Guild Wars 2

This event has been bugged for years (one way or another). And it’s REQUIRED for players trying to finish the “Treasure Hunter” achievement.

I’m not joking. Check out this search of the forums: people have been asking ArenaNet to fix this important dynamic event since 2012.

This isn’t the only impassable bug in the existing content, either.

I keep giving ArenaNet/NCSoft the benefit of the doubt on whether they care about player satisfaction and product quality. But to be honest, the evidence is all there: it’s all about what they can/can’t get away with. The original product isn’t finished or polished or even just working as intended, but they’re releasing new crap.

This topic will get buried by people talking about the expansion, about bugs with the recent round of patches, etc. None of these posts about this achievement ever get replies from ArenaNet staff. I wish I could get a sign that someone out there gives a $#!%, but maybe they just don’t.

Seriously, I know you guys have a work queue, but how are long-standing content-destroying bugs not a priority? 2012! That’s three years! How many minor bug fixes and tweaks have we seen since then? And an expansion now!

The event in question is Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site . According to the wiki, the current bug has been around since 2014 (without the details, it’s hard to tell if the one reported in this thread is the same or different from one that was claimed to be fixed in May 2013).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The event in question is Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site . According to the wiki, the current bug has been around since 2014 (without the details, it’s hard to tell if the one reported in this thread is the same or different from one that was claimed to be fixed in May 2013).

1. My post links to the event already. The first word.

2. The current bug, while not exactly the same as previous bugs, nonetheless renders the achievement impossible the same as previous ones.

It’s not really necessary to reply, if you’re neither going to provide clarifying information, nor going to read the original post at all.

1. Original bug variation (2012)

2. Still bugged, same variation (late Nov. 2013)

3. Event still bugged in March 2014, PRIOR to the feature pack (and prior to the bug documentation added to the Wiki entry in Oct. 2014).

4. Event still bugged (May 2014)

5. Event still bugged (also May 2014)

6. A post from Sept. 2014 immediately after the feature pack (obviously still bugged)

I hope this makes my (and others’) complaint about this event—and about the handling [lack thereof] of this bug—really clear.

-A thread showing a few event chains bugged including protect Dobbs —notice the trend that these event chains are tied to collections. On purpose?

Here’s another recent forum post about an impossible-to-complete event tied to the “Treasure Hunter” achievement.

I’ll start documenting every time someone posts a relevant bug, so that these get more visibility. Clearly no one from ArenaNet has become aware of these bugs, as they have not been addressed in the years they have existed.

I need this bug to be fixed. I saw someone ask if anet was understaffed.
I wonder it’s either that, or they don’t care.

I hope they care, I care, as do many other people whose lives revolve around this game. Pretty sure NCsoft doesn’t care, because corporations aren’t people, So I guess using my sound logic. Anet is understaffed.

In case you didn’t know, you can still get this event completed and the corresponding achievement item. Just wait for a new patch (10 min announcement) and park one of your characters at the way point. Download the patch and quickly log onto that character and wait till Dobbs gets to the way point and start the event chain. The event chain will bug out after it is completed once on that instance of the map.
Alternatively, in theory you may be able to pop a new instance of the map if you can max out one of them, will require nearly 150 people to organize this.
But much easier to do this when a patch is about to hit.

And yes I totally agree the event should be fixed but in the mean-time this is a solid work-around.

Here’s another recent forum post about the broken Dobbs event.

ZilentNight.5089:

In case you didn’t know, you can still get this event completed and the corresponding achievement item. Just wait for a new patch (10 min announcement) and park one of your characters at the way point. Download the patch and quickly log onto that character and wait till Dobbs gets to the way point and start the event chain. The event chain will bug out after it is completed once on that instance of the map.
Alternatively, in theory you may be able to pop a new instance of the map if you can max out one of them, will require nearly 150 people to organize this.
But much easier to do this when a patch is about to hit.

And yes I totally agree the event should be fixed but in the mean-time this is a solid work-around.

This won’t work for me, I don’t get home from work until after 5:30 PT, by that time someone else will have already tried to do the event after an update.

ZilentNight.5089:

In case you didn’t know, you can still get this event completed and the corresponding achievement item. Just wait for a new patch (10 min announcement) and park one of your characters at the way point. Download the patch and quickly log onto that character and wait till Dobbs gets to the way point and start the event chain. The event chain will bug out after it is completed once on that instance of the map.
Alternatively, in theory you may be able to pop a new instance of the map if you can max out one of them, will require nearly 150 people to organize this.
But much easier to do this when a patch is about to hit.

I read this in one of the posts from a couple of years ago and used it to get the item from Quinta. Scholar Breandan appears to be a complete impasse, though—I went to where his chain begins after the 5/26 patch, but his event never started. Instead there is a dynamic event called Clear Broken Spit… that is apparently impossible to conclude. It started while I stood by the nearby waypoint.

ZilentNight.5089:

And yes I totally agree the event should be fixed but in the mean-time this is a solid work-around.

Glad to see that I’m not the only person who doesn’t consider a solid work-around (which it is, and thanks for repeating it here for posterity [? I hope not]) the final word.

I (and at least 15 other players, possibly more than 20) just tried to complete the events in Straits of Devastation that should unlock Scholar Breandan as a merchant, to allow the purchase of the (fine quality) Orrian Pearl that is required for completion of the “Treasure Hunter” achievement.

We were parked at Breandan’s expected location before the patch, so that we were there as soon as he spawned. However, the event Protect Scholar Breandan… never arrives because the event Clear Broken Spit of the Risen… cannot be completed. (Details follow).

“Clear Broken Spit of the Risen…” requires the elimination of untargetable replicators (which have the appearance of risen rotmouths). The replicators, although untargetable, can be hit by projectiles bouncing off of other nearby enemies (e.g. mesmer trident autoattack). Despite being hit, they either take no damage, or have enough health to withstand 20 minutes of bombardment.

I found a rumor on reddit that killing all of the risen will trigger event success. That is, ignoring the 0/6 replicators progress, but defeating all 16 of the rapidly re-spawning targetable enemies, should trigger success (according to the rumor). Someone else repeated this rumor as we were attempting to clear Broken Spit. Reducing the number of risen, however, appears to increase their re-spawn rate so that when 3 enemies are left, killing one causes another to spawn. All of this is somewhat beside the point, unless someone can confirm that this is the intended event course. Otherwise, the event objectives, as stated in-game, are

• Risen replicators destroyed: x/6
• Risen remaining: x

The first of these cannot be accomplished because the replicators cannot be destroyed. The second of these cannot be accomplished as long as there are replicators spitting out risen.

I’m unable to find any dev responses related to this event that indicate progress is being made, or that this bug is even on their radar. Yet, the players with whom I’ve attempted this event always claim to file a bug report once we give up. A few of them have posted to the forums, as well. It seems extremely unlikely that these events have gone unnoticed. Are they being ignored on purpose, as retaliation for repeated bug reporting? That sounds equally unlikely, but given the longevity of these issues, it’s hard to come up with an alternative explanation.

I wish the community could get a response on the status of these particular bugs, if only to reassure us that ArenaNet/NCSoft isn’t abandoning these (broken) parts of the existing content, even as they move on with developing a paid expansion to that content.

I’d like to add to this list of bugs that make this collection impossible. So… even overlooking the fact that some items are ridiculously expensive because the event chains they drop from have been bugged for ages (cough cough Sam), this collection is actually impossible to complete for me even with the “workarounds.”

For one, I also have had the same issue with Scholar Breandan as previously mentioned where the workaround does not work for me. Another issue I’ve had is with the Enchanted Key… I have the map, I have followed its instructions and went all over the place, I even looked it up on dulfy and wiki, I have walked all over the rock on where it is supposed to spawn and still nothing. I saw on wiki that it can be bugged where you might need to relog into the map to get the key but I have now switched maps several times and it is still not there. I even used /ip and guesting to make sure I was getting on different LA maps and I have been trying to do this every day I play and still nothing…

And I’m not even going to start talking about all the other collections that are bugged and cannot even be unlocked to begin with (fractal skins, champ bags etc). Doing these collections would be really great in keeping me and others I’m sure playing the game in this current content drought. Therefore I really don’t understand why these are not getting some priority or acknowledgement that they are at least working on a fix.

Just trying to finish the Treasure Hunter collection so many events are BUGGED. not everyone can be on the same time when an update/patch happens just like to get the Exotic Sam the drop is rare and the event gets bugged. The question is will they ever fix the bugged events so we can play the game they way its meant to be played. Also found this page. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Treasure-Hunter-Achievement

So I thought I was the only one struggling here. WHY have all these achievements, and then the items associated with these achievements which are linked to events, bugged? I waited over a half hour in Timberline Falls for Dobb’s event. Nothing. This event has been bugged for as long as I remember and it’s been a couple of years.

I would think with the amount of revenue and the amount of staff Anet has these bugs could and SHOULD be fixed.

Please fix these bugs. This TREASURE HUNTER achievement is impossible without the fixES (plural).