Guild Wars 2

Maybe I did something wrong, but I “soloed” this the other day, but it didn’t count i.e I didn’t get the achieve. What I did was:

- Rescued the priory convoy
- Killed the mobs at the first batch of three people to rescue.
- Rescued the single guy down in the river fighting a thresher.
- Rescued the single guy fighting the (husk? hulk? I forget…)
- Rescued the two further up in the cliffs (total 7).

I assumed the achieve would trigger at that stage, but it didn’t, so I went up to Goldenwing Hallow (beating the last two there), and as soon as that event triggered, I lost the buff and didn’t get the achievement. The last two definitely didn’t die, because I saw them run in behind me, so I can only assume I’m meant to wait for them to get there before going to Goldenwing Hallow?

Grenades and mortars are my main way of getting AOE on walls, and this bug is a right pain. Every patch I hope this gets fixed, but nope.

Crossposting this from here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Two-hours-after-reset-and-WvW-fulled/ but it’s still relevant to here imo…

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Split the servers into three (probably fuzzy, as 3 doesn’t divide equally for NA servers) pools of servers, top, mid, low, and randomly dividing the servers up from there. Fuzziness might pull someone from top to mid, or mid to low and vice versa to overcome the problem with numbers. Randomising within a pool means servers with too high a variation for randomisation to cause effect (eg. EU Vab/FoW) will still get split more often than not, but servers will still be relatively similar strength in most cases.

I’m from FoW, and there’s an interesting thing going on here. Reading the forums, I’m hearing complaints about the randomisation being “too much”. Ironically, the problem in the case of RoF/FoW/Vab is that the randomisation actaully isn’t enough.

I get that FoW and Vab are both massively at the bottom, but one of the biggest problems hitting is that the new randomisation system actually wasn’t enough to split FoW and Vab.

When I heard this system was coming in, I was looking forward to having a third team other than vabbi on the books. Sure, it was never going to turn FoW into a premier WvW force or anything, but it’d at least make for hard competition between the two better servers, with the third being FoW or Vabbi actually standing a mediocre chance of picking up scraps and causing a bit of chaos while the other two do “the real fighting”.

A much better system would possibly be splitting the servers into three (probably fuzzy, as 3 into 8 doesn’t go) pools of eight servers, top, mid, low, and randomly dividing the servers up from there. Fuzziness might pull someone from top to mid, or mid to low and vice versa to overcome the problem with numbers,, and Vab/FoW may still get stuck to each other,,, but if I read the maths from the patch notes right, Vab/FoW are too far at the bottom to be ever split up under the new system.

Then try to help those realms. Its heartbreaking to come online and see we’re outmanned and a zerg waiting outside our respawn.

Yeah,, this is the first time I’ve seen people actually camping for prolonged periods,,, most people I know are taking a look and saying “yeah,, no point going in to that” and spending their time farming instead. Those really committed just leave for other servers. Both worsen the situation.

I rinsed/repeated this several times in the Font of Rhand before finding an awkward workaround which, if this isn’t a bug, would be a fairly daft puzzle which prevents you reaching the end of this area. So under the spoiler tag for those who want to stay clueless

The non-spoiler/tl;dr version: Critical item required for overcoming a puzzle disappears from your posession when you enter water carrying it (which you must do to progress through the puzzle). Only option is to drop it at the waters edge, jump into the water (resulting in a skill switch to underwater skills), then equip the item where your dropped it from underwater.