Guild Wars 2

My husband and I were both stuck at 23/24. We went back through to double check and one that we both know for a fact we got, had not counted. It was the one in Timberline Falls up above near the Krait Witch. We know we got it because there were several of us there at the time.

I’m not sure how this will help, if at all.

Like Mala and others said:

Check both in timberline falls! On top of the krait tower and below!

I also missed one the first time. GL!

Seriously, why can’t you just include a checklist for these things? If your concern is spoilers, at least have a checklist saying #1, #2, etc. and guides like Dulfy can just match locations with those numbers themselves. C’mon Anet, this is a no-brainer.

Sini.6510:

Seriously, why can’t you just include a checklist for these things? If your concern is spoilers, at least have a checklist saying #1, #2, etc. and guides like Dulfy can just match locations with those numbers themselves. C’mon Anet, this is a no-brainer.

Because the overall Guild Wars 2 PvE should not be Infantile Mode. We don’t want Anet to have arrows that point out all locations of stuff that should be found by exploring. The fact that we’re using guides is basically shortcutting the experience of finding them for ourselves.

So it is a “no-brainer” that not having an in-game checklist is a good thing. A company doesn’t spend all that time designing new content, only to make so no one can appreciate their hard work.

Smooth Penguin, some people don’t have the time needed to go over each obelisk again. if there was a checklist in the achievement description, it would save us all a lot of trouble, even if the location of each obelisk was revealed -after- you had transcribed it

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Because the overall Guild Wars 2 PvE should not be Infantile Mode. We don’t want Anet to have arrows that point out all locations of stuff that should be found by exploring. The fact that we’re using guides is basically shortcutting the experience of finding them for ourselves.

For better or worse, many of us use guides. The point of an unlabeled checklist is to not spoil the game for people who want a “pure” experience.

Look, when so many people are stuck missing one of so many, yet have done each part of the achievement (or are fairly sure they did), something ain’t right. Especially when it happens every time there’s this kind of achievement. It’s maddening to waste time running through 24 things you’ve already done, particularly for those of us without an abundance of time to play due to real life commitments.

I redid them all on an alt. Bizarrely, the middle south one in Gendarran worked and gave me my 24; I am nigh certain I got it on my first go. And … of -course- it was the 24th one I visited on my second tour of them all.

I really think the solution is to have a checklist that only appears one by one as they are successful. That way if you hit 23/24 you can see that one of the zones has say 2 (and you know from sources like duffy etc) that there should be 3, you only have to redo that zone instead of the entire map. Also, if you choose not to follow any guides it’s not giving away any hints and it means that your character doesn’t suffer from Alzheimers :P

So, for me it’s the Timberline one, up on top, had to re-do it again. Perhaps due to having a crowd during the first instance, or was on another toon pre-patch.

i was lucky enough to find my “missing” obelisk in Caledon, when i was nearby for an offshoot event. i know for a fact that i had already transcribed it yesterday, but i am not complaining since i finally managed to finish the ToN meta

Gendarren Fields has one in the bottom right hand corner of the map, that is the one I missed, hope that helps others.

Came across this today.. for whatever reason, one of mine in the Bloodtide coast didn’t register. Had to use it 3 times in order to get the achievement

Same oddity here, during guild missions I found one in Mount Maelstrom that didn’t get transcribed though I recall doing them all there.

This is really annoying. Followed a guide did them one after another 23/24. Anets only suggestion do them all again to verify.

I am having the same problem too…..I followed a guide and went to each one twice, still only showing 23/24.

I have the transcriber on one toon. I’ve only attempted to do interact with the obelisks on that one character. I’ve double checked the sites and I still have 23/24. Please just make the required number lower than the available obelisks like someone already suggested. Like 20/24 maybe?

smekras.8203:

Smooth Penguin, some people don’t have the time needed to go over each obelisk again. if there was a checklist in the achievement description, it would save us all a lot of trouble, even if the location of each obelisk was revealed -after- you had transcribed it

As a counter argument – can you imagine what your UI would look like if they did this? The Living World tab would be 3x the size it is now.

There’s a better way to fix this. Use a pen and paper. It’s oldschool, and still works.

Better way would be to provide more points than you actually need. As for the busy UI, you’ll notice if you drill down into the achievement there’s a whole new pane on which to show info. E.g instead of
Tier 1 5 points
Tier 2 5 points

Show
Kessex hills 4/4 2pts
Mount Maelstrom 3/4 3pts
Gandarran fields 3/3 1 pt

etc

No need to clutter up the main UI at all, just use whats already there better

Donari.5237:

I redid them all on an alt. Bizarrely, the middle south one in Gendarran worked and gave me my 24; I am nigh certain I got it on my first go. And … of -course- it was the 24th one I visited on my second tour of them all.

I find this very interesting as the one that gave me credit was also the 24th I visited on my 2nd trip around. And, I am 99.99% certain I had already gotten it. I got it before we did the Krait Witch and then showed others where it was and went back to it after the witch was dead.

Due to reading this thread, I took precautions as I went through this today. I killed everything nearby first. And then I checked to make sure the count went up by one each and every time.

I strongly encourage that extras be put in for these achievements in the future. So instead of having to participate in all invasions or find all krait shards or all of anything, change it to a portion of a total.

That would help prevent the bugs from being so annoying. It would save developers from having to chase the bugs down and players from being frustrated about it bugging out on them. It would also allow you to just play the game. I don’t enjoy having to act like an accountant when I am doing content.

Checked every one 3 times and still 1 short. It would be a no brainer to just put a checklist in the achievement that only shows the ones you have completed as you complete them. Then people can go back and compare the ones that show completed in the achievement window to a list of ones to find which one they are missing. Instead I have wasted a lot of time.

It would be an easy fix if they just added another one somewhere else, like in the water in Lion’s Arch or allowed you to get it from someone else’ home instance version.

I can do 5 out of like 12 daily achievements to get the reward for dailies, but for something like this I have to have every single one of them to get it. This is the second event that this type of thing has happened to me and this one will not self-correct no matter how many times I go to every single one of them ( I did dulfy’s guide after it was complete two times and still can’t get it ). I got the meta from doing the daily version of it to get the points instead.

Stuck with this bug too. :/ Bad luck.

Just been round again with a new character and a new gadget, after a patch and after a reset. Still at 23/24. This is intensely irritating :/ IMHO don’t bother about fixing the bug, just add another Obelisk so we can be done with it.

I have the same issue, logged a bug report grrrrr

Same issue for me. I did them all at one time. Didnt get interupted during any of them, still stuck at 23/24. Went back through them after a game restart and none of them would let me redo it. So what now? I hope they fix this, or at least add a few more shards.

The Devs still can’t replicate this problem, so it’s hard to determine if it’s a bug, or just player error.

I kept track of the obelisks I completed in each zone and made sure that each registered before I moved on. My final zone was Gendarran Fields. I was surprised when I transcribed the 4th obelisk and didn’t get the achievement so I checked and found that my count was at 23/24. But I knew the missing one had to be in this zone. It turned out to be the obelisk in the lower right corner. It was the first obelisk that I had completed in that zone. I knew I had killed the Krait around it and thought I had checked to make sure it registered but perhaps I didn’t. From what I recall there are Barracuda that get in the way so they may have interfered. Fortunately, I only had to revisit the 4 obelisks in Gendarran Fields to complete the achievement.

Update for me: I ended up doing them all 3 times on my main but they were all used already. I found some time so I swapped to an alt and after about 15-16 of them the northern one in Caledon Forest let me commune.

I know it sucks if you can’t get it on your main but swapping to an alt seemed to at least let me finish the achievement.

Can someone record themselves checking all 24 obelisks and post it here? This would settle the issue that people are just simply missing one.

I also have 23/24. I just want my APs and my 5 skill points please

Strange..after checking every node twice i got 23/24. and i was sure i visited all of them. restarted game and i decided to go more thoroughly. put achievement tracker at top. collapsed it and cleared shard…took a screenshot where i point mouse over achievement to say it’s 23/24 and open prompt so you can see that there is no option to transcribe it..

after a while i found one i missed in Bloodtide Coast. i visited this one before and it didn’t give me prompt before..for some reason it decided to give me prompt. well i might be wrong so i could have overseen it. anyway i got it to 24/24. suggest you do the same..if you still have 23/24 and all screenshots proof to yourself, than might start working on to figure how and why.

repeat i did go over all 24 twice…third time i started taking screenshots, i got 24/24…well not sure what triggered it or did i simply missed one..but there is start and possible solution

Same here 23/24 went through them all very carefully last night, still 23/24.

Same here, 23/24. All 24 obelisks are actually there but one of them obviously failed to update the counter. Not that I am actually worried or something because I am really not interested in achievements however five skill points really sound good.

Did you guys kill both Krait that guard each Obelisk? Or were they already dead from a previous player, and you communed with an unguarded Obelisk?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Did you guys kill both Krait that guard each Obelisk? Or were they already dead from a previous player, and you communed with an unguarded Obelisk?

An interesting idea since if I recall correctly one of the obelisks in Sparkfly Fan wasn’t guarded when I reached it. But why would engaging the enemy be a requirement for communing with the stone?

If you’re going to put ridiculous achievements like this that force us to go to 10 different zones, can you at least make sure they work first? I’m stuck at 23/24 and even went back to double check them all. Fix this obvious bug, please.

holodoc.5748:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Did you guys kill both Krait that guard each Obelisk? Or were they already dead from a previous player, and you communed with an unguarded Obelisk?

An interesting idea since if I recall correctly one of the obelisks in Sparkfly Fan wasn’t guarded when I reached it. But why would engaging the enemy be a requirement for communing with the stone?

It might not be a required task, but rather an unintended bug. I got my 24/24 by going after each Obelisk, and killing all Krait (a majority by myself).

This seems like really lazy design to me. There are a lot of scavenger hunt achievements in the living story where the designers have seemingly just dropped a dozen items onto a map and tallied up each one as you find them- that’s it. Nothing connected to the story. No clues to find, no puzzles to work out, no other aids (such a proper log). No significant outcome. Mostly finished using web spoilers since there is no challenge other than to invest time in the search.

The hunt to find all the balloon towers was better since they could be counted easily (2 per map), out of game spoilers were unnecessary, there were associated events, they were visually impressive, and they fitted into the story. More like that please.

Left this achievement to the last minute and got stuck on 23/24 last night. I’ll go back throught them tonight with an alt and killing all the guards.

You’d think this could be fixed or amended

Stooperdale.3560:

This seems like really lazy design to me. There are a lot of scavenger hunt achievements in the living story where the designers have seemingly just dropped a dozen items onto a map and tallied up each one as you find them- that’s it. Nothing connected to the story. No clues to find, no puzzles to work out, no other aids (such a proper log). No significant outcome. Mostly finished using web spoilers since there is no challenge other than to invest time in the search.

The hunt to find all the balloon towers was better since they could be counted easily (2 per map), out of game spoilers were unnecessary, there were associated events, they were visually impressive, and they fitted into the story. More like that please.

The majority of them are where the krait are.

Solid Gold.9310:

Same here 23/24 went through them all very carefully last night, still 23/24.

Nope I take it back, got all 24/24 now, I had missed one in Mount Maelstrom.

Luckily I didn’t have to go through all 24 to find it.

And I can confirm you don’t have to kill the vet Krait or other mobs around the obby before you transcribe it, it still works, and it doesn’t matter if they are dead already, even better.

So I would say it isn’t bugged and you need to double check, I was following the Dulfy maps btw.

It beats the hell out me why ANet didn’t follow through on a checklist after all the criticism they got for not having one back during the Scarlet invasions. It’s just stupid not to have one.

My wife and my son have both done all 24 (I was with them when they did them) and both have only gotten credit for 23. They’ve gone back and redone them all and STILL only have credit for 23. Lots of wasted time and effort for nothing ( and no, don’t tell me that repeating a bunch of things you’ve already done for no return is fun in it’s own right). It’s bugs and silly omissions like these that give a game a bad name, and GW2 certainly deserves it in this case … especially since they promised to address the lack of a checklist after Scarlet.

Part of me is thinking that if people are following Dulfy’s map guides, those people might be misreading one of them. One areas has 4 Obelisks, but Dulfy split them into a map with 3, and a separate map with 1. If you didn’t click on the second map, you’ll have missed it, and thus the possible reason people are at 23/24.

I’m stuck at 23/24 too, while my girlfriend is at 24/24. We did the obelisks together the last two days. Not sure if I want to do all those ways again.

I am stuck at 22/24. I have made the run 3 times and still nothing.
“Sad Face”

I found what might be something that is a cause of this bug tonight – I went to the Slaver’s Deep shard in Caledon Forest – I have NEVER been there before and tried to get the shard – and it said I had already transcribed it.

I have 23/24 obelisks. What is going to happened now? I rechecked them all and I can’t get them again.

Add another one to the list of people stuck . . .

Now for the people trying to track down the trouble:

I got on last week sometime and tried doing the Obelisks before realizing I needed an item to start. Cue backing up to start over and getting Kessex Hills and Gendarran cleared, then taking a break after sticking myself in Caledon.

Today I finished all the rest but it’s stuck. I will log back in tonight and double check the ones I didn’t get today for certain, for reals, double pinky swear.

Interrupting while channeling? Yeah, all the time, especially in Timberline Falls where I had a mass of krait chasing me up the tower. And the Flooded Castavall because nobody fights the Orrian Terror and my pet happened to tag it’s attention. But they did appear to be attainable AFTER the interruption . . .

Regardless, I unfortunately have the little problem of “use an alt to scope them all out” because . . . well, I don’t have an alt capable of that.

You can count me in. I have just visited again all the 24 obelisk. Each one of them was already activated…
The only “strange” thing that I know is that I started with a character, tried to read with a character that didn’t have the special item, got the item with the second character and visited all of them.