Weather control in WvWvW, broken.

eAzydaman

So me and some friends found a strange capture point in WvWvW. It was on our blue side,  a small island called Demonace or something. There were some sort of device in the middle with guards running in circles around it. We killed them, they never aggroed. After we killed them the capture bar up in the right corner started filling up, once at 100% our game client crashed and we got a send error report window.

The description said something about controlling weather if you take over it, anyone heard anything about this?

Thanks!

feena750

I heard abiut it from the beta weekend.  Someone on how server got control of it and used it to help our side.  It did not crash the server though.

gaeanprayer

I've never heard about this. However, earlier in the development they mentioned weather having an affect on skills, for instance rain making Lightning attacks stronger. Or was it Water? Something like that. That's the only thing that comes to my mind.

eAzydaman

After looking at the PVP map i can see that every faction has that small island. Our was called Demontrance. It's a small island in the center of the map.

Seemed pretty bugged, the guards just ran in a circle while we were bashing them down.

fiontar

There are a few NPC factions in the WvW zones with dynamic events associated with them. Completing these events can win the NPCs to your side of the battle and may also provide some additional benefit. The Quaggans in WvW can indeed bring a weather control device to your side, which can rain Lightning Bolts down on enemy positions.

eAzydaman

Originally posted by fiontar

There are a few NPC factions in the WvW zones with dynamic events associated with them. Completing these events can win the NPCs to your side of the battle and may also provide some additional benefit. The Quaggans in WvW can indeed bring a weather control device to your side, which can rain Lightning Bolts down on enemy positions.

 Thanks! Damn this game get's better and better with each discovery

Amjoco

This game just gets better and better. It's those little things that will make it so fun!

cyress8

Originally posted by eAzydaman

So me and some friends found a strange capture point in WvWvW. It was on our blue side,  a small island called Demonace or something. There were some sort of device in the middle with guards running in circles around it. We killed them, they never aggroed. After we killed them the capture bar up in the right corner started filling up, once at 100% our game client crashed and we got a send error report window.

The description said something about controlling weather if you take over it, anyone heard anything about this?

Thanks!

 WTF, BRAH!?  I did not even know that had that in WvW.  Hope it is not bugged for the next BWE.  I'm going straight there.

star8472

I've seen this "device" in some video's before but never saw a guard in those videos..

Eir_S

Yep, I came across one of those places.  The mobs were Hylek I think, but you had to chase them to kill them and even though they were marked as aggressive, they didn't fight back.  It was after that that I jumped into the lake to find out more and ended up taking out 3 blue invaders single-handedly.  I'm damn good at underwater combat!  But yeah, whatever the device is, it was a broken event when I was there.

Freyas

It wasn't completely broken, as I was on the recieving end of the "weather control" a few times- it caused lightning to randomly hit people inside our keep, stunning them for a second and doing a bit of damage (though since I was out of combat when hit, it just regenned back in a couple seconds).  It didn't seem to be nearly as cool as getting the ogres or dredge on the center map though and having them send out an assault squad.

I tried taking out the quaggan guards in the center, but since they ignored me and ran in circles, I couldn't kill them all fast enough solo to cap the point before they started respawning.  There were power stations underwater in each direction with events to kill.  I assume that killing the generator near a keep would turn off the weather effect in that keep, though I didn't actually test to see if that was the case.

ShoXK

Originally posted by Eir_S

Yep, I came across one of those places.  The mobs were Hylek I think, but you had to chase them to kill them and even though they were marked as aggressive, they didn't fight back.  It was after that that I jumped into the lake to find out more and ended up taking out 3 blue invaders single-handedly.  I'm damn good at underwater combat!  But yeah, whatever the device is, it was a broken event when I was there.

I encountered this island as well. The guards aren't hyleks, they are quaggans. Hyleks are frog people, quaggans are..... ??? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quaggan

Originally posted by Freyas

It wasn't completely broken, as I was on the recieving end of the "weather control" a few times- it caused lightning to randomly hit people inside our keep, stunning them for a second and doing a bit of damage (though since I was out of combat when hit, it just regenned back in a couple seconds).  It didn't seem to be nearly as cool as getting the ogres or dredge on the center map though and having them send out an assault squad.

I tried taking out the quaggan guards in the center, but since they ignored me and ran in circles, I couldn't kill them all fast enough solo to cap the point before they started respawning.  There were power stations underwater in each direction with events to kill.  I assume that killing the generator near a keep would turn off the weather effect in that keep, though I didn't actually test to see if that was the case.

I was doing this exact thing as well until a large group of people chased me out. While dying underwater I saw these things as well, events showed up on the map with circles around the island. I hope someone out there can get a group of people and clear out the events to find out what the underwater stuff does.

Eir_S

Originally posted by ShoXK

Originally posted by Eir_S

Yep, I came across one of those places.  The mobs were Hylek I think, but you had to chase them to kill them and even though they were marked as aggressive, they didn't fight back.  It was after that that I jumped into the lake to find out more and ended up taking out 3 blue invaders single-handedly.  I'm damn good at underwater combat!  But yeah, whatever the device is, it was a broken event when I was there.

I encountered this island as well. The guards aren't hyleks, they are quaggans. Hyleks are frog people, quaggans are..... ??? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quaggan

Ah you're right, my mistake.  Usually Quaggans aren't so mobile or armored so I figured they were Hylek.  I don't know what Quaggans are either.. their heads look like a beluga whale.

OldManFunk

This is definitely something to shoot for next BWE.