Guild Wars 2

So there’s a pretty apparent problem with constantly breaking skill quests. I’m fully aware the devs are trying to remedy this, but in the mean time I have a lazy fix that might be worth some merit…

Why not put reset timer on all skill quests that are not simply Communes or Item pick up? It takes any competent player maybe one minute at most to finish a skill quest… So a hard reset occurring, even if still in combat, once every hour or so wouldn’t be that big of an issue. Even if it were to happen every 12 hours it would still be an improvement.

As it stands some skill challenges were broken within 6 hours of the last restart, that means for 96 hours those skill challenges have been un-doable. Assuming updates only happen once a week, that’s 168 hours of a broken skill quest.

This is as the title specifies, a Band-aid… but its better than the current situation. In just the past 4 days I’ve had to move on from 5 zones incomplete due to this situation. A separate but similar issue seems to effect events as well… but since all events are timed anyway, why not just have a reset timer come into effect if an event has gone 1 hour without progress?

I finished all skill quests in the game as of today. Those that were broken (not many and most in Orr) I revisited after they got fixed. Maybe some got broken again but based on my won experience I’d say it all should be working.

There is a skill point in Gendarren fields that is broken/missing. Its the asura pirate you fight on the boat.

There is a skill point in Lornar’s Pass broken/missing. Underwater by Jetsam/Suwash pirate area.

I can’t recall off hand the others, but these are just two examples. However I’m pretty sure that the two enchanted weapon skill challenges in Cursed Shore and the Bayt Poi skill challenge in Malchor’s leap are most likely bugged as well. Though I may be wrong about those 3, but they seem to get bugged very often. As well as the enchanted weapon in Straights of Devastation, but guardians can currently fix that one, awkwardly enough.

Edit: I realize that these are server specific, but some of us don’t like server jumping to get completion, and should not have to… Not to mention the chance of it being broken on another server is still a possibility.

I saw one getting bugged once.

The NPC died instead going back to neutral.
After a while, the corpse was ‘cleaned’, but it didn’t respawn.

This seems to happen with many other events and skill challenges.
NPC dies and is cleaned from memory, and it doesn’t get replaced. Meanwhile, the event waits for the NPC to exist, but that never happens.

Until they fix that, they should reset maps every day, as it prevents completion.