Guild Wars 2

The heart quest in Iron Marches in Hellion Forest, “Fight life-stealing minions in Hellion Forest.” is completely bugged out.

You are supposed to talk to displaced spirits and help them recover their bodies and fight ghosts/shades that are attacking them. Not only do the few spirits that you can talk to do nothing but stand there after talking to them (instead of walking to their bodies), but most of the spirits are standing in mid-air in the trees where you cannot reach them.

Please fix! Trying to work on map completion.

You should be able to kill other things, or revive nearby npc’s, to get credit for the heart, but it takes a lot longer. I do not remember that one in particular, though, so that may not help, but many hearts are having issues.

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

You should be able to kill other things, or revive nearby npc’s, to get credit for the heart, but it takes a lot longer. I do not remember that one in particular, though, so that may not help, but many hearts are having issues.

No, you can’t. The only other mobs in the area are regular spiders that don’t count for credit and there are no dead npcs, unfortunately.

Yes, this quest is bugged. I want map completion too.

It’s not bugged. You have to talk to the Displaced Spirits and walk them back to their bodies. Ghost spiders will spawn as you’re doing so, and once the NPC is back at his body, you can revive him. All of this gives credit toward quest completion.

There’s also an event that spawns in the area where you have to save children; killing mobs during this event also gives credit toward the heart.

I did this heart two days ago, so unless it was just bugged on the particular map you spawned in, it’s not broken. Not sure if server plays much of a part in bugged events/hearts anymore since we’re all lumped into the same maps.

Edit: Didn’t read the part about where they’re not responding. Maybe try re-loading the map and seeing if you get spawned in another one, or guesting to another server? If some maps are bugged, it’s definitely not all of them.

definitely bugged, the NPCs you have to talk to are all spawned on the trees and the cubs are all running around in front of the house.

Yeah, it’s definitely bugged. This happened to it often for months after launch, too.

Can confirm this. Trying to do map completion and I can’t even find one logger alive.

That heart is notorious for being bugged. The last time I encountered it bugged I was only able to “debug” it using the old search & rescue that would rez complete dead NPCs.

Maybe a warrior banner would work?

It is still bugged as described. Very annoying for trait unlocking (for one trait you need 100% completion of Iron Marches).

khani.4786:

That heart is notorious for being bugged. The last time I encountered it bugged I was only able to “debug” it using the old search & rescue that would rez complete dead NPCs.

Maybe a warrior banner would work?

The warrior’s battle standard does work, but as you might imagine with its >3 min CD, is still very tedious. Don’t know if glyph of renewal or any of the other revive skills work as well.

Otherwise, you’re just stuck camping at the one logger that works, and hoping that everyone else doing the exact same thing doesn’t keep you from getting credit.