Guild Wars 2

I occasionally get a bug where I can’t target any enemies with the mouse (but using the keyboard for targeting still works). It’s not a bug that happens a lot, and a relog usually fixes it. Also I don’t use the mouse to target very often so there’s probably times that I have the bug and don’t even notice it. It’s possible that this bug is responsible for some people not being able to target the portals/behemoth.

I’m just here to confirm that this event is also bugged on Northern Shiverpeaks. Waited for 4 hours.

Im on ‘Isle of Janthir’..haven’t seen Champ Oakheart or Shadow Behemoth in several days since starting my new character. I’ve ask around in chat and been playing a ton. It seems like the Swamp chain isn’t working again.

Thx

Server : Piken Square

The Shadow Behemoth appeared today.
The first thing I found weird is that the events that should trigger it did not appear.
He just spawned there…
At the start I tried attacking the portals but nothing…Not even AoE attacks could destroy them.
Then more people came and we tried to destroy them together but still nothing.

Then someone said that the Rotting Oakheart is up. So we went to kill it because it is said that Behemoth can’t be Spawned the same time with the Oakheart. When we killed it we went back to the Behemoth to see if it worked but it was still Untargetable.

Though we can’t attack him he can kill us as usual.
The event triggered some days before and it was just fine. Maybe the morning patch has to do something with it ?

I am waiting for an answer, and thanks for your time.

Here are some pictures

This is the first time I actually caught Behemoth, so it’s a shame it doesn’t work right now. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Server: Piken Square
This has happened to me at least twice in last few days. Behemoth and portals just can not be targeted and AoE attacks don’t work either.

Jason King.2647:

Were you able to click-target other objects/players?

There’s currently a bug where players can end up unable to target anything, and we’re trying to figure out if this is just coming up more frequently when fighting the Shadow Behemoth or if it’s a separate bug only related to the Shadow Behemoth. Thanks!

This bug is not about Behemoth. I ve neve done this boss so far, yet I sometimes end up with unable to click/target objects randomly.

Jason King.2647:

Were you able to click-target other objects/players?

There’s currently a bug where players can end up unable to target anything, and we’re trying to figure out if this is just coming up more frequently when fighting the Shadow Behemoth or if it’s a separate bug only related to the Shadow Behemoth. Thanks!

I could target every other player and foe in the swamp except anything relevant to Shadow Behemoth including his Portals and Itself…Glad you are looking into it and keep up the good work
We’ll be cheering

I’m am on Ferguson’s Crossing and have waited three day cycles and the swamp has always remained dormant. Just a heads up.

I was also able to target at least other foes nearby. I chatted with other players nearby and I was not only one with targeting problem. Actually I’m pretty sure everyone nearby had same problem and someone was saying that “behemoth is still bugged” so it was not the first time for someone else either.

Hopefully this helps. Good luck to your bug hunt

Pretty sure it’s bugged in Dragonbrand. I say “pretty sure” because I’ve waited 3 hours in the swamp area without seeing the Oakheart event or the Swamp event appear. It’s been a week since I last participated, and any time I play with my friends I constantly teleport (since its last occurrence, to my knowledge) to the swamp in hopes that it isn’t bugged and I’ve just missed every occasion.

I haven’t seen ‘Champ Rotting Oakheart’ or ‘Shadow Behemoth’ in a week

(Ferguson’s Crossing & Kaineng)

I see its listed as ‘bugged’ on the GW2 Wiki.

Just wanted to update this thread.

Thx.

Jason King.2647:

While it looks like the events chaining to Shadow Behemoth got fixed on some servers, we found some additional points that are stopping it from spawning on others that we’ll be working on.

Hello Mr. King, I am from Sorrow’s Furnace and have been investigating the reasons why the ‘Secrets in the Swamp’ Meta Event is not occurring. I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason mainly revolves around the involvement of Eldvin Monastery and it’s participation in the pre-events leading up to the spawning of Shadow Behemoth. I believe that ArenaNet placed a preventative measure from allowing the Centaur to attack during the event, ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale’ at the same time as the portals spawning for the pre-event of ‘Secrets in the Swamp’; preventing the player from being overwhelmed by two events in the same location.

The issue however, is that after Sister Brenda is done being involved in ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale’, she becomes available for the escort event, ‘Protect the brew shipment’ where she becomes a Merchant for approximately six minutes after completion. However for some unknown reason the event ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale’ will not wait for Sister Brenda to despawn and attempt to begin without her. When this fails the event is stuck in a state of limbo and never ends. Due to the fact that the event never ends, the pre-events never occur, and ‘Secrets in the Swamp’ never happens.

I am providing this information to this forum thread in hopes that it serves as some assistance in getting the issue fixed, as I enjoy spending my time in Queensdale helping lower level players adapt to the game by answering their questions. It only pains me to hear their disappointment in being unable to participate in one of their favorite events, and I aim to assist in the resolution of this matter as much as possible.

The following is a time log, recorded by myself with the assistance of other players in other locations notifying me when something spawned, completed, or despawned to support my research:

• At 10:27PM Shadow Behemoth spawned.
• At 10:28PM Sister Brenda and Pack Bull spawned at Eldvin Monastery to begin ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale (11)’.
• At 10:33PM ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale (11)’ was completed and Sister Brenda became available for ‘Protect the brew shipment (14)’.
• At 10:34PM Shadow Behemoth was downed.
• At 10:44PM ‘Protect the brew shipment (14)’ was completed and Sister Brenda became a merchant at Swamplost Haven selling ‘Stein of Light Ale’ for thirty-two copper each.
• At 10:46PM Pack Bull spawned at Eldvin Monastery to begin the ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale (11)’ event again, but Sister Brenda is still at Swamplost Haven as a merchant.
• At 10:50PM Sister Brenda despawns from Swamplost Haven and is never seen again. The Pack Bull never despawns. The ‘Secrets in the Swamp’ Meta Event never shows any activity.

The ‘Pack Bull’ NPC from ‘Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery ale (11)’ in question can be seen in the attached screenshot and is not to be confused with ‘Brew Shipment’ NPC from ‘Protect the brew shipment (14)’.

As far as I know it is bugged on Crystal Desert server.

Server: Sea of Sorrows
(Please note I live in Australia and times are local times)

Shadow Behemoth spawned at (given or take 10mins) 11am, 1:30pm, 4:00pm and 6:30pm on Saturday and has not been seen since, I was around for the 9:00pm spawn and it never happened. I believe it had spawned a few times before the 11am spawn time. We have seen the centuars, the escort and the oakheart in this time.

Additional info: As of around 10:30pm Sunday night the forest has been in corrupted mode but the Oakheart has no longer spawned.

Also not sure if it is linked but Heartwood Pass Waypoint has been contested for a while as well but no events (its a camp that is attacked and defend from centaurs) have spawned there either. I cannot remember when this started.

To answer the question below I have seen all the events since the bugged spawn until now- I will watch out for them as I play today but the forest is in a permanent corrupted state now with no Oakheart in sight.

Kashra.3761:

Server: Sea of Sorrows
(Please note I live in Australia and times are local times)

Shadow Behemoth spawned at (given or take 10mins) 11am, 1:30pm, 4:00pm and 6:30pm on Saturday and has not been seen since, I was around for the 9:00pm spawn and it never happened. I believe it had spawned a few times before the 11am spawn time. We have seen the centuars, the escort and the oakheart in this time.

Just curious, but at 9:00pm, did you see the Pack Bull standing at the road by the Monastery alone? Did the centaur/escort mission continue to work after Shadow Behemoth’s failure to spawn? I’ve noticed that about six to eight hours after Shadow Behemoth fails to spawn; Champion Rotting Ancient Oakheart stops working, is he still spawning or has he too stopped?

We had a good run with the Shadow Behemoth after the reset. I fought him three times before I went to bed. It never respawned the next day. Currently, NPCs are standing around the Pack Bull with no centaurs coming, while the rotten Oakheart event is no longer reoccuring. I’m on Blackgate server.

Thank for looking into this issue. I hope all bugs related to these events get all squished out.

Swamp event was working for a while after another server reset yesterday. Shadow Behemoth was fought (five times) with no issues for about 12 hours. Next morning, the Pack Bull was spotted standing alone beside Eldvin Monastery. NPC Sister Brenda is absent.

I’m still not sure why this happened. I wonder if it’s related to an event failure on defending the monastery’s ale or brew shipment.

Playing on Jade Quarry. Spend a lot of time in Queensdale, but haven’t seen the Shadow Behemoth in well over two weeks. Neither have my friends or parents who also frequent the zone. The event just never goes beyond dormancy!

Please assist. I would like to show my friends how awesome the world boss fights are, but they don’t seem to be spawning.

Also, I haven’t noticed any of the other world bosses spawning in the starting zones, either. Don’t know if there’s something wrong with Jade Quarry in general.

Doesn’t seem to be working on on Eredon Terrace either. The Pack Bull is standing at the monastery every time I log in to check and the swamp is dormant.

pack bull the same way on jade quarry no shadow behemoth all day

Jason King.2647:

Since our last attempted fix, we’ve found what some of you have also seen: there are ways that the events leading up to the Shadow Behemoth spawning can get blocked (potential fix in the works). We’re also investigating why the portals/behemoth are occasionally untargetable. Thank you for the additional details!

On Devona’s Rest, I have been playing GW2 for a while now and have had multiple people watching for me, but i have not seen nor heard of the SB events starting at all. It has been a month or so now, as it is preventing further achievement points being rendered unto myself for said event. And Shadow was one reason i got GW2.

It looks like the swamp at Godslost Waypoint [Queensdale] on Dragonbrand never ever ever becomes active. We’ve completed all the nearby map events, and after 7 hours… nothing. Not a peep.

I’ve heard this event is really cool, and potentially even has special loot! Looking at videos of the Shadow Behemoth at the end, it looks like this event bug basically ruined an entire dragon-sized event… Can someone please look into this?

Thanks!

I’m bumping this for Dragonbrand… I wasted a whole day in Queensdale checking the swamp and talking with Sister Brenda, but she never starts her event and the swamp remains eternally dormant… can’t someone do a quick fix so we can kill this thing?

It looked so cool in the preview videos…

It worked for a bit after reset on Tarnished Coast.

What I found questionable, though, was that the Rotting Oakheart spawned at almost the exact same time as the Shadow Behemoth when I did it.

This occurs on many servers. I haven’t seen it, or any of its precursors, occur on Yak’s Bend in well over a week. I could have missed it, of course, but I spend a fair bit of time slumming there and I see nothing but questions about it on map chat.

It is a cool event, and its status as a world event and being the zone’s iconic battle, makes it being broken so often/so long a special failure on someone’s part.

And yes, there’s a nice chest at the end yielding a batch of level-appropriate toys. At least, I think there is…it’s so hard to remember that far into the past….

Phuriocity.9218:

It worked for a bit after reset on Tarnished Coast.

What I found questionable, though, was that the Rotting Oakheart spawned at almost the exact same time as the Shadow Behemoth when I did it.

How long ago was that? On my server (Dragonbrand) people say that nothing happens at all after server resets… I wonder if there’s an event chain that needs people to do it, or risks permanently disabling Shadow Behemoth?

Can someone please direct more resources towards this? It’s hardly a minor bug, and it sounds like it has been messed up for weeks if not months across all our servers…

When do server resets happen exactly?

Radio Isotope.3045:

When do server resets happen exactly?

As far as I know, only when they have a new update or other server maintenance-related issue. Server resets being a requirement for an event is NOT intended. This is a bug, and it needs to be fixed!

:(

I have been waiting for him to spawn in fort aspenwood server. I don’t know when the last time he spawned. I have been in the swamp area for 5 hours today. The centaurs have not attacked the monastery, and sister Brenda hasn’t shipped her ale.

i’ve been checking for the shadow behemoth event, including any of the pre-events every 5 to 6 hours or so for the past 4 days. never once have i seen anything but “the swamp lies dormant.” i’m assuming this message changes even if there’s just one of the pre-events going on? regardless, i have 3 alts positioned on the pre-events, and i always check those.

not sure if it has anything to do with it, but the pack bull escort DE in the same area seems to be stuck as well.

please fix it

edit: i’m on “Dzagonur (DE)”

You’ll have a chance on seeing Shadow Behemoth and the swamp events once a notification of a new game build appears. Shadow Behemoth’s respawn rate is around 2 hours to 2:30 hours. Once the server resets, stick around in Queensdale in 2 hours.

If you launched the game late and noticed it’s updating, ask around and find out how long ago the game rebooted.

Jason King.2647:

Since our last attempted fix, we’ve found what some of you have also seen: there are ways that the events leading up to the Shadow Behemoth spawning can get blocked (potential fix in the works). We’re also investigating why the portals/behemoth are occasionally untargetable. Thank you for the additional details!

A friend and I beat the Shadow Behemoth on GATE OF MADNESS about two weeks ago, but the swamp has been dormant since.

Since we have not seen any updates… I have been patrolling the Swamp and the events and blocking possibilities on Yak’s server.

It seems that the blocking at the Monastery has been fixed. Those events cycle normally and none of them get hung any longer. There is ample time between those events that will allow the portal to spawn when the timing is right.

There is nothing at the Taminn that can block that I can see. The portal spawn area is clear.

Now to the problem area, Greatheart Weald. On Yaks at least, it seems the Champion Ancient Rotting Oakheart event is stuck. The Weald is corrupted, but the requisite NPCs, the Hunter and Tracker, have either not spawned or been killed by the locals (Ettins) and are unable to progress the event, hence no Champion to kill and the area will not clear for the Portal to spawn.

This seems to be the issue blocking the Secrets in the Swamp event, from what I can see anyway. Every time the Swamp hangs after a server patch/restart, I go to the Weald, the area is corrupt, and the 2 NPCs are nowhere to be found. Those NPCs need to be either protected or able to be resurrected so that the event can continue and clear the area for the portal to spawn.

ANet, can we get an update? This is IMHO the best meta event in the game (with Tequatl running a close second). Many, many of us would love to see it working properly again.

I have a few questions.

When triggering other events, could they potentially reset the whole flow towards some of the pre-events? I ask this because it seems that the Troll event is always up and if it keeps getting triggered it may mean that it is resetting the pre-events for the Shadow Behemoth; and if the timing is right it may bug them out as well.

Another thing, wiki states that there are two NPCs involved with the champion rotting ancient oakheart – Hunter and Tracker. If this event is part of the pre-event chain for the Shadow Behemoth, then perhaps looking at those two NPC’s might shed some light to this issue?

Also, the two events Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery’s ale and Defeat the champion rotting ancient oakheart cannot be active, otherwise the Shadow Behemoth pre-events will not trigger. Well sounds to me like the game thinks these are constantly active for some reason, whether succeeded or failed.

Especialy this one:

Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery’s ale -> (Followed by) Protect the brew shipment -> (Proceeeded by) Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery’s ale OR (Proceeded by) Return stolen kegs of ale to Abbot Mathias

What is intersting is this part Return stolen kegs of ale to Abbot Mathias can either go to:

a) (Proceeded by) Drive back the centaurs before they steal the monastery’s ale

or

b) (Followed by) Protect the brew shipment

To me this looks like a loop depending on whether the events have failed or succeeded.

so when is this bug ever going to get fixed? or just going to gget swept under the carpet like a majority of bugs

Well I took a snapshop of what might be part of this bug on my server (Crystal Desert)

Basically, the pack-bull (‘Protect the brew shipment’, I think it’s part of that, could be wrong) has lost it’s guy and it’s just standing there

Roland Dragonne.7384:

Since we have not seen any updates… I have been patrolling the Swamp and the events and blocking possibilities on Yak’s server.

It seems that the blocking at the Monastery has been fixed. Those events cycle normally and none of them get hung any longer. There is ample time between those events that will allow the portal to spawn when the timing is right.

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Death Reincarnated.3570:

Well I took a snapshop of what might be part of this bug on my server (Crystal Desert)

Basically, the pack-bull (‘Protect the brew shipment’, I think it’s part of that, could be wrong) has lost it’s guy and it’s just standing there

Roland Dragonne might have been “fixed” on your server but it is not “fixed” on many. The brew events at the Monastery are broken more often than not. If you find them working then it’s luck because their breaking is entirely predictable.

One wonders what priority this problem has with the developers, if any at all. The events in that area have been broken for months now and, despite promises as to fixes, remain broken.

OTOH, most MMOs have broken “quests” and their developers often ignore them so I suppose ANet is following industry standard practice.

Death Reincarnated, that’s how it is when it’s broken. The pack-bull has been there so long that it’s putting down roots.

Thanks Jason. Fingers crossed it works.

I think people really enjoy this boss – I know I do

i think this has been posted a lot of times but PLEASE ANET FIX SHADOW BEHEMOTH……
I WANT TO FIGHT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Messiahbolic.2374:

i think this has been posted a lot of times but PLEASE ANET FIX SHADOW BEHEMOTH……
I WANT TO FIGHT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol dude, you should take more care with your reply – two posts above

Jason King.2647:

As an update on this issue, we’re putting in another fix for this with our next full update that should fix it. Thank you for your patience!

just went to the swamp after the maintenance. the brewery escort DE was stuck as soon as it started…

Just killed it thanks to the server reset. We’ll see if it spawns again.

I finally got to fight the Shadow Behemoth tonight. Hopefully he will continue coming back.

I doubt this was fixed. Jason said the patch will be part of the next full update – this was just a routine maintanance.

Finger crossed anyways.

If it’s still bugged today, Monday will be the next “full update”, correct?