Guild Wars 2

How are we meant to get any of these achievements related to the crab toss event done if the lag whilst doing the event is in excess of 5+ secs of delay. It takes so long to update or skills to activate thakittens completely impossible to know whats going on and to deal with it.

Further more we only have until the 4th June to complete these achievements, I personally have 3 left but I am nowhere near finished getting my crab grabber title as I keep rubberbanding away from the crab.

This is not a Connection issue with my internet/computer as the rest of the game content is fine with no lag (i.e. Fractals, Dungeons, Personal Story, PVE Cities). However the second I join the crab toss instance I am lagging so badly its hard to even activate a single skill. Also when its this much of a hassle to activate a single skill I don’t even want to think about how I am going to get the crabtactular achievement when it takes so long of a delay between screen updates.

I can’t believe I am actually complaining about this as its the first content released in the game thats actually Annoying rather than fun!

My only advice to you is just to keep playing. At first, I too despised the game, all those Karka running around like crazy. After completing all achievements, I still hate the game, but just slightly less. Note that it is possible to finish all achievements in one day.

For the Crab grabber, I believe each time you earn 3 points for keeping the crab, you earn 1 achievement point. This means you don’t need to actually grab the crab 300 times.

For the crab stealer, there’s no tricks here, keep a constant pressure on the current crab holder. If you see several people rushing to the crab, position yourself right beside it and wait for someone to grab it, steal it immediately after.

Crab champion and the other one shouldn’t be a major concern, you’ll most likely get them while doing the first two. Bear in mind that the one that requires you to be tha last person standing while holding the crab doesn’t mean that you should be the holder when the timer hits 00:00. The description is quite misleading: it means you need to be the holder while every single player is knocked down by karka. This I found to be the most difficult one to get. I got it completely randomly, so I don’t have any specific insight to give you.

Just keep playing and you’ll start to get the hang of it. Use the Southsun ponch while holding the crab to regenerate HP and stamina, use the fishing pole (with a clear line of sight) to steal the crab, plank’s 2nd skill to get rid of large groups of people.

Most of all, keep playing, it’s just a matter of time, believe me. The game is 90% luck and 10% skill.

My problem is that I simply am not getting acheivments period. Not getting the participation acheivment, not getting credit towards any of the others. Asked in the group I was just in and nobody else was either.

It’s probably bugged, again…
Give it a few hours and it will turn back to normal.