Guild Wars 2

The mesmer staff skill “Phase Retreat” causes the player to fall through terrain and become trapped. Happens in the open world, as well as dungeons.

A million +s to this. Extremely annoying.

It doesn’t happen that often, but when it happens, there’s no way to get back without using a waypoint. (Besides the costs in coin, this sometimes prevents you from being present at the end of an event.)

It seems to happen more often on islands, below-ground levels, and scaffolding. I never had it happen on a hill/mountain.

Yes it happens alot. But you can get back to your mission if you manage to get on ground below ground. Once you’re at that spot, you can use the blink ability to get back on track. Atleast if you aim your blink correctly. It might not always work. Even thought this shouldn’t be a solution.

I’ve used blink, portal, and even phase retreat. I’ve never been able to recover without using a waypoint. (I’m also not that good with jumping puzzles, so maybe it’s a coordination issue and other people can use Sammoz’ workaround.)

I’m not sure that I’d classify it as happening all the time, but yeah, it is a pain when it happens because it’s a lot harder to fight as a mesmer when you can’t move away from the things attacking you because you’re stuck in terrain.

I’ve experienced it about three times in 70ish hours of play. When it happens I can usually get unstuck by hopping/dodging and phase retreating a couple of times. The last time though I did get stuck tight — it was in a small rock almost exactly the same size as my Asura in some cave in the Harathi Hinterlands, it looked like only my hair was sticking out.

I wish I’d had someone with me to take screenshots of the ‘hairy’ rock it would have been pretty funny actually.

I have reported this at least 20x since BWE 1. I have actually gotten used to not using it any time I am near an uneven terrain, stairs, rocks etc. I also started to use GS more as my ranged weapon to forgo the issue altogether. I am condition build so it hurts to not use staff in all instances, but getting 3/4 the way through personal story lvl 75 (ship) and falling though map 2x in a row was really annoying. Saved it the first time using teleport and portals all over on uneven surfaces, but shouldnt need to do that. Eventually after second time I just restarted, switched to GS and finished it that way.

Mesmer friends have complained a lot about this bug. Please fix.

Funny enough it hasn’t happened to me once. :P