Guild Wars 2

Okay I’m going to ask here, since I’m not sure if this is a bug or what it is I’m doing wrong.

I can not get the Kingpin Slayer daily done. I’ve killed quite a lot of kingpins, but they rarely count for the daily and I have no idea why.

Yes, I finished Rose’s journal and challenged the kingpin that killed her.

• “five event Kingpins”. Are there specific events for this, that aren’t just “kill the kingpin” events?

• Do you have to have powered the shrine or finished refilling the god’s heart quest that day before it counts?

• Does a kingpin in a given god’s area only count once?

• Is this just bugged all to hell and back in my case and they’re ALL supposed to count but for whatever reason just aren’t?

It seems that only specific Kingpin enemies count. This should not happen. If you have a “kingpin slayer” achieve, ANYTHING WITH KINGPIN SHOULD COUNT. Either fix the achieve or rename things so it is clear who counts.

Take down the Event Kingpins around Siren’s Landing

emphasis added.

The description explains that only event-related kingpins count. These are frequently respawning events, so I don’t think it’s that hard.

In answer to the specific questions

• The specific events are “kill the kingpin” events.
• I haven’t participated in powering the shrine and have received credit without doing the local heart quest yet.
• I’ve killed the same kingpin more than once for credit.
• I’ve not had any trouble at all getting credit. Every kingpin event has +1 the daily for me, regardless of when I arrived in the zone.

By that reckoning, then, my character’s bugged. Okay. That’s what I needed to know – because I’ve killed a lot of those “kill the kingpin” veteran kingpin events and whether I get credit toward the daily has always been up in the air.

Larathia.5284:

By that reckoning, then, my character’s bugged. Okay. That’s what I needed to know – because I’ve killed a lot of those “kill the kingpin” veteran kingpin events and whether I get credit toward the daily has always been up in the air.

Or I could have just been lucky that whatever requirement there is had already been triggered. I’ll try to pay closer attention. It’s worth reporting using the in-game /bug reporting tool if/when it happens to you, i.e. right after a “kill the kingpin” event in which you don’t +1. That provides ANet with specific data about the state of the map and the state of your account/toon; they’ll need that to troubleshoot if there’s a bug.

It’s possible that the incredible lag in that map is causing you to lose credit somehow. I purchased something from a vendor and then later it wasn’t in my inventory and I believe I didn’t lose my $ (like the purchase never happened). I have died from falling when I closed my glider 2 feet above the ground (the game apparently thought I was still much higher up). Etc. Etc.