Guild Wars 2

Soooo… up on Scarlet’s drill, I am confronted with the following:

• Big laser beams from center hologram, telegraphed by orange AoE lanes
• Big laser beams from center hologram, without AoE lanes showing up
• Scorch marks from big laser beams
• Invisible scorch marks, lingering for up to 3 (?) seconds
• AoE by static, dynamic and synergetic holograms (cone attack, fire pools, stomps)
• Vertical “target” laser by the entrance and exit (super not awesome when you’re fighting the blue hologram by the way)
• Laser beams from small white holograms
• Lightning strikes (towards the end of the fight) from the ceiling, not telegraphed at all and therefore impossible to dodge

So, which of these excactly will I have to avoid in order to get the achievement? All of them? Only some of them? I’ve tried several times and, to my knowledge, stay well away from any big and small laser beams or their scorch marks, for as long as possible – no achievement for me. Of course, I was hit (and, for some reason, insta-defeated) by the ceiling lightning (not target laser).

I would really, really, really like to know what exactly I am supposed to do. I don’t feel I have the time to guess this one out by trial and error, there is only so many hours in a day.

Thank you.

Wait, I forgot something:

• Scarlet’s knockback bubbles

I got it despite getting hit by all 3 small holos as well as the purple beam from the ceiling (that’s the “Ultraviolet Explosion” linked to the micro-prime timer bar btw)

I didn’t get hit by any attack from the micro-primes, but that’s pretty much the easiest thing to dodge this entire fight.

Also note that prior to the last patch (before 8.3. or so) getting downed or killed would prevent you from getting the achievement, this has been fixed.

The lasers at both ends of the arena were specifically added to prevent people from afk-leeching this achievement and thus count against it.

Any attacks made by Scarlet herself also don’t count (she has at least 3: “stun grenade”, “place bomb” and “knockback bubble grenade”)

Not sure about the prime holo stomp attack, but again very easy to dodge (just range the entire fight and don’t run through it in case the circle doesn’t render)

The main difficulties are the lingering scorch marks (teleports and perma-vigor help a lot in picking up color buffs) and getting knocked into stuff by Scarlet’s grenades, which don’t render most of the time until 2s after they hit you…

If the unavoidable lightning strikes count then this achievement is a bad joke. You have no way to tell if the lightning is going to hit you and plus, yesterday I’m pretty sure I dodged, and it downed me during the dodge animation.

What I’d suggest is to have combat log running in a chat window and avoid anything that does damage coming from the Prime Hologram. (That’s the rectangular laser AoEs and the AoE blast in the center when it floats up.)

That seemed to do it for me.

Also with the new Aetherblade laser preventing AFKing by the doors, I’d avoid getting hit by that source of damage as well.

I’m not sure about the last phase and if taking any damage from the Ultraviolet Prime Hologram would screw up getting the achieve – but the way to avoid the unavoidable lightning strike is to kill all microprimes before the Ultraviolet Laser charges up. The unavoidable lightning strike is essentially a group penalty for failing that.

Jeromai.8203:

I’m not sure about the last phase and if taking any damage from the Ultraviolet Prime Hologram would screw up getting the achieve – but the way to avoid the unavoidable lightning strike is to kill all microprimes before the Ultraviolet Laser charges up. The unavoidable lightning strike is essentially a group penalty for failing that.

The UV killsat shouldn’t count against it any more. It did prior to the latest patch by downing people.

I played this post-patch. I honestly don’t know what I did wrong, then. :\

I got this achievement today. I avoided the big laser beams and their resulting scorch marks and stayed away from those locations if I could.

I got hit by at least 2 of the aoes from the smaller holograms (blue and red).

I avoid everything after that.

I also finally managed to get In Tune even though I was on my mesmer with some careful clone management.

Perhaps you hit an invisible scorch mark? The scorch mark lingers for about 2 seconds after the marks “disappear.”

I stayed well away from scorched areas for full 5 seconds

And tried this again – all eyes on my combat log.

I was hit by ultraviolet blast, and some dynamic AoE, and Scarlet herself. Definitely no lasers. Never got dazed. Never went near a scorchmark for 5-10 seconds after they vanished. Did not use turrets or any summons.

No achievement.

That being said, something hit me early on and threw me back from the prime hologram/center, I took damage as well – no idea what it was, as there was no visual cue at all, and neither was it in the combat log. It took me for approximately half my hitpoints, not that the combat log noticed.

So I’m going to conclude that this is bugged in some way or other and not bother with it anymore.

:-(