Guild Wars 2

I was fighting a Ranger underwater earlier in WvW on the assumption that Lick Wounds had probably been fixed. But to my horror when I downed the Ranger and killed the pet, the Ranger was still able to completely out heal all my damage. There was literally nothing I could do. Playing a Mesmer myself (also ridiculous, see below).

As far as I know, this has been the case since launch. That’s pretty awful Anet.

Also, have you seen the rate at which Mesmers can stack and maintain bleeds with Siren’s Call? How about how quickly you can stack confusion using Mind Blast? Both are pretty ridiculous.

I know that Underwater combat is rarely ever a thing in WvW, but on the off chance that you do have an underwater battle, it would be nice if it wasn’t quite so broken.

This is not a bug and I think this belongs on the WvW discussion thread.
Lick wounds is working as designed, but you are claiming it is overpowerd in the current state. Same goes for sirens call and mind blast.

So it’s not a bug that the pet is still healing the Ranger after I have killed it? Genuine question there as to whether or not that’s a viable counter.

And if it is intended that a Ranger can completely out heal an attacker when downed, then yes it is very much OP, as is the crazy stacking potential of Siren’s call and Mind blast.

I’m happy for this to be moved over to the WvW forum if need be.

It’s a bug. Even us Rangers have asked for this to be fixed…as far back as November of last year. Apparently it’s not high priority.

Good to know. I shall add “never engage Rangers underwater” to my list of things to never do in WvW along with “never engage Eles near keep/tower portals (immobilise be kitten ed)” and “never try to catch those Warriors” ;-)