A guide to the Ley-Line Anomaly current event added with June 28 patch.
Contents
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Event Mechanics
- 2.1 Spawn Locations
- 3 Achievements
- 4 New Achievements for Old Events
Getting Started
If you have completed the previous episodes, you should have gotten amail from Ela Makkay, talking to her will give you the Ley LineResearched achievement and a Ley-Infused Lodestone.
Double Clicking on the Ley-Infused Lodestone will tell you on which mapthe next event will be (Gendarran Fields –> Timberline Falls –>Iron Marches)
- Gendarran Fields
- Timberline Falls
- Iron Marches
You can buy more Ley-Infused Lodestone from her in exchange for Pile ofPutrid Essence, Corrupted Lodestone, Crystal Lodestone, DestroyerLodestone, and Mordrem Lodestone at a 1:1 ratio.
Event Mechanics
This event has a 2 hr respawn time and occurs 20 minutes past thehour. It will rotate maps so it will occur in the same map every 6hrs. For EST it is every even hour, for PST it is every odd hour. ForUTC it is every even hour.
- Gendarran Fields –> Timberline Falls –> Iron Marches –> Repeat
After the timer, a big Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly will spawn in one ofthe three maps indicated by your Ley-Infused Lodestone. It will starrunning with a breakbar. Until you break that breakbar, it isinvulnerable and will not stop.
Coalescences will spawn elsewhere in the map along the path that theLey-Line Anomaly will run. They appear as crossed swords on the map andmust be killed before the Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly reaches it if youwant that achievement.
- A separate group must be formed to hunt down these Coalescences as they spawn. They spawn whenever the Anomaly starts running.
Once you break that breakbar, it will stop and anomaly fragments willspawn around it. Stop them from reaching and powering up the legendaryanomaly by killing them. You have a minute of this and then the Anomalybecomes vulnerable, allowing you to damage 25% of his HP before theAnomaly becomes invulnerable again and start running. Repeat this 4times to kill it.
This event rewards 1 Mystic Coins and some other loots (rare, junk thatsells for 50s) once per day, so it is worth doing them daily if you needthe Mystic Coins.
Spawn Locations
I am being told that there are multiple spawn locations & paths , sothese spawn locations/paths may not be the same for your map.
Gendarran Fields
- Ley Line Anomaly spawns east of Povern Shore waypoint – [&BOQAAAA=]
Timberline Falls
- Ley Line Anomaly spawns at Valance Tutory Waypoint- [&BEwCAAA=]
- Ley Line Anomaly spawns west of Gentle River Waypoint – [&BFACAAA=]
Iron Marches
- Ley Line Anomaly spawns at Hellion Waypoint- [&BOYBAAA=]
Achievements
Ley Line Researched – 1 AP, 5000 Karma
- Granted automatically when you talk to Ela Makkay
Anomaly Sighted – 1 AP
Granted automatically when you do the Ley-Line Anomaly event.
Dispersed Anomaly – 25 AP
Basically don’t let the Ley-Line Anomaly absorb any of the coalescenceswhen you have broken its breakbar. The coalescence spawn elsewhere inthe map and you just need a group that find them and kill them beforethe Legendary Anomaly reaches it to get the achievement. They appear ascrossed swords icon on the map.
Anomalous Results – 10 AP, 500 Luck
Disperse 10 Ley-Line Anomalies (i.e. do the event 10 times)
Anomalies of the World – 5 AP, 3 Teleport to Friend
Do the anomaly event in all 3 zones.
New Achievements for Old Events
They have added 6 new achievements for some old events at BlazeridgeSteppes and new events in Mount Maelstrom and Snowden Drifts. You cannotadvance on achievements for both Consortium and Priority at the sametime if they are at the same location since you now get a buff declaringwhich supporter you are.
- When doing these events with few players, it is very important to cull the population of Inquest golems and place less emphasis on dropping the ley energy into the collectors. The NPCs themselves will retrieve the ley energy if you can keep the Inquest at bay.
Flinnz’s Retirement – 3 AP, 25 silver
- Stop the Inquest from capturing the ley-line-coalesences in Blazeridge Steppes 3 times by helping the Consortium. Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Consortium collector.
- Flinnz’s event starts every 15 minutes at The Last Whiskey Bar Waypoint- [&BPkBAAA=]
Keadin’s Study – 3 AP, 2500 karma
- Stop the Inquest from capturing the ley-line-coalesences in Blazeridge Steppes 3 times by helping the Priory. Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Priory collector.
- Keadin’s event starts every 15 minutes at Refuge Sanctum Waypoint – [&BAUCAAA=]
Garen’s Defense – 3 AP, 2500 karma
- The Mount Maelstrom events are new but they function identical to the Blazeridge Steppes ones. Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Priory collector for this achievement.
- Garen will start off from his camp SE of Ashen Waypoint – [&BM4CAAA=] every 15 minutes.
Loonaloo’s Paycheck – 3 AP, 25 silver
- Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Consortium collector for this achievement.
- Loonaloo will start off from his camp SW of Murkvale Waypoint – [&BMcCAAA=] every 15 mins
Shana’s Ambition – 3 AP, 25 Silver
- Snowden Drift events function identical to Blazeridge/Mount Maelstrom events. Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Consortium collector for this achievement.
- Shana will start from her camp south of Lornar’s Waypoint – [&BLQAAAA=]
Fiona’s Stockpile – 3 AP, 2500 Karma
- Need to turn in at least 1 ley-line energy to the Priory collector for this achievement.
- Fiona will start from her camp right next to Scholar’s Clef Waypoint – [&BLcAAAA=]
Archived Disqus comments
FrycoN
we get one ley line lodestone for free so do we need to buy more ofthem\?
Eric Y
No
Ares Zax
Is there even any point to buying more than 1? (For example,is it like the Bandit Marks of Death where you need to haveone in your inventory in order to be eligible for therewards?)
Urosh Uchiha Novakovic
No.
Sinis
Just downed the second anomaly. Looks like every 2 hours right now.
Bagofmints
The event spawns the Anomaly- but it also spawns three sub-eventsthat the anomaly walks to. These are marked on the map with crossedswords for the enemies, and 6 coalescences spawn at each. These arewhat you kill before he arrives there to get the 25 pointachievement.
Windermere
The path you showed on Timberline Falls is not the same one minefollowed, so there are probably multiple paths.
neeeng
where does appear in gendarran files? anyone knows?
Animaniak
There are also two “new” old achievements for the escorts in SnowdenDrifts!
Karen
Dulfy has a squad up right now in LFG, so there are definitelySnowden ones.
Ardenwolfe
The scaling makes some of these achievements pretty hard.
Darren McCreadie
It also has been having an effect on how much credit players aregetting. No one on the maps I have been on have ever got gold,despite having been there for the entire thing.
nadrian3k
So the leyline stones are purely for mapping purposes nothing more?
Gewgulkan Suhckitt
They just tell you the location of the next big event. (which ofthree zones it will be in)
Crean
Dulfy, there’s also new events in Snowden Drifts. It says so whenusing gw2efficiency.
Darren McCreadie
The iron marches one can also go the opposite direction. It startedin the north point and headed south this last time
freecool
When will the event finish?
godsaw
Hey how does one start with the previous events? Just gotten backinto Gw2 and did not get any mail. THanks
Don36669
You need to kill dragon minions (of any dragon, so risen,branded, destroyers, icebrood) to get an unidentified lodestone.Bring that to Ela Makkay and you can get started.
kazerniel
For anyone interested, this seems to be the schedule for BST (UTC+1):
01:20 – Timberline Falls\03:20 – Iron Marches\05:20 – Gendarran Fields\07:20 – Timberline Falls\09:20 – Iron Marches\11:20 – Gendarran Fields\13:20 – Timberline Falls\15:20 – Iron Marches\17:20 – Gendarran Fields\19:20 – Timberline Falls\21:20 – Iron Marches\23:20 – Gendarran Fields
kazerniel
Also the Gendarran Fields one I did summoned next to AlmutenWaypoint [&BJQBAAA=] .
Aerinndis Athyrium
For the New Achievements for Old Events if folk would understand getONE leyline for achieve and then concentrate on Inquest and the restis easy peasy…. Why folk are not getting this is beyond me. Ifigured it out early on…
Kalavier
Because they are trying to get the older achievements as well?
RKC
Has anyone been able to do the Kaedin achievement?\I just keep getting idiots who don’t focus on the golems or pick upthe energy if it’s too close to the Inquest!
Ares Zax
The location the NPCs (both Consortium and Priory) goes to israndom each time. The location closest to the Priory camp inBlazeridge is the most difficult one for both factions becausethe Inquest collector is quite close, meaning there’s not asmuch time for people to kill the golems before they get back totheir camp. It’s easier at the other 2 locations. (The one tothe NW is the easiest, with long running distances.)
kazerniel
I have 2 out of 3 of Kaedin’s. Just remind players at thearrival to the location to only get 1 crystal and then focus onthe golems 🙂
Out of the 3 runs I did with her since the update, we failedonce, and I think it has been the closest location. (Thoughanother time we succeeded on the same location, so keep trying.)
Jacob Keller
IMO, you need to rush ley crystals until the anomoly isright next to the good side, then kill golems. Don’t solelyfocus killing golems, othewrise the ley crystals keepspawning near them making your job needlessly difficult.
kazerniel
So delivering crystals is what makes the anomaly getpulled closer to the collection point?
Jacob Keller
Yes. When you deliver crystals it pulls towards thatside. When inquest mobs deliver crystals it pullscloser to them that’s why it snowballs at the endfrom looking ok to being finished fast. If theanomaly gets too close to inquest you wont have timeto kill the tiny fast golems and they will overwhelmyou.
kazerniel
Did this yesterday, delivered crystals until theanomaly was standing at the collection point,and only then went off to kill golems, and theruns became quite easy 😀
I also noticed in general that the dynamicscaling actually makes it way easier to do thisevent with fewer people. At least most of myfailed runs were with a lot of folks, and mostof the “massacring golems on their spawn point”runs were with just a few people.
kazerniel
Did a Timberline run today, and the path we took was this:
http://i.imgur.com/h78g8qZ.jpg
(again missed the beginning because it was neither on the expectedstarting places :D)
kazerniel
Timberline Falls ley line event seems really glitchy. Both timesI’ve run it, the boss kept teleporting ahead a “kilometer”, it’sreally annoying. The other 2 locations I tried didn’t have thisissue.
nadrian3k
It’s intended. If you haven’t noticed, from time to time, whilehe runs, he drops a few aoe’s on the ground. Among those AOE’sthere’s one that makes u jump to the boss. The whole “teleport akm” is intended considering they added those things.
kazerniel
Ah so that’s what those are 😀 I only tried it once, but thatleap was terrifying 😀 I thought I would die from the falldamage.
But for some reason the anomaly doesn’t jump so far aheadfor the other maps, a lot less frustrating even with justrunning.
nadrian3k
I think they made this to get around potential terrainspots bugging the NPC while running. Some maps havelower chances because they are flatter. Timberline fallsis filled with rivers, small hills..climbs…pits and soon.
This way they turned a potential bug into something theyconsider fun. If you have wings they work while in air.
Kalaiver
Dulfy, do you know if these current events achievements are going todisappear with s3 starting?
Beda
Anyone know what story i need complete for start this one? because ithink i have dona all….
Avichal Sharma
Just saw this anomaly thing in gendarran field. I am really amazedto see an NPC as interactive as this. After fighting for a while itstarted running across the map. Coolest boss ever.
raven0ak
there is hidden achi not listed here: thwart the inquest (dont allowinquest get single ley-line magic) 10 AP + tome of tyrian mastery
Yuen
I don’t have the Ley Line Researched achievement…I have Ley LineResearch and Ley Line “Researched” achievements however…can I stillget this achievement?
