Guild Wars 2

Been a while since I did explorer on my other toons but tonight thought I would finish off my thief and had Bloodtide Coast left to do.

All completed but this one skill point on Laughing Gull Island

Why oh why is it now locked behind gates inside the Taidha event that only happens every 3 hours?

Unless I have missed some other way in to get to it? (I hope so!) Seems a really poor decision to only be able to get a skill point by doing a world event.

I ran into that last week when collecting hero points. Fortunately the low-pop box showed up and when I agreed to go to a new map, the gate was open. But it did flummox me — back when I was doing Bloodtide on a lot of alts sometimes there was a horrendous champion pirate on top of the skill point but at least you could physically get there.

Wait, since when do you need Taidha done to get to it? o.O
Is there more than just Taidha’s front door that spawns?
I’ve only ever even seen the door up in close proximity to when the event runs anyway, but I just walked all the way to the skill point without going through the front door or any other door I’m aware closes.

I’d be happy to show you how I get in (or we’ll run into a block I’m not aware of)
Hit me up if you want I’m just running around mapping.

Scribe, it’s really walled off. When I was trying to get to it I ran up the ridge and along the roofs and when I jumped down into the ship to run down the stairs I got insta-ported out to the little gate near the asura. Several times.

That’s horrible! DX
I guess I’ve been super lucky to never run into that then

As an alternative to proper level design I will recommend the program GW2 Personal Assistant Overlay, it has an events tracker (decently accurate) that will non-invasively sit on top of GW2 and includes the Taidha event, and can be used to track when her event starts, that may help finding a time when her place is enterable without having to sit in that zone, very handy.

I’d guess that portal zone is meant to keep people from trying to kill Taihda before the chain gets to her or something??

I never had trouble with Taidha’s skill point. Do some skill jumping, get to the right cabin and walk down. If there’s champ, play smart, lure him away, put chill on him, sprint to point and cast it.

I’ve never had an issue getting in there for the skill point and I’m on my 14th world completion.

Like I said, I never had a problem before last week. And that’s when they did worse than an invisible wall, they put in a boot-you-out teleport. I don’t know when they did that, as Taidha isn’t up 100% of the time so maybe I was just lucky before.

But accepting the “get a buff if you agree to go to a higher population map” moves you to other maps that have Taidha in a different state of readiness, or at least it can. (Unless I’m misremembering and I just waited an hour and came back).

Same for me this is my 8th toon completing world explorer and never had a trouble before. But I was on the map for over an hour and you could not get through either door. Yes I tried jumping along the ridge and jumping down into the area and I got insta ported out of the area.

You can go around the side of the island and basically walk right to the vista. You only get teleported out if you go into the area below it, and then only when Taidha’s event is actually going, unless it got bugged somehow.