Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

It seems the WvW bugs do not function inside FoTM – is this to be expected?

How do I know this..
Standing inside Lions Arch – I have 14.4K health points (with a 8% robust WvW server wide buff)

Once I step inside FoTM (any level) my health significantly decreases. (Approx. by 1K).
The description of the rewards for the WvW is to give bonuses to their home world even when guesting on other servers.

As far as I see this means that we are loosing out on our server wide WvW buffs whilst inside FoTM (artisan – increased chance of critical, energetic – increased endurance gain, scavenger – increased gold, robust – increased health, defender – increased defense vs monsters, wisdom – increased Xp/kill, medic – increased healing).

I have never noticed loosing WvW server side buffs before in FoTM – is this new or an unintended feature?

This seems pretty easy to test by walking from Lions Arch into FoTM and watching your health decrease.

Many thanks

Is Anybody able to confirm if this is intentional or a bug?

TPMN.1483:

Is Anybody able to confirm if this is intentional or a bug?

I dont think you get the wvw buff in any dungeon.

The reason I ask is because that I thought it used to apply (I remembered Fridays as a good day to do FoTM due to buffs).

I don’t see anything in the wiki which mentions that these buffs do not apply in dungeons or FoTM:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power_of_the_Mists – “This effect applies to everyone playing on their home server in both WvW and PvE; it does not apply to guests or in overflow.”.

Dungeons and FoTM are 100% PvE.

I just entered FotM just now. I got my robust from WvW. Are you opening the dungeon yourself? If someone that isn’t from your server opens it, you don’t get the robust.

I opened the dungeon myself on my home server and did not get the robust bonus (I was the only player in the party on – for testing purposes).

I will retest again – and post screenshots of this and when in LA and after entering the fractal instance when I next get the opportunity.

Not sure what it could be. :/ Woks fine for me.

Okay here are the screen shots – when I was in a group.
The robust ‘was’ lost – note the 1K HP loss.

I have teseted it solo – it works fine (now).

Wvw:
’A player will receive the bonuses of their home world even when guesting on other worlds. ’

Not sure why this happened – I can only think someone must have ‘fixed’ it.

Did you or someone from the same server start the instance?

You will get the WvW buffs if the instance is created on your home server.
You will not get the WvW buffs if the instance is created on another server.

An example could be player A and B is from server 1, CDE is from server 2. If player C opens the instance, CDE will get the buffs while AB won’t, if A opens the instance AB will get the buffs, CDE won’t.

A quick way to check is to press b, if you can’t see the score board you won’t get WvW buffs.

Which is silly, since you can prioritize people from your own server for parties, nor should it be so important in most pve instances. But for Thieves (and Eles >.<) that 1000hp is somewhat significant.

Instances probably shouldn’t be subject to those buffs anyway, especially fractals, since it is by definition, outside of normal “realms.”

Wvw:
’A player will receive the bonuses of their home world even when guesting on other worlds. ’
-This I interpret as you would receive these buffs even in FoTM (PvE) regardless of who the host is and where the instance is. This is how it used to work.

The main thing is it is now working properly (now receive the buff)- it looked a temporary glitch.