Guild Wars 2

Good day folks! I hope everyone is having a fine weekend and such! As many of us know, there is a bug regarding Death Shroud wherein our utilities are greyed out for some period of time when we leave Death Shroud. This bug has been recorded and documented many times. Here is a quick video I slapped together to showcase the issue in a little more detail:

Video

In an attempt to repeatedly replicate this bug, I have made some minor discoveries that will hopefully lead to a solution.

1) The issue occurs primarily when Life Force is allowed to deplete to zero. In my tests, I had a 100% “success” rate with this bug when allowing Life Force to dissipate naturally while in Death Shroud.

2) The delay, for me, comes out to be almost exactly one second. However, this was only timed/recorded under ideal circumstances (out of combat, engaging in no actions).

3) I have not been able to replicate this bug when cancelling Death Shroud prior to exhausting Life Force. This doesn’t mean such an issue doesn’t exist, but I have been unable to replicate it.

Some Notes:

• The tests were conducted at various levels of initial Life Force. That is, some tests started at 100% Life Force, some started at 10%, and so on. Every case resulted in a one second delay.
• The tests were, unfortunately, far from exhaustive. As one can see, I was wearing armor and I had trait investments, which could potentially influence results. Regardless, I had zero investment in any Death Shroud related traits (including zero investment in the Soul Reaping).
• I put all of this together in fairly short period of time, so there may be some mistakes.

I will gladly add any other notes offered by the community.

Take care everyone! Have a nice day!

Bump! The issue still persists. However, we did receive a Red response to the issue in this thread

Explicitly, it’s stated that:

Regarding >>>Leaving a Transform – no heals/until buttons for 1sec + lag.

As shown in the original post, this issue has been persistent for
I remember this popping up not too long ago, but can’t remember where we left off on it. I’ve been playing Necro a lot lately and it has been bothering me, too. I’ll talk to the guys on Monday and see what this is all about, and see about taking care of it.

I think it was mentioned at some point there was a cooldown added to prevent unwanted skill executions when leaving a transformation. But again, I’m not sure if this was intended for Death Shroud.

-Bill

It has been approximately 9+ months since the problem was documented. I’m unsure if this issue has since been addressed by another Red in the bug forums, but I’m offering this bump to readdress the issue (the forum search feature is busted beyond repair so I can’t easily search this topic).

Have a nice day!

Bump! There was a Red response here but nothing has happened since. Could we please get an update? This issue has been acknowledged multiple times, but with no action taken that we can tell. It really is a critical/annoying bug, and the fact that it’s not receiving more Red attention is a bit disheartening (how would you feel having utilities locked out after every adrenaline skill? Every cloak? Every pet swap?).

Take care and have a nice day

A post in the Engineer boards by Jon:

… We will not get to every bug but we are focusing on ones we think have the most detrimental impact to gameplay.

Jon

While this is directed towards the Engineers, please address the above bug which, indeed, has “detrimental impact to gameplay” for Necromancers.

Bump. Still active bug.

My apologies for another bump. Any updates on this bug would be greatly appreciated. An interim change, while the bug is being sorted out, could be giving Necro protection for 1s upon depletion of Death Shroud. Just to help slight survivability while the utilities are gone.

Bump. Have a nice weekend everyone!

Bump. Hope people have a nice Thanksgiving!

I hate this bug with a passion. The only consolation is that there’s another bug that allows you to go right back into DS with no CD if LF is allowed to deplete to zero. Ofc, you need to refill LF, but in a good sized zerg, LF refills almost before the crazy utilities lockout expires.

Agreed, Cheby. That depletion bug was very fun to use when Scarlet’s Minions events first came out. Regardless, let us hope that the deathshroud skill lockout bug is handled soon.

Bump. Bug still present. A dev response would be awesome! Have a great Friday everyone! I look forward to the livestreams today!

Bump! Hopefully tomorrow’s patch remedies this bug. Have a nice day!

Still no fix. Watched this bug cause Zombify to die in a livestream last night. So what’s this about removing game breaking bugs?

I let this thread be buried, hoping that a fix would arrive forthwith. However, it appears that this bug is still active. Is there a reason why this bug still exists? Should we consider a “feature” now?

Do we have any ETAs on this? Devs have known about his bug for at least 5 months, so I can only imagine that it hasn’t been fixed for one of a few reasons:

1) The issue is rooted deep inside the bowels of coding, making operation difficult and cumbersome. If this is the case, then I fear this reflects poorly on how much Reds care about profession-damaging bugs.

2) The issue gets forgotten and/or pushed back as other issues arise. However, the bug has been documented for about a year now and we’ve had a Red comment over 5 months ago. Surely this bug could have been squashed, or at least commented on.

It’s disheartening having Reds state awareness of a bug and then not share information with the community about its progress. Have we been forgotten, or is there simply apathy towards this issue?

Further, this lack of information leads me to believe that the devs actually have no idea how to fix this issue, and hence are maintaining silence on it, and I know that this lack of communication has contributed to many Necro players to feeling forgotten and devalued. So please, just provide some sort of update or something.

I hope everyone has a nice day. Take care one-and-all.