Guild Wars 2

Aldus Stormbringer in HotW path 1 now spawns adds right? But it seems bugged out still or at least it was on Friday.

The odd thing was the mobs would often despawn and 3 new would spawn. This happened several times. We then started playing with the big patch of ice on the ground at the bottom of the stairs and we could sort of control the spawns. Having someone run over the patch of ice would despawn the adds and then respawn 3 new ones…..AND reset the boss. So we went up above the boss and tried that. Things wen’t normal to 75%, he spawned adds, we killed them and then got him to 50% and then he started sapwning non-stop adds. We had 4 of us kiting and killing ads while one guy stayed on the boss. They simply never stopped spawning, I bet we killed 30 at least. This got us to 30% and the boss reset.

I don’t know if the guy on the boss, a thief, cloaked and that triggered the reset. Or if a pet or something stepped on the previously mentioned ice patch at the bottom of the stairs or what. But it sucked and we called it a night in frustration.

What is going on here? How it is supposed to work?

We also experienced this in a run just now. Was this an update to the boss, or is it a bug?

I’m bumping this hoping for an answer. It makes sense that he would spawn adds at 75%, 50% and 25%. But like I said it was 75%…..3 adds spawn. Then at 50% they just kept coming and would sometimes despawn and new ones would spawn.

And I know the boss reset at 30% was a bug.

No clue. Dev stated one thing and has yet to comment back. IIRC he stated veterans are supposed to spawn but are bugging out and not working properly now.

Of course we haven’t heard anything more and last “update” didn’t even bother to update anything.

My guild group experienced this bug yesterday, in which adds would spawn, despawn, spawn, despawn, and so on in an endless, glitchy loop. After a few failed tries, we ultimately decided just to split the group 4-1 – 4 people to fight adds constantly, while 1 person soloed Aldus, who’s actually quite easy. It was slow-going yes, but after awhile we had Aldus down and were able to finish the run.