Guild Wars 2

Seriously…

Dynamic events become bugged and also skill points are becoming bugged. And even some big ‘Champion’ mobs are becoming bugged. And they are launched in a perpetual loop. And even skill points are unachievable due to them being bugged out.

It would be nice if we could see a map/server reset. I mean it’s maddening to go and think “Oh yay, event nearby.” And find that the mob is nowhere around or already killed or they are stuck in a loop, healing themselves, and fighting against you.

And I been to a few areas… like Metrica Province on two servers already… and the very first skill point is broken. No one can even get it.

And for the completionist in me… I like to get most things on the map. And this will really hamper me for getting map completion.

So it should be noted to the ANet devs and game admins that we could really use a server reset/map reset. Because it isn’t just in one specific map… but in almost all maps.

I should also note that even NPCs bug out and they don’t even move from certain spots. Like the golem battle arena in Metrica Province… we can’t even experience several things going down like our favorite Breeze Rider or Inquest Thief events.

Agreed, The beetletun skill point challenge has been bugged for three days now and I have just noticed the Warmaster Yulia one in Gendarran fields is also bugged.

Maybe the devs are still in a sugar rush low from all those cupcakes IGN bought them

People are already taking exploiting bugs as granted ! … just now i went to CoF we were at kaboomy part and i asked with exploit ? they said … Ye What else?

Yeah there clearly is a lot of issues with events and skill challenges.
I have so far used the ingame report bug feature to report them.

The main kind of issues seems to be of the NPC missing kind or a NPC will not move on events involving escorts or similar.

So yeah I am really wondering whether they should actually try and go through map resets more often, until these issues get sorted out.

You would hope that these issues are their #1.a priority. At the 1 month mark, it is typical of most present day MMOs to start flushing out the gameplay bugs that inhibit players from doing content. Their #1.b priority should be bots and exploiters.

I think that’s why Harathi Hinterlands is so active – it’s one place where everything, near as I can tell, appears to be working properly, DE’s, skill challenges and all. Also, of course, one of the event chains (the one beginning with Kol the giant and combining with the assault on the Kingsgate centaur base) is very popular because it consistently yields big rewards in XP, karma and cash (with a chest in the centaur base too). That particular DE chain hasn’t been affected to date by all the bugs afflicting the other chains – knock on wood!

It’ll be 2015 before ANet actually fixes all the skill challenge NPCs or implements an auto-reset mechanism in all the bugged NPCs and DEs.

Yeah, it’s maddening. On my world and the zone I’m in, practically every event & SP is broken. So I’m grinding ingrediants, which probably makes me look like a botter, standing in the same area for a few hours because there are no events working.

It happens, but it needs to be sorted permanently.

We’ll see how it goes. The dev team explained over in the Dynamic Events sub-forum that a lot of the problem is due to “compounding errors” in the DE system that build up over time (which is actually an argument for a regular server reset, I think):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Broken-Dynamic-Events/223886

Also, another dev said the other day that the new system that was instituted last week or the week before to restrict dungeon farming is itself bugged and is affecting event rewards generally, so that has to be fixed too.

If running the servers too long is what is causing the issues, then they need to do what EVE did and just do daily restarts.

Exactly. If it’s known that the servers are going to get more and more swarmed with bugged events, it’s best to just restart the servers at regular intervals. It can’t be that hard, if servers are easily restarted/updated within minutes. Otherwise it’s just more and more unhappy people upset over a thing that can be fixed with trivial workarounds until a real solution can be introduced.

At the very least, they could restart the servers, so we can make some progress.
And to get the most effect, have their “people” watching for errors so they can squash the bugs as they re-occur.