Guild Wars 2

So tonight i did Arah with some random people found on mapchat. Now, we did path 3 first, took some time, but we did ok. Then we went to path 4, had alot of problems doing everything. But we got further only to find out after 4 or 5 hours that the last part is bugged. The part where there is a bloodstone chard and you have to clear the area. Tried killing the npc, clearing mobs further on etc. This is just a huge dissapointement.

We found someone who finished this path and he said this should be the end so don’t think we did anything wrong. I realy like dungeons in GW2, for me they don’t need to be easy, but to find out you did 5hours for nothing is not my idea of fun. (same with SE)

Sorry for your loss. I just did this path again to help some friends out and roughly finished around the same time as you did but finished shortly before the maintenance. (It took us 3 hours even with skipping 90% of the trash mobs since we lacked DPS for simins.) In my limited experience having ran this path only twice, I have not encountered this bug personally.

Perhaps you could remember some of these details:

1) Did you miss any bosses somehow? The bosses are the high priests/priestesses of balthazar, melandru, lyssa, lupicus, priests/priestesses grenth and dwayna.

2) Was the NPC dead as you approached the area? It could be an NPC death related issue. At Lupicus on Path 4, if Randall is dead has been known to cause a bug in triggering the cutscene. Similarly, NPC death on Arah path 1 at final boss as she attempts to open the door has been known to cause blocking issues.

3) Were there 4 risen spawned around the area? Possibly one failed to spawn/game didn’t count right.

4) Did you have to replace anyone in the party? Supposedly this issue has been fixed awhile ago but it might’ve possibly came back.

5) Were you still in there during the server maintenance time? Perhaps it could’ve been caused by server instability.

Anet aren’t very good at reproducing bugs in my experience since GW1 and much more terrible at it when not given exact steps to replicate them so it would help immensely if you can be as detailed as much as possible.

Thanks for the reply.
1. I don’t think we did, i think we got 3 or 4 chests up to that part
2. No idea, it could be, because we ran toward the last part (cleared if afterward to try to fix but no effect)
3. Can’t remember
4. Yes, quite some few people left and some also changed character
5.I don’t know of any maintenance. There surely was not a new build for us. (it was from 23.00 to 4.00 at GMT +1)

Just happened to my party as well. We did have to sub out one player (at the dwayna boss) and the npc /was/ dead when we killed the final undead of the group of 4. He then respawn teleported to us at the bloodstone shard, and proceeded to do nothing.

Second time I was prevented from completing this particular path by unforseen circumstances >.>;.

I was in Sarc’s group just now. I want completion credit for this… no excuse for 3+ hour dungeon run just to have an npc bug out and ruin the whole thing.

I’m with hypnotic and Sarcasmic, I just spent this time to do path 4 which took weeks to even get anyone to be willing to run.
We’ve submitted reports with screenshots, surely A-net could help us get the completion for it finally completed?

I doubt anet will do squat about it. They’re to concerned with holiday events and special stuff like that to give a crap about the game thats there 24/7. They’ve already messed up Arah enough as it is, I think they find it funny to watch people do a 4+ hour dungeon and get to the end to only have their hopes crushed in an instant. My group couldn’t defeat the last boss because of the glitch. I will be surprised if they ever fix it.

I plan to do this and was wondering if anyone can confirm that this is now working?

Got Lupicus bugged as well. We were doing Seers path and when we got to Lupicus our NPC didn’t start dialogue and boss stayed “green” for us. NPC most likely died before we entered boss room. Submitted bug in-game, also posting here. After several attempts of fixing we had to leave dungeon.