Guild Wars 2

This is really rubbish. Why hasn’t it been fixed yet? Every time I run down the ramp from the top of the Nightmare tower I’m taking thousands of damaging from falling. It’s ridiculous.

hahah I saw it too, taking little damage while going down. I didn’t take thousands of damage but more on the hundreds.

Same here. It’s OK though it’s only temporary content – what’s the point in fixing it? You can jump down it and avoid any damage, plus it’s more fun this way.

i’ve noticed this, completely random, some times i’ll run down some stairs and take a tiny hit of damage other times i’ll run down it and it’ll nuke me down to like 50 health left lol. Nerf the stairs, too OP

edit: i’ve noticed mine happening everywhere, not just in the new content

Seems that the first fall damage starts it and if you continue moving in a downward path the game thinks your still falling so just stop for a second and it will reset.

I had this happen to me the first time too. xD I wasn’t surprised really considering the path is very steep. I swear I stopped running as soon as I saw I was taking the falling damage because my character was like skipping/slightly falling down. But then I just instantly died the second time I moved. lol

Its pretty much like when you are trekking down a mountainside in game and you start sliding and taking a little bit of damage if you make any impact with anything. Thats the best way I can describe it. Still seems a bit buggy, but I’m not sure they can fix something like that other then don’t make stuff so steep.

Though the stairs are an example done to its extreme, there is definitely something up with the fall damage. Connecting with something that doesn’t slow you as you fall seems to compound the damage. It’s possible to die on a rather short fall if you connect with enough things. Realistic? Possibly, but looks silly in practice.

It also seems exacerbated by an odd way the game handles friction on steep slopes. If you jump against something, the surface seems to actually accelerates your decent rather than slowing it. It’s as if the slope is forcing you back down. It reminds me vaguely of skiing in Tribes, but with violent-splattery-death aftereffects.

I warned you bro..

It happens in WvW all the time. The stairs leading from the temple into the ruins on the east side has cost me my stacks too many times… I no longer take those stairs.

Fall damage chains if you keep moving, so if you take fall damage and start running down stairs… you’re going to have a bad time. Pause for a second after taking fall damage, if you intend to move downwards.

It’s immersion! Running down stairs is dangerous.

Try putting down the scissors before running? =)

This happened to me before in different places. For example, I once died back when I was leveling my main character… maybe it was in Kessex Hills, I don’t exactly remember because it was long ago. There’s a place somewhere where you have a kinda short slope down to the beach… I’ve walked down there before, but that one time, I died while doing so. Then I also remember how I suicided or almost suicided a couple of times while walking downstairs in the red keep in EB (also 1-4 months ago, but more recently than leveling my main)… those stairs that lead down to the entrance of the jp if you went over the wall after porting to the waypoint. Dunno if you know which stairs I mean, but obviously the expression in my face must have been quite… priceless as well when it happened xD. I actually was thinking they may have fixed that, since I didn’t experience it for quite a while now. Maybe I was just lucky (or not unlucky), though. Or they fixed it but now it (just) happens again with those new stairs; who knows.

Meh; just stop if you notice it early enough. Or jump down in one go; you’ll take much less damage this way (which is kinda funny as well, but makes sense in terms of game mechanics I guess, haha).