Guild Wars 2

It’s been 2 years now and this fellow’s escort event is still bugged. Most maps I see him on he never moves from the tower that you find him at. He just stands there. If he does happen to find his feet and move away to do the event he often bugs out there instead and finds a nice place to stand motionless.

This is a big problem as a number of people crafting HOPE require the Branded Devourer Queen, which is the end boss of this event. This is an unfair blocking of progress that is out of players hands to solve. Honestly I am a bit peeved that the decision was made to attach an item to this event without fixing it in the first place.

I’m completely with you on this one. It’s like they specifically chose events that they knew would anger the player base (I’m looking at you, too, Champion Risen Wraith). I don’t feel challenged. I feel wildly frustrated.
I can’t imagine this ever passed a QA test, since if anyone had just played through the HOPE IV collection once, they would have noticed that this event is just all kinds of jacked up. It obviously wasn’t tested on a live server, so we’re stuck with incomplete collections due to old, broken content.
It probably went something like: “Hey, this champ sounds remotely related to the collection we’re making, let’s throw that one in there. Aaaaaand done.”

Yea it’s the last part of my collection aswell. For a whole 3 days now I couldn’t find him once not stuck at his place. It’s extremly frustrating, even worse than the stupid wraith… but hell, at least that guy showed up once in a while.

I really hope since it’s tuesday and patchday, they fix this bug or at least change it to another champ branded devourer… :/

Same for me.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Devouring-the-Brand-Meta-Event-Bugged

I really hope this gets a fix tonight …

I was able to bypass this bug by logging in and out from the character selection screen many times, trying to spawn a new instance in Iron Marches. I finally was able to do so. The event tracker on the right side of the screen said “There are currently no major operations in the Brand”. This is what you need to see in order to know you’ve gotten a clean event map.
Head over to the Village of Scalecatch Waypoint — [&BOcBAAA=] — and look for Sentinel Scalebrusher’s event chain. The event that kicks everything off is called “Escort Sentinel Scalebrusher and his devourers to the pen”. You may need to complete “Gather devourer eggs for Scalecatch Village” or “Pick up a training kit and use the whip to train devourers how to destroy targets” first.
Once you’ve escorted Sentinel Scalebrusher and his devourers to Sentinel Whiptail in Brandwatch Encampment — [&BOkBAAA=] — the event “Protect Sentinel Whiptail while he finds and tames a siege devourer” should trigger if he does not happen to get stuck in the outpost. If he isn’t stuck, and ventures out to tame the siege devourer, there is a good chance the event will stall. This happens atop the nearby hill when the siege devourer becomes perma-invulnerable because Whiptail stops too far away from it to trigger his dialogue.
At this point, I lured marmoxes and grubs to Whiptail and got him killed. This took quite a while, since there were people around who wouldn’t listen, and they would often kill the mobs I was using to kill Whiptail. Finally, after about 20 minutes of yelling at everyone in say chat, they allowed him to die. After you rez Whiptail, he will immediately run into range of the siege devourer and his dialogue will trigger, allowing the event to continue.
Once you run through all the subsequent events —http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Devouring_the_Brand — the “Kill the Branded devourer queen” should spawn and you’ll be able to harvest your Branded Devourer Ichor from her after she’s dead.

bump

This is stil relevant.

I have absolutely NO clue how this can happen. Implementing a bugged precondition – but it is annoying as hell. The ppl who met at Sentinel Whiptail in the Iron Marches, waiting for a miracle, added each other and we will try to brute-force creating new maps by gathering as many people we can and spam the %&$§&+*# event until it completes. But i assume thats not how HOPE IV is supposed to be completed.