BUGGED QUESTS!
The Wiley event is still very bugged and needs to be fixed.
Fire Shaman was working over the weekend.
Can confirm Wiley seems broken.
Unsure about Frainn.
All of these events work but they also have bugs & quirks that make completion wonky. Of course ANet should do something to make them reliable or divorce them from legendary collections, but… in the meantime:
General Advice
- Try to get in a fresh map:
- Visit at reset or ideally right after ANet publishes an update to the game.
- Otherwise, rep a different guild from usual and ‘guest’ (not transfer) to a full server and try again.
- A final alternative is when the map is the object of the 4-event daily; there are usually multiple versions spawning during prime time hours.
- Don’t ever wait more than 10 minutes or so. It’s possible the event just started a cooldown
- You can sometimes find that out via /map chat.
- These can last 20-30 minutes and you probably have better things to do with your time.
- Especially since there’s rarely a useful way to distinguish a broken event from one that has stalled temporarily (and/or can be ‘shoved’ into activity), or that is on cooldown.
SPECIFIC ADVICE
Put a stop to the Mighty Oouo
Park a toon right at Oouo’s spawn point and swap to that toon whenever you have 10 minutes to spare. Check the upper right corner for the status of the meta which consists of the following events:
Defeat the Grawl Commander → Escort the Order of Whispers → Stop Oouo
- If it hasn’t started, head to White Paper Hill to start it
- If it’s active, proceed to the relevant step and help move it forward.
- If it’s none of the above, don’t bother waiting long (see ‘General Advice’ above); come back another time.
Stop Captain Wiley before he finishes scouring the ship for treasure
This event is also part of a chain, the status of which can be checked locally.
Prevent Wiley et al from stealing treasure → Stop Wiley et al from scouring
From the wiki: “cursory research seems to imply that he does indeed have a weird respawn schedule…it seems that he won’t respawn until his event does, even if he was killed in his chilling-in-Wiley’s-Cove form.”
In other words, if he’s killed in his cave (e.g. by someone doing the local heart), he might not reappear for a while. Essentially you have to wait out the cooldown of the chain, even though there’s no chance to participate.
Or as practical advice: park a toon nearby. If the event(s) are up, participate; otherwise, leave your character there and come back again later.
Defeat the fire shaman and his minions
You’ll have to be more specific about why you think this event is bugged. I’ve participated successfully several times since ANet last adjusted it.
(I’m not saying it’s not bugged; I just can’t document any details because I haven’t seen an issue.)
The general advice still applies: park a toon locally, try to get on a fresh map, and don’t wait around (you do have better things to do).
ABOUT BUGS
If you want ANet to fix this, help them to help us by giving them more info. The simplest way to do this is by typing /bug and filling out a report. Include as much detail as you can. If all you have done is wait around for 30 minutes, then say that.
By using the in-game tool, ANet automatically finds out about where you are and when you were trying. They can compare to the logfiles to see what was (or was not) happening at the same time.
Ideally, you can help them further by doing some investigation on your own and giving them details, e.g. you tried on 3 different worlds so include the three IP addresses (command: /ip). Or perhaps you visited the starting location for the event chain and found the triggering NPC to be unresponsive.
Without details like that, ANet wouldn’t even know where to start, so it might take them ages to track down the issue, let alone start to figure out how to fix it.
tl;dr park a toon, swap often (ideally after reset/updates), and don’t wait around. Eventually, the event will work and you just need it to succeed once.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Oouo was easy to get. Just needed to do the quest before and then event spawned.
Wiley still bugged.
Managed to get Wiley in the event. Was there when I went to check.
Inquest Coil Commander took a while to get but the patch reset the map so I got it. The defense event seemed oddly slow because it never spawned on the map I was on.
Watch for the release day patch and bug fix crashes. Lots of opportunities on day one to get these events.