Guild Wars 2

“Kill unchained wraiths, use ley-line magic to reclaim their corpses, and channel magic to Grenth’s reliquary.”

The bolded part of the description is incorrect because using ley-line magic only works on “living” unchained wraiths, not their corpses.

And this is also where the potential for toxicity comes in: using ley-line magic on “living” unchained wraiths is the most effective way by far for a single player to advance their Renown Heart progress, but it only seems to work for one player per wraith. Contributing to a wraith kill gives considerably less Renown Heart progress per player but lets multiple players gain progress from a single wraith.

Thus, a single player trying to use ley-line magic on a wraith is in direct contention to one or more other players trying to kill the same wraith, since success for one party robs the other of any chance at progressing the Renown Heart from the wraith under contention. Add a somewhat low respawn rate for unchained wraiths especially when there are more than 2 or 3 players in the area, and the Grenth’s Reliquary Renown Heart becomes a place where I definitely do not look forward to seeing a lot of players nearby because the Heart then takes way longer to complete.

I’d very much like to see this fixed at some point.

I agree that the text should be updated (or mechanics changed to match the text). I also agree that it’s bad for the game to introduce competition for heart completion (this also happens in some of Lake Doric).

Fortunately, there seems to be a misunderstanding by the OP that currently allows us to ignore the text bug and the competition:

Gudy.3607:

using ley-line magic on “living” unchained wraiths is the most effective way by far for a single player to advance their Renown Heart progress,

Actually, Transfer Magic (skill #4) is far more efficient. If you stand at one of many ideal spots, you can complete the heart with as few as two Ley Organs.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Actually, Transfer Magic (skill #4) is far more efficient. If you stand at one of many ideal spots, you can complete the heart with as few as two Ley Organs.

Oh? I so far have only gotten minor progress out of that skill.

sigh It would be oh so very nice of ANET when introducing new skills, if their description could indicate whether or not one should keep the key pressed to channel it (very, very rare) or if a simple key press is enough (99.9% of skills in the game).

I only recently discovered that the Bloodstone Fen gliding skill Ride the Ley Line works by keeping the key pressed (because there is no in-game indication whatsoever that this is the case), and now I apparently learn that Transfer Magic works the same.

Thanks for the heads up, Illconceived Was Na!