Guild Wars 2

Hello, I have been doing last boss in Hidden Arcana ergo achievement Exposed Weakness: Redux. I was very careful to not trasnfer any boon to vortex but my problem start in phase 2. I killed little facet for color, picked up shield and run to vortex to give it the shield. As soon as I gave the shield to vortex, achievement was lost. I know that I did not give to vortex any boon. Does someone have similar problem? Is it possible to solve it by my own? Thanks for answers.

That was it. It steals boons from those who enter it. The reason I originally asked your class was because guardians passively get aegis which could be stolen.

What class are you?

My class is elementalist. And I have double checked my traits and skills if they will give boon to allies and everything was ok.

Fearius.2879:

My class is elementalist. And I have double checked my traits and skills if they will give boon to allies and everything was ok.

What about boons to yourself?

Only one stack of might with use of fire spell. Do you think it can be it? But it talks about booning of vortex, not me.

Fearius.2879:

Only one stack of might with use of fire spell. Do you think it can be it? But it talks about booning of vortex, not me.

The vortex will absorb boons on you. The vortex isn’t an ally.

ahaaaaa, thx a lot. I have to try it again. I will give you report how it ended.

Only to be sure. Vortex basically sucks in all boons from you. Right?

Yes. Don’t run into it with any boons.

Hello, it worked perfectly. I have done it without problem. Thanks for advice.

What makes this such a terrible challenge is that its at the end of the lair and one slight error in the vortex/colour stage and you have to rerun the whole kitten think over and over.

I have been running it on my ranger.. put all trait lines to zero, bought a bog standard green longbow with nothing more than an accuracy and bloodlust sigil on it and was happily doing the fight… then just like that 6 or 7 attempts previous, I get him down to like 15% he gets his nasty purple pool up, I grab a shield, kill the trash mob, get coloured and run up to the vortex to become fragile, kill crystal and ding….. achievement disappears.. rerun completely again… WHY IS THERE NO REDO clickie like with the current LS episode!!!

Either this is bugged for me or something on longbow skills is booning the vortex… the only skill I can see is Hunters Shot which I have no need to use in there.

The Hidden Arcana instance also have motes for retries although whatever bug is causing challenge motes to not appear might be causing these not to appear as well.

Well there are no retry motes that I have been able to use, but I finally got this one in the bag a few days ago.
The issue I have found is that there appears to be a speed boost inherrant in the ranger which is taken from a downed health scenario, but you don’t need to be in a downed state to pass it on.
This happens even though all trait points are reset to zero, all weapons are base stat greens with no sigil, all armour is base stat with no runes and no food etc used.. literally nothing which can pass on boons. Even put pet to avoid combat mode but still get the same downed speed boost passed on at 75% with the coloured aura/vortex phase. – so I am thinking its an inherent bug that is able to manifest unless, like me you get lucky once.

There are several runes and the Sigil of Speed that will also give swiftness.