Guild Wars 2

I’ve already posted this in the Bug Forum but I thought I’d make a PSA over here in the Ranger Forum as well. Not sure if this was posted before but this is a big one.

So if anyone has noticed, the ranger shout Protect Me! forces players and NPCs to unsheathe their weapons. The thing is, doing this in WvW procs Contested on keeps, towers, and even camps – and yes, I do mean your own keeps, towers, and camps.

If you use Protect Me! on any of the gate/wall guards with weapons, it forces them to unsheathe, making the game think they’re in combat and thus forcing Contested. Interestingly, it doesn’t work if you use Protect Me! on non-combatant NPCs like merchants or repairers.

So fellow rangers who do run shout builds and use it for the Swiftness, hold off from using Protect Me! inside your own objectives, especially keeps because it will close the WP.

Now I know ranger bugs are usually overlooked, and more so WvW, so it might be some time before this gets fixed. The best thing to do is to spread the word.

And here i was wondering why i couldn’t find anyone around those contested towers that were uncontested before i arrived…

Thankfully, Anet seems to be looking into it according to the Known Issue Tracker.

Ranger: Protect Me! shout puts nearby allies in combat briefly – Investigating