This achievement seriously needs to be scrapped now, since it is all but impossible to achieve. There are literally hundreds of players spamming aoe at every Shatterer event now, and only 5 (!) players get encased in crystal per event, with the crystals shattering in 1 hit. Just shattering one crystal is like winning the lottery, and you have to shatter 5 for the achievement. Just a tad ridiculous. I say either buff the amount of players encased in crystals MASSIVELY, or change the achievement.
Yes, but it is next to impossible to shatter even one, ever. I personally have never even seen a crystal prison since they shatter so quickly. Still sitting at 0 broken after 10 or so shatterer events.
I stood right by where the second farthest one from the stack of players spawned (second from left) so it would pop between me and the Shatterer and I could not miss it. I used ranger with axe to hit multiple targets. Maybe I just got lucky, but I got it on my first try.
The real issue is how terribly the mechanics scale on these bosses. They’re fun with five to 10 people, but they’re total loot piñatas with 30 or more.
Not impossible just very boring doing the same event over and over and over in the swamp. over and over… only giant I know of that isn’t champ\vet\risen etc. On the plus side, I think the event re-sets fairly quickly. I haven’t really sat there to time it.
Not impossible just very boring doing the same event over and over and over in the swamp. over and over… only giant I know of that isn’t champ\vet\risen etc. On the plus side, I think the event re-sets fairly quickly. I haven’t really sat there to time it.
i dare you to show me a screenshot of someone with this achievement. the time you waste doing this you can make more than 1000G
Would be really helpful to have a few more than 5, I remember it taking 25-30 times through the event to get it when I did, and that was quite a while ago, so not nearly the crowds running around today.
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I got the achievement within 2 events, by firing AoE attks (i.e. Cluster bombs & daggerstorm for Thief) at right moment, which is a few seconds after Shatterer raised its right paw forward while it is on the ground, where 5 closest objects (incl mesmer clones & pets) will be encased in crystal.
I literally attempted Shatter for the first time since this achievement was added (Yeah, I haven’t been to Shatter in a LONG time) and it looks like I already got 3 of the 5 Shatters, not even trying. I’m a grenadier btw so I already had AOE flying about.
Wait, what? How is this impossible? I got this yesterday no problem. And I barely do dragon events, Ive only in the last week started to bother with them.
I agree, i did this event this morning and it was so laggy i didnt even see the crystals, was easaly over 100 players there and even though i have a top end comp i was bogging down to less than 20 FPS because of server side lag, i usualy get around 120 FPS in this game.
They need to get their server capacity way way up or remove this achievement as of right now its literally impossible to get it.
Where are the giants? Are they the big bloated dudes that explode at the teq dragon or somewhere else?
I have only found 3 giants you can fight. One champion spawns to start an event chain in Hidden Ouberon (sp.?) in the Harathi Hinterlands. One champion attacks Nageling Village in the Diessa Plateau during an event. A non-champion sometimes spawns in southwestern Brisban from the Thaumatova reactor bleed-over.
Nageling is most reliable. I have only once been able to get people to come for the Harathi HInterlands event. I came to fight the giant in southwest Brisban a couple of times, but it had already been defeated by the time I got there.
Not impossible just very boring doing the same event over and over and over in the swamp. over and over… only giant I know of that isn’t champ\vet\risen etc. On the plus side, I think the event re-sets fairly quickly. I haven’t really sat there to time it.
i dare you to show me a screenshot of someone with this achievement. the time you waste doing this you can make more than 1000G
try to do shatterer in overflow. That might require waiting a bit, but you will have way less people to contend with. Also, use AoE’s, and try to cast them just slightly before the shards form.
Or just play normally, and at some point you will notice you have it.
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This achievement seriously needs to be scrapped now, since it is all but impossible to achieve. There are literally hundreds of players spamming aoe at every Shatterer event now, and only 5 (!) players get encased in crystal per event, with the crystals shattering in 1 hit. Just shattering one crystal is like winning the lottery, and you have to shatter 5 for the achievement. Just a tad ridiculous. I say either buff the amount of players encased in crystals MASSIVELY, or change the achievement.
It’s not hard at all. Eventually you jsut get it done. Also it doesn’t have to be 5 at once. If you really really want to get it done, go guest to a low pop server and you’ll have pletny of chances to do it there
Actually I would have to go with the reason you dont get it is because dont you need to break people out? Every time I got shatterer, no one is stupid enough to get trapped inside by standing in the wrong spot.
Well for all you who say its easy an do it during downtime…there is no down time. I’ve been trying this for 2 months now. Still stuck at 0. No one is ever trapped, and they break so quickly i hardly even see it pop up.
a·chieve·ment noun
something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.; a great or heroic deed: his remarkable achievements in art.
In this game slaying 100 defenseless critters is greater achievement than getting your hands on a legendary weapon.
I still haven’t nabbed this one. I don’t even have any idea where the crystals are supposed to spawn, since they never even appear on screen, so it’s not even a crap shoot for me. Instead of having more than 5, they could just make them take more than one hit, like the OTHER crystals he spawns. This achievement is stupid as it stands.
Who would every think an “Achievement” would ever be hard to do.
Well… Technically it isn’t a challenge to get the achievement, what’s making it difficult is the amount of people at the event. If anything this is more of an artificial challenge than anything else.
I’ve been working on the shatterer achievment for months. I’ve never gotten credit for a single crystal and I’ve broken many of them. I never see anyone trapped in a crystal but I break them anyway. No credit.
I’m thinking I might have better luck if I guest on a low-population server during off-peak hours. It probably doesn’t help me much that I’m on Dragonbrand.
Doing it on off-hours increases the chance, but another good way to increase the chance? Some sort of AoE attack to tag the crystals when they form, a spot NOT right near the reset time for the Bonus Chest, and persistence.
It took me a long time to get off 4/5 myself
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Impossible? Nope. Got mine by guesting to a low population server (can’t remember which). There were only 12 players against Shatterer. Only 12 players , no kidding.
It only takes 1 person to make the achievement impossible. Like most dragons, a single blind at the right moment can negate the entire mechanic, and when you’re in a zerg, chances are, it’s going to be blinded.
This achievement seriously needs to be scrapped now, since it is all but impossible to achieve. There are literally hundreds of players spamming aoe at every Shatterer event now, and only 5 (!) players get encased in crystal per event, with the crystals shattering in 1 hit. Just shattering one crystal is like winning the lottery, and you have to shatter 5 for the achievement. Just a tad ridiculous. I say either buff the amount of players encased in crystals MASSIVELY, or change the achievement.
Why you people dont complain the WvW achivments are too difficult to get (i think they are ok in the time they take), same with spvp; i mean i read every " i want to farm my achivment points easy" post and you people ignore all the achivments that take really long time lol. Is like if you dont read the pvp tag you expect it to be nearly automaticly received…
Disclaimer: Shaterer take normally some time because not always you get the cristalized players…
I was having trouble getting Shattered on my home server, and randomly guested over to either Anvil Rock or CD one afternoon to catch a convenient timer and got all five in one fight. The trick seems to be just finding a server with a group that tends to cluster more to the front of the boss so they’ll actually get imprisoned, from what I could tell.
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Impossible? Nope. Got mine by guesting to a low population server (can’t remember which). There were only 12 players against Shatterer. Only 12 players , no kidding.
That doesn’t work anymore, too many people swarm events due to things like gw2stuff.com. Also, some people work so they can’t just get up to play shatterer in middle of night. The achievement is simply much harder than intended right now and I hope they fix it because I need it too.
I’m a hardcore player who has solo’d T4 trials and almost solo’d lupicus. But I can’t destroy those crystals!
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Go do it right now. This isn’t head start weekend. We have gw2stuff.com and the API now. Everyone swarms these events, everyone tries to blow up crystals since achievement points are worth something.
People like you upset me. You think because you did it 5 months ago everyone should be able to. But you can’t, things change:
1) gw2stuff.com
2) achievement point hunting
Means it’s now basically impossible for most people, including me. Don’t be judgement of others and instead use an open mind.
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it is quite possible to get them, it is just hard to aim for the achievement. Just keep on doing Shatterer, sooner or later you will get some crystal prisons by mere chance. 10 times doing the event is not much. I imagine not standing on the mound where everyone gathers, but fighting more in front of him could help you.
This achievement seriously needs to be scrapped now, since it is all but impossible to achieve. There are literally hundreds of players spamming aoe at every Shatterer event now, and only 5 (!) players get encased in crystal per event, with the crystals shattering in 1 hit. Just shattering one crystal is like winning the lottery, and you have to shatter 5 for the achievement. Just a tad ridiculous. I say either buff the amount of players encased in crystals MASSIVELY, or change the achievement.
Why you people dont complain the WvW achivments are too difficult to get (i think they are ok in the time they take), same with spvp; i mean i read every " i want to farm my achivment points easy" post and you people ignore all the achivments that take really long time lol. Is like if you dont read the pvp tag you expect it to be nearly automaticly received…
Disclaimer: Shaterer take normally some time because not always you get the cristalized players…
because pvp players rarely display the casuals´ entitlement mentality (attention: not saying all casual players display that) and most of these players abhor the pvp part of the game anyway, ruling out these achievements completely.
it is quite possible to get them, it is just hard to aim for the achievement. Just keep on doing Shatterer, sooner or later you will get some crystal prisons by mere chance. 10 times doing the event is not much. I imagine not standing on the mound where everyone gathers, but fighting more in front of him could help you.
I’ve played it dozens of times in the last few weeks, tried low pop servers, discovered there are no “off peak” times I have access to, and still can’t do it. Seems like you need to cheese it with a guardian and their aoe mainhand. Ranger must not have fast enough projectile speed.
It’s just frustrating because this achievement was most certainly NOT intended to require specific professions or weapons. They should not be 1 shot crystals the way people swarm these events now.
That achievment was put in the game before they realized how laggy those events get. Before they implemented a bonus rare. Before the api and gw2stuff.com
The result of all of that is to make the achievement harder than intended, if not impossible for some.
Tin Foil Hat Hearer »—> Ranger Extraordinaire »—> “Be like water…”
Go do it right now. This isn’t head start weekend. We have gw2stuff.com and the API now. Everyone swarms these events, everyone tries to blow up crystals since achievement points are worth something.
People like you upset me. You think because you did it 5 months ago everyone should be able to. But you can’t, things change:
1) gw2stuff.com
2) achievement point hunting
Means it’s now basically impossible for most people, including me. Don’t be judgement of others and instead use an open mind.
The achievement didn’t exist during the head start weekend. When I did it there was 50+ people there for the event all of whom were trying to do the same thing I was doing. Breaking crystals. Maybe not as many people as would show up today but still a lot to compete with.
I wasn’t trying to gloat I just wasn’t aware it was a thing that that particular achievement was hard to get and people are claiming it’s impossible when it’s clearly not.
And where in my extensively long post of “I got that achievement in 1 try” was I judging anyone? I’d be really curious to know.
FWIW when I did it I was basically standing right under his front feet and so was every one else.
