Guild Wars 2

The Elementalist Staff skill #3 “Flame Burst” (Fire Attunement, of course) has been broken for some time now. It seems to be getting worse all the time. I was standing toe-to-toe with a single lousy Skritt in a Queensdale field, and the game told me I couldn’t use Flame Burst because I didn’t have line-of-sight.

This is happening a LOT anymore. Please fix!

It would be awesome to include this in the upcoming Spring update… wink, wink – nudge, nudge…

A similar thing happens with my guardian sword skill #2 ‘Flashing Blade’. Even though the ground appears level with nothing in the way, sometimes it won’t activate and I get an error on screen telling me it couldn’t find a direct path to the target. Sometimes this happens even when I’m right next to the target facing it. I imagine some other skills in the game have the same problem.

Hamfast.8719:

The Elementalist Staff skill #3 “Flame Burst” (Fire Attunement, of course) has been broken for some time now. It seems to be getting worse all the time. I was standing toe-to-toe with a single lousy Skritt in a Queensdale field, and the game told me I couldn’t use Flame Burst because I didn’t have line-of-sight.

This is happening a LOT anymore. Please fix!

It would be awesome to include this in the upcoming Spring update… wink, wink – nudge, nudge…

This isn’t a problem with Flame Burst per se — it’s an issue with how line of sight is determined generally; it happens with all sorts of skills. And for a variety of reasons, it isn’t easy to resolve.

One of the most helpful things we can do in addressing this is to file an in-game /bug report when it happens (this gives ANet important technical details useful for fine tuning the mechanic). Of course, this is always annoying to do, since of course it mostly happens during combat when it’s not safe or convenient to file a bug report.