Guild Wars 2

I’ll just add that I have the same problem (Trahearne and other NPCs won’t proceed past the tomb entrance – even without any of them having been downed at all up until that point). I’ve tried a few times over the last day or so to no avail.
Also, as other have stated, if any of the Vigil escorts are defeated in combat they die permanently, so if you screw up one fight it makes the subsequent battles much more difficult.

Other than that, this is basically a bump to make sure ArenaNet are aware of this and get it fixed ASAP

I was going to make a thread about this myself.
I’d just like to add that the issue hasn’t been fixed yet. I’ve had it once in WvW now and once in standard PvX.
The PvX incident only happened a few minutes ago (IE, most recent build of the game as of this post).
Both times the noise started there were large amounts of players around casting spells (so, a lot of sounds happening).
I’m using an Creative X-Fi soundcard.
I’d just add as well that a few of my friends have experienced the issue, although only in WvW so far – and they have different systems to myself, so it’s a fairly widespread issue.
It’s good to know that ArenaNet are working on it at least.

I wouldn’t agree with changing the Mesmer downed state “clone” appearance. In PvP, it has saved me many, many times, tricking other players in to “finishing off” one of my clones instead of me, thus allowing my Mesmer (or my team mates at least) to get back in and turn the tides.

Of course, in PvX whereby you’re all working together I can see it could be a slight issue, but if you’re properly playing as a team you could communicate to them your exact whereabouts, thus eliminating their need to guess.