Guild Wars 2

Posted by: Musha.4025

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:
Many of the events listed were added shortly before or after launch to make sure that low level zones could handle a large influx of players. They won’t become active if there aren’t enough players in the area. Over time we’ll look at lowering the scale requirements so they become more common, but GW2 is still in its infancy, so we haven’t adjusted them yet.

I greatly appreciate your answer and information here! I’ve seriously spent many, MANY hours just camping in areas waiting for these events to trigger. I’m disappointed that I’ve wasted so much time needlessly, but I’m very glad to know this! Thank you. I suppose now I can simply recruit guildies to get these events.

May I please ask you to tell us which events have a population requirement and how many people need to be present to start the event so that I don’t waste any further time? I’d also like to indicate this information on the wiki for each respective event page for other event hunters such as myself.

Lastly, which events do not have a population requirement? And can you tell us how to start those events please or verify that they’re not bugged? Thank you!

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-06-21 09:20:36 by Musha.4025)

List of events that don't start

Posted by: Musha.4025

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-06-22 06:19:05 by Musha.4025)

Event state always preparation or inactive

Posted by: Musha.4025

The following is a list of events that are in perpetual preparation or inactive status in the API. Can these events be looked into to see if they are bugged or not? Also, is it possible for you to please tell us what the conditions are to push these events out of preparation or inactive state and into active? Can’t they be tweaked to show up more often?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-06-22 06:19:26 by Musha.4025)

Events in Preparation state

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Posted by: Musha.4025

Also, can you please explain what the difference between a world not being listed after clicking “fetch” and an event being shown on a world as inactive?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Preparation state

in API Development

Posted by: Musha.4025

Katz.5143:
Cliff Spradlin.3512:
Terrasque.8735:
Yeah, I was wondering because I rarely see those in-game.

I tried to find out what triggered them, and it looks like the wiki have all of them flagged as bugged:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prove_you_know_a_lot_about_Destiny%27s_Edge
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stop_the_bandit_thief_from_stealing_the_pumphouse_blueprints
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Drive_the_rogue_bull_back_home,_and_fix_any_mayhem_on_the_way
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bandits_have_constructed_a_roadblock_to_stop_Shaemoor_traffic

The live response team checked up on this. One of the events listed has a bug, but the others just haven’t met required pre-conditions to start.

Thanks for the detailed report!

Could you guys check on the required conditions for those. I rarely see those events up anymore and they are fun to do. Can’t they be tweaked to show up more often? Especially the rogue bull, its a lot of fun. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to do the bandit stealing blueprints one.

Is it possible for you to please tell us what the conditions are to push these events out of preparation state and into active?

Also, in addition to the above-listed events in Queensdale, I have a list of other events that are in a state of perpetual preparation or inactive status:

Can you please check to see if these events are bugged? If they are not bugged, can you please tell us how each is activated?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-06-22 06:20:58 by Musha.4025)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Well, is there no way at all that we can verify this?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

They were DEFINITELY there during beta. And I’ve even seen one or two of them since game’s release, but never again since. Seriously, what’s up with these events?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Kitsunami.6241:
Just a forenote: Events can be bugged and stop working but theres also this to mention -

Some are failure events. That is to say, they have a pre-event which might be ‘stop the containment failure’

And if players fail it, then another event will occur directly as a result.

only one i can give as an example is the norn 1-15 area, the evil son of svanir mage guy. He tries to summon something, if you dont stop him he starts another event to defeat the giant elemental thing of doom that will smash up the area.

I am well aware of this as part of my completionism I do every event at least twice: fail once, pass once, and do every subsequent event. The events I’ve listed are not linked to other events. They are either bugged or removed from the game.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Takahach.5476:
I just looked in to your events, I have done all of the Metrica Province ones, apart from
-Prevent Inquest thieves from stealing boxes of golem parts and fleeing Soran Draa
haven’t gotten to the Sparkfly Fen one, though. I don’t think they are removed, but, of course, they might be.
Anyway, good luck, see you in game!

When did you do those events? I was able to do some of them, too, but only during the Beta Weekend Events.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Takahach.5476:
By the way, Musha, where are you from? The name seems familiar. Lke, a friend of a friend that used to play Cabal a lot.

lol. I’m just from the US, but I lived in Japan for awhile and so I speak Japanese. Musha is Japanese for warrior, and it is very commonly used; so you’ve undoubtedly seen it before. I shortened it from my usual username, Mushashukou (Paladin). I never played Cabal, but I was very active in GW1, but nice to make your acquaintance, anyway. I also work(ed) a lot on the wikis for GW1 and GW2.

In fact, that’s my main reason for asking about these events. I’ve been working on the event pages on the GW2 wiki for every event in the game (putting my completionism to good use). Needless to say, it’s a very large task, and I’ve only fully completed a few areas, but events that I’m not able to find slows down my progress. So, if people are able to help me figure these events out, they’re not just helping me, but the entire GW2 community, or at least those who use the wiki.

Oscar.4628:
No they’re not deleted you just have to find the trigger for some events.
Most events are easy started but some are hard as kitten to start like example some world events.

How can you be sure they haven’t been removed from the game though? And if it’s a simple matter of finding the trigger, I’ve seriously spent countless hours in these areas trying to trigger the events, doing everything I can think of, and have had no luck whatsoever. Is it possible for somebody at Anet to just tell us what triggers these events, or, at least, update the wiki pages for these events?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-02-19 22:57:11 by Musha.4025)

Events bugged or removed from game?

Posted by: Musha.4025

As a completionist, I like to go through each area and try to do every event. When I go through each area I look up on the wiki to see what events are available. However, the wiki lists a few events that just aren’t starting for me. This includes events that I played during beta weekends that I’ve looked for since the game’s release. So I’m led to question: are these events even still in the game and just bugged? Or have they been removed from the game? Here’s a list of the events I’m looking for:

Metrica Province -
-Help Keela unmask the cheats trying to gather data at the chess tables before they escape
-Prevent Inquest thieves from stealing boxes of golem parts and fleeing Soran Draa
-Investigate Inquest activity in the Golemagical Institute
-Destroy the experimental Inquest golem
-Slay the King Hermit Crab that escaped from Splorg Metamystics

Sparkfly Fen -
-Destroy the Nightmare Court’s thorn wolves

If these events are still in the game, please tell me what the events’ start conditions are so I can complete them, allowing my obsessive completionism to let me move on.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

(edited 2013-02-19 06:54:11 by Musha.4025)

6 months in and same problems still present

Posted by: Musha.4025

I agree. I encounter bugged events all the time. Ever since guesting was implemented, I can usually guest to a different server to get the event on a different server, but there are many events that are bugged on every server. A server reset every 2 days or so would ensure that all the events could run smoothly until they are all fixed.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Missing event in Sparkfly Fen

Posted by: Musha.4025

Rescue the sylvari from the Nightmare Court agents
This event is listed in Sparkfly Fen’s events list, but there is no info on it. Has anybody seen this event since the game’s release? If so, how is it triggered please?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Giant's Passage

Posted by: Musha.4025

Ok, I changed servers and got these events. They were bugged on Dragonbrand.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Giant's Passage

Posted by: Musha.4025

I’ve been camping this area for 1-2 hours at a time since I posted this question and STILL haven’t seen these events start. Please! ANYBODY have any information about these events?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Hearts without events

Posted by: Musha.4025

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question AnthonyOrdon! It is greatly appreciated.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Hearts without events

Posted by: Musha.4025

And what about the Grand Barrier Isle heart? Any events around there?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Giant's Passage

Posted by: Musha.4025

Anybody else have any info on this?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Giant's Passage

Posted by: Musha.4025

There are a couple events that I played during the Beta weekends and that are listed on the wiki that I haven’t seen occurring since the game’s release. The events I’m wondering about are in Giant’s Passage of Kessex Hills. One event is “Use explosives stolen by ettins to collapse their caves” and the other is “Defeat the brutish ettin chieftain.” What happened to these events? Were they removed from the game, or are they still available? If they’re still available, how do they get started please? Thank you.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Events in Giant's Passage

Posted by: Musha.4025

There are a couple events that I played during the Beta weekends and that are listed on the wiki that I haven’t seen occurring since the game’s release. The events I’m wondering about are in Giant’s Passage of Kessex Hills. One event is “Use explosives stolen by ettins to collapse their caves” and the other is “Defeat the brutish ettin chieftain.” What happened to these events? Were they removed from the game, or are they still available? If they’re still available, how do they get started please? Thank you.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Hearts without events

Posted by: Musha.4025

I understand that renown hearts in the game indicate areas where you will find events. However, so far, I’ve come across 2 hearts that do not have any events. The first eventless heart is Mei Shadowwalker near Provern Shore of Gendarran Fields. The second is Arcanist Sol on Grand Barrier Isle in Bloodtide Coast. Are there supposed to be events at these locations? Can somebody please tell me if there are events at these locations and if so, what they are so I can watch for them?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How exactly does "Secret in the Swamp" trigger?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Yes, that’s the 2nd time that portal event has been mentioned in this thread, but it is irrelevant to the triggering of the Secret in the Swamp event.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How exactly does "Secret in the Swamp" trigger?

Posted by: Musha.4025

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There has been no confirmation that Scholar Taryn is ANY sort of trigger for this event. This info was on the wiki page but has been removed due to the lack of proof. So, unfortunately, the rumor is just that: a rumor, and quite unsubstantiated. Most boss events are on a timer and I see nothing that says this event is dissimilar.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

error code 7:11:3:189:101

Posted by: Musha.4025

Hi, I’ve been getting error code 7 every 15-30 mins every day since the game’s release, but only during late morning to evening hours (11am – 7pm MDT). After about 7pm it seems I no longer disconnect. I am playing in the United States on the NA servers. I am playing on the Dragonbrand world and have never changed servers.

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Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How do we access the Feral Dens in Harathi Hinterlands?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Yes, it is a “hidden” event. She is ONLY there after you RETAKE bridgewatch, meaning the centaur must have control of it first. Likewise, the event in the skritt cave is only there while the centaurs have control of Cloven Hoof.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Kessex Hills - Engineer Baldwin event

Posted by: Musha.4025

During beta, I played an event in Kessex Hills that was given by Engineer Baldwin in Overlake Haven. The event involved ettins stealing his explosives and us running into the ettin caves to detonate the explosives. But since the game’s release, I have not seen this event at all, despite spending MUCH time in the area. Was the event removed? Or is it bugged like several other events? If it’s still in the game, how do we trigger it? Or what triggers it?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

In-game time and clock display

in Suggestions

Posted by: Musha.4025

I understand that the in-game day lasts 120 mins with 80 mins for day and 40 mins for night. However, when you enter a new zone, the in-game time changes, and it is impossible to know how much time is left in the day/night in the new zone. It’s almost as impossible to gauge the in-game time even if you’ve been in the zone for the full 2 hours. Please add a display for in-game time so that we can be better prepared for those events that happen only at certain times of the day. Such a clock, being much faster than real life time, would be hard on the eyes if it were to display anything more than the hour, the minutes would be running by too quickly.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Guild emblems and armor skin

Posted by: Musha.4025

Thank you for your reply, but it does not answer my question. I bought the guild armor and when I double click it, it appears as though the guild armor skin will replace my current pirate coat skin. I don’t want this to happen. I want to keep my pirate coat skin and put the emblem on it. Is this possible?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Guild emblems and armor skin

Posted by: Musha.4025

Does purchasing a guild emblem change the skin of my current armor? If so, is there a way to simply paste the emblem onto my current armor?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Is in-game bug report feature taken seriously?

Posted by: Musha.4025

I apologize for posting this non-bug issue here, but I couldn’t find a more appropriate location for this question. We currently have 2 ways to report bugs: the forums and the in-game bug report feature. Is one method preferential? Is one utilized while the other is not?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How do we access the Feral Dens in Harathi Hinterlands?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Ok, then. Thanks for clearing that up for me. So, naturally, my next question is, which order do you belong to?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

In-game time table.

Posted by: Musha.4025

What is the in-game time table like? Is it 1 real life hour for 1 in-game day? I’m looking to do an event that only happens at dawn and I would like to know how often dawn occurs or if there’s a way to know when exactly to come back for this event.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How exactly does "Secret in the Swamp" trigger?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Fish.4567:
Will it show the waypoint in godslost swamp being contested if the shadow behemoth spawns?

Only if you are in the map when the event triggers.

Jayne.9251:
One day it ran every 30 mins or so …. I believe it did so because of the volume of folks doing the portal event prior to the shadow behemoth appearing… There’s an event just prior where you’re supposed to eliminate the portals and beasts that spawn from them …. It’s similar to the behemoth event but on smaller scale and would make sense in a hierarchy/step/tier method that devs have mentioned happens with dynamic events.

Or was this during the beta event when all the events were on a decreased timer? I believe the event runs every 2 hours or so (only a guess).

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How exactly does "Secret in the Swamp" trigger?

Posted by: Musha.4025

The chain starts off with portals opening up around the swamp in 3 different areas: Eldvin Monastery, Greatheart Weald, and Taminn Foothills. Once those 3 areas are secured, more portals open in the swamp. Close those portals and the behemoth appears. As for what actually starts the chain, your guess is as good as mine. Some people think farming the swamp triggers it (closing portals, killing aatxes, etc). Personally, I think it’s on a timer.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

Harathi Hinterlands meta event reset?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Does the meta event in Harathi Hinterlands, “Seraph Assault on Centaur Camps,” ever reset? If so, how/when? I need a reset to be able to find the hidden events and possible secret areas.

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

How do we access the Feral Dens in Harathi Hinterlands?

Posted by: Musha.4025

Title says all, but seriously, how do you get in there?
I thought it had something to do with what the Whispers Agent says in Nightguard Beach about a boy getting lost and to seek out his family in Bridgewatch Camp. This family can be found, btw, when you take the camp from the centaurs, and talking to the mother triggers an event. However...when you find the boy, he's dead. The event takes you over near the Feral Dens, but nothing ever happens to let you inside.

My other thought is another Whispers Agent in Seraph’s Landing tells you to help the Skritt against the harpies and the centaurs and they might show you a secret. Well, nothing happens when you help with the harpies, and one of the Skritt Leaders tells you he’s going to send two of his thieves out to steal from the centaurs. Maybe this is it? Does anybody know how to get in there?

Aegan – Human Ranger (80)
Leader of the Guardians of Light (GoL)

List of bugged events

Posted by: Musha.4025