Guild Wars 2

I just did a successful Tangled Depths meta. I participated in the Nuhoch Lane and got the Nuhoch Lane Defender achievement, but did not get the Gerent Slayer achievement despite constantly DPSing it throughout the entire event. I also looted the Gerent Chest. I was downed when the Gerent actually died, but others got the achievement while they were dead. Is there a reason that I did not get the achievement?

Edit: Actually, I think I was alive when it actually died. But the second time it popped out from the underground (in total, it surfaced 3 times), I was entirely downed or dead, not getting a hit in. Only in the first and third sections did I actually hit it. Does this cause the achievement to not work?

yea you need to do the whole event, how could you not be able to run back from waypoint to get afew hits in?

Some achievements & events have some wonky requirements when it comes to getting credit. The rewards can be sort of divided into:

• Event credit (Bronze, Silver, or Gold) <- winner need not be present to win
• Boss death loot (same as for any foe, only better) <- winner needs to return to the scene to collect
• Bouncy chest (almost always after receiving event credit) <- presence not required
• Ground chest (location of said chest varies) <- winner must be nearby to autoloot, otherwise must manually loot.
• Achievement credit (the one of interest to the OP). The requirements vary and sometimes include being present at the death, although more often they do not.

I speculate that there is at least one set of circumstances for just about any major event for which you might receive all of the above except one. It will be possible in some cases to pin down the exact cause, but more often, … it’s not worth the player’s time to figure it out.

Instead, it’s much easier to do the event again. It’ very unlikely that the player will suffer the same unfortunate series of events and miss out.

(Of course, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be reported as a bug — it might very well be. It’s more that the immediate need of the player is better met by redoing the event chain.)

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yea you need to do the whole event, how could you not be able to run back from waypoint to get afew hits in?

I did run back. I just got downed while I was peeking at my inventory and no one bothered to help me res faster.