Guild Wars 2

The Balthazar Meta Event is currently bugged on Isle of Janthir. All three parts seem to be on different parts and they will not reset.

Balthazar has been bugged on our server for the past two weeks. Our server is Crystal Desert and we really want it fixed. Is there anyway this can be looked into. It’s holding a lot of people in my guild back from getting the armor we want.

Thank you,
KoZ

Bugged on Eredon Terrace, pls fix.

Is there a server where its not bugged? If so, could someone plz tell me which one. I need those last few obsidian shards lool

Well I guess it just wasn’t my server. This really needs to be fixed areanet.

Yeah, it’s probably bugged on every server. It sucks because I’m kind of waiting on it to get my full karma set.. (A lot of people probably are)

Not to mention the people that want it to finish their legendary, myself included. This surely is a simple fix and they have ignored it since the first week and it has only got worse to the point that the event stage doesn’t even spawn.

Really wish this would get fixed, been waiting for it to get my armor for ever

Well I refuse to let this thread die. Balthazar event is still bugged and has been bugged for weeks now.

Can a Anet representative even bother to reply on Balthazar status? 3 weeks or so bugged, that is ridiculous. Is this on purpose so people don’t get their legendaries early?

Is Anet even fixing anything? Since I ‘ve started all fixes I ’ve seen are targeted at dungeons and farmers. Orr content is bugged and dead for weeks. Worst of all, we hear nothing from Anet, we have no idea what’s going on. Last game status update was at 14 sept for gods sake.

Edit: That’s the latest bug associated with ToB meta-event. So far the others I ’ve encountered:
*Southern forces never arrive, no matter what pre-event you finish
*Pact attack is heading to balthazar, and stucks into an infinite loop at the stairs just before the temple, hitting those spider-foot look-like spikes(?) for ever and ever.

still bugged on whiteside ridge; and only need obsidian shards to finish twilight
just transferred to drakkar lake (heard it was working)…bugged there too

For several days now, the Central Invasion of Orr event chain has been stuck at the first stage. This makes it impossible for Temple of Balthazar to be completed. Not sure what it takes to make the event unstuck, but if it can be easily reset, a lot of people getting legendaries would be appreciative

kind of saddens me that these events have been bugged for so long. i guess they’d be hard to replicate or some other underlying issue that causes them to be “left untouched” since day one. and something so crucial to not just getting legendaries, but regular gameplay.

that being said, for the past couple days, a group of us have been attempting the event. we did the north and south ones. but i feel the north one was most consistent and reliable. i’ve had the south ones the team would just disappear. :///

the two starting events (submarines and retaking brassclaw) is easily doable with just 1 person (and we felt more effective). and then once brassclaw WP is opened up, bring your team over and start the escorts : ))

hope they fix these soon, but in the meantime, try the northern one and good luck!

GoM has had the same bug. Happened just after Tixx patch, then they fixed it 3 days later with a mini patch.

Seems when they reverted back (removed) the Tixx content, they also removed the small patch that fixed the broken events. Our server never finishes the build of the very first ‘forward base’ in Orr. (one before spider tunnel)

akamon.2769:

kind of saddens me that these events have been bugged for so long. i guess they’d be hard to replicate or some other underlying issue that causes them to be “left untouched” since day one. and something so crucial to not just getting legendaries, but regular gameplay.

that being said, for the past couple days, a group of us have been attempting the event. we did the north and south ones. but i feel the north one was most consistent and reliable. i’ve had the south ones the team would just disappear. :///

the two starting events (submarines and retaking brassclaw) is easily doable with just 1 person (and we felt more effective). and then once brassclaw WP is opened up, bring your team over and start the escorts : ))

hope they fix these soon, but in the meantime, try the northern one and good luck!

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, the northern and southern forces are safely at the rally point. The central is the only problem

this is the case on Sea of Sorrows also.

Hello

I just wanted to mention that the “Temple of Balthazar” quest has been stuck for a week.

Can this be reset soon? This is the only way individuals are able to get obsidian shards with karma.

Server: Devona’s Rest.

After reading other forums , its seems like this bug has not been fixed for more than 2 months….what gives ANET?

Its really annoying that Balthazar temple is the only decent way of obtaining Obsidian Shards, there should be at least 1 other Temple NPC selling these things, as nobody really plays Straits of Devastation, the map is horrible to navigate, events make no sense, take brass claw, pact loses it within 5 minutes….whats the point?

Same on Piken Square, we had South and North @ Rally point, Central would not start, we found Lone Outpost was stuck as well, making progression stuck there as well. Same for Central, stuck at 1st stage (Megalasers).

Resulting in Balthazar temple not starting.

Other meta events that don;t work: Shadow Behemoth

I personally think that the Karma merch for Obby shards should be at the gate to Arah.

Currently all I need is 55 Obsidian Shards to finish my Twilight, i have all the karma plus more needed to get them but this bug is the only thing standing in my way.

its very frustrating that Anet are not even giving a response in regards to this issue. surely it cant be that hard to do a small server or zone reset?

Chibii.3698:

Currently all I need is 55 Obsidian Shards to finish my Twilight, i have all the karma plus more needed to get them but this bug is the only thing standing in my way.

its very frustrating that Anet are not even giving a response in regards to this issue. surely it cant be that hard to do a small server or zone reset?

I was talking to some people in map chat the other day about it and I did hear that it probably won’t be fixed until a server reset. Obviously I take that with a grain of salt because it is map chat, but that’s what its looking like it will take if nothing has happened for this long.

EDIT: patch reset event. Balth open on Isle of Janthir.

It’s also bugged on Yaks Bend. The southern invasion is at the rally point, but the northern invasion is bugged so that they don’t appear anywhere and it won’t reset.

The issue is similar for the server of Maguuma.

Hello, On Yak’s Bend in the Straits of Devastation, the quest Temple of Balthazar has been stuck on [Group Event] Escort the northern invasion Pact squad to the Pact rally point at Triumph Plaza for the past week.

The progress is on Pact members alive: 3/7 and I am told to revive the fallen Pact members. Problem is, is they are nowhere to be found. I have combed the area the entire week, finishing Straits on 3 different characters. People on Map chat say the quest is bugged.

Normally I would just skip this event, however this unlocks the Cathedral of Glorious Victory and I need 1 piece of Karma armor to complete the set. Could you either fix this quest or have all the level 80 karma gear vendor sell the same gear? Maybe even have the vendor hiding in an alcove or something

Thanks

All of the temples are bugged on Yak’s Bend. And it sounds like they’re all bugged everywhere else too. Still waiting for a reply regarding a fix in the Orr bug thread (Orr is very bugged)

It seems like they have been bugged basically since the start of the game. If they stayed uncontested for more than what seems like 15 mins it probably would matter less but ya know…

We are unable to proceed with our Temple of Balthazar on Maguuma because somehow central reinforcement have glitched. It has been this way for at least 5 days and will remain so unless Anet intervenes.

Over the past few days many groups have tried to reset it or complete/fix it so that we can somehow open it. Really ridiculous if the only answer we have is to wait until January 28th for the patch/instance reset; that would be poor customer service at best.

Dont worry, just hop on WvW while you wait

(Isle of Janthir player here)

bathazar’s temple is ALWAYS BUGGED.
This is one of the reasons why i think they moved Shards to Relics in Fotm so you had at least one reliable way of getting them.

I agree that vendor should probably just be moved out to fort trinity instead because the vendor being there is just STRESSFUL on the guys trying to clear bathazar’s temple only to realize its BUGGED.

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But also in Sea of Sorrows, The centeral invasion wont progress. Ive cleared all the events around fort trinity, yet the NPC’s wont spawn and launch the event.

Ive had my guild out there camping, we even had 3 commanders corrdinating on a PvE map to get the 3 reinforcements to the rally point.

Yet centeral WONT start no matter what u do.

I’m so close to getting my legendary so i transfered servers off of blackgate because blackgates balthazar event was bugged. I’m on stormbluff isle now and it’s bugged here too!!! I can’t transfer again now and im stuck. People have been complaining about this for months. Stop adding new content thats full of bugs and fix the bugs you already have in this game. Also the light cof helm on a charr ALWAYS buggs and it looks like your head isn’t connected to your body sometimes and other visual glitches.

This is still going on (and has been) on Northern Shiverpeaks. Is a server reset like a monthly thing? Or some mighty weapon they call down to smite all the bugs away from the game? ^__^

Anet can u guys please move the stupid karma vendor to someplace else until you guys fix it?

problem solved! <—- no one will complain if u guys move him, and it will give u a longer time frame to fix it without listening to us RANT.

no one likes to do balthazzar’s temple anymore anyhow because everyone knows ITS ALWAYS BUGGED, unless u somehow manage to get it at server reset.

Instead can u shove him at Lions Arch?

Centeral seems bugged on all servers.
In SoS its bugged.
I am down to the last pieces of shards for twilight and now i am forced to use my fotm relics for it instead when i have over 200k karma saved up for only 65 shards!! cuz i could never get balthazar to open.

i been trying to get it done for two days on my server, its all i need for my legendary and i cant even get close to enough people…

A few more details, since everything reset with the patch, and we were still unable to clear it tonight:

-Prior to the patch, at least 10 days before, North and South reinforcements had arrived. At Rally, the event blurb said “waiting for central”.
-Central was stuck at "The mega lasers destroyed the undead bone ship. The Pact will soon assault the krait structures at Stygian Deeps. " No NPCs would spawn at Stygian or anywhere else for Central.
-After reset, we cleared the event with only Central and South reinforcements. North was about 75% towards Rally when someone started the final push, and the Northern NPCs disappeared.
-After succeeding, the Northern NPCs reappeared at the temple. With the event still active. The karma merchant was stuck in the dialogue tree from the beginning of the event.
-We let the risen re-take the temple, and tried again. We cleared north and south, and the event wouldn’t start. We then cleared central, which was stuck waiting for someone to clear the giant shark, and that proceeded smoothly.
-Around this time, someone mentioned MORE reinforcements coming from North. This event (apparently) failed.
-Now, at Rally, there’s reinforcements from North, Central, and South; all 3 reinforcement leaders say there’s still preparations to be made, and the final push will not start.

It might be worth looking into that buggy North reinforcements event, since it seems like it may have not completely reset when the temple was lost. This is evidenced by a second group of northern reinforcements starting off.

This is currently bugged in the exact same manner on Darkhaven and needs to be reset.

Stuck for twenty-four hours and counting.

so thats why its ‘contested’ for over a week… point is that i have loads of karma [like 700k] and to tell the truth there is nothing else that would be worth buyin than shards. and npc is not there. why it cannot be moved? or, if that particular cannot be moved, make another one with shards that can be bought with karma. frac relic are frac relic, and i want to spend them on something else. or maybe anet should invent something like currency trading?

Still bugged on Ehrmy Bay today. Will keep checking forums for a anet reply…

so annoying.

Still bugged on Ehrmy Bay 8th Feb 13

Any info on issues?