Guild Wars 2

I’ve done this JP hundreds of times. The first puzzle section where the glowing orb shows up, you follow the torches to go through the walls that you can walk through to get to the other side, is pitch black. You can’t see anything except for the very entrance area where the orb is. It’s as black as the very last section where you jump on the pillars, waiting for the light to come on to see. I’ve always ran into that first section and just ran the correct path with no issue. Did something change?

Also, I noticed in Diessa, there is a spider nest cave area where a champ is in the back. Near the champ is a small path to the left that is overexposed in contrast and the textures are like glowing silver. The character also takes on this effect. You can see the difference in the lighting from the rest of the cave walls.

There have been many threads/posts about the lighting anomalies in caves, etc.

Hopefully, the Devs will or have figure(d) out what causes it and patch a solution, soon.

me and my gf had an issue with this as well. the torches cast no light at all in the maze, only the glowing orb that you’re supposed to follow around (but only one person can see that).

we both play full screen mode, so that wasn’t the issue.

edit: added a screenie I took just now. you can see the faint purple glow of the torch on the right side that isn’t casting any light.

it gets slightly lighter with light adaptation turned on (which I don’t play with), but the torches still cast no light.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I completed the Wayandt’s Revenge JP last night

I thought I spied a ranger with a small frog on her shoulder, but I thought I was imagining things, since there is (as yet) no frog-themed armor.

Yeah, I just checked for myself, and it’s definitely way darker than it was before even in Fullscreen. You can see better with the gamma turned up closer to max, but it’s still different from how it was before.

Windowed fullscreen is also very very dim. Had to use Cobalt to really see where I was going if I didnt want to wait on the wisp.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I haven’t been to Diessa in a few days

OMG Diessa is terrible and it makes doing the guild rush in that cave extremely painful.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Light-Bug-in-Diessa/first#post6176503

It’s been that way for several weeks now. I hope this one gets fixed soon. I’d rather have it too dark than so blown out you can’t see anything.

yep.. Have the problem too but weirdly ONLY on certain characters…

btw, some parts of the spike-area are darker too, especially the corners. Lightingc hanges when you step out though.

one small asura and charr but on a sylvari mesmer the lighting was okay..

I run that one daily so I will make a screenshot with every chara I run through…

atm I run that with gamma of 2,0… not really any other solution there :/

just thought I’d give this thread a bump, as this is still an issue, and I wondered if there was any news on it

I had to run through there a few days back. The maze section is completely unlit and swallows all light – only the torches are visible, and they cast no light on the walls. Worse still is the spike section, which is pitch black but at least accepts some lighting from the sources I had. Still way too easy to blunder into some spikes and get downed.

aand still a problem on some charas.
interesting: mostly charr and asurra.. I dont really know why.

Fixed now, at least for me.

fixed for me too.