Guild Wars 2

the final door after killing starcaller will not open. took us 3 hours to get to this point.

I know how you feel man.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Arah-Path-1-Bugged-After-Defeating-the-Final-Boss/first#post592851

Had same issue about a month ago!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-Explorable-Jotun-Path-not-finishing/first#post296347

Okay, so do you guys remember if the norn NPC who follows you died during the Jotun Stargazer fight? I may have finally narrowed down the cause of this bug!

Yes, in my group’s case, it was impossible to keep her alive b/c there’s no safe place for her to be standing where the Fire ring won’t reach her before she’s so close to him that the white “Homing Fireballs” won’t either.

Has anyone completed path 1 lately with success? Would be interested in completing this path but would like to know for sure that keeping the NPC alive during the boss fight is enough to make the ending be played out correctly.

Had this bug on my run and the NPC did die after the boss was defeated so it looks that this is what’s causing the bug.

Had the same issue a couple of weeks back.
Had my entire group report it. Guess dev too busy with halloween they broke most of the dungeons in the process :\

I’ve completed path 1 three times with no bug before Halloween Events.

anyway I can avoid having this bug?

I’m after the dungeon master achievement and need to complete this path

this bugged out on us the first time we did it, however there is a way of getting passed the door with alot of patience and some teleport skills, Thief Shortbow is really handy here (nobody wants to do hours of work and get 0 reward, do it if you must until the devs fix the door).

second time we did it we never wiped on the boss because of it’s insanely silly mechanic and how easy he is with the right skills or indeed bundle.

Lorana.2468:

this bugged out on us the first time we did it, however there is a way of getting passed the door with alot of patience and some teleport skills, Thief Shortbow is really handy here (nobody wants to do hours of work and get 0 reward, do it if you must until the devs fix the door).

second time we did it we never wiped on the boss because of it’s insanely silly mechanic and how easy he is with the right skills or indeed bundle.

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reflect his slow moving orbs back at him, you can crit him for up to 92k, fight doesnt last long, and the bundles used to destroy the Orrian Eyes work on him, there are some located just outside the laser room, oddly enough there are no eyes beyond this point either, i feel it’s intended however incredibly silly, but just hug the boss with the bundle/reflect skills and just sit and wait for him to die is the whole fight.

those crystals can break if you reflect too many times with them. Its part of the challenge. if you want an easy boss fight you have to lug them all the way through the dungeon, which is either hard, or requires you to clear most of the trash. As only 1-3 crystals means they’ll all break around 20% boss hp.

But just to further confirm the progress blocking bug’s reason… has the NPC died after the boss fight in all of the cases where the door has not opened?

man I know you pain so bad!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Send-our-tokens-Arah-Path-1-Bug/first#post578118

Zenyatoo.4059:

Lorana.2468:

this bugged out on us the first time we did it, however there is a way of getting passed the door with alot of patience and some teleport skills, Thief Shortbow is really handy here (nobody wants to do hours of work and get 0 reward, do it if you must until the devs fix the door).

second time we did it we never wiped on the boss because of it’s insanely silly mechanic and how easy he is with the right skills or indeed bundle.

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reflect his slow moving orbs back at him, you can crit him for up to 92k, fight doesnt last long, and the bundles used to destroy the Orrian Eyes work on him, there are some located just outside the laser room, oddly enough there are no eyes beyond this point either, i feel it’s intended however incredibly silly, but just hug the boss with the bundle/reflect skills and just sit and wait for him to die is the whole fight.

those crystals can break if you reflect too many times with them. Its part of the challenge. if you want an easy boss fight you have to lug them all the way through the dungeon, which is either hard, or requires you to clear most of the trash. As only 1-3 crystals means they’ll all break around 20% boss hp.

interesting, this never happened for us as we ran 2 guardians and planted a Wall of Reflection in the boss for the majority of the time.

Lorana.2468:

Zenyatoo.4059:

Lorana.2468:

this bugged out on us the first time we did it, however there is a way of getting passed the door with alot of patience and some teleport skills, Thief Shortbow is really handy here (nobody wants to do hours of work and get 0 reward, do it if you must until the devs fix the door).

second time we did it we never wiped on the boss because of it’s insanely silly mechanic and how easy he is with the right skills or indeed bundle.

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reflect his slow moving orbs back at him, you can crit him for up to 92k, fight doesnt last long, and the bundles used to destroy the Orrian Eyes work on him, there are some located just outside the laser room, oddly enough there are no eyes beyond this point either, i feel it’s intended however incredibly silly, but just hug the boss with the bundle/reflect skills and just sit and wait for him to die is the whole fight.

those crystals can break if you reflect too many times with them. Its part of the challenge. if you want an easy boss fight you have to lug them all the way through the dungeon, which is either hard, or requires you to clear most of the trash. As only 1-3 crystals means they’ll all break around 20% boss hp.

interesting, this never happened for us as we ran 2 guardians and planted a Wall of Reflection in the boss for the majority of the time.

yeah, the first time I did it we all had crystals, and so none of ours actually broke.
The second time I did it we only brought 3, as we suspected that worse case scenario I could just solo it as I had done so before (boss from 30%-0% by myself, which is the hardest part of the whole fight) but we discovered that peoples crystals were breaking after taking a random number of hits. We did finish though, by utilizing reflect skills, then crystals, then reflect skills again, and then back to crystals for the final 20% or so. But they do indeed break.

Ok just an update. So, some days ago me and my group got to the last boss of Arah path 1 and the npc died after boss was defeated (to the instakill fire aura) and this caused that the npc didn’t proceed to open the final door.

So, today I tried the path again and found an awesome group that finished the path in a good time and this time we secured the npc so that she wouldn’t die to the boss during the fight or after the fight and this time everything worked out just fine.

So it seems that it is indeed a bug where the NPC won’t open the door if she dies during/after the boss fight. So, I’d advise people to make sure that the NPC is safe during the final boss battle, just to avoid possible problems

Shadow Dragon.9874:

Ok just an update. So, some days ago me and my group got to the last boss of Arah path 1 and the npc died after boss was defeated (to the instakill fire aura) and this caused that the npc didn’t proceed to open the final door.

So, today I tried the path again and found an awesome group that finished the path in a good time and this time we secured the npc so that she wouldn’t die to the boss during the fight or after the fight and this time everything worked out just fine.

So it seems that it is indeed a bug where the NPC won’t open the door if she dies during/after the boss fight. So, I’d advise people to make sure that the NPC is safe during the final boss battle, just to avoid possible problems

Thanks for the update!

So basically “exploit” the NPC follow behaviour pattern to keep her out of the boss room to by-pass this bug? Almost as bad as having to have people way-point out to get Maggs to collect Oracyte.

Well now we have all collectively lost much time beta-testing Arah path 1 specifically the causes of this bug for Anet let’s hope they can how begin fixing this in a timely manner.

The other way to bypass this bug is to exploit teleports: blink or lightning flash to get stuck in the left side of the door, then teleporting again into the other side of the room after you’re stuck in the door.

Okay, just completed it today by having the person with the NPC leash stay far away from the boss room and soloed the Stargazer by farming crystals, spamming F when it ran out and dodging into the boss when he glowed red etc. After the boss died the alive and kicking NPC proceeded to open the door correctly. Shed tears of joy as I finally completed this path.

Through my time dungeoning, I have sadly accepted diligence in clearing trash mobs and playing the game normally often ends up with you getting kittened so this time I round I also skipped every mob possible and Korga and the whole ordeal took only 2 and a half hours (the thief in the party was a baddie, going full glass cannon and refused to take the imperitive acrobatic traits so we ran into problems with lupicus) unlike first two 5 hour and 3 hour runs done normally.

It is enough to just keep the boss far enough from the boss so that she won’t run into the fire wall before the flames are out as the fire won’t go off the moment the boss has been defeated. But yeah the problem is that if the NPC for some reason just decides to run to the fire shield after boss is dead the progress may be blocked.

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Keep the person who the NPC is following FAR away from the room, back in the corridor as far as you can without being in range of the ‘trap room’.

Basically after the fight she attempts to move towards the door to open it ONLY ONCE so if she happens to be dead or dies by running into the firewall she won’t ever try to open it again.

We tried every method of keeping her away, but she teleported to the room and ran through the fire wall.

Why can’t Anet just open the door after we beat the final boss? Is that NPC really required to open a stupid door?

It might not be her dying at the start of the fight, but rather after the boss dies, and she runs to open the door and gets killed in the fire. My guild’s workaround involves sending the person whom the NPC follows at the closed gate which she’s supposed to open. That person cannot participate in the boss fight (being outside the fire ring). Then trigger the fight, and she promptly dies in the fire ring. The fire ring will start to move inwardly and therefore away from the npc. When the boss dies, she respawns automatically ( no reviving required ) and rushes to open the gate.

As for the number of crystals required for the boss fight, well, it’s a roulette. Sometimes only one breaks, sometimes only one crystal is left (out of five). But 4 people can do the job, unless you are really really unlucky.

Did it yesterday night, took us 3 hours to reach the door… Only to find it completly shut and the NPC just standing there in front of it. It’s really disappointing that Anet can’t repair a broken dungeon in over two weeks of bug.

I really wanna see the end of this Path

ilr.9675:

I really wanna see the end of this Path

It’s really boring and dull. Getting inside though made me cry tears of joy and scream like a charr after all the hardship of previous runs.

This dungeon wasn’t bugged as of 8 days ago. How do they manage to break working content?

This path has always been bugged just that certain criteria needs to be met for the bug to trigger

Finished this last night. All we had to do was have the person the NPC was following stay back at lupicus while me and a friend ran on ahead to duo the final boss. 2 crystals was all we needed to finish off the stargazer (ele + guardian)

Patches.7584:

It’d be nice to see it fixed, just so I can be done with the achievement for Arah.

Done all of the paths except this one, due to bug. I want my Dungeon Master Title

go with a group.
Once lupicus is dead everyone spread out
find who the NPC is following
have them start doing loops of the lupicus room so the NPC continues to follow them
everyone else runs ahead and downs the final boss (you can quite literally solo him. So unless the NPC is following you, then this shouldnt be an issue)

Stargazer dies, the NPC teleports from lupicus room to the end of the dungeon and opens the door. Everyone strolls inside, gets the reward, checks out the neat stars through the telescope and goes home happy.

man this can be so demoralizing =/

fear not, for the DM title shows the hardship you’ve been through.

atleast it does for me, i have it showing on all my alts and everything.

Just did this, NPC died all the time (even in end boss) and door still opened.

Wethospu.6437:

Just did this, NPC died all the time (even in end boss) and door still opened.

Ive been told its when the NPC dies to the fire AFTER the final boss is dead. Or something.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Wethospu.6437:

Just did this, NPC died all the time (even in end boss) and door still opened.

Ive been told its when the NPC dies to the fire AFTER the final boss is dead. Or something.

Was told the same thing but it never happened to me so far, Varra just never died to the fire.