Guild Wars 2

During the Pact Encampment event “Recover cannon components from the wreckage”, it has suddenly(?) become somewhat arbitrary as to whether individual, burning wreckage piles have fire graphics or not.

Meaning that it is very easy to run up to one of them and take damage, or even get killed, under the impression that it’s safe to loot them. I did it multiple times myself before I realised what was happening, and I’ve watched a lot of people do the same over the last few days.

Burning wreckage piles without fire graphics do still display the “interact” cog symbol (that means, in effect, “throw water here”), and lootable ones the hand icon, so once you’re aware what’s going on it’s not hard to interact correctly. But – judging by the number of people getting it wrong – it’s clearly confusing if you’ve never done the event before (and, presumably, harder to work out the event mechanics as well).

Update: I didn’t think to grab a screen capture the times I saw this, over the last couple of days; I’ve run the event again multiple times since raising this post in hopes of grabbing one, without seeing the problem recur, so – unless anyone know better – I guess it’s possible it was transient.