Guild Wars 2

The Black Lion Trader NPC in Mt Maelstrom near Firebreak Fort Waypoint quite often ends up unresponsive/bugged so I decided to find out what gets him bugged once and for all. For about 1hr I kept aggroing enemy mobs into the camp killing the friendly NPC’s. After getting most of them dead to the south entrance, and getting some as far in as the said trading post npc, I went to the north entrance and started wiping the NPC’s there instead for about 15 minutes. When I came back, the TP NPC was unresponsive and couldn’t get him to pull up the trading post window. He was fasing the south entrance, which means he was engaging someone that came from south gate.

I don’t know the exact cause but I do believe cause to be the enemy mobs that stroll into the camp and engage the trading post NPC in combat eventually getting him bugged.

Please look into this and track down the exact reason why the NPC is getting unresponsive. This bug has been present since the game launch and after filing countless bug reports, it’s still present.

I’ve noticed this recurring issue for many trading post NPCs. The TP NPC becoming engaged in combat and the enemy being killed, or the TP NPC being killed in combat and then revived, causes them to no longer be able to offer TP access to players.

I notice this mostly with the TP NPC at the Queensdale – Altar Brook Trading Post
Previously, there would be an occasional centaur that would engage and bug the TP NPC, but they’ve since added an entire dynamic event to where the post is assaulted by centaurs. This DE often leads to all NPCs being killed and the bugging of the TP NPC after it has been revived frequently occurs.
(this same DE causes an issue of Mona being drawn into combat and then trapped in the water under the north bridge or being bugged under the ground which prevents her escort DE from being able to be activated)

The same issue of centaurs assaulting, killing and bugging the TP NPC occurs at the areas of Southforge Camp and Northpasture Camp in Cloven Hoof Pass of Harathi Hinterlands during the Ulgoth event chain.