Guild Wars 2

Shadelang.3012:

If I had to pick one and only one…it would probably be a wind rider. because the nature of wind riders would turn them into an actually unique pet in the way it fights. I can think of all sorts of places that a pet with a chain lightning auto attack (ely staff 1 i think?) with an f2 that deals confusion and an auto cast stealth mechanic when its in danger.

Yes, wind rider if they give it the healing mist like the jelly fish. I’m all over that. And it would be ranged? With area mists?

Give me now!

The same. I was looking around to see if there were any juveniles as well. They really need to add some more pets for us to tame.

Caithe’s punishment is she becomes the new Pale Tree. Now, she must live and relive all the good and evil from her children. And from their actions, she will learn the consequences of her own.

This achievement takes time and practice to get right. Also, you need to understand the timing and mechanics.

But someone has helped put a guide together: http://dulfy.net/2014/12/03/gw2-seeds-of-truth-living-world-story-achievements-guide/

The last part is especially hellish. Good luck.

Paciunek.2496:

I’m not a new player but his guides is what keeps me in this game. I would never complete most of the achievements without Dulfy, and achievements are my reason to play.
Thanks for the awesome job and thanks to all people helping you.

Exactly. Without Dulfy’s guides, there would be a lot more frustrated players. And maybe a lot less players period.

I get the distinct feeling separate teams are doing different episodes. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make any sense not to put in a reset node.

Unless ANet is that desperate to keep us in a certain zone and playing.

Feels like it’s backfiring to me.

I have to agree. This is, by far, my least favorite episode. Between the insane, you must die, jumping to get the golden badges, to the grind to get crests for achievements, to the farming bosses in hopes of getting the right organs, and re-farming to get ‘the other half’ of the same bladder, restarting the story over and over again because a part failed, forced to re-watch cinematics repeatedly, and forced to act stupid because the plot demanded it, this is all nuts.

Very much the wrong direction. Again, remember, ANet said there would be no grinding in this game.

Now it’s here with a vengeance.

Farming really isn’t the issue in this context. It’s the grind to get the achievements. Since it is time-gated, as Erazor says and correctly, people will look for a way to speed up the process.

Thus, the leaping from Breach to Breach with the LFG tool.

Repeating the events, over a period of an hour or more, isn’t exactly the most exciting thing right now.

Devildoc.6721:

With the LFG tool almost giving me a seizure right now due to the refresh animation frequency I wouldn’t call it palatable.

(laugh) The grind, not the LFG tool. Though, I will admit, it seems like it’s having a fit lately.

Thanks as always Dulfy. The guide saved me from insanity.

Zaxares.5419:

Yes, I thought it was a blatantly obvious move to extend the grind-time. :P Still, I’ll be in SW for a while grinding my 3000 Bandit Crests, so if I still don’t have the Bladders by the end of it, I’ll just wait for the next chapter and the guaranteed extractors.

This. Between bladders, glands, boots, and the other items, a lot of us will be grinding. Well, at least, those of us interested in the achievements.

Windsagio.1340:

I’m telling you guys, a stop watch, alt-tab, and some streaming video!

The ironic part is I was all but doing that between attempts. Finally got that achievement done and will never go back.

Never.

Devildoc.6721:

The zone is still going fine, it’s just that people are taxiing in from breach to breach rather than hanging out on 1 map and completing foothold events.

OP probably was in a map where people were abandoning like a sinking ship since it wasn’t making progress, taxiing over to other maps that were almost done instead.

This. People have learned to use the LFG to find areas near Breach instead of waiting one out. It makes the grind for the organs and crest more palatable.

Eirdyne.9843:

The problems with not doing Living Story when it is out is that I fall so far behind that I end up in “Who… wait… what?” conversations with everyone I know about the Living Story. Then, the ever more pressing issue is finding the time to dump into all that content I held off on doing later. Better to do it right now than have it bunch up and drown me.

Excellent point. The other issue, if you don’t do the Living Story when it’s released, is that you may end up trying to do them in an area where no one goes to anymore. Or worse, one that requires a huge amount of people (zerg) to complete in order to get the rewards.

It a huge reason everyone rushes to do it now, now, now. Because it may be impossible later.

I didn’t like it. The plot requires you to lose all common sense and ignore the obvious. It’s rather insulting to the audience when think about how dumb and narrow-sighted it needs you to be.

Again, feels very heavy-handed.

It’s rather easy. When the skritt tunnels are blocked, go to the area northeast from the closest skill point and nearest to the main area. You’ll see bandits. When you kill enough of them, you’ll have to kill their leader next: a vet.

Once that’s done, you’re rewarded the Requisition Orders. After you use it, you can now buy the boots with crests.

And, of course, you might randomly get the boots from the buried chests . . . but that’s the RNG route . . . so good luck.

I HATE the stealthing achievement! All the way to the very end, and always get seen. Now redo THE ENTIRE THING?

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Where the heck are those redo from this point motes?!

Edit: This has to be the biggest pita as far as achievements I’ve ever encountered. It wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t have to go through ever cinematic repeatedly . . . but oh no.

Pretty kitten close to throwing in the towel and saying to hell with this game.

A few months ago, this option was mentioned and a developer made comment to send it up.

So far . . . nothing.

Wish they’d at least add more ‘motes’ to restart an area where we messed up. At least, I haven’t seen any yet . . . especially for the ‘stealthing’ achievement.

God. Such a waste of time.

Sure enough, the plot demands it . . . so the character must be as dumb as a stack of sticks. If that wasn’t bad enough, we’re forced to go along with it.

I believe that’s the OP’s main issue.

At least, it was for me.

Even the people denying it can see the grind for what it is now. The newest episode with its ‘half a bladder’ nonsense all but proves it.

Yet, in time, I still expect it to pick up once the disgust wears. They’re still trying to get the achievements in the story done, the jumping puzzle, and the newest lost badges.

Once they’re out of the way, they should return … maybe.

If the point was to keep us in the new zone longer, it definitely worked on me. But, finally, I got my last glove and completed the achievement. So I’m taking a break from the mindless repetition until the next update.

In my final two runs, I got another fang and tendon. Very random. But the zerg beat all the bosses twice, and I got two keys.

The maze chest loot was meh, but I’ll take it. Now back to just doing dailies again.

On a side note, I bought Guild Wars Factions to get the Hall of Momuments done over time. Must say it’s way better than Prophecies. The ritualist is amazing.

Really hope they add this class (Rylock) to Guild Wars 2. I’ll definitely play ritualist if they add it as a new class.

Definitely.

Not sure about that, since I got a Mordrem Heart (gold), as well. Still, I’ll keep ‘em just in case. Worst case scenario? I’ll lose 50 crests.

One fang to go! And, on an odd note, got something called a Mordrem Toxic Gland. Saving it just in case for the next release.

Edit: And now a heart.

Edit #2: And four tendons later, I finally got the last fang. Now to grind 200 or so more crests.

On the plus side, I finally got two fangs in a row during the same Breach event. Gotta love RNG. Of course, that was after five or six tendon drops in a row. But, hey, it’s a start.

Two more to go.

Ok I Did It.2854:

All this current RnG madness is causing is people to not even bother trying for the fangs and just make them wait for the Fang extractor in the next update.

At this point, I’ve all but resigned myself to it. Just doing the dailies again and maybe one breach. I bought a number of the newest extractors . . . and now I have one or two left.

And not one fang . . . all tendons and the like.

Could be worse. I used to make snappy observations like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

No worries and glad I could help.

To be fair, a lot of the content would be frustrating if not for guides like Dulfy.

Once you restart the episode, you can go directly to the content you want to repeat. It’ll be shown as a purple star.

There’s no need to repeat the entire episode, and dialogue, to get to the story content you want.

This includes failed attempts.

Can’t say I’m feeling this update, but I’m happy some people like it. Achievements were somewhat easy to get, so that’s always a plus.

Now those fangs, at least for me, are another story. . . .

Ah. Thanks. Was wondering. Not the most fun I’ve ever had with a challenge, let me tell you.

khani.4786:

Really? Wow. I thought the story rewarded Teragriff part was a guaranteed Fang…I got three Teragriff Fangs. o.o I’m so sorry you didn’t get one.

I guess I’ve been extra lucky the only fang I’m missing is from Thrasher…in fact that’s the only piece I’m missing to get my luminescent gloves. I did have to try a couple times at Amber, but I wound up getting it.

THREE?! Sob . . .

Ayrilana.1396:

Lothirieth.3408:

Ayrilana.1396:

You’re spending the same amount of time doing events to support the map towards the same goal of reach The Breach event.

Except I actually stay around to make sure they succeed before moving on to another. A very large difference.

I will also point out that I always at least killed a wave of the husk slingers (normally 3) before I left.

Oh wow.. and that totally helped with all the mobs pwning the NPC in the middle after you left.

Except I would never have been to the event in the first place if I stuck to just one fort so whether the others succeeded or not is irrelevant. If they were struggling with keeping the NPC alive, I have stayed. However, most of the time this has not been an issue.

The NPC was always fine when I left. The slingers are the ones that you want to kill right away as they do a lot of damage just look at what they do to walls and players with their attacks. A group is far more likely to succeed if they kill them than if they don’t. The majority of the time that I went to kill them, it was just me.

I’m starting to see a pattern with you.

We still don’t know, JP. But, if I had to guess . . . intentional. And, quite frankly, I like the achievement and armor, but not THAT much.

I’m not even wearing the armor. So, if I don’t get the achievement . . . I’m okay with it. Not getting tricked into running the hamster wheel for a pair of gloves and other apathetic rewards.

I know the difference between the carrot and the stick, thank you very much.

Yes, it’s an obvious strong-arm attempt to keep the zone populated . . . especially given the shortness of the newest update.

So much for that ‘no grinding’ policy they had. Seems it went the way of the dodo.

Well . . . I did all the Living Story achievements, got the maze achievements, got the pieces for the lining, truffle, and ring for the glove achievements, and killed at least three champion bosses in the pit over the night . . . and not one fang.

Not even one from the Extracted Mordrem Teragriff Part reward bag: 2 tendons and a chest-something.

Gotta love RNG.

Guess that fang extractor coming in two weeks is for the extremely unlucky like myself.

This one I kind of don’t get. I keep getting hit by the little minions. Got the other two achievements done, no problem.

I see the reset ‘challenge mote’ outside the vines, but there’s no way to get to it if I screw up. And, if I beat the boss . . . it disappears.

Am I missing something? I really don’t want to redo the entire thing over and over and over again. . . .

Edit: Well . . . got it the hard way.

The Ancient Kraka event was pretty nightmarish with the bugs, the lag, and the disconnects. However . . . the loot was awesome and the battle epic! And it had people desperate to repeat the event over and over again.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind more events like that . . . but with less lag and bugs of course.

Malediktus.9250:

Its fine as it is. RNG ensure the map will not be dead again in 24 hours.

Or . . . they could make the rewards more substantial and rewarding. But, hey, maybe that’s just me.

Disguising the grind with an RNG isn’t fooling the people with a clue.

Guess people were getting the achievements from last patch too fast. Anything to keep us in the new zone longer . . . I guess.

Good stuff. +1 for you.

It’s also a nod to some of the player theories. I also agree it seems obvious the dragons are the ‘missing Gods’. But which one is which isn’t as obvious given some changes.

This patch made me want to return to Guild Wars 1 to understand the lore better.

Feels like a Guild Wars 2 player is missing parts of the story. If only ANet, or NCSoft’s customer service, would respond with more than an automated reply, I’d be playing the old game already.

Nothing like not remembering the exact spelling of my old character’s name to stop me from playing.

Two weeks and still waiting for customer service to respond. . . .

Agreed as well. Only the teragriff pathing seems wonky. Especially the Gold and Silver bosses. An entire zerg was in the entrance, and we all got downed nowhere near the bosses’ pathing.

Was definitely something to remember.

But, to be fair, I do run with Cleric’s gear and a healing spec, so your mileage may vary.

Zaklex.6308:

I think people need to open their eyes, those have been there since day 1, Nov. 4th, maybe you didn’t notice them because they aren’t in the ‘normal’ pathways? You know how to tell if something was there or not before…have you had any data downloaded since the last change? No, then they’ve always been there, even little changes like that will result in a new build, and there haven’t been any for over a week.

You are fully aware some of the Living Story content is time-released, right? Also, they can be added with the ‘hot fixes’ as well. And there’ve been a number of those. Four according to Guild Wars Wiki.

And, given Xyvol’s picture evidence, you might want to consider losing the snark the next time you post such a blanket statement.

Since, to use your own words, you might need to open your eyes instead.

Was wondering about this myself. Knew the first vine wasn’t there before. And now another one? Nice touches and updates.

Arianhod.3485:

Dunno about a single LS currency (it doesn’t bother me too much, except for the inv space issue), but for sure we need them (the LS currencies) to be added in the wallet. It’s already there… it wants your crests, geodes, etc…

Space problems solved.

Agree 100%.

And I wish they would do this for all the bloodstone items too . . . since they still can’t be sold and are account bound.

All they’re doing for me is eating up inventory space too. And I’m still hoping they’ll be of some use to me . . . one day.

Good catch. Didn’t notice they weren’t counting, but I think I already got that slayer achievement. I’m guessing a lot did too since few noticed it wasn’t counting.

Hopefully, ANet will address or fix that soon.

Binded, I have only one level 80 character too. But, again, I was doing my crest farming when the map was hopping.

Also, keep in mind, the content is permanent. Or, at least, I think it is. So, eventually, you’ll get the shoulder pieces and achievement . . . just not at the speed the initial crowd did unfortunately.

It’s a sad commentary, but if you’re not part of the initial rush with new content, you tend to get left behind.

Even without farming chests, I earned more than enough crests to get both shoulder skins outside the one awarded from the Living Story.

That’s 2,000 crests for just doing the area’s quests and campaign. But, I must admit, the huge amount of people in the first three days helped.

Even with the zerg gone, due to the chest farm nerf, you can still solo vets and escort supply trains to get crests. Use the LFG tool to see if there are any taxis to fuller maps.

However, with a certain expansion now out, the population will decrease for a while, and since most of us still here have already gotten our achievements, especially with the chest nerf, we have little reason to return to Silverwastes.

I’m seriously thinking about playing the original Guild Wars again to get those Hall of Monument achievements if that tells you anything.

Yeah, ANet’s timing on this was bad given the MMO community’s interest in that other game right now, but hindsight is 20/20. And the die-hards will tell you nothing’s changed, but common sense says otherwise.

Good luck getting those shoulders.

I soloed it as a ranger and am, by no means, heavy DPS. Dulfy has an excellent video guide on how to do it.

Look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC-3M0gxE

And good luck.