Tyrian Taste Testing - Narcisse Step

[Draxian.7945]

The event required to allow purchase of the item from Narcisse--and the one preceeding it--are heavily bugged, not spawning for over an hour. The event flag needs to be removed from this NPC for the sake of obtaining this step. Even if the events were working properly, two events totalling over 30 minutes of waiting, one of which is inconsistently clearable solo anyway, should never be a requirement.

[Luthan.5236]

Confirmed. Either set the event on a timer respawning regularly. And maybe fix it. (Not sure if it sometimes does not spawn at all regardless of whether you did the other steps or not.) Or remove event completion requirement for this achievement.

Wiki doesn't even have the full info - would nice to get a dev confirmation: Is it actually tied to the other events? (Event chain.) Been here 20 minutes since having finished the last step from  Ziel. But the wiki mentions the other event (with the flute/pets) and the Narcisse event starting 3-4 minutes after that one is finished.

The odd thing is: Nothing seems to restart here? Are those events now once per every map reset? (= finishing it and you have to wait after the next meta to do it again?)
I thought events would restart regularly. (At least this seems to happen in other bastions. Or used to happen when I played more on the map for normal events - months ago.)

Edit: Most likely tied to both (Forro and the Zizel event chain) or only the Zizel event chain since that one moves through the greenhouse. After I could switch maps it worked ... Forro events done first. Then the Zizel event chain finished. After that it spawned. I just wonder ... since in the other map I did not see anything spawn for 20 minutes after doing the Zizel event chain. Maybe it also can spawn after the Forro event only - as long as the other event chain is not running (first step started but not finished - the second might interfer ... the escord). Could lead to bugs.

I doubt they have timers like 30 or 45 or even longer - when usually events restart after 10-20 minutes and at least the other events should have restarted but after 20 minutes no event at all in that bastion I got the option to map change. (Most people most have left making it empty.) Here on the new map I already have the Forro event (checkd while writing this ... only tabbed out a bit for a few minutes). I guess some for some order - when doing the events - this will lead to bugs with the checks in the background.

Edited May 22 by Luthan.5236

[dukefx.9730]

Edit: Had no luck waiting around and doing the other 2 events. Managed to get it on a fresh map after the meta.

Edited May 22 by dukefx.9730

[Cynder.2509]

Seems like the egg crates are also bugged. It didn't count the step in my achievement log and I can't do it again as they disappeared

[Tinker.6924]

NGL the Narcisse step was the most frustrating part of this.  It didn't pop for me all day until 20 min after reset.

[AllNightPlayer.1286]

Also trying to do the achievements. Could the devs look into this? It’s really odd. Every other event spawns like every 10–20 min.

[MiTxGamer.1976]

I have been at the map since meta rest and no sign of Forro event the whole 2hrs. only seen the zizel chain feel like this step is bugged 

Not sure if meta failing has broken something but the only event that happed for me in Bastion of Natural was the zizel event chain. We had the sak for forro event but no event for it. Also any events that show up under the defence banner just vanish before they prompts what it is. 

Edited June 25 by MiTxGamer.1976

[Anastasia Avalon.6908]

I have been waiting for over 2 hours, only chain event that spawned was Concoctions, did that, and nothing! Forro's event isn't spawning either.

 

[Celeste.9135]

This is still bugged please fix the event or change the achievement 

[Mewsha.3561]

We really need this fixed. I don't think such a minor step should be this annoying and waste so much time.

[Najten.2418]

Still seemingly bugged.

Me and a guildie waited around at both event points (Forro and Narcisse) for over an hour and a half.. Nothing. At one point the pets around Forro became hostile  and we could soothe them but the event never became available. We even did the Amnytas meta hoping for a fresh map, but the map closing only sent us to another one with the meta still active.. After that map finally closed we were sent to another map that didn't seem brand new as event chains were progressed so the Narcisse event might have happened already. This is seriously doing my head in. Either fix Narcisse's event and make it spawn more frequently or remove the event requirement entirely. This is getting silly.

There's seemingly also a lovely "bug" with the Narcisse event.. The plants spawn before the event starts. If you kill a plant before the event started, the event isn't finishable. Just... wow.

Edited August 6 by Najten.2418

[Lelling.6795]

The fact that this is needed for TWO separate achievements, which you will likely not have unlocked at the same time unless you know about it in advance, makes for a miserable experience.

And since this has been known since May, that's kind of really not that great.

(Also, streaming to people and telling them GW2 is great while waiting for a bugged event makes for a really awkward juxtaposition. Nothing says "fun game" like watching a streamer AFK in one location waiting for an event to spawn while they google solutions.)

Side note: These "locked achievement that tells you to go back to an event you just did once you unlock it" achievements that ANet has been helping themselves to recently are already such a transparent time sink just designed to make players keep returning to content they've already done, but tying them to events in the middle of an event chain on a map where a meta interrupts all event chains  (and then the map closes) is such a careless way to waste everyone's time. Got there 20 minutes before meta (3:40). At 10 minutes before meta, the NPCs retreat, so no events can take place. Meta takes 30 minutes, then we started the event chain, got to the Narcisse step, and waited until 5 o clock to call it. So for those counting, that's 1 hour 20 minutes of time spent working on an event that's ultimately bugged.

The event is also rather fast once it does actually spawn, so it's not like you can spend a lot of time flying around and doing other stuff. You just have to sit there.

Edited August 14 by Lelling.6795

[thrag.9740]

New expansion launches in less than 24 hours. Can confirm this is still bugged. I guess that means its never getting fixed.