Guild Wars 2

Need this for map completion. Showing the main shark but brood is 0/3. Nothing to target. Please fix!!

Was doing this skill challenge yesterday when the shark decided to get on land. I manged to kill him with land attacks and minions, which made it easier on me. Nonetheless, someone should fix him.

Server – Anvil Rock

I think she is boring because no one cares about anything in water, so she decided to move on land

AHA!

so you’re the one who is landing the sharks there :P

In either case please don’t lure sea creatures onto land or air creatures over the ocean, especially with skill challenges.

I know it wasn’t intentional, but now your server has to wait for the next patch for it to reset.

VoxShatterfall.5470:

AHA!

so you’re the one who is landing the sharks there :P

In either case please don’t lure sea creatures onto land or air creatures over the ocean, especially with skill challenges.

I know it wasn’t intentional, but now your server has to wait for the next patch for it to reset.

I didn’t lure him, he was already there when I got there. I didn’t know you could lure sea creatures onto land…

Yeah, I haven’t done it before, and I don’t know how to do it.

Either way, thanks for the pictures maybe ANET will believe us when we say the SC is bugged.

BillFreist.1527:

Ahhh… The spotting of the elusive Land Shark.

Arrgghh I remember the days where these sharks were bound to the seas. Never in my day did I expect to see them sprout legs and wonder the land of Tyria.

:D

The issue with these guys was a pretty risky fix. I got a fix in to keep them in their cave a couple weeks back, but it affects the whole game and not just them. We’ve been letting this change get plenty of testing before setting it wild. It’ll make it into our Wintersday build later this week.

-Bill

Thank you for getting around to this. I’m sure many a map completer will be thrilled.

land sharks are not uncommon in Tyria..

This isn’t a bug, they suffer from Aquaphobia. This is a very serious condition and the Asura are working on a pill for them to take.

Observable evolution.

Glorious!

That happens to in arah path 4 shark. He is above water instead.

I saw that also. Easiest kill ever.

Good thing they didn’t have laser beams attached to their heads.

I subscribe. I’m trying to finish that map but the skill point is still exactly as you say.

Same as above responses, still broken on Aurora Glade server.

Hey, I’m playing on Gandara and this skill point is still glitchy. Last night all the sharks were chilling as NPC’s outside on the rocks. Today, one-two are in the water, the rest are outside. Cannot fight any of them… So confused and I need it for clearing this map >.<

The skill challenge “Kill the ancient sharks”, requiring you to dive into the cave appears to be be bugged. There is only one shark in the cave, and the other two appear to have spawned inside the rocks above the cave. If you walk around on the rocks above, you can see them highlighted thru the rocks.

Like so many other skill points, you need to wait for a server reboot to have a chance at this. Leave your character close to the skill point, then the next time there is a server reboot, immediately login to that character, and join the dozen or so other folks doing the same thing, and get your skill point before it glitches again until the next reboot.

Still broke on Darkhaven. any new word? I’d like to finish this…

thanks

also bugged on Eredon’s Terrace as of today

Ditto on Whiteside Ridge.

I’ve just managed to complete this through sheer perseverance. The event was showing as 3/3 brood killed but with the main shark on full health and no where to be seen. On exiting the underwater cave and standing outside I was able to target the shark (just) but of course got ‘obstructed’ if I used a ranged attack. I then went back into the cave and swam back and forth ramming my character into the ceiling/wall spamming melee attack until I finally struck lucky and hit the thing drawing it back into it’s ‘proper’ location. Phew. What a lot of effort for one little skill point!!

This was on the Whiteside Ridge (EU) server and the shark is now where it’s supposed to be if anyone wants to go trigger the challenge to get their skill point.

underworld server. the shark is still bugged

LOL @ this bug, this is an updated ss of what the sharks are doing now, this is Stormbluff Isle. I was able to kill 2/3 on land for some reason, but the third one was down below in the secret entrance in the water like it should be. The skill point works its just not the way its supposed to

This is bugged on Dragonbrand as well. Its my last skill point on that map. Says 2/3 but no shark anywhere.

This takes the meaning of “Land Shark” way out of context. Still bugged :-(

In Sparkfly Fen the skill point where you have to kill Pistrix and the three other sharks is bugged. Pistrix is up on top of the rocks and the last shark needed to be killed is glitched into the rock and there doesn’t seem to be a way to get him out. It’s the last thing I need to 100% this area. Please fix it.
Screenshots to prove it

EDIT: Yes, I checked the area below. The last shark isn’t in there either

I can confirm this as well, as it is the last thing I need to 100% the area also.
Please fix this as soon as you can.

That SP always bugs out after one or two uses. The sooner they turn it into a commune point, the better.

Not sure if this will work for anybody else but I figured out a way to kill Pistrix even though he wasn’t swimming around. The skill challenge sign was above ground but he was still under the top surface but basically stuck in the rocks. clear out any mobs that might be near and equip a ranged weapon. (I used a rifle) Auto attack and it “should” auto target the mob but it will most likely say “obstructed”. Stand right on top and move around until you are able to shoot through the ground and start doing damage to him. Once he is dead it should give you the skill point! Hope this helps!

Bugged at Ring of Fire server

Anvil Rock server is bugged as well last thing i need to complete

is this bug gonna be fixed at all?

i have the same bug in underworld server.

Its bugged on Desolation too -.-

well the Ancient Shark is bugged again in Sparkfly Fen. now u can’t see mobs at all but when u swim under water the quest pops up on ur map

Bugged on Tarnish Coast at the moment, too. There was an Anet post saying there would be a patch along with Wintersday… did the fix not work, or did something happen and the fix didn’t get included?

Messaging to confirm I’ve completed it on Maguuma server successfully.

Please, fix bugged SP with 3 sharks on Sparkfly Fen on Aurora Glade. This SP is bugged from the beggining. Works only after upload when maps reset.

Waow I see this bug has been reported 3 months ago and still not countermeasured …

I just tried to do it on Fort Ranik (French server). There the event has been started but the shark and his friends are completely invisible.

Same as described by Maal.

[EDIT] Actually the shark and friends are hidden in the roof. Go up close to the roof, press 1 and wait. With a necro-pet all my pets travelled through the roof to attack the sharks. At the end the symbol above the shark will be empty but it will be marked completed on your map.

Imarion.

This skill point is currently bugged on Northern Shiverpeaks. Currently have 5 other randoms here with me going “wtf.”

Hello guys,

Unfortunately, this bug still exists. (I’m on Dragonbrand, btw.) But there is a work around that worked for me today, 12/27/12, that I gathered from other posts and added a little. Here’s what worked for me:

(And please excuse the crudity of my images; I didn’t have a lot of time.)

No.1 Image – get to this location. (For all you guys and gals that are having this problem, I’m guessing you’ll be able to find the spot where I’m standing.)

No. 2 and No. 3 Images – I’m moving to the water. Notice in image #2 where I have drawn a RED CIRCLE. This is where the shark’s name and health bar will appear. The shark itself is stuck in the wall/rocks.

To get the shark’s name to appear, move your toon COMPLETELY UNDER the water – to the point where you’re fully submerged and your underwater skills show up. Next exit the water slowly back to where I’m standing in Image #2. You should see the shark’s name in RED, health bar and level. NOTE: you WILL NOT be able to target him. (If you go in and out of the water as stated above, you should see the shark’s name re-appear.)

No. 4 Image – Face the direction where you saw the shark’s name, and go into the water – fully submerged. Use an AOE skill and use it in that direction. As you can see in image 4, I’m hitting the shark – 143 points of damage. And even although it’s not targeted, the shark IS taking damage. You CANNOT see it’s health bar, though.

Keep using your AOE skill until it’s dead. (NOTE: not all of my AOE underwater skills would hit it. Only the elementalist skill – BOIL seemed to work.)

No. 5 Image shows that I’ve succeed.

I hope this helps you guys! Good Luck!

Anet, please fix the bug. (Great game, btw! I do like it a lot! –

-Krypto

Just ran a new toon through Sparkfly, and I’m very disappointed to see that this is still broken. Looking forward to a fix sometime in 2013.

The same problem. Server: Ring of Fire

Adding on to what Krypto said as I came to post similar information, I was hitting it with Ele Trident auto attacks in Earth which also apply bleeding stack to 10 so it didn’t take that long at all to kill.

The problem is that the shark ends up inside the wall/ground where you can’t see it. I still managed to do the event with my ranger as when i got target on the bugged mob my pet started attacking it and finally killed it.

To get it to work you should have auto target on, an AOE skill or a pet that can attack it. I even tried to pull off the pet in order for the shark to follow and become visible, that didn’t work out well, instead it de-aggroed and healed back up again.

But it’s still doable if you just have the tools to do this.

I hope this problem can be resolved soon. I’m getting to the point where it is the only thing left to do on the map! At 96% and just the level 80 bit of the map and this skill point left.

sharks arent appearing at all on Eredon Terrace. There is only 1 juvenile shark swimming by the stairs. I thought if i came back later it might reset. I guess not.

Found the same issue on Sanctum of Rall today. Sent in a report but tried the aoe through the roof using my poison arrow on my thief. 100 a click and just kept shooting and finally killed the last brood. What’s happening I think is folks use their knockback spells/skills and push the mob into the prims overhead. Krypto’s hint helped if ya ever run into it.

On Yak’s Bend in Sparkfly…

At the Ancient Shark Pistrix skill challenge, one of his three (and really, three minions in a skill challenge is a bit much, but anyway) is stuck inside the rocks on the top of the cave. This makes it impossible to target or kill, and hence, the skill point is impossible to complete. It apparently also makes it the challenge not reset properly as the sharks never really despawn even when killed so it stays stuck there.

Can one of the kind, sweet, loving, and awesome devs pretty please rescue the poor sharkie?

Once upon a time, you could just jump servers, find a good point, and jump back. However, I’m not banishing myself for a week just to get this one point.

us sea of sorrows server, managed to get it yesterday, 1 shark was sunbaking above on the rocks lol easy kill and the others were where they should be