Guild Wars 2

Sometimes when attempting to use Riposte to block (Sword #5), the skill fails to activate despite the game giving indication that it has registered your button press. I am not able to reliably reproduce this bug.

It happened to me on stream today. Here’s a video of the bug: http://www.twitch.tv/zuistreams/c/5466626

This bug is quite annoying, and common enough that most people that I know who play Warrior (in Arah) also sometimes experience it. If anyone knows how to reliably reproduce this bug, please post both so ANET might be able to pin down the bug easier to fix it, and so that if there’s way of reliably avoiding it, people who suffer from the bug can presumably avoid it in the unfortunately likely event this bug is never fixed.

It seems very unlikely that this problem is due to latency or similar, as Warrior Sword #5 is the only skill this has ever occurred with for me, and also for everyone else I have talked to.

For me to avoid that bug while i’m fighting lupicus i just press and keep holding the skill #5 key until i’m sure it worked, but yes, its very annoying. With shield that bug never happens, i dont know if engineers suffer from that bug too when they use shield or the wrench.

I’ll try some solos later tonight with holding the #5 key down instead of pressing it once. Hopefully this works, and doesn’t create a second issue where sometimes the game activates the second ‘stop blocking and gain adrenaline’ skill that’s on #5.

From my (limited) playtime on Engi, I haven’t had it happen. Friends who play Engineer much more haven’t had it happen that they can recall. I also tested a bit with shield block on Warrior, and wasn’t able to get this bug to occur with the shield block. From what I can tell, the only skill in the game that suffers from this issue is Warrior Sword #5.