Guild Wars 2

Hello
There is an event in fields of ruin at the north east part of the map.
It is called “Rescue the villagers and defeat harpy kidnappers” or something like that.
The event requirement is to save 5 villagers.
On the map there are only 4 marked.
And when interacting with the villager NPCs ,they say something about being saved,but they stay in their position,and they don’t register as saved in the event tracker.
I’ve been in this area lots of times,with the event active for hours,with many other players,slaying any harpies and any other killable thing,but the event does not advance.
Is this buged?
Anyone who actually managed to finish this and would like to share the knowledge?

Yes it’s bugged!

It was the only dynamic i could not finish on Desolation last night, bug report sent in!

Still bugged as of now.

Yeah it was bugged for me as well. It was saying to kill the harpy captureres or something like that. I was looking at the names of the mobs but nothing near such harpy types.

Event advanced, villagers did not get stuck, received NO reward in terms of xp, karma, or gold…nothing. Was one of two people doing event, and it definitely advanced for both of us, but no reward. Even followed the lieutenant back to Rosko’s campsite with all the captives and watched that dialogue, still nothing. Pretty tough event at-level for no reward. Very disappointing.

still broken on Anvil Rock

Not sure that its still broke on Sea Of Sorrows, but every time I’ve been in the area, its broke. Definitely a problematic event.

Others are seeing this still? It’s been over 2 months now since I noticed this was bugged (Crystal Desert).

Come on ANet!

I was able to “complete it” by saving all 5 village-idiots, but it didn’t reward. So don’t even bother with this broken quest until Anet decides to fix it…

Still broken as of today. Wish I’d read this before wasting 30 minutes soloing it. Didn’t even get credit for daily events.

A friend and I did this one, saved all the villagers then we received no reward for it. This was about 2 or 3 weeks back.

This event is still bugged on Borlis Pass. I killed all the harpies near one of the villagers, spoke with her once (something about having cleared a path), then she ducks down and says “don’t let them eat me”. I killed every harpy in the area, and she will NOT move. Also, the “old man” started moving, go to the end of his path, then just stopped. Cannot interact with him, and he will not move.

They fixed it at one point a couple months ago, but it’s bugged again.

still bugged today (1st Sept. 2013)

Yeah… bugs like this just have to be fixed more quickly, this really cant be all that time consuming.