The map meta event for Iron Marches, Devouring the Brand, that spawn the Champion Branded Devourer Queen at the end which drops the Branded Devourer Ichor for HOPE IV collection, is broken. I’ve spent the past 4 days going to Iron Marches checking every hour or so (approximately 40+ checks over the past 4 days) to see if Sentinel Whiptail moves from his ramp, and he is always stalled there. It’s always on the same IP as well, the last 4 digits are 38.62 iirc, and since this map is never full, there are no other instances to overflow to for a chance to get an un-stalled Sentinel Whiptail. The only way you could make this happen is if you brought your guild with like 50-100 people to just flood the map and force another instance to open and even that takes a fair amount of coordination and ask of your guild members time.
The only time Sentinel Whiptail will ever move is when you do the escort mission for Sentinel Scalebrusher when he is bringing the trained devourers from near Champion’s Shield. When he gets to the outskirts of Brandwatch Encampment, Sentinel Whiptail will walk back up the ramp to his normal position, then walk back down and get stalled again. I have never seen him get past the Repair NPC. There is also a Veteren Giant Devourer just southwest of this encampment that is always at 50% hp and is constantly Invulnerable and just spins around. I’ve sat there for a good 30 minutes once to see if anything happens, and he just continues to do the same thing. Not sure if this is tied to Sentinel Whiptail or not, but I thought I would mention it.
This Ichor and Royal Chak Ichor from Chak Gerent are the last 2 things I need for my collection, but this is a post to help all those people going for HOPE so this same problem won’t happen to them if it can get fixed.
I apologize for the lack of really detailed location information, not currently at home, just wanted to put this up while its on my mind and the fact that I can’t find any other information on it anyway except on reddit that were just a couple posts that don’t get any traction. Please pitch into this thread if you really want to get this noticed.
