Guild Wars 2

It was the worst experience ever!!! I haven’t raged so much before, in any of the previous achievements. Why? Because of the failed design.

The orbs that pulls you:
1- They spawn at random points around the arena, sometimes easy to get there, sometimes right next to a spawned clone. If it pulls me, I directly get downed by the clone.
2- They get obstructed by ranged weapons, that alone is a bug that should have been fixed ages ago. Not only it forces you to actually melee, but when u get downed, if you managed to target it in time, you might not always hit it.
3- Sometimes I hit the orb with CnD, I get invisible, but the orb doesn’t get destroyed. Now I’m stuck with revealed debuff because i need to hit it again.

Animation:
1- Downed animation: I haven’t realized how annoying it is before. Right after an orb pulls me, which [sarcasm] luckily [/sarcasm] it is right next to spawned clones, I get downed. The downed animation takes too long that sometimes I don’t even have time to autoattack the orb before another clone hits me.
2- Picking up crystal animation: Sometimes it takes few clicks for the character to pick it up. And even when he picks it up, the darn animation feels like an eternity.
3- Throwing crystal animation: NEVER throw a crystal if you are standing on red AOE. Because it takes forever for the character to execute it -_-.
4- Pulled animation: It takes around 1 second, maybe more for the character to stand up. Enough time for a clone to catch you or red AOE to hit you.

Limited Time:
When I got the achievement, I finished right when the time ran out. If it was my 20th try, I would say I lacked a bit of pattern memorization. But this is my over 200th time, and so I didn’t waste time trying to figure out what to do next. Moreover, you can’t go damage, defense, and mobility together. You need to compromise your damage output for more mobility, and defense. Which takes a bit more time to finish her off if you managed to get all 5 extra orbs on her without getting downed. There were quite of few perfect tries that failed only because time ran out when her health was at 10%.

Not Instanced:
I don’t want to be forced to wait in queue, I don’t want to be forced to watch others fight. I don’t want to be forced to tune down the graphics because the area is huge.

Death and Waypoint:
This alone made the experience even more dreadful. I don’t care about repair money nor waypoint money, although I wasted 6 gold on these. What made it so annoying is either having to wait for people to resurrect me, or I have to run all the way up, and sometimes the way is congested with veterans.

Arena Graphical Design:
No need to stress on this any further. Couldn’t do it on my guardian cause he was norn. Had a hard time on necromancer because green DS UI + red AOE = brown = ground color. Plus not all arenas have he same white swirl position, which is a huge fail.

I don’t want to see the gauntlet again… EVER!! Unless all the points above were fixed.

Completely agree with you. We are not asking to debuff Liadri, but after 4 weeks the bugs are still there. I died dozen of times because I cant hit the “obstructed” orb.
Also, it is very annoying to run all the way back after dying.