Guild Wars 2

I know the Sky Pirates has finished (it went so fast!), but I can’t shake this from my mind, and Support gave me nothing aside from ‘ask on the forums’, so here we go; Was anyone else unable to complete the meta reward for Sky Pirates due to a lack of hologram spawns? I was walking up to every hologram projector I could find, even waiting up to 10 seconds in case of lag, and I kid you not, after a test run of passing over 27 holograms across 3 different zones, I got TWO Aetherblade spawns! That was a specific test run after chasing holograms for days and gradually realising the 50/50 spawn rate was seriously not happening for me. On top of that, I couldn’t complete the Goemm’s cache due to the fall-fall-splat bug, and kept lag-dying on the Caledon cache where all the Veterans are.

I know from past experience it is likely useless to ask for any sort of adjustment for an expired event, because the end all is, I didn’t reach the achievement, tried as I did. But, I would really like to ask if we could please avoid chance-based/bugged meta achievements in the future, because I feel it really kills what most (if not all) people love about Guild Wars; fair event rewards. It should have been simple to achieve the Miniature, and although I put the time in and have a truckload of useless candy to prove my presence (I triggered them if there was no Aetherblade spawn), I couldn’t reach the area-specific kills because of this issue, marking my first missed meta reward so far… Yay… -.- The moa races were chance-based (and expensive), but the meta was easily completed without it, as was the pesky crab minigame I sucked so badly at, but for the shortest event to date (I think), trying got me nothing.

Anyhoo, excuse the length, I’ve just always enjoyed earning GW event items since I started in 2006, so missing one even though I put in the time is annoying.