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Hunting Party

Complete all four Hunt types in The Maw.

  • Complete Hunt: Shadehounds
  • Complete Hunt: Soul Eaters
  • Complete Hunt: Death Elemental
  • Complete Hunt: Winged Soul Eaters

The four Maw Hunts, and the trigger bug that has blocked people for years.

What the achievement asks

Complete all four Hunt types in The Maw. Ten points, account-wide, both factions.

The Hunts happen in The Beastwarrens, in the south-east of the zone. One type is active at a time and they rotate, so this is four separate visits at minimum, spread over days.

Read this before you go

There is a long-standing trigger bug. You arrive, the map shows the event, and nothing starts: no progress bar, no objective, and a boss standing there in a casting animation that cannot be attacked. It has been reported across years and patches, and it is the reason this achievement blocks people out of the whole Shadowlands meta.

The fix that works: take the Animaflow Teleporter to the Beastwarrens instead of flying there. It sits in Ve'nari's Refuge, to the right of the Torghast portal, and it is not the smaller teleporter that goes to Korthia. Arriving that way triggers the event properly.

If it still will not start, leave the hunt area entirely, do a full logout and back in (not a UI reload), and return. Both fixes are reported working by many people, on characters at very different standings with Ve'nari.

Getting into the Beastwarrens at all

The area opens through Ve'nari's own questline, at Rule 6: Concealment is Everything, which asks for 15 Broker Hunting Runes and a Cypher of Dampening used inside the Beastwarrens.

Some people find the Hunts only start giving credit after they have actually run that chain, so if the achievement is refusing to move, finishing Rule 6 properly is worth doing before anything else.

The four Hunts

HuntWhat it wants
ShadehoundsEnds on the Gorged Shadehound. Its loot is locked to once a week
Soul EatersKill 20 Displaced Soul Eaters before the ritual bar fills to 100
Winged Soul EatersGrab a hook from the ground, five charges, use it to kill 10 Anima Devourers, then the Alpha Anima Devourer
Death ElementalThe one nobody writes up. No trick reported for it

Soul Eaters is the one people fail. The hound in the middle eats the mobs you need, and its meal counts against you rather than for you. Pull each one out of the ring with a ranged attack the moment it spawns, kill it outside, and the ritual bar stays behind you.

Winged Soul Eaters hides its boss. The Alpha Anima Devourer does not stand where the map icon is; it is around 46 65, and a target macro finds it faster than looking.

If the kill does not count

It happens, and it is not always the bug above: people finish the whole hunt and see no criterion tick.

The workaround is simple. Kill the end boss again. The bonus objective and the map marker will both be gone by then, and it still registers.

While you are down there

The Beastwarrens are also one of the twelve stops for Explore The Maw, and the Hunts sit in the middle of a zone that has to be circled anyway for its rares. Four forced visits are four laps you would have made regardless.