Pre-Searing Bear Quest

Is it possible at the moment to complete the 'hidden' 5 Hunters Bear quest in Regent Valley? Nothing I've read suggests it shouldn't be completeable, but every time I try to do it, I kill a bear and they just act like nothing happened. Then the time runs out and I fail. Any ideas on how to beat it? Thanks in advance.

Quote: Originally Posted by Null

Oh good, I'm not the only one who couldn't do this. I tried two different times and I couldn't do it. The first time I couldn't find any bears to kill, because I killed all the ones on the way to get to those guys, and the second time I made sure I left a bear alone so I would have one to kill, and they acted like nothing happened when I killed it. They did say, however, "Go into the woods here and kill a bear" or something like that, and the bear I killed was not technically in the woods. But from what I could tell there ARE no bears in the woods!

You'll also notice if you check your quest log that this does not show up.

It's either a bug or a bad joke.

My guess is it's a bug.

~Soly

I completed it last BWE, just by killing a bear and running back to them and talking to all of them before the timer expired. I haven't done it since then, but if you can get them to recognize that you killed a bear, you do get the reward of a unique item: Hunter's Ale.

Yeah, I'd heard it was perfectly doable, I just wasn't able to do it myself, for whatever reason.

i did the bear quest. the quest item doesnt drop from all the bears. you have to be patient. if it doesnt drop, zone then hunt bears again.

That's a different quest, where you need to get a bear hide to make a cloak for Little Thom.

The quest we're talking about isn't technically even a quest (as it never appears in your quest log). A group of five hunters in the middle of the woods in Regent Valley will ask you to go kill a bear within three minutes. Unfortunately, when I do it, nothing happens and they just act like I never killed one. Tried everything from killing two bears each time to drawing one right next to them and killing it to talking them WHILE killing a bear.

It sounds like some people have completed it recently. To those of you who have completed it since the game went live, let me know if you did anything special and how many times you had to try.

What does the Hunter's Ale do, anyway? Just make your vision blur? Is it anything special (IE, does it have 'quest item' in the descriptor) or just a gag item?

Quote: Originally Posted by Null

Worked fine April BWE

Well, this isn't the April BWE, unfortunately, this is post-release, and changes are being made constantly. Has anyone gotten it to work since the game went live a few days ago?

Not I. I tried it five times, twice with a party member to help, and never could do it. I even had him stand with the guys and I ran off and killed two bears in less than 30 seconds and had him talk to them, and neither one of us ever could complete it.

Good to know. Guess we can add it to the list of buggy, broken, or just plain missing things in Pre-Searing.

Ah well, I guess I can finally move on to Post-Searing now

yea I found them all drunk and crazy talking back in april but had forgot to look for em again before I went to the academy... I'll have to do that again... As I remeber though I had to come in from the otehr side and kill the bears AFTER talking to them... The trick I used awas getting their helth down a bit before talking to them then riunning back to finish them off before they fully healed...

Well, yes, that's the whole point of it. You talk to them, they tell you that you have three minutes to kill a bear. None of us are having trouble doing so, the problem is that you kill a bear and because of some bug, nothing happens.

Personally, I have killed a bear (often multiple bears) for them after the countdown started in just about every possible way and it's had no discernable effect.

Judging from what I'm hearing from others, I'm inclined to believe this quest was somehow broken between the April BWE and release. Hopefully this quest and all the other Pre-Searing problems (no 'royalist mob', missing elementalist, mesmer, and necro armor, etc) will be fixed in the near future.

Bears are located in Regent Valley, Near the temple.

Regards, Ashleigh.

It would be great if people would actually READ the thread before replying.

have you tried dragging a bear in front of them before killing it?

As listed above, yeah, I have.

I'd like to confirm that I had this problem as well. They didn't notice however many bears I killed.