Guild Wars 2

Yeah, not happy with these achievements…as a casual completionist, no way I’m gonna be able to get them in time. Would have been one thing if the dungeon was designed to be soloable so one could keep trying on their own, efficiently using 100% of their time pursuing the achievement, but when you have to rely on others, often strangers, those with limited time are out of luck, especially if it has to be done in a 2 week period. I could see this if the dungeon was permanent but not for temporary content. Boooooo Anet.

I’d say it’s forgone conclusion that if Anet adds any race as playable, Tengu will be first, though I’ve been wrong before.

As mentioned, Tengu WERE a planned playable race in early alpha but were dropped. I don’t have the source for this handy but if memory serves it was more than here-say. There are a few Tengu designated areas (south of LA being one) and a few Tengu NPCs skattered around.

They seem more advanced than some of the other intelligent community races like the Skritt, the Hylek, the Quaggans, Ogres, Jotun and the Grawl (probably missed a few here).

They seem more in the ball park of the Kodan and the Largos which I think would also make fun playable races…eventually.

It dawned on me to try guesting to another server to complete the achievement. Unfortunately both servers I tried, Henge of Denravi and Isle of Janthir, were also bugged, but not as bad, it would appear. Both had a single torch lit but no pattern projected on the right cheek of the stone face.

On Isle of Janthir, I went ahead and tried multiple known patterns from the wiki until I finally “guessed” the correct right pattern and it kicked up two new patterns, from which I was able to complete the achievement.

Anet…get the bugs worked out on this, they are well documented in the wiki and it’s been MONTHS. At least stick a timer on it so it will completely reset after a period of time.

Verified as bugged on Darkhaven….this stinks because it’s blocking completion of the Weeping Cache achievement for the Sky Pirates event.

Conspiring in a free for all, while kinda lame, is perfectly fine IF EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT. If you ask nicely and suggest people who don’t want to participate go to another normal match then it’s reasonable. If 3 of the 8 people agree and then proceed to fishing pole lock any naysayers…well that’s proof those people’s parents didn’t hug them enough as a children.

Tried redoing several of the hints on my characters as well. No improvement. I wish I knew which hints were stuck on my account. It’d also be nice to be able to reset hints, I’ve seen that in other games. I’d totally do this just to get past this annoying…bug?

If you are in combat there is a chance for ruined mats. It seems like you have to be in combat for a bit or have conditions on you, I haven’t been able to accurately reproduce the exact circumstances. I think it’s an anti-bot measure. I now am careful to clear out areas around nodes and I haven’t had a single ruined mat since.

Yup, also reported 2 times to support, in game and through the support web interface. An acknowledgement would go a long way, especially now that achievement leader boards are in play.

This topic has been brought up a dozen or more times but ArenaNet has yet to respond, AFAIK.

As a achievement hound myself, it would be nice to get some acknowledgement that it even IS a bug and that I’m not just overlooking something. To be clear, I’m stuck at 81/83 and have checks next to ALL hints. I have played every profession but Thief to level 80 and created a Thief long enough to get the Thief hint completed.

I’ve used Trebuchet in the PvP training ground AND WvW. No change.

It sure LOOKs like a bug. Is it?

Overkill, Lifetime Survivor and many Slayer achievements all effected on my account, as well.

I may be wrong but I think the determination of what is an exploit is whether your are leveraging a mistake/error/oversight for gain…gain which has game impact, generally in the economy. The OP was asking if the key runs were leveraging an oversight and ArenaNet responded “nope”. Clear as mud?

Surbrus: I understand what you are saying and none of your points are without merit but it comes off a bit too elitist for my taste. If this was a platformer and not an MMO where jumping puzzles aren’t even in the top 10 reasons why GW2 is an amazing game, I think your perspective would hold more water. The thing that really strikes me with your concept, though, is the fact that it’s not like that with any of the other achievements in the game…it’s against the grain of what has already been established. In fact, specifically because of this, I seriously doubt we’ll see it, but I’ve been proven wrong more than once.

I would also argue that skill progression is largely a measure of time, not something separate like many like to convince themselves of. Sure, the slope of gain is a bit different from person to person but in the end time is the majority stake holder in skill, whether that time was spent in GW2 or Super Mario Brothers.

Surbrus.6942:

The nice thing about titles is that it is so minor a reward, but it can be fairly prestigious. It is not excluding people from having cool skins, or excluding them from rewards of in game wealth… all it is, is a few letters put together to signify that you’ve completed something. If everyone is given the title for just participating, then it isn’t nearly as prestigious.

I have to disagree with this. So far, all the achievements can be accomplished with hard work over time. For achievement hunters who can’t do jumping puzzles, this would really stick in their craw.

I’m an achievement hunter with limited amounts of time so I wasn’t able to get the Clock Tower done in the hour I had to spend on it, but I was getting closer…I would have had it with another hour. Now there’s a big blank spot in my achievement log. Yeah…just a game but it certainly bugs me.

This puzzle was just right for me, spent about 30 minutes on it and did it. I have a good computer and some measure of jumping puzzle skill, and for that I’m grateful but I have sympathy for others who aren’t quite there.

I thought this JP was better than the Clock Tower, thanks for better inclusion, Anet. For a twist for people who like more of a challenge, perhaps build in a riskier “short cut” which trades time to completion for risk. Please don’t tie exclusive achievements to harder difficulties, it’s a little too exclusive…better loot seems like a more reasonable reward if you differentiate things in the future.

Ran across this thread last night…read the whole thing and it has me very concerned. Was there a root cause discovered for the individual compromises? Was the initial vector always an email compromise followed by account access and subsequent password resets?

I lucked out, 40 boxes, 1 snowman, 1 infinirarium, 4 golems. I slotted the 3 extra golems in the Mystic Forge (1 in each of 3 slots) and 50 stuffing in the 4th slot for the baby quaggan mini.

I did want to point out that the mini TOYS are available in the Gem store. Right now it’s just the Ventari one but I’m guessing the others will show up after their events. I guess you will have enough materials for 2 Toy minis (each event gives you 100 cogs…500 cogs total…each Toy mini requires 250 cogs) so you can either buy all 5 with gems or buy 3 with gems and make the last 2 with the event mats.

This all felt a like it required a few too many Gems to me…not terribly…just a little. I’d suggest dialing the Gem requirement back a little, ANet, maybe 25%.

We have cookies…

Dragon Eradication Removal Pros [DERP] , a small friends and family guild on Darkhaven, is looking to make an alliance with another small guild to better facilitate dungeon runs while maintaining our independence.

If you are casual, family friendly (teens), and low-on-the-drama-scale guild…we would be interested in pooling manpower for 5+ person activities.

We have a site, forums, and Mumble server and enjoy PvE and PvP.

I fourth this question. I have 110 commendations I want to spend on … something, before the vendor disappears. Some of the skins are pretty nice and, well, I have the commendations.

greyblue.4962:

You can’t become more powerful than other people in WvW because you spent 10,000 hours grinding better WvW equipment.

I understand what you’re saying, I understand the allure of a non-grind challenge and there is certainly merit to your request. But let me illuminate you’re wanting to avoid “10,000 hours of grinding gear” and replace it with the 10,000 hours you’ve already spent playing jumping platformers to get good enough to complete this particular challenge. It’s really not all natural skill…it’s largely persistence honed skill, just not necessarily IN GW2.

I really wish I would have had more time to complete the Clock Tower, 2 hours wasn’t enough with my level of jumping skill previous persistence, but I was definitely making progress…stupid RL.