Guild Wars 2

This has only happened to me once since I started playing in Beta, so I wasn’t sure if it is something to worry about.

Earlier today, I was playing my engineer in Lornar’s Pass. My GF and I activated a mystery box and the mobs that spawned were the princess dolls. During the course of the fight, I was put into the downed state. I think one of the dolls I hit with grenades earlier died and I rallied, or so I thought. I was up and walking around, but I felt something was wrong when my healing skill wasn’t activating. It wasn’t on cooldown either.

I figured that I might as well attack and help finish off the dolls. I pressed #1 and instead of shooting from the hip with my rifle, my engineer threw something. There was no explosion, so it wasn’t a grenade. Most likely it was the downed skill “Throw Junk” (#1). Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to bring down another doll to see what would happen.

Although it is probably unrelated, a while later in the same zone (Lornar’s), the environment froze. I was still able to move around, but the mobs I was fighting weren’t moving at all. This has happened before and is not new to me. I re-logged my character and after a semi-long loading screen, it gave me the game-client error and I was forced to restart the client. The interesting thing was that after logging in, my character was in a different area than where I left him. My GF who experienced the same freeze, had a Lion’s Arch loading screen for a while before it switched to Lornar’s, but she showed up at the right spot. I was roughly 5 minutes away from where I left my character and my dailies got set back roughly 5 minutes as well. Not sure if this is relevant, but just want to include it if it provides any clues.

Anyways, not sure if it has happened to anyone else, but just wanted to throw this out there just in case.

I posted earlier about this problem – losing game time after a strange disconnect, then a long login screen that jumps back and forth between Lion’s Arch and my current location – not fun.