Guild Wars 2

Okay, it is a condition from the Living story, but a duration of 10s of minutes? Stupid mechanic, because it is easily defeated by logging back to character selection screen to purge it and come back in.

What’s the point Anet? Dumb.

It is an area effect. Move out of the area and it gets removed.

Also, stay away from the cooking fires. Some of those new recipes pack a wallop…

I think the idea is to encourage the players to leave the forts so the event can reset properly. Problem is that it isn’t communicated clearly that it gets removed if you leave the area, rather than something that you have to survive until it wears off regardless.

Trial and error maybe? I never even thought we had to have an explanation about it, just ran away and it worked… voilà.

First time I encountered it, it was right after failing a boss event and there were a bunch of people all trying to keep one another alive through the gas. It would have been REALLY useful to have a tooltip to know that we should have been looking to roll the revive-train out of a specific danger zone rather than having been hit with a long-term damaging condition as a punishment for failure.

To be fair the area with the gas is rather clearly marked.

Really? Maybe it’s my visual settings, but I don’t recall it being clearly marked. The venom effect of the flowers is, but that’s a weaker effect. You’ve got a bit of stuff floating in the air, but nothing to indicate that leaving will remove an effect that has a duration listed in minutes (and which isn’t being constantly renewed).

I don’t know why anyone would even ask this question. I mean obviously the noxious gas is Mordremoth farting. Yeesh. It’s just not part of the lore yet…