If it helps anyone (I’ve completed both sets of Ley-Line Research achievements), I turned my graphics all the way down to ‘Best Performance’ and also turned off all nameplates except for ‘Usable Object Names.’
That way I could much more easily see the Ley Energy balls (I turned in 11 balls on the last event )
Ok thanks, I set up the account and the amount of info you get looks really nice.
Although now I see something called ‘Track Investments’ and when I add an item like ectos it gives me the option to ‘buy stock’. This doesn’t use your in-game gold does it?
I don’t main a necro, but I can tell you this (as someone who regularly runs T4s):
Last night I ran T4 volcanic with two reapers and 1 necro (myself a mesmer, and not sure what the other pug was).
I have never ever seen the end-boss (and his little lava eles) get killed so quickly and his ‘bubble’ burst so fast – I mean like the bubble goes up and <2 seconds later it’s gone lol.
I did see a bunch of minions and so I know somebody(s) were running them. But not sure of the specifics of the necro builds.
So basically YES necros rock in high-level fractals (at least for pugging).
To do it, I stood in front of Teq a bit (pretty sure I was ranging him from where I was) and noticed a smallish* orange AoE circle – I then moved into it and got pulled under.
And as someone pointed out above, the funny thing is on the 2nd burn phase (which was slow) I got pulled under again lol.
*I say smallish as the circle appeared to be smaller than the other orange AoE circles around me. Would be nice if ANet could at least change the color of the whirlpool circle to perhaps green or blue.
It took me 3 tries to find a whirlpool and then 2 tries to get sucked in. Both of the whirlpools that I saw appeared in front of teq at the end of the first phase of the fight, almost right as he goes invuln and before everyone runs to batteries. The first time I wasn’t able to run to one in time, but the second time I made it. Each time there were only 2 whirlpools that I saw.
I don’t know if you’re trying to contribute to the fight, but my recommendation is that you don’t. Just hang out about 600-1000 range from his head as his health starts to drop and ping him with a longbow or something while you scan the ground with your eyes like a hawk. They don’t have orange AOE circles, so you have to look for the graphical effect.
Just keep trying, I’m sure you can do it!
well, finally managed to find that just horrible enough map. the kind of map that has enough people to win, but not enough to chain burns. still though, this needs to change ANet.
Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring on this one as I too am now trying to get sucked in by a whirlpool, but unfortunately I’m not having any luck whatsoever (been on 7 or 8 maps so far).
As mentioned above, since Teq is on farm-mode now he only has a chance to spawn whirlpools after the 1st phase (I say chance as he didn’t spawn any whirlpools on the map I was just on). And so you may have a couple second window per Teq to get this, whereas other related legendary achievements can be done basically whenever you wish.
So I respectfully ask ANet to somehow address this issue! (e.g perhaps add whirlpools after every burn stage regardless of whether or not he takes off immediately).
I’m about to create my first legendary of any kind (fractal backpack) ankitten ow looking at creating the 77 mystic clovers.
I’ve read that while the chance to get a clover is ~33%, you may get back other stuff like ectos or t6 mats.
So my question is – has anyone done an analysis of what the avg. cost to create 77 clovers is given the other stuff you can may get back that I mentioned above?
Well I hope this is fixed pronto. After slogging for a few hours through W2Z3 today and suffering easily 200+ deaths… yeah, allowing this just doesn’t seem right.
You can buy them, there are quite a few lfg options to buy. They are getting cheaper by the day.
I really hope ANet looks at this soon – this is clearly not intended per the following text which appears prior to entering a tribulation (and only a tribulation) zone:
“Warning – Party members will not be able to join or rejoin their group once the zone has been entered.”
So based on this, getting the end-boss to 1% health and then bringing peeps in for quick zone completion is an exploit.
I tried these later in the evening and both worked – and so I’m guessing the ‘bad’ map instances probably closed and the quests were working on the new ones.
Well I tried this later in the evening and it worked – and so I’m guessing the ‘bad’ map instance probably closed and the quest was working on the new one.
Well I tried this later in the evening and it worked – and so I’m guessing the ‘bad’ map instance probably closed and the quest was working on the new one.
Since I couldn’t do ‘Brisban Liberator’, now I’m trying to do ‘Hawke Liberator’ in Fields of Ruin.
However, I’m standing in the village near Halkor Meadows where the quest should spawn – but all I see are ‘Harpy Kidnappers’ periodically appearing and disappearing after a few seconds. And no quest triggers.
Is this one bugged too?? That’s 2 in a row so far (if indeed bugged)…
I’m trying to do the quest to save the skritt from the Nightmare Court, but Squrlookal won’t give it to me (as you can see in the attachment, there is no ‘take quest’ option).
For me the best shot at being able to attend is probably weekend nights (after 11:30 pm est). And so if you do it then and need a body then plz let me know.
I would like to be part of this – mainly run Mesmer but can probably do Tempest as well.
Edit: Unfortunately I couldn’t make it due to work issues qq, but if you plan on doing more of these I’d definitely like to participate (or perhaps even get a guild invite?)
I actually really enjoyed doing the challenging fractals for elite fractal master and veteran. Im probably the only person in the world who likes high-level cliffsides. Makes me feel so useful.
A couple nights ago I did Cliffside 94 with a pug and finally beat it after easily 2+ hours (ofc the infamous Arm Seals being the issue).
Being a mesmer, I was trying to do the South arm seal solo using stealth. It took me a few tries to get in a rhythm, but I eventually got it done.
And so last night I saw a pug doing it and figured I’d help out since I knew how painful it was the night before.
I know it’s not something you’d run like ever in PvE (guess I should have clarified) – just wondering how I’d maximize my stealth as a mesmer (i.e. to run hammer in Cliffside 59/69).
it’s party wide
it was the last fractal achievement I got (literally the last one. I completed all 100 scales before I got this)
I just got this one too.
Someone in party said you need to run at least one bomb to get credit – not sure if true (as I ran a few bombs), but something to consider when trying for it.
I finally got this about an hour ago with a 2,10,15 daily group.
This is the easiest way to get it – as opposed to starting a 15 only group and trying to explain what to do each time to newer folks (which seemed to be the majority of who joined my groups).
Still though, I wish we could reset the achieve while inside the instance – as my pug groups were close a few times but then peeps bailed afterwards and didn’t want to try again.
And I guess I should have started off by stating I already had the ascended armor boxes sitting in storage (was just waiting for the right time to use them), and so I’m not crafting anything other than the attribute change to Zerker.
The monthly Chest of Loyalty gives you a choice of:
Chest of Ascended Crafting Materials (Rng chance at 1-2 of the following: Bolt of Damask, Deldrimor Steel Ingot, Elonian Leather Square, Spiritwood Plank)
On the other hand if you watch closely: Nevermore crafting cost estimate uses Copper Doubloon with a 35s buy price and it is not the best idea, because you can make orbs/crests for 23s, so the price of 250 gemstones is 560g, not 840g.
How do you craft them for 23s? I thought it was more like 30s since the 5 dust is around 25s and then the 2 crystals are around another 5s.
On a related note, I haven’t yet unlocked legendary crafting – should I wait until I do before crafting these? (i.e. so they count towards achievements?) Or does simply having them in inventory count.
l understand you’re trying to help but your information is a little off, It’s a minuscule amount you save doing this because you need incandescent dust which comes in about 5 silver each(you need 5 of them on top of 2 crystals of your choice). And that this process isn’t done through the mytic forge at all, It is transmog’d by d jeweler!
I was talking about putting 4 of them into the MF.
How does this work? I’m assuming it must not be a good way to get orbs as otherwise everyone would be doing it and the price of crystals would be much higher, but curious nonetheless.
I heard about this collection in map chat tonight, and so I unlocked it and got my first brew.
However, it’s apparently the February brew (although isn’t it still January?) – and so am I forever unable to get the January one, or will it come back again next January? (hopefully?)
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed doing this achievement! And I really hope ANet adds more stuff like this in the future!
Yes, it was a bit painful to learn how to deal with the updated fights, but imho that’s what makes it so awesome when you finally beat it.
Probably the craziest part was the last Mordy phase with all the adds and the orange circles that can insta-down you. It was really hectic there trying to keep folks alive lol.
And having a great group helps obviously. I pugged it and was amazed how smoothly things went (we only had a few wipes, and I believe we finished in <90 minutes).
Finally got it by AoE-targeting the Mouth’s target-box and then throwing the mortar.
So if anyone tells you to ‘just target the Mouth and hit 1’ – wrong!
Also, I didn’t have action-cam enabled when I did it (most prior attempts it was enabled). So I’d recommend not having action-cam on when going for this achievement.
^I definitely agree with your comments above – the randomness of where the copter spawns really adds to the frustration to say the least.
Also, in map chat folks just told me to hit Tab to target mouth and then just press 1. I asked a couple times if that’s all I had to do, and peeps say ‘yeah, pretty much that’s it.’
Such a simple sounding achievement – just drop a mortar on the Mouth of Mordremoth. Ok, no problem.
But, I have tried this now repeatedly and nothing. Is this achievement currently bugged?
Basically, despite being directly overhead the Mouth’s target-box and dropping the mortars, I cannot get this. I was also talking with a commander last night who’s tried this many times as well but to no avail.
On YouTube I only found 2 gold vids for this adventure – if you have one please post here as I (and surely others) would like some pointers on how to gold this sucker.
The new ones contain new/different drops, which could have a higher worth than the old ones. So my guess is to make sure that the new gift economy isn’t affected by the old one.
What’s confusing though is when I double-clicked my old Dusty Giant gifts and created the new gift, it stacks with this year’s gifts – which makes me think the drops would be the same as this year’s gifts.
I might be wrong about that, but it just seemed strange that the old/new gifts would stack with each other if the drops are different.
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