Guild Wars 2

It seems that many players (myself included) are having a devil of a time trying to get the Shadow Behemoth to spawn, as discussed in this thread. I myself have waited around in Queensdale for 5 hours without ever seeing the Swamp shift past the “dormant” stage. (Some players have reported waiting for even longer!) We’re now wondering if something might be bugged with the quest chain that is causing it not to start.

Could a dev look into this and check whether something is indeed broken? It may help us if you give us a hint as to what it is that triggers the start of the event, so that more players can help test.

For the players, post here with your server if you have not seen the Shadow Behemoth or his meta-event chain start despite waiting in or around the Swamp for more than 2 or 3 hours. That way, if it is a bug, the devs can probably jump-start individual servers.

Server: Tarnished Coast

Same here on Vizunah Square.
I’ve been waiting for now 12 hours in the Godslost Swamp and I haven’t seen any event. The swamp is always dormant. I will be gratefull if a dev could confirm this is a bug so I can move somewhere else.

Same on Miller’s Sound. I waited 3 hours, destroyed all the portals, spawned the two veteran-portals… nothing happened.

In the german forum is also a thread about that issue.

The same thing happened to me today and it took about 3 hours or so to clear the area of goodies, waypoints, and the Veteran Marsh Drake several times. It was dormant the entire time after I completed the Heart quest.

Is it because it’s a Group Event perhaps? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Secrets_in_the_Swamp Is there a certain number of people that need to be met?

I killed Shadow Behemoth last night on Stormbluff Isle. It would be nice to know what the triggers were so it would be easier to see if it’s bugged or not. It’s working on some servers anyway.

On Tarnished Coast, I have spent hours in the past trying everything possible to trigger this event. I have given up, and do not even check anymore to see if swamp monster ever wakes up. I see many folks in map chat asking others when they saw the monster last.

I stayed 7 more hours today in Godslost Swamp and nothing. I’m pretty sure this metaevent is bugged on Vizunah Square. I can’t spend all my time in game waiting for something that is bugged.

Could a dev confirm this bug ?

Still no sign of the Shadow Behemoth despite checking frequently on Tarnished Coast last night and once again this morning. During that time, Frozen Maw spawned at least 3 times, while Wychmire Swamp spawned twice. I’d say there is definitely something bugged with the Secrets in the Swamp meta-event on some servers.

Aurora Glade haven’t seen Behemoth since before Halloween. People from my guild (including me) have been camping in the swamp for days now, both idle and doing various things (spawning fleshreavers, killing portals, the usual stuff) and nothing sem to trigger the pre-events for the boss, while other world bosses on lvl 1-15 locations have ben triggering normally (i pass near the maw once every day and there is an event there almost every time).

So, if a dev is reading this and this is somehow NOT a bug – at least let us know what is the trigger for the behemoth event chain – is it time-based or some other events must happen for it to launch?

What’s particularly unusual is that we SHOULD have seen Secrets spawn at least once since the server update a couple of days ago, since server resets fix all other bugged events like skill point NPCs being permanently dead or events not completing properly.

Really hope we can get some feedback from a dev soon.

This comment is marvelous.

And on topic:
I saw the Behemoth on Blacktide quite recently.
Someone said he camped the swamp for hours, and nothing. I’m curious did you have someone at the pre-event locations to camp for them also?
Wiki says here about three portal locations to accomplish before swamp portals event starts.

The location where you camp is basically anywhere @ swamp – the event indicator should chjange from “Swamp lies dormant” to whatever pre event just had started. The point is – it doesn’t and the 3 portal spawn points for pre events are empty.

Tom Stone.3190:

The location where you camp is basically anywhere @ swamp – the event indicator should chjange from “Swamp lies dormant” to whatever pre event just had started. …

I’m not sure you’re 100% correct.
Group events form the meta-event chain are full map visible, but i think that preevents have smaller scope, and if you are outside of the scope you get the “No event in range” info (“Swamp lies dormant” in Behemoth chain).
But that may be only my notion about workings of event assistant with metaevents.

They aren’t exactly full map visible, but that meta event indicator the reads The Swamp Lies Dormant, will change to Underworld Forces Have Been Spotted Outside The Swamp when the event chain starts and you will be able to see that from anywhere the meta event indicator can be seen. So if you are in the swamp and it says the swamp is dormant the chain has not started (unless they changed it recently).

When underworld forces are outside the swamp that’s the three locations with portals, the oakheart grove, the monastery, aaaaaand over by the ettins.

Once all the portals are closed it then changes to There Is a Disturbance at The Heart of Godslost Swamp, and that is when the 3 portals spawn in the big open area of the swamp.
Once those are closed he spawns and the meta event indicator will again change, to something like Slay the Shadow Behemoth.

You should be able to see what stage the event is at from anywhere the indicator shows up, though if you are just entering the fringe it might appear with slightly out of date information; for example I have seen it display that it was at the disturbance phase while I could actually see the Behemoth in the distance, and then when I got a bit closer it updated to reflect that he’d already lost 25% of his health.

As for starting the chain, what I heard is that it involves the Vet Fleshreaver in some way, the one that spawns from the book just outside hut in the middle (Deathroot Shack). Supposedly killing it after the 3 hour cool down starts the chain again, but I’ve never had a chance to verify, though after killing him the other portals in the swamp seem more likely to spawn a Vet Aatxe.

I haven’t seen the Behemoth on Isle of Janthir since halloween started, though I keep getting second hand reports along the lines of “oh yeah someone said he was up yesterday”, but that could easily have just been someone asking if he was, I find too many people sort of half read chat and respond to questions as if they were statements.

Thanks for the FYI Jason.
I would like to address the fact that there is little to no info that i could find that triggers this event. It’s fine if it’s a secret, sure thing, but if it’s a typically bugged event might mean that is why it’s not really know how it triggers. Speaking to that fact that many of the other event chain triggers for the other dragons are pretty prevalent. I know the only time i got to fight him was in BWE, since it rarely spawned after release that i had a chance to notice.

Thank you for the update, Jason. Hopefully you guys will be able to nail down the source of the issue soon.

I would also like to echo munkiman’s request for more information about the precise triggers that cause the meta-event to start. It would enable us to help you guys pin down whether or not the meta-event is broken on a particular server. At the very least, you could let us know whether or not Secrets in the Swamp is meant to be an exceedingly rare DE, or whether it’s meant to spawn on the same frequency as other meta-events in starters zones, such as the Frozen Maw, Battle in Wychmire Swamp etc.

I have neeever eeever seen him.

If it helps to know… I have not seen this guy spawn on NSP for some time now. I spent several evenings sitting at the spawn waiting for him to spawn and have not seen him. Thanks.

munkiman.3068:

I would like to address the fact that there is little to no info that i could find that triggers this event.

Every few hours (around 2 or 3, I think – although this changed from beta and then again soon after launch) portals will spawn in a nearby zone (near the ettins, at the oakheart grove, at the monastery, etc.). Kill those portals and 3 “special” portals will spawn in the swamp. Kill those and the Behemoth spawns.

At least that’s how it used to work at around launch; I haven’t really been back in that area for a while.

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munkiman.3068:

I would like to address the fact that there is little to no info that i could find that triggers this event.

Every few hours (around 2 or 3, I think – although this changed from beta and then again soon after launch) portals will spawn in a nearby zone (near the ettins, at the oakheart grove, at the monastery, etc.). Kill those portals and 3 “special” portals will spawn in the swamp. Kill those and the Behemoth spawns.

At least that’s how it used to work at around launch; I haven’t really been back in that area for a while.

But what people are saying in this thread is that they aren’t spawning, which is the problem. None of the pre-event-events are happening. Since the game first launched I’ve only seen him once

i play in Far Shiverpeaks server, when i play’d with my first char it spawned 1 time, new i play other char & it did not spawn, i w8 3h-4h

douceline.2741:

But what people are saying in this thread is that they aren’t spawning, which is the problem.

Yes, we’ve established that there’s a bug affecting some servers. That’s not what I was replying to.

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douceline.2741:

But what people are saying in this thread is that they aren’t spawning, which is the problem.

Yes, we’ve established that there’s a bug affecting some servers. That’s not what I was replying to.

Sorry, my mistake!
/promises to stop reading without coffee

Bumbled around in Borlis Pass yesterday and still nothing, which is a shame. Hopefully it’ll reset or be addressed in the upcoming patch.

There are some suggestions in the thread below (and also linked in the first post), stating that this Event runs onetime after a server reset/update. That’s why it works sometimes and on some servers, I think. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Swamp-lies-dormant-Anyone-seen-Shadow-Behemoth-lately/first#post746686
I hope this helps the devs, if they didn’t already seen this. ;-)

Haven’t seen him ever after the release. I waited multiple hours (~6h) on a day and asked my girlfriend to AFKing him (she is sitting next to me), when she doesn’t play, so that I can see when he comes. But we still never saw him in the last weeks. Also there weren’t any prequests or something like that. The swamp lies always dormant, which is now an insider in my guild.
If these resets were not at night in Germany, I would have been there to finish him.

The Shadow Behemoth meta event in Queensdale on Gandara-EU has stopped working for a long time now. I’ve been in the zone most of the i’ve been online and i haven’t seen the event start a single time, several others in map chat are telling the same thing.

I’ve heard that the event is triggered by talking to Taryn and summon the Fleshweaver. I’m not sure there is any connection, since the event that is triggered for the Fleshweaver, isn’t part of the meta event. However you could still give it a try and see what happens. Be sure that the event hasn’t run it’s course in a couple of hours. I don’t know the exact timer on the event. IF the event does not start, it would likely to be stuck.

Server: Ring of Fire
Been in Queens Dale for around 16h and none of the events have spawned.

It’s been almost a month since that Meta Event is bugged.
Is there any ETA for a possibly fix ?

There’s not an ETA for them agreeing that there’s a problem with this and a huge number of other events/meta-events.

you can bank on the fact that if it doesn’t benefit anet’s wallet, it’ll get fixed, “when & IF” they decide to fix it.. and then it’ll only be fixed if it benefits them.. they got your money already, now they hope to get more.. and until they do, they don’t fix anything

What is the status on this fix? Why is there no info to whats wrong with the event?

Server: Sanctum of Hall
3 days camped in the swamp and nothing happened …
Arena.net help us.

Server: Underworld

The Shadow Behemoth have been in a long long vacation already, about 3 months now. Was this Event removed?

Jason King.2647:

We’re looking into this issue now, but as it’s definitely an edge case (working on some servers, not others), it may take us more time to identify what’s causing the problem. Thank you in advance for your patience as we work this out.

It’s great that this bug was acknowledged and that you’re looking into it. I get that this could be a complicated bug and isn’t fixed overnight, but it would be nice to get an update on this, since your post is now a month old. Thanks in advance!

My growing disappointment with this game came to a peak tonight when trying to play with some friends in open world PvE and we see that the Shadow Behemoth had just spawned. We rushed over to find that not only were there no players there to help us in combating the giant, but that we couldn’t target the portals OR the Shadow Behemoth itself. Seriously ANet, I know no one does open world pve since it has been completely destroyed by the introduction of the Fractals, but could you at least have it working properly? Thanks.

I haven’t seen this event happening since more than two months. I’ve asked both in-game and in forums and to my guildies, and no one has seen it happening.

Why is it that every time something is bugged on any server, it’ll be bugged too in Baruch Bay?
At least other servers have things that works and things that do not, but Baruch seems to collect all of them bugs, sometimes even keeping them after updates state that they have been fixed.

I’ve been playing since launch and I have never gotten to fight the Shadow Behemoth.
Tarnished Coast, by the way. Probably a combination of bad timing, and him breaking at some point.

Thanks Jason King, we need and want more responses like this about things that seem so … iffy.

Awesome. Thank You.

LET THE BEAST OUT!!!

Jason King.2647:

Thank you for your patience, everyone! There were a couple blocked events that needed to trigger the Shadow Behemoth; fortunately, we now have potential fixes for these issues in the works: he should be back soon!

Thanks for the update, Jason.

By this, I can infer that the events needed to trigger the Shadow Behemoth are probably linked to the Defend the Monastery from Centaurs, the ale delivery event with Sister Brenda, and possibly the Rotting Champion Oakheart in Greatheart Weald. When I was waiting around in Queensdale for the Behemoth, all those events didn’t spawn for hours, which was highly unusual.

EDIT: In the meantime, there’s been a server reset today for general maintenance, which means that the Shadow Behemoth’s events should be working for a few repetitions. If you haven’t seen him yet, get over to Queensdale and hope for the best!

Can’t wait for it to be back , it’s really the best made World Boss out there

The Shadow Behemoth is standing there but cannot be targeted. Also AoE spells don’t do any damage. He is currently indestructable. I spent about an hour trying to effect the beast.

Shadow Behemoth is still unable to be targeted/damaged although he is able to damage us. Just letting you guys know.

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Just wanted to say that I’m pretty sure it’s also failing to spawn on Dragonbrand, although I haven’t been as thorough as some of you guys.

Far Shiverpeaks Server:
2 players confirmed seeing the shadow behemoth last night (UK hours) twice, but couldn’t target him nor the portals. I myself have been camping around for half the day now and it just won’t trigger. On a sidenote: The Rotten Oakheart Event at Greatheart Weald hasn’t spawned during this period as well.

What exactly triggers the Shadowbehemoth event chain other than just waiting 150 minutes (as stated on wiki) for it to happen? Do we need more players in the area? Finish ‘named’ event that prevent it from happening? Is it only happening during daytime/nighttime? Do we have to meet a certain unmentioned killcount on Aatxes?

If we knew, that way the players can send better feedback about what the issue is on their specific server. I’m sure this info will receive many cheers from both parties.

We need some continuation on this issue. I know that ANet is busy with the holiday thing but we cant forget about the main game. As pzyonix said I have also not seen the Rotten Oakheart Event happen in a while -“Fort Aspenwood”-. It seems that there are a good several messed up events in this map that need some attention.