Guild Wars 2

There’s a point where you have to locate five machine parts in a volcano caldera. The first four were effortless, all within easy sight of it, but the fifth eludes me. Is it hidden in some crazy place? Or glitched? Or what?

If they’re not client based like the sensors, they’re all fairly low down in the caldera. Do you have your options toggled to always show interactable objects? That helps tons with finding them, and saves your pinky finger the strain of pressing CTRL.

I do, thanks, and the four I did find were all relatively low as you say, but the 5th didn’t seem anywhere in sight. I wandered all over the caldera, high above and low to it, even flew through that tunnel just in case. Couldn’t see it. I’ll try again in a bit, maybe having reset the client would cause it to appear or something.

I can’t find the 5th part either.

*Nvm log out, log in and its visible.

Yeah, when I logged back in it was right in the open, can’t imaging I missed it so it mustn’t have been there. So anyone else, if you can’t find all five, re-log and it should be there.

I read earlier that there was a bug where the machine parts vanish until relog if you complete the nearby heart quest.

Might have been that.

The machine parts are bugged. You find 4 parts easily, but then there is no 5th part to complete the task. When I asked on the map chat another player confirmed there is a bug and suggested me to log off and log back in – which solved the problem.

I read earlier that there was a bug where the machine parts vanish until relog if you complete the nearby heart quest.

I don’t think so in my case, because I’d completed that heart quest, but did so about an hour before I even started that step of the story mission (I’d stumbled into the caldera while the boss fight pre was active), and those four machine parts were plainly visible, just not the 5th. It’s good we’re working through possible explanations though.

I did the story a second time tonight and this time had problems with the 5th one, as did a friend who was doing it at the same time. The problem child for both of us was one tucked down under a ledge at the very bottom level by the lava on the north side.

So that might be one that just keeps evading notice for others too.

Not in my case. The 5th one for me was on the edge of the caldera nearest to the story NPC, right on the open ground. There’s no chance that I wouldn’t see it if it had been there, and I spent about fifteen+ minutes walking and flying around the caldera, so I’d have noticed anything inside it.

Can confirm it is bugged.
Logging out and back it reveals it.

Though the one it revealed I had already picked up!
Seems as though there is a chance you pick it up and it doesnt register in the quest, but removes it from being intractable until you relog.

Seems as though there is a chance you pick it up and it doesnt register in the quest, but removes it from being intractable until you relog.

I don’t think that’s quite it, since I know I only grabbed four the first time and each was counted, but maybe what’s happening is that it’s spawning two on top of each other or something, and collecting one makes both disappear but only counts one, so you need to relog to get it to reappear?

I think relogging just gives you one in a different place. I didn’t see my 5th until I got in the air and was gliding around and saw it down at the bottom under an overhang. It also helps to turn on names for inanimate objects in Options.

I spent over 20 minutes looking for the 5th part, never found it. I walked a full circle around the cauldera on each level from bottom to top, and went through the tunnel twice. No where to be found.
After logging out and back in, there were multiple parts visible.
Looks to me like its bugged, and logging out & back in, resets the pickup counter, so all parts can be picked up again.