NPC and Mob titles changing colors on movement or mouseover

[Venti]

Issue:

NPC and Mob titles changing colors on movement or mouseover. They are cycling thru grey, green, yellow, red, and blue.

Character Name: Ventet
Characters Level: Level 8 Disciple
Location (Chunk): Any
Date: March 7 2007
Approximate Time: All evening so far. Seems to be a general bug.

Also submitted a /bug on the issue.

[Ysharros]

I've also seen this on crafting stations, live and test both.

[sorkvir]

I am actually experiencing this issue as well.

Here is an example"
- The crafting utility supplier in Southwatch starts with a name in yellow
- I turn in some workorders, turn around to buy some supplies, and her name is blue (like a player character).
- I click on her and her name reverts back to yellow and stay yellow.

More examples:
- Harvesting firegrass and cotton last night and I panned the camera while reaping. I noticed the other node names changed to yellow.

- NPC's names in various towns (Southwatch, New Targorner, 3 Rivers, Bordinar's Cleft) cycle through white and yellow.

[Alarion]

I noticed this problem on live last night as well. Most of the names I saw seemed to change in relation to my position relative to the NPC. If I took a few steps forward it would change to white, a few steps back blue then yellow.

Side note - The overall name colors seem to have had their RGB values decreased so that they are darker. Where player names used to be a bright cyan color, they are now much darker (still cyan, but closer to a dark teal) and a little hard to read at times.

Yellow names seem to have darkened some as well.

[SwordMage]

Another way to get the effect is merely to move the camera angle.

[Naiya]

I've seen this on both test and live. It affects those in your party (NPC's) as well as those standing around.

Best example I've seen was "The Wandering Pooch" (newbie barbarian mission)

1.) Have one other member in your party
2.) Both have "The Wandering Pooch" (The "Wayward pooch" mission)
3.) Both of you go get a "Wayward Wolf Pup"
4.) Randomly start and stop movement on the way back to the guy who gave you the mission
--- My teammate stopped to mine some ore and I turned to watch him the pup's names changed from a purple to white randomly

observed results: The pup's name changed color from the default purple to white

Expected results: the pup's names should not change color until an event indicated the need too

Additional info: this is 100% reproducible and it really does not matter where in the world/what server you are on. I just used this as the most detailed example I could remember

[Asquinol]

A fix for this went in on Test server. Has anyone seen this still happening?