Guild Wars 2

For some reason, in ebg the other night and on an eotm map tonight I suddenly kept dying. Just instantly dying while walking around.

So anyway, I was with my guildies in eotm looking for some fun and then suddenly it happened again. I’d walk like 5 feet and instantly die except this time my guild mates rezzed me and I was on land with my water weapons.

Except, I entered some kind of invulnerable god mode, my guild mates were being rushed by a zerg, but I saw nothing but my guild mates: no enemies, no npcs, just the environment and my party members. I couldn’t use any skills, and even though they were shouting commands in TS about a giant blob, all I could see is my party and all I could do is rez. Furthermore, in addition to my water weapons, and not being able to do anything but rez, while rezzing my animation looked like I was underwater.

Anyway, so we port back and I tell them what’s going on and when party members left my party they disappeared off my screen and I disappeared off their’s.

I solved the issue by logging out then back in again but this seems like a very weird bug and I would really appreciate it if I didn’t just randomly spontaneously combust while in WvW.

I’ve noticed a few complaints from other people (very rarely however) in Map chat about spontaneously combusting, so I think it isn’t just me.

Just to clarify however, this isn’t all the time. It usually happens very randomly and on specific wvw maps. I don’t know about PvE because I don’t play it much these days.

Sounds like the same bug that some people are experiencing in Fireheart Rise. Don’t know what’s suddenly caused this but I might just avoid Fireheart Rise and EBG for a while!

It’s not specific to EBG and Fireheart Rise per se. We’ve seen this before and (in the past), it’s turned out to be a combined problem with the ANet (virtual) server not communicating properly with players’ version of GW2. It tends to affect all the maps attached to that virtual server and sometimes (as in this case), it doesn’t affect everyone or even necessarily all instances of the map.

I believe you can work around it by guesting until you get a new IP.

I’ve heard (without being able to confirm) that a large guild can “force a fix” by getting 100+ players into the zone, so that it caps and the game is convinced it needs to create a new instance. (As it caps, some players might represent another guild without being in a party with guildies, so that they are more likely to be sent to a new instance.) I’d like to believe this would work; I just haven’t participated in this personally.