Guild Wars 2

As the screen capture. I did a higher damage than the record.
The record didn’t update. And I cannot get the achievement.

Have u tried another skill? The damage u’ve done came from a phantasm. Killing an enemy with a phantasm doesn’t count towards weapon specific achievements so it might not count towards this achievement either.

Thanks Thomas, you are right.
I did the achievement by exploding my phantasm.
But it is so weird. Why illusion not in count. it should be a part of Mesmer.
Is this under designed, or only a bug?

I think it’s purposely designed like this. Just like when you inflict a condition with a weapon skill and the enemy dies from the condition it doesn’t count (I think). It’s a shame because it causes so many mesmer skills to not count towards weapon master achievements. Maybe a dev could clarify (I don’t know if its been said somewhere else on the forum though).

Wiki says: “Note that if you are wielding two weapons only the weapon related to the weapon skill that strikes the killing blow will earn a point. If the target dies from condition damage or a utility skill no credit is given.”
A warrior can’t kill with his warhorn, a mesmer can’t kill with his focus (not even with reflecting projectiles when having the right trait), and so on. They don’t have skills which deal direct damage. (In fact the warrior’s warhorn doesn’t deal any damage).

The only things which count are the skills which directly deal damage and are from a specific weapon (type). It’s very sad because I don’t really make much progress in these titles when playing my mesmer since I finished GS…

By the way, Engineer’s bomb kit etc. don’t count either, although they use your equipped weapon set to determine your current attack value (as far as I figured out).

All in all it’s best to kill ambients with a weapon you don’t use much or just play professions which can kill with those weapons…

edit: genitive s

edit2: okay, I see the weapon master is well discussed on the wiki and engineer things seem to count, just not as I expected. However, I stop talking now since I realize that it doesn’t really have much to do with the original topic. Sorry for that.