Guild Wars 2

Tooks me over 100 trys to get this with Zerker-Warr.
6 times with 7 orb (was sure i hit her with 8…)

Last one was with 9 and i got it^^

I needed that scotch after this :P

Do it 2 week ago, and thx Anet that was fun, now i want some harder :-)

I felt I needed to do this again as the first time I (a.) somehow got the achievement despite missing Liadri with the 4th orb and (b.) also didn’t have post-processing enabled (i.e. no screen-blinding).

And so here’s the result!

http://youtu.be/Wq3nFBfOe4k

I even managed to do it without consumables (which I forgot to re-pop while running back from the waypoint)

After a long while, I finally managed to get Liadri down too – no screen avaiable, though.

Took about 140 tries, at least, having problems to see which areas had the red dots did not make it any easier, playing a large Charr warrior made it even less easy.

At the end, the stars decided to align in my favour: The first time caught by Shadowfall, an Orb spawned right next to me for an avaiable rally, at 20% I died by Liadri’s own damage, and somehow, someway two illusions hit my downed body in that half second of invulnerability. They collapsed and I rallied on the spot, finishing Liadri off.

So I kept those tickets I farmed during invasions and tried Light Up the Darkness one more evening I did it on my 11th try and with around 150 tries in total with my guardian. Spent/lost (as I haven’t turned my tickets to gold reward by farming deadeye) around 25g on tickets + rare zerker armor set.

I used totally inappropriate mix of items for this, so that means that personal skill (and luck) is big part of the success too.
Armor:
3x exotic soldier’s armor piecies(helmet, torso,leggins) with 3x superior rune of the monk
3x rare berseker’s armor(gauntlets, shoulderpads, boots) with 3x major rune of eagle
Weapons:
Mystic Claymore with superior sigil of stamina/
some crappy rare healing sword + exotic soldier’s focus
Jewelry:
Soldier’s ascended bacpack
Soldier’s ascended accessory 2x
exotic berseker’s amulet (no jewel inside )
Ring of Red Death
Rurik’s Royal Signet

Traits:
Radiance 10 – I
Honor 30 – II, IX, XI
Virtues 30 – II, IX, VII

Skills: Shelter, Retreat, SYS, SYG, Renewed Focus

Food: Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew, Quality Maintenance Oil

Tactic: pretty much same as many other guardians showed on youtube. Just be sure to count seconds (not sure how long it takes, I always count to 4 with my tempo) when you have to dodgeroll into AOE, never risk picking/throwing orb near shadows if you don’t activate Shield of Wrath or blind them. Always try to dodge out of Liadri’s leash attack. Put your GS’s Symbol of Wrath on ground to: damage Liadri, activate retaliation and tag shadows. Always have magnetic orb as top priority to destroy, use SYG when you cannot reach it due to AOE. Whirlwind Liadri while you move away from her. Don’t forget to use your Virtue of Justice as AOE blind.

important: turn off auto targeting, key bind some button on target cancel (escape button is too far and you cannot spam it… it is best to bind it to your side button on mouse if you have them). When you need to escape use sword teleport skills on magnetic orb if its up, or lonely shadow(it will get blind so you won’t die if it blows up) or use your Leap of Faith to escape: aim your camera to which direction you want to land and be sure you don’t have targeted Liadri + try not to aim directly cross the shadows… some of them blow up without animation and kill you mid air
important2 get group, target Liadri with mark so you can quickly target her back after you use Leap of Faith
important3 if your dodge energy is depleted, don’t panic. You have 4 seconds before Shadowfall goes down onto you… if you can, use retreat and run out of it. If you are too far from safe zone, use shelter or renewed focus – be sure to spam all virtues before renewed focus ends.

….I don’t know.. there are so many things you have to keep tracking that it is insane to manage it all. I killed her in last moment – threw 8 orbs on her, had 45 more seconds left (thanks announcer NPC) and Liadri had like 30% HP left.
So I tried not to panic, put down symbol of wrath, kitted shadows via binding blades+dodge escape and dmged Liadri with Whirlwind to like 2% HP, then I screwed up and dodged right into shadows… pressed all buttons (activated retaliation) and got downed… more shadows were coming,
Liadri was whipping me and while doing that she got retaliation dmg.. I used my #1 skill on her and killed her just in time when shadows was going to explode and kill me + Shadowfall AOE was going to fall and kill me too

It was so dramatic end that I’m really sorry I haven’t recorded it, or at least played in arena with other players waiting outside so they could have seen it.

After trying periodically for about 4 days, I finally managed to get the achievement.

Having been apart of all the limited events in Guild Wars 2 thus far and gotten all the achievements for them, I can safely say that this achievement was the least fun out of everything I’ve done. Even less fun than the lagfest that was lost shores.

Sure the achievement was “difficult” but I would hardly say it was “fair”. If the chaos rifts had set spawn points then at least it would have been able to somewhat make up for the fact that ranged attacks couldn’t hit it reliably. The fact that cloak and dagger could fail to destroy the chaos rift while still stealthing you certainly didn’t help. Even small things like giving an extra 30 seconds or allowing the clones to be killed with X amount of attacks would have made the fight more palatable.

The concept was pretty cool but the execution left a bitter taste for me.

After three days of serious trying, a lot of enraging because of stupid mistakes in phase 1 and getting really close to a heart attack, I finally did it.

Was done with a ranger. If you have questions about setup, feel free to pm me. Good luck!

Peace of cake on necromancer xD

Done a couple of weeks ago as a staff Elementalist with the utilities shown.

65 attempts… but I finally got her!