Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’ve noticed a weird bug with NPC health bars since today’s patch (06/06/2017). NPC health bars can sometimes appear empty or partially full even with full health. It appears to be when there is some part of the environment in front of them. I haven’t yet seen if it affects players’ health bars yet though.

Here’s a screenshot of one example.

Here’s another example, from my usual AFK spot, the Aesthetician [Makeover Preview] NPC’s health bar goes ‘greener’ the closer you get to her.

I can confirm. Im on the mac client…

yes it is realy anoying too happened since new patch

Equinox.9815:

yes it is realy anoying too happened since new patch

You wouldn’t happen to be on the Mac Client too, would you?

I can also confirm this is happening on the macOS Client.

From what I’ve noticed so far it’s caused by objects being in the way of the health bar, causing it to clip the “overflow” (what would be hidden by the object) within the health bar. This would be well and great except the health bar is clipping the overflow way too soon as if the objects are larger than they are (or alternatively if you’re looking through plants you get bits and pieces of the health bar all over the shop). I’ve attached a screenshot to show the effect of moving closer to a pillar in LA and the effect it has on the health bar (the player has 100% health the entire time).

Hope this helps someone on the dev team chase down the cause sooner rather than later as this is happening across NPC and Players in all game modes (for me at least, and guessing health in PvP isn’t my favorite thing <smile>).

yes im on mac client please find a fix soon it is so anoying

Equinox.9815:

yes im on mac client please find a fix soon it is so anoying

It’s not a short term solution, but anet are actively working on a new macOS client that should significantly improve this situation for y’all.

As it appears to be Mac Client specific, I’ve edited the topic title.