Engineer Bug - Missing Turret Ability

[Dasvadanya]

Hey all,

Could really use some help. On my level 13 engineer, my gun turret used to have 2 abilities: Penetrating Round, and Machine Gun.

Both were displayed on the little centralized pet bar that displays when you deploy a turret, and both worked fine.

Now all of a sudden only Penetrating Round is shown on the turret, the Machine Gun spell has just magically disappeared.

At first I thought it might have just been cosmetic, but then as I watched the turret fire I realized it's not doing the Machine Gun skill at all anymore.

Is this a known problem? Has anyone encountered before, and how can I (if it's even possible) fix this?

Please help!!!!!

[Kaelang]

There are live reports of this since the last patch. See https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/issues/16472

If you have any supporting evidence, feel free to contribute to that issue as opposed to writing a new one.

[Crumbs]

There's already 2 bugtrackers on the bug where the turret spawns with no abilities and only fires the first round randomly without control and way out of sync with your burst, another aspect of engineer that helps you waste time and fail at getting the right kill at the right time.

Just imagine playing classic engi, no insta turrets, and you manage to get a fresh turret built after you cc the WE... Oh wait, the turret has no abilities, it's probably going to fire off the armor pen round after you've done the snipe rotation and we can't do **** about that unless we want to spend more time building another possibly broken turret in the face of a melee.

Even when this bug happens with instant turrets slotted, you still waste a gcd, and 10 seconds worth of damage stacks and a massive 50 AP every time just to **** get abilities in the turret. That's the big **** and it's been here for years

[Zamerell]

What is going on with this?
I made a new engineer and didn't even know the turrets had abilities.
I am level 11 now and not a single ability has ever shown up for any of my turrets (Gun Turret, Flame Turret, Bombardment Turret).
This thread is dated a month ago, and no one in advice chat even seemed to know this was an issue.
Am I correct in labeling this a class breaking bug??

[Zymer]

What is going on with this?
I made a new engineer and didn't even know the turrets had abilities.
I am level 11 now and not a single ability has ever shown up for any of my turrets (Gun Turret, Flame Turret, Bombardment Turret).
This thread is dated a month ago, and no one in advice chat even seemed to know this was an issue.
Am I correct in labeling this a class breaking bug??

You might have the pet bar hidden. Go to where you edit your interface, pull up Windows options, and look for pet bar. Make sure it’s not selected to be hidden. I had similar issue when I started playing and had to do that to get my WL pet abilities to show.

[Zamerell]

What is going on with this?
I made a new engineer and didn't even know the turrets had abilities.
I am level 11 now and not a single ability has ever shown up for any of my turrets (Gun Turret, Flame Turret, Bombardment Turret).
This thread is dated a month ago, and no one in advice chat even seemed to know this was an issue.
Am I correct in labeling this a class breaking bug??

You might have the pet bar hidden. Go to where you edit your interface, pull up Windows options, and look for pet bar. Make sure it’s not selected to be hidden. I had similar issue when I started playing and had to do that to get my WL pet abilities to show.

Thank you so much!!
This fixed my issue, much appreciated!!

[Zymer]

What is going on with this?
I made a new engineer and didn't even know the turrets had abilities.
I am level 11 now and not a single ability has ever shown up for any of my turrets (Gun Turret, Flame Turret, Bombardment Turret).
This thread is dated a month ago, and no one in advice chat even seemed to know this was an issue.
Am I correct in labeling this a class breaking bug??

You might have the pet bar hidden. Go to where you edit your interface, pull up Windows options, and look for pet bar. Make sure it’s not selected to be hidden. I had similar issue when I started playing and had to do that to get my WL pet abilities to show.

Thank you so much!!
This fixed my issue, much appreciated!!

No problem! It annoyed the crap out of me when it happened, and took me a while to figure out how to fix it. Glad I could help