Guild Wars 2

If Ezal the Quick is alive during the “free the soldiers trapped by spiders” event in Wynchona Woods in Harathi Hinterlands, he and his crew will kill one of the seraphs that are trapped right near where he spawns if you try to rescue them. The killed seraph then doesn’t count as rescued, and the event bugs at 6/7 indefinitely on that map. This prevents the spawning of Gargantula, which prevents the completion of several legendary collections.

That’s odd. I did that event yesterday, and the Seraph were showing at 6/7, but Gargantula spawned, anyway. We killed it whilst waiting for the Bandit event to start again.

That event used to bug all the time before Ezal was put in the game. Are you sure that he’s the one making it bug?

Inculpatus: Hmm, that’s interesting. Do you have any idea what caused Gargantula to spawn, did someone trigger it or was it random? I was under the impression that Gargantula’s spawn is directly linked to the completion of Free the Soldiers trapped by Spiders. Did it happen more than once? Maybe it will still spawn once but then bugs indefinitely.

RoseofGilead: I’m not 100% sure. But I was on a new instance of HH and I witnessed the beginning of the event. I saw all 7 cocoons. I went over to the one coccon that was right by Ezal and freed the soldier. He was killed instantly and never counted towards freed. I noticed that as other soldiers were freed the number didn’t go up immediately, they started walking toward the camp and then the number increased roughly 5 seconds later. This makes me think that the bug is directly linked to one of the soldiers dying in that 5 second window.

I don’t know. I tried to finish the soldier event after killing the Spider, but map chat called another Bandit Champion/Legendary, so I just left.

It’s true, though, that that particular event has often stalled, long before the current ‘Current Events’.

AtriustheGod.6785:

I noticed that as other soldiers were freed the number didn’t go up immediately, they started walking toward the camp and then the number increased roughly 5 seconds later. This makes me think that the bug is directly linked to one of the soldiers dying in that 5 second window.

Actually, it seems that what makes it to count is the NPC reaching the camp, not an exact timer maybe. Since the killed NPC never reaches it the event stalls. I have seen that behavior with other events, where the progress updates only when NPCs reach certain areas (“Rescue castaways” at Frostgorge is one that comes to my mind).

By the way, wiki says that Gargantula event is followed by (then possibly tied to) the soldiers event: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kill_Gargantula,_the_spider_broodmother