Same thing on Darkhaven. The entire area is bugged out. Spirits don’t react properly, mobs never spawn, and the event is completely borked. Been like this all day.
I’ve noticed that Iron Marches in general is full of serious bugs. The Houndmaster heart doesn’t work right either. The hounds don’t react properly and tend to stand around barking at nothing. I’ve encountered several quests, at least 3, not including Bria, that are stuck in one stage and never progress. The entire zone is one big bug.
This is not the only high level zone it happens in. There’s an event in Timberline Falls at the Skritt Moot that has been stuck on the exact same stage with absolutely no progression for over a week now. Events and hearts in pretty much any zone over level 40 are more than a bit hit or miss in terms of whether or not they actually work properly.
This is simply the expected effect of these zones getting no legitimate testing. I’m sure they received a significant amount of internal testing. ANet has always been pretty good about that sort of thing. Unfortunately, these zones were never made available for public testing in any of the betas. Due to the complete lack of proper large-scale testing, these zones did not get the proper amount of troubleshooting. This causes a TON of problems at launch because the zones are not ready for use by a full-sized playerbase.
I’m not going to point fingers and call the devs names for this. This is an oversight that has happened in this genre before, and will definitely happen again. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of these types of games. In order to properly test everything in a public beta, the release of the game gets significantly delayed and people start complaining. If you push the game out before it’s fully tested, as in this case, some stuff doesn’t work, and people complain. ANet couldn’t win no matter what they did.
Sorry to rant off topic there, but I feel that this is why Dynamic Events bug out so much. They weren’t fully tested.
That being said, I’m sure they’re working on it. I submit bug reports when I can, and I just go do something else in the meantime. This is an amazing game, with plenty to do, a few bugged quests isn’t the end of the world. Obnoxious though. Very much so.
Oh, to get back on topic, the Separatist quest is not as bad as you think. Right near the bridge to the west of the heart is a cave with a bunch of separatists in it. I got the heart that way. Look for a scout standing next to a bridge. There is a little hill next to him, with a cave on it. Go in there, kill separatists, get credit, do the happy dance.
Helpful information with a good long rant. My job is finished here, I must move along now.
Have a nice day.
