Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this has been posted before but the fact that the invisible mushroom spores seem to add themselves to whatever collection they decide is beyond frustrating.

I can see maybe having to hunt down and kill 3 or 4 of them to get a semi-rare drop that we get to decide which collection it goes into, or even maybe a legendary mushroom that drops all of them and takes a large effort to kill.

But having every class with their specialization weapons unlocked should not be something we are penalized for.

Just got Nuhoch lv4, haven’t tested myself yet. So the mushroom gives random trophy? does it drop same trophy multiple times?

I am finding that the invisible mushroom spore does attach its self to one collection for example the necro greatsword invisible spore is not really attached to a treasure mushroom but rather to a chak slinger in dragons stand I told my friends where I found it and they too got the same spore. Warrior Torch invisible spore was a treasure mushrrom and was at the grub pit in TD also went into the same collection for my friends too. The Mesmer spore was at Weeping Glade in Auric Basin also went into the same collection. Personally I really don’t think that it is random if it was you could kill the same Treasure mushroom over and over till it was in all the collections

Yes, the mushroom spores will complete any random specialized collections. If that happens, make sure you kill another treasure mushroom on a different HoT map. It seems as though the mushrooms drop a spore once a day on each map.

From what me and my friend noticed farming the mushroom spores together is that it wasn’t random, but instead alphabetical. We both got the mushrooms in this exact order apart from my friends, which skipped the Druid and Chronomancer due to to him not having those collections unlocked yet.

[B]erserker
{C}hronomancer
[D]aredevil
[D]ragonhunter
[D]ruid
[H]erald
{R}eaper
[S]crapper
[T]empest

It only skips a specializaion alphabetically if it isn’t unlocked yet in the collection window of the achievements.

Yup, it works exactly like evilkuja said.
Also, the collection item dropped by the treasure mushroom is guaranteed, so in the worst case scenario (you have all 9 elite spec unlocked and want to do the tempest collection) you only need to kill it 9 times, personally I killed over 15 for sure, so you won’t have any issues, specially now that there are more players with Nuhoch 4.

You’ll wind up killing way more than you need for the collections after just a few days, it’s not a big deal. Even if you did nothing but park a character by the SW waypoint in verdant brink and kill that mushroom every day you would have finished all the collections by now.

You can kill 3 mushrooms, each giving spores, after completing the DS meta close to the middle waypoint in each lane.

My experience has been different. When HoT hit, I unlocked all my elite specs except for scrapper and Herald right away(but i did open them before I went mushroom hunting). It wasn’t until a week ago that I started collecting the mushrooms. the very first one was on my Dragon Hunter(and it dropped the mushroom for my DH’s bow). The next day i tried it with my Dragon Hunter again, and it didnt give me anything. So I logged into my ranger, and went to get another one and it gave me the mushroom for my rangers weapon. At that point i assumed that you had to log onto the character that you wanted the mushroom for, whose elite spec you had unlocked. And sure enuff the next 4 consecutive times that I swapped toons it gave me the coresponding mushroom to the elite spec of the toon I was currently on.

evilkuja.7896:

From what me and my friend noticed farming the mushroom spores together is that it wasn’t random, but instead alphabetical. We both got the mushrooms in this exact order apart from my friends, which skipped the Druid and Chronomancer due to to him not having those collections unlocked yet.

[B]erserker
{C}hronomancer
[D]aredevil
[D]ragonhunter
[D]ruid
[H]erald
{R}eaper
[S]crapper
[T]empest

It only skips a specializaion alphabetically if it isn’t unlocked yet in the collection window of the achievements.

I tried to put some order to the chaos and considered alphabetical but I was using the name of the weapons ie. Bo, Ydlair. After going back and looking at the completed ones this is the Exact order they have dropped in for me so thanks for the heads up.

LunarNacht.8913:

You can kill 3 mushrooms, each giving spores, after completing the DS meta close to the middle waypoint in each lane.

Didn’t know about these 3, completed all of the mushrooms this morning Thanks!

It’s still rude not to be able to select which collection it goes into though. A lot of work for one update I actually wanted.