Guild Wars 2

I never had issue with the debuff but yesterday I couldn’t get it removed. it keep stacking to a lvl I feared :o cleared xera since second day it was launched and done her 4 times first week, 4 times second week and etc. but yesterday I struggled with the debuff.. has it got to do with the lag?? i never need to make effort to remove the debuff and it usually goes down itself, but yesterday :o ppl think i was scrub! i tried to stand on the bloodstone aoe before it was destroyed, and also stand on it after it was destroyed.. (really made myself look completely silly as a goof as i had to run out to get it removed) and it.. does not makes any difference and it kept going up until i feared and die. one guy said, so much of exp team before disbanding the pug team … :o

I think it’s kinda janky, and not entirely sure which bloodstone shards are counted. I know the two at the start definitely count as I’ve lost stacks to those (which is effectively pointless since I don’t have many stacks at the start). I haven’t personally had to try the shards on the arena during the fight. I would imagine the shards during the teleport phases should also count. As far as I know, the ones during the 50% phase don’t count either.

Either they all remove stacks, or none of them do, imo.

You also need Forsaken Magic for the effect to be meaningful (destroying bloodstone shards removes 10 stacks). In the mean time though, avoiding getting hit is a good start. If you’re reaching silver by 50%, you’ve taken too many hits. Frankly, I don’t reach silver until the last little portion of the fight.

Thanks Rashy for reply.
yes I tried to avoid being hit. I am suspecting the lag. because I get teleporting around minor and large scales yesterday at different time intervals. I always keep myself a bit behind (only a bit) the zerg behind xera playing druid usually in Xera. could it be not enough reflect? I still think it was the lag because I reached silver before even the split phase. Going to try again tonight. but hate to explain to the pug, they do not believe me and think that it was my first time in Xera -.- The stacks was enough for them to kick.

oh yeh I maxed all masteries. so yes I have forsaken magic done

Are you walking through the small aoes created by the red balls colliding with teammates/yourself?

Talindra.4958:

Thanks Rashy for reply.
yes I tried to avoid being hit. I am suspecting the lag. because I get teleporting around minor and large scales yesterday at different time intervals. I always keep myself a bit behind (only a bit) the zerg behind xera playing druid usually in Xera. could it be not enough reflect? I still think it was the lag because I reached silver before even the split phase. Going to try again tonight. but hate to explain to the pug, they do not believe me and think that it was my first time in Xera -.- The stacks was enough for them to kick.

oh yeh I maxed all masteries. so yes I have forsaken magic done

If you are lagging that badly then it’s possible that you just weren’t in the bloodstone at the time it was destroyed. Even if it appeared to be destroyed at a certain time on your screen, it may have actually been killed a bit earlier when you weren’t in it.

Also keep in mind that you gain stacks while standing in the bloodstone aoe, so if you stand in it too long and then it dies and you clear some stacks, you will be right around where you started anyway.

It’s also possible it was just a bug, in which case restarting the client would likely fix it. However, I have done a pretty substantial number of xera fights and I have never heard of anyone else having this problem, so I would guess that it is related to your latency issues.

thanks for the replies
tried last night and i think high ping and latency can be issue for us to avoid derangement stacking. I hope anet will do something to make this more forgiving for players with high latency / high ping. at the mean time i will try my best to overcome this, eg positioning better at the edge of platform and coupled with some chain skills during red orbs phase … :o

there is a trick…. use ur friend’s or team mates’ body as shield for red orbs! :P but if with a lot of lag spikes and teleporting best is to give up trying :P got xera just now. only a few lag spikes but manageable.