In before you tell me you had all the time in the world to get it:
Blizzard lied telling you can do this achievement before S2 starts. I’ve been on both Kriegval’s Rest & The Waterworks and candles just don’t work like used to. They’re static, remain on ground and I can’t carry them with me anymore, especially on The Waterworks.
This needs to be adressed! I really liked the name of this achievement because it’s throwback to classic and first thing you hear when you saw kobolds on Elwynn. I’m sad…
You also cant invis past the horrible named mobs pack in T11 Water works anymore because you dont have the air purifyer around you and taking a tick from the poison takes you out of stealth.
They changed it yes. You now have an action button to place a candle/air totem. It does seem to act a bit buggy though. You can place them multiple times without picking one up again, but suddenly the action button disappears and you have to pick one up that you already placed for the button to appear on screen again.
The first time I did it after the change I thought the max number of times you could place the candle was 3 because after having placed 3 I noticed after a fight that the button was suddenly gone. So I went to pick up one of the candles that I just placed earlier and the button came back. But then later I was able to place a candle 5 times without picking any up and then suddenly the button was gone again and I had to pick one up again for the action button to reappear.
I assume they changed it because people kept burning out the charges in co-op, but I am not a fan of the change. I liked how it worked before where you had to either make it to the next candle or refresh your air totem at an air purifier. Now it’s actually a lot easier - when it works - since you can place down multiple next to each other to create a bigger place to fight in. Even in solo delves where a bigger area isn’t actually needed as much as in co-op.
Currently I just place the next candle a little further ahead before picking up the one I’m at. That way the action button sticks around for me. But yeah there’s no carrying the candle like before.
I’m not sure how you would get the related achievement now indeed. You are supposed to not use up a candle for the achievement, but candles don’t use up wax as you move anymore.
I didn’t have any addons enabled on my first couple of runs through the changed delves, since I disabled them all after the patch. I only just enabled them again today.
It’s not a problem for me to complete the delves with the way it works now though. I just wanted to mention that it does seem a bit buggy. And I already have the candle achievement. Just not sure how someone else would get it now. Unless the candles ARE supposed to work like before with charges disappearing and a diminishing circle and it’s just been bugged for me.
Is that achievement part of something you cannot complete without it?
If so, that’s bad design. If not, you kind of had six months to get it.
Go to Delves and check the new achievements. I suggest you do them now so you don’t have to go on the forums later, complaining that they removed something before you completed it.
There’s nothing happening in the game right now.
The content was done by day two, so you have a whole week to get all the Delves achievements out of the way.
It doesn’t matter if it was possible to complete for 6 months.
What matters is that Blizzard alone announced that it will be possible to complete till March 4th for US servers and March 5th for EU servers (SEASON 2 START DATE) and IT IS NOT because of that major change in totem/lighter mechanic.
It’s just another example of how their communication is bad.
Submitted a ticket regarding this issue and the only answer I got from GM is that “please note that this achievement would no longer be obtainable as of the start of Season 2” xD.
It’s not a bug, this is how it’s supposed to work. You can pick up candles and totems, and the more totems/candles you have the more you can place without picking old ones up again. So if you run Kriegval, you will have a buff that shows how many candles you are currently carrying. Each time you place a candle the stacks decrease by 1, each time you pick one up the stacks increase accordingly.
That’s all cool and all, but you had six months.
You could have done it any day from September 17 to February 25.
That’s a mighty long time if you ask me.
You could complete that achievement in just one delve run, which takes about 30 minutes if you take it slow.
So basically, you only needed half an hour to do it, yet you didn’t for six whole months.
Kinda questionable on your part if you didn’t bother during all that time.
So you’re mad because they said something and didn’t follow through,
and you planned for the whole six months to do that achievement after the patch release—
during the week before the actual season release on March 5?
Because if that’s what you had in mind for the whole six months,
the blame is still on you.
First of all blizzard added their post listing all things to do before their removal in season 2 on 14th February. Before that no one knew what’s going to be or not to be „not obtainable” when it hits, especially around delves (except Zekvir perhaps).
Secondly as a customer it is my privilege to do and earn something in the game at my own chosen time even if it’s 1h before server shutdown of new patch/season being released.
If blizzard as a company released a „statement” that „states” that you can earn „that thing” before a specific date then it is their job to provide me possibility of earning it.
However you my friend are not entitled to judge if it’s my fault, I’m entitled to be disappointed as a customer and demand something to be delivered as it was stated by the company.
I guess I was just confused after the change. I couldn’t find any charges buff or anything to tell me how long candles were supposed to work or how many I had. But I must have overlooked something. Will see when I try those delves again when season 2 starts.
Thanks! As usual GM response, I don’t even know why they exist at this point. I also submitted it as bug but it hardly going to change a thing.
Some ppl still struggle to understand that my complain isn’t about time but because Blizzard specifically published an article to show what will be unobtainable: hey look, do these or they’ll be gone! I didn’t even know that one was going away. So you blame me because I didn’t do all available achievements for delves or what? Will you be feeling same if same applied to M+, raid and PvP rewards also? If Blizz said S2 then it should be unobtainable when S2 starts not before!
