Guild Wars 2

I haven’t spent a lot of time in WvW but recently my guild claimed Shadaran, activated buffs and started upgrades. Fairly frequently there would be enemy NPC veteran guards spawn in the courtyard that would engage the guards, cause the crossed swords to appear on the map, and cause the wp to become contested.

Is there some way to prevent this happening? Is it a bug? Is it intended? It seemed very odd.

It is bugged, the best way that I know of to counter this and keep the waypoint uncontested for a while is to place a flame ram in the middle of where they spawn, it makes the enemy npcs that spawn want to attack it first, now remember u gotta keep that ram there, siege despawns after a while so refreshing helps. What is going on is, when an enemy scout spawns itll unload on any npc that might be near the gate, their misfire hitting the gate causes the keep to get contested, not them spawning, even you fighting them or them fighting your guards doesnt contest the keep, its just the misfire that hits the gate.

Bug. Submitted a report about it in beta, with screenshots. Still not fixed. Probably lost in the slew of other reports.

Slamz.5376:

Bug. Submitted a report about it in beta, with screenshots. Still not fixed. Probably lost in the slew of other reports.

I’ve reported it a couple of times. It’s not game breaking, so they don’t care.

It kinda is game breaking. WP’s make a huge impact on the game, and they are expensive.

Ok, it is game breaking. They still don’t care.

I’ve had those spawning without using any kind of ram or anything and it doesn’t put the WP in contested state. I’m not defending this bug just saying that it doesn’t completely nullify a WP. If it did do that then it would be game breaking and you see a heck of a lot more QQ on the forums about it.

Maybe this is something they’ll fix in February.

The ram thing only helps to lessen the chance of WP being contested its by no means a fix, but its a cheap solution to having it contest less often.

Awesome! Thanks Mike.

Thank you MikeFerguson and forward my thanks to the team.

Once again, Waypoints are saved thanks to the underpaid and overworked WvW Development Team!

What about Durios guard not spawning with the proper faction ?

Jomg.9061:

What about Durios guard not spawning with the proper faction ?

That’s a feature!

MikeFerguson.8921:

Jomg.9061:

What about Durios guard not spawning with the proper faction ?

I thought we fixed that one too, might be a similar thing. I’ll try to get it looked at tomorrow!

Any idea what team colour it seems to happen on?

Desolation has had this problem this week. We’re green (lowlands) and I believe it was previously red (arborstone). This happened at around 3am-6am on a loop. We’ve had similar problems with Anza in the last few weeks. But Durios is by far the worst affected on EB, with enemy Veteran Archers spawning on walls as well.

MikeFerguson.8921:

Jomg.9061:

What about Durios guard not spawning with the proper faction ?

I thought we fixed that one too, might be a similar thing. I’ll try to get it looked at tomorrow!

Any idea what team color it seems to happen on?

My server is red this week, i believe the guard were spawning blue, but i’m not sure, mostly noticed they were hostile.

Byron and I are talking about the same things anyway, since we’re on the same match-up, i’m from arborstone.

thanks for the update Mike, BTW you have any Idea why Your server (Ferguson’s Crossing) isnt doing better in wvw?

AmphibianX.7042:

thanks for the update Mike, BTW you have any Idea why Your server (Ferguson’s Crossing) isnt doing better in wvw?

Hahaha I thought the same thing.