Guild Wars 2

So I just killed the Legendary Risen High Wizard during the capture event of Arah while having the soul battery fragment buff up. I had killed the Risen King, Risen Knight and Karas the Undying before, and they all unlocked normally. Then, when i killed the High Wizard, it unlocked the item in my collection, but it also converted my soul battery fragment to an energized soul battery fragment. I still need this to get the buff while killing the champion wraith near the Lyssa cathedral(which is annoying as heck to spawn).
I tried talking to Countess Anise again, but she won’t give me anything, neither does the legendary craftsman. Added screenshot shows the four items unlocked + the energized battery, but not the one from the Wraith.

You need the phial for the champ wraith not the soul battery.

Karka Queen also seems bugged with soul trap activated

Can confirm KQ is not dropping assigned item with Dwarven spell trap on. Also for the person I was with, had same issue. I believe this is systemic.

Can you PLEASE tell me the material requirement for part 2?

Please, I’m very serious here, and no-one ever provide such info yet.

Also does part 3 cost alot of gold or t7 material?

How about part 4?

Sushi.9671:

Can confirm KQ is not dropping assigned item with Dwarven spell trap on. Also for the person I was with, had same issue. I believe this is systemic.

Strange. It worked for me just fine.

Hmm, guess I’m stupid. About the karka queen one, I didn’t get it on the first kill I did, but I joined a different map, killed it again, and did get it, so it might just be RNG.

Edit: also, I’d like to say that this wraith event on lyssa is complete kitten. The amount of grieving and event stalling you have to do for these collections is ridiculous.

So then I’m stuck on the first collection for HOPE. Atlalli wasn’t talking to me at first for the poison test. I reloaded on a new Timberline Falls map and she did then so I finished the chapter 1 for poisons, though my journal in my inventory didn’t appear as a Chapter 1 like it did in my collections. I talked to her again to purchase the Filtered Honey recipe but she wasn’t selling it to me. Did I miss something or is it bugged for me?

Aomine.5012:

Can you PLEASE tell me the material requirement for part 2?

Please, I’m very serious here, and no-one ever provide such info yet.

Also does part 3 cost alot of gold or t7 material?

How about part 4?

mostly the expensive material are deldrimor and spiritwood, in p3 about 10 of each to craft the precursor and p4 12 deldrimor ingot and t6 dust i think 100
for p2 you need t7 but also t3 t4 t5 t6 ore and wood but i don’t remember the number maybe 15 + of deldrimor and spiritwood and a lot of mithril ingots and ancestral wood plank

i did the karka queen twice also get nothing but maybe we have to charge the trap again when she changed form i don’t know i will try again

Bebunw.8137:

Aomine.5012:

Can you PLEASE tell me the material requirement for part 2?

Please, I’m very serious here, and no-one ever provide such info yet.

Also does part 3 cost alot of gold or t7 material?

How about part 4?

mostly the expensive material are deldrimor and spiritwood, in p3 about 10 of each to craft the precursor and p4 12 deldrimor ingot and t6 dust i think 100
for p2 you need t7 but also t3 t4 t5 t6 ore and wood but i don’t remember the number maybe 15 + of deldrimor and spiritwood and a lot of mithril ingots and ancestral wood plank

i did the karka queen twice also get nothing but maybe we have to charge the trap again when she changed form i don’t know i will try again

So the most interesting thing right here is the new precursors require t7 materials even in part 3 and part 4..

That’s a very sad news, and a deep material dark hole..

Have the devs learn nothing? Do they always live in their ivory tower, and ignore the inflation, creating extreme demand/ shortage while not compensating it with additional supply? Why not cut the material cost of each wood/ores to 2 if they want such extreme material requirement?

How about the statement they made before HoT saying not using old materials for new legendaries to avoid market manipulation? Why do they lie to their teeth and spread misinformation? Why not just start over and use new currency then?

I’m not even angry anymore. I’m just shocked, and even depressed about the direction some of the developers are now taking. It’d only get worse and worse when newer legendaries come out since they can no longer be obtained through mystic forge. The economy will never recover from it anymore. The whole system is breaking the economy, and Anet choose to do nothing and keep adding more sink to it.

Maybe the GW2 is really getting desperate, desperate to the degree of wanting people to spend real money for gold so bad, to the degree that they need the market to flip up-side-down and hit everyone with huge inflation so they’d eventually give-in and spend real money for new legednaries.

well even if it’s inflation, all the component required can be farmed (except for mystic coin maybe)

by the way it work for karka queen i used after her shell was removed

So I just tested Karka Queen on all different spawn spots no luck with drop.

have you tried to activate like me ?

Bebunw.8137:

have you tried to activate like me ?

Yes I tried activate is after shell was down twice but still no success

/edit: tried it once again activate trap at like 5s after shell wend down and got item. I also activate soul fragment just in case maybe it was for it

Have done Karka 4 times now with no drop.

Any trick to getting this part to drop?

Anyone having issues with getting the Dragon Commander Cores to drop? Done 2 complete Dragon Stand metas. Got the MoM one from final chest. But got nothing from doing Axemaster or Stavemaster.

Sariel.2710:

Anyone having issues with getting the Dragon Commander Cores to drop? Done 2 complete Dragon Stand metas. Got the MoM one from final chest. But got nothing from doing Axemaster or Stavemaster.

I got all on first try you must be carefull because event participation fade of pretty fast so be sure you still run and kill preservers

Those of you having issues with the Karka Queen might not be tagging her properly. Only the first X number of players to hit a monster will qualify for kill credit and loot. If you aren’t seeing an XP gain once her shell is broken, then you tagged the Karka Queen too late and won’t get loot from her corpse, and possibly not progress for this collection either.

If you’ve ever wondered why sometimes you can kill a champion enemy in a huge crowd of players but don’t get the champ bag drop you know it has, that’s why. You’re arriving too late once the max number of tags have been made. It’s a bug that’s existed forever and unfortunately has never been acknowledged..

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Those of you having issues with the Karka Queen might not be tagging her properly. Only the first X number of players to hit a monster will qualify for kill credit and loot. If you aren’t seeing an XP gain once her shell is broken, then you tagged the Karka Queen too late and won’t get loot from her corpse, and possibly not progress for this collection either.

If you’ve ever wondered why sometimes you can kill a champion enemy in a huge crowd of players but don’t get the champ bag drop you know it has, that’s why. You’re arriving too late once the max number of tags have been made. It’s a bug that’s existed forever and unfortunately has never been acknowledged..

That theory is only 20% correct.

The real issue is the scaling vs % of HP damaged.

First few players hit Karka when the scaling is very low, resulting in bigger percentage of toal HP they cut compare to other players, who then have Karka Queens HP scaled up by at least 50 times. Obviously you can’t really do 50 times more damage than other players, so your damage will then be too low to receive the kill credit.

Do the Ancient Magics for the Dwarven Spell Trap appear as items in your inventory? I still can’t charge the Spell Trap.

Aomine.5012:

That theory is only 20% correct.

The real issue is the scaling vs % of HP damaged.

First few players hit Karka when the scaling is very low, resulting in bigger percentage of toal HP they cut compare to other players, who then have Karka Queens HP scaled up by at least 50 times. Obviously you can’t really do 50 times more damage than other players, so your damage will then be too low to receive the kill credit.

Absolutely incorrect, sorry. This post is simply perpetuating one of GW2’s most popular urban myths, that you need to do a certain percentage of damage to get loot credit on an enemy. That is untrue. There is a certain damage floor that you need to reach to get loot credit on an enemy, which at level 80 will be around 1000-2500 damage, but it’s in no way a percentage of the enemy’s total health.

The first few players who hit the Karka Queen are hitting it for 0 damage, anyway, because it spawns with 100% damage resistance that needs to be removed by throwing eggs at it. That doesn’t matter, though, for the purposes of tagging and getting kill/loot credit. Those 0 damage hits at the start are enough to get me on the “will get loot” table if I land them before other people can land theirs, so long as I deal a few auto-attacks on it later on when its resistance is weakened to get that 1000-2000 damage minimum threshold.

Ayulian.8435:

Do the Ancient Magics for the Dwarven Spell Trap appear as items in your inventory? I still can’t charge the Spell Trap.

The real question is do you also have chaotic magic in your inventory when you clic on the spell trap ? if you have sold it then talk to the npc for legendary in lion’s arch he can give back important deleted trophies.

Sariel.2710:

Anyone having issues with getting the Dragon Commander Cores to drop? Done 2 complete Dragon Stand metas. Got the MoM one from final chest. But got nothing from doing Axemaster or Stavemaster.

It bug for me for the 1 st times then i tried to do one core in one run and it work, so don’t try to do 2 core in one run it’s risky, you may lose credit for doing one lane event, you will receive the core after the 3 bosses are killed not after your boss is killed.

Bebunw.8137:

Ayulian.8435:

Do the Ancient Magics for the Dwarven Spell Trap appear as items in your inventory? I still can’t charge the Spell Trap.

The real question is do you also have chaotic magic in your inventory when you clic on the spell trap ? if you have sold it then talk to the npc for legendary in lion’s arch he can give back important deleted trophies.

Yes, I have chaotic magic in my inventory when I click on the Spell Trap, but if the other 3 ancient magics are supposed to be items in my inventory, I never received them even though they show up in my collection.

I also checked with Hobbs to see if I have anything missing, but he has nothing for me.

Karka Queen only gives credit at random it seems. Attached a screen shot of my buff bar with the spell trap highlighted and no Karka Queen’s Magic for the collection. Also see the chest in front of me meaning I had kill credit. This was my third attempt in just as many days without getting the collection piece.

I’m unable to complete the Champion Branded Devourer Queen requirement for the Branded Devourer Ichor due to the events in Iron Marches being bugged (specifically Sentinel Whiptail being constantly stuck in Brandwatch Encampment). I’ve seen him get out only once, and when he fought the Veteran Siege Devourer, it became perma-invulnerable, so this entire event is broken from start to finish. Sentinel Scalebrusher’s event to bring the devourer pets to Brandwatch Encampment also freezes due to the Mordrem event that spawns in its path. Iron Marches is just a clusterfrack right now.

Affinity.2479:

I’m unable to complete the Champion Branded Devourer Queen requirement for the Branded Devourer Ichor due to the events in Iron Marches being bugged (specifically Sentinel Whiptail being constantly stuck in Brandwatch Encampment). I’ve seen him get out only once, and when he fought the Veteran Siege Devourer, it became perma-invulnerable, so this entire event is broken from start to finish.

If you find a map where he’s not stuck at camp and gets to the spot where the devourer becomes perma-invuln, you can force Whiptail to reset by dragging some nearby grubs to him and getting him killed. He should stand up and move closer after rezzing, forcing his dialog. It worked for me that way.

Gekigami.2597:

If you find a map where he’s not stuck at camp and gets to the spot where the devourer becomes perma-invuln, you can force Whiptail to reset by dragging some nearby grubs to him and getting him killed. He should stand up and move closer after rezzing, forcing his dialog. It worked for me that way.

Thanks for replying. I did already try this quite a few times, but since the map happens to be part of the dailies, I could never find an empty map, and it was impossible to get people to NOT kill the mob I was trying to use to kill the NPC. People are so eager and bloodthirsty. Guess I will try again tomorrow.

We managed to kill the NPC. Still not fixed.

I have a question regarding the Chaotic Magics. It says 4 kinds of magic and the crystall magic thingie. What is the fourth one as i only see three in the collection!

I have all four soul energies collected but the Energized soul battery fragment hasn’t unlocked. Do I have to do something unmentioned?