Guild Wars 2

I keep on seeing ppl in game saying how they still need the achievement from scarlet but can’t because the invasions are being increasingly farmed.
So, I decided to try see if i could turn one of the invasions around and get it completed dispite all the farmers. It actually worked quite well and everyone got the achievement. Ofc, it took a lot of other players also trying to complete the invasion and being willing to listen to me (im not a commander or anything). Unfortunately, it did kitten off some of the farmers a lot but only as much as they annoy the ppl trying to get the invasion done I reckon. Anyhow, here’s what to do:

Firstly: You need to find if there are other ppl in your map that also want to fight Scarlet because you can’t do it on your own, you will need few parties worth of you at least.

Aetherblade Events: What the farmers want to do is when the wave with the Aetherblade events begins, they will complete an Aetherblade event untill the Aetherblade Captain spawns then they will ignore him and only fight the champions that spawn with him. If all the foes that were spawned with him are all killed, another round will spawn with more champons. This can potentially go on untill the invasion ends. Generally though, there will be a few ppl not farming that will eventually kill the Captain but not before the farmers have had a shedload of chests.
Solution: When the wave with the Aetherblades begins, go straight to the Aetherblade events right away. If an event has scaled up enough to have Champions, don’t just go for them. You have to reduce the number of foes to get the next round to spawn. Then, when the Captain spawns, give him everything you’v got! By doing so, the event will end and the farmers will move onto the next one. Basically, follow the farmers and use them to get the Captains to spawn then hammer them. When all the Aetherblade events are done, there’s only Minion events left for them to get their champs from so you all sorted for the rest of that wave. : )

Molten Alliance events: This wave is pretty simple with two types of events, Shaman Champion events and Machine events. There farmers will always go for the Champion events but these can take quite a bit to finish depending on how many ppl are there. The Machine events are generally ignored by the farmers but are a lot quicker to complete.
Solution: Split up into ones and twoes and go straight for the Machine events. These can be soloed in a lot less than a minute with ranged weapons by just killing the Machine and ignoring all the foes. After enough of the Machine events have been done, the Molten Alliance wave will be over and the Champion will stop spawning, leaveing only Minion events for you and the farmers to finish.

I hope this helps those of you that still need the achievement. Good Luck guys.

P.S If your a farmer or sympathise with the farmers, please don’t gripe here. : ) This post is not a go at farmers or farming, just a suggestion for other ppl about how to get their achievement in maps where mass farming is going on.
P.P.S If you find this useful and it helps you get your achievement, you could always show your appreciation by making a donation to the Crónus commander fund. ;-) ;-) i> i>

Good tips, Titan!

If it’s only the Scarlet-killing achievement you need, I’d also suggest trying to get into the Gendarin Fields invasion. The landscape doesn’t fight you (cough Nornlandia cough).

In my experience, I’ve almost always killed Scarlet during Gendarin invasions.

Good info OP, thank you!

Aetherblade events and captains complete much faster with 3-5 people. May I suggest, instead, to try and complete 2-3 other aetherblade events with a small group while the farmers are bogging themselves down in one of them. Unfortunately aethers captains can’t be soloed as far as I can tell. (I tried, got destroyed).

Only atherblade event completion counts towards aetherblade progress. Kill count doesn’t matter. The objective for people who want to succeed is to clear as many aether events as fast as possible.

My advice would actually be to focus on the Twisted events. Most farmers don’t bother with those, so the Twisted bar lags behind the Molten/Aetherblade one. Molten events are completed really, really quickly so there’s usually no need to worry about them. The Aetherblade ones are the problem since you need to kill the Captain for the bar to progress, and sometimes farmers avoid killing the Captain to farm Aetherblade champs.

In my experience though, the Captain still rarely lasts more than 2 – 3 minutes, because everybody at an Aetherblade event will want to do at least 5% damage to him to make sure they get credit for his death, and in bigger zergs, that ends up killing the Captain anyway. The REAL problem is when the zerg gets too big and they all end up massing at one single event, instead of having 2 – 3 smaller zergs that tackle Aetherblade events all over the map.