Guild Wars 2

…is kinda impossible

The moving wall of wind, you mean? You can dodge through it, or use Caithe’s 7 skill to dash through it safely.

Do this when trying an achievement:
Carefully analyze the boss’s mechanics and think a way out of it!

When you kill one earth elemental a sandstorm spawns on the spame spot as the elemetal died. So don’t melee it and you won’t have a problem with it.
The wind is dodgeable with “dodge” 3 and 6.

Nathanael.4398:

Do this when trying an achievement:
Carefully analyze the boss’s mechanics and think a way out of it!

When you kill one earth elemental a sandstorm spawns on the spame spot as the elemetal died. So don’t melee it and you won’t have a problem with it.
The wind is dodgeable with “dodge” 3 and 6.

“Don’t melee it”
90% of Caithe’s skills are mele, how do you expect us to not melee it?

VitalSuit.1980:

Nathanael.4398:

Do this when trying an achievement:
Carefully analyze the boss’s mechanics and think a way out of it!

When you kill one earth elemental a sandstorm spawns on the spame spot as the elemetal died. So don’t melee it and you won’t have a problem with it.
The wind is dodgeable with “dodge” 3 and 6.

“Don’t melee it”
90% of Caithe’s skills are mele, how do you expect us to not melee it?

It’s just the last hit on the Elemental you shouldn’t melee if you can’t walk out of it quick enough. E.g. finishing it of with #2 to leap away or run away with utility #1, Condition Damage (Utility slot #2) or semi-ranged (#4 and #5) are all viable options. Or teaming up and letting a non-Caithe teammate do the last hit.

Question: Anyone know how people lose the achievement before we even get to the boss (after the Centaur defence bit?) As a group we did it over and over and someone keeps losing it before we get to him, but I can’t see how.

Esmee.1067:

VitalSuit.1980:

Nathanael.4398:

Do this when trying an achievement:
Carefully analyze the boss’s mechanics and think a way out of it!

When you kill one earth elemental a sandstorm spawns on the spame spot as the elemetal died. So don’t melee it and you won’t have a problem with it.
The wind is dodgeable with “dodge” 3 and 6.

“Don’t melee it”
90% of Caithe’s skills are mele, how do you expect us to not melee it?

It’s just the last hit on the Elemental you shouldn’t melee if you can’t walk out of it quick enough. E.g. finishing it of with #2 to leap away or run away with utility #1, Condition Damage (Utility slot #2) or semi-ranged (#4 and #5) are all viable options. Or teaming up and letting a non-Caithe teammate do the last hit.

Question: Anyone know how people lose the achievement before we even get to the boss (after the Centaur defence bit?) As a group we did it over and over and someone keeps losing it before we get to him, but I can’t see how.

If you die you lose all achievements.

Is there a reset button for this fight? Pretty annoying to go through the whole instance each time you fail the achievement.

Yep have done it 11 times even got him half way once. Then tripped on a sandstorm. Its just too annoying to try again.

It’s pretty annoying but here are my tips:

1. Do the achievement for doing the mission in challenge mode 1st. This will get you used to the wind walls.

2. When earth elementals die they leave a sand pool. In the beginning when you are only fighting 1 elemental at a time drag him to a corner of the map and melee him until about ~30%. Then use skill 8 to give him conditions and run away right when he is about to die. Make sure to face away from sand pools so you can use your heal effectively. The boss sometimes creates sand pools when you are in melee range, so use your elite when his shield is down and use skill 5. Repeat until he spawns 2 elementals at a time.

3. When 2 elementals spawn drag them to a corner and use skill 5. Stop using the skill just prior to their death, use skill 8, and run out of there. When the bosses armor is down use your elite to stealth and just use skill #1 on him (backstab in stealth).

Even doing it this way is pretty tough, but this was the most effective way I found.

GoldenTruth.2853:

It’s pretty annoying but here are my tips:

1. Do the achievement for doing the mission in challenge mode 1st. This will get you used to the wind walls.

2. When earth elementals die they leave a sand pool. In the beginning when you are only fighting 1 elemental at a time drag him to a corner of the map and melee him until about ~30%. Then use skill 8 to give him conditions and run away right when he is about to die. Make sure to face away from sand pools so you can use your heal effectively. The boss sometimes creates sand pools when you are in melee range, so use your elite when his shield is down and use skill 5. Repeat until he spawns 2 elementals at a time.

3. When 2 elementals spawn drag them to a corner and use skill 5. Stop using the skill just prior to their death, use skill 8, and run out of there. When the bosses armor is down use your elite to stealth and just use skill #1 on him (backstab in stealth).

Even doing it this way is pretty tough, but this was the most effective way I found.

Thanks I’ll try this

Is it me or are these story achievements getting harder ever since the adding of luminescent armor? (for which you need the achievement item – else you gotta buy it) Harder, and little room for error else you have to do the whole thing over again.

This achievement is tough even in a group, and don’t even THINK about bothering to try in challenge mode lol. It was fun though.

The thing that ended up helping me the most was turning my graphic downs to the lowest setting possible. All the annoying flare and shimmers and crap that Anet puts on the screen dissapears on those settings. The sandstorms are REALLY easy to see with low graphics settings, which makes them much easier to avoid.

You have to use either full condi or full zerker gear, sigils work(so I’ve read) condi duration food works…. you can use traveler runes for run speed, speed runes if you are desperate.

You have to kill the centaur boss quick, or the ground will be completely covered with sand things, and you won’t have anywhere to walk.

…the fight is just another example of go zerker or go home.

Traveller.7496:

Is it me or are these story achievements getting harder ever since the adding of luminescent armor? (for which you need the achievement item – else you gotta buy it) Harder, and little room for error else you have to do the whole thing over again.

I agree the VERY LAST episode may have been a bit more tough, but the two before it were a piece of cake. Just remember how difficult some of the achievements in “Entanglement” were, probably about as much as the new ones.
As someone was pointing out in a different topic, being hard to accomplish is kinda the definition of achievement. Little room for error and having to restart the whole thing is completely intentional.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Traveller.7496:

Is it me or are these story achievements getting harder ever since the adding of luminescent armor? (for which you need the achievement item – else you gotta buy it) Harder, and little room for error else you have to do the whole thing over again.

I agree the VERY LAST episode may have been a bit more tough, but the two before it were a piece of cake. Just remember how difficult some of the achievements in “Entanglement” were, probably about as much as the new ones.
As someone was pointing out in a different topic, being hard to accomplish is kinda the definition of achievement. Little room for error and having to restart the whole thing is completely intentional.

I understand and agree with the “hard ti accomplish” part, but having to rewatch all the cutscenes it torture. Once is more than enough!