Guild Wars 2

Swap Weapons + Skill causes infinite animation loop

This is a cool one. See linked videos.

Mesmer, Blurred Frenzy: http://youtu.be/QDhXnu8G66I
Mesmer, Mind Stab: http://youtu.be/37sAvRKA-J4
Ranger, Barrage: http://youtu.be/l2zwEmKgdtM
Ranger, Swoop: http://youtu.be/Y7tPgYYOfbA

Tested with Mesmer and Ranger, however this works with all professions permitting you have a skill that fits this glitch.

Using a skill that has an animation designed to loop, as well as movement restriction, at the exact same time as swapping your primary weapons causes the first skill used to (potentially) loop infinitely.

The glitch is entirely cosmetic. Tested in combat and it doesn’t actually affect anything. If you have a hostile selected and you have an attack on auto-cast, the glitch goes away. This will also go away on its own if your character sheathes the weapon (either automatically or pressing a hotkey for it)

Other players can see you in this state.

There is a side-effect that could potentially be annoying! Using a skill that restricts movement (i.e. Mind Stab, Barrage, Blurred Frenzy, etc.) will cause this glitch to make you immovable until you use the same skill again. You cannot dodge or jump out of this. In some cases, you cannot press Escape for the menu if your settings are set in a particular way as Escape is by default supposed to end your skill. However, this skill does not end by that method. Teleportation skills, however, do end this glitch.

While that last paragraph shows this should be fixed, I was more concerned when I first found it that I could use blurred frenzy infinitely. This was not so and thus I don’t think is an exploit. But it was an exploit earlier on making me laugh. [/cornyjoke]