Guild Wars 2

Jammed overflows, a 2hour long event that wipes huge groups of people endlessly, precursors and exotics going to trial accounts??? Arenanet, I have heard you made a game once called Guild Wars but I find that hard to believe because this game and this event show your total lack of development and thought. GW2 is really starting to feel like all of us are being trolled every time we log in.

To be fair, the second time running through the event for myself was so very much more smooth. Rather than a big mindless zerg that insisted committing suicide just to see some extra zero’s popping up when they attack the boss, there was actually a bit more coordination, even including supporting the people on the mortars when they called for help so that they could keep firing.

Also, unless my memory is a bit bias from the better group, the second time I ran through the event there was much less culling and lag. That could have been because the group was smaller the second time… also leading to the event not scaling up to ridiculous amounts of hit point bags….. along with a non-mindless mob of players, resulted in a much faster and smoother run. Perhaps there was less culling/lag due to Anet’s servers not being as stressed, as there would most likely have been less of a server load (?) as most people had already finished.

Either way, the lottery was a very unpopular way of handing out awards. During that second run there was a lot of discussion about how bad the RNG lottery system of rewards was.

You didn’t get a precursor, big deal. This sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Stop whining or stop playing the game.

Kaellok.8143:

You didn’t get a precursor, big deal. This sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Stop whining or stop playing the game.

It’s called a personal input posted in what’s called a forum. Deal with it

I had thought it was great, especially the second time.

Kaellok.8143:

You didn’t get a precursor, big deal. This sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Stop whining or stop playing the game.

Whether someone got a precursor or not does not invalidate their criticisms. Especially when it deals with the loot. A lottery is just a stupid way of doing things, “entitlement” has nothing to do with it.

PraetorMortis.8610:

Jammed overflows, a 2hour long event that wipes huge groups of people endlessly, precursors and exotics going to trial accounts??? Arenanet, I have heard you made a game once called Guild Wars but I find that hard to believe because this game and this event show your total lack of development and thought. GW2 is really starting to feel like all of us are being trolled every time we log in.

anet keeps dropping the ball. the entire event was a big mess of zerg, die and rez over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…

pretty nice of anet to give some trial accounts a few hundred gold headstart.

gg

Swagger.1459:

big mess of zerg, die and rez over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…

Not exactly. The complaint I heard the most was that it was just a little tedious with the gigantic HP pools. Sure the difficulty may have been a bit much for the mindless zerg players, but the difficulty was actually really easy. I think I may have died two times over three runs (not counting the two times I glitched through the floor and fell into the lava at the end before the floor even broke open).

Too be fair, if you aren’t used to large scale combat in this game (culling, invisible enemies killing everyone), then that is a bit unfair. But for people that play WvW, or even take part in big karma trains, invisible enemies that kill everything if you aren’t careful is not something new. Also, the first couple times you get hit by a gigantic telegraphed AoE death attack (either red circles, green goo, or rolling/jumping karka) that could be forgiven as well… but after that you shouldn’t be complaining about endlessly dying.

But alas, the topic of skill gating versus treadmill/grind gating content has been discussed a lot on this forum recently, so I won’t go further into that.

But yeah, trial accounts getting those kind of drops is kind of ridiculous. Had we known I bet everyone would have had their three bonus accounts running, whether with someone else at the controls or not.

you mean to tell me that players on the free trial got loot for this event while others got nothing? how is this fair? and why would anyone have even thought of staging this event during the same weekend as the free trial anyway.

Surbrus.6942:

Swagger.1459:

big mess of zerg, die and rez over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…

Not exactly. The complaint I heard the most was that it was just a little tedious with the gigantic HP pools. Sure the difficulty may have been a bit much for the mindless zerg players, but the difficulty was actually really easy. I think I may have died two times over three runs (not counting the two times I glitched through the floor and fell into the lava at the end before the floor even broke open).

Too be fair, if you aren’t used to large scale combat in this game (culling, invisible enemies killing everyone), then that is a bit unfair. But for people that play WvW, or even take part in big karma trains, invisible enemies that kill everything if you aren’t careful is not something new. Also, the first couple times you get hit by a gigantic telegraphed AoE death attack (either red circles, green goo, or rolling/jumping karka) that could be forgiven as well… but after that you shouldn’t be complaining about endlessly dying.

But alas, the topic of skill gating versus treadmill/grind gating content has been discussed a lot on this forum recently, so I won’t go further into that.

But yeah, trial accounts getting those kind of drops is kind of ridiculous. Had we known I bet everyone would have had their three bonus accounts running, whether with someone else at the controls or not.

i understand and agree with you. i was overgeneralizing things to sum up what i felt about the event.

between culling, some 1-2 shot deaths, a few unavoidable mass wipes, over the top hp… it was all really blah for me. overall it seemed poorly put together.

It’s funny you mention it’s like we’re being trolled every time we log in. I’ve been thinking that for a long time, now. “Our goal is to inconvenience you!” should be the tagline for this game, really.