Guild Wars 2

This is more of a rant than anything, but I do not understand what kind of person designed these achievements. This is not fun and the only “difficulty” in getting these is working around poor programming.

The beast has to have charged at least like 2 steps for it to destroy the minions which makes no sense. If i have 4 of the minions stacked up in 1 spot and the beast is charged 2 centimeters in front of them, it should destroy them – not act like they are invisible.
On top of that, why is there no option to just SKIP TO THE BOSS? I dont want to sift through 10 minutes of killing mobs just to fail the achievement in 1 minute.

Im relatively new to GW2 so if this is the standard im completely unaware but why???

The story achievements were originally revealed as challenging solo content, so you should expect them to be annoying. Alternatively, you can just group up and casually do them.

For this one, I just agrro’d all the adds and hid behind a pillar to gather them all together, then moved to the opposite side to get them in the middle.

Parlance.9584:

On top of that, why is there no option to just SKIP TO THE BOSS?

After completing the instance once, there’s a brazier at the start that skips you to the final boss.

Parlance.9584:

Im relatively new to GW2 so if this is the standard im completely unaware but why???

I think that criticism isn’t new and they have listened to it, seeing as the final mission of the current episode does indeed sport that skip option. However, changing old content is always something Anet dislikes to put resources into, unless it is the fixing of severe, game-breaking bugs.

Healix.5819:

After completing the instance once, there’s a brazier at the start that skips you to the final boss.

Had no idea this was a thing.

Also, I have no issue with difficult mission. I LOVE difficult solo missions. But there is a huge difference between me being bad and artificial difficulty / poor AI detection.

I’d love any advice on avoiding ever getting chilled (beyond the obvious keep moving and use dodges at the right time). Would going in with 4 friends so I can just avoid getting iced while they dps the boss help?

I tried 3 or 4 times with just one companion and invariably got iced in the last 1 or 2 seconds before the boss died.

Donari.5237:

I’d love any advice on avoiding ever getting chilled (beyond the obvious keep moving and use dodges at the right time). Would going in with 4 friends so I can just avoid getting iced while they dps the boss help?

It has a ~0.5s warning. Watch for the animation. Alternatively, join a group and AFK in the corner.

Group it is, then, thanks! I left out of my “obvious” list watch for the tells. I just keep running out of dodge and room at the very end. I never had trouble seeing the doom coming at me.

Parlance.9584:

Healix.5819:

After completing the instance once, there’s a brazier at the start that skips you to the final boss.

Had no idea this was a thing.

Also, I have no issue with difficult mission. I LOVE difficult solo missions. But there is a huge difference between me being bad and artificial difficulty / poor AI detection.

I did it on the second try so idk about bad ai

Donari.5237:

Group it is, then, thanks! I left out of my “obvious” list watch for the tells. I just keep running out of dodge and room at the very end. I never had trouble seeing the doom coming at me.

Personally, I accidentally got that achievement simply by staying mobile. It’ll apparently never hit you if you’re constantly strafing away.

This achievement appears to be much easier for some classes than others.
My thief friend did both of these on his first try without even knowing about them. Either way, i managed to do it after a few more tries.

Only advice I can give for anyone else reading this is to try running in circles a lot. Sometimes the adds will clump up but if they are focused on a pet or an NPC then you’re kinda boned.