Guild Wars 2

Is Toxic Gardener bugged for anyone else?

edit: Checked again after the update, still a no go.

Should “Here Be Dragons” or the other dragon week daily achievements be active again? They came with the Halloween patch, but it seems weird to have these active again.

Is this a bug, or have they been added back to stay?

Mine has been updating. Have you completed it once yet?

I have a feeling the total achievement points listed for Lunatic Inquisition Regular is incorrect listing that it maxes at 4,294,967,295 Achievement points.

The thread has been closed

I just got it, and I have no idea why we got it. Here is what we did:

We killed as few guys as possible. This could be the grenader, the watcher, and about 5 guys at the corner.

I pulled the boss all the way back to where you first jump down, and lost agro of any extra adds.

No here is where things get a little weird. We wiped 2 times, and on our third time we were wiping and 1 person decided to leave. 2 people up killed him as he had like 2% hp and ressed the downed guy.

At this point we decided to just clear in case we could get it and we did get it.

Did I really just spend 2_ hours trying for an achievement that is bugged? Why must achievements that take a long time be the ones that bug out…

I’m guessing there won’t be a fix until later next week either. kitten it, i try to be more possitive but I hate when my time gets wasted for nothing

Anyone on here in the Borlis Pass main server and know how they are doing? I’ve been guesting around and doing overflows, but I’d like to see my home get this done if there is a group organized. (There was an overflow to get in)

why is it that the people actually trying dc, and the afks get to stay

I guess ultimately some of us thought we were a part of the group. This just shows us that we are not. It’s like not getting that invite to a party.

idk, whatever. I’ll stop posting, you seem to be distracted by this instead of the fight.

Talic.9608:

Ewon are you bothered that we didn’t fill Ferguson’s Crossing’s entire server with Blackgate? That’s definitely not the intention we have. We are partially filling a low-pop server so they can get their people in, learn the strats, and get a kill without needing to suffered guesting overflows. Besides if you have been in TS all day you would have heard a group of Blackgate people saying Anvil rock was the next server to guest.

Some of us have been trying for several hours today, and the discussion in TS was that a server would be picked for people to join. Clearly Anvil Rock was not the one picked.

it seems that there is now an elitist group leaving the rest behind in this “helping” other servers to glory. (Yet claming the kill as their own).

So which is it, are you “helping” a server, or did you find an empty one to kill on?

blade.3592:

It was said in TS before anywhere…a while ago.

I was in TS all day, this was posted before we knew

Seems Talic has let the attention go to his head.

Why did you post this before the TS people could get in?

omg, fix the overflow issues

some of us are trying to organize here…

Any overflows forming up that can invite people? Servers are too hard to get in.

Nile.9563:

Ewon.5903:

Any NA servers currently grouping up to take him down?

I just woke up and am starting it up on BG, hurry before theres 200 people

Sounds like its already full and Im not native BG.

Any NA servers currently grouping up to take him down?

Link.6157:

Am i the only person wondering why the mods/developers only react the posts like ‘how is tequatl announced’? While there are now like 10000 posts about the difficulty with no decent answer …

Although there are in fact some flaws, let the servers who want the challenge start to get this down. Then if needed, they can make a few changes so the smaller servers can start to do this stuff.

Nile.9563:

Ewon.5903:

And they did it. Sure it would be the one I dc on after 6 HOURS of trying with them…. fml

I’ll be home from my classes in about 3 hours to start organizing and preparing for reset tonight. Gonna be commanding until we get the kill again. Should be much faster this time

Sounds good, Ill be there.

I gotta step away for now. This is disheartening.

And they did it. Sure it would be the one I dc on after 6 HOURS of trying with them…. fml

dc’d from blackgate

I dont know if I want to route for you guys and be really sad that I dont get it, or be selfish and hope we try again.

OK after watching teh Desolation vid, the cheering and everything, you guys truely deserved that. GG

Desolation have a vid? I’d like to see if your strat is the same as BG.

gg Desolation!

BG, you guys rock. Those commanding in TS are amazing people. Keep it up guys. You will get it again today.

Has anyone gotten close since Blackgate’s success last night?

Good lord, the organization you guys have in that vid. I’m sad to not be a part of such awesomeness.

One huge thing I saw in the vid was “res at wp if you are dead” and I saw people wp. This did not at all happen on BP. There was a sea of dead people akitteng.

Quick question for those that managed to kill him, is this something you will now try to do again?

Just tried on BP. We got to 90% with a very very unorganized group that would not listen. I should have screen capped it, but it was pretty much just a sea of dead afk bodies.

wtb: new server

Although i like the challenge of this content, im not sure every server can be organized enough for it. Atleast not yet i guess

So what is Blackgate doing to get their dps high enough? The servers I have been on only get like 10-20% off of him and they are not very organized.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

4. Death is bad

Problem
Getting into a fight can already be annoying, but after being repeatedly defeated to then have to lay there in the hopes someone isn’t AFK, too close to a fight to help, or not interested in you adding more waiting time to their cue, can make this a frustrating experience.

I thought arenanet didn’t want death to feel like such a punishment. One of the worst parts for me is the fact that I lose so much from death in the gauntlet. If no one is there, the trip back is terrible. If people are there, you get to have some fun waiting for everyone esle… cause watching people do this is sooooo exciting. Oh, and now you need to buy more tickets, awesome….

I have a lot of other problems with the dome too, but the death part seems to go against what they said.

The dome itself seems like a false excuse for a challenge. (And yes, i know the few of you that beat her think it is perfectly fine.) Though i will say, if I could freely repeat this over and over, change gear, builds without wasting tons of money, maybe I would notice this as a nice challenge.

EDIT: I will add that I have in fact killed Liadri, but I can’t for the life of me get the 8 orb achievement.

JustTrogdor.7892:

I didn’t know there was such a thing until a little over a month ago or so. I’m ranked in the 80%. Given that I obviously dominate the game feel free to PM me if you are seeking some advice. I don’t mind a little healthy competition.

You my friend, have made me smile. GG

danielrjones.8759:

I’m not trying to start an arguement here you have my respect as for your position on the lb. Just our opinions differ here.

It’s cool. Hopefully I’m not coming across to much like a jerk with my replies. I am perfectly fine with anyone having a different opinion than myself, and my opinion is in no way set in stone. If someone can shed new light, or offer a different view than i may have thought of, perfect. I just might ask questions, or share my opinion on it as a result.

danielrjones.8759:

You have some good point Ewon, but I feel, from reading other threads, there are many people on the leaderboard that are pretty high. Now that anet has made more and more available. Those people don’t like it because its more work for them. Instead they would like changes made to accomadate them so they would not be required to put in so much time maintain that position. I feel this is unfair to new people. And also those that wish to climb a bit farther, hoping someone above them has a power outage or misses a few days. If any change like that comes about, just my opinion, but then caps for max amount of daily points overall should be in place.

In some ways it almost sounds like. Now I have the ap. that no one will ever be able to get. I want changes. I am not saying you are like this. Just it appears that way from some other threads.

I’m not sure I can agree with this. I already have most of the achievements that are not dailies/WvW in the game. If I don’t have the time to do other achievements with the dailies requirement, I can only imagine those with more achievements to get are having an even harder time catching up.

When it took me 20min to do dailies, i could do lots of other achievements too. If it now takes people 2-3hours, that is going to make it much harder for them to catch up.

MrRuin.9740:

I don’t care.
I do look to gain AP’s where I can to move toward the reward chests, but otherwise its just a number. I’ve never even checked the boards tbh, because I don’t need to compare my number to anyone elses to see if I’m “winning”.
IMO, once you start farming them whether you like the activity or not just to maintain some kind of status on the boards, it becomes less a game for fun and more a job to keep up with AP’s that don’t mean much beyond showing the time you have.

Couldn’t we say everything in this game is just a show of how much time you have?

Would it be fair to say that a change to how long it takes to complete dailies would in no way affect your gaming? That if there was a change to make those who do care a little happier, this would not be a problem for you?

Basically, if this is not an area of the game you care about, why would you care if those who do care were to request a change?

I understand that it takes a specific type of person to grind out achievements each day. I am one of those people. I may continue to be one of those people. My thought is that I would like the amount of daily time to be reduced, or to at least stop it from continually increasing. I enjoy the AP hunt, and I have met several of the people in the top 25. There comes a point when that fun is taken away, and I am just hoping to keep things a little more interesting.

Algreg.3629:

Ewon.5903:

Algreg.3629:

as I am not completly sure what your pov is, I clarify mine – I like to have all those AP available in game (additional dailies etc) but suggested remove them from the scores on the leaderboard if they cause problems there. In that regard, I cannot follow the casual/time argument. Those rewards are permanent and attainable by everyone, just at a different pace. I see them as a matter of choice (yes, the good ol´optional argument). You can develop a compulsion concerning many things in a MMO, that is no argument for removing additional daily/monthly AP. Just ignore them if you feel under pressure. The achievement chests will not disappear because of this.

If PvE dailies worked in a way that you can do 10/20 and then get the daily chest with 20AP in it, would you find that is still fine for you? The difference being that you currently get 1AP from each of teh 20, now you have the option of which 10 in the 20 to still get the 20AP.

I will also admit, I failed to think of the fact people are getting AP for the achievement chests. For me I’m not worried about getting a chest today, or a week from now. My focus is on the leaderboards strictly, so i will have a little bit of a different view on this.

I meant the “big chests”, not the ones for daily and monthly completion.

Yes I was referring to those as well, but proposing a method of getting points through the daily ones.

Algreg.3629:

as I am not completly sure what your pov is, I clarify mine – I like to have all those AP available in game (additional dailies etc) but suggested remove them from the scores on the leaderboard if they cause problems there. In that regard, I cannot follow the casual/time argument. Those rewards are permanent and attainable by everyone, just at a different pace. I see them as a matter of choice (yes, the good ol´optional argument). You can develop a compulsion concerning many things in a MMO, that is no argument for removing additional daily/monthly AP. Just ignore them if you feel under pressure. The achievement chests will not disappear because of this.

If PvE dailies worked in a way that you can do 10/20 and then get the daily chest with 20AP in it, would you find that is still fine for you? The difference being that you currently get 1AP from each of teh 20, now you have the option of which 10 in the 20 to still get the 20AP.

I will also admit, I failed to think of the fact people are getting AP for the achievement chests. For me I’m not worried about getting a chest today, or a week from now. My focus is on the leaderboards strictly, so i will have a little bit of a different view on this.

Algreg.3629:

If people invested in the leaderboards see those as a problem, remove time related AP from the boards completely, just do not touch them for the rest of us in game.

Yes, I’m strictly talking about the AP given for these dailies. i don;t think the options for more casual players, or just those not seeking AP, should be removed.

I think its fine to have some dailies, or even the weekly idea, for AP, but I don’t think they should keep adding more time required.

So far it seems several people did enjoy getting achievements, but the fun has been taken away. In some cases people might have changed their own interest, but some seems to be directly due to the time it takes for dailies. Maybe it is just me, but i see this as a bit of a problem in the current system.

Vayne.8563:

I used to try…I’ve stopped. For example, I used to do the SPvP daily every day, in addition to the other dailies. But I’ve enjoyed the game more since I’ve stopped trying..and I’m still in the top 500 somehow.

I must play too much.

A few questions to see where you are coming from:

Are you still trying to place higher on the achievement boards, or have you stopped caring about your positioning?

Why did you stop doing dailies?

Are there any changes they could make that you would try to place on the AP boards again?

This is a question for those competing on the achievement leaderboards, or those who have been trying to get on them as well. The point of this post is to start a discussion around dailies achievements. This is not an attempt to complain about the current game, but rather to discuss if we like where it is heading, or would like to see some changes.

If you are not someone on the achievement boards, please do not make posts about people having nolife, or being OCD and needing to complete “optional” content. Part of this discussion will be about whether or not this content feels optional for those that compete on the leaderboards.

The Question
What are your thoughts around the amount of daily achievement points available, and the time it takes to get them all?

Additional Questions to help the conversation
For reference, where do you place on the leaderboards? I image the desire to get all daily achievements increases the higher you are on the leaderboards.

How many hours do you have available to play each day?

Do you go for all achievement points from the dailies, or do you just get most and hope that is enough to position yourself of the leaderboards?

If more dailies keep being added, will you continue to compete on the leaderboards?

What do you think are the intentions of having so many daily achievements and the time it would take to get them all?

Are there better options you would like to see?

My Thoughts/Information
I will start off by saying that I am currently placed at #2 NA. I am the sort of gamer that likes to play all aspects of the game, and enjoy going for achievements. When the leaderboards were introduced, I found myself at #32 and my interest in climbing the boards was formed.

I will say that I do strive to get all daily achievements done as I am trying to acquire all achievement points that I can. I remember a time when dailies would take 20 minutes tops to complete and then I would move on to the other achievements i was working on. I don’t mind that more dailies have been added, and more options have been added, but I would rather not see this number keep increasing. It is already getting to the point where if I want to do dailies, that is all I’m focusing on for my playtime. This does not leave room for getting other achievements, or just enjoying other parts of the game. I understand that many will say we don;t “need” to do all the dailies, but honestly, the number of dailies that are completed is the reason why people are at the top of the achievement boards.

I’m curios of what the reasoning for the increasing number of achievements/time of dailies is. Do they want to have so many dailies that people stop trying to go for all of them? I believe its safe to say that if you are on the leaderboards, you are going to want to get all daily achievement points that you can.

For me, I think an hour for PvE dailies and the current 20-30min for PvP dailies would be a good spot to stop. I think this is manageable for the types of players that would want to compete on the achievement boards, and it would allow room for players to do other things with there time.

Other options to make dailies truely feel like we have “options” might be to give out achievement points when you ahve completed the 5/5 dailies and not for each individual daily. If this option was to be implemented, I would suggest the 5/5 be increase to 8/8 or 10/10.

Another option, which could allow those with “a life” more freedom could be to change some of this daily content to weekly. Let people play on the days they want to play, without making it feel like you are missing out daily.

In closing
This should be a discussion for those on the leaderboards about how they want to see the game develop. This should be similar to a PvP player discussing this they do, or do not, want to see in PvP. Please do not just post that dailies are “optional” without providing any opinion about it. If making changes would not affect you in anyway due to your lack of interest in the achievement boards, please do not come in here and post that the current daily trend is fine.

Lets be polite and discuss how we would like to see the game.

White Dragon.5429:

I never looked at my score per game, but I did always get a message popping up saying most scavenges and most arrow kills.

2500/24 = 104. Even with most arrow kills i don’t see these sort of numbers. Did you get a bunch of people to line up for you at the start with the 2min buff up? i rarely see scores this high, and yet you are averaging 104?

White Dragon.5429:

If it’s taking you 50+ matches to get High Scorer, you’re doing it wrong. I got it the same game as my fourth loot bag, which is every sixth game. That means 24 games and I was done (although I still played quite a bit more because it’s the most fun I’ve had in PvP yet). Campers get low scores, so be active. Also, campers slow down the game. So instead of revenge-killing whoever kills you, karka bomb the campers.

Are you telling me you average 104pts every game? That seems a little high when most of the games I’m in, the top score is 70-80.

Is it just me, or does the required amount to max this achievement seem well beyond what it needs to be based on the other achievements.

I don’t mean to complain, but with Aspect Arena none of the achievements really felt like i had to grind too much. With High Scorer, i have 25% with everything else already completed.

Is anyone having more luck with this one? Maybe I just need to make sure I survive longer, but the max I see is like 100pts in a match.

I actually like that I can see the 100% complete and am able to acknowledge that I have completed an achievement.

If I’m completing multiple achievements at a time, I’d rather the ones I’m tracking not disappear before I might realize I’m complete.

Maybe I’m missing something, but when you get your rewards for winning a tpvp match, I noticed my glory went up, but my rank points did not. I have never really paid close attention to this, even after over 500+ tpvp matches, but can anyone confirm?

If I do more tpvp tomorrow I will try to pay closer attention.

Hello there,

I am an active achievement hunter who currently sits at #2 on the NA leader boards. This will continue to be my primary focus while playing the game.

With new content such as the AR dungeon, I think I could make things a little easier by finding a guild with a similar focus. There are some strategies that are simply not pug friendly.

I am also looking to do some guild challenges, WvW, and possible some pvp.

I have primarily been playing with friends that I have met both in, and out, of game. I am fine with continue with my current approach, but would like to test out a few guilds.

My primary game time will be during weekends, as I do not have much time for anything other than dailies at night.

Please let me know what your guild focuses on, how you might be a good fit for me, and what your thoughts on helping with achievements are.

I’ve noticed that several people have lost achievement points in the latest update. Is this a bug, or am I missing something in the patch notes?

So when is the actually firework show from now? Ive been in LA for over an hour and people just keep saying its on the next hour. I believe I should have seen it by now, yet I have not.

Are the overflows bugged? I really don;t want to waste time sitting in LA all night…

can anyone confirm if anyone was been able to get this? Im #3 NA so knowing if people are getting a point ahead would be nice to know.