In short: I accidentally triggered a Molten Alliance attack a little over an hour ago. I’m assuming this isn’t intended behavior.
So, I was doing map completion in Diessa Plateau on my Level 80 Thief, and I decided to enter the North Nolan Hatchery instance and check things out there. Then I figured, while I was there, why not try out the Human elite racial skills and see how they work? (I hadn’t tried them before, I wanted to test them somewhere out of the way, and I figured being by myself in an instance with no enemies was pretty safe.) So I tried Reaper of Grenth while I was near the NPC Sithio Quicklash.
Suddenly, there was this strange object that appeared right next to me. It looked like four satellite dishes put together. I could attack it, so I did, and then these Molten Alliance enemies and some fiery portals appeared.
I didn’t start playing GW2 until after Scarlet’s defeat, so I missed all the Molten Alliance stuff and only get to hear bits about it from NPCs. Suddenly having to fight a bunch of Dredge and Flame Legion at once was startling. None of the friendly NPCs reacted.
A few other “satellite dishes” appeared soon after the first, and each time, destroying one summoned enemies; destroying the last summoned a regular enemy and a veteran. (If I left the “satellite dishes” alone, no enemies appeared, which gave me time to change skills – as seen in the screenshots.) There was dialogue attributed to a Molten Stalker, a Molten Ratnik, and a Molten Shadowblade, respectively. After destroying all the “satellite dishes” and enemies I saw, the portals remained. Using another elite skill did not trigger the appearance of more attackable objects or enemies.
I’m guessing this was an encounter available in this location during all that Molten Alliance stuff, but since that’s over and not replayable, I would think this encounter shouldn’t happen anymore.
