Guild Wars 2

A number of times now I have opened the world map to travel from LA to cursed shore to see that the majority of waypoints are contested.

So i travel to a non-contested waypoint in cursed shore, but if i check the world map again, half of the waypoints are uncontested mere seconds since i last looked.

it seems to be that the waypoints status is not updating correctly if you are in a different map to the waypoint you want to travel to.

I have noticed this whenever I look at the map in Lion’s Arch. Not sure why, but it seems to be bugged there. However, when you actually zone into where you wish to go, those way points are magically uncontested.

Yak’s Bend Server

This only happens when you are in the overflow in LA.

Xprez.7130:

This only happens when you are in the overflow in LA.

I shall watch out for that next time I try and see if I notice any difference. Usually, I am not in overflow much in LA so I can’t verify that. But I’ll check it out next time.

Thanks for the pointer.

When you are in an overflow it shows any waypoint in another zone that can be contested as being contested (or so it appears to me, I haven’t 100% the world yet but for every zone i’ve checked this is true). So if you’re in LA overflow all contestable waypoints will appear to be contested. This is likely due to the system not being able tot tell what your home server is (similar to how WvW stuff doesn’t show up in overflow), it doesn’t know which waypoints should be contested and which shouldn’t, so it locks them all to prevent you from jumping to a contested waypoint (and possibly getting swarmed by a horde of risen).

It’s annoying but if you just jump to the wps at the north or south of LA and zone out, you should be back on your own server and properly waypoint, assuming where you want to go is uncontested on your server

When you’re in an overflow, all maps show as being in their default (or starting) state. For most of Orr (Straits, Malchor’s, and Cursed Shore,) this default state is contested waypoints and cathedrals – as if none of the events are running.

hmm, ok that is annoying, but i guess it makes sense. i’ll just have to do this then…

ScribeTheMad.7614:

It’s annoying but if you just jump to the wps at the north or south of LA and zone out, you should be back on your own server and properly waypoint