Ranger Bug List

#1 - Sept. 12, 2012, 3:43 a.m.
Blizzard Post

Weapon Skills

  • Ranged attacks often say ‘obstructed’ even when it’s clearly a landed hit
  • Longbow/Harpoon Gun don’t auto attack at max range (1500) with Eagle Eye.
  • Horn skill Call of the Wild (5) with autotargeting on will cause start autoattacking anything near
  • Horn skill Call of the Wild (5) gains 2 seconds from Off-Hand Training on the tooltip, but the duration is the same in real-time
  • Horn skill Hunter’s Call (4) can cause very odd graphic anomalies on enemies of specific sizes. More info here.
  • Spear Swirling strike is interrupted by the Stab chain if auto-attack is enabled
  • Sword’s Slash/Kick/Pounce chain will cause the player to be semi-rooted in place resulting in inability to dodge or readily reposition yourself (more info here and here)
  • Shortbow’s Quick Shot doesn’t always trigger the swiftness boon or move you backwards. More info here
  • Shortbow’s Crossfire (1)’s added delay as of the 10/7/12 patch is seemingly unintended. More info here
  • Shortbow isn’t affected by quickness correctly. More info here
  • Shortbow’s autoattack is auto-canceling since the animation fix. More info here
  • Greatsword’s Swoop (3) will often miss if the target is on a different elevation as you.

Gear

  • Superior Rune of Dwayna 2 pc set bonus 20% to Rejuvenation Duration, does not apply to Healing Spring

Pets

  • F2 ability response issue. More info here and here
  • Infinite Pet Buff Stacking. More info here
  • Infinite Porcine Forage. More info here.
  • White Moa’s Icy Screech (F2) tooltip reads “Screech to chill nearby foes.”, and shows that it gives 10 seconds (base amount) of Regen. Instead, the ability does AE damage and 1 second of chilled
  • Blue Moa’s Protecting Screech gives 4 (base) seconds of protection instead of the stated 10 (base) seconds
  • Many pets don’t do the correct amount of condition or boon intensity/duration. Will make a chart soon.
  • Jungle Spider/Black Widow’s Paralyzing Venom immobilizes for 2 seconds instead of the stated 2 second stun
  • Black Widow has only half the vitality as the other spiders
  • White Raven has 687 less vitality than the other birds
  • Other Ranger’s pets can trigger the ‘Charm’ option when you’re near them
  • Boon duration modifies pet’s tooltips, but not their actual ability. More info here.
  • Ranger pet names do not stay if you change a pet via the pet management window. More info here.
  • Pet agro doesn’t work correctly under many circumstances including pet type (more info here and here)
  • Player stats are not affecting your pets stats even though the tooltip states otherwise. More info here
  • Pets occasionally have a sound bug where they are incredibly loud.(Not just ranger pets)
  • Pets are unable to attack particiular world objects such as gates in WvW. More info here
  • Pets will often run infront of you (potentially in agro range) before stopping while following
  • Drakes do not use Tail Swipe or Chomp. Also, their autoattack does an unlisted AE. More info here
    *Spider’s Poison Blast causes projectiles to be obstructed. More info here
#43 - Sept. 15, 2012, 7:39 a.m.
Blizzard Post

This is a fine place for this. I’ll get it stickied like the others. Thanks for your patience, these fixes will take some time to do, and about a week to test. They won’t all happen at once as we try to push through fixes ASAP.

Jon