Guild Wars 2

Is there something I’m missing? this achievement seems ridiculously hard. I don’t even see the crystals I’m suppose to break?

It’s not ‘hard’ per se. It’s kind of a luck thing. Just hit Shatterer in melee cleave enough times, and you’ll eventually end up breaking some crystals. By the time you see a crystal it’s usually too late to aim for it, but it tends to use the attack on players closest to it.

This is an example of an achievement that you don’t get when you try for it, but end up getting when you don’t care about it.

I got it for my second account completely accidentally. I was just shooting at Shatterer with the mortar when the achievement suddenly popped up. On this account I got it way back when it was possible to have under 10 people at the event at 5 a.m.

Got the achievement for this account when 6 manning shatterer. Certain teleport skills can get you out of the crystal you’re in, then you can break the crystal/another guy’s crystal, and Shatterer is downed very fast when 6 people use mortars with no zergs.

Recently, due to the zergfest that is now all world bosses, crystals have been made more common and more hardy than before. But you’ll still get the highest chance of the achievement by AoE/Cleaving near Shatterer’s right foot.

yea i got this achievement one day when I accidentally stumbled on 7-8 people doing shatterer in the middle of the afternoon. In fact, even after killing him at least a few dozen time, that was the first time I even knew those crystals existed. Luckily a grenade engineer can tag them all pretty easily haha

Keep in mind that if NOBODY melees him, he will NOT trap anyone to be shattered…..

The crystals usually appear near or by his right leg. He lifts it up before they appear and you need to be really fast to break them because they’re very easy to shatter.

The easiest way to do this (in my opinion) is with Guardian using staff skill #1 because it’s instant and hits multiple targets.