Guild Wars 2

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This bug took place at Morgan’s Spiral, in Caledon Forest/the Sylvari starting area, where the jumping puzzle and the orchid skill point are located. During the quest in which you must protect the sylvari tower from the Risen, one enemy in the third or fourth wave somehow became invulnerable as it attacked the tower. As I was the only player doing this event, I wasn’t able to kill the other mobs before this lone mob took down the tower.

I didn’t think to take a screenshot of it at the time, but when I checked that mob’s boons/conditions, it didn’t have anything that gave invulnerability (that star-shaped boon is Berserk, a +damage boon). So I don’t think this was an intentional part of the event. Also, after the event, the mob moved away from the tower and became vulnerable again.

Additional info:
-Character: Falchoir, level 25 human necromancer
-Server: Yak’s Bend
-Time this bug occurred: About 8:45 AM Central Time

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Keep up the good work.

I’ve noticed this happens sometimes when a mob is on a different level surface than the players, such as standing on a rock or ledge. It looks like this Brute ended up standing on a rock and may have triggered this.

I understand when it happens because you’re on a separate ledge and the mob can’t reach you, preventing you from getting an easy kill. But it seems like this happens a lot with minor changes in terrain too, which is maybe something Anet should look into fixing?

Enemy invulnerability is one of the worst things GW2 introduced – period! I complained about it on numerous occasions when I even provided proof how badly things can go wrong when enemies suddenly become invulnerable yet instead of seeing some improvement on that field with every day there are more and more enemies that suddenly become invincible.

The latest example being that bugged pirate Luka from Sparkfly fen. For a very long time she was not even available (skill point was bugged) yet yesterday she miraculously appeared offering a lot of people a chance to complete the skill. However if in the middle of the activated skill challenge a nearby event was triggered (like that crazy Asura trying to bring back one of the pirate ghosts to life) Luka becomes INVULNERABLE for the person which triggered the skill challenge but she STILL attacks all of the players as she apparently becomes part of the event!

So now you have a situation in which you are certain to fail if you enter the basement alone because you have no way of defending against Luka and all the other NPCs keep attacking you as part of their event programming. Now how can anyone expect people to enjoy the game when enemies suddenly become invincible like that?