Guild Wars 2

Detailed Bug Report for:

Dungeon: Honor of the Waves
Mode: Explorable
Path: Butcher

Index:
1: Ginva’s War Shaman
2: Ginva the Butcher’s floor
3: Major exploitable glitch
4: Conclusion

- Might Contain Spoilers -

1: Ginva’s War Shaman

After getting through the first bit of the explorable dungeon you get to the room where there is the boss on the stairs (I think he was mentioned as Ginva’s War Shaman but I’m not entirely sure).

We go in and kill the fairly weak mobs and then 4 silver strength mobs spawn. The problem is they keep resetting for no apparent reason and keep respawning. So we tried just killing the boss while distracting the mobs but it’s basically a wipe fest.

We ended up coming up with the solution of going up on the rafters, some on each side and nuke the boss from up top while the silver mobs keep running up then downstairs again (Very buggy and glitchy fight).

2: Ginva the Butcher’s floor

I think this bug has been reported before but when we finally got to the room with the 3 totems (See included attachment) we kept falling through the floor. You can’t stand anywhere on the floor.

The only couple of places you can stand is where there are solid beams underneath the floor. But there’s no boss and nuking all totems does nothing they just respawn.

How anyone who tested this dungeon missed and entire floor being like that is beyond me. This bug blocks progress.

3: Major Exploitable Glitches!

Now this one was the most shocking to us, I myself was running around looking for an alternative way or some mechanic/door we are meant to be using as a solution to the bugged floor fight. We tried destroying all totems in the map we found etc. to try to fix the issues with no luck.

This is when I went up on the rafters in the room with the boss that was on the stairs. There I noticed a door and along side it I was able to jump down, go through the wall and walk & swim outside of the map entirely (I only found this out because I couldn’t see a way to get back up as I didn’t expect to be able to jump down there).

We were able to see all parts of the dungeon from this place including bosses from the other paths (see below video and attachments).

http://youtu.be/A-4JS6d_Sn4?hd=1

This is a huge oversight and most probably exploitable. I shown it to my party as shown on the video and we were able to get to places we weren’t supposed to be. We aren’t the types to exploit so we just left the dungeon since it was bugged and we were stuck anyway.

4: Conclusion

Major exploitable bugs, Blocked progress. This dungeon looked like it wasn’t tested at all. I hope there is a fix in the work for all the above issues before people exploit the glitches. I also don’t know if the above glitches happen on the other paths.

I was one of the members of the party with Fay in this dungeon, and throughout it felt like we were participating in some form of beta test. All the major bugs have been outlined already so I won’t repeat them, but as I ran through the dungeon there were a lot of little graphical glitches too, textures randomly fuzzing in and out etc.

I know there’s probably only a tiny fraction of players completing HotW explorable in comparison to say, AC or CM, and therefore most of the developer attention is on those dungeons. Regardless, it is kinda disappointing to see high level content in this state a month after release. :S

I have done all the paths in HotW the first worked fine until the last patch. The other 2 still work fine. I have about 800 tokens from there to prove it. They know about the new bug and are working to fix it.

Fluffycalico.2715:

I have done all the paths in HotW the first worked fine until the last patch. The other 2 still work fine. I have about 800 tokens from there to prove it. They know about the new bug and are working to fix it.

Well whatever they did they broke it bad :P but yea we’re about to try the other paths now. I just thought it wise to report the bugs and glitches, took a video of it so the dev’s have something to go from.

Fay.2735:

Fluffycalico.2715:

I have done all the paths in HotW the first worked fine until the last patch. The other 2 still work fine. I have about 800 tokens from there to prove it. They know about the new bug and are working to fix it.

Well whatever they did they broke it bad :P

That I agree with lol
For now I just do 2-3 til they undo that.

Fluffycalico.2715:

Fay.2735:

Fluffycalico.2715:

I have done all the paths in HotW the first worked fine until the last patch. The other 2 still work fine. I have about 800 tokens from there to prove it. They know about the new bug and are working to fix it.

Well whatever they did they broke it bad :P

That I agree with lol
For now I just do 2-3 til they undo that.

We decided to go back to do path 3 of AC again instead since couple people still needed it. Hopefully with this big patch supposedly coming out they will have fixed most of the dungeon issues.

I just wanted to start with HotW. But you couldn’t enter the instance anymore. Both Story and Explorable where shut off. Sigh, I want that medium gear now I know what gear I want : <

Silver strength mobs that spawn in the middle of the fight? I’ve never seen any of those.

Yup, there was a seer, claymore, berserker, and ranger type but it seemed to change between every reset or re-spawning.

Also are all dungeons closed or just HotW?

There are 3 mobs that will port back to the WP with you if you die but not chase you and then when you get back they pop back.

I haven’t experienced that issue, They just seem to randomly reset even when you stay in range of the boss and if you kill them they respawn.

Welcome to GW2 Endgame please have fun doing nothing until everything is fixed.

That’s strange. I’ve done the Butcher path probably close to 60 times (~20 full runs before the Diminished Returns patch that introduced the bug with the floor in the Butcher’s room, and ~40 partial runs up through the War Shaman fight afterward). But I’ve never seen any silver enemies in the War Shaman’s room at all, let alone ones that respawn.

The bug with the butcher’s room is a fairly recent ‘addition’, though. Up until last week’s patch, I’d never heard of that happening, ever.

With any luck, it’ll be fixed with the update later tonight. I’m done with HotW (other than maybe going to complete the Plunderer path, which nobody – myself included – ever really seemed to want to do), but I liked the dungeon quite a bit and it’s a shame that the patch broke one of its paths.

Crater.1625:

That’s strange. I’ve done the Butcher path probably close to 60 times (~20 full runs before the Diminished Returns patch that introduced the bug with the floor in the Butcher’s room, and ~40 partial runs up through the War Shaman fight afterward). But I’ve never seen any silver enemies in the War Shaman’s room at all, let alone ones that respawn.

The bug with the butcher’s room is a fairly recent ‘addition’, though. Up until last week’s patch, I’d never heard of that happening, ever.

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I ran it tons of times also and I must disagree I only saw them not respawn 1 time ever. I very much think them respawning is supposed to be part of the encounter just like the ice ele on the 2nd ice dragon in path #2. The fact sometimes they did not show up and respawn is what I believe the bug is.

Doah dev beat me to by like 2 seconds lol

Yeah, it’s just strange that I’ve never seen them show up, ever. Knowing that that was a bug makes a lot more sense to me – Aldous always seemed like a bit of a chump boss, and most groups I played with just ran up to him and beat him to death, without even worrying about dodging his telegraphed AoEs, let alone actually trying to win. Having some Elite enemies helping him out would go a long way toward making him feel like an actual Explorable boss.

William Fairfield.1428:

Hello everyone.

The first boss you are talking about those adds are respawning on purpose. He spawns 3 adds on the left, and 3 adds on the right. Both of these sets are on an interval timer, so you have to kill them fast enough to have time to deal with just the boss before more come back.

The issue with the floor in the butcher room will be fixed with the next patch.

Thanks for reporting the world out, I’ll get that over to the appropriate peoples.

Thanks for responding I saw the fix to the butcher’ room in the patch notes (Or what I assumed was that). We will give it another go to see whats changed.

Also we didn’t have an issue with the silver mobs themselves it’s just that we couldn’t figure out why they kept resetting (As in the entire fight resets not just respawning of mobs) even when we were right on the sides near the boss.

So we assumed that killing the mobs wasn’t intended and that they seemed to respawn just confirmed that to us rather than made us think we had to kill waves of them.

Well after reading William ‘’will be fixed in the next patch’’ (and that passed midnight the patch time) I am under the impression that they haven’t fixed the Buther’s floor yet ?! How long is it gonna take ?

Sebyos.4089:

Well after reading William ‘’will be fixed in the next patch’’ (and that passed midnight the patch time) I am under the impression that they haven’t fixed the Buther’s floor yet ?! How long is it gonna take ?

I just assumed they meant they fixed it with this:

Honor of the Waves
• Fixed a bug in the Butcher’s chain that prevented a boss from spawning.

You guys need to calm down its ok as it is