Guild Wars 2

Can you please make it impossible to manually drop the present if you pick it up in Snowball Mayhem. Otherwise it will be impossible to complete Gift Stopper before the event is over. I have gotten 2/5 so far because I was lucky on the first day. However I just logged in today and tried a few times. Each time I got the player low he manually dropped the present before he got downed, so I had no way of getting any credit for my Achievement. This is actually removing the enjoyment of said Achievement, because players can stop you from getting it. It is nowhere near enough as getting killed while trying to kill them, but giving the choice to them to drop it to stop us from getting it means almost everyone will do it.

Mathim Caim.8930:

Can you please make it impossible to manually drop the present if you pick it up in Snowball Mayhem.

I got Gift Bringer in the first day. Since then, every time I pick up a gift and bring it to our spawn, I drop it so that a teammate can cap it and advance his achievement. If there was no way to drop it, every gift I pick up would essentially “steal” an achievement point from my teammates.

The problem with Gift Stopper is that it is a stupid achievement (encourages players to let the enemy grab the gift first, and discourages players from helping teammates who are carrying the gift – since they are preventing you from advancing your Gift Stopper), and should be replaced by something that actually encourages team play.

Breaking a cooperative part of the game just to make a bad achievement easier is a step in the wrong direction. It’s the Stopper achievement that needs to be changed.

Here is a good way of getting both titles

Grab a thie-er.. a scout and when the countdown reaches 1 use the 5th skill to get a boost on speed. Drop yourself near the castle pillar and rush towards the speed booster. You will most likely be the first one to get near the gift. Use the 5th skill again grab and run.

For the gift stopper just camp near the enemy base. Hide behind the hills on the corners, and when an enemy pops up with it, rush use the 5th skill and charge with the 4th one. You will probably kill them or reduce to 90% their HP which you can promptly finish off with the 3rd skill.

Got both titles in less than 2 hours.