Guild Wars 2

Yeah, it seems that something is causing the Secrets meta-event to break on some servers. Until ANet tracks down the source of the issue and fixes it, the best advice I can give to people who are having trouble getting him to spawn is to wait for a server reset, then head to Godslost Swamp and hang around there for the next few hours until he does spawn.

Turial.1293:

Bumping this thread, Crystal Desert server, no sign of behemoth or event chain ever moving in weeks upon weeks. Could we get someone working on current bugged content before releasing new bugged content.

I’m on the Crystal Desert server and can concur with this.

That might be why I encountered him only twice since release. Once during the first week of play when there were frequent updates and again during Halloween when again there were frequent updates.

I hope it gets fixed because he is a rather cool looking mini boss for those that have never seen him.

That boss reminds me of this pokemon

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Haunter_

Anyone else see the resemblence lol?

Perhaps we have some pokemon fans at the Anet…

I’ve been playing since beta, spent a significant amount of time in Queensdale, and never seen that event chain in any state other than “The swamp lies dormant.” My server is Sorrow’s Furnace.

yeah bro just did him 2dayz ago ^^ the event was perfect ! + verry cool boss ^^
it realy happend 2dayz ago . . . . . . BUT this is a verry rare event indeed (not like jormag@all who comes out every day lolz) from the time i started like 2monthz ago till now , this is the 1and only time i have ever done him :o but he’s awesome forreal ^^
greetz hop.. you get lucky

Server: Borlis Pass

If the wiki is to be taken seriously, you can trigger the event via the monastery by Krytan Wavepoint starting with “Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery’s ale” followed to accompanying Sister Brenda on her delivery to the swamp. I know on my server that initial event seems to be bugged. Whenever they begin the conversation about the centaurs, it gets cut off and the event doesn’t start.

Server Borlis Pass

Lvl 80 here…I have never seen him. Event is Bugged and always has been.

Crona.2509:

not like jormag@all who comes out every day

Why does everyone call the Claw of Jormag, Jormag. Jormag is an ancient like Zitain. Claw of Jormag is one of Jormags minions.

Anyhow, was wondering if anyone had seen Shadow Behemoth since the 3/12/2012 patch?

I was in Queensdale for about an hour last night and didn’t see the Behemoth. However, I also noticed that the event involving defending the Monastery from centaurs and its subsequent events didn’t seem to be firing either. It may be that the rollback to fix the jumping bug also ended up breaking the DE fixes for the Monastery as well.

been hanging about there all day.. nothings happening.. I wonder if the centaurs actually have to take over everything first and they are simply not strong enough..

Aurora Glade

So, is there any official answer about this? I can’t complete achievement with shadow behemoth, for 1.5 months already. That’s annoying. Seriously annoying. Reminds me of BugHamm…i mean, WarHammer online.

Ridley.3691:

To make him spawn you need to complete an event chain that begins completely randomly. There’s no way to start this manually and it isn’t on a timer. People have said he’s popped every 30 mins on their realm, and others haven’t seen him for a whole day, it seems you’re just unlucky.

I haven’t seen it since perhaps once after launch. And I play every day.

You are able to trigger the event yourself. When it hasn’t been shown in a while, you can trigger it by killing a Zombie tree creature (near the swamp). Once this is done, portals will be opened in the monastary nearby, which is are both event on itself. Kill the portals etc to trigger the next event near a centaur camp. Once you have done these events, the Behemoth will appear!

Wheres this tree creature? Ive been looking all over

I believe it’s near another big tree North-West of the swamp. It’s at a viewpoint.

Nup..Killed every veteran tree around a guess what .. Kitten happened..

Zombie tree creature? I never heard of those mobs before – are you sure youre not mistaken? You mean the big veteran tree-like creatures walking around?

LOL the next thing we see all these methods of getting this done. By that stage it will feel like the ‘Getting yoshi methods in Mario 64.’ Now that was classic lol.

I think the Zombie Tree creature was somone pulling our plonker.. Either that or its actually missing from AG server which would explain everything..

I thought I had sussed it last night when I came across that hut under the island with the book on the table(which I seem to have missed before or forgotton about its been that long).. Sadly its just a repeat of the guys with the book in the swamp.

Has there been any official response to this Behemoth issue?

I believe this zombie tree creature is the champion rotting ancient oakheart group event that occurs in the greatheart weald poi

I can confirm that upon killing the champion rotting oakheart that the pre events started for the shadow behemoth where you kill 3 portals at 3 different locations (greatheart weald, eldvin monastery, and taminn foothills) afterwards the next event of killing 3 additional portals start in the godslost swamp before the shadow behemoth appears.

Killed the rotting oakheart a second time and it did not start the preevents to shadowbehemoth but did trigger the keg protecting event from the centaurs at the monastary. Afterwards the brew shipment event starts upon talking to Sister Brenda.

After killing the ancient oakheart for a third time, it again started the keg protection event but not the portal event.

Could have been a coincidence to having people in the area. Events dont typically start unless there are enough people to do them. I imagine meta events need more people. How many did you have?

I believe the shadow behemoth has a cooldown timer on it to reactivate since I was the only player doing the ancient oakheart event each time. The oakheart event respawns after the keg protection event/escort so you can keep going back to kill the champion. When I was doing the three runs, I was the only one killing the champion.

Why is there zero info on this problem? Why haven’t we heard from ANet?

I am not sure if it’s broken or not in Sorrow’s Furnace because I fought him around 3 days ago! But ever since then I’ve just been dancing around trying to figure out how to make him spawn. I honestly think there is some other method to activating the quest chain.

Server: Sanctum of Hall
3 days camped in the swamp and nothing happened …
Arena.net help us.

Server: Eredon Terrace

The Shadow Behemoth has been spawned actually for a couple days now, but it is bugged so it is impossible to attack it while it kills you in a few seconds.

I’ve seen him … 3 days ago at Queensdale

Waited for this mob for so long, all time counted together, it’s rediculous. It’s obviously bugged here at Far Shiverpeaks (for weeks, if not months) as all other bosses spawn in 3 hours or less, so should this (ok a litle more is possible but not this much). Same with swimming/diving goggles.
I love new content like events, but i realy think they need to focus more on buggfixing instead of making new bugged content each month.

Can we get a developer feedback here?

What I wan’t to know: is the Shadow Behemoth actually bugged on most servers or we just can’t figure out what triggers it?

Server: Europe, Aurora Glade.

There is a thread about this on the Bugs forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Secrets-in-the-Swamp-Possibly-bugged/

Basically, the devs are aware of it and they have a fix in the works that will correct the bugged events that are stopping the Behemoth from showing up. (I don’t think it will come in the 14th Dec patch though.)

Server : Piken Square

The shadow behemoth is in the swamp but completely untargetable though still able to kill you ._.

On server Anvil Rock, finally got to do this event, still no idea how it started but we were able to defeat him and all, I did take a screen shot of the event with the time in my mini map. But it seems it’s not on a timer cause I went back the next day 1 hour before the event started and nothing. Needs to be fixed the Shadow is realy cool looking and fun to defeat.

I saw the SB two days ago, I saw in map chat that it was starting. When I joined a group they were in the hills to the east. When I arrived at their location they were with a pre-event where we had to destroy three green portals.

After doing this we dived down to the swamps main body of water and sure enough the SB spawned after doing three more portals. Unfortunately we missed the achievement. Hope that helps

I’m on Seafarers Rest and I saw him for two days in a row (22nd /23rd December) . Generally it started with the ancient oakheart event, which set the portal events into motion and finally he appeared in the middle of the swamp. Though I’m not sure what triggers the ancient rotting oakheart event.

Server: Devona’s Rest
problem with the meta event Shadow Behemoth it hasent started in like a month non of the small events that lead to it have appeard at all. If theres a gm around plz fix this problem.

Anet knows about this issue for a couple of weeks. They are working on fix for sure

I saw him once maybe a week or two ago on Stormbluff Isle server. I zoned in to queensdale to do my daily and somebody in the zone was directing people to do certain things in order to trigger the event. I wasn’t really paying attention until I got near the swamp and the meta event said the boss was up. I reached the behemoth just as they killed it. Got the achievement for being close enough but didn’t actually attack it.

Today I finally saw the Shadow Behemoth but now there is a new problem: he can’t be targeted. Oh, and it’s also not possible to target any portals near him…

And btw, this is the first time I’m doing this event, so I’m not sure if it’s really bugged or if I’m doing something wrong.

They killed him last night in Devona’s Rest. I couldn’t run down there fast enough to get to join in, but the event was triggered and done.

I am on Seafarers Rest (EU) server, had this game since 1st day of retail release. Got 8 characters now and most have leveled in Queensdale, basically I have spent countless hours in Queensdale.

Never, not once have I ever had the Shadow Behemoth event.

This is totally ridiculous.

The event needs fixing, so it automatically triggers at least once every two hours.

Just so people can see it, enjoy the event…its just ridiculous that they can’t…

Northern Shiverpeaks, I’ve seen it only once in about 2 months.

been dancing in the swamp for hours (while watching playoffs), and nada. (Dragonbrand)
Something caught my eye when roaming the 3 areas for the related events (Heartwoods, Monastery, Foothills), 2 human NPCs and a Pack Bull immobile… just standing there outside the monastery on the road. Wondering if they moved, might the Monastery the underworld creatures arrive? (3 immobile NPCs on SW of monastery) /shrug
edit saw the bug report thread… mention of the Pack Bull.

i just missed him on borlis pass, following event chain now, and sister brenda and her pack bull are immoble but quest to defend her bull is active.

Part of the issue is rewards. I think if there wasn’t a chance that a precursor would drop amongst all of the junk one gets from the dragon events we wouldn’t see anyone doing the dragon events ever again unless they were there for the first time. Risk vs reward needs a complete overhaul in this title.

It’s my theory as to why people aren’t doing these events.

tigirius.9014:

Part of the issue is rewards. I think if there wasn’t a chance that a precursor would drop amongst all of the junk one gets from the dragon events we wouldn’t see anyone doing the dragon events ever again unless they were there for the first time. Risk vs reward needs a complete overhaul in this title.

It’s my theory as to why people aren’t doing these events.

People aren’t doing the shadow behemoth because it is bugged all the time except for the first rotation after the server restart. I agree that the rewards need an overhaul but so does the risk. Every dragon in the game is a major pushover without a real challenge.

Is this even being addressed by anet? I noticed a mod hasn’t commented….

I conducted my own experiment, I spent 12 hours in the swamp area yesterday on Fort Aspenwood. No Shadow Behemoth. The escort mission for Sister Brenda never started, and the centaurs never attacked the monastery. No rotting oakheart. The whole event chain seems to be broken.

Zaxares.5419:

There is a thread about this on the Bugs forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Secrets-in-the-Swamp-Possibly-bugged/

Basically, the devs are aware of it and they have a fix in the works that will correct the bugged events that are stopping the Behemoth from showing up. (I don’t think it will come in the 14th Dec patch though.)

scrolling up this page (FYI).

Ran across the Shadow Behemoth just yesterday after a set chain of events occured that appears to have began at the monestary.

So has the patch fixed this? I haven’t had the time to trail this yet.

Anyone?