Guild Wars 2

I’m putting down my own experiences with stuck DEs here, as well as stuff I find on the forums here and there, so this isn’t a complete list. If you experience a stuck DE, feel free to comment!

Dynamic Events

Queensdale

Protect the ranchers from bandits: here

Metrica Province

Recover the stolen LUM0009 golems from the Inquest
- stuck at 3 golems recovered, remaining golems missing

Wayfarer Foothills

Defend Ulfred while he finds a place for his statue,
Protect Lunt’s fire from the dredge: link

Gendarran Fields

Defend Applenook from the pirate attack
- last wave of pirates never showed up, 1 villager left alive

Save the hamlet from pirates(?)
- Cricket tells us about suspicious people on the bridge – the suspicious people on the bridge are friendly/green and don’t do anything.

Fields of Ruin

Escort the Disillusioned Separatist to the Ebonhawke Delegation: link

Meta Events

Queensdale

The Battle For Beetletun
- Retake the farm and bring sprinkler pieces to Clarence
— Event was completed but never finished after sprinkler pieces were given to Clarence

Wayfarer Foothills

The Frozen Maw
- Destroy the dragon totem
— Event was completed but never finished/dragon totem couldn’t be attacked

Gendarran Fields

Assault on Ascalon Settlement
- Kill the champion war beast
— War beast can get stuck inside a tent near centaur camp and will not move; attacks don’t reach it

Collected around the forums:

Queensdale

Various
- Some events seem to spawn erratically or not at all
original report here

Secrets in the Swamp
- Shadow Behemoth rarely ever triggered, unknown if fixed
original report here

Diessa Plateau

Defend Mad Mardine’s cows from harpies while he tests his new invention
- event can get stuck making the vista you need the cannon for unavailable.
some reports here

Fields of Ruin

Rescue the villagers and defeat harpy kidnappers
- villagers say something about being saved but remain stuck in position, event does not advance
original report months ago here, still happening.

Cursed Shore

Defend Penitent Camp from Risen
- fort progress bar won’t move
original report here

Gates of Arah meta event
- event chain gets bugged preventing access to the dungeon
several original reports, example of recent report here

Straits of Devastation

Temple of Balthazar meta event
- Pact squad gets stuck at various points (seems to be “fixable” by dragging mobs to them to wipe them out)
several original reports, e.g. here or here

Dungeons

Ascalon Catacombs
Explorable
- Tzark won’t start the Lover’s Crypt event
- Detha won’t construct traps
- Hodgins gets stuck
original report here

Other Reports (unsourced or unspecific)

Queensdale
Event at rancher Mepi’s farm can get stuck.

Ruins of Orr Region
Many DEs in this area can get bugged or stuck.

Miscellaneous Bugs

Fields of Ruin

Rescue villagers and defeat harpy kidnappers
- Rescued all villagers and two-manned killing harpies, but got no credit for the event.

Help Legionnaire Boneflayer crush the Renegades
- First time I ran into this event, instead of one Kelith Boneflayer, there were six (or more) of them. Only noticed they were all the same NPC when they all said the same line after the event was finished.

Harathi Hinterlands

Break the captives out of the centaur slave cage
- The event progress bar says Veteran Modniir Chief, but it’s actually a Champion Modniir Chief.

Blazeridge Steppes

Help Lieutenant Fynn and Kor the Warcaller assault Sootpan Kraal: here

Seems like almost everything is bugged or stuck in Ruins of Orr tonight on my server. What a disappointment.

Yikes.

I don’t have access to higher level areas atm (and we’re probably on different servers anyway) so I’ll add that note to the list. If you know the specific events I can add those in too. Seems like maybe half? of the DEs can get stuck at some point, some more often than others.

also a champion ogre beastmaster that cant be killed im supposed to be helping 2 charr kill him its in a level 40 something area lots of ogres but this ogre champ always replenishes his hp its impossible to kill him this is the event im referring too http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_Lieutenant_Fynn_and_Kor_the_Warcaller_assault_Sootpan_Kraal he resets his health both inside the walls and outside

Thanks, will be adding that to the list.

I just did the harpy event in Fields of Ruin and didn’t get any credit for it in spite of two-manning it and killing several harpies on the way (as well as being the one to talk to all the villagers so they could escape), so I’ll write that one down as a bug as well.

Edit: Also just did the event where you kill the renegade leaders and there were six or so of the same allied NPC (Boneflayer) instead of just one (???)

A couple more I noticed this morning in Wayfarer Foothills:

The Grekvelnn Burrows:

Ulfred’s event chain is broken. Despite there not being a statue in the Grawl cave, the Grawl are permanently peaceful, while Ulfred is walking around in the ice caves talking about building a statue, but his event is not active.

Doldenvan Passage:

Lunt’s event is broken. The Dredge are constantly respawning and attacking his fireplace, but the fireplace is invulnerable/destroyed and the event is not showing up.

Adding!

Just found one more broken at Fields of Ruin: Escort the Disillusioned Separatist to the Ebonhawke Delegation (dude’s stuck and won’t move).

Can’t seem to edit the first post (hit character limit?) so I’ll add links to reports instead.

Can say the same for maguuma server. Some of the ruins of orr events are bugged. Which is making it impossible to finish the story. Hopefully this is resolved soon since it would be nice to finish enjoying it.

Just ran into a helpful bug while doing “Protect the ranchers from bandits” in Queensdale: four of the ranchers bunched up close together near the farmhouse instead of being out in the field, which made it much easier to protect them.

neon.4863:

Just ran into a helpful bug while doing “Protect the ranchers from bandits” in Queensdale: four of the ranchers bunched up close together near the farmhouse instead of being out in the field, which made it much easier to protect them.

The funniest “bug” I’ve ever seen was when we managed to pull the Champion Cave Troll to the ranch and he easily crushed all the Bandit waves attacking the ranch.

Congratulations! Champion Cave Troll has evolved into Heroic Cave Troll!

There’s a strange (rare) bug on an event in Queensdale where you have to escort a caravan. The npc, Mona, is typical of other npc’s in the game, she goes haring off at anything that looks as if it could easily kill her. In this case the buggy AI gets her stuck

She spotted a wolf and went berserk. The AI seems to make the npc’s charge at their target so Mona charged at the wolf, missed and went flying past. Then the wolf charged at Mona, missed and went flying past. This just repeated over and over, right through a river, till they reached a rock wall and couldn’t move any further. Then the wolf got fed up and summoned a friend and Mona died.

I killed the mobs, revived Mona but she obviously didn’t like the water and couldn’t leave the river. End of progress. I’ve seen this happen a couple of times.

Found another: in Fields of Ruin, “Help Nia rescue Cymbel’s hounds”, after returning to Cymbel with the hounds the event just restarts itself – Nia says she’ll go get the hounds from the Kraal and goes off again… with the 3 hounds in tow. The event doesn’t finish.

Edit: Escorted her all the way back to the Kraal and then back again and the event finally finished.

Son of Edit: Mod in Bug Reports noted lists aren’t helpful, so… should I post each of these as individual bug reports instead and just leave the broken ones here for player reference, or?

Grandson of Edit: Will report here and make mirror bug report topics.

Blazeridge Steppes, “Help Lieutenant Fynn and Kor the Warcaller assault Sootpan Kraal”, part of The Ogre Assault meta event chain: Champion Ogre Beastmaster kept fully healing out of the blue, making it impossible to kill. Most we got was down to about 25% HP, after which he kept healing at 70%+.

Edit’s nth Descendant: It is possible to kill him, but has to be done within the vicinity of his camp’s flag or his health will reset frequently.