Guild Wars 2

After trying to get this achievements so many times, changing map and searching for a coordinated one with no results, Anet i ask to you to avoid this kind of cooperative achiev., or achiev. that involve so many people, because 2-3 days after the release no one helps to get those anymore. I’m personally stuck at 7/20 of no-fly zone, but every time i see only 10-15 player that helps in the break-bar phase, and they aren’t enough.
Don’t come to say “search for a cc map” because it’s what i did. But nothing changed.
Perhaps by encouraging players to continue to try to break his bar regardless if they have completed the achiev . Please forgive my language errors, i’m not english.

Maybe you should try going 10 minutes beforehand? The last shatterer that just happened just an hour ago achieved ‘smash the dragon’. Just check the LFG for ‘cc shatt’ 10-20 minutes beforehand. Don’t expect to go right at the start of the event to find an org map.

Leezy.4567:

Maybe you should try going 10 minutes beforehand? The last shatterer that just happened just an hour ago achieved ‘smash the dragon’. Just check the LFG for ‘cc shatt’ 10-20 minutes beforehand. Don’t expect to go right at the start of the event to find an org map.

i’ve did it, even 15-20 min before the event start. And i know it’s a MMORPG, i’m not asking for soloing events.

In that case…look harder?

Or, crazy idea here, organize your own! I Know! Ludicrous, right? But I’ve heard rumors of this happening before, and legend says they even got the achievement.

It depends on what people you get on the map.
I need 5 more breaks of the bar and tried to organize something.
I even said the timers and when to jump but no one really cared.
Most people just stand and the old place spamming 1 sadly.
ANet needs to make the breakbar a part of the fight like with the vinetooth prime so thats its almost impossible to win when you dont break the bar.

Every map should be a CC map. People need to realize that gliding does like 100x* more damage if enough people simply do it constantly. No need to even time it, just do it.

* compared to failing at destroying the crystals

Leezy.4567:

Maybe you should try going 10 minutes beforehand?

Assuming they didn’t inflate the scaling, showing up 10 minutes late to an empty map would likely make it much easier, as long as there were ~9 other people willing to try.

rotsono.9176:

ANet needs to make the breakbar a part of the fight like with the vinetooth prime so thats its almost impossible to win when you dont break the bar.

They’ve done it. But in form of Healing Crystals.

Mirdave.2014:

After trying to get this achievements so many times, changing map and searching for a coordinated one with no results, Anet i ask to you to avoid this kind of cooperative achiev., or achiev. that involve so many people, because 2-3 days after the release no one helps to get those anymore. I’m personally stuck at 7/20 of no-fly zone, but every time i see only 10-15 player that helps in the break-bar phase, and they aren’t enough.
Don’t come to say “search for a cc map” because it’s what i did. But nothing changed.
Perhaps by encouraging players to continue to try to break his bar regardless if they have completed the achiev . Please forgive my language errors, i’m not english.

Hello,

To be honest, I don’t feel this is a problem of ArenaNet’s. There are content meant for single player. There are content meant for coordinated groups. The Shatterer, being an Open World boss is meant for coordinated groups.

To address your other issue, I’ve lost count of the number of times I did “Smash the Dragon”. You just simply need to be in a quality guild that organizes coordinated kills, OR do the event often enough and pay attention each time you attend such an event to observe when do organized maps start posting on LFGs.

Luck plays a small factor, but is mostly a learn-to-play issue.

did you try joining a community ts and doing it on a organized map ? thats how i did it before it was nerfed, now its even possible with pugs as long as someone writes in map “next cc phase at xx:xx, come to the pads”

Sylum.1806:

Mirdave.2014:

After trying to get this achievements so many times, changing map and searching for a coordinated one with no results, Anet i ask to you to avoid this kind of cooperative achiev., or achiev. that involve so many people, because 2-3 days after the release no one helps to get those anymore. I’m personally stuck at 7/20 of no-fly zone, but every time i see only 10-15 player that helps in the break-bar phase, and they aren’t enough.
Don’t come to say “search for a cc map” because it’s what i did. But nothing changed.
Perhaps by encouraging players to continue to try to break his bar regardless if they have completed the achiev . Please forgive my language errors, i’m not english.

Hello,

To be honest, I don’t feel this is a problem of ArenaNet’s. There are content meant for single player. There are content meant for coordinated groups. The Shatterer, being an Open World boss is meant for coordinated groups.

Very true, but gating an ACHIEVEMENT behind group content is of course facile, you can AFK it and get the achievement if everyone else does the work for you.

I’ve never understood how people can think there’s any ‘kudos’ in a title or gear that others got for them, they simply turned up to get credit for it.

IMO there are many titles not worth having due to that, a few like “Been There, Done That” are worthwhile because you can’t easily leech much of it off others, though leeching Mesmer portals for Vistas does devalue it to some extent, IMO using that mechanic should invalidate that particular attempt .. but achievements like Shatterer, Tequatl, etc. have no meaning.

That said, OP there are maps daily where No Fly Zone can be progressed, though it’s still easy to fail Smash The Dragon due to people not paying attention the whole fight.

There are guilds on NA servers, probably the same on EU servers who regularly run achievement maps. Join one, listen in on teamspeak, get the achievements.

In time it’ll become like the Shadow Behemoth portal achievement, where literally no one does it.