Guild Wars 2

There are at least two older threads about the issue:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Arah-way-4-Giganticus-Lupicus-did-not-start/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Arah-dungeon-Path-4-buged/first
Both contain some details of what people did before lupi bugged.

EnRohbi.2187:

And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that instead of actually fixing the bug with multiple shatters, they just slapped a big ugly bandaid solution over it that only hurts people who weren’t abusing the bug to begin with.

Bingo. Fixing a bug by globally nerfing all IPersona builds isn’t the right way to go.

I wish this was a temporary fix until the proper fix makes its way through QA, but there’s no official word whether or not that’s the case.

Btw, another combo I use quite often: I have illusions out and need to interrupt. Instead of wasting multiple illusions on the interrupt, I Mind Wrack them, then hit Diversion. With the .25s delay, it’s gotten much harder to do that before the skill finishes.

SS nerf? May or may not have been needed, but I wonder why it was put in an emergency patch instead of the next regular balance update. Would have been a good opportunity to check the mesmer’s strength post-bugfix before wielding the nerf-bat twice.

Just happened to us, too.
The required NPC got into a fight with the mobs outside while we went to lupi. Didn’t trigger. So we went back out, cleared the additional mobs and lured the NPC right next to lupicus, still didn’t trigger. We lured the NPC out and back in and even retraced our steps from the last waypoint, didn’t help.

It appears that the issue is quite a bit older:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Arah-dungeon-Path-4-buged

To say the least, we were not amused.

Sigil of Superior Blood

30% Chance on Critical: Steal Health (This effect cannot trigger more than once every two seconds)

The actual cooldown appears to be five seconds, not two.

Testing: I’ve gone to the PvP lobby, got high-precision equipment and the sigil, and started hitting Target Golems, using the Mesmer Greatsword auto-attack to generate plenty of crits.
The closest interval between two leeches I observed was around 5 seconds.

I’ve done enough tests to reject the null hypothesis “cooldown = 2 seconds” with p < 0.0001. There’s also talk on the wiki where others observed the same.

Please update either the sigil or the description, thanks