Guild Wars 2

So I have spent nearly 7 hours trying to get gold on the Shooting Gallery and I keep getting to 37-39 /40…

Why is this adventure so much more difficult than the others?
To make things worse, you have to push a 6-7 event chain in order to unlock this adventure which leaves you with at most 20 minutes before night fall.
Also the final event where you fight clones of Bongo seems to bug out every once in a while.

Also looking at the Life time tab, it seems only 120 players in the entire game have ever achieved gold on this, any tips on this would be appreciated, I am already doing the following things:

1. First Person Mode
2. Enlarging and zooming slightly out of my mini map to see the next target.
3. Practiced the locations of first 20 dummies as they are always at the same spot.
4. Turning off names of enemies etc under options.

Also what is completely obnoxious is that you can be attacked by enemies while you are trying to do the adventure

Any strategy players used to get gold would really be appreciated!

ZilentNight.5089:

it seems only 120 players in the entire game have ever achieved gold on this is completely obnoxious

I’m betting less than double that number have put a serious effort into getting gold because this event is NEVER up. Unless of course you want to spend 40 minutes soloing the events at Noble camp and not getting any xp or loot for doing them.

Gave up at Silver, waiting for nerf.

There are even more issues with this adventure:

1. The hit box of the dummy – Simply not consistent, some dummies head does not count and you have to aim lower than the cross section area on the stick to knock it down.

2. The projectile of the Rifle – This seems to always be random, there is a solid delay on where I am placing my x-hair currently and where I had it a second ago, the rifle will almost always shoot where my X-hair was 1 second ago and not on the target which is right in the center.

3. Skill 2 – Allows you to shoot several bullets but then there is nearly a 2-3 second delay after it, seems like the Rifle gets stuck in the skill 2 animation and even if you try to cast skill 1 it just doesn’t like to cast for a solid 2-3 seconds later.

4. Hit boxes of Objects on the ground- There are various obstacles on the ground along with vegetation that not only block your view of several dummies but even completely block your projectile shots… also the hit boxes of these object seem much larger than they should be.

5. The Dummy Icon bug – After killing some dummies the icon doesn’t disappear even tho you successfully shoot it, the body goes away but the icon persists – staying not only on screen but also on the mini map – showing a fake target.

I hope Anet looks at these and adjusts the difficulty and the accessibility of this adventure in line with the others along with the plethora of the bugs plaguing this adventure.

ZilentNight.5089:

2. The projectile of the Rifle

Shooting has a small cast time and the projectile is shot in the direction of where you first clicked on the screen. Keep in mind that it’s based on the screen and not at what you were originally aiming at in the world, so any character movement will adjust your shot.

ZilentNight.5089:

3. Skill 2

Reloading. The only point of that skill is when you know you’ll likely miss. Of course there’s a downside.

ZilentNight.5089:

5. The Dummy Icon bug

Once the multi-spawn phase begins, dummies are capable of spawning on existing dummies. When this happens, one of the dummies in the spawn cycle is lost and the icon sticks because only 1 of them could be shot.

ZilentNight.5089:

Why is this adventure so much more difficult than the others?

More like, why are the others so easy to beat (scrap pit…). Some I got first try and didn’t even know the adventure before hand. It should take some serious dedication to achieve gold, that way when you finally get it you feel like you have mastered it.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

ZilentNight.5089:

Why is this adventure so much more difficult than the others?

More like, why are the others so easy to beat (scrap pit…). Some I got first try and didn’t even know the adventure before hand. It should take some serious dedication to achieve gold, that way when you finally get it you feel like you have mastered it.

I’d be with you if those weren’t needed for the mastery points. Some poeple think that stuff is SILLY and does not belong in a game like GW 2. Forcing them to do those to get the mastery points needed to advance their track is already borderline …

HtFde.3856:

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

ZilentNight.5089:

Why is this adventure so much more difficult than the others?

More like, why are the others so easy to beat (scrap pit…). Some I got first try and didn’t even know the adventure before hand. It should take some serious dedication to achieve gold, that way when you finally get it you feel like you have mastered it.

I’d be with you if those weren’t needed for the mastery points. Some poeple think that stuff is SILLY and does not belong in a game like GW 2. Forcing them to do those to get the mastery points needed to advance their track is already borderline …

you do know the total amount of mastery point you can optain to the HOT lines are much higher then the amount needed to unlock ALL the HOT lines at current time right?

so even if you dont take them all you will still mange to get all the lines maxe out without a problem

I just need this and haywire to get all gold. The timer’s okay but they need to make it instanced and/or remove the randomness. I’m always in with about 5 max size charr who stand in the field of view.

Korsbaek.9803:

HtFde.3856:

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

ZilentNight.5089:

Why is this adventure so much more difficult than the others?

More like, why are the others so easy to beat (scrap pit…). Some I got first try and didn’t even know the adventure before hand. It should take some serious dedication to achieve gold, that way when you finally get it you feel like you have mastered it.

I’d be with you if those weren’t needed for the mastery points. Some people think that stuff is SILLY and does not belong in a game like GW 2. Forcing them to do those to get the mastery points needed to advance their track is already borderline …

you do know the total amount of mastery point you can optain to the HOT lines are much higher then the amount needed to unlock ALL the HOT lines at current time right?

so even if you dont take them all you will still mange to get all the lines maxe out without a problem

We-hell —- unless I am missing something I can get:

7 more from story related stuff (bonus, etc.)
5 more from maps (though without some masteries most of those won’t be doable)
Quite a few on map 4, though I usually don’t find a taxi for it and most are undoable if noone helps

The big rest is scoring silver or better in those blasted “adventures” aka – Nintendo fanboys for the win. This really bugs me … those jump and run things used to be optional – now they are mandatory. Yes, you might be able to get the least annoying ones and spare yourself the most annoying ones but still … I DETEST platform games.

That content should really be optional or have its own reward track and not being integrated into the game as it is now.

Edit: And the absolute downpoint of those adventures is the time gate when they’re tied to a meta … Auric Basin is so much fun when you have to wait like 20 minutes before those things can even be accessed for another futile attempt. Still only at 14 in Fallen Masks. With a controller pad it might actually be easier but with mouse and keyboard … I detest jumping puzzles and they’re much easier – especially since you don’t have a timer.

Finally got it tonight with 2 seconds to spare, praise the lord, I shall sacrifice Lord Faren a thousand times to Balthazar!

ZilentNight.5089:

Finally got it tonight with 2 seconds to spare, praise the lord, I shall sacrifice Lord Faren a thousand times to Balthazar!

May I help?