Guild Wars 2

Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn’t. When the icon is available in the “buff bar”, autoattacks will occasionally trigger it, but skills will rarely trigger it. For instance, the greatsword 3 skill will absolutely never cause an opening strike.

Considering that in the marksmanship trait line all three minor traits pertain to opening strike, this is pretty sad. It’s like the minor traits don’t even exist.

I haven’t tested it with every weapon and every skill, but with bows it seems like it almost never happens.

I have noticed this and done a bug report in game on it. This seems to be caused, from what I can tell, by combat starting prior to a weapon actually making contact. For instance with a ranged weapon I have not seen opening strike go off a single time. I fire, combat begins, buff falls, damage is dealt and no vulnerability is applied. This was working fine as of bwe 2 (last time I played ranger) so it should be perfectly able to be reverted.

I reported it in-game as well. Very annoying. It almost never does anything in my fights. I use a bow mostly.