Guild Wars 2

I like the event but this is driving me mad. Everytime I enter the portal I land on a laser which instantly destroys any chance at getting the No More Tricks achievement. Sometimes I let others enter first and wait 2 seconds to see if the map chat gets flooded with “fml laser ty gg” messages, but that just sends me to a deserted Hologram fight which is even worse. These things are the kind of annoyances that are completely unnecessary (unless I am missing something here in which case I apologize).

That’s pretty great, but what’s even better is when she puts down a laser and there is no orange AoE warning before hand. Just had that happen to me, it was incredibly annoying.

I’m sick of these achievements and I won’t bother trying them again.
You can’t see what is a laser attack and what not, you get hit randomly without any warning, you enter the portal right on a laserbeam… there is no chance to even get the achievement.

The other one where you have to hit the hologram with the right attunements (Tune in, I guess) is even worse. It encourages players to NOT do any attacks. You just have to get the prime light attunement once, hit a few times for participation credit and then you try to not attack anything at all. :/

Besides that, it’s a good fight, but the achievements really destroy ist somehow.

BlackyWarsX.5384:

I’m sick of these achievements and I won’t bother trying them again.
You can’t see what is a laser attack and what not, you get hit randomly without any warning, you enter the portal right on a laserbeam… there is no chance to even get the achievement.

The other one where you have to hit the hologram with the right attunements (Tune in, I guess) is even worse. It encourages players to NOT do any attacks. You just have to get the prime light attunement once, hit a few times for participation credit and then you try to not attack anything at all. :/

Besides that, it’s a good fight, but the achievements really destroy ist somehow.

Good point. Last time I tried to get both achievements (ended up getting In Tune although I never got hit BUT hit the Prime Hologram during the last stage where you cant deal damage to it) I spent 75% of the time just rezzing people and giving might. I couldnt dodge through lasers as I was afraid of getting hit so it was more or less impossible to get the three attunements. When I did, I made sure to stop attacking a few seconds before the buff would run out and only AA since you never know what you hit during phase 2 with AoE attacks like Scepter 2 on a Guardian.
So my contribution to the overall event was 0

The sad thing is that they could make the achievement possible to get rather easily, simply by moving the entrance point to a spot between her laser patterns.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

The sad thing is that they could make the achievement possible to get rather easily, simply by moving the entrance point to a spot between her laser patterns.

I don’t think this is possible. The hologram fires the laser patterns towards the player who’s got aggro. If it happens to be a player standing in the direction of the entrance… well there goes your achievement. Poof.

A possible solution would be to set the entrance to a higher platform and have people to jump down in order to fight the hologram.

BlackyWarsX.5384:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

The sad thing is that they could make the achievement possible to get rather easily, simply by moving the entrance point to a spot between her laser patterns.

I don’t think this is possible. The hologram fires the laser patterns towards the player who’s got aggro. If it happens to be a player standing in the direction of the entrance… well there goes your achievement. Poof.

A possible solution would be to set the entrance to a higher platform and have people to jump down in order to fight the hologram.

That solution could work too, but you are wrong on the laser targeting. She only fires it in specific locations (every 45 degrees is a possible location). Moving the entry point for the platform just 22.5 degrees in either direction would solve the issue.

Really? I was alone the other time and she always fired it directly at me every chance she had… but I could be wrong.

BlackyWarsX.5384:

Really? I was alone the other time and she always fired it directly at me every chance she had… but I could be wrong.

I fought her last night and all of the lasers were lining up too perfectly with the sides of the platform she stands on for it to have been coincidence.

I guess she has a pattern of random behaviour :P

Perhaps it depends on the phase she’s in? At first she starts with one line to her front, then with an additional line behind her and finally four lines (front, left, right, behind).