LucianDK.8615 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 yep, using spectral walk as a necro, combined with a raptor on the last 4 land parts, allowed me to beat it with barely a half second to spare. So it is possible even if its bugged to high heavens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teratus.2859 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 For me I started on beetle, boosted and hopped as far as I could on the water (can get good distance with this) Swapped to Skimmer till the first underwater portal, dismounted and used Rangers Spear 3 skill and quickneing Zepher as much as possible. Used skimmer above water when there was a sufficient gap between underwater portals (like near the memorial bridge) At the end of the race I used beetle again and dashed to the finish, only requires one tight drift to get around the last corner.. it's difficulty depends on how good you are with this mount but it's definitely doable. After that's done you just need 8 PoF mastery points and to complete the new mastery in the skimmer line, I ran a bunch of PoF meta's and bounties with a bunch of boosters on and got it done reasonably quickly.. a good hour or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Doom.5739 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 But we shouldn't have to resort to all these outlandish steps to finish what should be a simple Skimmer race. Props to those who wrangled it, but I'll wait for the fix. Stinks that we can't work on the mastery track until it's done though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerinndis.2730 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"Witch of Doom.5739" said: > But we shouldn't have to resort to all these outlandish steps to finish what should be a simple Skimmer race. Props to those who wrangled it, but I'll wait for the fix. Stinks that we can't work on the mastery track until it's done though. Ditto. I have tried all the above suggestions with no luck. My silver times out at the same spot every single time. No way I could be that consistent time wise on different characters. Just hoping for a quick fix so I can move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigpapasmurf.5623 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I miss it by ~10 seconds on my ranger w/o using any tricks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heibi.4251 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I'm at the last step as well. Yep, the C command vanishes as soon the race starts. Trying to hold the C down as a trick to make it work did not work for me. I'm sure ANET is trying to fix this quickly. Give them some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadHealer.3608 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 How about they just show us how they mange to do this when testing this? Will be great to see this race gods. How about the next Boss will be killable only by a weapon that you get after killing him? That will be so much fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrilana.1396 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"BadHealer.3608" said: > How about they just show us how they mange to do this when testing this? Will be great to see this race gods. How about the next Boss will be killable only by a weapon that you get after killing him? That will be so much fun. The issue is due to a bug. A bug that wasn't present in their testing environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Doom.5739 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"Heibi.4251" said: > I'm at the last step as well. Yep, the C command vanishes as soon the race starts. Trying to hold the C down as a trick to make it work did not work for me. I'm sure ANET is trying to fix this quickly. Give them some time. Holding down the C doesn't help. I've tried a combo of regular skimmer -- which will not dive, the C never works -- and swimming, and I miss the Silver time by a few seconds each time. The hey with it, I'm going to go comfort myself with ice cream! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucianDK.8615 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 A few things of notice. You can continue the event if you press close on the popup, but while the diving skill genuinely is broken, you can complete it with enough speedboosts for when swimming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarpan.9074 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 How can you have the signature ability of a highly advertised and anticipated new skill not work at all on release? SMH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogiepop Void.6473 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I have a separate problem in addition to the bug: I have 0 bound to C on my keyboard for years. hitting C will activate my 0 skill, not the skimmer, even if this was working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YtseJam.9784 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 so new build and no fix for skimmer... clap... clap... slow clap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungo Zen.9364 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Been able to complete this with Skimmer and Swimming but it is very close. Tips include finding the tightest lines and using Barrel Roll before diving to get a little boost forward. Finished it within 1 second of time elapsing on Silver. Overall though, it is bugged and it sucks cause not everyone has the time like I did to mess around for an hour with this one piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warduke.7865 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Who tests this stuff this is the 3rd quest in and all were bugged. Ran the course 8 times can't dive, and when you swim through sometimes not registering in the rings. Would love an answer to when this is getting fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucianDK.8615 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"Boogiepop Void.6473" said: > I have a separate problem in addition to the bug: I have 0 bound to C on my keyboard for years. hitting C will activate my 0 skill, not the skimmer, even if this was working. Look in keybinds under mounts. I remapped C long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donari.5237 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"Boogiepop Void.6473" said: > I have a separate problem in addition to the bug: I have 0 bound to C on my keyboard for years. hitting C will activate my 0 skill, not the skimmer, even if this was working. "C" is for people that haven't altered their keybinds. Whatever skill you use to soar on griffon or descend on skyscale is the key to press for this. For me it's V. Not that it actually worked other than one time when it dove me under early, but that's where the confusion is coming from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.8659 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I have mine set to left shift when it asks me to dive. But how can we dive if it won't work lol. We don't have the mastery to dive yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucianDK.8615 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 > @"Tony.8659" said: > I have mine set to left shift when it asks me to dive. But how can we dive if it won't work lol. We don't have the mastery to dive yet. You get the diving ability for the course, but its bugged and disappears. But as I and others have said, you can just about make it to the end with seconds to spare for silver with enough speedbuffs on you, swimming the underwater parts on your own. And using the raptor with bond of vigor on land for the last 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.8659 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Yeah still bugged, I'll try that now thanks ^_^ Hopefully it gets fixed today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Had to do it by swimming/diving and using skills that would push me forward. But it's doable. Hope they'll fix it so it works as intended. I'd like to try for Gold with my new mastery. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knight Of Nee.4378 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I get the race is never over bug. Finish the race but don't get credit for it. The starting rings reappear when you cross the finish ring. And the rings, including final ring, always show gold time pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatari Thundercloud.3794 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I've watched each time as ive started the race when i click the 1st box comes up and i can see the dive skill then the second box comes up and it cancels it and disapears so my suspicion is theres a glitch between skill bar for skimmer and the race begin box.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonAtTheWheel.1804 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Can we please get the standard "oops, we effed up the update" second patch download.... then the third "really, we fixed out code this time" download please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revshift.2394 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Trust us this time Arena Net, it is not us, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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