Guild Wars 2

Quarktastic.1027:

I was doing a circuit of mount maelstrom hitting holo projectors for the achievement. Unfortunately, I wasn’t finding any pirates. Then I looked at my map and noticed nodes that should have respawned, were gone. I figured someone was popping all the tampered nodes and skipping the others, but I hadn’t seen another person in hours.

It was then that I noticed a node deactivate as I approached it. It seems that some nodes will deactivate completely on their own, not spawning anything.

I am experiencing the exact same thing as Quarktastic. Trying to finish up the Shiverpeaks achievements for Aetherblades in Snowden Drifts. For an hour or two I ran from node to node, killing all the holograms even. I had two Aetherblade nodes total spawn for me. Today, I attempted the achievement again in Snowden Drifts and have now witnessed nodes fading from the map and from right in front of me before I could reach them. The blue hologram shining out just goes away, and when approached, nothing happens.

While I understand what this change was meant to do, and mostly agree with it, there are some issues with it. For example, I just ran TA on two different explorable paths. 15 tokens for each run, but the second path gave me lowered money and experience. This doesn’t even encourage you to run different paths unless you’re solely running for tokens.

As an engineer, I had this same issue with my pistol, elixir gun, and flamethrower. Flamethrower has some more issues with attacking most objects in general though. This was actually the deciding factor for me to change to a grenade/bomb build. I really hope they fix the glitchy misses when it comes to objects you can attack.

If you’re in Orr, bring a buddy. I’ve done Orr alone and with a friend. With a friend along, Orr becomes much easier to handle. Do any events you see, especially if there’s lots of other players. Avoid champion events if you’re by yourself or with only one or two others. You should AoE spam during any event that spawns lots of mobs to hit most of them for loot. Salvage only white leather/cloth and salvage items with the cheaper salvage kits. I use master kits for salvaging rare/exotics for better chances at ectoplasm. I sell all blue and green items to vendors. This is what I do and I have no problems with money at 80.