Guild Wars 2

The Risen High Wizard that’s supposed to spawn on the Defend the gates of Arah event still bugs sometimes and doesn’t spawn (which blocks progress on more than one legendary weapon collection).

It’s a known issue (or was) but it was marked as “fixed” in the Known Issues Tracker on May 5th:

Events: The risen high wizard does not always spawn with the ‘Gates of Arah’ defense event
Date Solved: 2016-05-03

It last bugged on map IP 64.25.33.42:0 at 10:50 PM PST on 2016/06/08

I was under the impression that this isn’t a bug. Instead, it’s just two different events; the wizard spawns during one, but he doesn’t spawn during the other. The wiki states the same, as well:

“There are two versions of this defense event: one where the Risen High Wizard spawns, and one where he doesn’t. These events have separate IDs.”

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ensure_that_the_Pact_holds_the_Gates_of_Arah

The original issue was that you couldn’t get certain drops unless the High Wiz spawned — that is what was changed (i.e. now special drops can be found from either the assault or the defense events).

(In other words, the original description of the issue in the Tracker was misleading.)