Guild Wars 2

Today we activated our first Bounty Training Mission, we are a small guild and we thought we will try it and have some fun with this, we are only 4 people
For the bounty we could not get more than 2 however, but we thought it would be fun and challenging to try it with only two players.
We did not get any message after activation, (I think that this has to be corrected); so we had to check the guild window and there we found the mission tab, and in it was listed our bounty
We got Trillia Midwell, so we went to her map, tracked her down (This also needs some improvement, how are we suppossed to find her when the only clue is that she works with separatists? 2 players track the maps where separatists are? we were forced to use wiki to get her path, that is NOT fun). So, we got her and started the fight, but after only FIVE, (5) seconds of the fight, we get a message mission failed.
Why? is there a minimun of players required for the bounty? we beat her and there was still 1 minute left in the time window so she did not escape, so then why the mission failed? care to elaborate on this? not good for a small guild to have the only bounties we can do fail for no reason. BTW the fight was fun for the two of us, I wonder if the fights are escalated in difficulty to the amount of players? I dont see this mission fun for more than 3 or 4 people top, it would be easy.
Thanks in advance if you manage to read this and try to fix it.

Every type of bounty has a 15 minute time limit from when you activate it. Once you find a target you have around 5(?) minutes to kill it before it runs away at which point you can try to find it again if the 15 minutes hasn’t run out yet.

There is a message in the chat window when a bounty is activated. The interface for checking your target is indeed terrible.

The clue for is

Wanted for questioning about attacks against charr merchants serving Ebonhawke peace delegations. Suspected of being a Separatist.

The big clue would be Ebonhawke which gets you to the right map. In theory you are supposed to search everywhere but obviously people have come up with ways to get around this.

For many of the targets it is actually better do it with a smaller group than a giant group. We’ve completed two tier 1 with 6 people. We almost finished a tier 2 with 5 people(lot of luck involved there with finding the first two targets). We missed the first month’s worth of commendations because people were saying “you need a minimum of 10 people” and unfortunately we believed them.

Well actually we found her in about 3 or 4 mins, as we used the wiki to see the path she takes, so when we started the fight we had more than enough time left of the 15 minutes we needed to find and subdue her, and we did that and had almost 1 full minute before second timer ran out; so it was not any of either timers running out. I guess it was a glitch? I dont know as this was our first Bounty Training ever. Thanks for your anwer though.

The 15minutes started as soon as you activated the bounty. From your description it seems you guys wasted some time before you all used the wiki. I think you just unaware of the passage of time in the heat of the moment. The first timer take precedence of the second timer for bounty success. The second timer is for the event success.

Hmmm, so let me get this clear
I activated the bounty, did not get any message, went into guild window, found it, told my guild mate I’d check her in wiki, checked wiki, how much time? It DID NOT take more than 4 minutes between activation, wiki checking, and going to the map, then not even a full minute before finding her as she was right in the second waypoint inside the town in the route I took from the first one, 2 chars going each one way using speed boosts from the more separated waypoints. Reading a text in a window, writing a name in wiki and watching the result did not take more than 3 minutes. When we started fighting her, it was not even 6 minutes TOP if you want to add some time wasted after we activated the Bounty, that is why I posted this here, if I were unsure, or if we took too much time finding her I’d not be posting it in forums, I am very sure we killed her even before 11 minutes of the time had passed, as it was yet 57 seconds left of the 5 minutes window when she gave up. That is the reason of this post. I wrote this in hope devs read it and find a fix for this possible glitch, or bug, or whatever it is because it is NOT funny or fair when things like this happen. I don’t know if there is another mechanic involved in a Bounty different than time, because we did it in time, and that also is the reason of this. Even if we were both under the effects of some psychotropic and were lost in time there was thins thing, she had been hit only twice? 3 times? not much as the failed mission message was almost immediate, very few seconds, I wrote 5, could have been less, but not more, I dont think my second attack had reached yet when it popped. The only thing I AM ABSOLUTELY SURE OF is that we did kill her very well inside the time we had for it. Thank you guys for your answers.

Anteros.2698:

Hmmm, so let me get this clear
I activated the bounty, did not get any message, went into guild window, found it, told my guild mate I’d check her in wiki, checked wiki, how much time? It DID NOT take more than 4 minutes between activation, wiki checking, and going to the map, then not even a full minute before finding her as she was right in the second waypoint inside the town in the route I took from the first one, 2 chars going each one way using speed boosts from the more separated waypoints. Reading a text in a window, writing a name in wiki and watching the result did not take more than 3 minutes. When we started fighting her, it was not even 6 minutes TOP if you want to add some time wasted after we activated the Bounty, that is why I posted this here, if I were unsure, or if we took too much time finding her I’d not be posting it in forums, I am very sure we killed her even before 11 minutes of the time had passed, as it was yet 57 seconds left of the 5 minutes window when she gave up. That is the reason of this post. I wrote this in hope devs read it and find a fix for this possible glitch, or bug, or whatever it is because it is NOT funny or fair when things like this happen. I don’t know if there is another mechanic involved in a Bounty different than time, because we did it in time, and that also is the reason of this. Even if we were both under the effects of some psychotropic and were lost in time there was thins thing, she had been hit only twice? 3 times? not much as the failed mission message was almost immediate, very few seconds, I wrote 5, could have been less, but not more, I dont think my second attack had reached yet when it popped. The only thing I AM ABSOLUTELY SURE OF is that we did kill her very well inside the time we had for it. Thank you guys for your answers.

The guild bounty has started is just one line and can be easily missed. It’s 15 minutes from that point on. If you want to make sure you don’t fail because of out of time, make sure you have 7 minutes to spare when you find and activate the bounty. Otherwise yeah.

I am not posting any more replies about suggestions, implications or direct pointing to the out of time thing, as it has been stated VERY clear in the post and I believe that my english has been good enough, the bounty DID NOT FAIL due to time running out unless you count it in another layer of dimensional space. Feel free to add something else, otherwise let the devs and or mods handle it. THANK you all VERY much.

If you are not interacting with a bounty for a short period of time (de-aggro), they will run away even if time is not up.
It’s happened to us before. We started a fight with only a few guildies present because we were rushed for time, but it killed us kinda quickly, and the nearest WP was far away, so it happened that no one was there for several seconds while the first to die were still running back, and she ran away.

Mystic.5934:

If you are not interacting with a bounty for a short period of time (de-aggro), they will run away even if time is not up.
It’s happened to us before. We started a fight with only a few guildies present because we were rushed for time, but it killed us kinda quickly, and the nearest WP was far away, so it happened that no one was there for several seconds while the first to die were still running back, and she ran away.

Hmm forgot about that one. We had that happen when we got Poobadoo the first time. We activated and it ended up on the TINY sliver of land near the bandits in the southern part of the route. We thought we could pull it over to the skales but bounties do not seem to pull.

Oooh that would be bad right? unfortunately for us that was not the case, as the mision failed just as we started attacking her, so no time for us to die or for her to die, and on the other hands, we were right at the wp in the entrance of Ebonhawke so it would have been an insta respawn if we were killed, but we did not have time for anything of that, maybe 2 hits? and we got mission failed message, something weird I did not even see that message, my partner did and she told me, we continued fighting her nevertheless as I checked time and we had still almost 8 minutes left of the time to find and kill her and the other timer had just started, so in reality, I have no clues, that is why I am sure it was a glitch, sad it happened to us and ANet seems to not care too much or have their hands full with other things, as I sent a bug report with screens and came here as well.
Now we have been hesitant about activating another, they take so much time to build… to then fail without anything good? it would be nice to know if this was a once in a time thing or if it is a repetitive glitch.
Thank you guys