Guild Wars 2

When I activate Avatar form, it INSTANTLY reverts me back to regular form. Makes Avatar form completely useless. Anyone else seeing this issue?

Same problem here. Just wanted to make a thread about it.
Alrdy filled a ingame Bug Report…

Yes, same here. Less than a second after entering celestial avatar (as soon as the cooldown on the icon resets), I get reverted back to normal.

I tested it in the guildhall and HotM with no bug. On the new map i got the bug as well. After some testing it seems that it is somehow linked to skill #3 “lunar impact”. If you cast any other skill once in the CA, there is no bug.

Hi

when i did lvl 100 mai trin fractal and tried to use my avatar it insta canceled and casted the weapon skill of my sword instead around evry 5 trys i could use it normally and then it canceled again and used my weapon skill on next trys .i only had this in fracs though.
am i alone getting this?

Bug still there. Notice us Anet :<

Are you guys holding down f5 for a short period when transforming? That seems to be instantly cancelling the transform for me.

The Bug happens random to me. Sometimes i get kicked instantly, even before i can do anything, and sometimes i dont get kicked…

Yep, something weird tonight with CA, me and other druid experienced really odd behaviour during raid same as you mentioned

I have tested Celestial Avatar with some friends in the raid dps arena and it is usually if you are in Celestial Avatar and also give your pet an command, which results in cancelling it. Would help if others could verify

I can’t verify Bratwa’s claim, but this issue needs to be fixed asap! This is a hindrance for the whole elite spec and on a wrong spot can cause you to wipe in raids. Hope Anet sees this soon.

Yep, been having the same issue as well. This is really annoying especially in pvp. Originally I thought it was something wrong with my keyboard (or lag). However it happens way too often not to be a bug. It basically gets me killed, because it cancels out all the time.

Tested this out quite a bit.

Like Mobile Kirche it happens at random for me, but I’m much more often popped right out of Celestial Form than it sticking. I’ve tried going into it using my main weapons and then tried using the staff and going into it with no success.

Thought maybe I was hitting attack keys too fast and that it was switching me over out of CF so that I could use the weapon attack rather than the CF skill but debunked that by standing absolutely still and not hitting anything only to be shifted out of CF as soon as I entered it and half second after the abilities changed from weapon to CF’s.

After some testing, I think that the auto-cancel has some relation to whether you pet is alive or dead, and might depend on what family of pet you’re using. Beyond that, it’s difficult to find wide patterns.

Yes, having same issue as others who have posted here – hit F5 and CA skills load up and then are instantly gone. It happens whether I am in combat or out. Or whether my pet is alive or not. Or whether my character is actively moving or not etc… I have not found a single instance where it behaved properly since LWS3 dropped

I thought I was crazy or doing something wrong, but yeah this has been happening to me too. Sometimes it cancels instantly, sometimes I’m able to cast one skill then it cancels and sometimes it doesn’t bug out at all.

I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.

khani.4786:

I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.

Mhm, I’ve tested that and it turns out there is a corellation with clicking on the UI and the weird behaviour of CA. I’ve rebind CA to a different key and it looks like it works perfectly fine, but if i click CA on the UI it cancels it o.o

Bratwa.6582:

khani.4786:

I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.

Mhm, I’ve tested that and it turns out there is a corellation with clicking on the UI and the weird behaviour of CA. I’ve rebind CA to a different key and it looks like it works perfectly fine, but if i click CA on the UI it cancels it o.o

Interesting…I may have to see if I can find an unused key and rebind it and see if it still happens. It doesn’t always happen though, just sometimes. It’s odd.

It’s happening to me too. CA cancels out immediately upon hitting F5.

- Also getting same issue, glad it’s not just me doing something wrong, seems more prevelant when attacking, but also get it out of combat too; really helpful to find this bug when taking on a bandit executioner.

I wish there was some ETA on this getting fixed. It essentially breaks the class.

When I get into Celestial Avatar form, and use skill 3 immediately, I often get kicked out of the form immediately. This only happens after the LS3 patch.

Druid celestial form is bugged if you enter it via clicking. Try binding it and you should be able to stay in. (worked for a guildie)

I’ve noticed it more so in fractals then out in PVE but it happens there to. Wish anet would fix this its very frustrating.

I’ve been having same problem. Just tested it in LA using no other skill and it kicked me out of avatar within 1 or 2 seconds. Noticed it a lot yesterday while doing new map and a raid. Fresh from login.

I have the same issues with Avatar form. For me it is totally random when i get kicked out from avatar form and when not. But i can say: it is a pain in the backside to heal a raid with this bug!

For me it only kicks me out if I left click on the CA form. Pressing F5 or any other keybind seems to work normally.

This bug isn’t limited to fractals it bugs everywhere. I tired to heal during a Bloodstone Fen event and CA kept resetting. I couldn’t even heal my party in the new swamp fractal because of the bug and we kept wiping. I just left the party and closed the client because there was no point in me being there. I’m extremely surprised this bug hasn’t been fixed because how popular druids are in raids. And its bs that they haven’t fixed it yet

I had this issue last night in raids, wasn’t sure what was going on. I went to cast skills and it would kick me out of CA and I’d be casting the appropriate skill not in CA. I restarted my client, and it seemed to work for a short while but then it started up again.

I have CA bound to Left Shift, and that’s the only way I enter/exit CA. I have not seen this bug (yet…)

kevvy.5081:

For me it only kicks me out if I left click on the CA form. Pressing F5 or any other keybind seems to work normally.

This is the same thing I’ve been experiencing. Click usually drops me right back out of avatar form, but F5 works normally.

Same problem, and I followed the tips here to keybind it to something else and it worked, but, please, get this fixed asap. Super annoying.

This really messes with my rotation. I don’t have a fancy mouse to rebind keys to. I’d like to see this fixed soon. In the mean time I guess I’ll mess with non-druid builds.

Would like to know if Anet are looking into this, or we have to wait a few months for the fix

ArenaNet has always been really awesome when it comes to bug fixing. What people need to keep in mind, though, is that sometimes it can take a while to track down the precise line (or lines) of coding that are messing things up. From a programmer’s perspective, I can tell you that sometimes it can be extremely frustrating and it isn’t always a super-fast fix. So please have a little faith in them, and a little patience, they do a wonderful job. It just might not be an immediate fix as much as we hope it will be. They are constantly reading these boards, as they’ve said in the past, though they can’t always respond to every single post. That’s a lot of work!!! So I’m confident that they hear you and will get things resolved as soon as they can.

CyberDiva.3214:

ArenaNet has always been really awesome when it comes to bug fixing. What people need to keep in mind, though, is that sometimes it can take a while to track down the precise line (or lines) of coding that are messing things up. From a programmer’s perspective, I can tell you that sometimes it can be extremely frustrating and it isn’t always a super-fast fix. So please have a little faith in them, and a little patience, they do a wonderful job. It just might not be an immediate fix as much as we hope it will be. They are constantly reading these boards, as they’ve said in the past, though they can’t always respond to every single post. That’s a lot of work!!! So I’m confident that they hear you and will get things resolved as soon as they can.

Sure, absolutely. In the mean time though it really puts CA out of commision for a lot of us. Good time to play with non-druid builds.

It’s a pretty big deal so I can see it being a priority fix.

i never had this bug before. didn’t use signet of the wild.. i use shoutbow. now i have this issue.. my CA randomly drops.. not consistent at all. Super random. sometimes a whole match it won’t happen. sometimes it’s every other avatar form, sometimes everytime; etc.
Please fix! My druid is basically unplayable from this. messes with my build a lot.

CyberDiva.3214:

ArenaNet has always been really awesome when it comes to bug fixing. What people need to keep in mind, though, is that sometimes it can take a while to track down the precise line (or lines) of coding that are messing things up. From a programmer’s perspective, I can tell you that sometimes it can be extremely frustrating and it isn’t always a super-fast fix. So please have a little faith in them, and a little patience, they do a wonderful job. It just might not be an immediate fix as much as we hope it will be. They are constantly reading these boards, as they’ve said in the past, though they can’t always respond to every single post. That’s a lot of work!!! So I’m confident that they hear you and will get things resolved as soon as they can.

I get all that. But even a dev swinging by and posting “got it, we’ll add it to the list” would help.

As for testing… for several hours I thought I was just hitting something wrong (which is odd, because I hadn’t had the problems until the patch). I’ve tried clicking the icon and pressing F5… sometimes the swap to CA actions happens, sometimes, it doesn’t. I rarely get the full 15 seconds. I can’t find any correlation on other abilities that I (or others around me) are using that might break it.

I’ll have to try rebinding the action to another key and see if that makes any difference…

So I switched my bind to F8, just so it was a different key and in an unusual location (so I’d be more aware if i was reaching to hit it and cancel early).

I saw no change. Doesn’t seem to matter which pet I have out. #3 skill seems to be most likely the skill I would attempt to be spamming, but I’ve had it pop out of CA before i hit a single skill

We have the same issue with druids since the last patch. Really annoying, can’t seem to find a work around it.

Could we please get a dev response on this, are you aware of the state of CA and it’s uselessness especially in raiding environment – where it really matters – please?

Just wanted to add that I am also having this issue. Hoping it gets fixed soon. :/

It happens to me whether I use f5 or click the skill.
It happens whether or not I’m moving. Whether or not I use the skill.
It happens to me in Bloodstone Fen and HoT and Dry Top and core Tyria.

And then sometimes it doesn’t happen at all.

i to have the avatar bug though i use a Longbow dispise shortbows i also do not click F5 on my keyboard i use my mouse to do but it doesn’t always happen only inside a instense fight i click it them bam i am right back out i have almost died several times because of this glitch.

The very last update seems to have improved it somewhat.

If I’m quick enough, I can hit CA skill 3 and then go into CA skill 4 somewhat reliably without getting dropped out of CA form.

But it’s not always a sure thing. Seems to randomly drop out occasionally.

It’s a noticeable improvement from before but it still feels broken at worst and very finicky at best.

Same here. As soon as I go into CA and the internal cooldown on the little icon hits 0, it just kicks me back out without me being able to do anything.

Well I’m a little disapointed we haven’t heard back from anyone on this. I’ve stopped playing my ranger and I miss her… Playing alts for now.

It’s apparent they’re aware of the issue or else there wouldn’t have been any improvement at all. It was pretty much unplayable before the update.

At least now I can reasonably use it in PvE.

I wouldn’t recommend taking it into PvP or WvW just yet unless you’re ballsy and aware it isn’t always going to work out for you at the moment.

Definitely shouldn’t take it into ranked until it’s fixed.

CETheLucid.3964:

It’s apparent they’re aware of the issue or else there wouldn’t have been any improvement at all. It was pretty much unplayable before the update.

Who knows… one of the devs could have changed something totally different and the “improvement” could be a side-effect of that change.

It would be nice if one of the devs could post an info here that/if ANet is aware that they pretty much broke a whole Elite-Spec with their changes (and so far, its not mentioned on the bug-tracker – https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888). 7 days without any of the devs saying anything about this bug is pretty bad.

Tiscan.8345:

CETheLucid.3964:

It’s apparent they’re aware of the issue or else there wouldn’t have been any improvement at all. It was pretty much unplayable before the update.

Who knows… one of the devs could have changed something totally different and the “improvement” could be a side-effect of that change.

It would be nice if one of the devs could post an info here that/if ANet is aware that they pretty much broke a whole Elite-Spec with their changes (and so far, its not mentioned on the bug-tracker – https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888). 7 days without any of the devs saying anything about this bug is pretty bad.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when reporting players in PvP.
• Fixed a bug in which the server and game clients could desync NPCs and creatures, causing them to appear in the wrong locations. Additional desync issues are still being investigated.

Well I had that same bug since the patch of 26th, and I was clicking the CA button. Now, last weekend I got a new mouse with buttons, and bound F5 to one of the mouse’s buttons. With that mouse, I have used the CA loads of times since, and haven’t gotten the bug once. Not at all.

I’m still experiencing the bug of getting kicked out of avatar form. est. 75% of the time I enter CA and am kicked out almost immediately. Only 1 time last night did I actually remain in CA form. When is this well known bug going to be fixed?