Guild Wars 2

It’s really nice of Anet to take the time to make crystal prisons have more health. I really commend the effort.

Except the problem with crystal prisons isn’t that they didn’t have enough health. The problem is THEY AREN’T PART OF THE EVENT SCRIPT. Shatterer has one achievement, to help people escape from a spell he has never cast once in his miserable life.

What’s the point?

Then how did I get the achievement?

Vayne.8563:

Then how did I get the achievement?

Probably by playing the game, instead of posting on forums…

Shatterer casts the Crystal Prison every fight. It affects the players closest to him, so if you sit on the rocks to his side and shoot arrows at him the entire fight, you’ll probably never even see the prisons because you’re too far away. It’s always his opening move once the battle starts.

I’ve probably done Shatterer a dozen times (not a World Boss I frequent) since release (not recently, however) and I’ve seen Players in Crystal Prisons EVERY time. The claim that he has NEVER use that skill is simply false. (per above, there must be payers near melee range of him to get “imprisoned” or you WON’T see them).

NOW it is entirely possible the “fix” made with the recent patch has somehow broken this and it is no longer happening (I saw something of a mention about this the day of release but never checked it out in-game).

Can someone confirm they have seen Crystal Prisons during Shatterer since the patch?

he shoots them in front of him. really wish he’d shoot to the sides to eliminate that safety zone. would be so funny to see 40 people imprisoned in a single crystal :P

Brother Grimm.5176:

Can someone confirm they have seen Crystal Prisons during Shatterer since the patch?

I was even once imprisoned yesterday (i think, but it was very recent). So yes, he still does that.

If there weren’t so many people fighting on the side, maybe there would be more prisons.

For a while now, I’m been melee fighting right behind/under shats left ear to do double dmg, and I get trapped in the crystal prison quite frequently.

I saw the crystal prisons earlier today, in fact. It was rather a fun and exciting fight since the Megazerger only put about 10, maybe 12, of us in that particular map.