Guild Wars 2

I’m a Charr Warrior trying to do the level 50 personal story quest “Battle of Claw Island”. Each time I attempt it, when I get to the step where I am told to man a trebuchet and destroy the first Risen ship in the bay, I run into a blocking bug. Going up to either trebuchet on the wall, no matter where I aim it or if I do not aim them at all, when hitting the fire skill (#2), I get an on-screen message saying that the trebuchet cannot be fired in this direction. I have tried re-aiming it throughout the allowed range, with the same results.

This issue occurred on Sep 23 & 24 from two separate computers/networks.

I had this problem, too, and was really confused about it for a while. I was just about to give up when I somehow discovered the push-to-hold function by accident.

Perhaps a “Helpful Hint” would be of some use here.

I was trying to do this last night and it wouldn’t even let me activate/use the trebuchet.

There were two trebuchets in my instance, and only one of them worked. That added to the confusion.

My wife and I took turns on the “working” one until we figured out how to do it.

Thanks Rob, that was the problem.

RoyHarmon.5398:

Perhaps a “Helpful Hint” would be of some use here.

And an error message that actually describes the issue, instead of blaming the direction in which the weapon is aimed.

While I also had this issue and thought the Trebuchets were bugged – not knowing about the push and hold mechanic regarding them – I was still able to continue by actually swimming to the dead ship and attacking it with underwater weaponry.