Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow adventurers,

I just wanted to verify whether this is a common bug or just me:

When I start mining an ore node within 1-2 seconds after landing, the pickaxe animation doesn’t load for the next two seconds. Instead, my toon is bending over with their arms not moving — ony at the last strike (or when I wait a second or two before I start mining the ore) the animation displays correctly.

This is especially noticeable in Bloodstone Fen at the crater area where you do a lot of gliding and mining.

Anyone else running into this glitch?

I’ve never seen the issue happen anywhere except Bloodstone Fen, and I drop onto nodes and immediately start mining all the time, so I’m sure I would have noticed it elsewhere if it happened.

As for why it happens in Bloodstone Fen… probably something related to the air combat skills. The air combat skills are treated as a bundle by the game (the devs themselves confirmed that), which seems to cause some issues with animations. The game seems to have some delay in swapping animation sets from the bundle back to the normal animations.

It actually happens even mid-flight in Bloodstone Fen if you just stop and start gliding quickly. That also makes your character animations go all wonky for a few seconds, with your body going stiff and attack animations not working properly.

Yesterday i had a similar issue. After landing i tried to pick up some winterberrys but it didn’t work. All skills seemed to be also disabled. It fixed itself after opening and closing the glider again. I suspect that the glider didn’t close properly the first time and left me in a half flying state and therefor disable everything that is not allowed midair.

Electro.4173:

I’ve never seen the issue happen anywhere except Bloodstone Fen, and I drop onto nodes and immediately start mining all the time, so I’m sure I would have noticed it elsewhere if it happened.

Yes, you are right. I wasn’t so sure, so I made it sound more general, but the truth is I haven’t noticed it elsewhere, either.

Electro.4173:

As for why it happens in Bloodstone Fen… probably something related to the air combat skills. The air combat skills are treated as a bundle by the game (the devs themselves confirmed that), which seems to cause some issues with animations. The game seems to have some delay in swapping animation sets from the bundle back to the normal animations.

It actually happens even mid-flight in Bloodstone Fen if you just stop and start gliding quickly. That also makes your character animations go all wonky for a few seconds, with your body going stiff and attack animations not working properly.

Ah, thanks for the explanation! I am so relieved that it’s not just me. I was scared I had run into a hardware issue with my computer. Phew!

And yes, noticed the other “symptom” you discribe here as well. Also, when I leave Reaper’s Shroud, or any other transformation for that matter, I see the old “form” floating for a second before it vanishes, while my character has already left it and is strolling a few paces away from it.

Tornupto.2304:

Yesterday i had a similar issue. After landing i tried to pick up some winterberrys but it didn’t work. All skills seemed to be also disabled. It fixed itself after opening and closing the glider again. I suspect that the glider didn’t close properly the first time and left me in a half flying state and therefor disable everything that is not allowed midair.

Huh, haven’t encountered that one yet. Interesting…