Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else having trouble with the achievement of beating the facet of darkness from 75% to 0 in less than 15 seconds? I mean..it seems to take 5-10 seconds for the fragile shard things to spawn around him at times. This challenge seems easier than it actually is, which is normally fine by me…except it seems like the fragile things are way too slow spawning to beat solo or with a group. Anyone else getting frustrated by this? How did you beat this challenge? Is it luck?

The fragile debuff stays forever on the crystal thingies. So simply wait until you have “infected” all of them and destroy them.

AHH thank you… that make sense.

It’s easier if you do this one with a friend. One person can lure him away from the vortexes and then the other just concentrates on getting the buff on all the vortexes – then you just lure him back into the middle and each of you kills half of the vortexes each.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s easier if you do this one with a friend. One person can lure him away from the vortexes and then the other just concentrates on getting the buff on all the vortexes – then you just lure him back into the middle and each of you kills half of the vortexes each.

Be careful, the achievement is (as me and my friends found out yesterday) tracked per each person separately. You (personal you, not general one) need to cause 75% of the boss damage for it to count, so only one person can get it at a time. If two people are doing it and kill the vortexes equally, neither will get it.

Astralporing.1957:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s easier if you do this one with a friend. One person can lure him away from the vortexes and then the other just concentrates on getting the buff on all the vortexes – then you just lure him back into the middle and each of you kills half of the vortexes each.

Be careful, the achievement is (as me and my friends found out yesterday) tracked per each person separately. You (personal you, not general one) need to cause 75% of the boss damage for it to count, so only one person can get it at a time. If two people are doing it and kill the vortexes equally, neither will get it.

I don’t think this is necessarily true, maybe a recent patch changed this, but when i did this achievement, i had a friend with me and we both shattered the vortexes and both got the achievement.

Astralporing.1957:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s easier if you do this one with a friend. One person can lure him away from the vortexes and then the other just concentrates on getting the buff on all the vortexes – then you just lure him back into the middle and each of you kills half of the vortexes each.

Be careful, the achievement is (as me and my friends found out yesterday) tracked per each person separately. You (personal you, not general one) need to cause 75% of the boss damage for it to count, so only one person can get it at a time. If two people are doing it and kill the vortexes equally, neither will get it.

That’s definitely not true. I did this with a guild member. I held the boss back while he put the boon on the vortexes. Then we both killed them and both got the achievement credit…

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Astralporing.1957:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s easier if you do this one with a friend. One person can lure him away from the vortexes and then the other just concentrates on getting the buff on all the vortexes – then you just lure him back into the middle and each of you kills half of the vortexes each.

Be careful, the achievement is (as me and my friends found out yesterday) tracked per each person separately. You (personal you, not general one) need to cause 75% of the boss damage for it to count, so only one person can get it at a time. If two people are doing it and kill the vortexes equally, neither will get it.

That’s definitely not true. I did this with a guild member. I held the boss back while he put the boon on the vortexes. Then we both killed them and both got the achievement credit…

Well, i did it with a friend 2 days ago, and we had to repeat the fight because killing 50% of vortexes by each person turned out to not be enough to give an achievement.
(and no, wasn’t the time issue – popping all vortexes by only one person was visibly slower, but counted).

You need to tag the boss for the achievement to count, even if you just hit for 0 damage. It seems to be some kind of afk check.