Desert Empowerment in WvW

Has anyone tried Desert Empowerment trait in WvW? Description says number of allied targets 5 but when I use it it seems that it gives barriers to 2 ppl or sometimes 3. Haven't figured out why. Am I missing something again?

It's probably using the new shade skill target cap of 2 in WvW.

@Swan.9815 said:It's probably using the new shade skill target cap of 2 in WvW.

But it shouldn't. The trait says 5 targets and I can see that sometimes barrier goes to more than 2 ppl. It is just never 5.

@nala.9072 said:

@Swan.9815 said:It's probably using the new shade skill target cap of 2 in WvW.

when it's more than 2 people it must be people getting barrier from your shade + you instead of just the shade. Not totally sure tho

@nala.9072 said:But it shouldn't. The trait says 5 targets and I can see that sometimes barrier goes to more than 2 ppl. It is just never 5.What the tooltip says is irrelevant. If it says 5, then they just forgot to change it in the last patch. Tooltip changes do not happen automatically, when they change the functionality of a skill or trait. Everything has to be done manually. The game engine is trash.

Scourge can officially hit 2 targets per shade and 2 for himself in wvw. End of story.

@KrHome.1920 said:

@nala.9072 said:But it shouldn't. The trait says 5 targets and I can see that sometimes barrier goes to more than 2 ppl. It is just never 5.What the tooltip says is irrelevant. If it says 5, then they just forgot to change it in the last patch. Tooltip changes do not happen automatically, when they change the functionality of a skill or trait. Everything has to be done manually. The game engine is trash.

I have no idea why they don't just have tooltips set up to reference the value in the code. Damage, healing and boon/condition duration numbers update automatically, so it's not like those tooltips are static images.

@Drarnor Kunoram.5180 said:

@KrHome.1920 said:

@nala.9072 said:But it shouldn't. The trait says 5 targets and I can see that sometimes barrier goes to more than 2 ppl. It is just never 5.What the tooltip says is irrelevant. If it says 5, then they just forgot to change it in the last patch. Tooltip changes do not happen automatically, when they change the functionality of a skill or trait. Everything has to be done manually. The game engine is trash.

Fun Fact: The tooltip of Signet of Vampirism (a healing skill!) does currently not show the amount of healing on cast you get (4950 HP), because they reworked it and forgot to add two additional lines for the increased complexity of the skill (the tooltip had 8 lines before and now it's 10, but 11 would actually be needed).

Such ridiculous things happen with every single balance patch...

@"KrHome.1920" said:Fun Fact: The tooltip of Signet of Vampirism (a healing skill!) does currently not show the amount of healing on cast you get (4950 HP), because they reworked it and forgot to add two additional lines for the increased complexity of the skill (the tooltip had 8 lines before and now it's 10, but 11 would actually be needed).

Such ridiculous things happen with every single balance patch...

That give them an excuse to flesh out some patch note with some: "Fixed X tooltype so that it now show properly Y value."

Tool tip updates get missed a lot.

With each update, the balance team creates the need for the next balance patch: This is perma-employment.

Target cap is 4 so it's a bug eitherway. https://imgur.com/a/BAegDR5

@"usogui.1738" said:Target cap is 4 so it's a bug eitherway. https://imgur.com/a/BAegDR5Did anyone test if it is also only 2 for the shades when you don't pick sand savant and place 3 shades? Can each shade hit 2 targets?

If yes, then the cap is 8.

@KrHome.1920 said:

@"usogui.1738" said:Target cap is 4 so it's a bug eitherway.

https://imgur.com/a/BAegDR5

Did anyone test if it is also only 2 for the shades when you don't pick sand savant and place 3 shades? Can each shade hit 2 targets?

If you mean target cap at once then no it is always 4 in total per cast. Two (you + 1 near you) and 2 per summoned shade so 4 so indirect nerf or bug from the patch. https://imgur.com/a/hO22Gma

confirmed this as well today. @ArenaNet Team.4819 any word on this?

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tooltips that aren't a multiple of 60 should not be recognized.