Guild Wars 2

I noticed this today and just finished testing it with all elites in the Heart of the Mists.

The new underwater version of Moa morph is sharing cooldowns with the land-based versions of all three mesmer elites. If I activate Tuna morph while underwater and leave immediately, whatever elite I have equipped will be on cooldown and the cooldown time is the same as for Moa Morph. That means Mass Invisibility (normal cooldown of 90 seconds) is on cooldown for 180 and the same with Time Warp (normal cooldown of 210 seconds).

It also works in reverse. Use any elite on land and Moa Morph will be on cooldown when you enter the water for the cooldown duration of whichever spell was used on land instead of its own 180 seconds. I haven’t tested it with racial elites but I suspect it may be the same.

This bug applies to all elites and skills across all professions. its nothing new and and not entirely sure it’s not intentional to help avoid possible exploits.

Really? I’ve never noticed it before now and I’ve frequently used mass invis before hopping into water in PvE just to avoid mobs I don’t feel like fighting. At any rate, if this really is some defense against exploits, that’s fine if they want to make both underwater and land elites go on cooldown at the same time but having one or the other acquire a much larger cooldown just because you used another skill before it is stupid and is clearly a bug.

While it is very annoying (specially for me at times as a mesmer as well) to end up with my elites on a 240 second cool down just because i used something else on land or water its something i’ve learned to deal with and work around. it still deserves being looked into for a more fair compromise tho imo.

This is intentional.

Do you think it would be wise to have someone use an elite skill, go on land, and then immediately use a second elite skill? That would be ridiculous.