Fix Arborstone Plz, Anet

JoeKnowMo

JoeKnowMo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2005

Wessst Siiide, USA

Mo/

As pointed out by some in this thread, http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3022688 there is a glitch in the Arborstone mission. Danika seems to try to cast her Blood of Zu Heltzer spell while too far away from the door. We all ran close to the door, but she didn't follow. She just kept trying to cast it. We dropped the urn near her, away from her, near the door... tried everything we could think of, but to no avail.

We had completed all the mission objectives up to that point. She actually got the spell off several time w/o being interrupted. But it seems like she was too far away from the door.

Eventually we all had to quit. One of the most frustrating experiences playing GW ever!!! Gimme back my $50 (ok, $45 ). But seriously, this is a major glitch considering you need to get this mission done to move on in the story.

Please fix it, Anet.

Craze Horse

Craze Horse

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

We Step on Puppies [PuP]

R/

We had this same problem, but we used our engenuity to solve it. What you have to do is hurt yourself via the collapseing. Get into casting range of her and she should start to try to heal you. Run away and she will follow you trying to heal. It may take a few tries, but eventually lead her to the door and the cutscene will trigger. Don't worry it took us a while to figure it out. 1:16 to be exact

ArianeB

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Arthur

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Craze Horse
We had this same problem, but we used our engenuity to solve it. What you have to do is hurt yourself via the collapseing. Get into casting range of her and she should start to try to heal you. Run away and she will follow you trying to heal. It may take a few tries, but eventually lead her to the door and the cutscene will trigger. Don't worry it took us a while to figure it out. 1:16 to be exact Not working with henchies

Divine Slaya

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Young Money Merger [YM]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Craze Horse
We had this same problem, but we used our engenuity to solve it. What you have to do is hurt yourself via the collapseing. Get into casting range of her and she should start to try to heal you. Run away and she will follow you trying to heal. It may take a few tries, but eventually lead her to the door and the cutscene will trigger. Don't worry it took us a while to figure it out. 1:16 to be exact We tried that ourselves like 20 times and it wouldn't work. We eventually gave up. I've attempted this mission 5 times already and have tried to do everything possible for it not to glitch, but nothing works for us. I'm not wasting anymore of my time playing until anet decides to fix it.

JoeKnowMo

JoeKnowMo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2005

Wessst Siiide, USA

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Divine Slaya
We tried that ourselves like 20 times and it wouldn't work. We eventually gave up. I've attempted this mission 5 times already and have tried to do everything possible for it not to glitch, but nothing works for us. I'm not wasting anymore of my time playing until anet decides to fix it. hey, we were on same team. Frickin' annoying to say the least. Good job borking it up, Anet. Wake up and get to work.

Linkusmax

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Its weird, I did it a few days ago and today, got master reward both times.

Perhaps try going through the centre of the temple instead so she comes out closer to the door?

Cygnus_Zero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

N/Me

Anyone know if it's still bugged?

Raiin Maker

Raiin Maker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

England

Blood On The Worlds Hands

W/

i did this mission the otherday and it was fine. not sure how we just killed the stone guys and she just opened it and took us into the movie clip.

ArianeB

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Arthur

E/Mo

It was bugged in a good way before yesterday, she would open the door early, so they patched it, and now sometimes she wont open the door at all.

From what I can tell it is still broken, but here is a work around if you tried and failed.

At the top of the stairs at the end, the columbs collapse and turn into 6 stone creatures. Take out two or three, but not the boss, then run to the door on the right. Fight the boss from there. Since it is a Warrior boss he will come to you, and Danica will follow. Once dead, two creatures on either side of the door will appear, take them out and the door should open (finally).

supadave

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Heroes Incorporated

R/E

YES, Major Bugged Still!

After 2 times in a row, the mission would not complete. We tried using monsters from other areas and everything to get her closer.

Still bugged as of this message time. I posted an official bug report to them however.

Ira Blinks

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2006

strange... did it today with henchies no problem...

ThunderStruck

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

The Arctic Marauders [TAM]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ira Blinks
strange... did it today with henchies no problem... Same here, in fact, i JUST finished it about 5 mins ago!

lordsoulstrike

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

VIP

W/

GW just updated not even an hour ago maybe they fixed it.

Dartanian

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2006

Backseat of Droks Theatre

[war]

R/Mo

If it's still acting up, I had a solution to completing the mission. I used henchies btw.

What you do is, at the top of the stairs *at the end* before you approach the stone enemies, make sure you have the Urn of Saint Victor at Level 5. Run straight to the door w/o calling any targets and rub yourself against the door/wall like you're trying to walk through it; hide yourself w/o dropping the Urn just while doing this. The henchies should all bunch up close to you very closly, as well as the Daughter. As soon as the Yellow aura boss comes within your range, drop the Urn, and start fighting. The Daughter will say, I can open this door if I am not interupted, and she opens it. It may have been a fortunate situation for me, but after doing the mission 3 times, this was the only was it got it complete.


I used all ranged Henchmen - No warriors
Calling a target for henchies helps a lot.

Hope this helps

sir lockt

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

The Netherlands

Lightning Strikes Twice

Mo/

Never had the problem described above. Probably one of occasional glitches you see in missions (some of the Tyria missions behave strange occasionally). All ppl I talked about the arborstone mission didnt had the problem you describe. I would suggest doing it again, before throwing your copy away

jpau2t

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2006

Mo/W

kill the boss at the top of the stairs last, well at least that worked for me twice. also my guildies done it and they were successful as well

Effendi Westland

Effendi Westland

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Isle of the dead

[DVDF][LDS]

P/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by jpau2t
kill the boss at the top of the stairs last, well at least that worked for me twice. also my guildies done it and they were successful as well Had it bugged 2 times, tried luring her to the door, the monk in our party didnt get it and kept healing us after collapse. On the 3rd try we made sure we killed the boss last and she ran straight to the door

llsektorll

llsektorll

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Toronto, Canada

R/

yes, we had the same problem... we had a Minion Master on our team... and she kept using heal skills on him even though his health was full. Other things include using the "Blood of the Heltzer" (or whatever its called) to open the door over and over. She did that skill from a far distance for about 3 minutes then out of random some oni's spawn in the middle of where we are standing we kill them and she is having the same problem again. Then she suddenly moves forword does the skill again and door opens... i guess i was lucky... and yes we did take the shortcut path

goober1973

goober1973

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ireland

Ascending Phoenix [AP]

R/

Still bugged. Just tried it twice with henchies and no luck, even with luring her around.

Tren

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

Heroes Incorporated

R/Mo

I tried it four times today hoping it would eventually work, but of course it didnt. I hope they fix this soon.

Matrix

Matrix

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

E/Me

Working Now

Deathwingg00

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Arena net has a very low quality assurance system... they should start using bugzilla instead of that crappy system they have and those canned messages. Bunch of noobs :@ I'm very frustrated about this situation.

Star Alfur

Star Alfur

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

WoW. :3

PM if you need me.

W/

Just tried it, still prone to bugging at the end. Not like you can command the henches not to heal you. -_-

MaglorD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Star Alfur
Just tried it, still prone to bugging at the end. Not like you can command the henches not to heal you. -_- I did this the day before yesterday with my wammo and henchies to cap a warrior skill from the boss right at the end. Didn't encounter a glitch but then again I killed everything in that final chamber. It was a tough fight but the henchies and I prevailed.

Iori Shozu

Iori Shozu

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeKnowMo
As pointed out by some in this thread, http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3022688
Eventually we all had to quit. One of the most frustrating experiences playing GW ever!!! Gimme back my $50 (ok, $45 ). But seriously, this is a major glitch considering you need to get this mission done to move on in the story.

Please fix it, Anet. This is your first frustrating experience with gw?? Have you not played iron mines and had markis get stuck time after time. Or how about when jalis ironhammer randomly leaves his pedestal at thunderhead to attack mursaat and dies. Or how about Rurik or gw bush as we like to call him always running off and aggroing extra groups in nolani.

They just made the game of course its gonna have its bugs and if they are significant enough they will fix em when they can get to them. Do you realize how many lines of code you need to debug to fix some of these problems its not like running spellcheck.

Try an elder scrolls game mainly morrowwind if you want to see a really frustratingly bugged game.

Cirian

Cirian

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

European Union

The Amazon Basin

I just made my first attempt on this mission I got really annoyed by the arbitrary interrupts. I spent a whole minute or two chain interrupted trying to get a 5s rez off on two fallen henchies, and it's not clear anough where is safe and where isn't! Eventually I got to the warrior boss, and knowing that bosses do double damage I dropped him first as he was a big threat, but very easy to disable and kill. Logical step, right?

Except the truth is that I'm about 10s away from losing the mission because Danika's AI script writer decides not to bother checking to see if I'd killed the boss's horde of badass minions guarding the door - so off she goes and suicides in the middle of them all, failing the mission for me. Cheers for that

Maybe her script should check if to see if I've actually cleared the boss and his small army before trying to open that door? Geeeeeeeeeez. So after wasting an hour of my life on that, I'm going to have to re-do it tomorrow and work around bad implementation by having the henchies soak up the boss damage while I drop the minions to get around Danika's suicidal habits, THEN drop the boss who I could have killed right at the start

The collapsing roof stuff really needs to affect the monsters too, and it's just a bit much to see the party suffer co-ordinated knockdown every 4s or less in some areas - how much junk is there to fall down anyway?! Collapsing cathedral, great idea, just went a bit overboard on the falling masonry and didn't think how to mark safe / dangerous areas properly

Apart from hating the gameplay on this mission, I think it's great

Effendi Westland

Effendi Westland

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Isle of the dead

[DVDF][LDS]

P/W

Should be fixed with the new update

Estic

Estic

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mongoose United

sorry to report its not.
Just spend half an hour in a very good group trying to ge ther to the door. At one point we had her at about 5 meters and she couldnt do it.

Maybe the most frustrating part about it is that i've seen the cutscene that follows (at a friend of mine who brought necro sacrifice skills). She actually mentions that she was afraid her spell wouldnt work. Well go figure if you try to do it from 15 yards out.

Vlad Titanskin

Vlad Titanskin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

tried 6 times today didnt work.
Euro dis 1 is full with ppl wich cant complete it atm ...

Guild Wars Game Update Notes
Update - Monday May 8
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Arborstone mission from being completed.

Why its not working eh ... why you say its fixed when its not working !?

lol we had a guy who was there for 29 hrs ....

Whiskers

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2006

R/Mo

It's probably a typo in their newest update message, which should have read:

Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed the Arborstone mission to be completed

nm me, I'm just bitter after trying it twice. Tried to lure Dannika around to no avail...

Before update though, my other char ran through the mission with henchies without a problem.

GranDeWun

GranDeWun

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

I've now got two characters stuck on this mission - my first one made it thru on the first try. Granted, I've only had enough game time to try it a few times, but between bad PUGs and Danika, it is starting to seriously annoy me...

(Last PUG: 3 enemy groups. While I use longbow to pull one, W runs off to another, and A runs off to a third. Then Oni's pop up...)

yhm

yhm

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

still bugged after the update, she seem to chain casting her "blood of zu helter" like 5 feets away from the door and don't want to move.

It already annoying when my ele's long casting spell getting interrupt by all those falling structure(forget to bring GoC). Then, finally when i get to the final gate just to find out the mission is bugged.


I wonder how hard is it to just slap that "ghostly hero" programming script(in GW:P desert mission) on danika.

Therlun

Therlun

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

just to keep the topic on top:

plz fix it!

Batou of Nine

Batou of Nine

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

California, USA

Angel Sharks [AS] (RiP [KaiZ] T__T")

Mo/E

My 5th time trying this mission was last night. I hadnt played Factions for a full week while i was waiting for my CE to come in. I finally get it and BAM it still doesnt work. Danka was AT the doors, like right beside it, and she just started spamming "Blood of Zu Heltzer" completing the skill MANY times without anything happening or the doors opening. After 1 full week of waiting i still cannot get any further in this game, ridiculous.

Just to re-iterate the problem::
ARBORSTONE MISSION IS STILL BROKEN!! ANET FIX THIS BUG ASAP PLZ!! WE HAVE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY FOR A WHILE NOW!!!

enjoy.

ling43235

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

It's still very much bugged this morning, as I tried with an all-human squad fighting to the end, clearing all the baddies. But no, the door still didn't open, no matter how many times she casted that spell to full completion. We figured it's either Anet lied to us, or this Danika is actually an imposter.

Thallandor

Thallandor

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Singapore

Seers of Serpents [SoS]

R/

How this game passed the beta testing phase into full release with such game breaking bugs is truely frustrating.

khronic

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2006

Budding Lunacy

well.. just tried this mission.. i'm in it now.. while writing this.. i like how the guild wars website says it's fixed, when in reality, they just mamde it worse..WTF A-NET.. QUIT SCREWING UP ALL THE TIME. A 4 YEAR OLD COULD SCRIPT BETTER THAN THE PPL YOU HAVE

Bu7ch

Bu7ch

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Cincinnati

Governors of Destruction [GOD]

R/

Yep...tried it twice today and no luck.

Albas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Legion of Valhalla

Me/N

just annoying, and I bet they are sitting there in their offices thinking the glitch is fixed...