Guild Wars 2

Well, it ain’t working on Blackgate. And switching servers is not an option, when you are committed to a Guild and daily activities, seeing as you can’t just switch back to it immediately. There is now a 24 hour wait to switch.

BillFreist.1527:

From another thread:

BillFreist.1527:

Update update read all about it!

We’ve finally tracked down the root cause of these missing skill point NPCs and fixed it. This magical fix will be in the next patch after it goes through further testing. This fix will also address issues with missing Event NPCs, too.

We apologize for the hassle these have been, but thank you all for hanging in there while we got this issue sorted out.

-Bill

As you can see, it wasn’t just an issue with the skill challenge itself, but an underlying issue that was affecting almost all skill challenges and even some events.

That sounds very hopeful, I’m sure it was a sneaky little bug that caused so much grief, but I guess we have to wait a week to see the fix…

Thanks Bill!

can this be hotfixed or Next mondays patch?

Fixed on gunnars hold.. dont switch and break it though

Bugged on Riverside [DE], only weekly bug fixes will kill this game. Make them at least twice a week until all major ones are ironed out.

Anyone know if there was a hot fix on this today?

Frog still dead on Crystal Desert

And yet not a moderator post in sight. The least you can say is “we’re currently looking into the issue”. Please keep your community updated on matters that are breaking the game.

well, they did post something on the other post and addressed the skill challenge NPC missing bug, not sure if it’s the same as the NPC dead bug though

There is a sp bug at metrica province for 2 weeks now and was not fixed during the last maintaince…Sp is with some hylek dead probably due to some dynamic event plz fix it asap so we can finish the map completion.

The sill point in Durotl Grounds is still broken for me at the moment. Dead on the ground. Has not revived in about 10 minutes that I’ve been in the area.

The skill point in Loch Jezt is not here, I can’t find it and others have said it was a bug. I looked and others in this forum have reported it… days ago.

Nothing has changed and I cna’t 100% copmlete Metrica Province unless I can get it, which frustrates me deeply.

Please fix this

This is still bugged after the patch on 10/2, just a heads up, checked it again today.

dump fix it plz

Still happening pretty much all the time. I think he only lasts for one completion after each maintenance and then remains perma-dead the rest of the time.

Broken yet again!

I’m beyond annoyed with being stuck at 9.99% because of that frog.

I got there seconds too late for the reset kill, and of course the guy who killed it first began taunting everyone.

As reported in the merged skill point thread:

BillFreist:
Sadly this one will be broken until our next update. The issue here was found after we got the fix in that I mentioned last week. Luckily, this is the only one that was affected by this issue.

While I am sure the issue is known I just had to share this moment after the last reset. We would like you to imagine the sad music played on those commercials were you can sponsor a child or save a puppy.

Yes, stopped me from map completion yesterday.

I mean… come on! There’s tons of bug reports for each of them but unfortunately, the only “gamemaster” who seems to be able to reset bugged NPCs or events is the janitor who’ll unplug the fuse of the server-cabinet for you if you ask him nicely and give him some booze. The short power-outage will trigger the server to reboot. Sadly, the janitor is the only employee who’s able to react to in-world-problems and I’m from europe, so it takes quite some time and money to get to him to hand him the booze.

PS: Of course, this entirely fictional. But honestly ArenaNet, hire some GMs.

I FINALLY got that skill point done on my Asura engineer last night (Henge of Denravi server), but that was because I moved in to do it right after the game update. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s broken again by now. ANet – this is really getting to the point of parody. This has been an ongoing problem for weeks now, but it still hasn’t been permanently fixed. I don’t think it’s a minor problem because it’s preventing many people, like me on that character until last night, from completing that map. Any such issue qualifies, to me, as a “blocking progress” bug and needs to be a priority for you to fix, not just left to the weekly server reboots for temporary, catch-as-catch can fixes. Please, PLEASE get on this and repair it for good ASAP.

Dead in Sanctum of Rall, too.

Still bugged on Tarnished Coast

After the Patch and server restart the Hylek was shortly alive. Later in the day he was dead again in Riverside.
I guess this one is not fixed yet and will be reanimated only with a fresh server.

Yep, just needed this guy and the one at the Outer Complex for Zone completion. Logged out for a bit, came back, noticed there had been a patch and by the time I got to him he was already dead again (Dragonbrand).

10 days later, and it havn’t been fixed yet. – Blacktide

Same story here – Piken Square

still bugged on shiver peaks , 11/10/2012
its getting really tire some that its still freaking bugged

This skill point is so famous;p i remember jumping servers for a week (24h CD) until got working in one realm…y it was working for a few hours…

Its being worked on and I think should be fixed in this next patch.

3 characters of mine need that now…..Every patch there like 500 people there and he gets bugged out right away.

Change it to a potion to drink of some kitten that doesn’t break so easily

I know right?!?!? It’s been stuck on Eredon Terrace for a while! What’s going on?

I realize ANet is busy getting the Halloween event ready… but it’d be nice if they worked on fixing reported skill point bugs. I mean, you can’t really work on completing each map until after a server reset.

I’ve been coming there every day for the past week trying to get this last Sill Point for 100% World Completion, but the Hylek has been dead every time. I’m on Tarnished Coast by the way. Just wondering if Anet is aware of this and will be fixing it. Also, anybody know if there’s a server on which the skill point isn’t bugged?

Dead too in “Mer de Jade” a french server

I switched servers hopping that this SP wouldn’t be broken on the other server, but it is. Any chance this will be fixed any time soon?

Stuck on Tarnished Coast as well. Need the map completion!!!

The skill challenge near Loch Jezt in Metrica Province is bugged and apparently has been for some time now. Any word on its fix?

More specifically the NPC is dead and won’t respawn. Dragronbrand server.

Take this
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Missing-Broken-Skill-Point-NPCs-Merged/page/5#post370692

Been dead (bugged) for over a month now…
It’s such an obvious bug, it makes me really ponder how it couldn’t have been fixed by now.
Hell just set up a scheduler to check after a certain time:
if(frog.status==dead) frog.reset;

It wouldn’t fix the problem, but at least it would allow people to progress past this skill point that, for some reason, is way to hard to fix…

Maybe he’s being overkilled each time a server restarts, and can’t recover for that, thus giving people the chance to kill him at other times might actually lessen the problem.

Yet another patch goes by and the frog still stays dead. This time I didn’t even have time to get to him, because the server restarted 20 seconds (I counted) after the “3 minute” announcement.

How many people are being kept from 100% map completion by this? Seriously, you fixed the size of asura heads (a minor ascetic issue) but ate still ignoring a sonewhat game-breaking problem?

WHY?

dead frog dead again 20seconds after new build

As in, he was killed and didn’t respawn 20 seconds after the new build? Or he wasn’t fixed at all? (A likely possibility since this was just a routine maintenance update and not one which involved any content changes.)

Can we have any ETA on the froggy getting fixed? It’s getting really annoying as unlike broken DEs, it’s required for map completion and for all we know we have people killing it to grief others.

Zaxares.5419:

As in, he was killed and didn’t respawn 20 seconds after the new build? Or he wasn’t fixed at all? (A likely possibility since this was just a routine maintenance update and not one which involved any content changes.)

On Crystal Desert, he was alive after the reboot – but someone killed him right away. Not sure if even five people got to tag him, much less the horde that swarmed the spot upon server reboot.

edit: nevermind.

Works at Aurora Glade now.

BillFreist.1527:

Utcua the Griefing Frog will be fixed in the upcoming Halloween build, which will also include a boat load of other bug fixes on top of the fun new content .

I motion that Utcua be officially re-named in the game to “Utcua the Griefing Frog”.