Guild Wars 2

I do have to support the initial post in a way though. This bug (the dragon’s tooth one) should have been caught.

There is NO circumstances that this power proc’s a combo at all, not limited circumstances but NONE.

When instituting a programming change specific to an item (like changing the mechanics of this combo finisher), its routine practice to make the code changes and then to confirm that its working. You don’t willy nilly change code and never bother confirming that your adjustments work and I don’t see how that could have been done as there is no circumstances you can get this power to function as a combo finisher anymore which would seem to indicate just that (willy nilly changes without ANY testing).

One might assume the following:
1. Have a list of bugfixes and code changes.
2. Institute fixes.
3. On a test build server play and confirm said fix is working as intended, at least to some extent. A few passes up ‘drop field and drop combo finisher on field’ and confirm its working as intended.
4. move on to next item.

To eliminate step 3 would not be a case of ‘not doing thorough testing’ and would instead be an indicator of ‘no testing at all’ which when rolling out patches and updates to a game thats live supporting what is likely hundreds of thousands of players is very poor form.

Now that said I’m not normally one to complain, ‘woops we missed testing that one’, ok fine. But why after more than TWO WEEKS later and subsequent builds being released has this VERY simple item not been either fixed or reversed? Honestly its such a nominal difference was it really worth breaking that mechanic entirely just in the offchance someone was making out like a bandit having their combo finisher proccing in their local combo field instead of if the spell happened to hit slightly farther away?

The fact this hasn’t been addressed and is a pretty large bug (completely non-functional change vs something with some periodic mechanic failure) is pretty disappointing and sad at this point.

I love this game and enjoy every class so far but going back to play my elementalist and finding this is still broken 2 weeks and subsequent patches later is disappointing.