Guild Wars 2

I don’t like this fight. Point form cos lazy…

• I don’t live in America so I don’t have the same ping you guys do.
  I know that’s not much of a point – cos ‘Murica and tough kittens. (Maybe don’t sell your kitten here if it renders it unplayable).
• The fight is in a really large area with a lot of graphical processing going on – slows things down.
• As people said, camera makes it hard.
• Can’t range attack those pully-spheres for some reason?
• An acceptably difficult fight isn’t determined by your or my own skill level. It’s determined by the average or median skill level. I think Anet will see (if they collect this sort of data) that a very small percent of the player base have achieved a win and a minute amount have the other Liadri achieve. Few more will achieve it at this difficulty. Even if they did, it would be (I think) through wrote memory, or blind luck, neither of which would normally be associated with skill in a video game (just tired, tedious OCD weirdness).
• Zerkers are sad, sad people with no soul; only dull mechanical minds. Don’t make the rest of us join them.
• I swear she has the HAX!
  HAAAAAAAAAXX
  HAXXORZ!

Just a couple of points.

This fight wasn’t intended to be beaten by the majority of the playerbase, so if they look at the amount of people achieving it not being very high, they’ve succeeded as far as ANet see.

I, and a number of other people beat her with condition damage specs, so you don’t have to go zerker.

I don’t live in America, either, but I’m on an NA server and I don’t have any issues ping wise, and my internet’s pretty average. I live in England, though. I’ve heard Aussies have problems with lag.

Other points people make about the fight (poor camera, voids not being destroyed with range and fps problems with gigantic zergs below them) I feel are valid, though. The blinding she does is a little bit pointless when you can just turn it off in the settings, too.

Swilt.8415:

I know that’s not much of a point – cos ’Murica and tough kittens….

Quote of the day. Made me choke on my tea.

You have a lot of good points and a lot of the points I wanted to make.

I was able to complete the boss, it was difficult and it took a while but the main reason after I figured how to do it was fps and internet lag.

I don’t live in the US and although I can run most other areas of GW2 fine I had to turn everything to low to even be able to play decently. I base this off of seeing videos of other people doing the fight, there were times where I had to dodge well ahead of time or I would get hit even if I was out of the red circles.

Now I understand part of that is my problem but I still think this should be accounted for somewhat.

The orbs are really buggy and it seems the real orb spawns behind the ‘fake’ orb so only AOE will go through.

I don’t think the orbs are necessary and they don’t really fit the theme of the fight, a lot of the mechanics are cheesy.

In its core the fight is nice and challenging but I think there could be a lot of tweaks that make it better, not just arbitrary mechanics to increase its difficulty.

I was glad when I beat it because I would never have to do it again, because for me the challenge wasn’t the mechanics but rather manipulating the clunky systems. It was the complete opposite for the clocktower(although it did have its issues) for which I completed about 50 times after my initial completion.

Yeah lag is literally the only reason I can not beat this fight. I can dodge the stuff no problem, I know the exact spot to stand for the crystals, and I can almost manage to beat the 2nd half. Due to the internet I have and to the zerg roaming around, the last 20-30 tries I do the fight I eventually die from a lag spike because my dodge/skills do not register within the right millisecond rendering the fight somewhat impossible unless the moon and stars align.

I dont care about the boss.

But to run for 2 min after every fail and wait vor 10 more thanks to other players: sucks!! Why isn’t it an instance? I don’t care how other players do, i dont want to see it and if i want, i’ll look it up on youtube. Everytime i waste so much time waiting -_-. Fail design, i don’t know how anybody could think, waiting is fun.

Any fight, scratch that- entire living world event- which is ‘possible’ to do, but extremely difficult to do… unless you’re a zerker is stupid as all kitten and there’s really no way to deny that.

This is a world event- that nearly everyone is complaining about the difficulty about it EXCEPT for one class should say something- and things like the camera and high volume effecting latency are no brainers- these aren’t ‘well Anet are a bunch of newbies’ no, they’ve years of experience, and these sorts of complaints have come up before.

People are continually trying to bring up Dark Souls when they compare it with this difficulty- but there’s an extremely big difference. When I die in Dark Souls, it’s because of something I didn’t do/did; the enemies clearly show you what they’re doing, and it is always in your hands how to respond- there aren’t a plethora of special effects firing off everywhere and cluttering the screen, blocking out the very poorly designed OHKO tells.

Add to that enrage timer instant kills- enrage timers, and OHKOs should be used as an enemy mechanic for a specific reason; that they are just dispersed throughout this is pathetic and lazy planning. And, it even further solidifies that this event is made specifically for zerkers.

Don’t know about american servers but try to play during off-times. I did Liadra at 7am on a german server when there was hardly anyone in the area at all.

/edit: Guesting to a low populated server may also help.

//edit: The fight mechanic itself is totally fine. Bugs should be fixed but if you can’t beat Liadra the way she is you are too bad to do so. It’s meant to be a challenge.

For everyone complaining about lag and using that as an excuse, turn your setting to best performance for pete’s sake…

Swilt.8415:

I don’t like this fight. Point form cos lazy…

• I don’t live in America so I don’t have the same ping you guys do.
  I know that’s not much of a point – cos ‘Murica and tough kittens. (Maybe don’t sell your kitten here if it renders it unplayable).

There’s a data center in both America and Europe. If you’re from Asia I’m guessing China will have a data center as well soon.

Swilt.8415:

• The fight is in a really large area with a lot of graphical processing going on – slows things down.

Turn your graphics down for the particular encounter if you are having problems. Lowering resolution helps as well

Swilt.8415:

• An acceptably difficult fight isn’t determined by your or my own skill level. It’s determined by the average or median skill level.

I really hope you are not serious. If difficulty is determined by average skill level you have this scenario:
- Some players will not be able to complete any acceptably difficult fights.
- Some players will find the challenge properly challenging.
- And then you have left all your most dedicated players who are getting skilled at this game. There’s no challenge for them.

They made it exactly right. The gauntlet started off easy and you are meant to see how far you can get. Not everyone is supposed to be able to complete this fight. It’s a challenge you can keep trying, maybe even next year to see if you then have the skills.

Swilt.8415:

• Zerkers are sad, sad people with no soul; only dull mechanical minds. Don’t make the rest of us join them.

You can kill her without berserker gear. If you pick additional light thingies up and throw at her they make her take more damage….

…Dude…

I just have problems with FPS… in normal world, 20-40FPS… Inside the arena, around 10 FPS… Its totally impossible to beat her for me… I suggest an instanced zone for this fights…

Fox Soul.4809:

I just have problems with FPS… in normal world, 20-40FPS… Inside the arena, around 10 FPS… Its totally impossible to beat her for me… I suggest an instanced zone for this fights…

Best Performance settings (aka everyone on low/off) will reduce this.

Also, make sure you’re not in an arena above the zergs down below, as they will partially render and cause some fps lag.