Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

The aetherpath achievement “Stay Cool” is bugged. I made sure to not touch the fire, we beat the event, I didn’t get the achievement. My group had the same experience. If Mr. Hrouda or anyone else on the dungeon team could take a look, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

hrouda been gone yearz bro =(

A few guildies tried and retried this achievement in quite many runs in the last months, but not even one of them got it. They tried several different tactics to get through the event, but no one made it. One of them even painstakenly browsed through the combat log and did not find any entry that he was hit by the fire, but was not granted the achievement.

I assume there is really something wrong.

Have any of your guildies waited outside the room and let everyone else 4man it? Burning isn’t what fails the achieve, look for the little fire debuff(different symbol than burning) that appears when you step in or near the fire.

My group got it two days ago. Not sure how it gets bugged though.

To everyone: WHAT HROUDA IS GONE?!?!?!1111111!!!!!!!!!

Also, yeah, it seems some people still can do it, but others cannot. There was a thread on this before. No idea what’s going on. I will try staying out of the room and letting people 4 man and will report back.

Rage.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

To everyone: WHAT HROUDA IS GONE?!?!?!1111111!!!!!!!!!

Also, yeah, it seems some people still can do it, but others cannot. There was a thread on this before. No idea what’s going on. I will try staying out of the room and letting people 4 man and will report back.

Rage.

Keep calm and buy more gems.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Robert_Hrouda
“He was laid off on August 20, 2013.”

No, pretty sure Hrouda is still around.

I was in a group today who said they got the achievement. Anyone at ANET care to shed some light onto what’s going on?

Alright boys and girls, I paid 4 people 2G each to complete this event for me, while I never entered the room. They beat it, I didn’t get the achievement. As you can see in my screenshot, my combat log registered no burning and I definitely didn’t get the fire buff. Also, another party member said that’s how he got his achievement, so it’s not like I had to be in the room for it to work. Now that I’ve wasted 8G testing ANET’s buggy game with nothing to show for it, please Robert Hrouda, fix this.

This happened to my dungeon group too a couple months back, not sure what fixed it really, but after running it daily both my ele friend and I got the achievement randomly. We had both tried standing outside of the room while others completed it, waiting at the waypoint, etc. Nothing worked. Super buggy!

GlenCoco.2074:

This happened to my dungeon group too a couple months back, not sure what fixed it really, but after running it daily both my ele friend and I got the achievement randomly. We had both tried standing outside of the room while others completed it, waiting at the waypoint, etc. Nothing worked. Super buggy!

Yup, I’ve done it on three professions now: engi, thief, guard. Tried with and without mini pet. Tried standing out of the room, tried killing the orange lava eles, tried running the ooze. Beat it in every possible combination one can think of and still haven’t gotten the achievement. I even tried logging off after both oozes were in the treads and logging back on before the door opened to “reset” any burning I might have invisibly taken, and nothing worked. Last achievement I need for the meta. ANET fix plz.

UPDATE:

I just got the achievement.

Conditions under which it registered:

1. I was a thief.
2. I had no minipet.
3. I got hit by lava eles.
4. I didn’t step in the fire.
5. I was in the main room at the time, I followed the LEFT path.
6. Our team lead the oozes into the fire numerous times.
7. I did not take the pheromone or lead an ooze.
8. Two others in my group were also going for the achievement, 1 person got it, the other person, while successfully avoiding the fire, did not. I don’t know why.

It’s bugged to pieces, I don’t know what triggered it but I thought I’d post here so people can see what I did to get it.

I did the same.
Tried staying out of the room = didn’t get
Tried getting hit by eles but not stepping in lava = didn’t het.

It really bothers me that I can’t complete it.

I’m getting really frustrated with this myself.

I’ve tried this achiev. so many times, and I’ve been very careful not to step in the fire, but for some reason I just won’t get it. I’m doing it on my Mesmer, so my thoughts are that if your clones touch the fire, that would be enough to fail the achiev., but I don’t want to think this is true, because as a Mesmer the only way you are useful to anybody is by having clones to help out.

I guess I can try not having any clones out or just changing professions.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

If Mr. Hrouda or anyone else on the dungeon team could take a look, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

15/10.

I remember seeing another topic on this subject more than 3 months ago, it’s a pretty old issue. Since then I’ve only tried going for it once and obviously I didn’t get anything. Achievement registration seems completely random, no matter whether you meet the conditions or not.
I’d really like Anet to finally do something about this. I mean… I get they don’t care about PvE, let alone dungeons, but you’d kinda expect them to at least fix major progression-stopping bugs (meaning achievement progression).

If there are 4 more people out there willing to do this broken nonsense over and over again and try our luck getting this kittened achiev, feel free to call me (EU) whenever I’m online, I will join you. Otherwise, it’s probably no use trying to get it, you’ll just frustrate yourself unnecessarily.

Update:

So I just managed to get the achievement. I did the same thing I did in the past, but somehow this time around, it popped for me.

I used a Mesmer – used clones, they stepped in the fire – it took several tries to do so as I was pugging it, so first attempt only or you don’t get it is not valid.

What I always try to do is stay between the fire, right in the middle of the lane, never getting any close to the fire. But what’s funny in this run is that I TWICE came to touching the fire because of some dumb dodges on my part, but never touched it luckily.

So idk, this achievement is just random. You either get it or not it seems.

This is so frustrating

Hello people!
I don’t know if anyone will read this but in the case they do, your mini walking into the fire counts against you in the achievement. I was inspired by Nevet saying he had no mini so I tested this out. Your mini walking into the fire counts as you walking in. Turn your minis off before TA Aetherpath!

Sincerely, Hikarinoa

That’s a whole new level of “How the kitten is this a thing?”.

actually, is pretty random..so just keep trying.
I know is frustrating but look, i’ve done mine in a run where i stepped into the fire multiple times.
Go figure ;-)

I wonder how did you find out that your minipet counts toward the success of the achievement. As soon as I have the achievement, I cannot see if I fulfill the requirement again, can I?
And if I don’t have the achievement yet, how can I tell it’s the minipet that forfeits my success and nothing else?