Guild Wars 2

I just finished a run of this and did not get the achieve, even though nothing reached the anomaly.

Happened twice for me. The most recent attempt a few minute ago had the anomaly starting the DPS phase with 15 stacks of that ley-line accumulation without anything having been near it the entire fragment phase.

Same here. Just did it in gendarran. Nothing got close to the anomaly, but nobody got the achiev anyway.

I can speak to this as well, participated in the run just after reset. No coalescence touched, yet 7 stacks of accumulation, no achievement. Either this is bugged or some mechanic is very unclear here.

Same here, in Iron Marches. No Ley-line reabsorbed but no “Fragmented Anomaly” achievement.

Did it twice with people in single burn phase, definitely nothing reached it both times and the entire map chat concluded that yes, it still does not work

I could have sworn I did this already and got the achievement way back when ANet first added it.

Did something change that caused this achievement to reset? Or is it because they added a tonic?

Still not working, just took down the Anomaly in Gendarran Fields before it got near any fragments and nobody on the map got the achievement.

Just did this in the first burn phase with 50+ people and nobody got it so it seems bugged.

Aveneo.2068:

I could have sworn I did this already and got the achievement way back when ANet first added it.

Did something change that caused this achievement to reset? Or is it because they added a tonic?

This is a new achieve. The previous one you had to do a second event to kill a group of…I forget what they are called before the anomaly reaches them.

Just made and attempt in Iron Marches and nobody in the entire squad got the achievement. Anomaly died from condis while running away with 5% of HP from the 1st location.

Same, had a really good group, nothing reached it, burnt it down in about 30 seconds. No achievement.

Please fix this.

did Gendarran just now and had a full map and anomaly went down fast. Noone got the achievement. This is very shoddy work.

Neutra.6857:

Aveneo.2068:

I could have sworn I did this already and got the achievement way back when ANet first added it.

Did something change that caused this achievement to reset? Or is it because they added a tonic?

This is a new achieve. The previous one you had to do a second event to kill a group of…I forget what they are called before the anomaly reaches them.

Oh yeah, I remember now. One group had to rush ahead to take care of the little mobs before the big guy arrived.

Ah well, guess I’ll have to do this one once ANet fixes it.

By the way, didn’t we have an item that we needed to place in our inventory which would tell us when and where the anomaly formed? Or was that for another boss?

I swear, I have so many scanners and items in my bank but no clue anymore what they were used for. :P

3rd Event now, Gendarren fields, same result – Anomaly had 0 accumulated in the bar on the right – burnt it down within the first phase (about 40 seconds), no achievement.

I did however notice, that on spawning, before any CC or anomaly spawns, the Legendary Ley Line Anomaly seems to spawn with 10 stacks of accumulated ley energy, which could possibly be the cause for this event failing. In short the players arent failing it, its starting out impossible in the first place. Will do Timberline in 2hrs and see if it has the same thing.

Did it a couple of times, no achievement. Twice even the anomaly burned from 100% to 0% in one go.

Got a screenshot of it as it spawned this time. With 10 stacks of Accumulation right at the start.

Starts broken.

Well, that likely accounts for why no one had earned this achievement this entire time. Now to hope anet fixes this for real now.

The people that think they got it before the Tuesday update are confusing this one with “Dispersed Anomaly”.

If you read the text description and compare to the one for “Dispersed Anomaly”, it says absorb while for Fragmented it says reabsorb.

Perhaps to get the achievement you have to have it absorb one and only one to get it.

Artonis.2157:

The people that think they got it before the Tuesday update are confusing this one with “Dispersed Anomaly”.

If you read the text description and compare to the one for “Dispersed Anomaly”, it says absorb while for Fragmented it says reabsorb.

Perhaps to get the achievement you have to have it absorb one and only one to get it.

Dispersed Anomaly states ‘before it can absorb any coalescences’

Fragmented Anomaly states ‘without it reabsorbing any fragments’

My understanding is coalescences are different that fragments.

Further, regarding the fragments, the wiki states the Ley-Line Anomaly ‘will become untargetable, /cower, and spawn several Anomaly Fragments
for a minute when defiance bar is broken; during this time, its defiance bar is “locked” from regenerating.’

So according to the above, when he’s cc’d he spawns the fragments, and so the goal of the achievement should be to prevent him from ‘reabsorbing’ any said fragments.

Since I just did a run where no fragments were absorbed, if my logic is correct then the cheevo is (still) bugged.

Neutra.6857:

Aveneo.2068:

I could have sworn I did this already and got the achievement way back when ANet first added it.

Did something change that caused this achievement to reset? Or is it because they added a tonic?

This is a new achieve. The previous one you had to do a second event to kill a group of…I forget what they are called before the anomaly reaches them.

This is actually the hidden achievement that a lot of us were trying to figure out. It turns out the reason why it was hidden, and nobody found it, was because it’s been bugged since they released the Anomaly.

Seems to be that sometimes when he spawns he spawns with the anomaly stacks already on him before most the time around 10-15 some have said, not sure if this is an issue? From doing it 3-4 times today only seen 1 person who said they have done it on EU

the fact that it starts with 10 stacks makes it almost impossible to follow the achievement. I’ve tried it 5 times and all of them failed, but it never had more than those 10 stacks (I didn’t check the first 2 tries, but I know one of them had less than 5 and died in 1 burn)
I saw someone transformed with the tonic, so it’s not totally bugged, but maybe it’s an issue with the number of people who can actually get the achiev?
make it starts with 0 stack and at least we will know (if that’s how the achievement works of course)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5nk72j/reddit_lets_find_the_hidden_rifts_achievement_and/dci4f7h/?st=iy0lck1q&sh=55006829

So, this is the famous hidden achiev that no one ever unlocked ? And all this time, it was just bugged on live servers ?

Everyone just failed this in Timberline Falls. It only took 1 burn. This is very poor work.

6th try and this time it worked; Everyone in the squad (and out of it too of course :p) got the achievement

it died at 2nd burn and it even absorbed a full coalescence camp. It had 3 stacks left (starting with 10 as always)

my third attempt this time in Gendarran just failed. Again single burn. Entire maps are wasting their time. Not a good look.

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

hey all, wanted to let you know we are investigating this issue. It seems to be working when tested locally, and we have reports of some players having earned it, so it is possible. Due to the random nature of this event it’s very difficult to track down exactly what’s happening here. We’ll update when we have more information.

Thanks for telling us this. Hope we find out what is happening.

6th attempt – perfect run this time. Not a single anomaly got remotely close, in gendarren fields.

This is seriously frustrating.

Perfect run in Timberline just now. Nobody got the achievement. On a previous run in Iron Marches last night (about 10 or 12 hours ago) a few people claimed to have gotten the achievement in the squad.

I just had an idea why this bug might be in the game for most players and yet the achievement works perfectly in testing. So far every group I’ve been in that has gone for this achievement has had at LEAST 50 people. If testing was done with a smaller group of say 10 people, and the amount of damage you have to do to get credit for the achievement is let’s say 1/20th (5%) of the anomaly’s health, it would be much harder to get that percent damage in a very large group but very possible in a small group. In a group of 50+, for one person to do 5% of the damage would require phenomenal DPS.

Again, this is NOT the coalescences, this is the fragments that spawn after his CC phase… so a “perfect run” might not be what you think. I would not be surprised if some of the fragments that he spawns after CC are spawning directly on top of him and so being instantly re-absorbed. This is probably a similar problem to the Skritt/Mantle issue with defending the boat in Lake Doric.

Not going to get into a nerd rage argument with anyone, just telling you what we did on my map that ended up with a victory. Screen shot is attached below for verification.
You can try it or not, i really don’t care, again not going to argue just saying what we did to make it work.

We waited for the 10 stacks to end, when you mouse over it, there’s a timer. When the stacks vanished. We just burned him down and killed him.

This was probably my 10th attempt. The previous 9 attempts were 1 time burns with stacks of his buff still active. 9 times doing the same thing, all ended in failure. We did 1 thing that was different, that being waiting for the stacks to expire and vanish, we killed him and we got it.

Master haxors, master glitchers, freaky coincidence… i don’t know you decide. Just saying it worked for us.

http://imgur.com/a/FpMvM

Map IP was: 64.25.38.75:0
Time was roughly 1:28 PM U.S. Central Time.

Wolfey.3407:

Not going to get into a nerd rage argument with anyone, just telling you what we did on my map that ended up with a victory. Screen shot is attached below for verification.
You can try it or not, i really don’t care, again not going to argue just saying what we did to make it work.

We waited for the 10 stacks to end, when you mouse over it, there’s a timer. When the stacks vanished. We just burned him down and killed him.

This was probably my 10th attempt. The previous 9 attempts were 1 time burns with stacks of his buff still active. 9 times doing the same thing, all ended in failure. We did 1 thing that was different, that being waiting for the stacks to expire and vanish, we killed him and we got it.

Master haxors, master glitchers, freaky coincidence… i don’t know you decide. Just saying it worked for us.

http://imgur.com/a/FpMvM

Map IP was: 64.25.38.75:0
Time was roughly 1:28 PM U.S. Central Time.

Stacks don’t matter.

https://youtu.be/B_BS-wAPd9Q

yea just had another run and no one got it, nothing touched him. If its with a smaller group working then what, 4 burns needed?

Ayrilana.1396:

Stacks don’t matter.

https://youtu.be/B_BS-wAPd9Q

Relisted it for you:

……….just telling you what we did on my map that ended up with a victory.

Wolfey.3407:

Ayrilana.1396:

Stacks don’t matter.

https://youtu.be/B_BS-wAPd9Q

Relisted it for you:

……….just telling you what we did on my map that ended up with a victory.

right but what hes saying is that stacks were not the reason you got it. I cant say for sure at this point but if a map iks willing to wait and try Ill be happy to do the research.

Trock Bronze.9625:

Wolfey.3407:

Ayrilana.1396:

Stacks don’t matter.

https://youtu.be/B_BS-wAPd9Q

Relisted it for you:

……….just telling you what we did on my map that ended up with a victory.

right but what hes saying is that stacks were not the reason you got it. I cant say for sure at this point but if a map iks willing to wait and try Ill be happy to do the research.

Just did it on my map with 2 phases and no stacks after failing 6+ times when doing 1 phase with stacks left. There might be something about it.

I wish Anet would drop a hint at least. Nothing like hundreds of players getting frustrated every 2 hours, several times a day, for days for this Achievement.

Had a commander map hop after we failed the 1 burn attempt. Pm’d me and said he got it with “No Stacks”

Tried twice with “no stacks” personally, but the zerg won’t listen and burn the anomaly down anyway… Fun…

My map just got it. These were the differences between this run and my runs yesterday:

1. We waited for all of his stacks to disappear before killing him. (Not that we had much of a choice. I ended up in a near-empty map that slowly filled as time went on, so our DPS on the first burn was pretty terrible.)

2. Nobody bothered going ahead to clear Coals, so he absorbed a full camp of Coals in between the first and second burns.

3. He actually died to conditions after the 2nd burn, shortly after he started running off again.

As usual, we made sure that no fragments reached the Anomaly during his invulnerable phase. There were still fragments alive when he became vulnerable, so killing all of them isn’t necessary.

Then if this is indeed the way to get the achievement, it seems that the bug fix Anet need to do here, is make sure the Ley Line Anomaly spawns without 10 stacks of accumulated ley energy at the start. Every group i’ve been in so far (7 now) have CC’d him well within the first 5 minutes of the fight.

If it is stacks causing this, we shouldnt have to wait to defeat him until that mechanic is gone, the achievement only asks that it doesn’t reabsorb. We shouldn’t be penalised for being too efficient at killing him.

I was just curious if the people who are not getting credit are by themselves, in a party or in a squad.

@stormseeker: Thing is though, we do have a Youtube video proof showing that they got the achieve even though the Anomaly still had stacks up. The stacks might play a role (as evidenced by the fact that several of us have gotten it via no-stack kills), but it’s still not conclusive.

Still, based on my experience and others, I would indeed recommend trying a no-stack kill just to see if it works for you.

@aandiarie No one gets credit for Fragmented Anomaly in the map. Doesn’t matter whether ur in squad, party or not.

@Anet – some kind of visual indicator that it has absorbed a ley line fragment would be useful, if that is already the accumulation stacks, then removing the 10 at the start would have that additional benefit of adding 1 stack per fragment it re absorbs.

As for the kill with stacks still on, that could be a bug as well.

Got the achievement: we killed the anomaly with no fragments absorbed & buff gone.

But i still think its kinda random….

waiting for the stacks to end and then killing it worked for my whole map.

The timberline one we just did, it ported to a really bad spot and the stacks had time to disappear, got it down in second burn phases with everyone expecting a fail due to the spot and some energy accumulated, but it had 0 stacks.

Achievement finally popped after 10 attempts. Elated, but hopefully this thread will be useful for anet to bugfix it a bit, as it still feels super random.

Trying to convince an entire map (or two) to try this, and all I get is backlash is “stacks don’t matter” over and over again.

Thanks for creating this environment…. :\ It’s becoming toxic and depressing all at the same time.

Have you considered that stacks indeed don’t matter, but those runs were succesful due to CC awareness and ppl stunned Anomaly in a good spot? There is an idea that sometimes Anomaly stops at bad terrain and some of the Fragments spawns right at its feet and get consumed immidiately.