Guild Wars 2

Now I don’t know if it was a bug, or an over sight.

I fought Tequatl and failed. but this isn’t about that, Jump over to Burning steppes to continue getting the clues for the Living story achievements, Just happened to hit Shatterer spawn.

Yay, go to the event and got swarmed by Banded at the waypoint. Fought those killed 4 Veteran Banded Lieutenants and a few dozen dogs. Worked at protecting the cannons and the Mortars. A cannon became free, so I manned it and bombarded Shatterer for the rest of the combat. Shatterer was killed and I got….

Nada
Nothing
Zilch

No chest, no participation event notice, nothing.

Now based on what I read in the update notes, the Bosses had their HP increased and would attack more areas so there is no more safe zones, making them harder, and encouraging people to use the Enviromental weapons available, such as the Mortars, Cannons, Charzookas and the like.

*If my no credit was a bug, please fix
*An oversight, please fix, supporting roles are just as important in a battle as the people on the front line, Cause your can’t fight a dragon if it’s minions are slaughtering your flanks.
*Working as intended, “kitten” “kitten” “KITTEN!” I’m out.

Otherwise keep up the good work. Shatter was fun with the changes. Teq not so much but there’s a whole section ranting about that.

You have to directly attack Shatterer to get contribution. Minions doesn’t count.

Was the cannon kicking you off each time you fired? I don’t think you get credit for damage siege does after you’re off it.

Geekfox.4267:

You have to directly attack Shatterer to get contribution. Minions doesn’t count.

Ah but that’s the point of my OP. They’ve made the Bosses harder, thus the need of people cleaning up the minions.

If you can’t get credit for the minions or the Enviromental weapons, why have them.
Just give the Boss more AOE damage. and have people attack the boss directly.

Minions add a layer of complexity to the attack.. If people do not defend against the minions they will die. Before you could kill the minions as part of an AOE attack on the boss or toss a ground based attack at the minions while still attacking the boss and all was good. Now you really can’t do that.

So… People on the turrets attacking Teq may not get reward at all?

Of course, they can shoot once and then engage Teq but then, whats the point to add turrets at all?

I’ve received credit via turrets in the past, but this was before they started booting me off every time I fired a shot. Previously you could operate them from further away, so when the model moved backward on firing, it didn’t punt you.

daimasei.4091:

So… People on the turrets attacking Teq may not get reward at all?

I never said anything about Tequatl and its minions.

There is no need for dedicated add removal against the Shatterer. He is not targetable when he summons new adds, so everyone changes target, clears them in a few seconds, then waits to attack him again. Tequatl is a different story, but there is no excuse for not getting a few hits on the Shatterer.