Guild Wars 2

Spirit of full disclosure: I have already posted this in the bugs forum, and also already submitted a ticket. I want to see if the dungeon community has experienced this before.

Tonight I ran Fractals of the Mists Level 49. We had Swamp -> Cliffside -> Thaumanova -> Jade Maw. We got to the maw and starting fighting as normal. We realized that we were on our way to killing the boss before the colossus stage was over (not sure if that is normal or not, never experienced it before [486 fractal runs completed]). We did kill the boss before colossus phase was over. We got the skull target things for the final death ray, but he never used the death ray. We waited for about a minute until it became clear that the chests weren’t going to drop. The boss was at 0% health, but his head was still visible.

We thought maybe it was bugged, so we tried a mass-suicide off the ledge to hopefully reset it. We all died, respawned, and ran back down to the battlefield. We got the agony check, but nothing else happened. There were 2 tentacles left alive, so we tried getting killed by them and resetting again, but that didn’t work either. We then went and killed both of the remaining tentacles, but still nothing.

After about 20 minutes we finally called it quits. I submitted a ticket immediately after leaving the fractal, but of course I haven’t heard back yet.

Screenshot was taken as soon as we realized it was bugged.

Should I include the part about how I’m not happy about this?

-First run of the day, hadn’t received any reward chests at any level if fractals in over 48 hours.
-No exploits, cheats, or skips were used for the whole run

I’m sorry That’s a known bug, which has been in game at least pre-Fractured patch. If you get him to zero before the colossus phase is over it can bug and not give you the bonus and boss chests. Why the hell they haven’t fixed it, probably lies on the fact that they spend 99% of resources on the meh living world content. No love for dungeons/fractals aka non-casual, non-Zerg content.

I don’t believe for a moment you didn’t exploit to kill him before colossus phase was over. Why? Because not enough Crystals will have spawned to do that.

You (or more accurately your team) likely abused the lifesteal glitch, hiding it, and deserve no reward for doing so.

I still can’t believe that lifestealing maw is an exploit. There are way worse things than that that Anet seems perfectly ok with.

I consider it a feature. The problem is its so easy to bug maw if you get a bit overzealous with the projectile finishers. But anyone who has half a brain knows not to use it until the second phase of maw and to stop using lifesteal just before maw dies.

Flissy.4093:

I don’t believe for a moment you didn’t exploit to kill him before colossus phase was over. Why? Because not enough Crystals will have spawned to do that.

You (or more accurately your team) likely abused the lifesteal glitch, hiding it, and deserve no reward for doing so.

I was not aware that there was a lifesteal glitch, but that would explain it. As I said before, I’ve done an awful lot of fractal runs and I’ve never experienced this before. If there is a glitch with life stealing, it is possible that one (or more) of my team members had some life stealing sigils on, and that would account for the glitch.

Even so, if this is a known issue then I hope they take a look at it for the next patch, cause I’ve never been so frustrated with this game as last night. I just recently spent the money getting enough AR to finally run in the 40s, and on my first time doing a 49 I have this happen!?!

Either way, thanks for the replies, even if Flissy was a bit over-aggressive

Theres no way you could do it unintentionally. Either you are lying or your teammates were sat behind maw abusing it and you were unaware of what they were doing. What classes did you have in the run?

Spoj The Second.7680:

Theres no way you could do it unintentionally. Either you are lying or your teammates were sat behind maw abusing it and you were unaware of what they were doing. What classes did you have in the run?

As I said before, I was not aware that this bug existed before this run. My team was 1 war, 2 guards, 1 ele, and 1 Mesmer (me). If my team knew about the glitch, they didn’t say anything about it in party chat. They all seemed equally confused when the glitch happened. One guy said that he had heard of the glitch before, but nobody said anything about lifesteal.

Teammates were not behaving strangely during the fight, or at least nobody was doing anything that drew my attention.

Well I have no idea then. You couldnt of done it without a thief or necro. And I honestly have no idea how you had enough crystals without killing all the colossi and getting jade maw to 2nd phase.

You should have at least lied about your class comp.

Spoj The Second.7680:

Well I have no idea then. You couldnt of done it without a thief or necro. And I honestly have no idea how you had enough crystals without killing all the colossi and getting jade maw to 2nd phase.

Would weapon sigils do it? Maybe someone in my party had on one of those, or some food or something?

I was really surprised when I noticed how low its health was after just a short time. I also didn’t think that enough crystals could drop during the 1st phase.

I don’t want people misunderstanding me: I’m not looking for some sort of compensation, as it is sounding like this was a glitch and possibly even an exploit by someone on my team. I just wanted to know if this was something that others had experienced, or if anyone knew why this would have happened. I’m still upset that I got screwed out of my first 49 run, but now at least I kinda know why.

You can’t crit on Jade Maw.

No there is no way sigils or food could of done it because you cant hit jademaw with regular attacks. It requires the use of projectile finishers and dark fields when standing in a certain place.

Spoj The Second.7680:

No there is no way sigils or food could of done it because you cant hit jademaw with regular attacks. It requires the use of projectile finishers and dark fields when standing in a certain place.

Leeching Sigil works, Mr Spoj.

Spoj The Second.7680:

No there is no way sigils or food could of done it because you cant hit jademaw with regular attacks. It requires the use of projectile finishers and dark fields when standing in a certain place.

Well I’m stumped then! Here’s a screen shot so you can see the boss, party setup, etc.

That is why I don’t PUG, look at all the un-nourished players. Not to mention Signet of Air at level 49, ooft! What an ele.

Flissy.4093:

That is why I don’t PUG, look at all the un-nourished players. Not to mention Signet of Air at level 49, ooft! What an ele.

He was a gem.

To be fair, the food had run out because we sat around waiting to decide what to do about the glitched-out boss.

But yes, such ele, much drama.

Flissy.4093:

Spoj The Second.7680:

No there is no way sigils or food could of done it because you cant hit jademaw with regular attacks. It requires the use of projectile finishers and dark fields when standing in a certain place.

Leeching Sigil works, Mr Spoj.

Didnt know that. xD Thats probably the cause then. You can blame whoever was sat there shooting jademaw i guess.