Guild Wars 2

First off, I’m not 100% sure this is exactly why it happens, but from what I’ve seen I’m pretty sure I know the cause.

On Ebay’s borderland’s garrison this week our keep lord has become bugged twice. Once before the patch, then the patch fixed whatever the issue was, our castle got taken after the patch, we took it back, and then he became bugged again.

There is only one similar occurrence between the incidences that I noticed. Both times before the Keep Lord became invincible we had our orb on the altar of power and the altar was permanently destroyed. Now I’m not 100% sure what is causing these alters to become permanently destroyed. I’ve heard a few theories such as the quaggan’s lightning can strike it or the Orb had a DoT that damages Garrison’s altar, but what I have noticed is that the Keep Lord becomes bugged and invincible whenever that altar is destroyed.

The only time our keep was able to be taken was when that altar was still there. Every other time the altar has been destroyed and the Keep Lord has been invincible.

The theory about quaggan lightning strikes seems most plausible, though I’ve never seen it myself.

There were accusations that we “bugged” the Lord on purpose but it’s actually incredibly inconvenient for us because whatever is happening results in a permanently broken altar. We can’t put the orb back into the garrison because the broken altar won’t accept the orb and there’s no way to repair it. Putting it in the northmost altar is almost as good as handing it to the enemy because that place isn’t realistic to defend long term. Putting it in one of the side keeps isn’t ideal either since they’re a lot more likely to be taken sooner or later.

Fixes to “altar bugs” is one of the things I’m most hoping to see in a patch note.

Seeing Arenanet acknowledge that they know about the issue would be nice for starters.

Arenanet doesn’t acknowledge any problems ever.