Guild Wars 2

Here is the discussion i’ve started about WvW and IMMOBILIZE where we discovered that the cause of our problem is a different but old bug.

Immobilize in WvW

My discovery and definition to the BUG that caused our problem:

Stuck in combat same like after huge group of players tries to build a RAM

Quote of the post explaining what I’ve discovered in the post above:

I have an UPDATE on this problem.

The update is related to this part of my post:

There is even a bug where you get immobilized even tho you don’t have the de-buff on you and when this bug happens you cant cleanse it since there is nothing to cleanse but yet your character can’t move at all and you can see the chains around it.

Last night after few hours of tense WvW I’ve got this “PIN UP” situation where my character is stuck to same place and cannot move even without a single condition on me.

Than I’ve asked in map chat if anyone else have this problem and for my surprise it turned out its a wide spread BUG affecting every 8/10 players.

1 person in map chat suggested to swap weapons if it happens but since I’m an Elementalist i don’t have 2nd weapon set to switch so I’ve finally remembered where I’ve seen this bug happen before – when large group (zerg?) of players build same siege weapon and mostly its a RAM and people get stuck on their place.

Like i said I’m Elementalist so i don’t have 2nd weapon set to switch to it so i’ve did what i was doing before when i get stuck on RAMs – I’ve used my healing skill or used emotion like /wave or /dance and IT WORKED.

Turned out the same bug that was pinning our characters to their places now happens in combat.

It appeared with this Wintersday patch.

TL:DR – the bug that is happening when many players try to build same RAM and get stuck on their places afterwards now happens in combat.

If this is the bug I understand you are describing, I have found ways to solve this. Usually this bug is fixed if I weapon swap, or use a skill that move my character (Greatsword leaps, warrior sword 2 savage leap, ect). I have also found this to sometimes be fixed if I “used” a blueprint from my inventory, but instead of pressing 1 to throw down the siege site, I instead put it back in my inventory. (this trick also has helped me fix the bug of when my weapon skills stop working) Finally, I’ve found that either of these bugs might be fixed if you change out your weapons on the Hero screen, although obviously this requires you being out of combat.

Is this the bug where you build a ram (or whatever siege) and when it’s finished you’re stuck for a few seconds?

The way I’ve always gotten out is to man the siege. When you unman, you’re free to move.

I don’t think they’ll ever fix this bug, so it’s good to know swapping weapons works.

Yes but now it happens in battle not when building a RAM.

We was rushing a tower tower gate with our group (big group) than enemy went out of the portal to counter our attack and a big fight happened.

I’ve got stuck and i thought i was immobilized so i popped mist form (elementalist skill) and other damage reduction skills.
Luckily our group managed to wipe the enemy but even after there was no enemy around me i still couldn’t move so i asked in chat if anyone else having problems like this and 1 guy told me to try to swap weapons (but Elementalist can’t swap weapons coz we have 1 weapon set) which reminded me that this bug happens when building ram and when i happens i use /wave to unstuck.

So i tried to /wave and it worked.

The difference is NOW it happen in battle too…not only when building siege like RAM.

Coz it happened in open field battle too later and i had to use /wave again to get unstuck and its getting really annoying and enemy can kill you really easy coz you can’t move.

Wasn’t happening before it started with Wintersday Patch Update.