Shatterer not starting
Someone mentioned that if you don’t escort the collection NPCs all the way back to town, it won’t start? If that is true, that is kinda crazy. In our 15 min windows, it just takes too long, it’s dead space. That needs to be fixed.
Of course you have to finish the pre-events… they can be done by a single player, unfortunetly they are often scaled up by 100 players thinking “naaaaah… someone else will do that” and then everyone wonder why theres no dragon coming.
It could be a case of people just not bothering to finish the pre-events in a timely fashion. I mean, if people just ignore the pre-events until the last 5 minutes, then the events and NPCs won’t finish/make it to their locations in time.
Also, the only escort that has to be done is the one where you escort the group of charr to the Shatterer starting area (“Escort the Sentinel squad to the Vigil camp”). The collection event ("Collect siege weapon pieces . . . ") ends when the collection is done; the NPCs run to the Shatterer area on their own and don’t need to be escorted, and you don’t have to do anything with them after the boss event is over, either.
A long time ago, the chain would occasionally stall before the pre-events even began; luckily, this was eventually fixed. So, I’m not sure what could be stalling the boss event now. I guess just make sure you bug report it anytime you encounter it in-game, and try to take note of what happens before it gets to the point where it stalls.
A friend of mine has been finishing up achievements late Pacific time and it’s spawned successfully each time (for whatever that’s worth).
@OP: for alternative names that pass the [kitten] filter, what about:
- Shatnerer
- Shafterer (because there’s even less loot to complain about)
- Sha’erer (although, per above, dude doesn’t share nearly enough)
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Good day!
QA has been gathering the reports from here and the reports from [/bug] about the event sometimes breaking after completing the two pre-events and design has come up with some potential fixes. The fixes will need to go through testing and I cannot provide an eta on when they will be good for release.
For now, if the Shatterer event appears broken folks will want to see if another map is open and attempt to get into it.
Thank you guys again for reporting the issue!