Honestly I am not entirely familiar with the event chain that is required to be completed in order for Arah to be accessible however it appears that on Desolation this chain has been bugged for most of today. Beyond random waypoints coming under attack the chain is stuck on “Gates of Arah > The Pact are preparing to establish a forward base” and will not progress.
[Bug]
People have told me in map chat that the world event “Enrage Risen and lure them to fight Halla Corpseflayer” is what is causing the problems (although generally I regard map chat as unreliable so I am unsure if this is actually the block if even relevant).
That said the event does seem buggy & the instructions vague. There seem to be two main problems with the event. Firstly it requires players to not simply kill the mobs on sight. This is an open world area and new players are walking through all the time – players who don’t read the instructions and kill the mobs. You can explain the event to them however even if they do listen (some will not) a new player will likely walk in, making it very difficult to progress. This is not counting the fact that some players may be trying to grief and fail the event on purpose, which is especially a problem if this is indeed an event that must succeed for the Arah chain to progress.
The second problem is that it simply doesn’t seem to be working. I have been standing by the event for upwards of half an hour now with players occasionally managing to lure risen to Halla and enraging them. But Halla doesn’t seem very interested most of the time; she won’t move off her spot by the wall and rarely attacks mobs even when they are close by. Mobs will become enraged, but it often takes a long time for them to gain the enraged buff and it does not seem to last long and usually by the time they get it they are very low on health. Mobs are being killed around her, some with the enraged buff and she is hitting a few of them but nothing seems to be happening. It is very difficult to see whether the event is actually progressing or not. There is a bar on the objective panel in the top right but it is simply Halla’s health bar and it is unclear if we are supposed to let her die (if we are, see problem #1). It is not completing either by winning or failing the event after x amount of time.
In summary the instructions could be more clear and in its current form the event seems very difficult to complete if not broken and is possibly blocking progress on the Arah chain. If it isn’t then this is a double bug report, as both the Arah chain seems stuck as does this event.
[Suggestion]
I believe Halla is supposed to die, if so for a suggestion to fix the event you could simply add more mobs to the area as there is not a huge number or make them stronger (there are few vets around). Alternatively Halla could be made weaker. Currently mobs are doing very little damage to Halla which is a problem if she needs to die. Even with a Veteran Risen giant aggro’d her health is hardly moving.
It may also be better to change the event completely, perhaps splitting it into two phases. In the first phase players could simply kill x risen in the area / capture a control point. The second phase would spawn a veteran / champion for players to fight alongside Halla. When the boss mob reaches a certain amount of health (say 10%) it would go invulnerable, lock on to Halla and kill her before going vulnerable again. Players finish off the boss, pay their respects to Halla (or don’t) and the event finishes. This would make it much more straightforward to complete and avoids problem #1 while retaining the theme of Halla’s overconfidence leading to biting off more than she can chew and ultimately her demise.
