Guild Wars 2

Three out of three times this has bugged. All three times, once aboard the airship, Destiny’s Edge does nothing; according to the wiki, they’re supposed to activate and follow you down and at least engage the risen while you work the canons. They haven’t budged for any of the attempts. The second one I encountered the known bug where the airship doesn’t progress forward and the giants are stationary and the instance is permanently halted.

At the moment we can still group up and do it, but I don’t know if this is necessarily doable by yourself with these bugs here.

as far as I can remember, Destiny’s Edge has never done anything, but stay as far away from anything as possible (near the armor repair). they do help later in the instance though, but not during the cannon/giant/dragon champion parts.

if the giants are there, you have to defeat them, by reflecting their stuff back at them. the airship will not move until they are defeated.

I did the instance last night, alone, it worked perfectly.

I completed it solo twice on a warrior and mesmer, the NPC’s didn’t do anything during that stage. You have to keep getting off the cannon and fighting the risen, it makes that part take a little longer but it is absolutely doable solo.