Guild Wars 2

So what’s up with certain dive locations requiring multiple tries for the achievement to stick? Is this a bug or is there something I am not aware of? Do I need to jump and land in certain specific spots?

So far I’ve had problems with Kryta 1 “light tower” and Kryta 8 “wizard’s fief”. I was able to get Kryta 1 by doing it over and over, loading in and out of the map. Eventually it worked. However, Kryta 8 is just not working. I’ve tried this over a dozen times at this point and the achievement is not activating.

Anyone else having this issue or have answers?
I can make a video if you’d like.

Some dives have been wonky in terms of credit since the game launched. Generally, the issues fall into four general categories:

• The landing location is a lot smaller than expected.
• The ‘acceptable’ starting location is a lot smaller than expected.
• You can lose chance of credit by falling too far outside of the range.
• You can lose chance of credit by accidentally gliding (that’s new since HoT).

The good news is that you can tell exactly which dives are wonky now (originally, people would proceed to the next dive without realizing they didn’t get credit for the previous one — many of us had to redo the full set 2-3 times to finally get credit for those 1-2 missing dives).

What I can tell you is that all of the dives are working, because people do get credit. So try noting where you start the dive and where you land and start to experiment with those. Bring a mesmer with you (or be a mesmer) so you can return to the goggles more quickly.

(Tip: trait for reduced cooldown on glamours and use mimic so you can port more often. The order is set exit portal → do your thing → mimic → set entrance portal.)

If you do figure it out for ‘Kryta 1’ and ‘Kryta 8’, please add a comment to the wiki article for it, so someone can update the article (or update the article yourself).

Good luck and please let us know how you get on.

Thanks for the response btw.
So here is what ended up happening:

• Come to find out Kryta 8 was actually the Aether JP dive and the guide I was watching was wrong to name it Kryta 8 as Wizard’s Fief.
• The Kryta 1 is indeed the light tower in LA now. I had a lot of trouble with this dive. I tried jumping from and landing in various different places, had to have been over two dozen times before it activated. I had tried leaving the zone, even logging out of the client entirely and logging back in. Not sure if that helped but eventually upon a pretty mundane dive, just standing directly above goggles, hitting accept and jumping, it worked.
• Ended up having the same exact problem with Maguuma 1, the dive inside The Grove. However this one… I spent almost an hour trying to do the achievement. It just would not activate. I eventually just left it alone and went on to other dives. Strangely enough, during Maguuma 4 or 5 I believe it was, I did the dive and it double activated the Maguuma 1 and the current dive I was on. No idea what happened there but just glad I was able to get the dives done.

All of the other dives worked fine.
So the only real problems I had was LA lighthouse dive and The Grove dive.

Glad to hear that you were ultimately successful.