Ugh. I’m annoyed how many people suggest we might have missed one, especially when this comes up again and again. I channelled all 24 of them. I didn’t track if each one was credited to the achievement correctly/which wasn’t. I know I got interrupted once. I don’t know anymore if I could redo it then or not. (As I wasn’t aware that there is a problem, I didn’t bother to…)
I did 5 or 6 before the new build coming after the original patch. I did the others before the new build on the 30th. Then I realized I’m at 23/24, first paid a visit to some select ones, then to all others. (Except for the one in Mount Maelstrom up at the platform and the one in Timerline Falls near the witch. I am 100 % sure I channelled these correctly, because I was thinking beforehand that I don’t want to go up there again with how annoying the way is.)
I did them all with my Guardian and I still have the transcriber. Thought about switching to my Ranger, but then decided against it, because she doesn’t have one.
As Aerlen reported she could re-do one, I’ll probably start re-visiting them all again. Fun.
Same here. I think I got interrupted while interacting with one of the crystals, and now I’m stuck at 23/24 even though I had got all of them done a few hours ago.
I read about this bug before i attempted. So I tracked the achieve and was careful when doing it. Unfortunately some mobs respawned mid channel on about half of the shards. I was put in combat, interrupted by mobs, interrupted the channel myself, channeled while poisoned. And not a single one failed to register. I dont believe it was interrupting that caused the bug. If you were interrupted you wouldnt of finished the channel so you would of imediately reattempted.
I’ve posted here previously with the bug, but gave it another try and this time I was able to get 24/24. The final shard, for me, was in the Kessex Hills Witch’s lair.
I am however certain I did do this shard before. Although it was on another character.
Should of made it 24 obelisk shards and only need to obtain 20.
After the having to complete 13 invasions, which bugged out so that I had to do each invasion over and over again, I’m not looking forward to doing this achievement.
I do know now that I must write down each one I do and look to see if I advance. That way I will know which one bugs on me if one does bug on me.
However, suggestions were made last time such as the one above.
1. Have more to do than you are required to do. Such as the 20/24. That way if one bugs so what.
2. Have a tracking system that lists which one completes.
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Its not hard to track the achievement and just remember if one doesnt give progress. I worry about some peoples memory capacity. :/
You’re right, it’s not hard. But (unfortunately) I didn’t go into this quest assuming it would be bugged, so I only tracked which obelisks I went to, not the progress on the achievement.
I agree it isn’t hard. To be honest most things in the game are not really that hard to do.
However, since the norm of the game is to have many achievements on a two week timer and bugs are inherently there and some are never fixed (why bother, its only for two weeks?), then it should be anticipated that these things are likely to have a bug and therefore have a predetermined way to cause it to not be such a head-ache for those it affects.
For example: you must do x number of things out of x + 5 that are available to do.
Edit: and the why bother statement is not to mean that they don’t care about the bug, I’m sure they care about all the bugs in the game. But if it is complicated to fix, and they can’t replicate it to even see what could be wrong, by the time it gets worked out its a moot point. There is no point in them farting around with a bug that will not even be relevant in a week or so.
(sorry couldn’t resist the moot fart reference).
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Update for me: after finishing the other update related achievements, I went back another time map by map to see if I’d be able to re-transcribe any of them. I started at Kessex > Genderran > Blood Tide > Caledon > Sparkfly — it was the 3rd bottom obelisk that appeared to be the one.
I’m just glad it wasn’t a bug after all. So I’d urge anyone who’s had the same or similar problem to double and triple check each one and goodluck.
stuck at 23/24 here too… and yeah, got interrupted during one of them. apparently redoing the skittenly caused it to be marked as completed but didn’t increase the counter
given where some of these shards are, it’s very annoying
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Apparently the one near the Krait Witch in Timberline Falls was the buggy one for me. Just went there again and I could re-do it. I hope it’ll resolve itself for everyone else reporting too D:
Huh. Thanks for the follow up reports guys. Both our embedded QA tester and myself spent about some time this morning trying to reproduce transcribing an obelisk and having combat interrupt us at various points. We weren’t able to get to a point where the transcription process completed, but it didn’t count towards the achievement. Based on the reports I’m seeing about people logging in and having the achievement update, it sounds like there might be something else going on.
There is a very easy solution to prevent people from having to go over all of the obelisks again. Place more obelisks than needed around the world. Why the rigid use of 24 needed out of 24 available at all.
I don’t know if this is a contributing factor or not, but thought I’d mention in case it helps. When I was doing mine, I had the tracking on and made sure that it updated after each one. On one of them, I noticed that the animation and cast bar completed, so I started moving away to avoid the respawns but I did not get credit. I stepped back, did the animation and paused for an extra 1-2 seconds, then it updated. Seemed to be a lil bit of sync issue between the animation of the casting completing and the actual casting completing.
One shard did half the animation then finished early like I had quickness. Still got the progress though. I assumed it was just lag or something because it didnt happen to any of the following shards. Maybe something similar happened to others and they didnt make sure they had it completed. Sounds like most people just missed 1.
EDIT: Started going back over these again. In Maelstrom, the one at the vent poi updated and the achievement completed for me. I find this odd because that particular one is the first one I started with on that map each prior attempt.
I went through all 24 twice and still sitting at 23/24. After some thought about this, here is what I remember.
1. When the build first went live, I went to kill the witch because she was up. After that I saw the node and went to check it out. I did not have the item for it. Went and got item came back and got the node.
2. Cleared all 4 in kessex that day, plus one other that was next to one of the witch kills.
3. Logged out for the day, came back to an update and went to finish this off. When I started I had 5/23 By the time I got around to looking at how many I had I was sitting at 22/24 with only one left to go. While I was going off a guide, a guild mate decided to tag along with me in maelstrom and he told me about the one missing from the guide so we hit that one first, for the correct total on that map of 4.
4. On several of the nodes there were no mobs. A few times the mobs spawned while I was channeling and interrupted me.
5. After getting to the 23/24 mark and having been to all 24, just to double check I went through and did it again. All 24 in one sitting, all said I had used them.
Hey Dulfy is vague on one area: Mount Maelstrom. There are only 2 pictures but 4 spots there I believe. So when you first run through it you get 22 of 24….that was my case. After reading it closer, I realized I missed 2 in that region. One is up by the witch champ, while 2 are below under water in that same area. The forth is off to the far east of the map…Hope this helps some of you.
Hey guys,
I did all the 24 shards this morning and am still stuck at 23 of 24.
This is with the updated Dulfy map including the missed location in Mount Maelstrom.
Any suggestions or any other news would be greatly appreciated! I really wanted to finish this.
Since we had a new build last night I decided to give it another go this morning. Worked my way through dulfy’s guide all the way to timberline falls. This time around it gave me the option to transcribe the shard up where the witch spawns. 100% sure I got this the first time through and was never interrupted. Always cleared the mobs first. So whatever it was worked its self out for me 24/24.
I had to do the one in the NE corner of Caledon Forest twice. I killed the mobs, transcribed & it completed the animation and the Transcribe option reappeared. But I didn’t get credit for it. I hit Transcribe a second time and everything went exactly like the first time, but the second time it counted and I completed the achievement.
Huh. Thanks for the follow up reports guys. Both our embedded QA tester and myself spent about some time this morning trying to reproduce transcribing an obelisk and having combat interrupt us at various points. We weren’t able to get to a point where the transcription process completed, but it didn’t count towards the achievement. Based on the reports I’m seeing about people logging in and having the achievement update, it sounds like there might be something else going on.
Not here. Since I was aware that the 23/24 obelisk bug appeared, I kept the achievement in my ‘tracklist’.
The only time it didn’t add up was when in Timberline Falls (the obelisk in the water, north of the Witch’s location). A hero was attacking a krait, the krait poisoned me (the poison ticked on me, but did NOT interrupt the channeling!). And after completing the channeling the achievement tracker still showed 22/24 (the last two obelisks for me to grab were on this map). So I’m positive that this obelisk was causing the issue!
I finished this achievement track and I was interrupted by attacks, by poison ticking (with foes already dead and when they were attacking others), and by choosing to attack or move during the channeling.
For 23 of the obelisks, I was in a party of three doing the scavenger hunt as a group and each of us experienced interrupts of some sort, but none of us ever “lost” progress because of it.
My recommendation for players is to check the progress bar after each attempt just to make sure that it counted. (My group did this because during the similar scavenger hunts for the Tequatl meta, one of us accidentally missed one…and the whole group had to twiddle thumbs for 30 minutes while we revisited the same locations a second time.)
If it doesn’t, you can try again to channel on that obelisk. If it still fails, you will have good data to include in a support ticket (time, place, and a clear account of what you tried).
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I got all 24 with no problems. What I did, back to back in one sitting, was to kill all mobs that surround the Obelisk. After that, I selected the Obelisk, and let the full animation complete before I moved.
I did follow Dulfy’s guide, but she did make a minor mistake on one of them. I think it was the Mount Maelstrom one, where she had two maps. I initially counted 23 until I saw the other map with the single marked circle on it.
also got 23/24 , I was sure that mobs around the area were cleared before performing the Transcribe action. man, after being so careful about not missing any obelisks it sure is tiring to go another round of transcribing. =\
There is a very easy solution to prevent people from having to go over all of the obelisks again. Place more obelisks than needed around the world. Why the rigid use of 24 needed out of 24 available at all.
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I have the transcriber in my inventory, I made sure I was out of combat during each transcribe, I killed all enemies around to make sure I was not interrupted. I also had my achievements window open while I transcribed and made sure I was geting credit for each obelisk.
With all of that said. I noticed that I ended up getting glitched during my 23rd obelisk in Timberline Falls, the one on top of the krait structure. interacting with that obelisk a second time only gave me a message that I’ve learned all I can from it.
Hey Dulfy is vague on one area: Mount Maelstrom. There are only 2 pictures but 4 spots there I believe. So when you first run through it you get 22 of 24….that was my case. After reading it closer, I realized I missed 2 in that region. One is up by the witch champ, while 2 are below under water in that same area. The forth is off to the far east of the map…Hope this helps some of you.
She has one picture that shows all four locations, describes where all four locations are, and has a picture of each one individually. Are you looking at the correct area in her guide?
Stuck on 23/24 too. There was one node I had to break off transcribing with as 3 krait spawned on top of me. I’ve been round each zone 3 times, including the new Dulfy map so I know I didn’t miss any. Even went there on an alt.
Since there seem to be a number of people with the issue(and probably more being unreported) just hot patch a couple more obelisks in to allow those stuck to complete it and the next time add more items in than is required.
To those who keep on going about “you missed this and that” , one of our own is on 23/24, he went round ALL of them and is still on 23 , then the 5 of us went round with him checking ALL 24, he is still on 23.
But yes I’m in the same situation. Did it with a friend he got it I didn’t, and we did everyone together. I went over them twice just to make sure I didn’t miss any. I appreciate that dev is looking into this.
i did it with dulfy today. Visited all and got only 23/24 =/ On every krait Obelisk i did it once and then i rechecked it again and it showed “nothing more to learn”. Please fix this bug or atleast lower the needed obelisks for the achievement to 23 so People get it done even with the bug =/
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i did it with dulfy today. Visited all and got only 23/24 =/ On every krait Obelisk i did it once and then i rechecked it again and it showed “nothing more to learn”. Please fix this bug or atleast lower the needed obelisks for the achievement to 23 so People get it done even with the bug =/
…or toss a few extra obelisks around the maps. That would be the best choice as far as I’m concerned.
I can report that my experience was strange as well. I collected about 16 of the obelisk transcriptions before I was forced to patch again. When I returned I would get the message that I had already transcribed on obelisks that I had not used yet. I know because they were in a map I had not gone to prior to the patch. After getting 22/24 I had been to every obelisk and had to restart the pattern again. I found that 2 obelisks that I know for a fact I had transcribed fine before (I always cleared before transcribing) let me re-transcribe for my 24/24. All on the same character with the NPC provided device.
Hey Dulfy is vague on one area: Mount Maelstrom. There are only 2 pictures but 4 spots there I believe. So when you first run through it you get 22 of 24….that was my case. After reading it closer, I realized I missed 2 in that region. One is up by the witch champ, while 2 are below under water in that same area. The forth is off to the far east of the map…Hope this helps some of you.
She has one picture that shows all four locations, describes where all four locations are, and has a picture of each one individually. Are you looking at the correct area in her guide?
She updated that section, after alot of people were missing the Maelstrom ones. I wanted to point this out for those (like me) who used her site as a reference on the first couple of days.
