They’re certainly capable of doing it – the SAB mace skin is a flail.
Not every achievement directly contributes to the 11. Each of the nine profession achievements instead only contributes to the League Professional achievement. So for example, if you complete the ele, necro and mesmer achievements, that will complete the League Professional, but only the League Professional will count towards Path of Ascension, so you total will only go up by 1.
Click on the main achievement, Path of Ascension, it’ll show you exactly which 11 count, and which one you still need to complete.
Oh, ok, I missed that they were included in a later update’s patch notes – they were in the initial patch, but missing from the patch notes.
The other minis are available via the tickets that drop from the black lion chest (and have been for the last week).
How has it been for the last week, when the blog post just came out today…?
They just appeared unannounced with the patch last tuesday. Don’t know why, maybe it was an update that wasn’t supposed to go live until today accidentally released early.
Yeah, it’s quite misleading. It had me confused for a bit because those minis are tradeable, so it would be odd for them to be in the gem store.
The other minis are available via the tickets that drop from the black lion chest (and have been for the last week).
There are a couple of things you can get from achievement rewards that give you a small amount of aurillium daily. You can get an aurillium mining node for your home instance, which gives ~10 a day, and also the Herta bloodstone dust gobbler, which has a reasonably high chance to give you 10 aurillium.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/No_Mask_Left_Behind
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Herta
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I’ve just had a thought – I’m wondering if the switch back from the desert borderlands to alpine could have confused things. The alpine borderlands counted for Tyrian map completion originally, so maybe if you have some of those completed, it thinks you’re maxed out when you still some hero challenges left in the PvE map?
Do you have all the hero challenges on the map completed?
No I’m in eternal battlegrounds.
Its actually only on my 1 thief that I can’t use them. If I try to use them on another toon it works.
It should have no effect what map you’re in. Using the proof should complete a random uncompleted hero challenge from a Tyrian or Maguuma PvE map (depending which one you bought), not matter where you are at the time. So if your thief has already completed all those hero challenges, it would explain why it doesn’t work for that character, but does for others.
Ah, okay. I’m guessing then that, unless it pops up in the Gem Store at some point, it will be impossible to get, since it was a Living Story set?
No, you can still get it trough collections.
Not quite. You can still get all the carapace pieces without living story, but the collections to get bioluminescent require the trinkets that you get by completing the living story achievements.
You can’t work on the next tier before you complete the previous one, but you can work on other lines. So if, for example, your bar is maxed in fractals mastery, but you don’t have the mastery points yet to continue, you could switch to the legendary crafting or pact commander masteries in the meantime so your experience doesn’t get wasted.
No. Precursor crafting requires masteries, which are gated behind the first chapter of the HoT personal story.
I think that’s light carapace armour.
Do you have all the hero challenges on the map completed?
They still appear if you’re too fast, but only briefly – right at the first transition to the defence phase (when Tequatl’s at 75% health). They tend to spawn a little way away from Tequatl’s feet, so I found the best way was to try and get into melee range when the phase change is close. I got it by positioning myself a little to the left of Tequatl’s right foot, and a vortex appeared just outside melee range near there.
I checked this earlier and I could get in – it was over an hour since the previous event, and over an hour until the next. As far as I can tell, you get locked out when the event starts, and can get back in after it’s completed. I wonder if the problem happens when the event fails, does it then stay locked until next time?
I think you’ve misunderstood how masteries work.
Earning mastery points has nothing to do with your experience bar – they come from completing specific acheivements (look for red icons for Tyria, or green for Maguuma on the achievements panel).
Filling the experience bar lets you spend mastery points you’ve already earned. Once it’s full, go to the mastery panel, and click on the icon to the right of the bar there. The number to the left of the bar at the bottom of the screen should then go up, as it shows the number of points you’ve spent.
If the other team is using Teamspeak, or some other VOIP, why can’t your team? Seems fair.
Unless you’re queueing as a full party, you get 90s to agree on what to use, share server details, etc. Not really going to happen.
There are plenty of external VOIP applications out there, like Teamspeak. Ultimately it’s a question of balancing cost and benefit – would you rather the devs devote resources to creating new content for the game, or implementing something that already exists outside of it?
As for the other team using VOIP – that’s taken into account to some extent in the matchmaking. Parties have their MMR scaled up to compensate for being better able to co-ordinate. If anything, parties not using VOIP are penalised by this, so you may actually be getting an advantage against the other team!
He’s buggy. Your best bet is to try straight after an update so that you get a fresh map.
Hi all,
This is confusing. I have defeated all five of the champions and some I have defeated multiple times. I have 3 of the four achievements completed. But I have 0 of 3 credits in the bounty hunter achievement. Not sure what I am suppose to do to get credit for the bounty hunter achievement. Can any one explain clearly how it is done?1. Kill bandits (any bandits anywhere in the game) until you get an Encoded Orders item drop.
2. Double click on the item to see where you need to take the Orders (an NPC in Divinity’s Reach).
3. Go to DR, and talk to the NPC. The NPC will give you a bounty ticket with your bounty’s name on it.
4. Double click on the bounty ticket to see where your bounty is located, and then go to the waypoint closest to your bounty.
5. Run to the bounty location, and wait for it to spawn.Repeat this every day until you’ve done it enough to complete the achievement.
Bear in mind that it’s an infinite achievement though – once you complete 3 bounties, you’ll get the reward but it’ll go back to 0 out of 3.
Elder wood logs are cheaper than logs from all the lowers tiers except green wood logs. Mithril ore is cheaper than all the other ores used for weapon crafting. That seems the wrong way round to me – surely higher tier materials would be worth more? Mithril in particular is practically junk, as it’s only worth coppers. So yeah, I think another sink is appropriate.
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I think the point is that krait weapons are craftable, and the provisioners act as a sink for elder wood & mithril.
They just added the Daily ‘Bounty Hunter’.
I was expecting some new ‘Current Events’ today…..possibly more recurring Dailies. Oh, well, the day’s not over.
No new events today – there’s not going to be a patch today because yesterday was a holiday, and the usual Tuesday patch will be tomorrow instead:
From what I can find out (according to the Oxford English Dictionary), ‘think’ appears in print in the late 1800s, whereas ‘thing’ first appears in print in the early 1900s.
Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter, and either phrase is understood the same way. Language is a fluid think (sic), and mishearings are all part of how it evolves – otherwise, we’d all still be speaking like Shakespeare.
The original expression is, “he’s got another thing coming.”
I believe you’re the one with another think coming.
As I understand it ‘think’ is the original, as another way of saying, “if you think that, you’ll have to think again,” and ‘thing’ has appeared over the years as a mishearing, and is now the more commonly used.
As far as I know, those weapons aren’t used as crafting materials for anything. What are you trying to craft from them?
You don’t need to repair the flags, you just need to make it to one of the exits.
If you click on the Path of the Ascension achievement, it shows you exactly which 11 you need to complete.
Are you playing it on the same character as you completed it the first time?
Go to your hero panel, and select the story journal (fourth tab down, with a star icon). You should be able to select the HoT story from there and set it as your active story.
Not sure how much help this is, but it looks like there’s more wrong with your achievements than just League Dominator not progressing. The second picture shows you have 6 wins with a thief in part 4, but only 5 wins in total.
I had no idea it was supposed to work that way.
I found one encoded order, killed the first guy and did not know I was supposed to have other orders. I went and killed the other four bandits and got credit for the achievement in a little under an hour. The achievement reward of that scroll that is supposed to grant XP towards mastery, vanished out of my warrior’s inventory though, after logging out and back in.
I am sure I never clicked and used it.
The mastery exp item doesn’t appear in your inventory – it is automatically consumed straight away (even if you’re maxed out and the exp is wasted).
Arah is not completely removed, but you’d need to run a character all the way through the original personal story to get to it (or join a party with someone else who is at the last chapter).
Try talking to Hobbs in Lions Arch – he probably sells replacements.
Have you crafted the tier 1 precursor yet? That should unlock the collection, and then you can buy the book.
You can skip most of the cutscenes if you need to retry the instance when going for achievements (you’ll still need to go through them once, though). After you beat the dragon, there’s an NPC you can talk to that puts you back to the start of the fight.
When the PvP reward tracks were launched, you had to complete the story modes again to unlock them, even if you’d previously completed them – I’d guess in your case you went through the dungeons long enough ago to not count.
It’s a known bug that’s been around for a while. Your best bet is to raise a ticket with customer support.
Thanks for the clarification! I haven’t played much in the HoT maps since before the spring update so I missed that it was an intended change. It’s slightly inconvenient that there is no way to see how far the map has progressed though, as I assume the event chain progress still counts towards the final reward in the end?
No, they don’t anymore. Only your progress during the final events counts for the end reward, but there’s enough to easily get to 100% participation to get the full reward.
So no more rewards for doing daytime in verdant brink?
You now get rewards from each event as you complete it, rather than having to wait for night to fall (which could be over an hour) to get your reward. Personally, I think the instant rewards works better.
Doesn’t it only show up, now, when the Meta is active, or something like that? I don’t have it all the time. I know they changed how the HoT maps work with the Spring Update.
It’s unchanged in Dragon’s Stand, but much reduced in the other maps so that it no longer applies during the outpost event chains – it only appears at night in Verdant Brink, during the challenges and octovine fights in Auric Basin, and during the chak gerant in Tangled Depths.
There was something about this in this week’s patch notes:
Players no longer require the Auric Backplate, awarded from completing the Auric Weapons collection, before collecting many items in the Luminate’s Backpack collection.
I was having the same problem, then got the lodestone on my first attempt after the patch.
They’ve not been enabled yet, see this dev post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Hero-s-Choice-Chests/first#post6158564
The minis from outside of sets 1, 2, and 3 that are forgeable typically only work in specific recipes to get specific minis back. For example, Mew only works as part of a recipe to get Mister Mittens. See this for a list of all the recipes:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Miscellaneous#Miniatures
Also, from memory I don’t think the exotic minis from sets 1, 2, and 3 are forgeable at all, only the lower tiers (but I’m not 100% certain on this).
You don’t have to use SMS, you could use an autheticator app (google authenticator on a smartphone or tablet, or on your PC via Chrome). You can set that up through the website – from the Services menu at the top of the page, go to My Account, and then Security, then 2-Step Authentication.
If you don’t want to enter the code every time, just tick the box to remember your network the first time you log in using it.
You are looking at recipes, but you should be looking under legendary weapon collections in your achievements. The chest won’t be available for sale until you complete the next collection (which will give you the chest as a reward anyway).
Guild rush in Southsun Cove has bugged out so that it’s impossible to interact with the start point. It’s showing a guild tag as if it’s currently active, but the event isn’t running.
IP 206.127.159.210
i can’t purchase the book from grandmaster hobbs to start tier 2 of astralaria precursor even though I have the appropriate mastery level?
You don’t start tier 2 by buying the book, you need to craft the tier 1 precursor first.