Guild Wars 2

As simple as this achievement is, it is really well designed.

Everyone will quickly discover surviving 15 seconds in the Quicksand is impossible alone or difficult unless you have the right armor stats.

So we gathered everyone who needed the achievement and made groups of 5. Creating water fields and blasting them as much as possible to the 5 people going for the achievement. Even a zerker thief with 10,000 health made it just fine.

Major props ArenaNet, making use of your combo system to make this challenge.

It’s pretty easy to do solo. I would wager that most classes can do it.

Yup. It was really good. Finally some use for healers

Don’t use zerkers- > done.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Don’t use zerkers- > done.

I did it easily on a berserker guardian with 10.8k health; could have been slightly more health as I’m not ingame and just checked the base stats on a build editor.

Necro … I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

Er yeah.. death shroud.. done. For warriors, the heal skill that heals you everytime you get hit. Mist form for eles… etc.

It’s not impossible alone at all. :P

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Don’t use zerkers- > done.

Did it on a zerker ele. Learn to play.

edit: Mist form and Obsidian flesh didnt worked tough, but still doable.

Sarrs.4831:

It’s pretty easy to do solo. I would wager that most classes can do it.

All classes can solo it, just everyone is running around with full zerker gear.

I just realized Transforming Elites is a great way to do it solo, as it doubles health.

And yes, Necromancers Death Shroud -_-

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Um, does everyone understand that this thread is praising the design of the achievement, rather than QQ can’t do it?

Invuln skills didn’t work; it’s all about healing.

That said, staff zerker ele, got it done solo, but downed the second after I got the achievement.

Was easy to do solo. For my thief, had the SA trait that heals in stealth, Shadow Refuge, and Heal in Shadow. When my health got low, I used Heal in Shadow to get a burst heal and to start the regen, then I threw down Shadow Refuge for more healing and stealth.

I just got the achievement. The quicksand seems to reduce the healthpool by percentage. So, this means that the more hp the player has the harder it will be for him/her to survive. So, the best gear for doing it should be cleric while the worst is sentinel. But i managed to finish it with full celestial (engineer) bcuz I don’t have a cleric gear. I tried with soldier gear, but it was so much worse.

Use a necro with full DS bar. Extremely easy

<- Full zerker war, only thing used and basicly have to be used is the Defiant Stance , heal per hit. This will get you up to a full health bar and slowly go down again, you’ll even walk out with 80% health..

Used Full mediation ( and chose the mediation heals you trait and used virtue of resolve I had on Sentinel gear on.

Yup. Zerker necro. Easy peasy.

I assume low vitality builds make it easier, as the quicksand deals %HP based damage and also armor doesn’t influence environmental damage at all.

The timer doesn’t have to be all at once. I went into the quicksand for it and got it after only a few seconds (because I had run through it several times earlier).

Rangers are left behind. Two skills which make the ranger invulnerable, both do not work.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Rangers are left behind. Two skills which make the ranger invulnerable, both do not work.

Invulnerability has never prevented environmental damage, such as lava (and now quicksand).

Try using that elite spirit that resses the downed?

As a mesmer: Use restorative mantras, Harmonious Mantras, Mantra of recovery and pain. Jump in, charge recovery, charge pain and spam ahead. charge whenever its ready.
Did it with full zerk.

Did it on zerk warrior
Easy but nice achievement imo
GG new trait system for this tho :p

Just did it on -mostly- zerk thief. Just set my traits for healing based survival. I did:

CS: 2 (VI)
SA: 6 (III – V – XI)
Acro: 6 (VI – VIII – XI)

I used Hide in Stealth, Blinding Powder, and Shadow Refuge. Just time out your stealth heals to maximize your hp/s and you can get it.