Guild Wars 2

SammyCapricorn.4712:

HOPE 4

I assume this is an oversight but the champ risen wraith(Risen crystalline phial) requires you fail two major events in Malchors Leap to spawn. People will not co-operate and it makes sense. Who’s going to listen when you’re telling them to fail events. Not to mention it says the cathedral is in Cursed Shore. Which it isn’t.

Also the spell trap requires more things to complete than are in the collection, Karka Queen’s magic doesn’t seem to get trapped by it either. And there is an event chain in Iron marches that needs to be completed to kill a champ branded devourer but it bugs almost every time from my experience. The guy just hangs around at Brandwatch Encampment.

+1+1+1
I finally got the Karka Queen one to capture after 3 attempts, but I am in the same exact boat for the other 2. It is ridiculous that anet would attach a broken event chain and a mob that only spawns after 2 events FAIL to such a major collection.

Is Bolt I still bugged? Talking about “Help the Pact reach the graveyard outside Zaishen Antheneum” für the Ancient Orrian Urn. Still doesn’t seem to start, did all the events around, waitet for 2h+ now, never saw it once…
Also, how many deldrimor steel do you need in total for Bolt? I read 75, can someone confirm?

sunrise (dawn) lll = Hey … one from the lll collection it is telling me to go behind jeztar falls in metrica provice in the hidden cave and capture a sunbeam light …but I have tried and tried and cant capture it at all …as I have read that other ppl haven’t had a problem with this …maybe I have a bug on my account? Its the last thing I need to capture for the precursor and its so frustrating tbh

also mentioning this here:
tar elemental core for rodgort: support knows about it and is on it to fix it

QUIP

I’m at the 3rd tier of collections and I need to craft a Confetti Pouch, but it requires Black Powder, which says is to be purchased from Thegren Topjaw at the Tela Range in Plains of Ashford. This NPC is the heart vendor and does NOT have Black Powder! So, until this Vendor’s offerings are updated I’m at a stand still. VERY disappointed when everything else seemed to be going so well. I HOPE this gets resolved soon.

Bolt II bug:
The master weaponsmith npcs are unlocking the wrong recipe for me after turning the items for The Art of Forging: Sword Hilt Edition.
When I talk to the npc and select, “I forgot how to craft a Balanced Sword Hilt”, the npc unlocks “A Weighted Sword Blade recipe”, which was already unlocked when I completed The Art of Forging: Sword Blade Edition.
I talked to the master weaponsmiths in every major city and ended up with the same result.
I have same issue – did you find any solution?
Anet please update how to fix this issue .

The Chosen
War Machine – just killed the champion flame effigy in fireheart rise needed for this part while having anthology of heroes in inventory but nothing got recorded
Please fix this asap

Bolt 1: The Legendary Experimental Sword

I have 20/21 of the necessary collectable items and the last one I need is the Ancient Orrian Urn that is bought from Scholar Nabbi in the Straights of Devastation. I have waited 6 hours and not once has the event restarted. Self-Confirmed as bugged.

-Side Note: Rather upset about it because I was planning on using my day off to fnish Bolt 1 and 2, but you can see my dilemma.

server maintenance last night..still no Tar Elemental Core for Rodgort -.-

HOPE IV: Enraged Champion Spider Queen in Gendarran Fields: eggs are missing which are preventing her to spawn.

Moot I: Giant Shark tooth confirmed to still not be dropping whatsoever. Have killed him eight times now, has yet to drop it. Every other mob in the achievement track had dropped their item guaranteed first attempt.

Quip III:
Still bugged making it impossible to get the black powder needed to craft the confetti.
33 days without a fix to this now.

RAGE III

the event at lashoosh village, in Snowden drifts, does not seem to start.

edit : I wait for the event for six hours, post this, and 20 minutes later the events starts twice. I don’t know if I should thank someone for a quick reaction time or curse my bad luck for six hours.

In doubt : thank you !

Predator collection:
-tier II
At one of the stages master huntsman (used the one in Ebonhawke) is asking for wrong kind of items -instead the appropriate rifle parts he is asking for small hafts(crafted from weapon smiths)
-tier III
Champion Captain Wiley(Gendaran Fields) required for collection is missing.Event is bugged from at least November 17th patch -effectively preventing me(and everyone else ) from finishing the collection since I`m at 23/24 and crafting the rifle.
Spy kit required for collection has misleading hint- sending you to Caledon Forest.When in reality you have to go to Malchor Leap and do event with hylek champion down in the water near Union Waypoint in order for NPC selling the kit to show up.

Generally expected more from precursor collection-for the amount of time presumable spend designing it there should not be so many bugs,missing items,wrong hints,bugged events preventing us from finishing any of the precursor collection.

RAGE III

It is impossible to get rid of the now-useless friendship bracelets. Two can be sold, all the others are both account bound and un-destroyable (when I try to destroy them, I get the “type the name in” popup but even after typing the name in, the “yes” button does not become available). Now I’ve got 16 slots of bag permanently taken up

Bifrost. Tribute to Ancient Theign. Spot to leave 100 Bloodstone Dust is right on a campfire that is also a commune point. Either it is bugged, or impossible to get.

Eks.1238:

Bolt II bug:
The master weaponsmith npcs are unlocking the wrong recipe for me after turning the items for The Art of Forging: Sword Hilt Edition.
When I talk to the npc and select, “I forgot how to craft a Balanced Sword Hilt”, the npc unlocks “A Weighted Sword Blade recipe”, which was already unlocked when I completed The Art of Forging: Sword Blade Edition.
I talked to the master weaponsmiths in every major city and ended up with the same result.
I have same issue – did you find any solution?
Anet please update how to fix this issue .

also having this issue however guildie did it no problem yesterday, curious what caused it / if there is a way around it

phylanara.9145:

RAGE III

It is impossible to get rid of the now-useless friendship bracelets. Two can be sold, all the others are both account bound and un-destroyable (when I try to destroy them, I get the “type the name in” popup but even after typing the name in, the “yes” button does not become available). Now I’ve got 16 slots of bag permanently taken up

If you have a free char slot, create a char, transfer them to him, delete the char. It’s not optimal but it free’s up your bag space

Astralaria III bugged. Cant purchase “Sheet of Aurilium” from Exalted Vendor. Already lvl.163

Astralaria III bug. 10 Meteoeite Ingots. Should be 1 Ingot – compared with the effort of the other Collections.

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

TNxPhil.7296:

Astralaria III bug. 10 Meteoeite Ingots. Should be 1 Ingot – compared with the effort of the other Collections.

are you serious about that?who told that this is a bug?doubt..they should fix vendor and megadestroyer…

for anybody trying to activate the Theign Kenning site for the Bifrost 1: The Experimental Staff – try going in to Options and then check the tick box to set the camera height to the character height – then commune again it should show the option to put the tribute there

*edit: also try going into first person view perhaps

Howler I – can’t get Mosquito Wings – tried ambient mosquitos in Tyria, Kryta, wherever.

edit: managed to get it from Mosquito at Dry Top

Moot 1 – Giant Shark Tooth

Once again, content is being designed around events to FAIL.

1. I have to ask repeatedly for people to NOT do an event so the shark can spawn. That goes against design philosophy of PVE.

2. When the event actually does spawn, the tooth is a random drop? I have done the event FIVE times and nothing.

So not only does it take awhile, but it doesn’t drop, and you have to HOPE the events leading to it fail.

Did anyone double check the requirements for these collections? Or bug test this? It is so disheartening to get doing these thing and constantly have roadblocks.

You can get this tooth from Giant Shark at Southsun Cove at Sawtooth Bay. I happened to get it on my first try.

HOPE IV : Branded Devourer Ichor …need Iron Marches meta event but…Defend the siege devourer while it assists the troops event totaly bugged. Inf from wiki:
Bugs:
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.
This page was last modified on 21 August 2015…oh my god. who the hell cares

Gray.9041:

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

I got the same issue. Pretty frustrating

Chisa.9578:

The Chosen
War Machine – just killed the champion flame effigy in fireheart rise needed for this part while having anthology of heroes in inventory but nothing got recorded
Please fix this asap

Got the same bug. But the champion flame effigy in Plains of Ashford does count.

Despite the clear and overwhelming evidence that this is a complete mess, NOT A SINGLE POST from anet for over a month. Have they all been fired or are they out partying spending the money we paid for HoT?

I am fully aware that stuff happens, but the worst sin that any business can commit is to ignore your customers.

Communicate please.

Nevermore IV:

Fereind o the pups and hounds: descriptions swapped.

Friend of the puppies doesnt work. Even after using repellent on sick dogs:no collection item

Gray.9041:

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

I found a workaround: Right clicking it and adding it to the collection seems to work.
The bottle seems to be tradeable for some reason, but only account and character bound items add themselves to collections.

Brisban Wildlands collection for Sunrise I is stuck. Server has only one map and it’s impossible to get enough people to be in new one. Restart or reset would be required. Skritts are in cages, another skritt is asking for help all the time but no event popping. 2nd day right now with same map.

206.127.159.101:0 map ip is stuck just to make it clear

Nevermore IV;

The Friend of Rabbits required event was disabled (as far as I know) when bundles were deemed too confusing to new players, as the New Player Experience (NPE) were introduced back in September 2014’s Feature Pack. This event has in other words not been active for over a year, and you chose to include that in the Nevermore IV collection? That quite simply blows my mind.

Danador also does no sell the Friend of the Pups trophy, but rather the Friend of the Hounds one, which is said to be given from doing the event that occurs. I assume it gives the Friend of the Hounds if you don’t purchase it from Danador before doing the event, as I have seen someone link having 2 Friend of the Hounds. I purchased mine before doing the event, and the event rewarded me with nothing for the Collection. This should have been a easy hotfix to replace the wrongful item on the Heart vendor btw.—not sure what’s taking so long.
_

Not progress blocking bugs, but worth mentioning;

Friend of the Owl Spirit requires you to fail up to two events, before you can start on a four-event chain that will grant this item. For one, the description is wrong and the two Owl trophies are switched around. Secondly, you don’t get the item on defeating the Svanir Hunters (after failing the Beast event, then the Shaman event), but rather after going through defeating the Hunters, then escorting Ulgadis as she mends snow owls, then escorting her again to defeat the Shaman, then helping her destroy the totem, at which point you finally get the trophy.

The bigger problem is the need to fail an event, in a rather heavily traffic’ed lower level zone. Not forgetting that it needs the first event, to be completed, in order to get the other trophy. That creates problems with players needing the event to fail for one trophy, and players wanting to do the event to get the other trophy (besides the numerous people just going through doing the event, because it’s an event). You are creating toxicity and animosity among players when one side just does what the game has been teaching them, to complete events, and another side doesn’t want it to be completed. Those who needs the event(s) to fail, get overly frustrated with the players who come through and won’t listen to any sort of plead for letting the current event fail. I had to wait until 4:45-5:00 AM in the morning to be able to do it. That’s a ridiculous requirement. And then there’s the direct grievers. The “trolls”. Like some, admittedly slightly funny in name, “Never Getting More” character that camped the events last night and completed them just out of spite to the 10-12 players standing there wanting and asking for players to let it fail so that a four-chain event can start.

You really need to rework these stages of the Collection(s). It takes the “in Guild Wars 2, you are happy to see other players” (which is not really always the case with poor scaling on some events, but anyways—) and turns it into the complete opposite. You start resenting other players and want them to go away. Some people deal with it better than others. I tried to ask nicely. Other players got really frustrated and started cursing out the players who didn’t want to listen when asked to stop. I don’t want to see that in Guild Wars 2. Don’t make the “friendliest MMO Community” do a 180 because of a poor design decision, please. It should be obvious how easy it is for people to be destructive and for them to grief on a setup like that as well.

EthanLightheart.9168:

Nevermore IV:

Fereind o the pups and hounds: descriptions swapped.

Friend of the puppies doesnt work. Even after using repellent on sick dogs:no collection item

Friend of the Rabbits: The event required was removed with the New Player Experience

Friend of the Owl Spirit: While not being bugged (except for having the wrong tooltip), requiring “Kill the Svanir shaman before he completes the Dragon totem” to fail (“Protect the owl spirits from Jormag’s minions” does not need to fail because Kill the shaman spawns upon success or failure regardless. Upon success the owls don’t need to be revived, so you might be faster completing Protect the spirits) makes people wait long times until they finally managed to bribe/flame away/whatever everyone who is just completing Snowden Drifts. Shouldn’t we be happy to see other players? Wasn’t this one of the GW2 selling points? This has never been less true though I am usually unhappy to see other players anyway (thanks to scaling, bosses healing upon damage and stupid knockbacks).

Absconditus.6804:

Nevermore IV;

The Friend of Rabbits required event was disabled (as far as I know) when bundles were deemed too confusing to new players, as the New Player Experience (NPE) were introduced back in September 2014’s Feature Pack. This event has in other words not been active for over a year, and you chose to include that in the Nevermore IV collection? That quite simply blows my mind.

Danador also does no sell the Friend of the Pups trophy, but rather the Friend of the Hounds one, which is said to be given from doing the event that occurs. I assume it gives the Friend of the Hounds if you don’t purchase it from Danador before doing the event, as I have seen someone link having 2 Friend of the Hounds. I purchased mine before doing the event, and the event rewarded me with nothing for the Collection. This should have been a easy hotfix to replace the wrongful item on the Heart vendor btw.—not sure what’s taking so long.
_

Not progress blocking bugs, but worth mentioning;

Friend of the Owl Spirit requires you to fail up to two events, before you can start on a four-event chain that will grant this item. For one, the description is wrong and the two Owl trophies are switched around. Secondly, you don’t get the item on defeating the Svanir Hunters (after failing the Beast event, then the Shaman event), but rather after going through defeating the Hunters, then escorting Ulgadis as she mends snow owls, then escorting her again to defeat the Shaman, then helping her destroy the totem, at which point you finally get the trophy.

The bigger problem is the need to fail an event, in a rather heavily traffic’ed lower level zone. Not forgetting that it needs the first event, to be completed, in order to get the other trophy. That creates problems with players needing the event to fail for one trophy, and players wanting to do the event to get the other trophy (besides the numerous people just going through doing the event, because it’s an event). You are creating toxicity and animosity among players when one side just does what the game has been teaching them, to complete events, and another side doesn’t want it to be completed. Those who needs the event(s) to fail, get overly frustrated with the players who come through and won’t listen to any sort of plead for letting the current event fail. I had to wait until 4:45-5:00 AM in the morning to be able to do it. That’s a ridiculous requirement. And then there’s the direct grievers. The “trolls”. Like some, admittedly slightly funny in name, “Never Getting More” character that camped the events last night and completed them just out of spite to the 10-12 players standing there wanting and asking for players to let it fail so that a four-chain event can start.

You really need to rework these stages of the Collection(s). It takes the “in Guild Wars 2, you are happy to see other players” (which is not really always the case with poor scaling on some events, but anyways—) and turns it into the complete opposite. You start resenting other players and want them to go away. Some people deal with it better than others. I tried to ask nicely. Other players got really frustrated and started cursing out the players who didn’t want to listen when asked to stop. I don’t want to see that in Guild Wars 2. Don’t make the “friendliest MMO Community” do a 180 because of a poor design decision, please. It should be obvious how easy it is for people to be destructive and for them to grief on a setup like that as well.

Well said.Unfortunately it is unlikely that a dev will see this unless you make it to frontpage of reddit.

Currently I am stuck on two collections the tier 1 Kraitkin and the tier 3 Bifrost. I spend most of my time in game now either harvesting coral hoping to get Vial of Manganese Dioxide and getting nothing or sitting in dry top hoping Dune Soarer will spawn. this is very upsetting since the collections I thought were for those people who no matter how much they did never got a precursor drop because they had lousy RNG. But now because I have lousy RNG I can’t complete the two pres I wanted.

Box of Recipes: The Ravenswood Branch says it can be learned by Artificer (450) Huntsman (450) and Weaponsmith (450), however some of the recipes require only artificer. I learned the recipe with my Huntsman, since he is my character that learns all random recipes. now I can’t craft the Ravenswood branch. Should not say learnable by Huntsman if the Huntsman cannot craft it!!!

Quip Tier 3:
- Grawl Trickery: Defend Ulfred until he finds a location for his statue does not restart. He stays in the Grawlenfjord caves indefinitely.
- Confetti pouch: Thegren Topjaw does not sell Black Powder necessary to craft the confetti.

Malediktus.9250:

Gray.9041:

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

I found a workaround: Right clicking it and adding it to the collection seems to work.
The bottle seems to be tradeable for some reason, but only account and character bound items add themselves to collections.

Thank you.

You’re my new favourite person.

my computer is telling me that I can’t hit +1 more than once. I’m gonna keep going for a while anyway.

seriously though, finished the collection, thanks a lot!

Absconditus.6804:

Nevermore IV;

The Friend of Rabbits required event was disabled (as far as I know) when bundles were deemed too confusing to new players, as the New Player Experience (NPE) were introduced back in September 2014’s Feature Pack. This event has in other words not been active for over a year, and you chose to include that in the Nevermore IV collection? That quite simply blows my mind.

Danador also does no sell the Friend of the Pups trophy, but rather the Friend of the Hounds one, which is said to be given from doing the event that occurs. I assume it gives the Friend of the Hounds if you don’t purchase it from Danador before doing the event, as I have seen someone link having 2 Friend of the Hounds. I purchased mine before doing the event, and the event rewarded me with nothing for the Collection. This should have been a easy hotfix to replace the wrongful item on the Heart vendor btw.—not sure what’s taking so long.
_

Not progress blocking bugs, but worth mentioning;

Friend of the Owl Spirit requires you to fail up to two events, before you can start on a four-event chain that will grant this item. For one, the description is wrong and the two Owl trophies are switched around. Secondly, you don’t get the item on defeating the Svanir Hunters (after failing the Beast event, then the Shaman event), but rather after going through defeating the Hunters, then escorting Ulgadis as she mends snow owls, then escorting her again to defeat the Shaman, then helping her destroy the totem, at which point you finally get the trophy.

The bigger problem is the need to fail an event, in a rather heavily traffic’ed lower level zone. Not forgetting that it needs the first event, to be completed, in order to get the other trophy. That creates problems with players needing the event to fail for one trophy, and players wanting to do the event to get the other trophy (besides the numerous people just going through doing the event, because it’s an event). You are creating toxicity and animosity among players when one side just does what the game has been teaching them, to complete events, and another side doesn’t want it to be completed. Those who needs the event(s) to fail, get overly frustrated with the players who come through and won’t listen to any sort of plead for letting the current event fail. I had to wait until 4:45-5:00 AM in the morning to be able to do it. That’s a ridiculous requirement. And then there’s the direct grievers. The “trolls”. Like some, admittedly slightly funny in name, “Never Getting More” character that camped the events last night and completed them just out of spite to the 10-12 players standing there wanting and asking for players to let it fail so that a four-chain event can start.

You really need to rework these stages of the Collection(s). It takes the “in Guild Wars 2, you are happy to see other players” (which is not really always the case with poor scaling on some events, but anyways—) and turns it into the complete opposite. You start resenting other players and want them to go away. Some people deal with it better than others. I tried to ask nicely. Other players got really frustrated and started cursing out the players who didn’t want to listen when asked to stop. I don’t want to see that in Guild Wars 2. Don’t make the “friendliest MMO Community” do a 180 because of a poor design decision, please. It should be obvious how easy it is for people to be destructive and for them to grief on a setup like that as well.

I know this company has a thing for completely ignoring players, but I can only hope they read this. It’s beyond ridiculous to the point where I HONESTLY believe that the two legendary weapons out of the whopping three released are bugged intentionally as a stalling tactic.

First they delay them past the 2014 date, and then 2 years later, they announce it will be with HoT. Then they say the weapons will be delayed 2 weeks into the pack along with raids. Then they are completely bugged to the point of not being able to finish, including an event that hasn’t existed in 5 months. OK. Not to mention they have said LITERALLY NOTHING on this and have been ignoring everyone, once again.

Rhea Ravenseeker.7105:

Despite the clear and overwhelming evidence that this is a complete mess, NOT A SINGLE POST from anet for over a month. Have they all been fired or are they out partying spending the money we paid for HoT?

I am fully aware that stuff happens, but the worst sin that any business can commit is to ignore your customers.

Communicate please.

Completely agree. I’m frustrated with the lack of communication. Any ETA on a fix for all these precursor collection bugs or are we just going to have to continue posting about it until the next blue moon comes around? We all noticed the dev post in a thread about gold selling, so clearly that is more important than all these bugs affecting EVERYONE. >_<

Collection still bugged… Nothing today to fix that … :’(

Tar elemental Core for Rodgort III still seems bugged.

nothing written about them in the patch notes,either so… I guess we dont have to expect them to be fixed today

Lol this company. What a running shame

friend of puppies working and they dont say it on patch notes dunno about the bunnies im w8 there atm with a lot of people….

well I tried tar elementals minutes ago..wasnt fixed..

One have Friends of rabbit or he is bugged again !???

rabbits seems still bugged…i dont think the event exist in game