Guild Wars 2

OK so I’ve seen a fairly good amount of these threads already, but I feel like creating a new one, since for some reason that appears very obscure to me this hasn’t been fixed.

Why ? Why no challenge mote to just restart the fight VS Torgonn Windmane ? The achievement Dodgy crowd in itself is already extremely tedious: the whirlpools pop and start dealing damage instantly and the (intense) sepia makes them hard to spot. It’s an achievement you’re bound to try several times to get, and yet, you force the player to go through all the instance ( which is mostly just unskippable – ? – dialogue ) over, and over ( and over, and over… in my case ) again. This is just not fun. A challenging achievement to get, sure, but an entire instance to go through just to try the fight again when you fail ? Hell no, it’s a party killer.
You’re already bound to do some instances 3 times because of the unavailable achievements the first time around, and achievements you can’t get at the same time.
Way to disgust everybody from the expansion. We paid for it, we should be able to enjoy it, it shouldn’t be just another grindfest. Because I have to say, despise some instances being good ( like the “Meeting the Asuras” one ), I can’t say I’m enjoying this.

Challenge motes please. At least. If you’re not going to make it easier, at least make it less tedious for the player and ultimately more enjoyable.

EDIT: finally got the achievement after many tries. Please NCSoft, spare this to the future players, don’t make them go through this, there is nothing fun in that.

Almost ripped my hair out for this too . Yeah.

I completely agree that there needed to be a challenge mote for that one; it’s already one of the hardest, if not the hardest achieve in LS2.

One hint for those still trying to do it: You can disable the sepia by turning off post-processing in your graphics options. This is also handy if you want to see old LA in full color in first season PS. And if you are using the aviator effects, you can undo the sepia there, or do the “low” setting to get a nifty colorized version of the world.

How sad that they consider fixing shortcuts and that e-sports nonsense more important than bugs and shoddy achievements, like this crap.

Donari.5237:

I completely agree that there needed to be a challenge mote for that one; it’s already one of the hardest, if not the hardest achieve in LS2.

One hint for those still trying to do it: You can disable the sepia by turning off post-processing in your graphics options. This is also handy if you want to see old LA in full color in first season PS. And if you are using the aviator effects, you can undo the sepia there, or do the “low” setting to get a nifty colorized version of the world.

The other thing is knowing that the whirlpools appear where the elementals die.

The achievement would be too easy and unpunishing if you would not have to replay everything.

Don’t forget that you can get rid of the sepia effect by removing post-processing from the options.

Malediktus.9250:

The achievement would be too easy and unpunishing if you would not have to replay everything.

It’s challenging on it’s own. Punish people by start the instance all over again, fight same wave of centaurs, hear the same voice again and again because you tripped on some sandpool that earth ele created//and he can randomly cast sandpool himself too.

It’s not fun to try again.

Khisanth.2948:

Donari.5237:

I completely agree that there needed to be a challenge mote for that one; it’s already one of the hardest, if not the hardest achieve in LS2.

One hint for those still trying to do it: You can disable the sepia by turning off post-processing in your graphics options. This is also handy if you want to see old LA in full color in first season PS. And if you are using the aviator effects, you can undo the sepia there, or do the “low” setting to get a nifty colorized version of the world.

The other thing is knowing that the whirlpools appear where the elementals die.

also the boss drops them at his own feet sometimes just to spite you, which is real fun when you’re stuck playing a dagger thief.

Malediktus.9250:

The achievement would be too easy and unpunishing if you would not have to replay everything.

How so? If you can reach it you already know you can clear everything that comes before it anyway. It’s just artificial longevity. It was the second hardest achievement I did behind it’s all about time and that one required some serious outside the box thinking like bringing along fire elemental powder for the second phase.

Agemnon.4608:

Malediktus.9250:

The achievement would be too easy and unpunishing if you would not have to replay everything.

How so? If you can reach it you already know you can clear everything that comes before it anyway. It’s just artificial longevity. It was the second hardest achievement I did behind it’s all about time and that one required some serious outside the box thinking like bringing along fire elemental powder for the second phase.

To punish you for failing.