Guild Wars 2

Bug: Final Seal does not die when brought to zero HP
Bug: Legendary Archdiviner continues to channel spawning an unlimited number of baddies

Server Northern Shiverpeaks

Description:

I wrote this up a while ago, but I am not sure that I did a very good job of explaining it. So hopefully this will be more comprehensive and be able to get an answer.

The cliffside fractal works totally fine until the very final seal. The battle at the head seal goes well, until you get the legendary Archdiviner to zero percent health. At that point he drops the hammer (as he should) and you can use the 4 skill (we call it the boomtang in my guild) to destroy the final seal)

However this is where it gets wonkey

The seal goes to zero health, but does not dissapear. The Archdiviner continues his channel skill and restores his hp, meanwhile an unlimited stream of mobs keeps spawning and killing us. We are unable to use the hammer on the zero hp seal. And inevitably we all wipe due to increasing numbers of fodder.

This has happened at least 3 times to groups that I have been in. And It makes me terrified to run this particular fractal. Both of the previous times that it happened it was our last fractal of the day, ending up wasting several hours.

Some help on resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the feedback.

May I ask what constitutes early though? To get the the point where loot finally dropped we had to kill

3 Beginning bosses
1 Legendary boss
1 Dragon Champion
2 Dragon Champions

I understand the desire to prevent abuse. Yet the whole dungeon itself yields little in the way of reward. (It is impossible to loot the legendary boss because the cutscene imminently teleports you to back to the airship). Most of the enemies are the silver bracketed tough kind, even if the loot was mediocre it just FEELS rough to keep bashing my head against tough baddies that do not drop loot whatsoever.

If it is going to be the case that the loot is going to be concentrated at the end, would a scenario where the loot chance in the final push is increased to compensate be something that would be possible?

Again thanks for the fast reply

owch, that sucks. Hope they get it fixed

Sorry, on Northern Shiverpeaks server. Forgot to add that

Had this happen a few times. Got all the way through the Arah story mission without a single mob dropping a single piece of loot for any of our party. (One person did claim that maybe he got a moldy sack)

The rest of us were on skype, and none of us got a single drop.

UNTIL

We got the the part on the mega airship where we have to defend zoja. (sp) Then we all got loot like we normally would have.

The bosses all still dropped loot like normal, but none of the mobs dropped a single piece until the final airship battle with Zhaitain

This has happened on the past two runs that I have done on story mode.

Is this a bug?

The best loot I have ever gotten was when Anet mailed me a Karka chest that I had not been able to loot. Got a Exotic Precursor Trident!

Otherwise running FOTM yields 1-3 golds for the whole run for me. I have pretty much full magic find gear. That is, when FOTM does not glitch out and not let us finish…

which is another story

But I have for SURE seen the drop rate nerfed. I used to run the event chains in Orr and pull greens and blues galore with the occasional gold. Full MF gear, and 8 events per hour was good

but revently, i dont even get whites… just a LOT LOT LOT of those silly trophy skulls that arent worth anything

On two separate occasions i have run FOTM level 2 with some friends to try and move on. On our final Fractal, the sealed giant, we get all the way to the top level. We use the cultist hammer to take down the final seal, but the fractal does not end. The Archdiviner just keeps healing himself and an infinite number of bad guys keep spawning until we can no longer survive and we all wipe. Twice this has happened to parties i have been with. The seal is clearly dead, but the game does not register that we have achieved victory.

Please fix this, hours are wasted everytime someone runs into this glitch.

seconded, so far no word from anet

yes, bump for great justice. This is really relevant… i.e the trading post is down now, for no reason at all

Cannot buy or sell anything on the trading post. Cannot use any black lion services at all. So frustrating

Right, so the time i spent doing it the first time was just wasted.

Also NONE of the other dungeons require this. I got the message when I hit 80 that the dungeon at Arah was open, so i went. How is that obvious that I would have to do the whole thing twice?

That it does not count if they have not completed their personal story

You dont get the achievement
You dont get the loot
You DO get to do it AGAIN

A simple warning would have saved me hours

Sticky this, bump this, let people know. I hit level 80 and did the final dungeon in story mode, but now i have to do it AGAIN because my personal story was 2 missions away from being completed. And it does not warn you about this!

Save yourselves

I hit 80 and like most people jumped at the opportunity to do the dungeon. Had a fun albeit difficult time, took me an hour plus and finally killed Zhai guy.

BUT my personal story was not done

And now it is telling me i have to kill him again

So all that time was completely wasted? I did not even get loot

Is this working as intended?