Guild Wars 2

The bombardment target marker offered by Tactician Lystratia is presumably supposed to give a grenade kit similar to the one she offers at the Champion Risen Giant event. However, when consumed, it gives the player a rifle instead of said kit.

I know this is a minor bug, but is this being looked into? Same issue 4 months after release. I’m very sure you aren’t supposed to gain a rifle when you use a “bombardment target marker.”

Why not? It’s a MARKER, why do you suppose it must be a grenade kit?

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Have you even done the event before?

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Have you even done the event before?

Dunno, can’t remember many specific events to be honest. Maybe, maybe not. Exactly where does it happen?

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Have you even done the event before?

Dunno, can’t remember many specific events to be honest. Maybe, maybe not. Exactly where does it happen?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Use_the_Pact_weapons_to_kill_the_Risen_giant_guarding_the_area_near_the_temple_of_Balthazar

It is a DE in the straits of devastation, shown in the circled area. If you speak to Tactician Lystratia while the Giant is alive, she asks you to take a grenade kit that has access to some extremely powerful abilities – in addition to grenades you can call down ballista and artillery strikes. When the giant is dead, she converts to a merchant that sells a “bombardment target marker” which has a bomb icon. When you consume this “bombardment target marker,” you gain a standard rifle consumable – the kind that pushes you back and is discarded after 1 use.

Sorry to be a MeToo, but yes, I was quite taken aback at how useless it was too. You do a mission involving aerial strikes and is offered a pretty expensive item called a “bombardment marker” that does … nothing?

Having said that, I can see that the thing is too powerful for its own good, if it was what it was made out to be. Personally, I wanted to drag it into a dungeon – dungeon airstrikes ftw!!! – but I can see why ANet wouldn’t let me.

But couldn’t they at least nerf the damage on it, then? Make it just somehow useful. That thing actually cost a pretty bundle.

Yeah, I agree. The thing certainly is powerful, and is appropriately powerful for the event. The consumable item itself doesn’t have to be nearly as strong but it should at least do something close to what’s intended.