Guild Wars 2

Last night we ran a guild event (on Kaineng) and couldn’t find any barrels in Gendarran Fields and ended up failing the event because we couldn’t find Sottz with 25 ppl searching. It used to be there were lots of little barrels at points (we use the map on Dulfy’s site) that we’d check and Sottz would eventually be in one. Has this particular bounty changed?

Yes, he has.

There are fewer barrels per location now (1-3 usually), and if he is discovered, he will reset after ~5 minutes of standing in the same location. In this way, you can no longer scout this particular bounty ahead of time because if you try and do find him, he’ll just reset.

Wow, this was already one of the toughest ones. I guess we now need to trigger the event once we find him. However we didn’t find any barrels last night. I guess we’ll send 50 ppl to comb the zone.

Only one minute? I got him in a bounty last night and we couldn’t even gather the entire guild together before he respawned somewhere else. We had to resort to activating him as soon as we saw him and kiting him until the cavalry could arrive. You should really extend his standing time a bit.

Can this be extended to 5 min? This should be more than enough time to get people to his location.

I posted on this elsewhere, but just spotted this thread. We had him despawning before anyone could even start a dialog with him. I watched him fall out of his barrel, stand up, then disappear before I could even interact.

I could see this becoming an issue if another guild is fighting him somewhere on the map. If you don’t get lucky and find the fight, and they take a while to kill him, you could waste 5+ minutes of your bounty time looking for barrels that aren’t there, and a boss that won’t spawn. I guess this could be an issue with the pathing bounties too.

Today 3 guilds were looking for Sottz but couldn’t find him…. can you guys reduce the spawn locations or confirm that it is possible to find the barrel before we start the event. otherwise we need 50 people on the map trying to find this guy and still fail sometimes. Failed 2 T3 bounties because of this guy so far. When we don’t get him we easily do with 4 mins left.

Well last night we couldn’t find him at all either. Spent a good hour criss-crossing the entire zone. Something is not right with Sottz atm. Devs plz look into it – the “fixing” of his vanishing seems to bug somehow.

I was part of the 3-guild search team that luvpie mentioned. Something should be done. We spent about 2 hours total and failed because we got Sottz and couldn’t find him.

There is a difference between challenging and annoying/tedious. Sottz crosses that line…. very very often.

Ethics.4519:

I was part of the 3-guild search team that luvpie mentioned. Something should be done. We spent about 2 hours total and failed because we got Sottz and couldn’t find him.

There is a difference between challenging and annoying/tedious. Sottz crosses that line…. very very often.

Not only Sottz. Most of the bounty hunt bosses are either completely unfindable, unkillable or are killed way to fast. As it stands now there is nearly no reason to do bounty hunts, cause the rewards are small and the amount of effort it requires is way too big.

Sirendor.1394:

Ethics.4519:

I was part of the 3-guild search team that luvpie mentioned. Something should be done. We spent about 2 hours total and failed because we got Sottz and couldn’t find him.

There is a difference between challenging and annoying/tedious. Sottz crosses that line…. very very often.

Not only Sottz. Most of the bounty hunt bosses are either completely unfindable, unkillable or are killed way to fast. As it stands now there is nearly no reason to do bounty hunts, cause the rewards are small and the amount of effort it requires is way too big.

The guild bounty’s my guild has done are very doable. We failed one time cause we didn’t have enough interrupts and condition removers, but for the rest no problem. They are a very fun and challenging addition to the game. With nice rewards for the effort

There is a very likely different bug with Sottz wich is the reason. There is atleast one spawnlocation that is unreachable. So when all barrels are gone and he doesn’t despawn, it is very likely that it is this situation.The one reported was inside a wall, but there are likely other spawns that are unreachable.

mercury ranique.2170:

Sirendor.1394:

Ethics.4519:

I was part of the 3-guild search team that luvpie mentioned. Something should be done. We spent about 2 hours total and failed because we got Sottz and couldn’t find him.

There is a difference between challenging and annoying/tedious. Sottz crosses that line…. very very often.

Not only Sottz. Most of the bounty hunt bosses are either completely unfindable, unkillable or are killed way to fast. As it stands now there is nearly no reason to do bounty hunts, cause the rewards are small and the amount of effort it requires is way too big.

The guild bounty’s my guild has done are very doable. We failed one time cause we didn’t have enough interrupts and condition removers, but for the rest no problem. They are a very fun and challenging addition to the game. With nice rewards for the effort

There is a very likely different bug with Sottz wich is the reason. There is atleast one spawnlocation that is unreachable. So when all barrels are gone and he doesn’t despawn, it is very likely that it is this situation.The one reported was inside a wall, but there are likely other spawns that are unreachable.

That makes sense, but unfortunately is still very frustrating. Probably both to us and the employee(s) working on it.

Bounties are hard now, but I think it will get better.

1) Guilds will eventually be able to establish specific people for specific bounties. Right now we have a party looking for brekkabek just to reduce time. Once a person because familiar with the path (instead of alt-tabbing) you’ll be able to just have one person asigned to brekkabek, isntead of a party.

2) Other guild missions will open up and not every guild will be working on bounties, which means you don’t have to worry (as much) about a guild sweeping in and killing the bounty you’ve been following for 30 min.

I don’t like being a necromancer but this deserves it. My guild failed 2 Tier 3 Guild Bounties back to back recently due to this. In both cases we got everything else but we could not find more than a few barrels on the entire map.

Total time we spent looking for him was over an hour because we continued trying to find the barrel after both bounties had failed. We checked water, all manners of aggro infested caves, the entire perimeter of the map, had plenty of people scouring the rest of the map.

If you can put 15+ people looking for this barrel for over 30 minutes, have multiple people case the entire map, delve into all sorts of trouble and STILL not find the barrel then I SAY IT’S BROKEN. It’s certainly not in the same league as the other bounties in such a case.

IMO ANET should give guild merits to every guild that has failed a bounty mission because of Sottz. IE if that was the only bounty left and it was failed, toss them an e-mail and some merits.

I cannot explain the amount of frustration this bugged bounty target has caused people.

I’ve done bounties multiple times with dozens of people searching for him and not able to find him. What exactly is your goal here with making a boss which is almost completely impossible to find? It’s one thing to encourage team-work and organization, but when an organized team of 30 people cannot find him within 15 minutes, with multiple attempts, there is obviously a lack of balance.