Guild Wars 2

I am currently attempting to solo “Confessor’s Stronghold” – Marjory, Rytlock, and Canach are not fighting at all at the Justiciar Adrienne fight. At least Canach is somewhat rezzing me when I’m down… sometimes… maybe… if he feels like it. They all fought in the first battle, but then I was down to just Canach for the second battle. And now, just me.

I’ve never had all three NPCs quit on me. I think at this point I will choose to restart the mission instead of using a repair canister and continuing this fruitless battle. (Perhaps even drag a guildie along with me next time, so I have a chance to finish should this happen again.)

I have completed this mission thirteen times so far, and only ONCE have all NPCs participated in all the fights. There is obviously some sort of issue involved here, but I have no clue what it could be: other than it doesn’t appear to be something I’m doing/not doing.

To say this is frustrating is an understatement. I’m not saying the mission is too hard, just saying that the additional problems that show up when your team doesn’t have your back make a challenging mission ever so much more challenging.

Now, I have had inactive NPCs during all of the LS3 Chapter 1 instanced battle missions. Rytlock has refused to fight in “Research in Rata Novus”, and Caithe has done nothing during “A Shadow’s Deeds”. When that happened, I managed to complete those missions without their help. However, “Confessor’s Stronghold” is designed to be a group battle, with battle mechanics that, to my mind, require more than one fighter.

I know other people who have had similar problems with NPCs not doing their jobs during these missions, and other instanced missions as well. I admit, I’ve had it happen in other missions, but just shrugged and said “oh well” about it. It took a perfect storm scenario of all NPCs bugging out in a group battle to make me realize it’s a problem that has existed for a while, and hasn’t been directly addressed (to my knowledge).

Please, Anet, let us know you’re looking into the flaky behaviour of your NPCs.

NPCs are always hit and miss. It’s quite sad!

Sometimes they’ll pull off some miraculous feats of resurrection. Other times I will be downed at their feet and they’ll just be standing there, doing absolutely nothing :’(

I don’t expect them to solo anything. I’m happy to accept that they’re simply meat shields, but sometimes they don’t even do that properly

Not really an issue in most fights, but sometimes it can be really frustrating if you miss a dodge roll, end up downed and they do nothing. More consistency would be great.