Guild Wars 2

There’s an event there to return cannonballs from skritt, but shortly after release (or maybe even still during the pre-release, I forget) I did an event just outside of it in which the idea was to answer some lore questions and then… for reasons I can’t recall… a fight would start.

All the NPC’s for this event are still there (a group from the legions, sans flame obviously, with a ‘challenger’ each) but I have not seen the actual event since. I literally have not come across it ever again, even though I’ve done the others in that area numerous times.

I’ve even tried to camp it. The skritt are constantly stealing cannonballs, Aghmara Heartseeker fetches me to gather devourer eggs every other minute, and if I radiate further there’s a stronger than average skale in a stream and flame legion attack an armoury… but this one event just won’t happen.

I feel like some others from the area are missing too, but I don’t remember the specifics. Did they ever announce they were removing some? Have they just been bugged so long nobody remembers they exist? Very obscure triggers? It seems weird…

I do remember it. On the wiki it was marked as historical but it has been deleted. The talkpage has a comment bout it: ’This event was witnessed on April 20th 2013 and is not removed from the game, it is just very rare.

Thanks —Claret 22:55, 21 April 2013 (UTC)’

So it is still happening from time to time, just not very often. This might be cause it’s easily gets bugged or have very rare occassions to trigger it (e.g. a fail of a very easy event somewhere near)

Interesting. I honestly can’t think of any nearby event that can fail… the cannonball thing just sits there, as does the devourer event. That armoury is protected and taken too often to be the cause of it, because it’s both very easy and often neglected because nobody’s there. The cow-zapping thing… idk. I’d expect that to just wait around as well.

I guess it’s probably bugged… can’t see why they’d make it happen so rarely on purpose. I mean the freaking world events are up more often.

The wiki did remind me of the others though: I haven’t seen the engineer go on his patrol, or the thing trying to take cubs since… well, a long, long time. I think I only ever went on Marinus’ patrol the one time, since when I first played in that zone he was always standing there not moving (bugged) with the event up, and after I did manage to finish it once, I just don’t see it happen anymore.

Kinda sad how these events in the starting area effectively cease to exist and stay that way so long. But I suppose it’s hardly a precedent, there’s events in Orr that are nearly always bugged to this day as well, like the one with ‘Pilot Ripsky’ et alii trying to get back to a base. Without moving.

Many, MANY event get bugged soon after a server reset. The wiki is very incomplete so you will be unable to find all the events with this problem but if you check Queensdale for example, a lot of low level events are marked as easily bugged or presumably removed from the game.
The event you mentioned may be in this situation .Last time I did it was like 1 o 2 months ago but, if you wanna know for sure, check it after a server reset.