Guild Wars 2

So, let’s talk Spore Cleansing.

Toxic Spore Cleanser achievement, specifically. Is this a bit of a troll by the Devs? Surely you guys know that some players are just far too trigger happy to wait for the champions to gain their toxic buff? Could you perhaps make them hit harder, such that the kitteny Guardians trying to solo them while everyone else sits around just gets killed?

I’d also like to know what prompts these mobs to gain that buff. Sometimes it happens 10 seconds after they spawn, sometimes 5 minutes. Anyone any ideas on this?

Where are all those infected mobs? Dulfy said they were on all maps with vets and champs? But is this really like “all maps in the game”? I don’t think the vet guards on EB have this(while there are still some PvE events to kill offshoots in WvW map EB).

Is this only in the affected non-wvw maps that have offshoots?

Champion train in Queensdale is the best way to do that achievement, at least it was yesterday. Troll, Oak and Boar often spawn with the toxic, the rest not so much, but you make a lap fast enough that it doesn’t feel too grindy.

When and how the buff appear seem totally random, some champ spawns never get it while the next spawn do, sometimes when the zerg has beaten it to 20% health.

I’ve heard even the Frostgorge champ-train works for this, but I haven’t tried it to comfirm.