Guild Wars 2

Since the epidemic changes, the skill has been bugged beyond belief, starting out by often instakilling you and your allies. By now many of the bugs have been fixed, there are a few minor ones left (such as it hitting things that shouldn’t be hittable such as the actual sentry posts or supply depots). However there is one massive bug, that drastically lowers it’s usability, it does not work on downed people anymore, this was stated nowhere in the notes and as such shouldn’t be intended, this makes one of the most iconic skills of condi necro very unreliable in WvW. This is especially bad as epidemicing downed people was one of the few strategies that could be used to counter the extremely disgusting downstate meta that this game has.

Another thing which I am not sure is intended or not is that the conditions are not determined when you cast it but when it hits, so not only does the target need to have plenty of conditions on them, not cleanse them before the projectiles hit, not go down before the projectiles hit, actually not be downed to begin with and not have resistance, this is obviously a very rare situation and basically limits the skill to targeting health sponges with otherwise few defensive capabilities (basically only other Necros/Reapers).

TL;DR: Epidemic doesn’t work when cast on downed people, please fix

Cevni.2049:

Since the epidemic changes, the skill has been bugged beyond belief, starting out by often instakilling you and your allies.

On behalf of every WvWer in existance (except maybe you):

Good

If you’ve not done it yet, I suggest that you point this bug into :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs

Because that’s where Anet look for in game bugs.

Dawdler.8521:

Cevni.2049:

Since the epidemic changes, the skill has been bugged beyond belief, starting out by often instakilling you and your allies.

On behalf of every WvWer in existance (except maybe you):

Good

Downstate meta lover spotted

SkyshaAdbinderMoonshard.7026:

Dawdler.8521:

Cevni.2049:

Since the epidemic changes, the skill has been bugged beyond belief, starting out by often instakilling you and your allies.

On behalf of every WvWer in existance (except maybe you):

Good

Downstate meta lover spotted

Necro downstate op!

Cevni.2049:

such as the actual sentry posts or supply depots

This has nothing to do with Epidemic. Most objects in the game that have animations tied to them, can change shape or are destructible in some way have hitboxes. It’s been this way since the game launched. As a Necro you should already be keenly aware of these things as you can use them to build life force by hitting them.

Aktium.9506:

Cevni.2049:

such as the actual sentry posts or supply depots

This has nothing to do with Epidemic. Most objects in the game that have animations tied to them, can change shape or are destructible in some way have hitboxes. It’s been this way since the game launched. As a Necro you should already be keenly aware of these things as you can use them to build life force by hitting them.

I am aware, and I listed it as one of the minor flaws this skill has, like many other necro skills (and other classes, anything that bounces, any offensive shout, probably more stuff), such as rise, your soul is mine and a few other, it should be fixed (as it is unintended) but rarely provides any major benefit or hindrance in any fight, I was simply using it as an example of how the skill in many ways doesn’t work as it should, then again the old version might also have hit these things just without it being as obvious.

Cevni.2049:

it should be fixed

It’s an integral part of how the game engine works. If it was “fixed” a majority of all interactive things in the game would probably stop working.

Aktium.9506:

Cevni.2049:

it should be fixed

It’s an integral part of how the game engine works. If it was “fixed” a majority of all interactive things in the game would probably stop working.

Well I personally do not see it as a major issue, but I have a hard time seeing it as intended, it’s current state is broken, fixing it would be beneficial, I personally don’t think it should be a priority due to the very low impact of this bug, as such this thread is not about this bug, but rather about the one where epidemic doesn’t work on downed people.