Guild Wars 2

Hello,

While trying to go for the ‘Bachelor of Baubles’ achievement in World 2-2 I noticed that you are essentially screwed if you do this in normal mode (NM):

The final 5 baubles are on top of the bell before the boss/cage fight. You need to head back to the shortcut eagle, ride him up until the end to grab those 5 baubles. However, there is NO WAY for a player in NORMAL mode to get to that spot, since backtracking is NOT possible once you reach that point and there is no way up. I’ve tried the ‘checkpoint jump’ (i.e. if you trigger the checkpoint you get flipped up in the air), but the highest I got was midway the bell (see screenshot) …

Therefore, I would like to ask the Dev(s) to add a solution (i.e. add a few mushrooms, clouds, etc) so that people who don’t want to use infantile mode can finish this achievement as well (unless this was really intended (and then I would be really disappointed…)). It’s a bit sad to encounter this after 1h of playing this world.

Many thanks in advance.

I did it in infantile mode, but I didn’t use the clouds to get me to places I couldn’t without. They were strictly for trap evasion.

Relatively, this is possible in normal mode.

y it is a problem if u follow a guide to do it in infantile mode (like dulfy’s) while trying it on normal.
But it doesn’t mean it can’t be done, all u have to do is take the shortcut 1st when u have access to it, collect the baubles, then die to go back to prev checkpoint and continue on the regular path from there.

I did it on normal so it’s possible.

Many thanks for the quick player response so far.

Anarca.7236:

y it is a problem if u follow a guide to do it in infantile mode (like dulfy’s) while trying it on normal.
But it doesn’t mean it can’t be done, all u have to do is take the shortcut 1st when u have access to it, collect the baubles, then die to go back to prev checkpoint and continue on the regular path from there.

This would work, but then again: if you fall off or die on the eagle before he reaches it’s end-point you get teleported to another checkpoint in the world and as such cannot backtrack from that point on.

I would be more in favor of a solution that is not dependant on using tricks to get there. Baubles should be reachable by doing a series of jumps that the player has to figure out, not through a mechanic that’s triggered at the (near) start of the map and requires you to lose a life in the end.

You can backtrack in normal mode to the shortcut eagle….

There are clouds (not the infantile ones) that you can jump into to get on roofs.

Ayrilana.1396:

There are clouds (not the infantile ones) that you can jump into to get on roofs.

Ran around the area for 10 minutes searching for these clouds at this particular place, but could not find them. Sure, you can see one cloud (also on the screenshot), but to me that cloud was unreachable.

Murth.5637:

You can backtrack in normal mode to the shortcut eagle….

Not once you reach the last checkpoints (teleporters that only work in one direction, high jumps that you cannot make).

I need to do it one last time on TM so I’ll look to see if there is a way from the very end. I know that it’s definitely possible from before the teleporters.