Guild Wars 2

Blackmoa.3186:

Magileine.5210:

Blackmoa.3186:

Magileine.5210:

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

If i’m right you also have to face torwards your enemy to even create these serpents. Feels like Firebrand cones

Hmm, that’s weird. I never experienced this before so I went in-game to check it. It works fine for me whether I’m facing the enemy or not.

Where did you test it?
I tried it in EB on some Moas and Sheep. No serpent has appeared while moving away and casting infront or behind me.

My bad. I initially tested this while I was standing still but facing opposite the group of golems in HotM. I went back in-game and tried running forward while pressing the “Look Behind” button and casted the skill. You were right, it did not summon any serpent. This should be a bug that the devs need to look into. The skill is already weak in itself.

while using look behind button you cant activate any groundtargeted skills, has been like that for about 2 years now i think

Works for Ele’s Phoenix and Shatterstone though

Oh man i love you, i found what caused it and probably would never have if you didnt say anything. Since release i had look behind bound to alt, and al+numbers got bound to squadmarkers which i never ever use so i didnt know and just assumed tehy broke somethign cause anet

Welp, glad I unintentionally helped there!

Blackmoa.3186:

Magileine.5210:

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

If i’m right you also have to face torwards your enemy to even create these serpents. Feels like Firebrand cones

Hmm, that’s weird. I never experienced this before so I went in-game to check it. It works fine for me whether I’m facing the enemy or not.

Where did you test it?
I tried it in EB on some Moas and Sheep. No serpent has appeared while moving away and casting infront or behind me.

My bad. I initially tested this while I was standing still but facing opposite the group of golems in HotM. I went back in-game and tried running forward while pressing the “Look Behind” button and casted the skill. You were right, it did not summon any serpent. This should be a bug that the devs need to look into. The skill is already weak in itself.

while using look behind button you cant activate any groundtargeted skills, has been like that for about 2 years now i think

Works for Ele’s Phoenix and Shatterstone though

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

If i’m right you also have to face torwards your enemy to even create these serpents. Feels like Firebrand cones

Hmm, that’s weird. I never experienced this before so I went in-game to check it. It works fine for me whether I’m facing the enemy or not.

Where did you test it?
I tried it in EB on some Moas and Sheep. No serpent has appeared while moving away and casting infront or behind me.

My bad. I initially tested this while I was standing still but facing opposite the group of golems in HotM. I went back in-game and tried running forward while pressing the “Look Behind” button and casted the skill. You were right, it did not summon any serpent. This should be a bug that the devs need to look into. The skill is already weak in itself.

mazut.4296:

Magileine.5210:

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

Lol, you are right, but the small yellow orb is so easy to miss… Its almost invisible, need better visual clue its there.

Exactly. With so many visual clutter out there, it’s basically pointless to pick this skill when there are better skills out there with on demand utility.

Jethro.9376:

Magileine.5210:

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

If i’m right you also have to face torwards your enemy to even create these serpents. Feels like Firebrand cones

Hmm, that’s weird. I never experienced this before so I went in-game to check it. It works fine for me whether I’m facing the enemy or not.

mazut.4296:

Serpent Siphon. Doenst grant barrier and its weak skill overall.

No, it works as intended. You don’t get the barrier on hit or on cast. You get the barrier when you pick up the “magical sands” that drop after hitting an enemy.

I do agree, however, that it is a weak skill.

Sword:

Mirage Thrust

Lunge at your foe and strike them with your sword, briefly dazing them. Leave behind a clone at your original location.

Damage: 275 (0.75)?
Daze: ¼s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600

Greatsword:

Split Surge

Shoot a beam at a targeted foe, and secondary beams at foes near your target.

Damage (3x): 483 (1.2)?
Number of Targets: 3
Radius: 240
Range: 1,200

Spear:

Ambush Assault

Blink to your target and unleash a series of low-damage strikes that rapidly stack vulnerability.

Damage: 27 (0.1)?
Final Strike Damage: 53 (0.2)?
Vulnerability (8s): 1% Incoming Damage, 1% Incoming Condition Damage
Number of Strikes: 8
Range: 600

Trident:

Wave of Panic

Release a wave of energy that interrupts and confuses foes.

Damage: 293 (0.8)?
Confusion (4s): 75 Damage On Skill Use, 176 Damage
Stun: ½s
Number of Targets: 5
Range: 600

I’m not one to theorycraft any builds but I’d like to know, given the Ambush skills for Sword and Greatsword, does Power Mirage have a potential?

Source: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mirage

I’m also trying to craft the Mechanical Orchestra for our guild hall and I’m down to that one last item for the collection. So far I’ve been religiously doing 3 Adventures (Salvage Pit, Flying Circus and Bugs in the Branches) everyday for 3 days now, only because I know them so well. I know three days is not much but still, this takes way too long for a collection. It’s worst than the time-gated ones :/