Guild Wars 2

The harpies in the Rata Sum Fractal have some serious issues. The blowout-orbs that they fire constantly cause instant defeats (rather than downed), they go invulnerable midfight for no apparent reason and they keep attacking you after you’ve been defeated (from their bugged blowouts), thus keeping a party in combat indefinitely (and their orbs seem to be having unlimited range too, especially in the second part).

This issue isn’t a new one, in fact, I’ve been reporting it for over 10 months now. What I’d really like to know however is why this problem, that can potentially force a party to abandon the fractal and start over again, hasn’t been adressed yet.

In ten frikkin months…a gamebreaking issue…

Or is it so rare that only I exprience it every single time I enter said fractal?

Stop using staff.

But Guang said staff is godly for godly men ??

Equip reflects or have someone else do it, use stability etc… The invulnerability wears off once you get near them after a little while. There’s nothing that prevents progress at all. Even if you die on a platform and you can’t respawn you can just relog and your body will appear at the bottom.

ThiBash.5634:

Or is it so rare that only I exprience it every single time I enter said fractal?

I could imagine it being like that if you had a party with no reflections at all, which I avoid at all cost.
Just get a guardian, a mesmer and a focus if that’s not enough.

And if you are a terrible person with no moral standards and also enjoy kicking babies in the face (sorry, just read something like that in a diff thread) you can bring a mesmer and skip the 2nd harpy part.

Pro tip: Harpies don’t shoot orbs if everyone is in melee range.

Pro tip2: Harpies don’t become invulnerable if everyone is meleeing. (usually)

Mobs go invulnerable if they can’t hit you for a certain period of time or if you are at a certain distance. Thats why if you decide to easy mode some bosses they go imvuln aswell.

Yeah, all great, all awesome if harpies didn’t turn invulnerable while you’re direcly meleeing and damaging them. Bah.
Anyway, definitely not a blocking progress, that’s just a whiny exaggeration. At least it isn’t on 38-48 – don’t know about higher levels, even if you fall down a few times; it’s an annoyance that might get you downed, at most. Also, for some reason I don’t think the op is doing 79…
… I blame the sloppy search function for all the threads with the exact same topic.