Guild Wars 2

I’m curious how everyone did with the “Mists Merc Camp Vanquisher” achievement in season 1.

My final tally was 10/50.

Tier 3 16/30 wasn’t worth the hassle honestly so I stopped.

9.
I’m not so hot on EB.

I ended at 48/50. Most of the time I would flip the camp but not receive credit.

0.

I don’t do Eternal outside of karma train Fridays, I spend all of my time in WvW on home borderlands defense.

9/50

I think someone forgot mercs only exist on EB.

Did the Horse people and Rat people not count in the BLs?

Wiseman.4075:

Did the Horse people and Rat people not count in the BLs?

Apparently not. I killed the veteran centaur a couple of times and did the skritt chain of events once (only because the Toxic Alliance had killed so many skritt the event was 28/30 when I got there). I didn’t receive any credit towards the merc camp achievement for either.

3, I’m not on EB that much.

1 out of 50.

2 problems

1. Could not actually get in EB for first 2 weeks.
2. When I did get in EB, everyone avoided the mercenary camps because of the spore events.

8. I spend some time in EBG, but the overlap of the toxic events made it harder to flip mercs than in the past, and with just the 3 left now that we have ruins it was just too much out of my way to do it. If we had no toxic events it would have been a lot easier, but half the time you go into a camp almost all the mobs are already dead. The 8 I got involved standing around waiting for a few mobs to respawn over and over…

BL used to have mercenary camp when the Quaggan’s were around. Remember a mercenary camps are the ones who send troops out to guard supply camps etc. when you help them finish the Event.

Those Toxic events put in the middle of mercenary camps didn’t help any to help those finish the achievement. Most zergs weren’t interested in being slowed down by all the PVE stuff injected in WvW.

Oh okay, I was thinking since the skrit and centares send troops in to harass the north camp they would be considered merc camps. That is too bad. In EB we mostly avoided the merc camps because as soon as you walked in there the Toxic event would make a large group pop swords so there was no way to do it quietly and the toxic event made it difficult to do it solo. Merc camps and Obsidian JP was the only thing I didn’t get in season.

And gosh darn it I miss my quaggan friends!

Over 50… you could go in tag a few dredge/hylek/ogres and even if another server flipped the camp you would get credit. I mean I stayed and camped them most of the time but you could get the achievement just by touching the camp every time you saw they were up for grabs.

50/50
You don’t have to complete the camp to get credit. Just get a few kills then go do something else if you don’t have the time or desire to finish it. Also, I’m pretty sure the toxic mobs were counting for me toward the capture and those are plentiful. If I saw a camp go neutral on the map, I’d run over to get at least some kills in.

3/50

Too much Scarlet kitten in the way

50/50 and the rest completed as well.

i completed everything within the first week except for merc camps (38/50) after first week and didnt log in since then cuz i got bored :|

I gave up on them at about 20 I think. the annoying toxic crap from pve made it not worth doing. I really hate those things and can’t wait for them to leave. Never put crap like this in WvW again Anet, no one likes it!

50+/50
Spending most my WvW time on EB

Took me about 6 hours to get 15. I didn’t feel like doing them after that. Origionally I wanted to get all the achievements just because they are WvW achievements and that is my preferred game mode but that achievement was too boring.

That toxic crap was annoying to deal with.

50/50, thought it would be a grind until I realised you only needed to revive/kill one thing for it to count, and also you didn’t need to take it, the enemy can take it and youd still get the point.

jalmari.3906:

9/50

I think someone forgot mercs only exist on EB.

They’re on a 4 month delay for updates which puts the creation date of these achievements somewhere in early July. I do believe Quaggans were still there back then.

C Gunner.9406:

50/50, thought it would be a grind until I realised you only needed to revive/kill one thing for it to count, and also you didn’t need to take it, the enemy can take it and youd still get the point.

Unfortunately, I learned about that too late for it to matter.

50/50

I actually did every single achieve other than the jumping puzzles, and found camps to be the most tedious. Took several days of camping (ha) the camps, because I was solo roaming for that part.

Yaks + sentries looked like they’d be the worst, but those two achievements had good synergy when not with a zerg. Ruins was tedious, but do-able in a day. Camps were awful, even with the hit and run tactic of just killing a few things or ressing a few things toward my color claiming it and then getting out. Still couldn’t do anything until the camp flipped to grey… if it was an enemy color, I had to flip it back.

Add in the pve living story toxic alliance crap slowing it down further and it was easily the worst of the 15 non-JP achievements, IMO.

1 and i dont even know how o.0…