Guild Wars 2

GrayFox.2601:

- Reprimand, up to or including dismissal, the designer responsible. After all, this is plagiarism we are talking about. It’s a serious offense. People often lose their jobs in these situations.

I understand you are upset about the changes to this gem store skin. I get that, ANet definitely made a big mistake with this armor set. But this is not plagiarism for multiple reasons. One, you do not know whether the same designer who originally made the HT3 light armor also designed this reskin, and two, even if it was not the same designer, that armor skin does not belong to only one designer. The designers work as a team and are therefore absolutely allowed to use aspects originally created by other members of the team. To suggest they not do this would be extremely detrimental to ANets ability to collaborate and to the game overall.
Also, you cannot blame this mistake on one designer alone. There is absolutely no way one person would be able to create an armor skin and just have it thrown into the game without first getting approval on it. ANet absolutely needs to take this event seriously and make sure nothing like this happens again, but it is not as simple as calling for one designer to be fired, so please do not paint it as such.

Now as far as what your (and other players is similar positions) options are in regards to compensation, there are a couple paths you can take. Personally, I do not think there is any chance of you convincing ANet to let you keep the original Flamekissed design. Obviously, you can try to change their minds, but I am pretty confident you will not be able to. So, you can do one of three things:
1) You can decide you do not want to wait for the new skin to come out and request compensation now by creating a support ticket. You are not going to get any answers in this or any other forum thread about other items such as dyes and makeover kits. The only way you will get any answers about those items is by creating a ticket and outlining what you believe you deserve compensation for.
2) You can wait for the new skin to be released. If you decide you do not like the new one, create a ticket and ask for your gems to be refunded as well as listing all other items you believe should be refunded. Make sure you list each item specifically, and if possible I would suggest putting amounts of gold/gems spent on each item in the list as well. The more info you give them the easier it will be for them to help you.
3) If you decide you do like the new skin, but still feel you deserve compensation for items used specifically for the old skin, again, create a ticket and outline the specific items.

As I see it, these are the options you have before you. Of course, you can still air your grievances with this situation and/or how ANet handled it, though eventually it just turns into beating a dead horse if all you’re doing is saying the exact same thing over and over again.

spoj.9672:

Its not hard to track the achievement and just remember if one doesnt give progress. I worry about some peoples memory capacity. :/

You’re right, it’s not hard. But (unfortunately) I didn’t go into this quest assuming it would be bugged, so I only tracked which obelisks I went to, not the progress on the achievement.

Aerlen.5326:

NTDK.4897:

one of my friends got this 23/24 bug. He has double checked 3 times with different guides.

The thing that seems common with ppl who has the bug is that they did a few obelisk before one of the hotfixes and then after that.

So my guess is if the hotfix got in between while you were doing it, your progress might get broken.

Not for me, I didn’t start until after the last update and did it in one sitting.

Same here. I did it all at once, sometime after 7:00pm EST

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

The question was answered above, Dulfy forgot one circle on her Maelstrom map.

There is a screenshot on the right side of it which shows the location, from th perspective of the shard.

The question is not answered. I know I got that one and am still stuck at 23/24.

Zoxea.9564:

I’m sure that’s the point, you have not explored, in Gendarran Fields.

Nope, definitely got that one as well. I counted as I went. I went to all 24 but only 23 have counted towards the achievement.

Same here. I know I definitely went to every obelisk but still not getting the achievement :/

What you seem to be missing though, is in order to get to 500, you will be crafting theses recipes anyways. You will have to craft the exotic level gear in order to level up crafting. So really, you’re not losing anything. You will craft the same things you would have, except now ArenaNet is giving you more exp while you do it, making it easier to get to 500.