Guild Wars 2

Hello, I noticed that after the recent hotfix ( the one that fixed non-working projectors ) the rate at which the Atherblade pirates appear near projectors has severely decreased. Out of the 30 projectors I activated today, 27 of them spawned holographic minions. Is that intended, or am I having a particularly unfortunate evening?

I surely hope it’s not intended because this way getting the aetherblade slayer achievements is going to be an unnecessary pain.

I was just wondering the same thing… 1 aetherblade Holo in 30 minutes.

I was just about to post the same thing. I have enough candy. I was trying to work on achievements and its taking forever now.

Some of them are not too bad due there being a cache in the region but, Ascalon… kill me now.

There’s a cache in Ascalon, in Vexa’s Lab.

There is you are correct! I must not have killed any pirates in there O.o

Yup same problem .. I spent two hours running around in Diessa, Ashford Plains, Fields of Ruin, and Fireheart Rise … no aetherblades at any of the projectors. I tried to enter Vexa’s Lab, but no one else was around and I couldn’t kill the boss by myself. So I couldn’t proceed any further. At that point I was so frustrated, I quit looking. Yesterday I ran around Diessa and had no problem finding groups of Aetherblades, today nothing. I just need 23 more. Hopefully they’ll spawn better tomorrow.

Same issue here, I visited approximately 40 in Ascalon territory, no pirates at all.

Visited 12 in Caledon Forest, 0 of them had Aetherblades. Most definitely bugged, seeing that there are other threads reporting similar experiences. Let’s bring this to Arenanet attention, I believe we only have 5 days left to get those achievements and I don’t want to camp caches for half an hour and compete with other 5 players to land a kitten hit in.

There’s a post in the Bugs forum on this problem. So hopefully someone will take a look at this issue.

I haven’t seen a single Aetherblade from the projectors since the fix. Please fix this ANet, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to get completed before it ends because I work 40 hours a week and I don’t have time to sit on the computer all day and farm them at one spot. The projectors have been my go-to for farming and now they are bugged. Please give us more time.

After the first patch that introduced the Aetherblades, it seemed like 4 in every 5 holos was surrounded by Aetherblade Pirates. Now, I get em 1 in every 8 or so.

Could be a bug, could be intended, could be coincidence.

At first I was happy about it, since I’m still trying to get a freakin’ Jade Ticket, but it seems like the holo monsters drop fewer coffers than ever so I’d rather see the pirates.

Same here, yesterday nothing. its supposed to be 50/50 chance of aetherblades, It was but its not now.

Part of the problem could also be other players running by the holo to check if there are pirates, if not then they keep going without activating it.

Eventually you would wind up with a lot of holo’s on the map that are the “activate to release holo minions” type, rather than the “booby trapped by pirates” type.

Eidola.9148:

Part of the problem could also be other players running by the holo to check if there are pirates, if not then they keep going without activating it.

Eventually you would wind up with a lot of holo’s on the map that are the “activate to release holo minions” type, rather than the “booby trapped by pirates” type.

Ever have one of those siblings who picks all the marshmallows out of the household box of Lucky Charms, so there’s nothing but kitty kibble left? This is the same thing. Those people are JERKS.

Eidola, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I was having the same problem but I resolved it yesterday:

I went and activated every single Hologram Projector and killed the holograms. Once the Projectors respawned, I ran through the same batch again and then Aetherblades began to spawn on over half of them.

Hope this helps!

Looks like the mystery is solved.

/thread

Well, that didn’t work for me .. went around yesterday activating nodes but when I went back still nothing .. maybe just bad luck.

Mystery solved, Eidola for president.

didnt work for me, went round 3 times and found 1 with pirates in, on the 3rd time round

A guildie and I spent 9+ hours roaming around various maps looking for Aetherblade nodes… and netted a total of 2 nodes out of more than 100. And, yes, we killed all the holographic minions as they appeared, came back when the nodes had reset… and still nothing. Frustrated, we ended up camping a JP cache (How very dull…). Surely this is not what Anet had intended???

That has to be a bug. :-(
Maybe anyone of you might consider to contribute into that thread in the bug forum?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bugged-Hologram-Projectors/first#post2346800

You can actually tell which will give you Aetherblades and which will spawn holos from a distance.
If you hover the cursor over the projector and you get the contextual gear “Use” pointer, it’ll spawn holos and needs to be activated.
If however your cursor remains unchanged, then the projector will spawn Aetherblades when you get close.

However, even with this knowledge, the quantity of projectors that spawn Aetherblades really does seem to have drastically decreased.

Mungrul.9358:

You can actually tell which will give you Aetherblades and which will spawn holos from a distance.
If you hover the cursor over the projector and you get the contextual gear “Use” pointer, it’ll spawn holos and needs to be activated.
If however your cursor remains unchanged, then the projector will spawn Aetherblades when you get close.

However, even with this knowledge, the quantity of projectors that spawn Aetherblades really does seem to have drastically decreased.

I suspect that’s because of this knowlegde, as in you don’t go near useless one, and therefore do not reset them.