Guild Wars 2

I have one diving spot near the east end waypoint in brisban that I can’t get to work. I put on the goggles, jump off, and land at the bottom but nothing happens and I stay in the goggles. I put in a bug report in game, but I was wondering if anyone on here knows of a work around. It’s my very last dive location (I even managed Not So Secret today and watched it to make sure it counted) so it’s really bothering me. I’ve tried it on several different toons, both 80’s and non 80’s. I’ve tried unequipping everything I was wearing. I’ve tried landing in different spots. I’m running out of ideas. It’s kind of frustrating, especially since after my 50th+ jump from it, somebody else jumps in and has no problem.

I’ve done them all (attempted yesterday) and am stuck at 37/38. So are several guild members. Not sure if some haven’t activated but you’re definitely not alone.

The wiki suggests that trying the diving tricks (skills 1 and 2) on the way down can help it recognise when you’ve dived. Worth a try, if you haven’t already. Good luck.

Aley Dianart.1437:

I have one diving spot near the east end waypoint in brisban that I can’t get to work. I put on the goggles, jump off, and land at the bottom but nothing happens and I stay in the goggles. I put in a bug report in game, but I was wondering if anyone on here knows of a work around. It’s my very last dive location (I even managed Not So Secret today and watched it to make sure it counted) so it’s really bothering me. I’ve tried it on several different toons, both 80’s and non 80’s. I’ve tried unequipping everything I was wearing. I’ve tried landing in different spots. I’m running out of ideas. It’s kind of frustrating, especially since after my 50th+ jump from it, somebody else jumps in and has no problem.

As far as I can after reading tons of posts on the Diving Master achievement, the most likely scenario is that you are missing a different dive. In particular, getting credit isn’t necessarily connected to whether you stay in your swimsuit or not.

joyb.6214:

I’ve done them all (attempted yesterday) and am stuck at 37/38. So are several guild members. Not sure if some haven’t activated but you’re definitely not alone.

Yeah, you’re not alone in finding yourself 34+/38 and not being able to get credit for the achievement.

As suggested to the OP, the most likely scenario is that you didn’t get credit for a different dive than you think. And, unfortunately, the only way to figure out which one(s) you missed are to redo them all.

The problem is that some of the dives have narrow requirements about the jump-off location and where you land — a little this way or that, and you might not get credit. Further, there is (as far as I’ve been able to test) absolutely no way to confirm whether you got credit except by watching the achievement counter: it’s possible to change from swimsuit to armor and not get credit; it’s possible to not swap and get credit, depending on the particular dive.

Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to systematically go through all 38 dives, repeating them several times in various ways, to be sure you actually get/got credit.

• Ideally, join someone who is 0/38. Ask them to put the achievement on their watch list and do exactly what they did, after they confirm they get a +1.
• Second best is party up with a mesmer and have them use Mimic + Portal and repeat each and every dive, varying from where you jump and where you land.

Does that sound horrendously tedious? Yeah, in fact it is. I was missing 3, even though I had been checking off the dives as I did each. (Unfortunately, I wasn’t watching the chieve and so didn’t notice when it failed to increment.) I went through the entire set once and got +1, a second time for another +1, and finally, about 1/3 of a third complete run for my last +1.

The third time took longer because I was repeating the dives 3-4 times. (Which was possibly even more annoying that it sounds, but fortunately didn’t take as long because I went with another mesmer.)

tl;dr the achievement itself is not bugged; several specific dives are quirky at best. It takes patience and/or some luck to get the chieve.

I seem to recall it being said back when Lion’s Arch was updated that with HoT, some achievements would get updated to work more like collections or the Princess achievement, so you can see exactly what’s missing. Hopefully this is going to be one of those that gets updated.

I can’t find a source for that on the forums, though, so I think I’m remembering it from an episode of PoI.

Stitch.1794:

I seem to recall it being said back when Lion’s Arch was updated that with HoT, some achievements would get updated to work more like collections or the Princess achievement, so you can see exactly what’s missing. Hopefully this is going to be one of those that gets updated.

I can’t find a source for that on the forums, though, so I think I’m remembering it from an episode of PoI.

Yeah, I remember reading something like that. I’m really hoping that’s true for dive master — I hope that no one else has to do what I did to get the chieve. (I mean, I’ll still explain how I had to hike 10 miles uphill in the snow to reach each dive and how easy the young whippersnappers have it.)

The Devs definitely reiterated recently on a PoI or Guild Chat that at HoT launch, collections and other multiple-task achievements would be updated to include which had been achieved and which had not.

You might consider waiting the 2+ weeks before finishing off said Achievements.

Good luck.