting. Also the fact that you move a little if you summon 2 clones is very annoying.

Is it so hard for anet to just give us an answer or at least let us know you’ve seen this post?

Please fix this.

I actually stopped using the extra bounce trait b/c the bouncing seems so worthless now. As for the zerker I never played GS when it wasnt broken so I’ve only ever known the current gimpy incarnation of it. I would love to see it buffed a little bit to work as you guys stated it once did.

JosieMach.3052:

It really gets annoying that my clones just stand there and do nothing while i’m fighting.

Maybe they have the same AI as necro minions. Sometimes they’ll just sit around for up to ~10s before attacking something, even if I’ve used the same skill/s that triggers them to attack almost every other time (hell by then I’ve used most of my skills).

Illusionary Mariner is broken as well. When it comes close to anything that resembles a shore, it stops doing anything at all. Eventually because the water doesn’t end where we see it end but it has an area that’s considered water or something which ends too early.

Good thread. It’s the new bounce logic that’s pretty much stopped me from playing at all, I just occasionally check these forums or log on checking for a patch.

I like much of your content ANet, but if your core mechanics make it very frustrating to play (yes) I’m not going to stick around to see any of it.

Please give this the attention it deserves.

That didn’t resolve the issue, but thanks anyway and hopefully you will investigate more and believe the mesmer players that insist that this is not the only bug that the berserker currently has. (Remember the loot issue and you’ll see that players can easily find out when something isn’t working alright.)

There is a reduced damage and a misbehaving that the berserker when he was properly working(#) does not have.
(#) compared to the beserker after launch and in between the last fix of his first bug (December 2012) and the last berserker breaking update (January or February 2013). Or do you want to tell us that he is now working as intended and he wasn’t before (as everything was normal for the mesmer players and no one complained about the berserker)? (Because there are a lot of differences of berserker’s behavoiurs bugged and unbugged, not just that the damage floaters are not properly displayed!)

Or that he has been nerfed?

It seems none of the devs even believe/know what is actually wrong with izerker and keeps saying floater issue. GG.

Noince.7364:

It seems none of the devs even believe/know what is actually wrong with izerker and keeps saying floater issue. GG.

If you are on the receiving end of the damage you will see it’s really a floater issue.

Swim.6830:

If you are on the receiving end of the damage you will see it’s really a floater issue.

Dam, I guess all the Mesmers in the thread needs to get their IQ checked then. Including the person who mentioned it in SotG.

Swim.6830:

Noince.7364:

It seems none of the devs even believe/know what is actually wrong with izerker and keeps saying floater issue. GG.

If you are on the receiving end of the damage you will see it’s really a floater issue.

We know that there are a floater issue. But the thing we now know is that pBerserker can not hit their 4 hits on his target. You have no warranty of how many hits will be. Between 0 and 4. It depends of some variables like the position of the pBerserker when start each attack, the position of their target, the motion of both, and perhaps even the blade whirling.

This explains why if the pBerserker begins his first attack above you, although you do not move, perhaps it will hit you only once if pBerserker has moved enough in their path, because you’ll be out of his second attack area. How many times it hit you depends of some variables.

All is in this page:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Did-phantasmal-zerker-get-fixed-this-patch/2217902

At the top JonPeters explains it.

I just hope that devs are not starting to think like some other spvp players, aka: “Mesmer is fine/good/OP (depending on player) even with this bug, so it’s not a priority”.

I posted it in that other thread where Jon posted the last time (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Did-phantasmal-zerker-get-fixed-this-patch/page/10#post2221310), but anyway I quote myself..

“Just for the comparison (because there exist videos with properly working/ unbugged berserkers) how a berserker can behave and what damage he can do (yeah, there are skill differences and so on, but it shows that the berserker we now have is far from what he used to be):
- 8th of December 2012, nine month ago (after they repaired the berserker the first time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnHPdxJP518 (note: lvl 35 mesmer)
- 28th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENLSPBg2M0
- 8th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGocFzGiy0I (skip to 8 min and begin there)
- 2nd of September 2012 (properly working since launch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLJipvBTBE
- 21th of September 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAveraXKao

Bugged:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OIxE09FP_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8vtwO_PvM

In my opinion it shows what we are talking about, but maybe there are even better videos that can be used to compare the bugged and unbugged berserker?"

Only speculating here, but the bugged videos give me the impression that the berserker is only hitting in its front arc rather than all around it.

Meaning thakittens arc of attack has been reduced from 360 to 90 degrees or there about.

I cannot figure it out when exactly the bug started to reoccur (28th of January.. would be my guess.. or 26th February; I think the forum software has an issue with displaying the correct date for older threads), but can you please check if any of these “fixes” could have had an impact of the berserker’s inconsistent behaviour which we mesmer players still experience right now?

From the (general) patch notes from 28th of January:
“Fixed a bug that could cause rectangular skills to fail to hit the correct targets.”
→ Could that anyhow be the reason why berserker’s mechanic changed and hits now very inconsistently? Could the fix have affected him negatively by accident?

From the (mesmer) patch notes from 26th of February:
“Fixed a bug that caused some melee attacks to behave inconsistently.”
→ Which melee attacks? Can it be that the fix did not apply to the berserker and the underlying bug is still happening to the berserker?

The floater issue is just another addition to the entire problem.

From the patch:
Phantasmal Berserker: Fixed an issue that was causing the damage from this summoned phantasm to not display. Updated the berserker’s attack to make it more reliably hit a static target with all 4 of the attacks.
Did we get a real fix? What is the testing showing?

I am okay with it.
Although the damage has been nerfed (= was not directly addressed by this fix), it is very good that the berserker’s mechanic seems to be repaired. Good to see all the damage numbers and that he now hits a lot more consistent again.

As my berserker after the fix only needed 6 full attacks to kill the heavy stationary golem in the pvp area compared to 8 full attacks before, it was definitely more than just the damage floater issue. ^^

In my opinion it is now worth again to use the gs.