Elementalism abilities still cause game crashes. Most notably Crystalised Flame (can be mine or other players).
I encounter the exact same problem using the exact same skill. It has become a major gripe for me especially when doing E10 scenarios. You can contact tech support about this although my progress with them has so far been to rule out outdated OS, outdated graphics card driver and poor internet connection. Iâm still working with them to identify the cause while I continue to experience the crashes from casting Crystallised Flame.
Same here.
That and any âscreen warpingâ effects crash me very consistently. By that I mean the effect that happens with explosions and other things. The Fired Up ability in TSW does it, for reference. Iâm not sure if any play abilities do it, but I do know a lot of boss fights involve it. Like bomb adds in Darkness War. I crash a lot in there.
I am mainhand elemental user and while Iâve certainly had my share of crashes I cannot claim the cause to be CF.
However, I did have this happen to me a few days ago during a Scenario. My graphics all suddenly glitched and I played this way all through the second wave + final boss.
Groovy man.
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Still crashingâŠ
i have 3 character total using elem and got random crash too
when they happen its always at the same exact moment. when casting the crystallised flame
when you start going up in the air during cast animation
i use some addon but nothing related to weapon as advanced weapon ui
except reticule HUD but already tested without it and crash still occur
Bumping because this is still a problem and seems to have gotten worse in recent weeks/months. My cabal has started to ban CF from being used in dungeons and it has significant impact on the number of crashes we experience. When we had 2-3 DPS using CF every boss we were getting at least one crash per dungeon. Once we banned CF we experience perhaps one or two crashes in a night of 8 or 10 dungeons.
The crash is also not tied to the person using CF. I crash often when CF is cast, but I am a tank not using Elementalism at all. Banning CF in our dungeon runs results in fewer crashes for me.
Want more? I never crash when running solo. Doing missions or scenarios by myself and I never crash. Join a group for a lair and 5 people are using CF I start crashing left and right. Cabal-mate switched to Elementalism for his Occult Defense build and went from no crashes to suddenly crashing all the time in scenarios.
Thatâs how CF is balanced. Itâs like when Guild Wars would delete your account if you let the Shadow Form enchantment end.
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Casting Crystallised Flame with Crystallised Blaze would also cause me to crash occasionally. As soon as I stopped using this ability, my client stopped crashing. Whether others in my group or raid cast it has no effect on my clientâs stability, though.
For the longest time I didnât know it was CF causing the crashes. Not long ago, @Szalord pointed out this fact during a dungeon run and Iâve been keeping an eye out. Now I notice that a CF appears onscreen half a second before ALL crashes in the past two weeks.
This happened right after the first boss âthe scorpionâ in the hotel scenario.
Using Elementalism as a primary. However, the boss was down and everything was cooling down when the screen suddenly âflippedâ. The timing was about the same time as the Elementalism buff that one gets from the Voltaic Shunt. (about 3 - 5 seconds after the last cast ability). I had enough time to move from the back courtyard into the doorway and activate sprint.
See attached. (If I wanted to play with this kind of thing, Iâd be wearing those crappy 3-D glasses from the 80s, and stoned on LSD!) Please fix this $#!+.
(Iâd attach a screenshot, but apparently, Iâm too new and they donât trust me to post something on-topic that makes them look bad.) The image is the same as the previous screenshots.
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Thatâs not at all what weâre discussing in this thread. Thatâs a separate issue that isnât related to Elementalism, itâs a well known issue, itâs been around for years, and it wonât be fixed probably ever. 
Funny⊠Main hand Elemantilsim user.
Running Scenerio and graphics glitched.
Using Crystallized Flame / Crystallized Blaze
My screenshot is the same as Zekrinâs.
Not using addons as Naat, but same casting situation.
Youâre still having the same thing happening after 7 months (2 days ago)
Similar to what DumbOx describes.
Hmmm⊠I donât get where you think itâs not what is being described in the tread. I want what youâre drinking darxide!
Youâre describing a visual bug. This thread is about the game crashing from using elementalism.
That being said, I still crash. Itâs never been fixed, although it doesnât happen as frequently as before to me. Doesnât matter if I use addons or not.
Iâm wondering if the visual bug is causing the crashes in some occurrences.
That would be a connection between the video effect of some elementalism abilities, and the GPU/Video glitch causing system to âcrashâ. Maybe a link. Maybe not. But not unreasonable. (Finally got the ability to link the image.)
Iâm drinking water. You should try it and lay off of the Draino.
That visual bug is tied to scenarios, though you can get it in relation to the mushrooms in SC and in SF as well. Itâs been around for five or however many years since Issue 8 released on TSW. It has nothing to do with the weapon you use. It is also not a crash. You couldnât be more lost. At least you have Xekrin to keep you company. 
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The visual bug has no effect on the crash.
You crash immediately during the cast animation of Crystalised Flame (hands in air). It doesnât matter if itâs you or someone else using it.
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Strange my group or me are never get a crash with Crystalised Flame, I play main ele and two peeps play offhand eleâŠ
Itâs different for each person. Some crash more often than others. I think whatever the graphic effect from CF thatâs causing the crash is playing badly with whatever drivers you have. Whatever video card, driver, and driver version you have arenât as susceptible. From my experience, most people have problems with CF. Itâs just a question of how often.
Been having that crash for a very long time. Itâs a shame because this seems to me like the only major crash issue left in the game. This problem has been acknowledged by Funcom a while ago, but they probably donât know how to fix it.