Persistent Buff/Effect Bar

[Olympia]

Strangest thing.

On one of my toons, I have a graphical bug. It happens every time and gets irritatng, though not game-breaking. On my dwarven bard, my buff bar never clears. Even after the buff/effect wears off, the buff indicator still stays up there reading 0:00. Last night, I got held by some arcane blackbone or something, and got the three circulating blue rings that indicate a "hold person" spell. I died shortly thereafter. But the blue bars didn't go away, even after I rezzed. I shrined, zoned into other quests, slayed enemies aplenty -- I had the blue bars going half the night. This was visible not only to me, but to everyone else on Sarlona (many of whom stopped to stare). While this was sorta cool for a while, it got tiresome after a while. Everything clears when I re-log, but this bug happens to me every time.

I have 9 other characters and even deleted a few more, and never seen this on any of the rest of them.

I filed a ticket, but the GM said that I should contact tech support. I generally find forums much more helpful and much less time-intensive, so here i am.

Anyone seen this/have a solution for it? FWIW, I'm on Vista 32-bit with an 8800GTX and updated nvidia drivers.

Again, been playing off and on since inception, and never seen this on any other toon of mine (or anyone else's).

[hawkytom]

Strangest thing.

On one of my toons, I have a graphical bug. It happens every time and gets irritatng, though not game-breaking. On my dwarven bard, my buff bar never clears. Even after the buff/effect wears off, the buff indicator still stays up there reading 0:00. Last night, I got held by some arcane blackbone or something, and got the three circulating blue rings that indicate a "hold person" spell. I died shortly thereafter. But the blue bars didn't go away, even after I rezzed. I shrined, zoned into other quests, slayed enemies aplenty -- I had the blue bars going half the night. This was visible not only to me, but to everyone else on Sarlona (many of whom stopped to stare). While this was sorta cool for a while, it got tiresome after a while. Everything clears when I re-log, but this bug happens to me every time.

I have 9 other characters and even deleted a few more, and never seen this on any of the rest of them.

I was just about to post that I have this EXACT bug on the new Bard I made on the Orien server....it's very annoying and figured it would be gone the next time I logged in, but the buffs/debuffs still persist on the bar as well as the graphic! I've also never got it on another character either, including another Bard that I play on a different server.

I also had the "Protection from Death" buff that you get from the opening tutorial where you instant-rez upon death that stayed until I logged out.

It worries me that this post dates back awhile...I hope this thing gets resolved or there is some kind of solution!!

[hawkytom]

Ok this bug has gone too far! I just experienced PERMANENT BLINDNESS! There is nothing worse than 100% pitch black screen with no solution to get rid of it. I tried blindness removal, rest shrine and even completing the dungeon I was in to 'finish out' in hopes that the debuff effect would go away...no luck!

I guess I should have rerolled him the second I experienced the bug for the first time, now he's nearly lvl 6 and just plain hexed. Not cool any solution would be appreciated!!

[hawkytom]

Is this the wrong place to try and get your characters bugs fixed or are we just suppose to live with it? I find it hard to believe that nobody else has experienced anything like this.

I'm thinking the bug might be somehow tied into the spell master's touch...this is my first character that has used that spell and I played him for about 2 hours without the bug when I purposely didn't use the spell, but the 1st dungeon I used it....the bug was back. I just wish I could have been blinded to see if I was able to properly remove it during that duration....maybe next time.

[Tryden]

I've also got this issue, and I generally get it on one character. I think that it has to do with the Aid spell, mainly the one that comes with the item on Korthos Island, Bracers of Assistance. I'll try playing a few dungeons without using the items and see if I still get the permanent effects.

I just suffered from the permanent blindness spell after finishing Redwillow Ruins, luckily I was planning on logging out anyways. I'll post more info as I try and look into the problem myself.

Hopefully we can get some attention and get this issue dealt with, as it is a major game breaker when you have blindness, curse or other permanent effects that you have dispelled still on you, and some still having their full effect.

[Visty]

i bet 10$ that you were using the masterstouch buff

that spell causes those bugs in the bufflist but its just a graphic glitch

when that spell runs out or gets dispelled and you have a graphic effect on you, it stays....i once found out its very cloudy in stormreach

[Impaqt]

Yup, Its Masters Touch. It causes incredible amounts of Lag whenever its cast or expires.


THe buff bars are anoying, but not a real issue. The blindness and even "Held" animation are annoying to Game Breaking for sure...

The only way to get rid of it is to get hit with that effect again and clear it.

Easiest way to do that is to have a high level wizard challenge you and go into a PvP Arena and have him cast Hold/Blind/ etc etc on ya again and then dispell it

[Perib]

i use master's touch and i'm also getting this. very unplayable at times. i have to relog almost every time i get blinded or sleet stormed

is there something else i can do instead of relogging to fix it? like a /console reloadui if i was playing...another mmo not to be mentioned.

Uhh..? Is there a freezing hurricane stalking us?