Guild Wars 2

So one of the meta achievements required to make progress in the story line is to kill 20 ppl using the mad king finisher, and we get 4 in the mail.

So I activated the finisher and spent some time in wvw and pvp. Now I’m at 10 of 20 kills and the finishers are all gone?

I was under the impression each finisher was good for 5 kills, so how could all 4 be gone with only 10 kills?

You also get the limited mad king and scarecrow finishers as drops in the labyrinth. And I’m sure Mr. Gnash blade would be happy to sell you the permanent mad king/scarecrow finishers…

Just interrupt the finisher, and start it again. You get credit each “attempt” at finishing.

easiest, if all you want is to get the achieve done is go to HotM, go to the sparring area (iirc, NNE section of HotM map, where the orange fist is). You can defeat the enemies there (ele i remember is pretty quick to down) and then start yuor finisher, cancel. start, cancel.. you should get it done in no time.

To be fair, the devs HAVE said that repeat cancelling finishers to progress the achievement was not intended, and will be fixed in a patch. I HIGHLY doubt that anybody who used that trick will face sanction over it, but I don’t blame people for not wanting to risk it.

Well that’s great for all of you, but I have zero finishers left. I’ve been farming all day and havent seen a single finishers as a drop. So either I keep hopeing for a drop or i have to buy one from the gem store.

You trying to get them in the labyrinth when the doors pop up (and the zerg runs around)? That was where I’ve gotten all of mine. I guess you could have had bad RNG though. Wish I could give you some of my finishers : /

If you do the first part of the LS content you get four finishers, each giving you 5.
So 4 * 5 = 20 == enough to complete achieve. Don’t know what you did with yours.

What exactly drops the limited ones in the Labyrinth? I haven’t gotten a single one and they don’t show as drops from anything on the wiki..

Is it Lunatic Inquisition reward? Rare mob drops from normal candy freaks? From the Large Candy Bags? Or maybe the chests from the bosses? Is it the Trick-or-Treat Bags?

I also screwed up with my finishers.. Do NOT want to buy permanent ones..

Nevermore.7963:

What exactly drops the limited ones in the Labyrinth? I haven’t gotten a single one and they don’t show as drops from anything on the wiki..

Is it Lunatic Inquisition reward? Rare mob drops from normal candy freaks? From the Large Candy Bags? Or maybe the chests from the bosses? Is it the trick-or-treat bags?

I also screwed up with my finishers.. Do NOT want to buy permanent ones..

I get them from all types of foe there. And I don’t even want them…

Yes! I just got one as a normal drop from the candy freaks! =D So not only from bags in case anyone else comes wondering.. =)

Nevermore.7963:

What exactly drops the limited ones in the Labyrinth? I haven’t gotten a single one and they don’t show as drops from anything on the wiki..

Is it Lunatic Inquisition reward? Rare mob drops from normal candy freaks? From the Large Candy Bags? Or maybe the chests from the bosses? Is it the trick-or-treat bags?

I also screwed up with my finishers.. Do NOT want to buy permanent ones..

I guess you could say they are rare drops. Most of mine were from the d…actually ALL of mine were from door events. One was from a door event in Gendarran Fields but the rest were inside the labyrinth. Two were from the door south of the Lich but I doubt it’s related to any specific door, it’s just that the door events spawn a lot of mobs when there are a lot of players around. I guess if you are mostly on a low population map then it might take you a bit longer.

Calm down guy.

With the start of the living story you receive 4 finishers tokens.

To every 1 token used = 5 finishers avaiable on wallet.
so.. 4 tokens x 5 finishers = 20 finish blows.

Where is the problem?

If you read the thread you’d see it! =)

really, none of you guys have been getting them? they’re dropping a lot, i’ve been getting them with every few tries that the zerg kills that candy or skeleton champ.

I have been doing the lab. as well, in three days I got one scarecrow finisher, other than the four I got in the mail.

You can also get them by trading candy corn to the kids (of all races) in LA. The personalized trick-or-treat bags drop them quite regularly.

The drop fairly often in the Labyrinth.

I got about 4 drops of 5-use limited ones while closing doors.

I though the finisher was an unfair achievement until I noticed how often these things drop.

sonicsix.5713:

Just interrupt the finisher, and start it again. You get credit each “attempt” at finishing.

That was fixed.

Again, this problem would not be there if they stopped making these kind of drops account bound. Everything for the gem store right…..

I did not do this Achievement at all and I’ve finished the meta and gotten the Candy Corn node.

There are two “Dailies” per day that will fill up a pip toward the meta – one if not both were always fairly easy to complete. Just saying this in case the OP or others didn’t realise it (the “required to advance” part makes me think that – but you don’t have to do them ALL, you can substitute the Daily ones instead).

The finishers have a high drop rate in the labryth. I have around 300 finishers (mad king and scarecrow) all from farming that for a few hours.

sostronk.8167:

The finishers have a high drop rate in the labryth. I have around 300 finishers (mad king and scarecrow) all from farming that for a few hours.

I have been playing this for about 2 hours a night and i have only seen 1 drop for this finisher….. So i guess you got all mine.

Plus i have never used a finisher before and never did PVP or WVW so i’m not sure if i’ll be able to do this one.

shadowzombie.7306:

If you do the first part of the LS content you get four finishers, each giving you 5.
So 4 * 5 = 20 == enough to complete achieve. Don’t know what you did with yours.

This right here… i had 20 charges, and when i finished the achievement ( i was in sPvP granted) i still had 11 finishers left… so idk what you did at all OP…

I have gotten so many as drops in the labyrinth that I have at least 60 uses of each after doing the achievement.

Go in with a character with good AoE skills (Guardian staff, Ranger Longbow, Ele Staff, Engie flamethrower/bombs, necromancer wells/staff, Mesmer gs?, Thief??). Loot falls from the sky that way as you tag lots of things.

deadatspawn.6045:

sostronk.8167:

The finishers have a high drop rate in the labryth. I have around 300 finishers (mad king and scarecrow) all from farming that for a few hours.

I have been playing this for about 2 hours a night and i have only seen 1 drop for this finisher….. So i guess you got all mine.

Plus i have never used a finisher before and never did PVP or WVW so i’m not sure if i’ll be able to do this one.

How strange. I’ve also gotten exactly 1 drop after over 3 hours of farming. What is up with the discrepancy?

shadowzombie.7306:

If you do the first part of the LS content you get four finishers, each giving you 5.
So 4 * 5 = 20 == enough to complete achieve. Don’t know what you did with yours.

This ^ is my issue. I did the LS and got the 4 (each supposedly with 5 uses each). But some how they got used completely up and I’ve only been credited with 10 of 20 uses.

Did they patch that finisher cancel, repeat, cancel just now? I ask this because i see they did put out a patch just now..

I can’t test it, as I’ve finished the achievement, but supposedly the finisher-canceling bug was patched out last Friday.

I didn’t intentionally finish-cancel-finish but somehow I got credit for 20 using only 10 finishers. I got interrupted plenty of times. I also noticed that I got credit even if I didn’t deliver the killing blow (no xp). I suspect that after the patch, it’s consuming finishers even if somebody else delivers the killing blow before you finish.

I’ve gotten 2 finisher drops off of door mobs (not chests/trick or treat bags).

Beorn Saxon.4762:

shadowzombie.7306:

If you do the first part of the LS content you get four finishers, each giving you 5.
So 4 * 5 = 20 == enough to complete achieve. Don’t know what you did with yours.

This ^ is my issue. I did the LS and got the 4 (each supposedly with 5 uses each). But some how they got used completely up and I’ve only been credited with 10 of 20 uses.

Were you wasting them on the NPCs in the mist like a lot of people have been trying to do?

So i forced myself to play WvW so i could do this achievement. I some how used all my finishers and only have credit for 8 out 20….

What am i to do now? How can i get these finishers? I tried to go back in to the Labyrinth but NO ONE IS IN THERE!!! So i sat there trying to kill most of the mobs in there and still nothing…. got bored and disconnected.

Can i get these finishers any place else?