Tequatl not casting watery grave
Don’t even try when it’s a guild organized map… unless they were intentionally doing low DPS (some do run no-defense just for lols), the higher level of coordination guarantees too much DPS.
Try zone into a map 5 minutes or less before spawn (or even just after spawn). You take the risk that the map doesn’t have the DPS to get Teq to 75%, but once there, you have a longer time for the whirlpools to spawn. Whirlpools also can spawn during the 50% and 25% burns if the DPS is low enough.
I’ve been trying for 3 days now… I even get on maps right at spawn time and still no luck…
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Don’t even try when it’s a guild organized map… unless they were intentionally doing low DPS (some do run no-defense just for lols), the higher level of coordination guarantees too much DPS.
It can still spawn whirlpools when that is done.
Don’t even try when it’s a guild organized map… unless they were intentionally doing low DPS (some do run no-defense just for lols), the higher level of coordination guarantees too much DPS.
Try zone into a map 5 minutes or less before spawn (or even just after spawn). You take the risk that the map doesn’t have the DPS to get Teq to 75%, but once there, you have a longer time for the whirlpools to spawn. Whirlpools also can spawn during the 50% and 25% burns if the DPS is low enough.
I was hoping that an uncapped, lower population map would have better luck. It was a bit slower on the first 25%, but each burn was nice and fast.
I’ll try again tonight and tomorrow. There’s a long list of superstitions of “how to get pulled under” that I can try on different spawns, so I’ll just camp out in Sparkfly and see how it goes.
So many “it always spawns at 75%, you just need to” posts…
Even the video I found showing how to get the Gloom doesn’t have them spawn at 75%…
… he just gets lucky and they’re slow on a burn. That’s also from January, so it’s not something that popped up this patch. I probably just noticed it now because I actually needed watery grave.
It’s definitely not easy, it took me a bit more than a week to finally get it.
I mostly do defense at Teq, so I can’t really comment on the “always at 75%” claims. But you could try disable “Effect LOD” in your options menu… I’m not sure if the whirlpool graphic gets culled with that setting on, but I’ve found it useful in other situations e.g. seeing opponent tells during PvP.
Well I have never seen it fail but the pool seem to be a bit rare.. I saw them 4,5 times, got pulled under 3 times now for all the time I have done it and were near the zone where those pools spawn.. So I saw them on high dps maps (done in 3 phases, always did so much dps that he didnt do anything but get hit&then fly away after enough dps) around the 75% phase- I once got pulled into one while teq was hopping away. Died too because i wasnt expecting the thing spawning under me..^^^*
It’s definitely not easy, it took me a bit more than a week to finally get it.
I mostly do defense at Teq, so I can’t really comment on the “always at 75%” claims. But you could try disable “Effect LOD” in your options menu… I’m not sure if the whirlpool graphic gets culled with that setting on, but I’ve found it useful in other situations e.g. seeing opponent tells during PvP.
It definitely always used to spawn at 75%. I did Teq with my server (SBI) almost every day for a little over a year and the NPC whirlpool call always happened at the start of the first phase.
Effect LOD didn’t make a difference.
Getting into a disorganized map didn’t make a difference. It took until ~9:30 to get the first phase done, but everything chained after that. Meanwhile, I left a decently organized map that my guild mates were on and they had whirlpools spawn when they hit phase with ~11:00 left on the clock. [headdesk]
@OP: there are only two options for getting the achievement/collection item(s) at the moment:
- Keep on doing what you have been doing, trying different attempts and hoping to get lucky that a group is good enough to tear down enough of Teq’s health quickly enough…but not too quickly.
- Wait for ANet to adjust the requirements, as they have suggested that they are doing.
Unfortunately, neither is a great option, if you are in a rush to finish your legendary. I realize it’s frustration, but there really isn’t anything we, as players, can do right now.
Well, that’s not entirely true: I imagine a guild could get together to trigger a Tequatl instance early, bring tons of coordinated firepower, and then… stop attacking at tactical fractions of Tequatl’s health (maybe 80%, 75%1, 55%, 50%1, etc). I’m sure there would be a lot of interest in that.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
@OP: there are only two options for getting the achievement/collection item(s) at the moment:
- Keep on doing what you have been doing, trying different attempts and hoping to get lucky that a group is good enough to tear down enough of Teq’s health quickly enough…but not too quickly.
- Wait for ANet to adjust the requirements, as they have suggested that they are doing.
Unfortunately, neither is a great option, if you are in a rush to finish your legendary. I realize it’s frustration, but there really isn’t anything we, as players, can do right now.
Well, that’s not entirely true: I imagine a guild could get together to trigger a Tequatl instance early, bring tons of coordinated firepower, and then… stop attacking at tactical fractions of Tequatl’s health (maybe 80%, 75%1, 55%, 50%1, etc). I’m sure there would be a lot of interest in that.
Simply skipping one of the laser phases also works. Just need to be careful with the fish heads afterwards.
@OP: there are only two options for getting the achievement/collection item(s) at the moment:
- Keep on doing what you have been doing, trying different attempts and hoping to get lucky that a group is good enough to tear down enough of Teq’s health quickly enough…but not too quickly.
- Wait for ANet to adjust the requirements, as they have suggested that they are doing.
Unfortunately, neither is a great option, if you are in a rush to finish your legendary. I realize it’s frustration, but there really isn’t anything we, as players, can do right now.
Well, that’s not entirely true: I imagine a guild could get together to trigger a Tequatl instance early, bring tons of coordinated firepower, and then… stop attacking at tactical fractions of Tequatl’s health (maybe 80%, 75%1, 55%, 50%1, etc). I’m sure there would be a lot of interest in that.
I ended up going with the first option. After failing to get it at reset, I tried again at the 3-hours-after-reset Teq and was able to get it right away. The DPS was slower, there were fewer people, it wasn’t reset, it was as he was spawning fingers, random luck… I honestly don’t know why, but the whirlpools appeared, I moved as fast as I could and got under no problem.
As for what players can do, I view posting here as something useful. This bug is now documented, easily reproducible and blocking progress on a collection. I hope they don’t change the collection itself; getting watery graved is a perfect thematic addition to the collection.
People keep saying 75% all the time, and swearing by it, but it never worked for me. I got the collection done with the water grave on the second defense phase, not the first. Stand at his left arm, with the western defense event at your back. Be one of the slower ones to move to the defense event when the time comes.
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… The DPS was slower…
That was my point. Whether or not Teq always spawns whirlpools at 75%, a slow burn allows him to spawn more whirlpools during all the burns phases and give you a better chance of catching one. During my successful run, I got pulled in at the 75%, 50% and 25% phases.
… The DPS was slower…
That was my point. Whether or not Teq always spawns whirlpools at 75%, a slow burn allows him to spawn more whirlpools during all the burns phases and give you a better chance of catching one. During my successful run, I got pulled in at the 75%, 50% and 25% phases.
Yeah, I think this is what everyone is trying to say.
edit: @OP: forgot to say: gz on getting your item! glad it worked out for you
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
(edited by Illconceived Was Na.9781)