Bug Report: HoT - Hearts and Minds, Defeat vision of Canach

When going into Mordremoth's mind, I selected Canach to go in with me. This leads to fighting the vision of Canach. In short, this fight is bugged. After the vision of Canach's health lowers to the threshold where he starts throwing grenades, the real Canach goes into his mode of putting up the shield to block/reflect the grenades. This part is fine, but then what happens is Canach will never go back to fighting and gets stuck running to different spots and shielding. The sequence about opening & widening the rift to defeat the Vision of Canach never prompts. In the attached screenshot I managed to defeat the Vision of Canach by reducing his health to zero and he disappears, with the rift sequence never happening. Meanwhile Canach is still shielding and the story never progresses.Here's a screenshot showing Canach shielding, the story still says Defeat the vision of Canach and there is no vision of Canach in sight. Imgur link

I just had this exact same thing happen to me.

He only goes back to fighting if you get under the shield which causes the boss's grenades to be reflected back at him and break his bar. If his bar isn't broken in this manner, it has the potential to bug out entirely.

My wife experienced this bug this morning.

It is waiting for you to do the mechanic: stand under his shield and have it deflect a granade from the enemy Canach.

Just had a similar problem happen, except the boss is dead and canach is stuck in a permanent shield loop. There's nothing I can do really and it won't let me reload the last checkpoint so Ig I'll have to do the whole instance again-

Bug is still here. definitely needs some kind of a status check instead of just letting canach shield infinitely waiting to reflect non existent grenades

BUG still present

I stood there for a good few minutes in the shield and several grenades were deflected, but it never progressed. Killed the vision of Canach and he (friendly Canach) is looped in the shield animation. Didn't try to brute force anything, Canach was just running around spammng his shield for a few seconds and then moving across the arena to do the same thing. Didn't matter how long I was standing in it or how much was deflected. Fun.

Edit: This godawful mission has now bugged out on me SIX TIMES in a goddamn row. Specifically the Canach fight. This is the worst experience I have had in this game so far and Jesus H. Christ, I really did not think HoT could be any more awful in my own opinion. Everything about the terrain pisses me off, and as it turns out you can't even complete the story because they couldn't have been assed once the past six years to fix an encounter that bugs out every single time.

Bug still present in 2022. 😞

Just encountered this bug and don't feel like redoing this sequence again. Pretty sad that it's still present/not even acknowledged.

Just happened to me on 05/18/2022.

How can a bug like this persist for so long? Sheesh.... I really don't want to redo this part of the story again.

Canach is standing there constantly putting up a shield after I already defeated his vision. Nothing else I can do other than reset the entire segment of the story. And if I have to repeat this again to get it to work I'm going to..... **bleep**

I just experienced the same issue during my first time in this fight.

Problem is, that I was under the shield for some time and nothing happened, so I decided to step out of the shield and continue the fight.

The game should make it more clear, that it is required to utilize this game-mechanic or otherwise the progress is blocked.

Well unffortunate for me i didn't know this was a bug and what surprises me is that it is still bugged after all the time it has been reported... happened the same way it happened to you guys...

 

bug still presentt, happening to me right now

This bug is still present, and standing underneath the shield to deflect grenades while the fight is going on is pointless because a fire grenade will always pop under the shield, at which point Canach will drop his shield and run off.

8/11/2022

I was able to get Blighted Canach down to 2%, then click on the rift. Blighted Canach and rift disappear and I am now stuck and cannot progress the story line. Please help!

just completed this a few days ago and didn't run into any issues. It had been sitting there as the only part of the story not complete for months as it was tedious to solo. However it appears the story now saves progression which was a relief. 

It's 2023 and this godawful bug is still here

I just had it happen as well, except now whenever I re-enter the mission, I'm put at Trahearne and it says pick 2 allies. I run back up to where the allies are, and there is a wall blocking them off. So unless there is a way to restart this whole episode that I can't figure out, I cannot continue, period. Sad times if it's been a bug for so long. If I can get it to reset, I'll pick the other two....

Same here ... bugged out ... how many year since first report??? =(

Jesus Christ, still? Really Anet? Canach still stuck looping forever... 

Bug still exist... now i have this Problem , 2024 -.-' . Iam really sad to read, that this exist over YEARS and nothing change. :/

Still bugged in 2024 - Defeated Blighted Canach and now its just Canach running around triggering the shield and I cant complete or leave the instance.