Guild Wars 2

This is an easy daily if you don’t try to throw snowballs at the dolyak gift event. Instead:
buy two or three packs of snowballs,
enter Tixx’s Infinarium solo,
wait a minute or two for the skritt to settle down (some groups will just stand in place),
Use snowball pack outside aggro range of skritt,
Throw snowballs at skritt x10 from outside their aggro range (if you do aggro, just run away and they reset).

One note: the skritt don’t get knocked down by the snowballs, but it still counts.

Hope that helps some frustrated people.

Someone was summoning a skritt for people to hit with snowballs (it was green) and it counted for the achievement. I’m not sure what kind of skill summons a skritt

maddoctor.2738:

Someone was summoning a skritt for people to hit with snowballs (it was green) and it counted for the achievement. I’m not sure what kind of skill summons a skritt

The Water Balloon Bucket can summon a Skritt. I’ll test it when it pops up again.

[Edit:] Tried it, didn’t work. :s

MithranArkanere.8957:

Puk Grum.8647:

Have you guys tried using the snowballs from the Wintersday vendor that sells snowballs for karma? I’m just guessing but there’s plenty of unoccupied Skritt in the giant presents around Tyria. 5 Skritt per present. Maybe this will work?

Hmm just gave it a good go, doesn’t seem to work. Can’t throw snowballs in combat, and even when I outranged them outside of combat, none took hits.

Nope. Not the same type of balls either.

You need an effect that hits with the matching balls: The ones from magic snow.

Other balls won’t work.

If it’s only supposed to be snowballs from Magic Snow, why does the achievement say “Hit 10 skritt with snowballs anywhere in Tyria”?

Djinn.9245:

MithranArkanere.8957:

Puk Grum.8647:

Have you guys tried using the snowballs from the Wintersday vendor that sells snowballs for karma? I’m just guessing but there’s plenty of unoccupied Skritt in the giant presents around Tyria. 5 Skritt per present. Maybe this will work?

Hmm just gave it a good go, doesn’t seem to work. Can’t throw snowballs in combat, and even when I outranged them outside of combat, none took hits.

Nope. Not the same type of balls either.

You need an effect that hits with the matching balls: The ones from magic snow.

Other balls won’t work.

If it’s only supposed to be snowballs from Magic Snow, why does the achievement say “Hit 10 skritt with snowballs anywhere in Tyria”?

The snowballs from the bundle work just fine

ananda.5946:

This is an easy daily if you don’t try to throw snowballs at the dolyak gift event. Instead:
buy two or three packs of snowballs,
enter Tixx’s Infinarium solo,
wait a minute or two for the skritt to settle down (some groups will just stand in place),
Use snowball pack outside aggro range of skritt,
Throw snowballs at skritt x10 from outside their aggro range (if you do aggro, just run away and they reset).

One note: the skritt don’t get knocked down by the snowballs, but it still counts.

Hope that helps some frustrated people.

I don’t like the snowball packs – when you open them the snowballs fly out in a circle from your character making impossible for me to use more than 3 of them before they disappear. I could possibly use 4 by throwing faster, but I already miss enough times.

Its like a bad carnival game tricking me out of my money.

Doggie.3184:

maddoctor.2738:

Someone was summoning a skritt for people to hit with snowballs (it was green) and it counted for the achievement. I’m not sure what kind of skill summons a skritt

The Water Balloon Bucket can summon a Skritt. I’ll test it when it pops up again.

That’s probably it. I don’t think there is any other skill that summons skritt and that skritt from the water balloon DOES work for the achievement.

Djinn.9245:

I don’t like the snowball packs – when you open them the snowballs fly out in a circle from your character making impossible for me to use more than 3 of them before they disappear. I could possibly use 4 by throwing faster, but I already miss enough times.

Its like a bad carnival game tricking me out of my money.

If you don’t want a solution, that’s fine; just don’t do the daily. If you want to do it, this is an easy and fairly quick method and the gift you get from completing it more than covers the cost of the snowballs, let alone the daily reward. The snowball packs are slightly over 2 silver each and you don’t need more than three.

I did a screenshot of the exact place I stand for this. Works easily without getting aggro. Hope it helps.

I just use karma buy the snowball bundles then go to timberline falls stromvkjluaojdf wp lol go into the cave clear some out til i find a drunk skritt, then i stand far back and start pelting away. Usually just takes 2 bundles but sometimes 3 depdning on which skritt cuz of the terrain being hilly.

ananda.5946:

Djinn.9245:

I don’t like the snowball packs – when you open them the snowballs fly out in a circle from your character making impossible for me to use more than 3 of them before they disappear. I could possibly use 4 by throwing faster, but I already miss enough times.

Its like a bad carnival game tricking me out of my money.

If you don’t want a solution, that’s fine; just don’t do the daily. If you want to do it, this is an easy and fairly quick method and the gift you get from completing it more than covers the cost of the snowballs, let alone the daily reward. The snowball packs are slightly over 2 silver each and you don’t need more than three.

I did a screenshot of the exact place I stand for this. Works easily without getting aggro. Hope it helps.

If someone is really so poor that they can’t afford the snowballs some also spawn on their own in the instance …

I don’t think it’s really fair to call the people kicking them “trolls”.
They are doing as the event asks and most of the time if people are just throwing snowballs the event fails making it give no karam and less gift boxes.
Which people do the event for in the first place..

It’s easy to complete the daily in the festival area, provided there are not too many players around. Snowballs are “blocked” by players also carrying snowballs (they knock them down) frustrating both players. Also, many players kick the skritt immediately giving no time to throw snowballs at them.

So it goes like this:
If I’m alone or with 3-4 players we can complete the activity in the festival area, however fewer people mean higher amount of donation to ho-ho tron to activate the event.

If there are loads of players then ho-ho tron will require less gold per player and start the event sooner, however it gets really frustrating to get snowball hits. Aiming adjustment can’t help when 20 players aim for the same few skritt, there just isn’t enough space.

Just my 2 cents!

I was not able to ever get any credit of any kind using any snowballs in any area on any Skritt.

I basically just wrote that one off as “too broken to care about” and stopped trying.

If we are supposed to hit the Dolyak Skritt, can you remove the ability to kick them so that players MUST use snowballs instead (with appropriate changes for balance issues)?

mtpelion.4562:

I was not able to ever get any credit of any kind using any snowballs in any area on any Skritt.

It’s really broken outside the festival area. Only red skritt work but you cannot throw snowballs in combat, so basically you need to find stationary red skritt and launch multiple snowballs until you get the achievement, those inside Tixx’s dungeon work well for that. For example the skritt in the Timberline Falls cave (at the guild mission) do not work when they are green but work when they are red. The skritt in Ember Bay that are green do not work, but the red ones do. I haven’t checked any other skritt if they work or not.

But the easiest way to do this is with the Water Balloon Bucket toy. It summons a skritt that although it’s green it lets everyone around throw snowballs at it and get the achievement. This looks like a hidden advertisement to sell more Water Balloon Buckets :P

Personally, I didn’t have any issues with being able to hit skritt with snowballs in the festival the first week or so, although it usually took 2 dolyak runs. I haven’t bothered since then because the dolyaks don’t run as often and then everyone is trying to hit the skritt with the snowballs and the event fails midway, so it takes too long to complete it.

One thing I did notice with the skritt, is that after the last kick, they can still be hit with a snowball. It always gives the “invulnerable” message, but it counts every time I did it. And when you have a lot of players kicking skritt, it was the best time for me to get a hit.

I wouldn’t bother trying outside the arena for it, but I might try to do the snowball packs in the infinirarium to complete it, as that isn’t too far out of the way. Just wish I had seen that suggestion earlier in the season.

In my opinion, 10 skritt hits is too high. I would think 5 is more reasonable, since the snowball slinger at players is only 3 hits.

…you can do this outside of the festival area? That’s news.

In the festival area, I’ve been able to do it – but generally decided it’s not worth it. It takes so much money to get the event to start up, and if one person decides to troll you with snowballs, there’s no way to get it done. You’re basically gambling your gold on if you’re going to get trolled.

I didn’t have too much trouble with the aiming, but timing the shots to avoid the initial invincibility, the folks actually kicking the skritt, and not hitting a skritt that just got hit – those things all catch me regularly. I generally get as far away from people as possible (to avoid accidentally getting pelted myself) and repeatedly hitting the skritt furthest from the dolyak.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to gather some info on this. You may have noticed this thread started a year ago, and we made changes after last year’s Wintersday that substantially improved the way the “Skritt Hit” activity worked. However, I have heard and read a few comments about concerns related to this year’s event and I had a lengthy conversation about this in the game last night, as well.

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

If you cannot successfully complete the activity, have you tried making adjustments to your aiming and timing, as mentioned in this thread?

Thanks for your help!

It can be done in the festival area. You have to practically stand on top of them when you throw the snowball otherwise you run the risk of it getting blocked by someone or it misses entirely. I tend to skip it because it’s more of a hassle than it is worth. I thought in previous years that we had skritt NPC’s that were not part of an event which counted towards the daily achievement. This may have been back when it was in LA.

mtpelion.4562:

If we are supposed to hit the Dolyak Skritt, can you remove the ability to kick them so that players MUST use snowballs instead (with appropriate changes for balance issues)?

The escort would always fail if they did that. Back when it was in Lion’s Arch, they had skritt snipers up on the rooftops that you had to snowball. There were also skritt snowball fighters playing around. They just need to bring back what they originally had.

“I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.”

This. I mean, possibly given enough time and dolyak escorts I could eventually peg 10 skritt in the festival area. Or I could proc my water balloon bucket in the area, I keep meaning to but on my last attempt I misread the daily (it was hit 3 players, not 10 skritt) so I saw no effect from snowballing my personal skritt and forget about the option.

As it is, I find it super simple to go pick up 3 snowball bundles — 2 is enough if nothing goes wrong, but it’s a royal pain if you need a 3rd and don’t have one — and pop over to Akk Wilds to leisurely peg a stationary red skritt 10 times. Much less frustration and effort and time.

I can complete the activity in the festival area. Usually. But it generally takes 2 trips of the dolyak for me to do it. My methodology is to run ahead of the zerg, pick up a snowball and start pelting as fast as I can as soon as they pop, and hope no trolls are around. As it is, I usually get frequently blocked by getting hit with a snowball myself.

Solution: 10 skritt is crazy and unnecessary. Why only make it 3 players, but 10 skritt? Make it 3 skritt, too. Or 3 skritt and 10 players. That is much more manageable.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

(4) I don’t bother to try to complete it because:

• It takes 10 successful hits compared to one song, 5 snowmen, opening 4 gifts, etc, i.e. it’s never one of the easiest-to-complete achievements.
• While donating to 15 orphans is one of the few to require more effort, you do get rewarded for each orphan

Gaile Gray.6029:

If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

I can complete the activity, I just never choose to do so.

I don’t usually bother in the festival area because the skritt disappear too quickly (due to being kicked or the intense competition from other players).

It’s usually trivial in other zones, except for that bit of vulnerability.

Gaile Gray.6029:

If you cannot successfully complete the activity, have you tried making adjustments to your aiming and timing, as mentioned in this thread?

The first year it appeared, I made these adjustments. Since then, I haven’t had much trouble (again, as I’ve noted: for me, the issue is it’s 10 hits, instead of 3).

I could probably finish it in the festival area but why spend more effort than necessary?

Grouchy skritts in ember bay(that other people have complained about being left around) are perfect for this.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to gather some info on this.
Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

I can not complete the activity in the festival area.

Games are supposed to be fun. This, this is nothing but a frustration.

Back in the original Lion’s Arch, the Dolyak required protection from skritt. Not just from the foot based melee shiney package grabbers. No, not just them, but also from skritt turret animals pelting back to stop the dolyak and its protectors. Those skritt were the ones that people could hit. That is what allowed such an event to be done as intended!
And… there was also a lone skritt out among the other denizens of the old Lion’s Arch that you could also hit. I felt bad for him, yes… but he served a purpose!

Now? Now we are left with throwing futility as rat faced thieves are kicked viciously out of the way of well aimed shots. The futility of striking random snow jackers that get in our line of fire as we valiantly attempt to protect the packages for the children. The fact that nere-do wellers block our attempts at successfully completing achievements, granting us joy…. It is quite disheartening, yes?

clears throat sorry. I’ve been watching Babalyon 5 again, so I fear I was writing that up as if Londo Mollari was speaking and hearing it in his voice.

It is only in these ending days that a friend showed me how to successfully complete it by going into Tixx’s dungeon, running to the back and around, using snowball packages, and then pelting a sentry skritt to finish the achievement.

It does not help that the only way you can tell if you’ve hit or not is by watching your count directly. There are no visible ques for a hit on them.

ananda.5946:

Djinn.9245:

I don’t like the snowball packs – when you open them the snowballs fly out in a circle from your character making impossible for me to use more than 3 of them before they disappear. I could possibly use 4 by throwing faster, but I already miss enough times.

Its like a bad carnival game tricking me out of my money.

If you don’t want a solution, that’s fine; just don’t do the daily. If you want to do it, this is an easy and fairly quick method and the gift you get from completing it more than covers the cost of the snowballs, let alone the daily reward. The snowball packs are slightly over 2 silver each and you don’t need more than three.

I did a screenshot of the exact place I stand for this. Works easily without getting aggro. Hope it helps.

THIS totally worked for me, after several very disappointing attempts outside this area. Solo-ed with several packs of snowballs, stood as in the image, and shot. Had to use 4 bundles, but I could see the percentage go up as I hit. Need to hurry to finish before the snowballs ‘melt away’.

That being said, still this is not fun, and very much bugged.
Fix please, ANet.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to gather some info on this. You may have noticed this thread started a year ago, and we made changes after last year’s Wintersday that substantially improved the way the “Skritt Hit” activity worked. !

Actually, no, last year was the year where it was made significantly harder, by removing npc skritts throwing snowballs in LA (probably as a sideeffect of moving wintersday to Divinity’s Reach).
Currently, the main intended way to do it (using the dolyak escort event) is the one least likely to work. With people kicking skritts away, you either miss them (because they got kicked away while you were throwing) or you hit other players that managed to get between you and the skritt you aimed at. Or you get hit by other players attempting the daily. Also, if there are any other players doing the event, the skritts just disappear way too fast.

I’m usually very lucky if i manage 2-3 hits per escort. And then, of course, if it’s not the early days of the event, you need to wait for an hour or more before the next escort starts (as noone is donating).

You can of course still cheese it with snowball packages, but that is tied to other problems (most snowballs from packages get wasted before you can pick them up, not all skritt seems to count, and you drop snowballs if you get in combat for any reason).

So, to sum it up, currently it’s in state of “too annoying to attempt”. Too bad it’s not the only one of the wintersday dailies that can be described that way.

I kind of remember that it was brought up then as well (this thread was not the only one), so i don’t actually hold much hope that it will ever get fixed. That you have addressed the problem only now, and seem unaware of the details (while they were mentioned in several other threads this Wintersday already) seems to confirm that even more.

I can do the event in the Festival area. I do the event in Ember Bay because it takes much less time to hit Grouchy Skritt, and Packages of Snowballs drop often enough from Wintersday Gifts that I don’t feel the need to buy any.

It would be best if the Devs would update (backdate?) the event to be more like it was in Lion’s Arch, including the Skritt you could hit for the Achievement that were not part of the Dolyak Escort event.

I can complete it in the festival area, but it’s frustrating for reasons others have mentioned. I remember the LA version of this - there was one skritt we used to pick on by the Lion Statue (IIRC). We need that skritt back!

Until then, I go for the Bell Choir daily, as it seems to crop up at the same time.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to gather some info on this. You may have noticed this thread started a year ago, and we made changes after last year’s Wintersday that substantially improved the way the “Skritt Hit” activity worked. However, I have heard and read a few comments about concerns related to this year’s event and I had a lengthy conversation about this in the game last night, as well.

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

If you cannot successfully complete the activity, have you tried making adjustments to your aiming and timing, as mentioned in this thread?

Thanks for your help!

The Dolyak Event Skritts are frustrating to hit with others gunning for them as well and the event isn’t often triggered later in the holiday. I generally go to Ember Bay Skritt area if I have snowball bundles and stealth Trigger the closest sleeping Skritt (because I can’t use snowballs while in combat) and hit him till it finishes. They’re quite inaccurate at times on hostile Skritt enemies, compared to the Divinity’s Reach ones and miss credit randomly. I haven’t been able to get credit on the friendly Skritt NPCs there.
If I don’t get enough Snowball bundle drops to complete it I usually skip the daily instead of spending Karma on them.

maddoctor.2738:

Doggie.3184:

maddoctor.2738:

Someone was summoning a skritt for people to hit with snowballs (it was green) and it counted for the achievement. I’m not sure what kind of skill summons a skritt

The Water Balloon Bucket can summon a Skritt. I’ll test it when it pops up again.

That’s probably it. I don’t think there is any other skill that summons skritt and that skritt from the water balloon DOES work for the achievement.

It didn’t work when I tried it with my own Water Bucket Skritt.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

I can complete the activity in the festival area, mostly by going for the gun-wielding skritt further away from the dolyak, aiming slightly behind them and hitting them a second or two after they appear (so their invulnerability wears off). It tends to take two escort events, which this late in the event season, takes too long for my tastes.

It’s just super frustrating for all the reasons already mentioned: conflict with the people kicking the skritt away, conflict with other players trying to do the achievement due to either getting hit with their snowballs or hitting them (instead of the skritt) with my snowballs. If there are too many people kicking skritt, the skritt go away too quickly. If there are too few, the event fails prematurely.

Due to problems with elevation differences, I tend to miss a lot when trying to hit the skritt at Arcallion Digs in Harathi Hinterlands, although they do work for me in general. So I go to Skritt Anchorage in Ember Bay instead. I find the Skritt Trainee NPCs there easiest and most reliable to hit.

What is irritating about the non-dolyak-event skritt at Arcallion Digs or Skritt Anchorage is that they don’t get knocked down when hit by a snowball, so the only indication of a succesful hit is the event tracker advancing.

Healix.5819:

mtpelion.4562:

If we are supposed to hit the Dolyak Skritt, can you remove the ability to kick them so that players MUST use snowballs instead (with appropriate changes for balance issues)?

The escort would always fail if they did that. Back when it was in Lion’s Arch, they had skritt snipers up on the rooftops that you had to snowball. There were also skritt snowball fighters playing around. They just need to bring back what they originally had.

Hence the part about “appropriate changes for balance issues”.

Except that wouldn’t help that much either – you would still keep hitting other players/keep getting hit by other players. And the event would still respawn way too slowly.

Basically, if you wanted to have this event stay as a main source for this daily, to make it workable you’d have to change almost everything about it.

I am unable to complete the activity on my Sylvari “Slippi Cheeze” at all. I have tried the various things mentioned here, including delays, aiming manually, etc.

I also tried “aim at something else, get the skritt between me and the target, throw”, which is what works for me with the “hit players” version.

None of this was effective. I also tried the same things outside DR, to no good effect. Symptoms were exactly the same.

I was able to complete it right back at the start, though, and I’ve noticed recently that I seem to be getting a lot more “obstructed” results with the thrown axe-1 skill on my ranger. Also, things that spawn like spiders from eggs, destroyers from rock piles, seem to be “obstructed” no matter where I stand until they move.

It feels like the vertical point that thrown things aim for might have moved downward on the targets recently, and that’s maybe no longer getting them into the active area as much as it used to, or is hitting the ground before the target point?

I mean, I know that’s probably just my imagination, but… it really seems like that.

i gave up doing it in divinity’s reach due to hitting players, or getting hit/knocked down in turn. so have been carrying a package of snowballs to dry top. while they show no reaction to the snowball, it did count for the daily credit. being in combat though ruins this so have to be careful of range. these were the aggressive (red) skritt on the west side near the waypoint.

I can NOT complete the activity in the festival area.

I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.

• I take packs of snowballs and go to Mabon Waypoint. I go north from there. The only problem is the skritt aggro themselves on the other wildlife around there or sometimes people are completing the heart and thereby killing the skritt. And even then you have to be very careful since you can’t throw snowballs in combat.
• I would love to be able to complete it in the festival area, all we need are some skritt snowball fighters alongside the other snowball fighters. (Maybe throw a quaggan in there too so we can throw snowballs at a quaggan just for fun). There used to be a snowball fighter skritt when the festival was in Lion’s Arch, why did they not move to DR with the other fighters?

I was able to do the event within the festival area but it was a pain. What others have said about trying to target skritt while folk are kicking them or manage to hit them with a snowball was true for me. Most are gone before you can attempt to get a good aim. Also as time passes it seems less folk are running the Dolyak as often as they did at the beginning of the festival. Also I finally figured out you have to put the circle behind not on top of the skritt to get a good hit.

I only tried once to hit skritt outside the festival but kept showing in combat and couldn’t throw any snowballs so I gave up on that. I only tried after opening a present. I did not try in an area that normally has hostile skritt.

A possible solution is a hittable skritt or several that would periodically stroll around through the festival area or could periodically spawn where the magic snow is. They probably would still get mobbed but might give folk a better chance at getting the achieve.

Khisanth.2948:

If someone is really so poor that they can’t afford the snowballs some also spawn on their own in the instance …

I noticed this while checking out bundles in general. Unfortunately, the free ones tend to show up only in later stages of the dungeon once the skritt have already left, and appear in very small numbers. You might get lucky and have a few around for when the skritt are after plant food, but that takes a full group about 15 minutes to accomplish. Not exactly a casual solution.

Aerinndis.2730:

I was able to do the event within the festival area but it was a pain. What others have said about trying to target skritt while folk are kicking them or manage to hit them with a snowball was true for me. Most are gone before you can attempt to get a good aim. Also as time passes it seems less folk are running the Dolyak as often as they did at the beginning of the festival. Also I finally figured out you have to put the circle behind not on top of the skritt to get a good hit.

I only tried once to hit skritt outside the festival but kept showing in combat and couldn’t throw any snowballs so I gave up on that. I only tried after opening a present. I did not try in an area that normally has hostile skritt.

A possible solution is a hittable skritt or several that would periodically stroll around through the festival area or could periodically spawn where the magic snow is. They probably would still get mobbed but might give folk a better chance at getting the achieve.

You can try Akk Wilds which is in the SE corner of Metrica Province. You take the WP and then run about 10 seconds to the caves that have the skritt. It’s the save one with the asura gate pieces.

I tried using a package of snowballs on the skritt in Lions Arch; not only did that not work, but some other player came up and started using my snowballs too. Bring extras :/

Gaile Gray.6029:

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
   If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

I completed the activity in the festival area. I did it once. Here’s the concessions I have to make:

1. I play at 1-2 AM EST when the herd of players is thinner
2. I have to anticipate when/where the skritt are going to appear
3. I have to have snowballs already spawned or I may as well not try. Snowballs have a short lifespan when there’s 10 other people after them.
4. I usually have to get aggressive and close in on skritt to lower the number of players in the way.
5. This puts me in the way. Stability, because now I’m a target.
6. I have to throw through groups of skritt in the hopes of connecting with one
7. I have to go after skritt that are separated from the main group. Sometimes they will lag behind unnoticed.
8. I have to be happy with 1-2 hits per skritt group, at best.

This will take more than one escort, often at least 3. After that experience, I now go up to one or two skritt, kick them, and find something else to do ;D

ananda.5946:

Djinn.9245:

I don’t like the snowball packs – when you open them the snowballs fly out in a circle from your character making impossible for me to use more than 3 of them before they disappear. I could possibly use 4 by throwing faster, but I already miss enough times.

Its like a bad carnival game tricking me out of my money.

If you don’t want a solution, that’s fine; just don’t do the daily. If you want to do it, this is an easy and fairly quick method and the gift you get from completing it more than covers the cost of the snowballs, let alone the daily reward. The snowball packs are slightly over 2 silver each and you don’t need more than three.

I did a screenshot of the exact place I stand for this. Works easily without getting aggro. Hope it helps.

Some people like to spend a lot for AP, some don’t. My statement about snowball packs doesn’t say that your solution is bad for those who don’t mind them.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to gather some info on this. You may have noticed this thread started a year ago, and we made changes after last year’s Wintersday that substantially improved the way the “Skritt Hit” activity worked. However, I have heard and read a few comments about concerns related to this year’s event and I had a lengthy conversation about this in the game last night, as well.

Can you post your experiences? Maybe like this:

1. I can complete the activity in the festival area.
2. I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.
3. I cannot complete the activity.

If you can complete the activity, do you make adjustments so such things as aiming and waiting until they are no longer invulnerable? (I confess to trying to smack them right away, and they really are invulnerable for a few seconds. )

If you cannot successfully complete the activity, have you tried making adjustments to your aiming and timing, as mentioned in this thread?

Thanks for your help!

I tried many times to complete the activity in the festival area, but was getting zero hits for many of the reasons already stated. Yes, waited for Invuln to go away and I tried adjusting my aim. I used to hit skritt all the time in the old LA so I have a clue.

I decided to get snowball packs and use them while I was in Ember Bay. I figured 3 packs was enough but the way the balls dispersed and how quickly they disappear meant that I could not get the activity that way with only 3 packs and I don’t want to buy more than that.

I haven’t even bothered with the activity in a couple weeks.

1 and 2. I can complete the achievement in the festival area, but I find it really quick and easy to do outside the area.

Not sure if anyone else has posted this yet but you can clear this in just one or two minutes if you have access to Ember Bay from Living World Season 3 Episode 2.

If you go to skritt anchorage there are a number of red “grouchy” skritt and some rock platforms right next to the waypoint. If you position yourself so that you are not on the same platform as the skritt they will not aggro, letting you pelt a stationary target with as many balls as you wish.

@Anet GD/PM: you thought about sticking a “target skritt” in the premium lounges when Wintersday is running? Since those places are designed as a one-stop shop for player convenience that seems like a pretty good way to monetize by making more attractive an existing item.

Man, people are going all over the place to get this done it seems.

There’s a far easier way to do it without even leaving DR. Well, I mean, technically you leave it, but…

Just go into the Tixx’s Infinirium “dungeon”. The very first event includes a bunch of Skritt running around. Find a group that’s standing still, open a few packs of snowballs, and let them fly at the Skritt. The skritt won’t respond to the snowballs hitting them at all, so don’t get worried if you don’t see them getting knocked over (only the ones for the escort event in DR itself do that) but you’ll still get credit for the daily. Each pack of snowballs gives you 6 snowballs, you should only need 2 in order to get the daily done. 3 if you’re slow or miss a few shots. Only thing you have to be a bit careful of is to stay at long range, but the snowball throw has a pretty long range to begin with (seems like its 1500 or something) so its pretty easy to stay out of agro range if you’re careful.

Then once you’re done you just log out, and you’ll be back in DR next time you log back in. Easy peasy, no messing with the escort or going to random spots in Tyria to find Skritt to pelt.

Skrit hit worked 100% in LA, for a few reasons. You had actual skritt snowballers!!! The escort was long and had spots where you could ONLY protect the dolyak with snowballs as there was skritt up on platforms out of reach of “kick” So if you want to improve this, ADD skritt snowballers, ADD some skritt up high out of kick range. Imo wintersday worked much better in LA then it ever did in divinty’s.

Like others have mentioned it takes awhile to do it in the festival area since we hit players more then the skritt or when you have a skritt lined up and no one in the way, then someone comes and kicks it out of the way. It’s too costly to fund the dolyak escort alone just to do this daily and then fail the escort since you can’t protect the dolyak fast enough by throwing snowballs.

Also can fix the skritt from tyria to be effected more by the snowballs. As it is now certain skritt work for some ppl but not others. Like for me, i cannot get any of the skritt in brisbane to work for me. The skritt in the cave in lornar’s only 1 in 10 snowballs actually hit them. The only ones that work for me, is in timberline falls, near the stormjkcvald whatever wp in the middle of the map. Where you go into the cave and you stand back from the drunk skritt use the snowball package, then take aim and pelt them. Depends on which drunk skritt i use but some you need to aim way past them to combat the up’s and downs of the cave floor, but generally i can get the 10 hits done in 2 snowball packages now that i’ve been doing it for awhile.

definitely works on the skritts on the dolyak escort but not worth spending lots of gold to get the event working or seeing everyone kicking them when needed for the daily.
Still the best option is to get some snowball packs and jump into tixx’s instance and stay out of their agro range and throw them.So far have been able to do it with just 2 snowball packs

I can complete the event in the festival area. For the reasons many others have cited, I would get only 2-3 hits per dolyak defender run. The activity isn’t fun and I now no longer attempt it.

holy necrobump batman!

Problems with the dolyak escort mission in Divinity’s Reach:
Hitting other players holding snowballs that are also trying to complete the Skritt Hit daily. Getting hit by other players, which knocks you down and prevents you from throwing a snowball. Getting hit by ‘Snowball Fighter’ NPCs that are along the Dolyak’s path (they will actually aim at players holding snowballs if you get close enough). Players kicking skritt out of the way just as you throw a snowball (nothing wrong with that since it’s the way you’re suppose to do the event). Often times I’ll get hit and knocked down 3 or more times in a row and by the time I’m standing again, all the skritt were kicked and despawned or the dolyak died.

It can be done, but takes a few dolyak runs to complete. And as others have said, if the skritt aren’t kicked the dolyak will die and the event will end, causing players to spend more gold to get it started again. Also, not many players bother to get the event going anymore.

Skritt in Ember Bay: only hostile skritt will count. Can’t throw the snowball if you’re in combat mode from being attacked. A red message pops up on screen saying you can’t use that item while in combat. So all you can do is run out of aggro range, in which case your other snowballs on the ground will be gone by the time you come back.

For the renowned heart on the east side of the map, it’s random which skritt become grouchy and hostile. Sometimes you can wake a few in a row that just say something funny and jump into the ground without attacking you. Even if you’re quick to throw the snowball before the skritt despawns, it still won’t count because the skritt wasn’t hostile. And for grouchy skritt, if you get hit you have to run out of range to break out of combat mode and the skritt will be despawned by the time you get back to it.

Best solution I’ve heard (though never tried): enter the Infinarium dungeon by yourself with some packs of snowballs. Plenty of hostile skritt at the beginning of the dungeon. Just stand far enough away for your snowballs to reach without drawing aggro.