Guild Wars 2

“Commemorate the completion of the Flame and Frost story arc in
Lions Arch
Hoelbrak
Black Citadel.”

For those in other threads talking about the fire, this is what people are talking about. In Hoelbrak (and other areas) you can see a bonfire, once you click it you receive a buff:

Victory Bonfire=
Victory Glow-

All stats +10%
Magic Find +20%
XP from kills +20%
(All 60 minutes)

Thanks homie, most useful

Too bad a +40 fractal can take 2 hours that buff is something great.

Its godly for wvw!

Karka-Event rewars: 2 Exotics, huge bag, …
Flame and Frost reward: 1 Exotic glove + 1h buff

meh

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Karka-Event rewars: 2 Exotics, huge bag, …
Flame and Frost reward: 1 Exotic glove + 1h buff

meh

You forgot .0000000000000000000000001% chance at a mini and jet pack. And a 2% chance at a fused weapon skin :P

Can multiple characters on the same account get the buff? Does it work in WvW?

What’s up with bonfires in GW2 not hurting you when you stand on them?

Naga.1805:

Can multiple characters on the same account get the buff? Does it work in WvW?

I grabbed the buff on every character, and they stack with others. I do believe it will work in wvw.

Duskmelt.9834:

What’s up with bonfires in GW2 not hurting you when you stand on them?

Magical flames. I know.. I know.. but thats all I got :P

I ran across it yesterday while working on LA map completion. I would have ignored it but it had a big star on the map. Great for me because I can hit it and waypoint to a good xp area to grind some xp out faster and maybe get some good magic drops.

Oh and you can rebuff once it wears off so once an hour. At least that is how it worked when I tried it.

I can’t find the bonfire.. I thought they would remove it on the 16th?

they have deleted the bonfires…i can’t take the achiev…was 16th may…

I logged just now to find out that the bonfire was removed which was a requirement for the final achievement for the living story.

I would like to ask Arenanet to consider putting that bonfire back in for a week or put an alternative way in to get the achievement. I haven’t been able to log in the last few days and wasn’t fussed about it since I knew that I had until coming thursday (which was announced a long time ago). Now I finally log in to find out that Arenanet has announced ONE day ago that the 4 day bonfire event has been shortened by two days.

People have complained about short term events before and you should have been aware that removing the bonfire on such short notice is simply not acceptable. I am aware that the achievement itself does not have a big impact but I simply enjoy completing achievements.

BraveSirRobin.3497:

I logged just now to find out that the bonfire was removed which was a requirement for the final achievement for the living story.

I would like to ask Arenanet to consider putting that bonfire back in for a week or put an alternative way in to get the achievement. I haven’t been able to log in the last few days and wasn’t fussed about it since I knew that I had until coming thursday (which was announced a long time ago). Now I finally log in to find out that Arenanet has announced ONE day ago that the 4 day bonfire event has been shortened by two days.

People have complained about short term events before and you should have been aware that removing the bonfire on such short notice is simply not acceptable. I am aware that the achievement itself does not have a big impact but I simply enjoy completing achievements.

Completely agree with you on this. I wasn’t able to get the achievement either.

Wait.. it’s gone already? If I knew I would have made time for it yesterday somehow … crap. ;_;

Same here. I just logged on to get the achievement, when I was thrown off again for the new patch. Only then did I find out I couldn’t do the achievement anymore.

BraveSirRobin.3497:

I logged just now to find out that the bonfire was removed which was a requirement for the final achievement for the living story.

I would like to ask Arenanet to consider putting that bonfire back in for a week or put an alternative way in to get the achievement. I haven’t been able to log in the last few days and wasn’t fussed about it since I knew that I had until coming thursday (which was announced a long time ago). Now I finally log in to find out that Arenanet has announced ONE day ago that the 4 day bonfire event has been shortened by two days.

People have complained about short term events before and you should have been aware that removing the bonfire on such short notice is simply not acceptable. I am aware that the achievement itself does not have a big impact but I simply enjoy completing achievements.

Agree, ArenaNet please put bonfires back in the game for a few days more!

pls anet add the bonfires for achiev,i do the living story for 3 months,and more players are in my same situation.

It’s pretty unfair actually :/

If you do, please fix the +10% to stats…or note it for a fix if you’re going to use them again. They actually only give +1% buff, unless math is broken and 10 is suddenly 10% of 1000.

Dear ANet,

I understand that you want people to look at the new content, and that maybe someone remarked that leaving the old one running would get confusing, but shortening deadlines is nearly never a good idea. If there was a blocking issue that made it so the new patch could not be there as long as the bonfires were up, I think it would have been better to delay the patch.

I’m sure I am not the only one who managed to be away from the computer for two days and totally missed out. I’d suggest in future to always leave things running for a week. Life happens, and a few days without play time can easily happen.

Considering how Guild Wars 2 is an excellent game to engage casually in (one of the reasons I keep playing) I find it even more striking. I understand that you will probably not put the bonfires back in, and the achievement will remain forever unattainable, but I just wanted to share share my thoughts on the matter anyway. In the end it is your game to do with as you like, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to being a bit sad about all this.

we have do the story for 3 months,and more of us can’t take the last achiev,it’s unfair,pls put a bonfire.
do it for players
i hope anet answer to us.

…. I have logged in today to find out that the bonfires are gone even though it was Arenanet themselves that has led me to believe that I have got time till the 16th!
I really do not like to be lied to! I appreciate that you said yesterday that it will be the 14th after all but do you really think that most of us go back to what they have read before on your site every day? Just to make sure you did not put a line through one of your statements If you said 16th then it should have been the 16th! You just cost me 10 achievement points!! Maybe some play for other reasons for me the pleasure of the game is in 100 completion of all the achievements and you have just royally spoilt it for me! Makes me want to stop playing, and clearly whatever you announce on your website is far away from what will actually happen… bad customer service and misleading people… fantastic…..

seriously?
I missed the LAST achivement & months of effort because AN made a mistake on the ending day?
Just put the bonfire back for 48h …
Thousands players should not pay for the incompence of some employees …

Hey guys, hopefully this was unintentional, but I logged in today to complete Flame and Frost only to find the bonfires removed, despite your guide saying that we had until the 16th to complete.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-flame-frost-retribution/

Any chance this will be patched back in?

Yeah pls get it back I missed it too. I thought it will stay in game until 16th of may.

THX ANET for NOT get this achiev.
I done all achievements but don´t have time to log in until today. I log in to game today 14th may at 20:00 pm (+1GMT) and found out that i don´t get final achiev.
THX for more reason to don´t log in into GW2 …
I was really suprise that you made nice guide on your web page but now it isn´t so cool, why you don´t post in on your web page before? Not every ppl read forum day by day …
I hope you make another change to get it … i hope you read this post and maybe you realize how unfair it was …
Sorry for my English.

Really disappointed right now.

ummm…sry ANET this is completely unacceptable. I cannot always log in to check your mistakes on dates… It is completely unfair that I missed the epilogue title acheivement because of your inconsistencies in posting dates. Please add this title to my acheivement titles asap or you will have lost ANOTHER gamer to your lack of fair event inconsistencies. thnx… very poor.

I dont get alot of time to play and check the forums everyday to see of they have made changes. I know they posted a date and didnt keep their word so i log in and after months of doing this i cant complete it because they shortened the date. I’ll find something else to do and not be bothered with a company who doesnt do what they say.

I logged in tonight with the intention of completing this before the 16th. Fair enough mistakes happen but please give the people mislead by the error the chance to get the final part of this living story achievement.

It is so frustrating to have completed every part of the story just to miss it by one small part which I thought I had another couple of days to obtain!

I don’t think everyone has a habit of reading the forum before they log in.

I was not waiting til the last minute, I was under the impression that the final event day was on the 16th (and only the 16th) so naturally I was waiting until that day to experience the content. I do hope that Anet rolls back on this decision because it isn’t really going to go over well when people log on for the first time in a week because they have busy schedules, or they are adults, or they are casual players, or they are all of these things.

I did log in today but I didn’t rush to the towns to see the bonfires I was in the middle of other areas in the game. I finished up these things (which took me through the update) and went to the towns to find that there was nothing there, only then did I go to the forum to see why there was such a lame ending to this event… now I know… because Arena net changed something at the last minute.

I don’t care about the last achievement but it is kind of a disappointment after going through the whole arc.

poundsign anticlimactic

You know… that big message I got yesterday in these forums that said the date was wrong and it ran until the 14th clued me in…

VOLKON.1290:

You know… that big message I got yesterday in these forums that said the date was wrong and it ran until the 14th clued me in…

But, as was said before, not everyone looks on the forum every day.

not everyone has the time to check forums everyday… we rely on ANET to get things right the first time so we can adjust our REAL LIVES accordingly and not miss anything or any ACHEIVEMENTS or ITEMS etc. So as far as your response VOLKON that doesn’t help the issues others are having.

thisisnoise.1567:

VOLKON.1290:

You know… that big message I got yesterday in these forums that said the date was wrong and it ran until the 14th clued me in…

But, as was said before, not everyone looks on the forum every day.

Everybody basically just assumed they had until the 16th. Even if they gave the wrong date they should have let it run until then, as thisisnoise says, not everybody checks the forums everyday or even at all. At least they should have put it on the official website, twitter and Facebook.

if this kind of issue keeps happening, then ANET should use an IN GAME NOTIFICATION SYSTEM that RED FLAGS any of their DATE CHANGES or PATCH CHANGES… this way even if I log in for just a second or two the GAME notifies me so I don’t MISS anything.

I dont know about all of you who missed this acheivement, but I dont read the patch notes or the forums very much, as I like to just get on and PLAY THE GAME.

I agree, this is highly unfair. I had to work since Sunday, and today finally got some free time to get on and finish up the achievements, only to find out the bonfires were taken out a lot earlier. I was under the impression that it wasn’t going to be taken out til the 16th. I am one of the few people that do not check the forums daily, cuz I am busy. I just think it’s ridiculous I spent every month doing everything so I can have all of them completed, and now I am left with one that I can now never finish due to having the date changed without a really big notice.

Please bring it back, it would be much appreciated.

- Gathered 75 refugee mementos.
- Found 6 lost possessions.
- Killed 150 invaders.
- Translated 12 dead drops.
- Helped Braham retake Cragstead.
- Helped Rox defend the hatchery.
- Destroyed the molten facility.
Reward: “Look at this tiny bonfire! …aaand it’s gone. Oh you missed it? Sorry!”

Did this over a four month period and got screwed on the finish line by the trolls at Anet.

The bonfires should be stay in the game forever… Not sure why ArenaNet is obessed with having timed things in the game all the time >.<

I can live with the timed stuff and the fact that some times I may miss out on things due to it. What I can’t accept is missing out due to an error by arena net posting incorrect info!

so they removed the bonfires prematurely? if that is the case they should return them asap

Fenesa.5271:

I can live with the timed stuff and the fact that some times I may miss out on things due to it. What I can’t accept is missing out due to an error by arena net posting incorrect info!

It frustrates me that I was actually perfectly on time.

Just adding my voice to the disappointment of the early removal, too. I like the living story an awful lot – I’m one of those people who reads all the in-game mails, talks to all the NPCs in full, for no other reason than because I really like to read all the effort that’s gone into making the game world and all its characters. Heck, I even replayed the first meeting with Braham a few times just so I could read what Eir says while she’s walking out of the room.

So, for a four day window – which is already really short considering how long we’ve been building up to this – to suffer a surprise cutdown to a mere 48 hours really disappoints. I could somewhat understand if there was a time-limited reward at stake, but the original notes read ‘the epilogue will mostly consist of conversations and story elements; there are no exclusive rewards to be given at this time’ – which is exacrlty what those of us enjoying the story want to see; missing the story closure is more of a sore point than if I’d missed, say, the LA karka invasion after this investment.

I don’t write this to beg for a chance to just get a tick in the achievement box or the like, but more to suggest a longer timeline for such things. There are those of us who really love the world that’s being created here and the obvious effort that goes into it; while one-off events have their place, it’s hard to connect with a longer story if you’re not able to participate in it – it makes me less likely to invest in a longer narrative in future if I worry I’m going to miss the ending because of, say, a weekend working or such.

get it back ASAP otherwise i will miss the achiev
I was told that was 16th that is just blatant misinformation.
Bring back the bonfires for couple days please arenanet

Really disapointing!
Didnt visit the bonfire yesterday cuz i was in a hurry and did rely on the official “you can finish it till 16.” statement…
And today i log in and cant complete it! Even though we got 14.!

Im not amused!

after completing all those achievements of F&F you cant get the Final one due to anet trolling..

Fenesa.5271:

I can live with the timed stuff and the fact that some times I may miss out on things due to it. What I can’t accept is missing out due to an error by arena net posting incorrect info!

Agreed, i feel cheated by Anet, i couldnt get the last achevement because there’s a mistake with a guide that Anet itself made…and it doent seems they are gonna enable that event again, nothing worst tan getting trolled by Anet.
This kind of things, the overall low quality of the living story, and the fact that it is temporary content really does not make me wanna keep playing your game…

Due to a illness and a busy schedule, I had organised to finish my flame and frost achievements by the talked about date of the 15th which patch notes did mentioned (but seemed to have since been modified), but the date was moved forward a day so I missed out on doing the dungeon and the part the dungeon unlocked

Why was it moved forward a day?