Guild Wars 2

Server: Dragonbrand
Area: Harathi Hinterlands
Event: Defend the skritt thieves while they steal harpy eggs. (39)
Issue:
Last night I began the event, successfully defending the skritt while they stole the harpy eggs, and triggered the spawn of the Veteran Harpy Matriarch. I thought I killed the Veteran Harpy as I also saw the corpse lying on the ground, but the event progress bar still showed about 50% left to completion. After running back and forth for a bit expecting another Veteran to spawn, I finally gave up and retired for the night. I just now logged back in (still in the event area), and the event is still where I left it from last night. The skritt are still standing around and there is no Veteran to kill. The event apparently is bugged and can not be completed in its current state.

Same here on Devona’s as of today june 2nd

Bugged and stopped

Same thing just happened with me. Second bugged quest I’ve found, with the other one being “Defend the RCK-7550 golem as it stores energy”, where the golem I’m supposed to protect doesn’t even spawn.

Savos KT.5692:

Same thing just happened with me. Second bugged quest I’ve found, with the other one being “Defend the RCK-7550 golem as it stores energy”, where the golem I’m supposed to protect doesn’t even spawn.

Defend the RCK Golem has been bugged on HoD intermittently for weeks, now. (He/It often doesn’t spawn.) Whenever you can get around to fixing it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

The skritt event is still bugged.

The skritt event is still bugged.

Bugged on Fort Aspenwood as well.

Server: [Abaddons Mouth]
Still bugged, you cant complete it. There spawned only one Veteran Harpy Matriarch out of three, see screenshot.

Can’t believe that arenanet didn’t fix it. This well known bug bug is a year old.

I have just tried it on Seafarer’s Rest and it seemed to work fine (event even failed though). A note though: at a point it said Skritt alive: 1 but minimap showed 3 orange shield, what meant that there was 3 skritt alive but event seemed to fail because they all died)

Same on Riverside today, around 18:36 to 18:40

I think she dropped way to fast here. Event stays at 50% without her being here.

Here is something I noticed: The event bugs when the tooltip that shows the health of the matriarch starts empty (like in picture 1). If the tooltip shows the health of the matriarch when the event starts the event wont bug (like in picture 2). I dont know what causes the bug tho.

I travelled to Fort Aspenwood server and tried to complete the quest there. First part of the quest went fine and then the Harpy Matriarch spawned. Harpy matriarch went down quickly but the quest objective that states her HP was still at 50%. Last words that the harpy said where: “Your time will come mice. Our feathers will black out the sun” and “I am not the last.”

I just did this event in a group of 4 people on Gandara (EU).
What Lade.8934 wrote 2 messages back happened to us as well:

We have 3 thieves alive, huddled together where the Veteran Hapry Matriarch died.

- 3 thieves are alive throughout the first phase of the event.
- Veteran spawns, but the health bar on the right side of the screen was empty when she spawned.
- when the Veteran dies, the bar fills up for about 33%, and nothing happens anymore.

We kept the 3 thieves alive as they are mentioned in the event description, but all the foragers in the area were dead. I’m not sure if they matter for the event. It doesn’t say you need the foragers to survive, so once they died we just kept the thieves alive.

happened to me too

The event breaks at the part with the Veteran Harpy Matriarch spawns.
-All the Skritt are alive
-The harpy is always “defeated”. The issue is that if it is defeated too quickly, an easy task for any character that’s level 80, (while it’s still going through it’s dialogue), the harpy disappears altogether rending the event unbeatable. You can reproduce the event by killing the harpy matriarch extremely fast as soon as it spawns.

Once it reaches this point, the only way to get the event to reset is to lure harpy warriors to fight the skritt thieves and get them killed, causing the event to actually fail.

I think the problem is because you have to wait for the veteran matriarch to finish his dialogue before attacking him. I’m not very sure but that’s what people been saying.

I have not seen this event worked properly since start, reported sometimes ingame but after while I stopped with it.

So.. I reported this to the german site but nothing happens. Now I want to post my story here

The event ist starting, the thieves are searching for the shiny eggs and give them hitkiti. Everything is fine at that moment. So the matriarch is spawning and it is bugging immediately. The bar on the right side (where the event discription is) is empty, she is ’’dead’’. But she isn’t dead, she is alive and she is attacking us. Okay, we’re attacking her too. We made it in 1 1/2 minutes, thats not very fast. After killing her, she was really dead (because we killed her, right?) But the bar on the right side said, she is half alive at 50%. So it bugged again.
Hope this will help you.

Still bugged as of 4/21

It seemed like we killed the matriarch too quickly. Other people said too quickly for her dialogue, but for me it seemed like we killed her while she was doing that attack where the harpy swoops and “flies” up into the air— I mean the move that harpies do where they “fly” up and disappear for a second or two and then reappear to swoop down again. I think we killed her after she started the animation for this move, so she went up and disappeared as usual. However she didn’t reappear (perhaps because the game recognized her as “dead” or something). This could make sense but for some reason the event sidebar said that she had 33% health. The three skritt were alive and standing there in a group.

this event is bugged since a long time it only works if done solo. the moment a second player joins in it buggs out

Come on guys, according to the posts here, it has been broken for a year? It is still broken on the megaserver (Whiteside Ridge home server). Shouldn’t take that long to fix 1 quest. The merchant item is kind of important.

Still broken. Next time I will try to do the event by myself. It’s going to be pretty hard though now that Megaserver always has people around.

Server: Tarnished Coast

Also broken on my server. The harpy was at 30% then disappeared, 2 skritt were alive. There is a move where the harpies dart up in the air and out of range, then slam down into the ground. The harpy was near the rock area it spawns in front of when it was being fought, I’m guessing it might’ve glitched during the move described above also because of it’s closeness to the rock ledge.

AidanTaylor-3872:

World Polish

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent “Defend the skritt thieves while they steal harpy eggs” from advancing when the Harpy Matriarch was defeated.