Guild Wars 2

I couldn’t find anything similar in the bug forum, so I’m posting here. If this is not the right place, please feel free to move it.

Last night I was running with my guild in the SBI borderland in WvW. We were running through the ruins toward Hills. When we jumped in the water near the Bauer Estate ruin everyone started disappearing except for my party. At first I thought I was lagging out except when that happens normally I see everyone running into a wall or everyone just stands there. But I could still see my party and their actual movements, boons & conditions on them, and their health. I however couldn’t see anyone else.

Then my weapon-set kept swapping between my land weapons & water weapons (but no skills on the water set). I couldn’t enter Hills (which we owned). All I could do was just run around and follow my party as they fought an invisible enemy. I’ve never had this happen before and after waypointing back to spawn it seemed to resolve itself. It hasn’t happened since. It was just weird.

Here’s the video of what exactly happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYGw4trRk8

I’m no expert, but looks like a synching issue to me. Next time it happens, try blinking.

I don’t think blinking would solve this.. it’s by far more than a simple glitch that a skill could solve. Really weird issue, and I noted your weapon changed every time you jumped. It doesn’t seem to be lag or something as the game could catch up with your party but not with enemies. Only the devs could tell for sure what happened :S

Yeah it was totally weird.

It’s not in the video, but I did try blinking (no effect). Waypointing to spawn however did fix the problem.

I noticed when I was jumping that wall and landing in the water it looked like there may have been several impacts with the terrain. I’ve seen instances where someone hits the wall from a great fall and dies but their body keeps falling down the cliff. They’re unrezzable because their body is actually somewhere else. This could be something along those lines (i.e. my body—according to the server—was actually somewhere back by the ruins stuck on the wall or something). That would probably explain why the Bauer Estate capture event kept flashing even way over by Hills.

Anyway, that’s for the devs to figure out.