Guild Wars 2

Mike El Angelo.2874:

So how am I supposed to get Thwart the Inquest now? I’ve been trying over the past days but still no luck.

Changes like these teach you one thing: Do new achievements as soon as possible (at relase day is best). Most of the time they get harder, either by fixes/adjustments or because playerbase already moved on.

From what I’ve seen, when an NPC picks up a mana charge, it disappears from the ground. And if a golem drops one when defeated, it disappears when a player picks it up.

After getting my achievements for delivering the charges to the collectors, I focused on taking down golems before they could get to the charges, and getting NPCs back up on their feet. Some other people seemed to have the same idea, and it worked pretty well, from what I could tell. IF enough people were doing it that way, that is.

Yeah, I’ve pretty much given up on the Denying the Inquest achievement. Heck, I can’t get the ten wins either. Seems fail, after fail, after fail lately. . . .

Ah well. At least I got the collecting ones done. Something is better than nothing.

While I already have the Thwart the Inquest achieve (got it on the first day), I agree that it’s way too hard to get this achievement now. Either the energy needs to disappear after a player picks it up (not recommended due to player competition), or the golems need to be toned down. Trying to stop an Elite Velocitas Golem from getting away is downright impossible thanks to their upscaled level and break bar.

I think a fair compromise would be the following:

1. Inquest guards can scale up as normal for the event. Instead of just hanging around their collector, they actively charge towards the Champ Ley Elemental and attempt to kill players around it.

2. All golems only spawn at basic tier and do not scale up in level.

Yeah, I have to agree with those who say the event is way overtuned and that getting Thwart the Inquest is more difficult now. It’s doable, but there are so many of the energy-stealing mobs that it’s really easy to miss one.

Anyone else have the Thwart the Inquest achieve disappear? I haven’t completed it, but it no longer appears under Current Events category.

RabidCoqui.1983:

Anyone else have the Thwart the Inquest achieve disappear? I haven’t completed it, but it no longer appears under Current Events category.

LOL.. that’s one way to solve the problem of people being unable to get it, anet.

Can anyone else confirm that they stealth nerfed ‘Thwart the Inquest’ achievement with the last update please? It’s my understanding that you have to complete it before it will actually show up, but let’s be sure.

Like with the rest of the achievements for this, the achievement didn’t appear for me under Current Events until I actually completed it. And the completed achievement shows up for me in the Current Events tab right now.

Thank you, Rose. +1

In the same boat as the people above. Wasn’t able to get to the events the first few days, now can’t get the Inquest achievement. Let alone finish the event, since it always fails even though I’ve been focusing on the golems. The golems just spawn too much and rush way too fast (especially the small ones). Doesn’t seem to that many people either at the events now, so that doesn’t help either. Hopefully Anet can fix the scaling on these events because it sucks not being able to even finish the event.

All the achievements appeared for me once I did the first event. For example, I only turned in for the Priory in that first event, yet the achieve for turning in to Consortium showed up too. Thwart the Inquest was also there before, but now it isn’t.

I would find it a bit odd that all the achieves would only show up once you did them.

To be honest, I didn’t even know the achievement existed until I got it, and I wasn’t trying for it (obviously).

I think you just have to do your best and get a little lucky on the other players to do the same. We kinda just… got it, yesterday.

It is what it is… I have the rest of the achievements done, and I’ll just keep trying every once in a while to see if I get lucky with the last one. I thought we almost had it on my last attempt, but near the end a champ golem picked one up and there was no way we were going to kill it in time… we even managed to whittle the breakbar down once, but it just had too much health since only some could break away to concentrate on it while the speedy golems were still running about.

It’s the scaling on the event. We came close today with fewer players, but with more players, it’s too likely that something happens that you can’t do anything about in time.

RabidCoqui.1983:

All the achievements appeared for me once I did the first event. For example, I only turned in for the Priory in that first event, yet the achieve for turning in to Consortium showed up too. Thwart the Inquest was also there before, but now it isn’t.

I would find it a bit odd that all the achieves would only show up once you did them.

Odd, it must work differently for different players. My ‘Consortium’ one didn’t show up until I turned in ley energy to them. I could not figure out what this ‘Research’ was, and why players were talking about it, until I looked it up.

None of my achievements showed up until I ‘unlocked’ them for this round of Current Events, just as all the previous Current Events (Bandits, first Ley-line events).

It’s all rather confusing. If these things have to be locked until they’re ‘unlocked’, why not display them as locked rather than making them invisible? There are other achievements, like Grawl Antiquarian(?), that appear as locked until you get some specific item. That would let us know what we have to work towards. But mystery whatever.

Any fix yet for this mess? I keep trying a couple times a day. Thwart the inquest achievement is massively harder now than getting energy ever was. Fix it or make everyone else start over. Such a joke that we have to go through this post patching stuff making things harder now than it was for other people.

Well I finally got thwart the inquest achievement today. We did it with 3 people. The less people there are the easier the golems die. Its way too hard with scaling of larger groups of players.
EDIT: if you get the far north spawn option, leave some leyline energy on the tree the golems can’t reach it so the bunch up there.

What is involved in Thwart the Inquest?

Kal Spiro.9745:

What is involved in Thwart the Inquest?

You have to keep the Inquest from gathering any ley energy at all.

Kal Spiro.9745:

What is involved in Thwart the Inquest?

Repeated bashing of head against keyboard