Guild Wars 2

I recently picked up the Sunrise part 1 collection quest and progressed through it until I got to the Hawke Liberator portion. Upon arriving in Field of Ruin I found the event active, ran in, and was immediately killed by level 81 harpies (for a level 38 event). Since then I’ve checked back each day, across multiple times, and found the same problem consistently.

Fine, I thought, I’ll start working on Twilight; I’m going to want them both eventually anyway. Again, after a couple evenings of effort I’m down to the last couple collection pieces. Off to Malchor’s Leap for Research Destruction. Upon arriving at the underwater location I find that the quest is also terribly stuck, with the required NPCs dead inside and no way to enter via the control panel.

So, now I’m stuck, unable to progress on both of these weapons. I’ve filed bugs in-game, but this is incredibly frustrating. I check in each time I log in for both of them, and each time I’m met with exactly the same situation.

Looking over the forums it’s clear other people are experiencing the same problems, but I never see a response. Am I to guess that this just isn’t a priority?

phrique.5439:

Looking over the forums it’s clear other people are experiencing the same problems, but I never see a response. Am I to guess that this just isn’t a priority?

From the data you have, you can only guess about the priority of replying to recent posts on the topic.

There are several threads, here and on Reddit, in which the developers have stated that they are working on fixing issues that block the collections, including stalled events, events that require a previous-failed event, and more. For a while, they replied quite a bit; recently, they haven’t. There’s no estimated time for anything as far as I’ve seen, which is neither good nor bad news — it’s just ‘no news’.

I’d certainly prefer that ANet keep us better posted about the status of game- or collection-blocking issues. At the same time, I’m aware of just how impossible a task that is on top of actually fixing the bugs.

Put another way, if I ran the QA department, I’d make sure that there was a public bug list that was maintained frequently, while at the same time, I’m sure if I was in charge, they’d probably be resolving fewer bugs

This really is endlessly frustrating and unacceptable. Neither collection can be completed without an extreme amount of luck. How can these bugs still not be fixed?

I can’t speak for Sunrise, but I did the Twilight one 3 times before succeeding.

I’m not sure if it made any difference to the progress, but my successful run was the only time I started the quest chain personally and made sure the NPCs didn’t die or get distracted by some random mob in the side corridors.