Guild Wars 2

I am in desperate need of help for the 6 Minutes to Knightfall achievement. I was unable to access the Battle for LA content during the first 3 days it was up due to internet connection problems, and I am more or less unable to play during prime time hours. I can be on at pretty much any time during the day (6 AM to 2 or 3 PM server time), but of course there are never enough people to kill all 3 knights in under 6 minutes, even on BG and JQ. I am newly married, and the little time I have to spend with my wife, who is a caregiver and is getting really burned out at her job, is between 3 and 6 or 7 PM server time.

Are there any guilds or servers that would be willing to organize a serious (meaning there are 150 people on the map all dedicated to getting the 6 min achievement) attempt or attempts during daylight hours? I’m a TTS member, but there are never more than about 40 or so people on in the TTS Teamspeak server during the day. Please let me know if you’re interested in doing this, and let’s coordinate a server and time for getting this done. I’m really frustrated with this event, since I’ve never missed a single limited-time LS achievement so far and I don’t intend to have only 14 out of 15 this time around. Please help if you’re able—I will be eternally grateful if someone is able to step up to the plate and help me organize this.

Equinox I’m surprised your in TTS and still can’t do this achievement. We’ve started doing the event again since the achievement is unbugged and a lot of our members want that achievement.

Keep in mind our 2 primary peak hours are during both Oceanic and NA prime time which for NA would be 4pm-11pm server time and for oceanic would be 1:30 am server time to 4:00 am server time (maybe later during the weekends). If you can’t make it to NA prime times, I’d suggest attempting to wake up early for Oceanic prime times especially during the weekend, there might be more effort from TTS to get that achievement since a lot of members don’t have it because of the bug.

You’re not alone with the frustration of this achievement. Again someone on the ArenaNet team thinks it’s a good display of individual skill and ability to achieve, to force each individual player to rely on about 149 other players to get an achievement done. I only pray I can get it before it’s too late.

guardian.6489:

Equinox I’m surprised your in TTS and still can’t do this achievement. We’ve started doing the event again since the achievement is unbugged and a lot of our members want that achievement.

Keep in mind our 2 primary peak hours are during both Oceanic and NA prime time which for NA would be 4pm-11pm server time and for oceanic would be 1:30 am server time to 4:00 am server time (maybe later during the weekends). If you can’t make it to NA prime times, I’d suggest attempting to wake up early for Oceanic prime times especially during the weekend, there might be more effort from TTS to get that achievement since a lot of members don’t have it because of the bug.

Again: I’m not available during those hours. That’s the problem. I’m looking for a guild or server that’s willing to organize something between 6 AM and 3 PM server time. TTS is helpful, but their hours don’t work with my own, except for the 6:30 AM Tequatl runs.

There’s sometimes an LA run after that or in place of that which might be your best bet for getting this done.

The achievement takes less than six minutes to do (obviously). You can’t spend 30 minutes one night to get the achievement? Have you spoken to your wife about doing this? You don’t need to be 100% at your computer until a few minutes before the event starts.

Absconditus.6804:

You’re not alone with the frustration of this achievement. Again someone on the ArenaNet team thinks it’s a good display of individual skill and ability to achieve, to force each individual player to rely on about 149 other players to get an achievement done. I only pray I can get it before it’s too late.

They might also have – correctly – thought that with the achievement having absolutely 0 impact, it’s really not a requirement for everyone to be able to get it.

Carighan.6758:

Absconditus.6804:

You’re not alone with the frustration of this achievement. Again someone on the ArenaNet team thinks it’s a good display of individual skill and ability to achieve, to force each individual player to rely on about 149 other players to get an achievement done. I only pray I can get it before it’s too late.

They might also have – correctly – thought that with the achievement having absolutely 0 impact, it’s really not a requirement for everyone to be able to get it.

Not a requirement, and I know that being a completionist is my own fault, but they should still make achievements accessible with a reasonable number of people. The average number of players who show up in BG, JQ, and TC in non-prime hours is usually around 60 to 70, so why not just balance the fights so they scale and would allow those sorts of numbers an even chance at getting the 6 minute requirement?

Earlier today, I guested to JQ. We rallied a bunch of people around 12:00 EST and beat two out of three knights in around 7 minutes, with about 30-35 people per knight. That’s a lot more reasonable and realistic than 50+ per knight, and the 6 minute achievement should be just as doable with 60 to 90 people as it is with 150.

Carighan.6758:

Absconditus.6804:

You’re not alone with the frustration of this achievement. Again someone on the ArenaNet team thinks it’s a good display of individual skill and ability to achieve, to force each individual player to rely on about 149 other players to get an achievement done. I only pray I can get it before it’s too late.

They might also have – correctly – thought that with the achievement having absolutely 0 impact, it’s really not a requirement for everyone to be able to get it.

This “debate” is ongoing since the dawn of time. “Not a requirement”, “0 impact” etc. etc. Yes I know. But I can assure you, there are people around here and there for who achievements are the biggest if not the only motivator to play a game long-term. When I played GW2, the fact if I got some achievement or not was much more important from if my character has ascended gear or if my PvP rank is high enough. People have different priorities. Don’t judge them becouse they don’t fit yours. I am not even touching the subject of this particular achievement since I dont have any own experience regarding it. Just replying to the old “lol who cares about achievements?” notion.

Carighan.6758:

Absconditus.6804:

You’re not alone with the frustration of this achievement. Again someone on the ArenaNet team thinks it’s a good display of individual skill and ability to achieve, to force each individual player to rely on about 149 other players to get an achievement done. I only pray I can get it before it’s too late.

They might also have – correctly – thought that with the achievement having absolutely 0 impact, it’s really not a requirement for everyone to be able to get it.

Let’s be honest and fair then, nothing in Guild Wars 2 has anything but 0 impact on anything, it’s a game. There is no real reason then to play Guild Wars 2 if we’re going to be overly analytical about it. What you play for, and what I play for, may be completely different, I may have goals you do not have and vice versa. One of my goals, is to achieve all the LS achievements. It keeps me going, and keeps me spending money on ArenaNet’s game. That’s a good thing, for ArenaNet and the game at least, right? Does this mean I am against difficult achievements that require teamwork? No, as long as it’s not stupidly put into a time-limited piece of content that’ll go away after two weeks time.

Carighan.6758:

They might also have – correctly – thought that with the achievement having absolutely 0 impact, it’s really not a requirement for everyone to be able to get it.

If it truly had 0 impact, it shouldn’t have been put in the game to begin with. But we both know that your argument is 100% disingenuous.

For the record, my wife had a migraine last night so I was able to be in BG main during prime time while sitting next to her to make sure she was ok. We failed 4 times in a row, simply because people were lazy and didn’t get buffs or didn’t stack might. This sucks. Maybe I can try to get on at the top of the hour for a few hours tonight, but that might have been my best chance at getting the achievement, and now it’s gone. Anyone able to help?

kitten this achievement.

I want this achievement so much but every time people in TC main or whichever overflow/server I’m on has tried…every time a fail. I don’t know which server to try >.<

BARELY made it at the earliest primetime hour TTS was doing its LA runs. Blue must have been right on the line when it went down. I’ll still be doing my best to help other people get the 6 min achievement during daytime hours over the next few days though.

Congrats on getting your achievement. I remember you on JQ main the other day and you (understandably) were sounding very frustrated. I’m glad you can breathe easy now (until the next Living Story update!).

In my case my only hope for this achievement vanished today after days of hunting to get on main and when I was afk too long during waiting for the event, I don’t even care about getting every achievement because it’s a travesty but dunno why I decided to do this praticular ach. Well I learned a lesson to not doing stupid, random LS achievements.

That’s why we make sure to do the daily related to the LS. There’s always those 1 or 2 crap, impossible achievements. Hell I missed a bunch on the Marionette because of the set up. I completed all the platform regulators and dodged all the attacks in each lane, but because other platforms failed, I missed out on 3 lanes/regulator/dodge achievements. Just have to accept it for what it is, either not so good implementation or straight up bad players (people who just lay there dead, get hit by the major AOE every time, continue to use conditions when they’re obviously being reflected, stuff like that) and move on

Being an older gentleman, I have been in desperate need of many things, sleep, food, and on occasion a drink (morning after sucks). However, lumping those desperate needs in the same category as an achievement to an event in an online game diminishes the word desperation.

My advise, skip it, life goes on my friend, I know I won’t lose sleep over not getting mine.

Tommyknocker.6089:

My advise, skip it, life goes on my friend, I know I won’t lose sleep over not getting mine.

Best part is, ANet did listen to complaints about this in previous patches.
The achievements giving some form of reward are always either really easy, automatic, or fillable with dailies. Moreover, they’ve removed the unique rewards from the meta-achievements too, recently.

That way, failing to get anything still doesn’t really put you back in rewards. You can easily get your title or node or helmet skin or backpack or whatever, without having to fill any achievements at all.

Carighan.6758:

Tommyknocker.6089:

My advise, skip it, life goes on my friend, I know I won’t lose sleep over not getting mine.

Best part is, ANet did listen to complaints about this in previous patches.
The achievements giving some form of reward are always either really easy, automatic, or fillable with dailies. Moreover, they’ve removed the unique rewards from the meta-achievements too, recently.

That way, failing to get anything still doesn’t really put you back in rewards. You can easily get your title or node or helmet skin or backpack or whatever, without having to fill any achievements at all.

Again, it’s about completionism, not rewards. I could care less about meta-rewards, because all I care about is getting 100% on every time-limited set of achievements. But I (very narrowly) got the achievement yesterday, so it’s a moot point.

So for those of us who haven’t got it yet, is there a recommendation for a server to guest to? I’ve been trying Blackgate and Jade Quarry for two days now with no results and am beyond frustrated.

This is one of those achievements by design grief you for not being here the first 3 days when everyone wanted to do it… You best chance is to spend hours camping a popular server like blackgate or jade quarry for server reset (prime time) to roll around. Thats how I had to do it. Best start now, reset is in about 6 hours.

Some wonder why others have such a distaste for temp content… This is one of those reasons… Some of us just can’t be here for every release date and the longer you are not here the harder it is made for you to get these kind of achievements.

The broken queue system for guests doesn’t help anything either.

Alatreon.2943:

So for those of us who haven’t got it yet, is there a recommendation for a server to guest to? I’ve been trying Blackgate and Jade Quarry for two days now with no results and am beyond frustrated.

Jade Quarry has pretty much stopped bothering with the 6 minute achievement the past couple of days. And you can map right into JQ even on prime-time hours now. Maybe it will pick up a bit over the weekend (probably not). Your best bet is to try to get into a TTS group.

sorry you couldn’t get in BG ~ though we do tend to do it 5 – 7 times daily. it can get very tiring trying to get everything and everyone together. especially when there is 1 to 3 people who want the achievement. of course, i always help out. though after a while the majority logs out to take a break. ~ congrats on the achievement either way.

Equinox.4968:

Again, it’s about completionism, not rewards. I could care less about meta-rewards, because all I care about is getting 100% on every time-limited set of achievements. But I (very narrowly) got the achievement yesterday, so it’s a moot point.

I’ll admit I don’t quite get that.
Really don’t. Achievements are so… arbitrary. There’s no rhyme or reason or theme to them really, they cover various types of a game, but not equally so, and it varies per game.

It’s like a stamp collector wanting to collect all red-ish stamps, basically.

Carighan.6758:

Equinox.4968:

Again, it’s about completionism, not rewards. I could care less about meta-rewards, because all I care about is getting 100% on every time-limited set of achievements. But I (very narrowly) got the achievement yesterday, so it’s a moot point.

I’ll admit I don’t quite get that.
Really don’t. Achievements are so… arbitrary. There’s no rhyme or reason or theme to them really, they cover various types of a game, but not equally so, and it varies per game.

It’s like a stamp collector wanting to collect all red-ish stamps, basically.

Good for you. Some people like this kind of stuff. Stop being narrow minded.