Guild Wars 2

I was exploring Dredgehaunt Cliffs with my lvl 80 warrior and do not face much of a challenge getting around. 3-4 normal mob can’t even damage me more than my HoT can’t heal.

So I was going to get me the vista in Dostoev Sky Peak, passed some Dredgehaunts, killed some, easy going. But when I was running up the wooden ramp to get to the vista I was insta killed by something. It was 2-3 turns after the closed gate.
I didn’t pay much attention to what that might have been and just tried again. I had a look at the combat log but couldn’t find anything. Nevertheless my armor was damaged.
I tried again and was instantly killed right after the first turn past the closed gate on
the wooden ramp again. This time I kept my combat log open but it didn’t show any
serious damage except for the 200’s I got when running there.

I was experiencing smaller lags but this didn’t even kill my during fights with 3-4 enemies.

While I was writing this report someone revived me. I was not killed anymore and also he did not experience those instant kills.

I have been playing for a quite a long time and experience lags every now and then but I was never instantly killed though. Especially in an area where I can’t be harmed anyway.

Funny…a guildmate and I both experienced this ‘bug’ walking down the ramp past level 3 in the Tower. First I walked down, and something unknown hit me (there was no one and nothing anywhere near me), took almost all my life, I quickly activated ‘Healing Spring’, and whatever it was hit me again and gave me insta-death. I called my guildie to come rez me, as he ran down the ramp to help me, he was insta-downed and died. We happen to have someone else in our party, and after telling them about the anomoly, and warning them it might mean insta-death, they were able to safely come down the ramp and rez us both with no adverse actions. Whatever it was, was gone, and nothing affected us afterwards. There was no lag, or any other odd happenstances associated with this occurrence.

I had instant deaths 2 times in Mount Maelstrom and also never saw anything in the log. There were also no Mobs near me at all.

I’ve had the insta-death as well as I was running up the final ramp of the Tower of Nightmares. I think it may be falling damage that is killing us. Because if I slowly go up the ramp, I’m fine.

Odd that we would get falling damage when we aren’t falling. I’ve run up and down the ramp many times, and only got the ‘insta-death’ once. My guildie, as well. Funny, a few minutes later there was no adverse effect in that area. No idea what is causing it….seems like a very odd, sporadic bug.

It has happened to me twice in the Krait tower, and my boyfriend reported it happened to him on a different wooden walkway (Aetherblade dungeon, IIRC).

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Odd that we would get falling damage when we aren’t falling. I’ve run up and down the ramp many times, and only got the ‘insta-death’ once. My guildie, as well. Funny, a few minutes later there was no adverse effect in that area. No idea what is causing it….seems like a very odd, sporadic bug.

I suspect it may have something to do with our character’s feet leaving the ground because of the steepness of the inclination. The game calculates falling damage based on the distance between leaving the ground and landing, regardless if the player is moving up instead of down. So we receive falling damage when dashing up a steep slope.

Ok. Are you saying you think you would not have this problem if you changed from the default ‘run’ to walk?

I’m not sure the degree of slope had anything to do with it, …I suppose it could have….but, why would it affect a character one moment in time, and not the next? Why certain characters in that area, and not others? Also, usually when I die from falling, the damage happens all at once, not in increments, like pulses.

Still, stranger things have happened in life or games! =)

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Odd that we would get falling damage when we aren’t falling. I’ve run up and down the ramp many times, and only got the ‘insta-death’ once. My guildie, as well. Funny, a few minutes later there was no adverse effect in that area. No idea what is causing it….seems like a very odd, sporadic bug.

I suspect it may have something to do with our character’s feet leaving the ground because of the steepness of the inclination. The game calculates falling damage based on the distance between leaving the ground and landing, regardless if the player is moving up instead of down. So we receive falling damage when dashing up a steep slope.

I was walking down the Krait tower spiral walkway when it happened though.

The other time I walked on an even walkway, in front of the entrance to level 3.

There have been people reporting the damage coming in pulses before. Then again, it is entirely possible this is a totally different bug. When it happened to me a few days ago, I got all the damage in one go like most of you. Oh, and I was walking up the spiral when it happened. Its really bizarre.