Guild Wars 2

Just got a Kaiser skin (orange ones right?) after i completed the daily today. Got the usual bag from dailys with tokens and another one to pick an orange skin.

Lucky i guess…

I believe its the chest you get from defeating an end level boss.
Doesnt work if you play in infantile mode.

I got 2 blue skins from those chests but no orange. Didnt even knew they could drop.

Too bad they aren’t available from venders unless we do the achievments. Need Wynne’s Locket and Caithe’s Remorse to finish the Luminescent Collection, but a couple of the achievments related to Centaur Boss and Shadow of the Dragon fights still elude me. Not even with friends helping! Oh well…

My experience with RNG is usually a very poor one. But either the drop rate of the Coat Boxes is very high or i was just very lucky this time. Did the Vinewrath like 10 times and got 5 Carapace Coat Boxes. Was completely surprised how lucky i was!

Meanwhile, getting the eyes and kidneys from the bosses was a pain, before the right extractors became available last tuesday.

Just came from trying to do those two same achievments. Was frustrated and wanted to check the feedback on the foruns.
The challenge mote is only available when the fight is over. It makes it very time consuming if we misstep something in the begining of the fight.
Why cant the challenge mote be available when we die? It would restart the fight, but at least it wouldnt be so time consuming.

This, and the enormous grind and RNG in Silverwastes turned a beautiful game that i adored for 2 years into something very frustrating and painful.

I wonder if frustrated players are a good business model…

Thanks for the advice Silvia. I look at the LFG tool from time to time, but i’ll try to keep a closer look at it while doing the events on Red Rock.

I know that if i keep trying it will happen eventualy. But it could be today, tomorrow, next week, next month… Who knows?…
The whole living story update was awesome and fun. Did all the achievments, collections, etc. Wasn’t hard, frustrating or anything! But these achievments for the random bosses, that might spawn or not, are no fun! Doesnt depend on me, or the ppl i play with. There’s just nothing i can do but camp at the fort, defend it and wait.

Hi, im trying to finish my Silverwastes Achievments and the only thing that i’m missing is The Annihilator. Camped for the last 4 or 5 days at Red Rock Bastion and defended the kitten thing, i don’t know, 20 or 30 times. Sometimes with lots of ppl, sometimes with only a handfull of guys. No Annihilator, nada, zilch, zip… The other legendary bosses appear… at random, as i read it from chat…

How am i suppose to do this? Should i pray to the God of RNG? Do some offerings?
Or is there any strategy? I know i have to successfuly defend the keep… Is there anything else?

There are less and less players doing it, how are we supposed to finish some of these achievments? I also look for organized groups in the LFG tool and there are less and less of those.

Finally found it! Thanks for the help. The chest is indeed in the first floor of Shattered Keep. No need to go down, unless for skill point. The small entrance is to the northeast, very much like the one with the oozes but a bit smaller. My Charr almost couldnt get in…

Can someone help me, and tell me where’s the splendid chest is in Fort Cadence – Sparkfly Fen? I want to unlock the trait III in trait line 5 for my new char, and i cant find the chest anywhere! Did all the events related to this Fort mini-dungeon, searched everywhere, found the small alcove where the oozes are, and nothing. Did found a smaller chest somewhere in level 2 or 3 of the fort, but no trait unlocked. I think it was just some other chest not related…

Does anyone has any idea where it is or how to get it? Or is it bugged?

I think it unlocks at level 15.

Got it! Map progression on the upper left corner of the Map unlocks at level 15. I could see it with my char because i played with it a bit before the update and used the Map a couple of times. Not 100% sure of it but i think thats the reason why.

I have a friend who bought the game very recently, and he has the same problem. I’m a veteran player and i created my 9th char to play with my friend. I’m currently level 13 with that char and i can see progress on the left of the map fine, but my friend who has also a level 13 char can’t see it. So i don’t know if it is level related…
Could be a bug, or some option you need to activate it. I’ve researched on this but couldn’t find anything.

Sweept through Orr (Straits, Malchor and Cursed), spent almost 3 Ori Axes cutting down every tree i could find and got 7 Foxfire Clusters. Not bat but its a bit of a grind.

I’m a Lumberjack and i’m ok…

Its a total mess isnt it?
If the event information on top of your screen had the 6 bosses status bars and a number next to each bar representing the total players in that boss area, it would be so simple to organize.
Unfortunately, we have to do that using map chat. But some people, specially here in Europe, dont understand english. And some don’t even read map chat.

Sartharina.3542:

I’ve just experienced the worst part of the Crown Pavillion – Dead instances: The map is stuck on bronze, 5 or 6 bosses still remaining, and all of them scaled up to handle the zerg that was there who knows how long ago, with only a few survivors sticking around trying to figure out what to do about the mess.

This.
This is what i see whenever i go to try the gauntlet. Dead. I even try to leave the instance, wait a bit and get back in again, to see if i find ppl trying to do it properly.
Guess i was lucky enough during the weekend, to find a few groups of ppl who were willing to try and organize it. We did silver severel times and almost got gold a few other times. Was fun!

Will try LFG tool next time i go in there.

Thanks for the heads up OP. Now i need to find out how am i gonna spend my tokens. I’ve got all the back and helm skins, dont care about minis, so… T6 mats? Maybe…

Tier 7 cloth needing 100 silk bolts instead fo 50 like the rest of other tier 7 mats was a weird move. Made silk prices absurd.

Linen and cotton i understand, because the areas where these drop are less farmed than tier 5 and 6 areas. And also because the majoraty of players play with 80s chars.

But silk prices are artificial because Anet wanted. Not sure why…

I say, when the mystic toilet blows up, 5 million greatswords will rise to the skies, and fall down in the exact same place. From that place will a throne rise, forged by these swords, and a new king will be crowned, calling that throne his, and unite all of West…, ahem Tyria! And he shall be named Joffrey!

Or maybe not.

I like hard content but it must be well balanced. There’s a big gap between world1 and world2. How hard is world 3 gonna be? And World 4? If the dificulty level escalates the same way they better rename the Super Adventure Box to the Super Torture Box!

And definitely not longer! A few days ago i was trying to finish W2Z3, and after 2,5 hours playing i was tired, my head hurted because all the whites in the cloud area and i was still a third away to completion. I asked myself, why am i torturing myself for 2 miserable baubble baubbles?

In general, i love the SAB but they need to rethink what they have done with this update. I hope it improves next time in a way that most players can enjoy!

I vote Evon! I vote for ruthless capitalism! Yeah

This game has so much content, why bother with one achievment?

I tried to get the obsidian sanctum achievment a few months ago, and while i was still trying to get the grips with the JP i was getting killed by reds and needed to star over. Got frustrated and decided that there were better and more fun content to do.

I wont try doing this achievment either. I will still get the stupid mini anyway. To get the mini you ppl dont need to do the sanctum puzzle and neither the dungeon. On July 2nd a new PvE JP will be available that counts for those 12 achievments u need.

And i do agree that the devs shouldnt had mixed PvE content with PvP or WvW content. If players like PvP or WvW they will do that, if a player only cares for PvE or dungeons, he will be happy doing just that. Why force ppl to do stuff they dont like? Thats why i just wont even try to do this achievment!!! Easy..

We tried all sorts of things.
Mostly, me and some others guys ask ppl to stop, then one of us did the patterns all by himself starting with the one on the left. But still no torch lit. Then some ppl got tired of it and left. Some new guys came over and from all the chaos the final torch got lit and the door opened.
I spent more than 30 mins on that place. Did that mini-dungeon alone a few months ago and was like super easy.
I think Anet should have placed the cache on a different JP like Griffonrook Run or something more fun…

Is anyone having trouble with this cache? The Tears of Itlaocol mini-dungeon seems to bug when there’s many players trying to do the tears mini-game.

I dont think this was properly tested when there’s a big flux of players trying to do the puzzle. Because we do the patterns on the rock face but no torchs lit.

Actually i found the Moa Race pretty simple. Only lost 80 silver to do the achievment.
Spent 6g always on Meep. Made 5,2g.

Always bet on the same Moa. The revenue you get from the races will almost cover your expenses. You’ll need a bit of luck of course, but not that much. Statistical math wil take care of the rest.

I’ve been playing Dragon Bash since June 11. Opened lots of chests, and no tickets. I was like, it’s Southson all over again, wich i played a lot and got 0 tickets. But yesterday after finishing daily, went to Gendarren Fields, played like for 20 mins going after holograms wich dropped like 10 or 15 chests, and those got me 3 tickets!!!

It’s random! And we can’t have everything! I just got lucky this time!

I got The Colossus, back in November, in the loot chest from the mother of all krakas in the Lost Shore event.
Back then i was still pretty green at this game, so i didnt even noticed it was a percursor weapon. I thought to myself: “Oh look, shiny!!!” So i soulbounded the kitten thing instead of selling it and saving a little more for Dawn or Dusk.
Now im stuck on going for the Juggernaut.
But i shouldnt complain, got a percursor without even trying.
Anyway, last month i decided to start it by doing the stuff that is common for all legendaries:
Gift of Mastery Done!
Gift of Fortune so far:
– Got 65 Mystic Clovers
– Have about 50 Ectos left
– Have about 100 or so of each T6 mats

If i keep going for the Juggernaut, i think i have almost everything for the gift of metal, with the exception of Orichalcum Ingots. Got 110 i think.
Have 0 Icy Runestons, havent done any path of Sorrows Embrace Dungeon yet, have 0 Molten Lodestones, but i have lots of the other lodestones. I think i can sell the others, and buy almost all of the molten ones since they are cheaper.

Same here, trying for 2 hours to login.
Country: Portugal
Server: Seafarer’s Rest
Client Version: 16732
Error Code: 42:1020:9001:4103

Hoping it gets solved soon!

Agree and disagree… Dungeons in explorer mode are made for parties, and they make more sense that way. In Story Mode though, players should be able to choose, from either doing them alone or in party. Dificulty would be accordingly the number of players in story mode.

BTW, there are PVE dungeons scattered across the map. They are called mini-dungeons. Check them out. You can find the achievments for these in the explorers tab.

I wish Anet would make an option to play the last mission with NPCs and level the dificulty curve accordingly. But i dont think its gonna happen…
And it wouldnt be stupid, because we played all the other missions that way.

Why dont you try to find it in the Black Lion Tradind? Maybe its there at a fair price…

Very disapointed to find out that the last mission of the not so personal storyline is a dungeon. Makes no sense, after every other mission is single player. I know its a MMO, i love to play WvW, joining group events, aiding other players and sometimes even chating with people i dont know. I just dont like to be forced to find ppl people to join my quest. If i want to do a dungeon, wich i already did, i choose to do it. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes a player has to leave, sometimes i have to leave. After 40+ missions why Anet choose to make different?
It would make much more sense to me, if for the final mission i was joined by Destiny’s Edge and Trahearne to slay the Dragon. Story wise, and by what was presented to us players during ALL the other missions, would make much more sense!
And for what i read in the posts above, if i join another party, i wont be able to watch the cutscenes in my last storyline mission!! Very disapointing!