ekarat.1085

I am part of the target audience for emboldened, so I want to share my experience: When raids first came out for GW2, I tried them. It took me 3 months of training and practice to beat VG, and I was so burnt out that I stopped playing for quite a while. Now, to be fair, I had wrist issues at the time and could not use a mouse, so that did genuinely hinder me. However, disabilities are a very real thing. A couple of years later, I came back to the game at the same time as a bunch of old guild mates, so we refounded the old guild and recruited some new folks as well. Many of them had never tried raids, so we learned together. (By this time, my wrists were doing better, so I was able to use a mouse again.) It took 6 months to get all the bosses of the first 4 wings except Deimos. It took 3 additional months for me to get Deimos, but some got Deimos separately and had attendance dropped off. I'm not the best player, but I did learn and get better. I went from a bad player to a mediocre player with a bad case of tunnel vision. Along the way, I've encountered a number of players who believed that any failure was because people did not understand the mechanics and refuse to believe that anyone who understood the mechanics could fail. There's something to that, but it's not entirely true. I remember learning Sabetha and would frequently miss the throws. It's not that I didn't know where to throw it. It took a couple failures for me to figure out that I was throwing short and that I needed to run forward a bit before throwing the bomb. Technically, that's part of the mechanic, but generally not something covered in an explanation or video. It takes practice. Even knowing that, I can screw up 20% of the time. That's a failure in execution, not at knowing the mechanic. The other thing I encountered are people who join from LFG but quit after the first attempt fails -- even though the description clearly said TRAINING or STILL LEARNING. Do I think those people would join an emboldened run if it has reduced rewards? No, I don't. Why would anyone accept reduced rewards if they can defeat the boss without emboldened? Except that if the community thinks that way, then it will be incredibly difficult to fill out a missing spot on a training run, which makes raids less accessible and defeats the purpose of emboldened if people refuse to use it. Do you deserve more for being better? Sure. However, by getting the same amount much faster, you get more rewards per hour -- those are your increased rewards. And that's why people from LFG bounce after the first failed attempt. Reduced rewards from emboldened would only make the problem worse.

I have the bug too, but I only have the default skin. I can't find a workaround to use my skyscale.

Thank you for the fix!

I don't have a problem with there being achievements that are difficult. People who like them can do them and be proud. What I object to is the dissonance of gating what would otherwise be a fun mini-storyline behind a challenging achievement.

It takes more than 10 seconds to get to the first chest. The first explosion that opens up the path doesn't happen within 10 seconds, so it's literally impossible to progress that far in 10 seconds. What does the wiki say? "There is a bar on the left side leading to a platform and chest, but it can be difficult/impossible to collect this one depending on how fast you have been going up to this point. (Chest 1)" Of course, that's step 8 on the wiki, and the highest you can get in 10 seconds is step 3, with an explicit time gating there. Even when you progress that far (in more than 10 seconds), there's a good chance you're too late to get it. There are other chests, but they are even further in. This is not as simple as you make it out to be, and I wasted my time researching your claims.

No. That's probably the problem. I'll take a look. Thanks.

So, I've tried this achievement a dozen times and watched 3 videos. My problem is that I take about 10x the damage that people do in the video when I land from a jump. This dismounts me when I land. There's even a mini-jump of 10 feet at the start (to the left of the path -- this is only taken in 1 of the 3 videos), and that does a bunch of damage to me. Sometimes, if I land from the first jump on the peak of a hill and use bond of life, I only take about 13k damage and survive with a little bit, but then the second jump gets me. What's going on? Do falling damage traits help with mount falling damage? Is that necessary for this? Why do they only take about 900 damage, when I take over 10x as much, even when landing on the same spot? Bonus points: How do I control where I land so that I can land where I want consistently? I'm in midair, so I'm not sure what would work.

Note: This is not about not being able to use the level 80 boost. That is another issue. I already had a level 80 boost when I pre-purchased End of Dragons. The new one came stacked with my other one. Did I lose the shared inventory slot?

LFG can help with stay unfrosty, but with beasts slain quick, it seems like it could confuse which person the beast will chase.

Okay, I finally got it. Things I tried: 1) Ignore advice to let Braham soften them up. 2) Stay away from Braham. The monsters move more unpredictably. 3) Warrior and Necro were doing the best, due to being hard to take down. 4) I got lucky and saw 4 bunched up and took them all out at once. Then I got a triple. This ended up killing all the adds in 3 minutes, giving 15 seconds for the dialogue, and then 1:45 to kill it. For a while, it looked dicey, as I was pinned down by rocks for 45 seconds, but I got it.

I've been trying to get "Beasts Slain Quick" for a while now and can't manage to do it. (I did "Stay Unfrosty" by hiding in the corner, and that worked.) I've looked at a couple of other threads on this, and I've tried letting Braham soften them up first. My record was just over 5 minutes to kill all the adds, but then there's the dialogue and actually killing the beast, so that was another 2 minutes. So, after a number of tries on berserker, reaper, and dragonslayer, my record is something like 7 minutes. When killing the adds, I do sometimes have the problem where it hides behind the rock so that the beast can't run it over, but I try to switch to a different rock instead in the meantime. I'm still not sure if I'm missing something. But it takes me between 5-10 minutes just to get to the stage where it drops the shield. Help? US server, by the way.

Um, fractals were originally like that, and people just kept quitting and restarting until they got the easiest first part. I don't want to go back to that again.