Guild Wars 2

Okay, for those who don’t know, when Megaservers came out, several world bosses that were once on timers became the endpoints of local event strings. One of which was the Dredge Commissar, who now spawn when both central camps in the “In Pursuit of Knowledge” meta event -Firebase Molek and Fridgardr Lodge- are under Priory control.

…at least, I think that’s what’s suppose to happen, because in pretty much every megaserver shard I’ve been in, the event to take Fridgardr Lodge is bugged. Explorer Sabbie is there to give explosives and dredge are in the camp (though no veteran Siegemaster), but all the doors are already blown and there is no actual event, even though the event itself, as far as I can find out, doesn’t have a timer: it should going on as long as the dredge control the camp.

Because of this, the meta-event is permanently stuck on some form of “The dredge and the Priory are competing for the center camps.” regardless of the state of Firebase Molek. Successful defense of Molek doesn’t change it, losing Molek doesn’t change it, and taking Molek back won’t change it. And long as it’s stuck like that, no Dredge Commissar (Also, no Mantelet Refuge siege event either, now that I think of it).

What really bugs me about this one however is that defeating the Dredge Commissar is a trait unlock; unless I get really lucky one night and manage to land on an unbroken shard (which I think might have happened once, during the weekend when I got butted to a fresh server thanks to people doing guild missions) I can never unlock that trait on any character made after the April update unless I pay for it in gold and skill points.

This is obviously not the only broken event. This isn’t even the only broken event that makes it nigh-impossible to unlock a trait without purchase or landing into the right server (The Branded Devourer Queen in Iron Marches depends on a couple of steps in the Meta-event completing without breaking, usually involving Sentinel Whiptail getting stuck hunting for the Giant Devourer) but this is the one I’m asking:

Will we ever see it get fixed?

P.S. Latest server I’ve seen this bug on was 64.25.38.194:0. You can always /ip to find out which megaserver shard you’re in, and I would always put it in any bug report you make involving a broken event, even though it’s probably something they get with the text report you make regardless.

I just now realized that if I wanted more dev eyes on this, I probably shouldn’t have posted it on the weekend >_<

Anywho, has anyone been able to get that event to work and get the Commisar to spawn? I’m not sure how guesting would work now with Megaservers, but if pretending I belong to another server in a time of day none of my guild are in Dredgehaunt Cliffs will let me unlock the trait for the characters who need it, that would be something I’d like to try.

Foefaller.1082:

I just now realized that if I wanted more dev eyes on this, I probably shouldn’t have posted it on the weekend >_<

Anywho, has anyone been able to get that event to work and get the Commisar to spawn? I’m not sure how guesting would work now with Megaservers, but if pretending I belong to another server in a time of day none of my guild are in Dredgehaunt Cliffs will let me unlock the trait for the characters who need it, that would be something I’d like to try.

This one is really frustrating and I suppose it is a bug. I’ve done all the preceding quests per the wiki and he does not spawn. This event (boss kill) unlocks a master level trait and should be fixed (or clarified if there is something more we need to do to spawn him).

has this been fixed? im still having this exact problem with dredgehaunt cliffs meta event

Duke Nukem.6783:

has this been fixed? im still having this exact problem with dredgehaunt cliffs meta event

I haven’t had any issues with commissar in the past few days. The Ogre Wars event in Fields of Ruin has been working as well.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Leah has some information on this which she’ll be posting as soon as she can.

Story revamp :O?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Leah has some information on this which she’ll be posting as soon as she can.

Trait unlock revert? Oh… I see what you did there! You used the dreaded “soon”…

Nothing to see here folks! Move along, move along!

O_O

A post I made Six months ago gets two dev responses!?

AWESOME!!!

You’re welcome for the details, and it’s great to hear this is getting fixed. Especially with the exotic manifesto being a collection item. This was the reason it’s so kitten expensive. :P

Based on your comments Leah, it sounds like the lesson here is that when it comes to reporting bugs, no detail is too small.

Leah thank you for working on this, are you in charge of the other broken events as well? Would love to see Ogre Wars get some support along with this one.

This has been happening for as long as I can remember.

If it wasn’t for the megaserver and guilds often popping extra maps or game updates, thus getting the a fresh chain to try again, I would have never fought the commisar again.

The problem is always on Fridgardr Lodge, like the “wiki”: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Knowledge says.

Explorer Sabbie will be there giving powder kegs as if the event was going on, but all 3 doors are already broken and there’s no event to recapture the lodge, and so the chain gets stuck there. Other events happen within the meta-event, but the Commisar requires the lodge to be captured, so it won’t spawn.

There’s at least two other trait-related events that also stall a lot.

• Devouring the Brand.
  • Often being halted by the Mordrem event on the way of the escort event before the meta-event.
  • Very often getting stuck at “Defend the siege devourer while it assists the troops”, usually after the siege devourer is defeated and revived.

• Ogre Wars
  • This one’s a mess. Sam’s prices are crazy high because of how often this stalls at several points.

Even if they change how traits are unlocked in HoT, the commisar and the chieftain drop exotic trinkets that are currently crazy high in price because of how rare is to actually getting to fight them and how strange bugged copies of fine rarity and with Malign stats drop instead the exotics so often. Seriously. What’s up with those? Some sort of sick joke? There’s some super-secret recipe to upgrade those to exotic? Why a single-stat combination on level 80 trinkets? Why Malign? Those must be bugged.

I’ve been trying this event for a couple of days – it gets to the “Dredge are driven back to Tribulation rift”, the Commissioner spawns but there is no chest. I have a couple of screenshots of the situation the first is just before he dies and the second is the empty cave.

DrLight.9760:

I’ve been trying this event for a couple of days – it gets to the “Dredge are driven back to Tribulation rift”, the Commissioner spawns but there is no chest. I have a couple of screenshots of the situation the first is just before he dies and the second is the empty cave.

I’m getting the same thing but it only seems to happen for one of my characters (my mesmer), it spawns fine for my other characters and sometimes for my mesmer but not always.

Kyban.4031:

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Any word on this? I’ve been doing the Dredge Commissar every day with a number of characters and one or two don’t get the chest spawn each day but today 4 of them didn’t get it. I assume the chest availability is supposed to reset at server reset (00:00 UTC) though sometimes JP chests don’t seem to reset either, is this assumption correct or am I missing something?