Guild Wars 2

Not much more to say about this.

I’m all for challenging achievements in story episodes. I also don’t mind heavily rng based achievements – or being told to dodge a common attack while under constant cc while permanently chilled.

What is utterly disgusting is the placement of this achievement. To retry this achieve one has to go through 5 rounds of ridiculously high hp, heavy hitting mobs (in 2+ waves a piece) and wait while Braham drags himself at a snails pace to the next room to begin again. And when you get to the final room, a single bolt from rngsus and you have to redo the 20-25 minute quest before you can retry the achievement again.

Its stupid.

The only other living world quest which had such a prolongued into difficult achieves was the pale tree’s summit – and I seem to recall devs apologising for that one.

Ask a friend/guildie to help ya out on this, its quite easy. Clear mobs till last room, you stay on top while your friend/guildie makes the boss ram the mobs.

You can actually AFK through the rooms and let the NPCs kill everything. You do need to interact at certain parts however to get them moving. It takes them like 5 minutes or so to kill the groups themselves, so something like 20-25 minutes. For comparison, as a zerker ele, the groups only take a minute or two.

I doubt they’ll bother adding a retry mote considering they never went back and redid season 2, and these achievements are trivial compared to that. Grouping up to cheat it is the alternative.

While I definitely agree it was a step back in the wrong direction, in terms of time taken to repeat, I would say it is very easy if you bring a friend. So long as the ice beast aggros on whoever isn’t needing the achievement, the one who does can just sit up top out of range. If said friend is that good, then you might be able to get both the 5minute kill and stay unfrosty in one instance.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that found this particular part annoying and grindy. There are a few others I didn’t care for. The end of HoT and a couple of parts of LWS2.

Lahmia.2193:

While I definitely agree it was a step back in the wrong direction, in terms of time taken to repeat, I would say it is very easy if you bring a friend. So long as the ice beast aggros on whoever isn’t needing the achievement, the one who does can just sit up top out of range. If said friend is that good, then you might be able to get both the 5minute kill and stay unfrosty in one instance.

Doesn’t really need to be “that good” to get the 5 minute kill. The time that I got it involved me screwing up quite a few times. Though that was only barely done. :P

Offair.2563:

Ask a friend/guildie to help ya out on this, its quite easy. Clear mobs till last room, you stay on top while your friend/guildie makes the boss ram the mobs.

Or even just spam for 4 others. In a group, this is pretty easy, trash and all. Solo, it is beyond aggravating…