Guild Wars 2

Beldin.5498:

Ayrilana.1396:

You need to have the correct buff. You can’t use the red buff on the green aura around the vortex. You will occasionally get more than one of the small golem things which have different color buffs.

You talk from another boss maybe .. at the last boss there was only the green buff available .. it maybe changes when you are able to destroy the vortex .. but that simply was not possible.

For what it’s worth, I gave it another go and was finally able to complete the encounter. Most of my vortex crystals spawned inside color columns. Seems that I just had to keep throwing myself at/near the vortex crystal from all different angles and time it right. With both the fragility and appropriate color buff active, eventually the vortex crystal absorbed my fragility before I got knocked back again. I made sure my color buffs from the mobs matched the auras so I’m not sure why I kept getting knocked around all the time.

Beldin.5498:

Tomo.1084:

Its not bugged, at beggining of exploding crystals field, Their is a shimmering box, stand inside and you will receive a Fragile buff, get too The Vortex crystal and it kills in instantly, Hope this solves the problem for you guys.

Nope .. fragile buff only made me knock back whenever i try to attack .. and also with
ranged attacks the mob simply heals up after 2-3 attacks.

I had the exact same thing happen at the exact same spot. The vortex crystal spawned directly inside the colored light beam. I couldn’t get anywhere near the vortex crystal to have it absorb my fragility buff because I kept getting knocked back every time. When I had the color buff and the fragility shield at the same time, no matter how I approached it I still got knocked back and the fragility buff was never absorbed by the vortex crystal so that I could kill it and damage the boss. After getting nowhere, I left the instance and then re-ran it thinking that maybe I’d be lucky to avoid that scenario again, but no…the exact same thing happened in the same spot the second time around.

Incredibly frustrating as I was enjoying the story progression and felt like I had the mechanics down from previous bosses but couldn’t actually utilize them. Apparently whatever was working for people saying they could hit the vortex crystal with both buffs isn’t working for some of us.