Guild Wars 2

This bug has been in-game since the April 14th patch, but I haven’t seen anyone report it yet and since it wasn’t fixed in this week’s patch either it’s possible it isn’t even known about yet.
At the Triple Trouble event, both the Amber and Cobalt wurms have no audio for any of their animations. Interestingly, the Crimson wurm still has its audio on normally. For those of us relying on audio cues to dodge the spins for example this is an annoying bug.

I’ve been hearing a downed female asura pleading for help a lot lately. I turn and look around but there’s no one to help.

There’s one way of getting low level cloth that hasn’t been mentioned yet: opening bags of gear / champ bags with a character that is around the level that gives the cloth you want. The bags will drop gear up to 5 levels below your level, and the level ranges for each cloth is as follows (from wiki):
Jute: 0-20
Wool: 16-33
Cotton: 31-48
Linen: 44-63
Silk: 58-80

So let’s say you want lots of linen. With a character level of 53-57 all light armor you get from the bags should salvage into linen scraps.
Now, opening champ bags on low level characters may not be that smart, but the bags of gear that mostly drop blue gear anyway and are rewarded in SW in good quantities are good for this purpose.

1) did any of your party member (or yourself during solo) get downed during the whole instance?
2) did Lindsay and her escorts get dizzy animation (when their respective hp reaches zero) during your attempt to rescue her?

1) I did it solo, didn’t get downed.
2) I’m not 100% sure about this, but I nuked the enemies in the cave so fast I really doubt they had time to do any damage to the npcs.

Ayrilana.1396:

Wafer.6745:

i confirmed my theory on this one.. if you noticed, there is a buff on those npc that makes them invulnerable.. what you need to do is to wait for the buff to expire then talk to them.. you need to keep them alive or the achievement will fail.. i talked to 7 npcs since i soloed doing this achievement.. all 7 npcs didnt die.. and i still have 2 mins on the 10 minute countdown.. i hope it helps.. good luck!

Nope. I’ve tried this numerous times to the point I can keep everyone alive in the first part without trying. Invulnerability buffs don’t affect it.

That’s odd, I tried getting this achievement numerous times the way you’d expect to (talk to the npcs asap), but as I noticed that buff they had I started suspecting that could be the cause of the achievement not triggering. So in I went again and made sure none of the npcs had the buff on when I talked to them. Talking to the last of them triggered the achievement immediately.
Some variable info on what people have attempted with:
- purple star instance
- had ~2 min left on the timer for the other achievement
- picked Rox
- failed to save all npcs at the first defend event

One thing that was weird though on this succesful attempt: no mobs spawned on the caravan guard (near the fort), and no mobs on the npc in the river either until after I had stood next to him ~20 seconds.

Another way to make these bombs more viable for small groups would be to make each explosion to the wall/gate give a “buff” to the structure, along the lines of:
“Damage done by bombs is reduced by 10%. 1 minute duration. Can stack up to 10 times.”
Large groups would have no use for these supply eating things, but a couple of roamers could keep running for more supply at a camp and completely ignore the damage reduction.

I had the same problem as in the OP, I was sure I had all the baubles in zone 3 and yet received no achievement for it. Then I tried what was suggested by Ayrilana, try to get it on another character. I skipped entering half of the shops, including the one you need to bomb to get into (didn’t even have bombs on the character). I also skipped the beedog and some of the enemies. Killed the big Toad and got the achievement!

So I can confirm there is indeed a bug of some sort involving the bauble achievement from being registered properly.
To recap, here’s what I did differently in order to get the achievement:
1) used a character that had not finished the zone before.
2) started straight from zone 3 and not the previous ones
3) started the zone with 0 baubles

Hopefully this will help those who still struggle getting the achievement

Is there any chance for World XP to become account bound in the future? Since the ranks require a significant amount of effort to get any benefit from them, it’s ill advised to use more than one (or two) characters in WvW. Since different professions might want to aim for different bonuses first, each character could have available points to use according to the account rank.