Guild Wars 2

I’ve been trying to complete some of the Aurora achievements ([Map] Hero), and, like some others, seemed to have severe issues getting some of the drops. I did a whopping 13 Hablions on my thief, cause that char didn’t have Bloodstone Fen map completion yet and I thought of doing that in one blow. After ending up rather annoyed and contemplating writing a furious forum post, I did one last thing™ and switched character to my main, where I got the item on my first try. This wasn’t limited to the Hablion item, same thing happened with Vermingus (7th try, 1st after swapping), too, and I strongly suspect with some other items I haven’t received where others got them on the first try. No idea what might be going on there, but it’s severely unnerving and I’ve heard from others in mapchat that they had similar issues. Would be great if you could look into that (or, if necessary, specify that the char needs map completion or story completion or whatever).

Will try the other items with main char today.

I have had the same issue. I have completed the champ spider in siren’s multiple times without the drop as well as the drake without the drop.

Are these drops supposed to be random?

This toon does not currently have this map completion, but does have story complete.

Mr Snuff.7132:

I have completed the champ spider in siren’s multiple times without the drop as well as the drake without the drop.

Just fyi, the spider to do is the one that spawns at Lyssa’s shrine powering Event, not the one near Dwayna’s cascades.
Maybe you’re already doing the right one, but I’ve seen a lot of people mistaking it.

In a lot of cases, the item drops from a ground-based chest that pops up after a boss is killed. Typically in LS3 maps, you can only get the loot from such chests once per day. In many cases, I’ve seen people unlock the collecting after having killed one (or more) of the relevant bosses in the same 24-hour period. To resolve that, just try it the next day.

A secondary problem is with a small number of bosses. Credit for the ground chest is giving differently than for the event — you apparently need to get some hits in during the first phase, i.e. while health is still above 50%. This is true for Hablion and the Champ Devourer in Draconis (and perhaps others). For example, last night, I camped the devourer and let my friend know and then typed in /map that it was up. My friend got there during >50% and received the Aurora drop; because I was typing, I arrived at ~33% and did not get it. Solution: be at the boss sooner.

And finally, as Lascax mentioned, the descriptions are sometimes subtle about just which boss/event/location is needed for the collection. ANet reuses names and often uses similar names; it can be difficult to tell things apart. (My personal favorite: Zephyr Sanctum Model is a cute gizmo; Model Zephyr Sanctum is the one needed for a collection/achievement.)

These things aren’t intuitive and they could probably use some tweaking, but I doubt very much if they are ‘bugged’ to the point that anyone’s collection is blocked for longer than a day.

Honestly, I had a toon camped out there and completed each of the Hablion preevents and the regular event afterwards. I tried flying, I tried being on the ground, I cc-ed, I whatevered. Thing is, I did exactly the same thing after changing to my Elementalist, and suddenly it popped on the first try – on 3 different collection items that I just couldn’t get before. Ofc, there’s always a remote chance that that might have been a coincidence, but after trying for hours getting it first try on another character seems a bit too much to just be an odd coincidence.