Guild Wars 2

Good evening everyone,

The Fire Shaman event in Iron Marches is bugged and full of griefers which makes this event take 20 minutes longer than it should. While writing this I’ve been killing embers for straight 20 minutes yet again thanks to people resetting the fight.

In this event there are 6 phases, A B A B A B. In event A we have to kill embers and imps etc. to weaken the elemental that the shaman spawned, after the elemental’s HP is reduced to zero we get to the phase B where we fight the shaman who is invulnerable during phase A. However.. there is a nasty bug that makes the HP of the elemental reset every single time the fire shaman is attacked while he is invulnerable. Needless to say some e-thugs are showing their e-dominance by resetting the fight over and over and over again just for the sake of griefing. I’ve been literally sitting here at [The Blasted Heart] for at least 20 minutes stuck in the 2nd elemental phase thanks to trolls resetting the fight.

This bug has also persisted for months now, are the developers aware of this issue?

So that’s what’s causing the reset!!!

The bug is actually not as simple as that.
I mentioned the bug to a friend last night while we were doing this. He asked me if I had tested it. I said no and he said you should never rely on rumors so he proceeded to attack the shaman constantly during the B phase. Wasn’t able to trigger the reset at all.

I have seen/encountered the situation you described several times.

I’ve been looking into this boss’s mechanics and I’ve found that there are 2 versions of what triggers the reset:

1. hitting the shaman in the fire phase
2. crossing the fire lines in the fire phase

I couldn’t reproduce the behaviour in case 1, however I noticed once that if my Phantasmal Berserker whirls over the fire line, the HP resets. Since that time, I’m not using illusions during the fire phase anymore.

Lishtenbird.2814:

I’ve been looking into this boss’s mechanics and I’ve found that there are 2 versions of what triggers the reset:

1. hitting the shaman in the fire phase
2. crossing the fire lines in the fire phase

I couldn’t reproduce the behaviour in case 1, however I noticed once that if my Phantasmal Berserker whirls over the fire line, the HP resets. Since that time, I’m not using illusions during the fire phase anymore.

Tried that too. Might but something different for each of the 3 parts of the fight.

I think I found an answer: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fire-Shaman-HP-Reset-Mystery-Solved/