So what’s the deal here? Because I’m getting pretty bored of waiting around for hours every day to try and get the Holding Back The Tide achievement. Nothing ever happens, is it bugged or something? I also need a boss to spawn to get something for the Cin’s Collection achievement, but I’ve yet to see them either.
I’m also having this problem. The town is always on fire as if it’s been attacked, and there are Seraph NPC’s just outside town waiting to retake it, but they are waiting for some other event to complete. They never retake New Loamhurst, so the achievement is impossible because we need the town to be on our side first so we can defend it.
Edit: Finally was able to get this done. The key appears to be that in game it must be nighttime. No matter how many times the various event chains around the town repeats, the defense event happens at night.
This of course is all wrong. If the 3 events are treated in common per the achievement then the 3 towns should all be attacked in some common fashion, let’s say by rotation.
Why does New Loamhurst have to be the quirky town?
Congrats! I’m glad you were somehow able to get it.
At this point I’m ready to just give up. I’m wasting so much of my time trying to get this achievement/mastery point. Still nothing on my end, I even waited around at night. Also means I can’t get the reward for Cin’s Collection. :/
FWIW, I had a similarly slow experience trying to get the Harvest Cascades part, while it seemed that New Loamhurst and the other town were constantly being attacked and defended…
Most likely cause is that other events in the zone mean that it’s not retaken, and until it is retaken on your map, defending it can’t happen.
I think you are getting a bit confused – like all livingworld maps and HoT / silverwastes / drytop the meta events have events leading up to them . Vinewrath wont spawn on a map where the forts are not controlled . For Lake Doric its a case of all towns must be under seraph control etc and the white mantle/centaurs must be on the attack . If Harvest cascade is under centaur control then you wont have the defend part come around . 1 big thing i did notice is quite often the map seems to go quiet and not that populated – this in turn means often events are not being covered and meta isnt coming around soon . I spent a few hrs over the last 2 days tagged up and running to events and shouting them out in chat so people both know and can help where needed. So sadly its not a bug but lack of players on the map instance .
There is a bug with the New Loamhurst area. It will keep on displaying the seraph are preparing for an attack along with the NPC standing around even right after a successful defend.
The events themselves still seem to be running correctly but the display makes it very misleading.
About not enough people around to do it, that’s one of my major problems with GW2 these days. There’s achievements where you need to have a fairly large group to complete. It’s fine when the map first goes up and everyone is on it, but once people do them there’s no one around to help.
