Guild Wars 2

The wiki doesn’t have an answer for this so I’m putting it out there for anyone who might know. How do you get the event chain to start for this??? I’ve spent a hours in the swamp on several different characters triggering every event in and around the swamp and talking to every NPC I can find but this chain NEVER starts.

In the beta I was able to fight the end guy twice but I’m on my 6th character and been back to the swamp dozens of times, spending a day or so trying to see if I can get anything to happen. Is the time between spawns days apart? Is it bugged? What am I missing here?

The fire elemental in Metrica spawns rather easily through a simple chain, but this seems impossible! I know I’m not alone on this problem, as per the discussion on the wiki and in-game chat. What gives?

It’s a timed event, you can’t “trigger” it. And it bugs out (stops working) after a few days of a server reset.

so it’s bugged?

Well, guess I better get in right after reset. Lame.

Ambika.6257:

so it’s bugged?

Don’t know for sure but it is supposed to happen every three hours.

yeah, common issue. i havent saw this event once for like 400 hours of playing time.
and then one day i’ve entered the swamps and saw the event i’ve never seen b4: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Protect_the_brew_shipment. right before it ended the swamp event started for the first time for me. maybe it is a coincidence, or maybe not. who knows!