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Yes its a very old intermittent bug that has been there since that episode was released. As the person above has mentioned there is a checkbox to turn camera shake on and off, its in the otions settings, which you should be able to open it by pressing the F11 key if there is no on screen interface. This may sort it out but its such a long time since I've done it I cannot remember if it did. The shaking camera happened to me on two occassions with different characters and was that bad I restarted the game and did the mission again. The effect was nauseating. A thread was created in March 2023 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/128842-bug-the-crystal-dragon-insane-camera-shake-bug-that-persists-unless-swopping-characters-or-exiting-the-game-spoilers/#comment-1868617 @Rubi Bayer.8493 did reply in the thread and stated that she had brought it to the attention of the Developers. It looks like the bug is still there.

Yes it should be dooable with a few. On the three instances I mentioned in my original post I saw one other player trying to light the Northern Beacon on one occassion, they gave up after handing in 1 item. On the other two occassions I was the only one taking part. Two of these instances were during the afternoon UK time and one was around 8pm UK time, so it wasn't the wee small hours. There were people on the maps but they were doing the other meta which was successful. Scaling with one player is still quite bad. Totally agree about Thunderhead peaks, as with Nayos it has two Metas but both occur at different times unlike Nayos so doesnt have any issues with conflicting events. Yes that was an odd move, and I was expecting this to happen as part of the storyline or directly after Heitor was taken down. Possibly a piece of the plot cut due to time constraints? Could be a possibility, having the pre-meta events progress to a certain point and both having to be completed before the metas start properly, giving the players the choice opf which ones to do. It will be interesting to see how they work in the final area of Nayos, clearly we're going to be attacking Eparch in his Citadel. If this is another Meta, what happens to the Road to Heitor and the Fangs that Gnash? Do they both get abandoned in favour of the newer event? I hope they can come up with a solution that causes players to spread out and do all of the metas.

Could something be done about the fact that (well it seems to be the case on EU servers) people are favouring The fangs tht gnash meta over the Road to Heitor Meta? On three occasions today I've seen the Fangs that Gnash progress to the Wyvern fight whilst the Road to Heitor has been on the lighting the Northern beacon stage. This has then failed due to the larger number of players being at the Wyvern. I appreciate the Wyvern fight is the newer of the two and obviously there are a lot of players approaching that for the first time., but if my experiences today is anything to go by it isn't boding well for the Heitor meta. Perhaps there is solution? Similar to the two Light of Deldrimor pieces from Thunderhead Peaks, which are combined and allow players to open a chest with better loot, perhap key pieces could be placed into both Meta chests in Nayos. Having both and combining them could open a chest on the map with a chance of a better reward.

Just wanted to add something to this discussion. I've completed the whole achievement a number of times and now and then I pop back to Seitung just to go round a few of these boxes. One of them that I tend to do is the one everyone seems to have issues with, box number 12 (as per the wiki entry at https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spiritual_Childcare Recently I added one extra box to the path I take, box number 13, the mechanics of which are similar to box 12, you have to interact with three planters in the correct order. What I've discovered is that if I do box 13 and then head to box 12, box 12 becomes bugged. This happens every time. If I redo the boxes the following day and don't do box 13 then box 12 is never bugged! It's a really odd issue.

To the OP, for info you should be aware that there are a number of achievments involving the Crash site jumping puzzle. The new return to season 2 achievment , which is called "Reconquer the crash site climb" isn't to jump off the topmost part, it is to reach the top. Unfortunately that is currently bugged. There are also two old existing achiemements called "Dive Master: Prosepect valley", which is to jump off the highest point with the diving goggles.and another one called "Prospect valley crash site climber" which again is to reach the top of the jumping puzzle.

Definately something wrong. I'm running an Intel Q6600 @ 2.4ghz, 8Gb Ram, Windows 10 and GW2 both running from the same SSD and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 with 4Gb ram. That processor was released in 2008. Loading times as follows - Pressing Play on the launcher to showing character select screen is 8.65 seconds Entering game with a character and the map loading is 16.9 seconds The processor, graphics card and memory you are using far exceed my spec and although I've turned some things down I still get a smooth playable game. Sure it definately slows down to single digits with some encounters (Svanir shaman I'm looking at you), but it works remarkably well during the Nayos Wyvern meta! These are the settings I use for the graphics. I know I could get better frame rates by dropping some of the settings even more, but with those settings it just looks nice. https://ibb.co/WsS7d3x

During the Hidden Arcana Living Story 2 mission, you have to defeat the Distorted Facet of Darkness. To do so you walk into one of the clear crystal bubbles he spawns which then surrounds you. You then move onto a Vortex crystal, which drops the clear crystal bubble onto it and then smash the Vortex crystal which then fires a shot at the Distorted Facet of Darkness and reduces its health. To defeat him you do this repeatedly until he is dead. There is an achievement called Exposed weakness, which requires you to drop the Distorted Facet of Darkness' health from 75% to 0 in less than 15 seconds. To do this you stack the crystal bubble onto multiple Vortex crystals and then when you have enough primed, you hit each one oblitering the Facets health. Now I've done this achievment years ago. Today however I was running one of my Alts, a core Necromancer through this mission. I noted that when I dropped the clear bubble onto the Vortex crystal it automatically fired at the Facet. I didn't have any pets or minions up and I wasn't using any weapons, it just autodetonated. I've done this mission multiple times over numerous alts and this wasn't behaviour that I'd seen before - the Vortex crystals should remain until you conciously attack them. If this is happening then there is a possibility that people will not be able to obtain the Exposed weakness achiement if they're attempting it for the first time. Needs looking at.

Like everyone else in this thread I've been locked out all day. Just tried again and I've been able to log into the game and also the forums. It looks like they may have fixed the issue.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang Simultaneously the noise of Ele pistol autoattack and me hitting my head against the wall to dull the pain of using this. What a woeful weapon. Underpowered, lacking in fun, awkward mechanic to get the special attack on skill 1 and its mind numbingly boring. You have the ability to pull the data from the servers Anet. How many Elementalitss are using pistols in competitive modes or even PVE? I suspect very few in pvp/wvw and even the ones in PVE are probably spamming pistol skills so they can get Artisan of Arms: Elementalist's Pistol achievment done. You need to go back to the drawing board on this one. Edit - weapon effects are also lazy. Skills 1 and 2 share the same graphics. Also agree with Randulf below - what on earth is Air skill 3 supposed to be?

I hope to god they don't link them all up. It would be like Dragons end all over again.

I'd forgotten that they gave it to new players, however thank you for reminding me and yes I would agree Nayos is a bit easier, Amnytas is a pita.

Just killed Vespera (AGAIN) and still not getting credit for the kill.

Thanks both. @ Shadowmoon, yes I agree it looks like some sort of oversight. @ Raknar, thanks for posting that video, it always amazes how ingenious GW2 players can be.

If you don't have a flying mount or rely upon a friend to use TP to friend or a Mesmer/Thief Port, how exactly would someone cross between Heitor's Territory and Nyedra Sound? There doesn't appear to be any holes or paths through the rock walls that forms the eastern edge of Nyedra Surround. What intrigues me is the fact that behind Heitor's Gate is a weird Kryptis device called a Nebular Fount. If you trace a line from it across the Wailing Chasm point of interest, you end up at a pile of rubble. If you fly up and over and to the opposite side of this rubble , there s a corridor that leads down to the Forward Bivouac Waypoint. So was there an event that was canned that was supposed to blow the rubble apart using the Nebular Fount following the defeat of Ignaxious?