Guild Wars 2

It appears OP has deleted his post.

However, he did raise a good point. The event, which is necessary for the treasure hunter achievement has been broken, and reported as broken for a long time, possibly months. The item, Sam, from the chest is at 700 gold at the moment as few can get it.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/46467-sam

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sam
“Sam has become a rare and expensive item to acquire due to Ogre Wars meta event having a short life span before its events permanently bugs out and stops working, and since the introduction of Megaservers which made the event APIs obsolete, rendering it impossible to track the event status.”

If ANet rolls out new content such as collections and one is bugged and has been bugged for some time, has been repeatedly reported as bugged, I think it’s fair to ask them to take the time to work on it.

We do know that the bugs with Ogre Wars (as well as similarly frequently bugged events such as In Pursuit of Knowledge, the Scholar Dobbs event in Timberline Falls, and Scholar Breandan in Straits of Devastation) are known to ANet, and they are working to fix it. However, it’s been a very long time, and updates on progress are nearly non-existent, which has resulted in the cynicism felt a lot of players (including myself on occasion).

A lot of times players will do the trigger events and assume the event is bugged when it doesn’t progress, but in reality, the event is just on a cooldown from just activating.

Commonly, players will activate both trigger events but only the first one to activate will trigger the full chain. So players will be at the Maybri/Charr event when in reality they need to be at the Finley/Human event trigger, so when the Human event fails it resets the timer, even if the Charr event succeeds. I recommend having a player at both events to make sure they both succeed.

The only time I’ve ever seen the event chain really bug, is when Maybri is leaving the Charr settlement and at the gate, the NPC’s that spawn to break it spawn inside the camp rather than at the gate. this prevents the progress and the event won’t reset.

If the event is really bugged, you can report it in game by typing /bug in the chat command and reporting so the developers have more information than what you can post on the forums.

I do this event about once a week when I have the time, so it doesn’t bug as often as some may think.

Before the megaserver, I had done this even a lot. Since then it has been bugged.

Where I see it most often bug is when we are told to find two NPCs. One of them is nowhere, including not being anywhere suggested by any online source.

Maybe it’s time to pause working on the expansion.. and fix some of the progress stalling bugs that have been there for months, before releasing more broken stuff.. I can already imagine the rage when half the events needed for precursor collections are bugged and not fixed for a year.