My problems with the Queen's Gauntlet

My problems with the Queen's Gauntlet

in Queen's Jubilee

Posted by: Ridley.3691

Ridley.3691

Just thought I’d leave some feedback so here goes:

1) The cost of tickets, and the fact gambits cost tickets.

Now I got all the Jubilee achievements and had a good amount of tickets from them, they got me upto to Liadri at least. However, I’m currently going after the achievements that require gambits, which for some reason actually cost a ticket each to be activated. I don’t know why a handicap costs extra to put on, and it means that it’s costing me 4 tickets each attempt. I’d have to farm the pavilion for ages to get enough tickets for a few attempts, and so I’m left buying them for the equivalent of about 25-30 silver each attempt. Now some people out there probably think this is chump’s change, but it’s enough for me to feel especially awful whenever I fail, knowing I just wasted a decent amount of coin, and when I’ve lost a few attempts in a row, I’ve wasted over a gold! Please at least make gambits free to activate, then I’d only be using up a single ticket each attempt.

2) The game-breaking bugs.

There’s a lot of them. I’ve had the earthquake bug making my attempts with other gambits pretty much unwinnable and a waste of tickets. I’ve had the bug where I’m notified that I’m next, but then don’t get teleported in, requiring a relog and another waste of tickets to activate gambits and queue up. I’ve had the bug where two people get thrown in at once, with both their bosses, and whoever doesn’t kill their boss first gets stuck in there, another relog and waste of tickets. And I’ve had two of these bugs happen just this morning, so they’re not bugs they’ve fixed yet. Seriously ANet, you’ve shown time and time again that whatever internal bug testing you have, it just isn’t good enough, you -need- to invest in a PTR server. Also, these bugs happen quite commonly, and I’ve used up a lot of tickets on games that I had no real chance of winning, and weren’t the challenge I’d signed up for. I’d like to request a partial refund of tickets actually.

Now I know this is a bit ranty, but I actually like the Queen’s Gambit on the whole, the different opponents have a nice amount of variety and there’s a good amount of challenge, but not on the scale of WoW’s Brawler’s Guild (Which I found a bit too overtuned).