Borlis Pass is broken

hmmm... if memory serves me correctly I did this one solo few days ago, there are 3 beacon lights you have to turn on at the top of the hill in the village for the king's brother to admit you. Yes 3,.. you may have only lit the 2 you can see that sit side by side there,...the other is reached from the left side on a sharp right turn behind the first one. I almost missed it myself when I ran the mission. Hope that helps. The magic beacon is actually after the part they're talking about.

Regarding the unopened gate. It is just a bug as far as I can tell. It happened to me once, but I've done it a few other times since then and had no problems. I know it's not what you want to hear, but you're just going to have to do it again...

Vai

I don't quite understand the replies here that are saying "I've never had a problem." Are you actually saying you don't believe the people who have run into the bug? It's bugged, really, it is. I myself started Borlis Pass 4 times yesterday and completed it twice. Twice it was bugged to the extent that it couldn't be completed (the doors wouldn't open), once it was slightly bugged (a ballista or two wouldn't fall, but the doors opened anyway), and once it worked perfectly.

Due to the inconsistency, my group tried to experiment (with no conclusive results, unfortunately) with the killing method on the engineers: Landing a final blow by melee, letting them bleed, landing the final blow by projectile, landing the final blow by spell, letting a pet finish them off. Like I said, we determined nothing conclusive, including that how an engineer is killed may have absolutely nothing to do with whether the ballista falls.

The weirdest thing was that one time when there were ballistas left standing (albeit with dead engineers next to them), yet the doors opened anyway. There is something very screwy going on in Borlis Pass, regardless of whether you have run into the problem yet personally.
My first two times through it everything went fine. But this last time with my latest character we killed everything in the zone and the door just wouldn't open. Tried it again and killed as little as possible to rush it and they opened. The mission is screwy but it's not that long so redoing it isn't so bad.

in order to get through the first gate, all beacons must be lit and the npc guard must be alive to accept the torch. once he takes the torch, the gate should open. That's a different part. They're talking about after that gate, you have to take down all the seige equipment and there's a final gate with about five Ice Golems and a few Stone Summits, and at the sides are seige weapons. You kill them all and take down the seige equipment and the gates should open.

Evidently, it is bugged at the moment. It would be interesting to see what the determinent factor is with that bug.

Just ran this mission with Henchies on my Elementalist, destroyed the ballistae and killed the enemies outside the giant gates only to find they refuse to open for me. Nice waste of time as now I have to start the mission over. Evidently it's still bugged I dunno, I definitely did the mission after the original post on this thread popped up, and I got through the gate fine. Which leads me to believe either:

a) The bug is sporadic
b) There's something people keep missing.

On one hand, I have faith that A.Net would have noticed such a glaring problem by now. On the other, I have faith in most people's ability to complete the objectives on that mission without misinterpretating them, so....hmm.

I dunno.