Guild Wars 2

Need confirmation if the below skills and traits are working as intended.

- Explosive shot not benefiting from Shrapnel(15% chance for explosion to cause bleed) and Explosive Powder (10% more damage from explosion). Tested on the dummy in Heart of the Mist and see no gain in damage or numbers of bleed applied when traits are selected.

- Rocket turret’s Explosive Rocket having a smaller AOE than the rocket turret auto attack. Can be tested clearly on the Practice Dummy in Lion’s Arch.

It has been a month and no dev can confirm whether this is working as intended?

They don’t seem to give a kitten about fixing Engineer bugs – they don’t acknowledge threads regarding them, even when they’re things that are unquestionably bugs. Asking them to give us an answer about whether something’s intended is just about as pointless as reporting the issues is seeming.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explosive_Shot

Does not count as an “explosion” with respect to traits.

I never considered it to be an explosion. While the name may hint otherwise, I think it’s kind of obvious the trait only refers to utility explosions, grenades/bombs etc.

The thing that is broken with explosive shot is the aoe bleed, atm it only gives off aoe damage with the initial target being bled.