How Do Defend Rally Point Achievements Work?
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Posted by: soboard.6974
Q:
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Posted by: soboard.6974
Q:
Please answer a few questions for Fort Marriner Fighter and Postern Ward Protector.
It counts for shield events only?
Do I have to be present and receive credit for EACH defend event that happens?
Should I be looking for credit AFTER the :40 min mark, or later when Magnus asks us to leave?
Please clarify all of these things, as I’ve tried every combination of each and never gotten these two. It’s really frustrating going through 45 min durations and not getting what you went in for.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
You do defend event and get credit like any other event. You then do two more.
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Posted by: soboard.6974
You do defend event and get credit like any other event. You then do two more.
Right, I get credit for them. But then it doesn’t count. Do I have to do EVERY defend event that occurs for that section?
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Posted by: Haros.4297
For me:
I stayed the whole time at the location, succeeding in every defence phase (only shield events at the spots). I got the credit when we are told to leave.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
There were a several achievements that I didn’t get until the end when we were told to get out. It may have been one of them.
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Posted by: Autumn Frazee.3158
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You have to succeed every defend event at a rally camp for an entire evacuation cycle. Evacuation cycles end at 50 minutes past the hour, that is when you would receive credit if you managed to hold the rally camp the entire cycle.
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Posted by: soboard.6974
Thank you for the clarification.
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Posted by: Psientist.6437
You do defend event and get credit like any other event. You then do two more.
Thank you for helping set the market value for snark.
soboard,
The Fort Marriner, Postern Ward, and Trader’s Forum defender achievements require every spawn of the respective defend event to succeed. I have not been present for every spawn and have completed the achievement. I can not confirm if you need to participate in at least one.
The Triple Play achievement is similar. You do not need to participate in every successful defend event, but the zone must succeed in every event. From my understanding of the descriptions completing Triple Play should complete all three of the individual defend achievements.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
You do defend event and get credit like any other event. You then do two more.
Thank you for helping set the market value for snark.
soboard,
The Fort Marriner, Postern Ward, and Trader’s Forum defender achievements require every spawn of the respective defend event to succeed. I have not been present for every spawn and have completed the achievement. I can not confirm if you need to participate in at least one.
The Triple Play achievement is similar. You do not need to participate in every successful defend event, but the zone must succeed in every event. From my understanding of the descriptions completing Triple Play should complete all three of the individual defend achievements.
No problem.
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Posted by: Psientist.6437
You have to succeed every defend event at a rally camp for an entire evacuation cycle. Evacuation cycles end at 50 minutes past the hour, that is when you would receive credit if you managed to hold the rally camp the entire cycle.
Hello. Could you define what you mean by ‘you’? Do you mean the individual player must be present for every successful defend event for the respective rally point? How the mechanic works would effect Triple Play as well. To complete that achievement does a player have to be at every spawn or could they organize 3 teams to defend all three places. Asking because I would like to be able to give advice in map chat.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
You have to succeed every defend event at a rally camp for an entire evacuation cycle. Evacuation cycles end at 50 minutes past the hour, that is when you would receive credit if you managed to hold the rally camp the entire cycle.
Hello. Could you define what you mean by ‘you’? Do you mean the individual player must be present for every successful defend event for the respective rally point? How the mechanic works would effect Triple Play as well. To complete that achievement does a player have to be at every spawn or could they organize 3 teams to defend all three places. Asking because I would like to be able to give advice in map chat.
http://dulfy.net/2014/02/19/gw2-escape-from-lions-arch-achievement-guide/
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Posted by: soboard.6974
So I stayed in the same spot, Fort Marriner, the entire duration of the event. I did not die, i succeeded in every single shield event. Magnus tells us to exit; I get nothing.
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Posted by: Aza.2105
You have to succeed every defend event at a rally camp for an entire evacuation cycle. Evacuation cycles end at 50 minutes past the hour, that is when you would receive credit if you managed to hold the rally camp the entire cycle.
I was just there the entire duration, each defense was successful. I did not get credit.
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Posted by: Psientist.6437
You have to succeed every defend event at a rally camp for an entire evacuation cycle. Evacuation cycles end at 50 minutes past the hour, that is when you would receive credit if you managed to hold the rally camp the entire cycle.
Hello. Could you define what you mean by ‘you’? Do you mean the individual player must be present for every successful defend event for the respective rally point? How the mechanic works would effect Triple Play as well. To complete that achievement does a player have to be at every spawn or could they organize 3 teams to defend all three places. Asking because I would like to be able to give advice in map chat.
http://dulfy.net/2014/02/19/gw2-escape-from-lions-arch-achievement-guide/
Thank you, I’ve seen Dulfy’s guide. I asked for clarification because the devs answer made it sound as though the player had to be present for each spawn.
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Posted by: soboard.6974
I need better clarification still.
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Posted by: Robert.4197
Yeah, I’m still confused. After trying again after posting in another thread I got the triple play and defend Fort Marioner achievement but I only got credit for 1/3. I also defended in 2 other locations.
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Posted by: Robert.4197
Sorry for double posting, not sure how to add 2 pictures at once but here is the other.
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Posted by: soboard.6974
this is BROKEN. I just did it another 2 times, nothing.
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Posted by: soboard.6974
Can someone clarify if its a bug? A dev? So i know to wait, instead of wasting my time.
Going on 6 time following direction and nothing.
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Posted by: Calixtus.8617
Just done Ehmry Bay main, was present for every Defend event they all were successful wins yet no reward for Triple Play or Traders Forum.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
Triple play is not dependent on you being at each separate defend event. You can camp one defend event and still get triple play if the conditions are met. Dulfy’s guide explains this.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
Defend events are not the escorts. These are the ones that have waves that you have to defend against.
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Posted by: Calixtus.8617
I know that. Group of us did every DEFEND event and did not get reward for Triple Play and I also did not get the Traders one.
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Posted by: Calixtus.8617
This time around none of the Defend events have spawned and we are 20 minutes in.
Whole evacuation not one Defend event. Ebay Main
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Posted by: may.1369
im on ebay too, and for 4 hours earlier today i was at every defend event, we didnt fail a single one. just did it again this hour. still no credit for any of the 4 achieves. but… i’ll keep running in circles trying for a few more hours.
- Krystal
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Posted by: Zaxares.5419
I’m certain that you do not need to be present at all the Defend events to get credit, as I’ve gotten the Postern Ward one when I zoned in with just 10 mins to go and defended at one event.
So basically, the criteria for the Defend achievements seem to be this:
1. Your map must succeed at every single Defend event for a particular location (Postern Ward, Fort Mariner etc.)
2. You do not need to gain credit for each single Defend event that occurs during the entire evacuation cycle, but you must be present for at least one.
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Posted by: Donari.5237
I think Zaxares has it. I seem to have gotten Triple Play just from mindlessly running around in two assaults last night (maybe 3 assaults). I think the overflow I was in just met all the conditions by sheer chance.
That was before today’s patch so something might have bugged out today?
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Posted by: Dakota.4591
Managed to get into the non-overflow on Dragonbrand earlier today. The Fort Mariner event had failed before people were in the zone, soon as the first groups were getting in, was already on the ‘reclaim’ event, not the ‘defend’ event. Going to suck getting the achievements if it’s all based on being lucky enough to get an instance without pre-fails.
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Posted by: Blauauge.8764
The Fort Mariner event had failed before people were in the zone, …
This happend to me 2 out of 3 times at Fort Mariner event. Before I got there (fight portal to enter, loading screen, …) the def event already failed, so I had to wait for next ini to try achievement again.
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Posted by: Junkpile.7439
But i never even see any defend events in fort marriner.
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Posted by: may.1369
Junkpile… I know on e-bay now (since my post last night), our Lion’s Arch has been stuck at completed. Miasma doesn’t go down, events dont reset… so no more defend events at all. That could be why you’re not seeing the defend events also.
- Krystal
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Posted by: may.1369
Managed to get into the non-overflow on Dragonbrand earlier today. The Fort Mariner event had failed before people were in the zone, soon as the first groups were getting in, was already on the ‘reclaim’ event, not the ‘defend’ event. Going to suck getting the achievements if it’s all based on being lucky enough to get an instance without pre-fails.
I think that was what was going on with mine not giving credit also. Thanks.
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Posted by: Casanova Frankenstein.6152
Yeah, this achievement is definitely bugged. For the last two events, I spent the entire 50 minutes at Fort Marriner, defending it successfully every time (3 times each time, I believe). In neither case did I get the Fort Marriner Fighter achievement.
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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396
If anyone is having an issue, I suggest doing it on an overflow. A lot of the main servers are bugged still.
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Posted by: Psientist.6437
Do we know if the events outside LA affect the spawning of Rally Point Defend events? I did two today and it took us a while to get into LA.
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Posted by: OmniPotentes.4817
Add me to the list I got all achis except Trader’s Forum. I got almost 5 stacks of blades by now. The thing is bugged and won’t progress.
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Posted by: OmniPotentes.4817
Junkpile… I know on e-bay now (since my post last night), our Lion’s Arch has been stuck at completed. Miasma doesn’t go down, events dont reset… so no more defend events at all. That could be why you’re not seeing the defend events also.
- Krystal
We have a winner. Far Shiverpeaks miasma is stuck at 100%. So basically I’ve been doing escort instead of defend events all night. It does not help to have 1 icon type for different types of events.
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Posted by: Aerinndis.2730
I did Postern and defended every wave and no credit. Sure its bugged.
Just did Mariners after this patch but also stayed in same spot whole time and finally got that one. Guess I will do the same with the others to make sure.
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Posted by: Rylen.2147
I have tried getting the Triple Play achievement 2 times in a row now. I am not sure if it is a bugged achievement, but I completed all the defend events and got nothing. I got credit for all but one each time. I am not sure if this is keeping me from getting the achievement or not.
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Posted by: Psientist.6437
I did 3 runs yesterday, tried to get Triple Play and Trader’s Forum defense each run. On each run, when I entered LA immediately after succeeding the entry events, there was always one rally point already occupied by the enemy. I believe this is caused by entry events succeeding at different times due to different populations at each entry event. If the map is counting those auto occupied rally points as failed defenses then low population servers/ under-organized servers will have a difficult time getting Triple Play.
There may a design flaw in the event chain/ achievement interaction. The fact that overflows are not experiencing this could be evidence, since their spawn rules are likely different.
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