Guide - TBL >> Smoke Trials >> Tumble Dry Achievement

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

This achievement is in the Trial of the Speaker's Amphitheater specific area. It's awarded if you specifically avoid the mass of tumbling boulders. It's the one with 5 floating platforms and you have to kill mobs below to get clicky keys that allow you to port up and kill minis. Kill 4 minis and a boss spawns. Kill the boss and loot the chest!

I had a lot of trouble with this achievement. It forces you to be mobile when being mobile is very difficult.

So I sat 3 of my group outside but used my tank, my shammy, and a dps class and had them all pop melee mercs.

On my driver I made 5 new social buttons. One for each platform. Good's Maps give you the name of the Sigil you have to click on to reach a specific platform. The partial names and their clock positions are:

Golden Flame (Sunbird of the Dawn) @ 10:00
Hardening Heart (Diamond Earthshaker) @ 2:00
Soaring Heart (Alabaster Moonbreeze) @ 4:00
Darkening Depths (Grinning Monsoon) @ 7:00
Overlord of Ash (Boss) @ Center

Each button looked like:

/pause 1, /bcga //useitem Golden Flame /bcga //useitem Golden Flame

Finally, I created a GINA trigger for the phrase "by Rumbling Crush" . If you take damage from that then you have failed the Tumble Dry achievement. It's very easy to miss this damage as it's interspersed in normal combat damage.

1. Kill the key spawners and get all 3 characters their required keys. (At 115 this is very easy to just burn through.)
2. Make sure /follow, /afollow, /chase, and /camphere are all OFF. (When you click up you don't want characters trying to path back to the last location!)
3. Then use the social to have everyone click up to the same platform and kill the first mini.
4. When you kill the first mini you get the Tumbling Boulders to spawn. You also get thrown off the platform. Sometimes right into the Tumbling Boulders. If that happens just /kickpl task and start over!
5. If you get thrown to a safe area, immediately click your social to travel to the "correct" next platform and BURN that mini. The Tumbling boulders despawn when that 2nd mini dies.
6. Repeat steps for the next 2 minis.
7. Review GINA or your logs to determine if you took any damage from the boulders. If not, open the chest and you'll get your achievement!

 

[Many_Whelps]

Fun fact, if you kill each pair of bosses at the same time, ie split your group into 2 sets of 3 chars and each set ports to one the two active platforms, the boulders never actually spawn and you get the achievement by default. Plus you get the other 2 achievements.

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

Fun fact, if you kill each pair of bosses at the same time, ie split your group into 2 sets of 3 chars and each set ports to one the two active platforms, the boulders never actually spawn and you get the achievement by default. Plus you get the other 2 achievements.

I wish I'd known that!!!

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

Fun fact, if you kill each pair of bosses at the same time, ie split your group into 2 sets of 3 chars and each set ports to one the two active platforms, the boulders never actually spawn and you get the achievement by default. Plus you get the other 2 achievements.

My last achievement in the TBL expansion is Three at Once! I assume with practice and a cheat sheet I'll eventually get good at quickly solving the riddles. I just don't see how to kill the final 2 mobs within 60 seconds of each other by using KissAssist to automate my team!

I'm hoping someone knows a "trick" or something I'm not seeing here! I tried a few times yesterday and the minis hit hard and have a lot of HP. It's still not trivial even for well-equipped CoV toons. Anyone's insight or ideas would be appreciated!

 

[Many_Whelps]

My last achievement in the TBL expansion is Three at Once! I assume with practice and a cheat sheet I'll eventually get good at quickly solving the riddles. I just don't see how to kill the final 2 mobs within 60 seconds of each other by using KissAssist to automate my team!

I'm hoping someone knows a "trick" or something I'm not seeing here! I tried a few times yesterday and the minis hit hard and have a lot of HP. It's still not trivial even for well-equipped CoV toons. Anyone's insight or ideas would be appreciated!

There is a macro on here that will do the riddles.

I balanced all 3 down at the same time so that they were all under 5% and then I just made sure they died in the correct order. There's no way you're going to take 2 mobs from 100% to 0% in 60 seconds, that was never how they intended you do it. Other people have balanced 2 mobs down and then bum rushed the 3rd, that's def doable, but still requires some really good DPS. The rooms are close enough that healers can cross-heal characters in other rooms. I had a war tank 1 mob, mage pet tank a 2nd and a bard with a shield tanked a 3rd.

 

[Sum1]

My last achievement in the TBL expansion is Three at Once! I assume with practice and a cheat sheet I'll eventually get good at quickly solving the riddles. I just don't see how to kill the final 2 mobs within 60 seconds of each other by using KissAssist to automate my team!

I'm hoping someone knows a "trick" or something I'm not seeing here! I tried a few times yesterday and the minis hit hard and have a lot of HP. It's still not trivial even for well-equipped CoV toons. Anyone's insight or ideas would be appreciated!

I'm still waiting to get that one down. It seems like every time I've tried something does wrong because healing mercs start to get overwhelmed. I started trying to do it with 3 toons with either a merc, a cleric, or a shammy healing.... all separate (i.e. not grouped) so that the merc would focus on the one toon they absolutely need to heal. I found that being grouped made healing spikey, which was fine for my tank but tougher for the ranger/beastlord tanking. I just can't seem to get the mobs consistently down to under 20%, or one toon just out-dps's the shit out of a mob and all of a sudden I need to turn attack off or something... which isn't always the easiest thing to do.

This achievement sucks lol.

 

[Jetanroth]

There is a macro on here that will do the riddles.

I balanced all 3 down at the same time so that they were all under 5% and then I just made sure they died in the correct order. There's no way you're going to take 2 mobs from 100% to 0% in 60 seconds, that was never how they intended you do it. Other people have balanced 2 mobs down and then bum rushed the 3rd, that's def doable, but still requires some really good DPS. The rooms are close enough that healers can cross-heal characters in other rooms. I had a war tank 1 mob, mage pet tank a 2nd and a bard with a shield tanked a 3rd.

If you can please post a link to it, I coudn't find it on here.

 

[Sic]

If you can please post a link to it, I coudn't find it on here.

you mean the trial of three decoder?

 

[Jetanroth]

you mean the trial of three decoder?

Awesome, thank you!

 

[hytiek]

Fun fact, if you kill each pair of bosses at the same time, ie split your group into 2 sets of 3 chars and each set ports to one the two active platforms, the boulders never actually spawn and you get the achievement by default. Plus you get the other 2 achievements.

Just did this today; thank you so much for this info! Worked like a charm.