Guild Wars 2

I am specced deep into Marksmanship, got both Opening Strike and Alpha Strike, I hardly ever see them proc on mobs at all, only the odd time will I get the Vulnerability debuff on mobs I attack.

I have never once seen both abilities stack on a mob, best I have managed is a 5% Vulnerability debuff.

No idea what is going on here has anyone else noticed this?

I too spec’d into Opening Strike, and I don’t ever see it proc. I open with slot 3 with my Longbow which I don’t remember atm but applies Vulnerability, and I only get the stack it applies and no other stack (from procs)….don’t know if this is working as intended or not

Having the same problem. I have openin strike and i was in a cave with another Ranger having Opening Strike too. We attacked and stacked 10 Vulnerability. Than i went out of combat got the Opening Strike icon on the botton and after my next attack on another mob it didnt trigger. Randomly appearing to trigger i didn’t notice any scheme or repetition.

I had this issue awhile back but then it just started working fine suddenly.

I have bugged this in game. Is intermittent, but most of the time it does not work. Does not work for pet either if you have the trait for them to have an openeing strike. I find other traits also don’t work consistently, e.g. protection on dodge roll. Been submitting bug reports each time they stop.

i too am having this trouble with opening strike and Alpha strike , they never work together to give me 10 stacks of vulnerbility, at the very best ill get an opening strike of me but its so flakey .
i have put pet on gaurd and just hit mobs and some times it works some times not but more often than not it just doesnt work .
i have also just put my pet on attack and didnt hit target and yet again same effects as opening strike for me ,some times work s some times it doesnt ….. but it didnt trigger as often as my opening strike.
and it has NEVER EVER procced double bubble e.g i get opening strike and my pet gets alpha strike on the target its just never happened for me .
i have now personnally retrained and took no points in markmanship as whats the point of spending 15 points to get both opening and alpha strikes if at best they MIGHT work but NEVER work together ……………………..

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I also almost never get vulnerability stacks off Opening Strikes.

Same here – Opening Strike and Alpha Strike usually do not work at all.

I’ve read elsewhere that there seems to be a range limit (900 or thereabouts) for Opening Strike to actually work.

Given that these traits are Marksmanship based, you’d expect it to work at bow range (1200, or 1500 if traited for). Having to be at 3/4 bow range, especially when the longbow’s autoattack will already doing reduced damage at that range, for Opening Strike to work is simply wrong.

It seems to have like 2-4 charges and when those are used there seems to be some kind of hidden cooldown which resets charges back to a random count. And in addition there’s the range limit which is clearly much less than 1200.

It works only from very close distance… Obvious bug.

For a ranger being mainly a RANGED class, it breaks the mechanic completely to only be point blank range.