Necro Ascended Weapon Collection PoF

[notebene.3190]

Does anyone know anything about this post regarding this quest and how to make this thing go? I've been around when it says to a couple times, and nothing is happening. I haven't had any issues with finding or figuring out where an event was for the other specs collections I've done so far (a little over half), but this one just doesn't seem to exist. Or, the wiki is completely wrong. Or, it's been a bug for a month and they haven't bothered to fix it?

[KTap.4381]

Have you tried Google or searching the Necro forums? I saw a lot of discussion a while back about a weird quest, but I don't remember the name. Good luck!

[notebene.3190]

Guess I'll keep looking. Usually the wiki has good information. In this case, they appear to have failed heinously.

[notebene.3190]

All the information out there is completely inconsistent and contradictory.

If it's 'not' bugged, I'd appreciate someone from Anet telling us 'somewhere', I don't care where, what the absolute, real conditions are to start this thing.

Guess I'll start working on a class and leave my Necro incomplete.

[Conncept.7638]

I've participated in that event, though I DCd before its completion, so at the very least I can say it does spawn,.

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

I never had any trouble finding the event or getting it done. I'm not sure why people are saying it's bugged. Like any escort event, it takes a while to complete and there's a cooldown if it fails or succeeds.

[FrozenStarRo.7240]

The npc for it, Receiving Attendant, doesn't have an event icon above his head, so you simply walk up to him and try all conversation options. He's at the base of the stairs near the heart npc. When available the event will start on a hill west of the WP where a bunch of sand eels and jacarandas reside.

Side-note: Not sure if directly tied as pre-event or not, but I did the escort after completing the event up the stairs in the big hall with the ruling where you have to dispatch a few Joko instigators.

Hope this helps you find the event you are looking for.

[reukies.6418]

@notebene.3190 said:Does anyone know anything about this post regarding this quest and how to make this thing go? I've been around when it says to a couple times, and nothing is happening. I haven't had any issues with finding or figuring out where an event was for the other specs collections I've done so far (a little over half), but this one just doesn't seem to exist. Or, the wiki is completely wrong. Or, it's been a bug for a month and they haven't bothered to fix it?

"The event does not trigger until the player speaks with the Receiving Attendant."

Read the whole page. I did mine the other day, it not bugged.

[notebene.3190]

You can never speak to that person, he never has anything to say. At least not in any predictable manner. Any other NPC that's claimed to have a quest, you find them, and hang out with them, and 15-20 minutes later, they get a balloon over your head, you talk to them, and away you go. This person never says anything.

The other part is it's entirely unclear as to whether there is any prerequisite DE for this quest, passing or failing, or if it happens during another quest, pass or fail. No agreement on that.

Then there is the fact that it's starting place is random. Some information indicates one of two places. Someone else says it may be as many as 5. Some suggest the DE event spawns in one of those random locations, and then you can interact with the NPC and he tells you where it is, implying you could just wait at one of the places, and hopefully get lucky that it spawns, because the purpose of the NPC is to merely let you know that the even has shown up somewhere, and he helps tell you where that is. Others say no, you 'must' talk to him, and he actually triggers the event to show up (which, to me, doesn't seem right).

Finally, it says "it starts at dawn and dusk", and then later it says, "it's bugged and never starts at dawn or dusk", and then in the discussion someone says, "dusk or dawn has nothing to do with it, at least not for me".

Besides physically wait at him for long periods of time, and flying around a few places where it's supposed to start (and even then, I've seen one screen shot indicating one possible location...of the possible, up to, 5 locations?), I'm not really sure what else I'm supposed to do.

[notebene.3190]

@FrozenStarRo.7240 said:The npc for it, Receiving Attendant, doesn't have an event icon above his head, so you simply walk up to him and try all conversation options. He's at the base of the stairs near the heart npc. When available the event will start on a hill west of the WP where a bunch of sand eels and jacarandas reside.

Side-note: Not sure if directly tied as pre-event or not, but I did the escort after completing the event up the stairs in the big hall with the ruling where you have to dispatch a few Joko instigators.

Hope this helps you find the event you are looking for.

He has no conversation at all, much less 'conversation options'. You can't interact with him at all. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to even have a useless conversation with him, just to know he was working, like that Nippkit (sp) fellow at the farm in Dry Top that always gets in your way while your picking veggies.

[Shirlias.8104]

NOTICE: This event is Bugged and will not begin 5 minutes before dawn or dusk, or will not allow a player to trigger to begin event within the dawn or dusk time frame.

Could be this the issue?

The event begins at dawn and at dusk.

[notebene.3190]

When a quest fails, how long do you have to wait for it to happen again? It's been 45 minutes since I failed the last one. :(

Finally saw it at least, but I wasn't strong enough to protect everyone alone.

[Pifil.5193]

@notebene.3190 said:When a quest fails, how long do you have to wait for it to happen again? It's been 45 minutes since I failed the last one. :(

Finally saw it at least, but I wasn't strong enough to protect everyone alone.

According to the wiki page the quest begins at dawn or dusk. So you can do it twice in any two hour window.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Day_and_night#Day-night_cycle

[MedievalThings.5417]

The event has 2 paths that it can take. The event also takes place at daybreak and nightfall (start) so can be done once per day and night cycle.

Here is the problem (and why the wiki says it is bugged):The escort can spawn to the north or the south, it is random. If it spawns to the north (RNG) the event happens (as best I can tell, and where I got it done once). If it spawns to the south (also RNG, but seems to spawn south more than north) it is bugged and does NOT happen. I finally, after literally camping the NPC for 14 hours straight, got a north escort, mounted and saved it and got it on my main account. I am now trying to get it on 2 other accounts. Camping the NPC in 6-8 hour shifts with timers set and can't get it to spawn. I have over 30 hours just sitting at the NPC waiting for the appropriate time (of the cycles) for the event to pop, to no avail.

[notebene.3190]

@Ubi.4136 said:The event has 2 paths that it can take. The event also takes place at daybreak and nightfall (start) so can be done once per day and night cycle.

Here is the problem (and why the wiki says it is bugged):The escort can spawn to the north or the south, it is random. If it spawns to the north (RNG) the event happens (as best I can tell, and where I got it done once). If it spawns to the south (also RNG, but seems to spawn south more than north) it is bugged and does NOT happen. I finally, after literally camping the NPC for 14 hours straight, got a north escort, mounted and saved it and got it on my main account. I am now trying to get it on 2 other accounts. Camping the NPC in 6-8 hour shifts with timers set and can't get it to spawn. I have over 30 hours just sitting at the NPC waiting for the appropriate time (of the cycles) for the event to pop, to no avail.

This is just crazy. I finally saw it spawn an hour after I failed the first one. It was about 10 minutes after night time already started (not during dusk). The first one was roughly the same way, but 5-10 min into day time (not during dawn). It spawned in a different area (also to the north, where my first one was). This time I had someone helping me. We lost 75% of the health of it by the time we got there, and were unable to save it once we started moving and were jumped a 2nd time.

So am I supposed to like get a group or raid of people, and have us all sit around for hours in the hills until we see it and complete it? This is just not doable.

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

I'm going to save you hours/days of your life trying to wait for this event to start and tell you how its actually done.

You need to trigger it to start by "defeating the judge" events that occur in that area.

[notebene.3190]

Thank you everyone that tried to help me with this. I still think the wiki is completely wrong, and many of the other conditions just don't seem to be true.

I did finally get it done, by changing to a character that was better suited to burn things down 'quickly' (my necro can be a little slow sometimes), using my Ranger, and secondly, I just waited up on a hill top 'between' the two spawn places in the north that I saw, and just kept an eye on the screen while I did other things. Seems to spawn just fine without anyone talking to him 'first', and that makes sense, because he has 'no orange circle' over his head when he's ready to talk. He's just a herald letting you know it started somewhere, and will show you where.

I almost failed, as I didn't catch it until the casket was a 60% and was able to stabilize it at 50% before we started moving from the spawn point. Think I made it with 10% left.

Parting thoughts:

1) The thing shouldn't start until you get to the location and can interact with someone in that party protecting it. That's fine the herald acts as a hub, but it shouldn't just start somewhere.

2) The casket should heal between encounters, even if slower than something like escorting a dolyak does.

I'll try to remember to get a screen shot of where I waited on the map for it and where each spawn location was roughly. I gotta head out that way tomorrow so my next character can finish their weapon. :)

[notebene.3190]

Ok, for what it's worth, here's what I did.

Rather than waiting for the Receiving Attendant to be aware of the DE starting (which totally starts without him), and having him tell me where it's located, and wasting a lot of time and casket health running there, I perched myself at the blue circle (on top of a little peak in the hills there) so I could keep an eye on both of the areas indicated in red, which are two of the possible locations it might start (I think I heard there are upwards of 5?). Then did what I described above. If I had caught it at the very beginning and hadn't looked away, the ending wouldn't have been quite as stressful. :)

They really need to change that quest.