Guild Wars 2

I think I have found the cause of the infamous crystal glitch (where even after the crystal dies, you’re paralyzed for the entire duration). I’ve noticed now that I’ve leveled my elementalist to 80, that every time I used Fiery Rush and got crystaled, I got the glitch. I believe that the glitch occurs if it is the crystaled player’s own damage that kills the crystal. I’ve run CoE 3 times today on my elementalist, and had the glitch happen just about every time I got crystaled. I use a lot of lingering damage abilities on my elementalist. It also happens rather a few times (not nearly as frequently) on my guardian. I believe this is due to symbols. On my bomb engineer it also happens a few times (bomb damage or Elixir Gun 4 could kill the crystal). Now that I think about it, I was always a bit leery of using EG4 on alpha because I frequently (but not always) got the crystal bug after I used it. I used to think it was because I was middair, but lingering damage makes more sense.

The idea behind the crystal prison was obviously that your party members would attack it to free you, so whoever programmed it probably only set it to free you when your party destroyed the crystal without consideration of what would happen if the victims themselves were the ones to destroy it.

Anet doesn’t care about bugs like these and they especially don’t care about dungeons, this has been there since release. Btw, im pretty sure this bug occurs when crystal is taken down too fast/before the physical purple crystal spawns.

Also alpha’s earth spike aoe is STILL unblockable/can’t use aegis. Good job “fixing” that, we all know that unintuitive gameplay is the goal here. If you’re going to fix something, fix it right.

that bug really kittenes me off too! i dont know how often i already died because i was still paralyzed even though the crystal was destroyed and i wasnt able to dodge anymore.
i found threads in this forum that were 11 months and older about that bug and it still hasnt been fixed which is a shame.
i mean arenanet did a very good job in the first months after release with fixing bugs. every bugged event or skill point (and there were many) were fixed in the next patch but this bug exists for 1 1/2 years now and really needs a fix! dont do a “bioware” that left bugs in their game swtor that made some dungeons unplayable for over half a year.