Maw of Torment bugged for years

[GRUE.9754]

Reading the forum it appears that this meta has been bugged, and ignored, for years. As I am attempting to do the gloriously crafted 100 portal spikes achievement, I have been camping this event for a couple weeks now. Folke almost always stalls, no exaggeration, I would easily be comfortable with claiming a 90%+ non movement rate on the NPC. Sola is fairly reliable but probably has a 15% stall rate. Afia is the most reliable and I have seen her stall once.

 

This doesn't technically stall out the whole meta event as people then use their skyscales to damage the spikes to progress the event. The problem with this is that there is 0 opportunity to advance your portal spike count when this occurs. Adding to the issue is that since this occurs regularly, when there are groups of people doing the event, some will actually just go skyscale fire the portals preventing even a functioning lane from allowing portal spike progress.

 

I would like to suggest that a portal spike increment be added to some stage of each lane as well. Either in destroying the portal in any manner or perhaps in defeating the realm keeper that spawns after the portal is destroyed. This way even if the event is bugged or people use the skyscale to bypass the natural progression of the event, some progress can be made on this achievement.

[MithranArkanere.8957]

Still bugged as of this day.

 

And the mount 'workaround' makes things way worse.
Using skyscale or turtle allows spawning the Realm Keepers even if the NPCs are bugged, but completely skips the spikes, EVEN if the NPCs get there.

So whether NPCs are bugged or not, anything related to the spikes is now practically impossible either way.

[Ashantara.8731]

I can confirm this observation. Said NPC bugs out 99% of the time. It's really annoying.

[fatihso.7258]

Don't think it will get fixed unless they get tasked with something related and do that while at it. Aka fixing Howler just bcs there was a gemstore skin based off its effect.

 

 

[Drachame.5367]

I am also on the hunt for the 100 portal-spikes achievement similar to OP, We've been trying really hard to convince people to join us to complete the meta event properly, we had 3-4 tries, all failed because Folke got stuck.
We've started browsing forum posts and some of them have read that the NPC's do not stall if they're in combat and will keep up with their pathfinding, though in our final run this wasn't the case with FolkeIn our final few runs we've been incapable of finishing the south defense event properly and we thought that this could be the reason why Folke gets stuck on a bridge, in other runs however we have finished them thankfully yet he still refuses to move

I haven't observed other 2 western and eastern NPC's get stuck Folke was the one to stall and fail the meta event in all of our tries. I've recently reported the bug, ı hope it'll get fixed ASAP.

Still unfixed as of 02.06.2022

 

 

 

[Drachame.5367]

Still unfixed as of 23.07.2022