Weird bug

The first one who spots what's wrong in the attached image wins 1 cookie.
The first one to find out how I did it wins 3 cookies.

If any ANet staff member reads this, consider it a bug report. PM me for details.

Somebody in your team used some kind of a teleport skill to get himself to lower part of Arborstone Explorable and door into Altrumm Ruins wasn't unlocked so he walked in.

You've reached Altrumm Ruins without getting any reward in Arborstone, suggesting that you did not complete that mission.

My guess is that your team completed the mission before you actually joined the party (i.e. terrible lag/slow computer), even though that sounds pretty wild.

You made the dragon mosses near that lift operater kill you wich resulted in you ressing in the lower part, or you killed them and used necrotic transversal.

Yeah my guess is you had someone use Necrotic Traversal on one of the unsuspecting targets at the top of Arborstone exploreable, and then run/fight you to Altrumm.

more luxon faction, got killed and res'd down there.

Well, sometimes I am at one place but it shows me at another when I die. Like sometimes during the Haiju Lagoon place, when I die, it shows me outside Monastery...

Only thing I can think of.

*offtopic* I had something similar (only a lot less easier explainable) with Gyala Hatchery in the Factions BETA weekend. I died in the mission, got teleported back to Gyala Hatchery in a district that didnt excist with no NPC's, and i couldnt change districts (there was the bar in the top of the scren but he just didnt warp), when i looked on my map again i could travel to Leviathan Pits.

Dont know if this happened to somebody else

I expect something a bit more complicated. It IS SoF we're talking about here, they're not about to go "OMGROFLCOPTERS I can use Necrotic Transversal!!!111" At least I hope not.

/waits for Tetris L to reveal more...

This happened to me once
Doing the Arborstone mission and all went well, we managed to hold the mob away from Danika and she opened the door. Second or two later my comp crashed and after I logged in I had Altrum Ruins but no reward on Arborstone.

Several people got to the solution, more or less. Here's a free cookie for all:



After using the northern exit of the Arborstone mission outpost I was trying to use Necrotic Traversal after killing one of the mobs down the cliff in order to get down there, but I was very surprised to find out that I don't have to:

Ever since I reached this location the first time I wanted to do the NT test because as far as I know other teleport skills (Ride the Lightning, Shadow Step, ...) don't work. Finally my Tyrian necro reached this location so I could do the test. I aggroed the Kirins and Dragon Mosses down the cliff, but those cowards tend to run out of reach before you can kill them. Then I was killed (sh*t happens ), and ... poof ... respawned on the southern side of the cliff! (I had more Kurzick than Luxon faction, btw.) But I was all alone, so I didn't make it far. Then we repeated the test with two fellow guildies. All three of us suicided and we all respawned south of the cliff. One of us had put on his runner gear and ran to Altrumm Ruins. (Mishkin, I owe you 200g for the Kurzick blessing. ) But it's a short trip, I'm sure we would have made it without running too.

Anyway ... it's not a major exploit. I'm stuck in Altrumm Ruins now. I can't get the next primary quest because I haven't finished the mission, and without that quest I won't be able to enter Boreas Seabed. I can't enter HzH either because I don't have the necessary primary quest. All I can do is enter the Altrumm Ruins mission.

That's what you get for joining SoF: High expectations that I can't live up to.