Guild Wars 2

This meta-event seems to be frequently bugged at one of two steps:

• Sentinel Whiptail is searching for a powerful ally in Lamprey Grottoes.*

Unfortunately Sentinel Whiptail is standing still at his start point near Brandwatch Encampment Waypoint, and will not move or react when talked to, making it impossible to progress the meta-event. I have not managed to ascertain personally what causes the event to fail like this, but I suspect it may be similar to the one below.

• Defend the siege devourer while it assists the troops.*

If the event bugs out here, the Siege Devourer is usually standing atop the cliffs to the west of Lake Desolann, but Sentinel Whiptail is once again back at the starting point at Brandwatch Encampment. I have a better idea of how this one fails; it seems that if Sentinel Whiptail is killed while this event is active, he auto-respawns back at Brandwatch Encampment, leaving the Devourer behind (which won’t move without Whiptail being present).

The sister event “Escort Centurion Bloodfist to Day’s Labor” can be completed separately as the Branded Juggernaut can be (sloooowly) killed without help from the Siege Devourer, but upon reaching Day’s Labor, the meta-event is stuck as both events must be complete for the meta-event to proceed.

I hope this bug is fixed as a matter of some urgency as this means that players are unable to unlock one of their traits without being forced to spend money on it.

I can confirm that this bug is in effect as of 05/08/14. The meta-event is bugged at: “Sentinel Whiptail is searching for a powerful ally in Lamprey Grottoes”.
I can find Sentinel Whiptail but he just sits there and does nothing and the event will not progress.
I hope this bug is fixed so that people can unlock one of their traits without having to spend money on it.

Bug still persists as of 2014/05/29.
Whiptail is locked in place on Brandwatch.

Still bugged on Jun 21, 2014 and I need the event for my last POI
I’ve been checking Iron MArches daily for this event but nothing really happens so I checked on this forum to find a solution but apparently there’s none yet

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Devouring-the-Brand-bugged
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Devouring-the-Brand-Meta-Event-Bugged/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Iron-Marches-Devouring-the-Brand

This event has been bugging since launch, for what appears to be several reasons.

Sometimes the devourer will simply stop walking. Sometimes it’ll lose all health, but not get defeated and instead lie there knocked down.

Eventually Whiptail will go back to Brandwatch, but the devourer will stay back in the brand, bugged, and Whiptail will keep the dialog about defending his devourer.

This prevents acquisition of a trait without purchasing it off a trainer, which should have made it a top priority to fix before pushing the trait update.

Still bugged on July 20, 2014.

Still bugged on September 3, 2014.
This is quite frustrating, since it is required for a trait unlock.
The Siege Devourer is stuck east of the lake while the sentinel is back at Brandwatch Camp.

It’s unfortunate that this hasn’t been addressed yet. If traits require specific events to unlock, then those events should get priority when addressing bugs. It’s also one of the more interesting event chains out there and I’d like to see more people do it for its own sake.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s unfortunate that this hasn’t been addressed yet. If traits require specific events to unlock, then those events should get priority when addressing bugs. It’s also one of the more interesting event chains out there and I’d like to see more people do it for its own sake.

I am actually surprised that hardly everyone mentions the bug to begin with, or is everyone just buying traits?
Me personally I actually created a new toon just to check the whole trait unlocking system, I like it a lot. The major flaw is that a lot of the unlocks require a higher level than the level you would have that trait available. For instance, technically you have access to all adept major traits at level 36, while most of them cannot be unlocked at that level.

Added a screenshot of the dialog with Sentinel Whiptail, which is miraculously camping his tower at Brandwatch Encampment while the dialog indicates that he is escorting his devourer.
NOTE from the Wiki:
If the devourer is brought to 0 health it will not be defeated. Instead, enemies will become neutral towards it, and it will stay knocked down. It can be healed to full health and once fully healed, it will stand up after Sentinel Whiptail is defeated and then revived, from then on the devourer will attack anything that Sentinel Whiptail attacks, but the event will no longer advance and enemies will no longer attack the devourer, preventing completion of the meta-event and acquisition of the related trait.

Though in this case, the devourer is standing still east of the lake, while Whiptail is back at his base.

This still happens, on ore than one event of the meta, and the siege devourer and Sentinel Whiptail are always involved.

The stalling can happed in any of the events of the meta in which the devourer is an ally and an objective of the event.

We can’t have this kind of constant and frustrating bug in an event required for a trait unlock, specially with people trying the game. This should not be the experience the should be getting.

The only chance players have is when an update happens or when guilds try the guild challenge there and new maps are created. Maybe visit some other maps as the Voluteer’s Blessing pops. But even then it’s unreliable.

I still have 3 or 4 characters waiting for a fix to this.

still bugged 5/9/15

still bugged, 4/29/2017. Happy third birthday bug (whatever. close enough)!

I need this for a legendary collection. I’m blocked by two of these stupid event bugs.

coro.3176:

still bugged, 4/29/2017. Happy third birthday bug (whatever. close enough)!

I need this for a legendary collection. I’m blocked by two of these stupid event bugs.

Im also stuck in my rodgort III collection because of a bug, but look at the bright side, we will get some brand new bugs and the revamped Arah trench coat on tuesday!!!

Katastroff.1045:

coro.3176:

still bugged, 4/29/2017. Happy third birthday bug (whatever. close enough)!

I need this for a legendary collection. I’m blocked by two of these stupid event bugs.

Im also stuck in my rodgort III collection because of a bug, but look at the bright side, we will get some brand new bugs and the revamped Arah trench coat on tuesday!!!

You will also get a map restart for all maps as part of the patch, which among other things, also means that you get all event chains reset. So, if you are blocked on this being buggy, get ready to do it first thing after the patch drops.

So basically, we got to wait for more whip cream to hide the taste.

-.-

Katastroff.1045:

So basically, we got to wait for more whip cream to hide the taste.

-.-

Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s terrible, and I’m not looking forward to that step since I have a vague plan to craft the same legendary. It’s just … at least that way progress can happen, even if it is miserable that it’s broken like this, and if someone didn’t know that before, now they do.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Katastroff.1045:

So basically, we got to wait for more whip cream to hide the taste.

-.-

Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s terrible, and I’m not looking forward to that step since I have a vague plan to craft the same legendary. It’s just … at least that way progress can happen, even if it is miserable that it’s broken like this, and if someone didn’t know that before, now they do.

Maybe we should get paid for finding work-around to those bugs.

=P

I would happily accept donations of gold or gems from anet for my bug reports, or work-arounds.