Guild Wars 2

A potential fix for people who, like me, spent ages and ages trying to score the kills.
I am not sure if it is true, but thusfar it seems that the combo kill is more likely to be counted if the Combo effect is aggressive.

Healing bolts. Healing. Cleansing Bolts. Retaliation. etc.
All these do not seem to count toward the achievement.

Fiery bolts. Leeching bolts. Poison. Fiery projectiles. etc.
These do seem to work.

I’d love for an offical fellow to step up and tell me this is true or not.
If so, I’d like to say that the description of this particular achievement is a “bug”, in that it needs adjusting to more clearly inform players.
If not, then paint me green and call me pickle; I’ve no idea how this is so unstable, and I might just have been fortunate to have gotten at least something done. And then that on its own is a bug. Hence the reason I posted this here.

As a guardian I can verify, spent 1 hour with a friend while he setup fields i finished them and other way around, this achievement is broken, none of my combos worked, please remove it from roster, most angry it was last one to do before reset:((((

Daily will not allow itself to be done at ALL – both my friend & I..once we get to 50% on any particular part of the daily – BAM it resets and becomes 0% done, then insists we have different goals as well. So nothing is actually counting and daily not actually finishable.

Auruan.2837:

A potential fix for people who, like me, spent ages and ages trying to score the kills. I am not sure if it is true, but […]

If you’re not sure if it’s true, maybe not call it a fix.

It’s not true, BTW. I’ve had exactly the same combos be counted in some cases and not in others (ex, whirl inside fire field, generating fiery bolts – only counted about 10% of the times).

It’s clearly bugged, and the only real fix will have to come from Arena Net, whose QA never ceases to amaze.

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Auruan.2837:

A potential fix for people who, like me, spent ages and ages trying to score the kills. I am not sure if it is true, but […]

If you’re not sure if it’s true, maybe not call it a fix. ;

Perhaps that’s why he called it a POTENTIAL fix. ;D

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It’s not true, BTW. I’ve had exactly the same combos be counted in some cases and not in others (ex, whirl inside fire field, generating fiery bolts – only counted about 10% of the times).

Same here when playing ele with a mesmer tonight. Combos would register one time and not another even though they clearly happened.

Did a lot of combos with an Ele and a Ranger tonight that also seemed to count randomly .

I was in Cursed Shore with my engi and after doing a whole Pen/Shelter run I didn’t get my daily until the last event with about a minute left. The main attack of a pistol is a combo finisher so it should’ve come far before that.