Guild Wars 2

these updates for the daily event having dodge as a daily is just stupid why put in something that still needs so much fixing as a daily please change it ASAP if anything make it a monthly challenge.

I’ll agree that this is not exactly fun… In the mean time, here’s a quick and easy way to get it:

1) Go to low level area
2) Find a harmless mob (like a deer or something)
3) Hit it once.
4) Dodge until you get the achievement
5) Kill mob / run away

Or if you’re bad at dodging, do it with a pair of mobs, like wolves. Chances are their attacks will be slightly out of sync, so when one hits, you dodge and evade the other one.

God no…deer has barely 1/4 of a second of tell before it attacks(with any lag that’s pretty much impossible to react, you’d have to anticipate, that’s hard). Find a mob that has an easy tell. Bats, giffons, abominations, ettin, anything big really. I found that the moa screech was pretty easy to dodge.
And don’t worry jimbo. I doubt this will be the daily everyday.

You guys have to remember that you’re not the only ones that get these dailies. New players get them too and, let’s face it, there are some people whom have been hre since launch and still need to know when to dodge.

I found wergs and wolves were pretty easy to do this with. The moment you run into melee range, they attack you. If you time it right, you can get past them and won’t even slow down. Giant wurms that shoot rocks have extremely easy tells. You can stand there and dodge them all day. There’s also dredge with their tremor attacks, which you can literally see coming.

Imo this was the easiest and fastest daily by far.
Just grabbed like 6 golden moas, couple of river drakes and skales in Queensdale and by using 1 dodge I’d get up to 5 at once or more.

Serious? How do you have so much trouble dodging a total of 15 attacks in a 24 hour period.

You can accidentally hit the dodge button and complete it in 15 minutes.

I really dislike the new dodge in the daily’s, with an internet speed as bad as mine i am able to play, but getting this achievement took me over an hour! When you lag its just impossible to dodge in time, so spend and hour just dodging randomly while fighting mobs, that’s just ridiculous! I’m sure its pretty easy if you have a decent internet connection, but for me its just too much work. And as an added bonus, with my build i never needed to touch dodging in any way!

It’s not just dodging. I got the daily last night by simply running circles around Karkas and not actually dodging. Every time ‘evade’ appeared in white the % counter went up on my achievement tab. I’ll have to try my thief tonight and see if evading with Death Blossom works too.

yesterday we had kill combo with an ally………..:P

I’m having a hard time taking this seriously. Is this supposed to be like a joke thread?

If you’re serious and you have that hard of a time dodging then you need the practice anyways. Dodging is a key mechanic in this game and stupidly easy to master.

Yeah.. the ONLY daily I had trouble with was the revive one.. and all I had to do was a story quest and revive some dumb NPC’s to achieve it..

Yeah.. the ONLY daily I had trouble with was the revive one.. and all I had to do was a story quest and revive some dumb NPC’s to achieve it..These achievements are easier and yet..different. A+ in my book.

The old daily was stuff you achieved while playing.

The new daily is stuff you achieve by playing a certain way – I guess that’s what bothers me about it.

Dodge is an easy enough mechanic, but isn’t needed against many critters, especially if you can block/blind/interrupt. Many critters I can’t even tell when to dodge (stupid veteran icebrood quaggin). I ended up heading to a specific champion and sparring until I got the dodge achievement – it felt like busy work.

Once the 4-of-6 code is in, this’ll be a fine addition. I just wished they’d waited.

I suppose now the daily achievement is actually an achievement and not just a matter of course.

but yeah dodging and reviving easy enough even at low levels, there’s plenty of ways to get them both, from reviving npcs that die constantly to finding traps or big AoE stuff and just rolling like a lunatic

Mr Snotty Pants.3980:

The old daily was stuff you achieved while playing.

The new daily is stuff you achieve by playing a certain way – I guess that’s what bothers me about it.

dodger – dodging should be a part of your normal play, if it is not you should learn to use it as it is a vital skill to be used to doing correctly in any group content. unless you only take on normal trash mobs in open world all day you should be dodging some. Skill Pint chalenges and events are great places to do these if you do not want to do it with normal trash mobs. go run AC and kill Kholer (you will be done in one fight)

healer – reviving dead NPC in quest areas gives completion to the quest, NPC in WvW helps defend, reviving dead people is something you should also do. once again all in normal day of play

kill variety – now less then before, but still same old

gathering – less but same old

combo kills – was slightly buggy, but emphasizes group play (this is an MMO you know) and combos are a big thing to understand and this helps you learn. Now i do admit it was a bit buggy, but expect it working better by the time it comes around again.

underwater kills – 25kills, not a big deal and i’m sure most all of us have some unexplored underwater areas on at least one char to do this with.

events – same old

We can keep going on, but none of the new dailies I have seen fall that far out of normal game play (but maybe underwater, but if you avoid underwater the few min it takes is getting you to do something new and explore)

tbh the only one that seems out of place is the combo one (rest being all doable solo and such) and that shouldn’t have been as big a deal as it was due to bugs.

All daily events should be solo-able. I barely got the combo killer done yesterday with 5 minutes left before midnight GMT when it reset with a random ele on WvW.

Group events for monthly’s would make more sense. People can adjust their timetable with their friends that way.

Koga.7215:

dodger – dodging should be a part of your normal play, if it is not you should learn to use it as it is a vital skill to be used to doing correctly in any group content.

I was playing my guardian (2 blocks and a blind just on weapon skills + traited-up symbol) and dodge just isn’t a big part of what he needs (unless a champion/boss, which is why I sparred a champion he can solo to get the achievement).

Old daily it was enough to defeat critters. Now you’ve got to do it a certain way, even when that certain way isn’t required to defeat the critter or you’ve got other options (like block/blind/interrupt).

Say there was a daily based on using the dance emote in your started city. It’d be easy but it’d be pointless, no-fun busy work. Well, if you aren’t into crafting, I bet the crafting daily feels just like this.

You can’t hardly play this game without killing critters or doing events. But you can certainly do it without making cookie dough or dodging or setting up combos.

If they’d waited for 4-of-6 you’d just skip to ones that don’t make sense for you.

Daily crafting is easy. Just refine the stuff you gather for Daily Gathering.

Daily kill combos has been removed from rotation, thankfully. I wasted an hour trying to get that with a friend and we only got to 60%.

I wish I’d seen the daily kill combo one. In events with my Mesmer and Elementalist my primary concern is keeping combo fields up. One DE defending Northpasture would have completed this for everyone in the area.

Cherokeewill.7504:

I wish I’d seen the daily kill combo one. In events with my Mesmer and Elementalist my primary concern is keeping combo fields up. One DE defending Northpasture would have completed this for everyone in the area.

Unlikely. The achievement was bugged. It didn’t update for 30+ of the combos my friend and I did (which is why I never got it)

I am more annoyed that you have to craft things now, instead of kill different things. Sure, it is easy, but what if you don’t have anything you want to craft?

What was wrong with the former?

Koga.7215:

dodger – dodging should be a part of your normal play, if it is not you should learn to use it as it is a vital skill to be used to doing correctly in any group content. unless you only take on normal trash mobs in open world all day you should be dodging some. Skill Pint chalenges and events are great places to do these if you do not want to do it with normal trash mobs. go run AC and kill Kholer (you will be done in one fight)

While I don’t have a problem with the dodging as a daily(as stated, it’s not that hard to get) I would argue that if you play as an archer or similar long range character, it isn’t a truly necessary skill. But still not that hard to get especially if you’re doing group events with a lot fo AOE attacks being sent your way. Dodging out of red circles isn’t hard to do at all

You don’t even have to “dodge” for the dodging events. You basically just have to evade a hit. I was running as my thief and was able to get this done with just normal gameplay and using my weapon skills. Only slight dodging. Perhaps it was easier as my Thief has a few weapons skills that help evade enemy strikes.

Nazgul.8274:

Koga.7215:

dodger – dodging should be a part of your normal play, if it is not you should learn to use it as it is a vital skill to be used to doing correctly in any group content. unless you only take on normal trash mobs in open world all day you should be dodging some. Skill Pint chalenges and events are great places to do these if you do not want to do it with normal trash mobs. go run AC and kill Kholer (you will be done in one fight)

While I don’t have a problem with the dodging as a daily(as stated, it’s not that hard to get) I would argue that if you play as an archer or similar long range character, it isn’t a truly necessary skill. But still not that hard to get especially if you’re doing group events with a lot fo AOE attacks being sent your way. Dodging out of red circles isn’t hard to do at all

Dodging isn’t truly necessary on a ranged character? no wonder rangers die so easily to a necrotic grasp or an immobilize into close quarters, none of them ever learned how to dodge like the daily is trying to teach you to do.

The dodging one is not as easy to get on a ranger, not because they don’t dodge (well, I do on mine) but because most of the incoming attacks are directed at your pet…

Ortumbra.7490:

Nazgul.8274:

Koga.7215:

dodger – dodging should be a part of your normal play, if it is not you should learn to use it as it is a vital skill to be used to doing correctly in any group content. unless you only take on normal trash mobs in open world all day you should be dodging some. Skill Pint chalenges and events are great places to do these if you do not want to do it with normal trash mobs. go run AC and kill Kholer (you will be done in one fight)

While I don’t have a problem with the dodging as a daily(as stated, it’s not that hard to get) I would argue that if you play as an archer or similar long range character, it isn’t a truly necessary skill. But still not that hard to get especially if you’re doing group events with a lot fo AOE attacks being sent your way. Dodging out of red circles isn’t hard to do at all

Dodging isn’t truly necessary on a ranged character? no wonder rangers die so easily to a necrotic grasp or an immobilize into close quarters, none of them ever learned how to dodge like the daily is trying to teach you to do.

Admittedly my dodging skill does need work, though I am getting better… partially due to it being included with the dailies. I thin the major problem I have with my non ranger character is that when you get into close quarters. it becomes hard to tell what is going on at times due to the amount of people fighting at close range. Especially if you get a couple of Norns and Charrs in the mix what with humans being considerably shorter. Makes me wonder what it will be like to play as an Asura.