Guild Wars 2

Whenever I go near or interact with any of the holographic totems, I never see any aetherblades. Dulfy claims it’s a 50/50 chance. I’ve been by 30+ hologrphic totems around the map and nothing. It’s making the aetherblade achievements very tedious ~.~

Yup same problem .. I spent two hours running around in Diessa, Ashford Plains, Fields of Ruin, and Fireheart Rise … no aetherblades at any of the projectors. I tried to enter Vexa’s Lab, but no one else was around and I couldn’t kill the boss by myself. So I couldn’t proceed any further. At that point I was so frustrated, I quit looking. Yesterday I ran around Diessa and had no problem finding groups of Aetherblades, today nothing. I just need 23 more. Hopefully they’ll spawn better tomorrow.

There are several posts in the Sky Pirates sub forum where other players are experiencing the same problem finding aetherblades. Yesterday no problems .. today couldn’t find any.

It seems this problem is occuring specifically on Ascalon Maps. I had Diessa plateau, Plains of Ashford and Fields of Ruins all explored yesterday, not only on my homeworld but also alternating within 2 other guest servers, but the problem persisted. I had only 1 aetherblade spawned from holograms in a 2 hours farm!

I first thought it could be linked to many people ignoring the “non-aetherblade” holograms, and then i kept activating them and then running to the next, in order to make them respawn shortly. Did this server swap several times but everytime i was back on the holograms, none of them spawned….

The only solution i found to catch my ascalon aetherblades achievement was venturing on the vexxa’s lab, wich spawns mobs lvl 70, but i am only lvl 53, so i was very unhappy about this. I could barely reach the Jumping Puzzle at all, since the area is filled with high level mobs. They should remove this threat for lowbies. If weren’t for some helpful people in there, i was going to be unsucessful in my attempts.

Definitely not just an ascalon bug. I’ve tried holograms in several areas across all the continents. Aetherblades never spawn.

It may be 50% chance but that is on respawn of the hologram not on activating the hologram. If people don’t activate the other ones then the number of them that will have Aetherblades will be less and less.

I found Fireheart Rise to be a great place for them. Finished the Maguuma one just from killing the ones near the golem platform.

NO man, didnt you read the posts? I alone have picked up a specific area in diessa plateau for example. Did about 10 holograms. None of them spawned aetherblades.
Even so, i have interacted with all of them for them to spawn again, hoping the next time they spawn, they could have pirates spawned.
After finishing the holograms (i have killed some, but other i just let live and ran away), i did guesting on 2 other servers and repeated the process on the same holograms.

After this, i came back to the first server and new holograms had spawned. However, none of them spawned pirates again. Went to the second and third server, the problem persisted….

Conclusion: THERE IS A PROBLEM.
After 2 hours of frustrating attempts, i went to vexxas lab on the cache’s aetherblades and farmed them with a little help from a friend. Otherwise i would still be looking for them on the ascalon maps….

The idea that they’re not resetting because people aren’t actually activating the holograms after killing the aetherblades, thus the projector is not resetting and the aetherblades are not resetting, seems plausible. Either way, this kitten is BROKEN and needs to be fixed. I already did the hologram achievement. I’m not doing it again just so I can finish the aetherblade achievement.

Can we get a dev to look into this, please?

Tentonhammr.7849:

The idea that they’re not resetting because people aren’t actually activating the holograms after killing the aetherblades, thus the projector is not resetting and the aetherblades are not resetting, seems plausible.

after killing the aetherblades the hologram ist automatically disactivated

had the same problem yesterday … ashford … no aetherblades
my wife today … ashford, wayfarer foothills, snowden drifts … no aetherblades

I don’t think it has anything to do with people not “resetting” the holo projectors. I tried that in Ascalon yesterday and Silverpeaks to day, activated all the holo’s in an area, killed off the dragon event holograms and then went back after the holo’s reset. Still no aetherblades. Tried again and still no aetherblades. If the aetherblades are spawning at projectors the spawn rate must be less than 1 in 100.

Well, starting from the next release, we won’t need to be worried anymore. There won’t be any reason to search for these boring pirates or holograms. After all, we will have only ONE reason to do the achievements, and don’t matter how you get the points, what you will want is THAT SHINY REWARD! So you can keep tracking all your bluberries on the map, or killing defenseless wasps, or powerful dragons, or even your guild mates on PvP! everything for the shiny rewards. No reason to do any achievements anymore.

Next event i wont even bother with the “Kill 250 whatever mob they put”. After all, i can get that point by doing dailies. But wait, they will put a mini as a rewardfor completing 15 boring achievements again! oh, that could be so cool! # but no

They definitely changed something in the last few days, before that I’d run into Aetherblade projectors fairly regularly, and now I’m encountering nothing but the regular ones.

I didn’t found this thread before, so I opened another one (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bugged-Hologram-Projectors/first#post2347856).

What I want to know from a dev is:
1. Are the aetherblade guys supposed to be super rare?
2. How often should they spawn instead of the dragon bash minions?

And to the people that claim it happened since a few days.. there was a “fix”:
Fixed an issue where some holoprojectors appear to be active but do not function.
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013/first#post2339673)

Might that be the reason why they spawn now very rarely?

Oh, and it is not only the ascalon maps, we’ve been looking for them on the shiverpeak maps yesterday.

Navi.7142:

I didn’t found this thread before, so I opened another one (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bugged-Hologram-Projectors/first#post2347856).

What I want to know from a dev is:
1. Are the aetherblade guys supposed to be super rare?
2. How often should they spawn instead of the dragon bash minions?

And to the people that claim it happened since a few days.. there was a “fix”:
Fixed an issue where some holoprojectors appear to be active but do not function.
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013/first#post2339673)

Might that be the reason why they spawn now very rarely?

Well the broken projectors DO resemble the ones that spawn aetherblades in every way except for the fact that they do nothing.

The holograms that have a 50/50 chance of spawning aetherblade pirates have a 1% chance to spawn. 99% of the timesthey only have 0% chance of spawning aetherblade pirates
[trolling]
Sorry, couldn’t let it pass lol
Its just that i got ZERO pirates from about 50 holos and then i just gave up

After coming here to see if there was a problem, I decided to test the spawn rate this morning. If it is supposed to be 50%, then I can confirm that it is not working as intended.

Test 1:
Camped the same node. Did it 4 times in a row. Pirates only spawned once. So it is a 1 out of 4 (25%).

Test 2:
Went to a different node and tried same steps as above. 25% again.

Unless you camp a node, the chances of you getting the pirates will be low at 25%.

did you really get Aetherblades to spawn? because yesterday i went around all the maps and i got absolutely nothing, today im doing the same at least 60 holos so far and 0 Aetherblades.

Edit: as soon as i got back to the game and returned to the previews holo, they pirates decided to spawn.

For some reason you need to activate the holo then kill the holo mobs and then come back thats when you get a 25% for the Aetherblades to appear.

People havent been activating the holos thats why… and i found out also that coffers from holo mobs was reduced? they barely drop any now…

Its looks like aetherblades chance to spawn was decreased

Sanlucifer.1742:

did you really get Aetherblades to spawn? because yesterday i went around all the maps and i got absolutely nothing, today im doing the same at least 60 holos so far and 0 Aetherblades.

Edit: as soon as i got back to the game and returned to the previews holo, they pirates decided to spawn.

I did. I got them to spawn twice in Dissea. At those two nodes I mentioned. I am going to log back in now and try again. I may move to other areas with Ascalon to further test as well. Will try to post here later on.