Guild Wars 2

I’ve mained P/P thief since thief since release, but only recently been trying shortbow for one of my alt thieves. I don’t know if this is something recent, or if it’s been like this for a while and I just haven’t noticed it, but there’s a weird bug on the thief’s Cluster Bomb skill, specifically when you use Detonate Cluster.

I posted 3 screen caps for reference.

When you detonate Cluster Bomb in midair, the extra bombs are supposed to spread from where the arrow was in mid-flight. Instead, the three smaller bombs launch out from your body. All three screen caps are of me using Detonate Cluster to show that the bombs are clearly spawning from my body instead of the first arrow.

Is this something that should be addressed?… because I’m certain it’s not supposed to work that way.

I also saw that. You can easily see it when you use the legendery shortbow. There are three unicorns running from the position of the thief to the point of the three detonation. A few builds ago ther were thre unicorns spawning from the first one.

I haven’t played my thief in a while so I decided to test this. Lo and behold, the same weird thing happens.

Last I remember the cluster bomb worked correctly, so one of the more recent patches must have bugged it. Hope Anet fixes this soon because it looks silly having cluster bombs fly out of my character’s body.

So this is a recent bug then? If that’s the case, then I hope it gets fixed eventually.

Oh wait till u meet one stealth “trapper” thief!!! GG anet!!

I actually posted the same glitch a few days ago, didn’t realize it affected all thieves SB 2 skill and not just the Dreamer.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dreamer-animation-glitch/first#post5379783

interesting. i will have to test this myself next time i play as one of my thieves…

It looks to me like it’s just a display bug, and the clusters are actually landing where they are supposed to, despite where they appear to go.

When I try it, I get the cluster bombs flying sideways from my character, but the final explosion animations are then forward of where the cluster appears to go – in fact they are about where the clusters would have landed if they’d flown from the original arrow.

I’ve also tried this out in heart of the mists with a group of golems, and the ones that take damage line up with where the final explosion is displayed, not where the cluster goes from my character.

Stitch.1794:

It looks to me like it’s just a display bug, and the clusters are actually landing where they are supposed to, despite where they appear to go.

Yeah, I noticed this too, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying to look at.