Guild Wars 2

It seems like nobody has noticed, or maybe people have accepted it as “working as intended”, but I noticed recently that you do not get progress towards the various weaponmaster achivements when you use condition damage.

I have seen this when comparing my condi necro (sceptre + dagger) versus my power guardian (sceptre + torch). I get slightly more than zero progress towards Sceptre Master on my condi necro and I get good progress towards it on my power Guardian. I also noticed this with Trident, again comparing condi necro versus power guardian (and also power elementalist).

It seems like when a condition kills a mob, a condition you applied with your weapon, it gives no credit towards the killing blow.

Is this intended behaviour? Is this a massive oversight? I would offer the opinion that conditions applied by me, which deliver the killing blow to a mob, should give me credit towards the appropriate weaponmaster achievement.

I suspect it’s somewhere on the awkward line between “working as intended” and “really, really hard to fix”

SlippyCheeze.5483:

I suspect it’s somewhere on the awkward line between “working as intended” and “really, really hard to fix”

Pretty much this. The weapon master achievements only count direct killing blows, so anything that dies from a condition tick is ignored. Which sucks massively if you’re mainly running condition builds for some weapon sets. But it’s always been this way, so it’s unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, if ever.