Guild Wars 2

When the “Defend the Engineers While they Rebuild the Trebuchets” event is going in Malchor’s Leap, there is a set of risen trebuchets that spawn near enough to the portal to Cursed Shore that they knock the player back through the portal with their projectiles.

As most of you know, while your computer is loading a zone, your character exists and can be damaged. This is especially apparent if you log into an area that has hostiles in it. Normally, this is not much of a problem, because most characters won’t get downed by one or two regular enemies in the time it takes for their computers to load. However, for people who have slow HDDs or any other similar issue: the loading time is extended and serious things can happen to your character while you are unable to control them.

In this case, my character is able to be targetted by the nearest trebuchet, fired upon, and the projectile can travel all the way to me before the loading screen finishes, knocking back my character and forcing me to return to the Cursed Shore. I know I could just use a waypoint, but I’ve been running everywhere in order to save money. Eventually, after around a dozen tries, I simply WP’d. Also, unfortunately, most players don’t really see much purpose in doing events in Orr outside of The Zerg (at least on Crystal Desert) so this event hasn’t been completed for awhile.

Now, I thought I had a pretty good computer. I have an Alienware M14xR2 that I bought new earlier this year. It’s a laptop, so it’s not like I can just head over to a computer store and get a faster HDD, CPU, motherboard, or anything like that. I’m wondering, if I have a new and (what I though was) good computer and I’m still having these issues, how many other people are also having this problem?

TL;DR to clarify: The bug is that the risen trebuchets from the event “Defend the Engineers While they Rebuild the Trebuchets” in Malchor’s Leap knock players back through the zone transition portal into Cursed Shore while they are still in the loading screen, making them unable to go from Cursed Shore to Malchor’s Leap except via WP.