Guild Wars 2

Sigil of Deflection: Knocks back an opponent (distance 150-300?) who has X damage blocked within Y seconds, maybe with an internal cooldown.

Could be an interesting way to promote timing blocks against bursts, sort of like a “perfect block” skill.

Hey Gaile! Any update on this? The official rules said “on or around the 24th of August.”

Many people are still holding out hope that they won, and it’d be nice to know if winners were already notified, or judges are still poring over a mountain of amazing llama- and frog-related entries, etc. Thank you!

Thanks for the update, Stephane.

khani.4786:

Well I did it again this morning by myself and it worked. I made sure to clear the vines on the way to the cave as those kept killing one of the guys I had to save

I did it again after seeing this and it still didn’t work. As others are saying, you can see all the NPCs mysteriously dead at the portal, out of your reach in the instance. (You get kicked if you try to go that deep in the cave.) I’m sure this was part of the “fix” to prevent people from getting the achievement after the fighting was over, but they obviously kill them off too soon.

And yeah, I really doubt Anet is going to fix it over the weekend. They probably still haven’t even seen this thread.

So, this achievement seems bugged. I’ve done it like eight times, and I’m pretty sure the last two or three that I’ve done it correctly (despite it not being at all intuitive or well explained).

I have been doing the instance solo, and there are seven people to save. In my early attempts I didn’t know where to go or when to save them, and some were unressable. In the past few attempts, I show up on time and save everyone and individually order them to leave [F]. There’s four encounters:

1. The three guys right outside the cave after the dialogue, by the little watch tower.
2. closer to the fort wreckage there’s the one guy fighting the thrasher.
3. There’s the crusader in the water a little east and north of the fort.
4. And then there’s the two priory guys just standing by the cave mouth that’s south of the first group.

I save them all, talk to them all, they all run off north. I even wait a minute or two to make sure they have time to arrive. That whole time, I’m still seeing the icon at the bottom saying I’m eligible for the achievement. Then I approach the area for the last fight of the instance and it instantly disappears. I finish the instance and see no bodies anywhere — marked on the map or visible on screen. So… What else are you supposed to do?

I had this problem playing on alt a few weeks back and reported it also. On the first attempt I was downed by one of the exploding plague carrier dudes but was able to rally and finish the undead off. But the story wouldn’t advance, even when I hunted down every undead I could find in the instance.

When I left the instance and restarted the story step, I was able to progress . I didn’t get downed that time. I’m wondering if it’s something like the plague guy exploding doesn’t properly count as a kill when you get downed by it, so the game thinks the wave isn’t finished off.

Yeah, this just happened to me. First one ported me from DR to Caledon near a vista; second one just ported me onto my face.