Guild Wars 2

After transmuting my Ele’s starter head item, it doesn’t show at all on the character in-game. It only shows up during the character select.

This happened a few days ago. I tried relogging, checking & unchecking item reveal, storing it in the bank and in inventory, nothing works.

Did I just burn a TS to ruin a piece of starter gear?

Anybody running into a bug where, if you transmute one of you starter items (I tried it with the Ele Water Headstone yesterday) and try to wear it, it only shows up in the Character Select screen and not in-game?

“So if the fix a bunch of bugs but released no halloween content, I wonder what ppl would complain about then…..hmmmm. "

I can’t seem to quote posts today for some reason.

Anyways…I can’t speak for others but I can tell you that, even if the content and bug-fix teams weren’t separate, I could give two pewpz about holiday content in any MMO that I’ve played over the past decade; especially were I to measure that content against bug fixes. The holiday content lasts a week maybe? While the bugs persist for weeks, months, or even years depending on how involved the developer is.

It looks like Jason King has responded to this issue over in the Ranger forums:

Jason King.2647:

I think some further clarification on this might help, as there can be a couple different causes for the “obstructed” message to come up. But first, let me clarify that this is not a profession specific bug – it can happen to any profession.

There are two scenarios (that I’m aware of) that can cause your attacks to become obstructed during combat:

1. When attacking a stationary “gadget”: There’s a known issue that when attacking objects, your attacks can become obstructed. We’re currently investigating this, but it’s a widespread bug, so it may take us time to get a fix in. We understand that this bug can make some fights more difficult, and thank you for your patience while we work this one out.

2. When attacking a creature: If you get an obstructed message when attacking a creature, the problem is most likely caused by the map. In this case, it’s something that we have to fix on a case-by-case basis. If you come receive an obstructed message while fighting a creature, please let us know your exact location (screenshots are a big help!) so that we can investigate it further.

I hope this clears things up!

Oh, I agree that FT isn’t as optimal as LOLnades or other set-ups. I just don’t think that sub-optimal choice should have anything to do with this bug we’re getting. I’d like to think that how you choose to level can also be a reflection of your characters personal story. I personally like having a little white mouse running around with a flamethrower. I’m not asking for buffs or some type of balance. Just fix the problem that’s already there, ya know?

Now that I run a Juggernaut build and stay in FT most of the time, the obstruction seems to be pretty frequent.

Flame Blast obstruction does happen a lot after Air Blast even on flat terrain. My friends and I think it’s a combination of my characters short height (Asura) plus the possibly lowered height of the enemy when they’re knocked down placing the targetable center of the fire path slightly below ground level…thus giving us the “obstruction” of firing at the ground as far as the coding is concerned. It also could explain why we often don’t even see the flame ball travel and just get the Obstruction message a split second after firing.

Either way, this should be addressed because it significantly lowers our DPS and wastes time.

I’ve been getting this bug all too often when firing Flame Blast on my Engineer as well as on my Ranger. It’s getting old real fast.