Guild Wars 2

Today I came across 2 broken DEs that wouldn’t complete. The first one was in Snowden Drifts, in the north eastern corner. 7 of 8 corrupted ice elementals had been killed and the 8th never appeared. In Fields of Ruin, the Ogre War DE had a similar problem.

Yes, often the meta events where you have to escort the troops in Malchor’s Leap fails too. The Charr soldier refuses to move, even if you complete the event to defend the Wren Village.

Also experienced the same bugged event in Snowden Drifts, this was on the server Tarnished Coast.

Broken events is what bothers me most atm, especially in the top level zones without hearts. I hope we hear something about this soon.

I agree, some evenings it feels like I come across more broken DE’s than ones that are actually working. I absolutely love the DE system, but it’s very disheartening to cross an entire zone and only run into a single event that’s actually doable. I’m sure they are working hard to fix it, it’s just frustrating in the meantime.

I find it most frustrating when broken events stop you from 100%ing a zone. Yesterday, it was a struggle to get the Broodmother skill challenge event in Bloodtide Coast to work. Even more vexing, an entire chain broke in Timberline Falls that prevented the Inquest Gate from ever opening, preventing everyone from getting to the skill challenge and point of interest inside.

they should of tested DE’s more during the betas.

I wonder if we should /bug it when one breaks. as I level I am finding more and more of these and it is getting annoying.

The DE in the Charr starter area, you have to help some guy on his maintenance patrol, you collect scrap, then he patrols you fight off mobs, and then he tells you to collect scraps again! I don’t think you’re supposed to collect scraps twice, since there is no scraps anywhere around to pick up.

“Also experienced the same bugged event in Snowden Drifts, this was on the server Tarnished Coast.”

I’ve been to that event dozens of times over the course of 3 characters and it’s always been stuck in that state when I’ve been there, also on Tarnished Coast. Makes the way point there always contested.

If you have not sent bug reports for these broken DEs they will not get fixed. Also, these issues should be posted in the bug section of the forums.

To send a bug report in game type /bug into the chat panel and fill out the form. Be detailed, and even attach a screenshot if it would help. Doing it from in game helps ANet because your world state is sent with the bug report telling them a lot of where you are, what you are doing and even what direction you are facing.

Bug it, or it won’t get fixed.

sonicwhip.9052:

they should of tested DE’s more during the betas.

In my experience, the zones that were in the betas are the ones that have very few if any broken events, however the higher level zones that were not in the betas have so many broken events it isn’t even funny. Seems like every zone over lvl 50 has at least 1 bugged event that blocks you from completing a zone, whether it be a skill challenge or an event to escort some npcs who open a gate to an area otherwise inaccessible.

Currently the only way to complete some of these zones are to jump on another server and hope that particular event isn’t bugged or wait 1-2 days and hope it resets or gets fixed. I have come across one in i believe it was the first orr zone that the only way to get the skill challenge fixed was by using some guardian skill on the broken npc to be able to talk to him.