Hiden vortex crystal in Exposed Weaknesses
Same thing happened to me, same place in wall. at around half life, had to kill the boss only doing 40-50 damage since I couldn’t reach the vortex. reset at about 25% health, then happened again. Last boss took me 30 min to kill this way.
Its a known bug and they are working on a fix
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Hidden-Arcana-story-quest-bugged
Oh good to know. Thx Memphis