Guild Wars 2

In pvp when you change to death shroud, the “stance icon” showing that you are in death shroud is a lock. Sometimes, you are able to cast a fear before it flips to a lock, but usually you are unable to use abilities for 4 seconds, then afterward the stance icon does the flip around animation to show you are in death shroud, as if I just entered.

This is killing necro pvp. Please fix. This is huge

I am not having such a problem, are you sure its not an issue of lag or something similar?

sPvP:
I’m having the same problem with Death Shroud (F1).

Scenario:
When my meter is full, I hit F1, yet none of the 4 Death Shroud skills are useable for ~ 4 – 5 seconds. Like the OP stated, sometimes you can cast Fear (skill 3), and maybe the 4th skill, but only after 4-5 seconds has expired. Otherwise it just ends and you revert back to normal form, yet you’ve expended all your Death Shroud meter due to taking damage.
Or, you go into Death Shroud mode and immediately revert back to normal mode, as if you had clicked ‘exit’ Death Shroud mode.

Weapon sets:
(1) Dagger [30% chance to steal life every 2 seconds sigil…forgot name] & Focus [Intelligence sigil]

(2) Staff (Hydromancy sigil)

Note:
I do not have this problem while practicing on the Training Dummies. F1 works as intended. I should also note that in sPvP, I am not being stunned, dazed etc., as I have tried using it with and without anyone around me many times, same result.

cheers,
Demo

I’m having the same problem in spvp and in heart of the mist when fighting the “bosses” that the skills are either locked, or in some cases completely gone when stunned, dazed etc. I don’t seem to have this trouble with the training dummies either. Donno if this has something to do with my build or whatever so I’ll link it.

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.5.1.4.13.18.13.13.33.33.107.117.111.108.130.1.1.30.306.305.0.0.0.0.331.334.0.347.353.357.0.0.0.20.0.20.30.0

I’m having the same problem with death shroud, but in PvE fights!

This is sooo annoying!! I enter death shroud and then use life transfer and before I can even get 2 ticks of it off, my death shroud “locks” and I still see the skills but there is a greyed out padlock icon for my death shroud and I can’t use any of the skills for it. This also interrupts my life transfer so I get 0 use out of it and it still triggers the cool down on it!

This happens quite frequently in PvE for me.

I had a similar problem with it. I click on it and I revert back and have to do it until it sticks. Also if you try to pick up an item by clicking on pick up it cancels death shroud as they are overlapping. I hardly use my keys for anything in game.

I had definitely been having this issue all last night attempting Necro PvP. HUGE issue. Pop into DS to take down / int an enemy etc?

HAVE THEM HAVE 4 SECONDS OF FREE REIGN OVER YOU.

Lets not have any kittens fly, but really? The MAIN infrastructure for the Necro is down. I hated DS at first, and then it finally became natural in my play style…

I can’t even get out of DS when I need to.

I was surprised that there wasn’t an overflowing of bug reports on the forums about this. A whole CLASS. srsly?

I am also suffering from this issue when playing as a Necromancer in SPvP, does not affect me in PvE however.

I too am having this issue, it is recent… 73 levels passed without incident, then suddenly game breaking annoyance. Im currently specced into soul reaping because I love the playstyle, and this is cutting my functionality. with all due respect, a patch is necessary.

I used to have this problem, too, until I did some testing around and found the cause: some rune bonuses – in my case it was the 6th Superior Rune of Vampirism – are bugged. I thought this rune did not do anything, but what it does is “daze” you for some seconds after you receive the first hit after entering DS. In my case the DS icon next to the skill bar changed to a “locked” icon when this happened, so if you see that you might also have a bugged rune.