Guild Wars 2

while using hammer as a guardian the third hit in your auto attack chain summons a Symbol of Protection beneath your target, but its currently bugged so that if you’re on a platform or a higher floor in a building it will create the symbol on the lower level floor! (IE downstairs/beneath the platform)

you can see this in the human story quests:
during On The Mend when you go upstairs.
during Desperate Medicine while fighting twitchy jake on his platform.
during Infiltration while fighting the gate guard.
and during Arson at the Orphanage you can actually fight big-nose ted on the stairs to see the symbol appearing on the bottom level.

i’m not sure if this is a bug with the skill or with the maps, but you can place the other symbols in the same places and they will spawn correctly.

thanks!

Great picture of it in the post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Untargeted-Symbol-of-Protection

I’m wondering if you get protection from the symbol when that happens? I can’t really say from the picture in the linked post as that one does not appear to be directly below the player.

ah, i did a forum search and it said 0 threads found, i guess it was lying!
and nope you don’t get protection or do any damage with it,
so it totally neuters the entire weapon.

i can’t figure out how a bug for an auto attack has been around so long!
surely this is something that should be fixed quickly.

Why are you using a hammer for key farming anyway? Use a great sword and do the hospital.

Tman.6349:

Why are you using a hammer for key farming anyway? Use a great sword and do the hospital.

lets try not to get off subject since this is about the pretty serious hammer bug that apparently happens in fractals too!

but i'll put my answer in a spoiler box so its out of the way

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i like hammer, when it works it actually deals huge aoe damage with all of the power runes,
also i like orphanage because with hammer/staff you can kill pretty much everything from outside (through the walls) fairly quickly XD
orphanage/hospital are both as fast with those weapons imho,
its just a change of scenery if you key run alot.

and with Executioner Axe Toy i have freedom to try classes other than sword/warhorn warrior :P
i’ve got it down to 14 minutes as an axe/warhorn warrior, but agree, greatsword guardin is a fast killer too.

I understand it’s a serious bug. Was just joshin ya.