Guild Wars 2

Ran into this event in the fields of ruin.

When I arrived, there was only 1 villager left to save, but no matter what I did, the villager would not flee. even though there were no longer any harpies around.
Talking to the villager did not help either.

The area was deserted of players, so I guess others arrived at the same conclusion.

The problematic villager is the one at the top of the event area.

This bug is still there and bugged in the same way.

Yah. Been reported, and reported, and reported, and reported.

I guess you can try doing a bug report, again.

Guess what!! IT IS STILL BROKEN!!! ArenaNet, what the hell is going on???

This bug is still on, kept going back to the same map for about 4-5 hours but it’s still stuck …

Added screenshot, event has been bugged for close to half a day or more. Please check it out :\

Has this event seriously been bugged for 3 years? what the actual f—-?
I need it for Sunrise but it seems i should give it up……..

Yeah… Was shocked when I found this thread and saw the date being 3 years ago, 14/15 for my Sunrise Vol 1 and I can’t proceed Been actively checking the map every 2-3 hours and it’s still bugged .. Someone please help

omg, Anet, c’mon!!! You picked a bugged dynamic event to tie into crafting a legendary and didn’t make sure the bug was fixed? You didn’t check for bugged events before planning out this legendary journey!? I’m so happy I don’t like the skin on that GS and won’t have to put up with this. I’m seeing more and more why one of the guild founders of my WvW guild, who used to buy gems for both he and his wife on a monthly basis to support his WvW habit, has left this game and uninstalled. Heck, his name doesn’t even show up in the guild log any more for when he would promote people or order upgrades, so I suspect he even deleted his toons. AND HE WAS OUR FRICKIN’ SCRIBE!!!

Tried several times in last 24hrs and bugged with the 1 remaining captive still on every occasion.
As mentioned by previous posters, progress with Sunrise tier 1 is halted by this.

Wow! Really? I’m stuck in this event too. It says villagers to rescue 1 but there are no villagers (no shield icon).

I’m seeing the same issue. I’ve checked the last three days, bugged with 1 villager every time.

Meh … don’t worry about it. When you actually manage to complete this event the game will still pretend like the event never existed anyway.

Still bugged in same way, how am i supposed to complete Hawke Liberator?

Can’t continue the sunrise track like this..

Yup still bugged. Can’t rescue any of them, they just sit there.

This has made it to the curated Known Issue Tracker

• “Sunrise I: NPCs in “Harpy Rescue” event do not flee when harpies are killed"
• Status: “Investigating” (i.e. we are aware of the issue, but haven’t yet found a fix for it)

If you see it again:

• Include the /ip address of the instance and the date & time
• Ideally, use the in-game /bug reporting tool (that gives ANet important details helpful to troubleshoot)

Still bugged, standing by the frightened villager and he won’t budge.

Also doesn’t appear to be in the Known Issue Tracker anymore, only the skritt event, which I had no problems with earlier today.

I am also stuck on this event. I’m trying to proceed with Sunrise I collection quest, and I can’t because of this. Please let me know if anyone has a solution or work-around. Thank you

Work around is to find a new map where the kidnapping hasn’t happened yet and defend the camp instead. That will give you credit.

It’s pointless to try to complete the kidnapping event, because even if you manage to do it you will get no credit. No pop up medal, no karma, nothing. It’s like the game doesn’t recognize that you participated in the event.

The bugged instance of this map has been open since Monday and it still hasn’t closed. I can’t progress my legendary collection at all because of this.

The event is still bugged for me too

3 years and still bugged… really! Why add that event to a collection when its always bugged. I dont get that at all. Fix it or remove it.

I have given up on this event and given up on ever getting Eternity. Instead I have to settle with just Twilight and the Bifrost. ANet really has problems listening to player feedback.

I went to the Known Issues page: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888 and failed to see any mention of this horribly broken event there – how can that possibly be?

“Sunrise I: NPCs in “Harpy Rescue” event do not flee when harpies are killed” is not on the list.

I’m wondering how it was there two months ago and is now missing…

Please fix. It’s terribly frustrating to check this for two weeks and bugged on every map.

This event is bugged – there is one villager which can not be freed, so the event never ends or resets. Is there a way this can be fixed, please.

3 years now and still waiting if talking about the same place.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Rescue-the-villagers-and-defeat-harpy-kidnappers-bug/first#post6178933

Blude.6812:

3 years now and still waiting if talking about the same place.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Rescue-the-villagers-and-defeat-harpy-kidnappers-bug/first#post6178933

Then why did they include it in the crafting of Dawn?!

I am not sure which is easier, to fix the event or to replace it in the crafting of Dawn, but one of these issues should be addressed, IMO.

marquise.8059:

Then why did they include it in the crafting of Dawn?!

Who knows why.
No one bothered to fix it first or they were completely unaware or they didn’t bother reading the reports??

So yes you would think it shouldn’t have been part of an event that is known bug out. BTW, not fixing a bug that has been around for so long is really lame also.

marquise.8059:

Then why did they include it in the crafting of Dawn?!

Probably same reason they aren’t adding anymore Legendaries, I think they want to subtly discontinue them, which is why they added a bugged event as a requirement for one.

Khisanth.2948:

Meh … don’t worry about it. When you actually manage to complete this event the game will still pretend like the event never existed anyway.

Just useful information for those who might not know (I didn’t until a nice player informed me), if you are “lucky” enough to find a map where you can finish the event but get no reward or achievement credit, if you wait at the little town for about twenty minutes there is a defense event that gives you credit for Hawke Liberator. I don’t believe it is broken at this time. Hopefully this might help out a few people.

It took me three weeks of checking back multiple times a day to get the event to do even this though. The fact that it has been bugged for so long is crazy.

Today I ran thru area of this event, when I was doing this map – to my suprise, I was oneshoted down by one of three harpy warriors LEVEL 81 … a joke? I had of course level 38, as intended – and so I did max 8 damage to them

Currently trying to do this event and can confirm there are level 81 harpies there that kill you in 1 shot. This is really frustrating please fix!

Fix it plz! 3 days waiting for this event and what i saw? 80 lvl Harpy insta kill.