Guild Wars 2

Great requirement to finish Dusk Anet. Not in the right place and the right time for a 3 second window for a very difficult to see attack, every few hours and your screwed. Really great design decision, I applaud you Anet. Not like you will actually answer anyone on this forum that has a legit question or concern anyway.

Tried on full map, tried on empty map, entered map 10, 5, 4, 3, and 2 minutes before events starts, turned up graphics, turned down graphics, checked lod, stood in front of his feet, to the side, by the turrets, by the small island near his feet, etc.

Yeah, this is fun. Anyway, I missed it again, time to wait another few hours to see if I can guess the right location for 3 seconds.

It’s impossible to miss the attack. It plops down a friggin orange field. If you arent getting it, then find a pug map with slow enough dps they cant chain burn phases. As long as teq gets out of the burn phase, it summons fingers at the same time as the whirlpools.

Sorry that it’s been so frustrating for you. The best advice I can give, and I know it’s probably not going to help you feel any less frustrated, is to just try and enjoy the Tequatl fight instead of focusing on the hindrance. It’s a fun fight for decent rewards, and if you do it enough, the whirlpools happen.

I’m confused, I though the whole idea behind this was that it is supposed to be hard?

Impossible to miss, yet I never see it.

Find a pug map…every time I fight Teq, its on a pug map, I guess you didn’t read past the first sentence. I see fingers summoned quite regularly, but not whirlpools. Whirlpools are summoned at 75% and then again at 50, 25. Yet every map either burns him down to fast, or can’t even get him to 75%. So that means whirlpool will most often be seen once, at 75% for a few seconds. Everything is a an orange field, horrible advice.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

I’m confused, I though the whole idea behind this was that it is supposed to be hard?

Why should it be this difficult for an exotic. I’ve jumped through every hoop, spent more to craft the precursor that it costs, used a ton of “ascended” mats on an “exotic” weapon and have obtained every other item necessary for the legendary. This is simply a stupid design choice, much like Grenth. The precursor “journey” is a bust and looks like it was designed by someone that simply read the GW2 wiki.

It’s more than just an exotic, it’s the tier 3 precursor.

I’ll agree that the ‘journey’ the collections were supposed to give are largely non-existent, but that doesn’t mean it should be easy to get a precursor.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It’s more than just an exotic, it’s the tier 3 precursor.

I’ll agree that the ‘journey’ the collections were supposed to give are largely non-existent, but that doesn’t mean it should be easy to get a precursor.

What part of it already cost more then the precursor itself cost don’t you understand?

I was not responding to the cost of the precursor via the colleicton at all. So please don’t be so hostile when you’re not even reading my post.

I was responding to WarMachen’s comment: “Why should it be this difficult for an exotic.”

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I was not responding to the cost of the precursor via the colleicton at all. So please don’t be so hostile when you’re not even reading my post.

I was responding to WarMachen’s comment: “Why should it be this difficult for an exotic.”

It’s an exotic level weapon, which has been in the game since the beginning. I would venture to say that a large number of those trying to craft Dusk or other precursor weapons has already had the other three ingredients ready for a while. The items which were made with a lower crafting requirement for a legendary than this and other “precursor” exotics.

This thread is about Watery Grave though, which is not as easy to see or obtain as some people would like every one to believe. I’ve seen plenty of complaints concerning this ability.

This one random, hard to see ability that happens for a few seconds every few hours isn’t hard, it’s yet another RNG hunt

Just do Teq daily and you will get it.

Wahaha.7938:

Just do Teq daily and you will get it.

Yes, I haven’t tried that.

I completely agree. I have done Teq 3 times a day for the past 4 days on various unorganized last minute pug maps and still have not seen him spawn the whirlpools once. ANet never took into account with all these new elite specs DPS is through the roof and Teq’s mechanics just don’t work anymore. It’s so stupid. I have sunk over 700g into making the colossus when I could have bought it on the TP for that and saved the hassle of doing these pointless collections.

The problem is that watery grave only appears after 75%. This usually means after the first battery event. Any map trying to defeat him that gets to the 75 % and successfully does the battery event pretty much instantly zergs him down without Tequatl ever comming out of stun.

With such a long stunphase it’s very drustrating to try anything Watery Grave related. My GF needs just the achievement, funnily enough the last one she needs. Because failing tequatl just enough for this skill to appear is very frustrating. Too little dps and you don’t get to the first phase and after that its really easy and you do too much. Which is entirely dependant on the map you’re in.

The easiest fix would be to add watery grave at least once in the first phase.

At around ~75% HP tiny shining blue whirlpools will appear at and around the wrists of Tequatl, as he burries his hands into the soil for his “finger-attack”.

I usually get dragged in if I stick around his left front-paw.
Good Luck!

Every so often I still see the skill as I myself am sucked under, and I’m really only doing it on maps where the burn phases go quick. There is a period in the 75%-50% phase where he comes out of stun and starts fighting again in my experience. That is the only opportunity you will really have, since executioner-style traits and skills have not come online yet. Sub 50%, Tequatl doesn’t get to do anything.

You could log out during the Teq fight then relog. Before the 64-bit client I’d crash at Teq and usually restart the game in a bad map. You can probably get some whirlpools there. Even in good maps I’ve had whirlpools before.

they always appear i think. but on my older laptop the whirlpools load really slow the 1st time they appear (have got pulled in without seeing the whirlpool aoe) kinda stinks if its a good map because you only have one chance (that you likely wont see)

You get an audio cue regarding the pools and also see it announced in the chat log.

Took me weeks of doing daily runs. It is a pain as many times he gets past the phase where he will do it without doing it once. What is annoying is when you finally do see it and you can’t get to it in time!

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Another way to get “a bad map” is to join a Teq map late. In my case, Teq started at 7PM my time and I zoned into Sparkfly Fen (no taxi) at 7:04.

It was a less populated map and people were struggling, but wasn’t so bad that it was an early fail. We got to the first burn phase and Teq woke up and attacked after the stun; shortly after, the whirlpools formed and I was sucked down (was standing near his leg).

Agemnon.4608:

You could log out during the Teq fight then relog. Before the 64-bit client I’d crash at Teq and usually restart the game in a bad map. You can probably get some whirlpools there. Even in good maps I’ve had whirlpools before.

Usually you get either a map good enough to chain burn and defence phases, or bad enough that it won’t pass 75% hp mark.
That’s besides the point, anyway. The point is, that it is one of those legendary components that requires failure. Those should not exist.

There is a lot of bad information in this thread.

Whirlpools always spawn at 75%, which is right when Tequatl goes invulnerable before the first battery defense phase.

It does not matter how fast or slow the damage is on Teq, so long as you get him to 75% to trigger the first phase. It does not require a “bad” map, or event failure, or anything like that.

The whirlpools can be very easy to miss if you’re not paying attention at the right time, are in the middle of the zerg, or if you have your animation effects down and can’t tell the difference between a poison or cripple circle and the watery grave circle.

A typical orange circle will appear, although they can sometimes be difficult to see when they are in shallow water. 1-2 seconds after the circle appears, an animation plays that looks like a doubled Tequatl’s fingers, and if you’re not in the circle at that moment, you don’t get pulled under.

I think some people who have to use low settings never see the animations
the sound cue and the circles isnt very useful (when mixed in with all the other aoe circles)
(i always see the animation on my better laptop vs the poopy old one )

Mushin.3928:

Another way to get “a bad map” is to join a Teq map late. In my case, Teq started at 7PM my time and I zoned into Sparkfly Fen (no taxi) at 7:04.

It was a less populated map and people were struggling, but wasn’t so bad that it was an early fail. We got to the first burn phase and Teq woke up and attacked after the stun; shortly after, the whirlpools formed and I was sucked down (was standing near his leg).

Definitely works. I did the same thing and ended up being sucked in 3 times, first during the initial stun, then during the next 2 burn phases.

I can’t seem to not miss this attack. I have the worst “good” luck in the universe.