Guild Wars 2

same thing, Crashed at the same place near the end twice today. Waste so much time, considering it is a long mission.

Have the same problem.
Such item should not be a specific-festival-only item

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Exactly how fast are the sparks being gathered?

Complaints about Simin hiding at 50% have been around since the very beginning of the game, and not with the introduction of January update as some people claim. If Simin is always hiding at 50% that usually means slow sparks gathering or very low DPS.

However if you are absolutely convinced that you are experiencing a bug, then please post video.

The last time I tried, I managed to convince y party to try some things, before leaving.

FOR SCIENCE!

After all, we had spent 4 hours there (including pauses for supper and such), what could be an hour more?

Here’s what we found out:

• No one knows what triggered the bug. We didn’t even try the 4-1 exploit at the start.
• First, we lowered her health to 50%, she hid as normal, we gathered the sparks (rather slow about 15 seconds), she appeared again, and we started hitting. One would think that we would have about 45 seconds to hit her, but she didn’t hid. She just stood there until she got to 50% HP. Then she hid. That’s when I knew we may had a bugged Simi.
• While this 50%HP bug is active, she hides every time her health reaches 50%. And never otherwise.
  • The speed at gathering the sparks faster makes no difference. Our fastest 5-spark try was less than 5 seconds. No one was petrified, someone popped AoE swiftness and everyone run to one spark and came back. She hid in less than 10 seconds after appearing again, because 10 seconds was the time it took us to lower her health to 50% from her health after appearing.
• The speed at damaging her makes no difference either. We made the fight slower on purpose, damaging her with less people, so it took over 2 minutes to get her to 50%. I believe it was nearly 3 minutes when she hit 50% HP and hid o that try.

• Someone suggested to try the the 4-1 exploit, it wa a 3vs2 vote for using it, and so we tried that. We gathered just 4 sparks, let her recover to full health, she reappeared. We lowered her health to 60%, someone went to wait to the closest spark, the rest lowered her HP to 50%, she hid, the closest spark was quickly brought in less that 3 or 4 seconds, she appeared, and we started hitting, and wonder of wonders, her health went under 40%! This time hid in about 30 seconds or so, still faster than the 60-time to gather sparks seconds people say, though.
• But the next time, two guys lowered their guard and got hit by petrify just when simi hid, we took a little longer to do it, enough for her health to go all the way up to just on ‘tick’ above 50%. This time, when we attacked her, she hid almost instantly upon reaching 50%HP again, so fast that I could only do one Fiery Whirl on her against the wall. The bug was active again.
• Any further attempts failed. She hid again at 50% HP, regardless of:
  • Her health after hiding.
  • Her health after appearing.
  • How fast the sparks where gathered.

Then, half the party said to try again the 4-1 approach, but 2 decided it was too late and they were fed up with it, so they left, and the party split.

And that’s how I know there was a bug.

Science.

And don’t tell me you seriously expect people to record videos to ‘proof’ some bug.
People only have to report it, and inform about all they know about the bug so devs can try to replicate it or check the code to see what may be causing this.
If every single person had to record a video to proof bugs, fixing things would take ages, so that’s just unreasonable, as there’s no in-game support to record videos. Only screenshots, and you can’t ask people to install some third-party application to give them support.

Just spent more than 4 hours in P4…
Got the exactly same thing as yours….
boss hide every time 1/2 hp….
tried all methods….
no way to finish….

I really want to see 5 ANET developers form a team and finish this.

Since this boss has strong healing. I think it would be designed to test ppl’s daze/stun skills.
In GW1, interrupt is very important and with much fun. But in GW2, no one cares daze or stun in pve. All and all are DPS, DPS, DPS……..Even in ascalon catacombs, the timing to dodge Kholer’s pull skill has much more fun than this.

would u do it again this weekend?

I use mouse right button to control the camera, look up and down etc.

What really bother me is that the right button can also select target.

For example, in a combat with lots of foes and allies, I have a target. But when I use right button to adjust the camera and occasionally hit another foe or ally, I lose the previous target.

My suggestion is to add an option to disable the mouse right button select.

1, Everyday I finish AC all paths, COE paths 1&2, COF paths 1&2 and farm p1 for about 10 times. For the last 2 weeks, I got only about 3 rare items totally. All blues and greens for the rest. It means if I play 4 or 5 hours per day, I need 6 months to get a legendary weapon.

2, FOTM current is lv 15. Doing daily at lv 10, or 12. About 20 runs and get only 1 vial mist essence (no glob). I almost give up to upgrade ascend rings to the infused version through mystic forge. I know infused version rings start to drop after lv 20, but I am desperate about the drop rate.

Why not adding a NPC to let ppl trade Fractal Relic for the mist essence (vial/glob/shard)? Otherwise I can never upgrade the back item.

I am not blaming the RNG. But you should give some hopes to those ppl with bad luck.

BTW:
I also tried full MF armor + omnomberry (30% MF), things get even worse. If MF does not function correctly or even function reversely, why put it in the game?