Tov
05-09-2005, 12:46 AM
<DIV>Several rangers I've talked to in game have experianced this to some degree. Randomly, and sometimes as soon as your first kill after logging in, your name becomes stuck a shade of red. If you want to get your name back to the normal white, you need to log out and back in. Before the most recent patch I thought of this as little more then an irritation.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After the most recent patch, it no longer seems to be a bug in the name, but in the toon itself. Yesterday, once my name had gone red I could no longer see my quests, any of them. Call of Qeynos would no longer take me to Qeynos. Anytime I tried escape with my name in the red, it crashed the game. I had people standing next to me, talking to me, who could not invite me into a group and who stated that when they did /who myname it reported that I was offline. Stuff like that. As of the most recent patch, it was much more then an irritation for me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As I said, once the bug has shown itself, and the toon's name is a shade of red after the fight is over, nothing I've done except logging out and back in will put things back to normal.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I noticed long ago that this bug does not effect my mage, or any of my fighters. It only effects the scout, the Ranger. It only seems to happen when I use archery skills or ranged auto-attack. The higher lvl my ranger becomes, the more bow skills I use, the more frequently this occurs. When soloing now, I'd say the name becomes stuck a shade of red, and the newly associated bugs appear roughly 1 in 12 mob kills.</DIV> <DIV>Here is how I solo and get the bug so frequently.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1: Sniping shot <BR>2: Click ranged_autoattack.<BR>3: Miricle Shot.<BR>4: Crippling Arrow. <BR>5: Start to back peddle away from the mob.<BR>6: Tripple Shot.<BR>7: Flaming Shot.<BR>8: Click melee_autoattack.<BR>9: Close to melee range.<BR>10: Lucky break.<BR>11: Corner.<BR>12: Lightening Strike.<BR>13: Rip.<BR>14: Leaping Cut.<BR>15: Lunging Thrust.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At that point the mob is almost always dead, as I am not fighting difficult beasts. If I get very lucky on procs it will die at Flaming Shot - stage 7, though that is almost guarenteed to produce the bug. Sometimes the name will become temporarily stuck in a shade of red when I click ranged-autoattack at stage 2. When I click melee autoattack at stage 8 it will usually start flashing again though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All of this has lead me to believe the bug is directly tied to archery, especially since it doesn't occur on toons like my Berzerker. (I never use archery on my non-ranger toons even if they can equip a bow. It's just me.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It could be tied to poison though I doubt it. It's just that is an other unique thing about my Ranger. It's my only toon that uses poison. I get the bug to appear frequently when I'm not using any stealth skills at all so I think I can rule that one out.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I make this post in hopes that others who get this bug will chime in on their experiances with it, so that we can find, beyond doubt, the cause. If this has effected you, please post. Maybe if we can provide rock solid data, the devs can fix it.</DIV>