Guild Wars 2

Yep, no point doing it until it gets fixed thoroughly.

docMed.7692:

…I can officially say;

1) Fun fight, great mechanics.
2) Bugs are really lame (test your content please).
3) Overflows/joining on each other/etc is a horrible design that nobody likes (unique instances please…)
4) 2 Hour spawn timer – w/ the aforementioned overflow issues; horrible idea.

/QQ

1. Agreed!
2. Agreed x.x
3. I actually don’t mind. The only thing I mind is randoms joining just to be “part of it” but not following instructions or not getting on voice chat to at least listen to commands… or hell, if you don’t want to do that, please just stick to the commander tags =(
4. I think it’d be broken with any less of a timer. By the time you’re done with one run/attempt, you only have a bit over an hour to go before the next starts. I think we should be glad that the respawn timer isn’t something like 12 or 24 hours =P

docMed.7692:

…I can officially say;

3) Overflows/joining on each other/etc is a horrible design that nobody likes (unique instances please…)

/QQ

Yes. Living the living story in overflow sucks…

Meix.3710:

docMed.7692:

…I can officially say;

1) Fun fight, great mechanics.
2) Bugs are really lame (test your content please).
3) Overflows/joining on each other/etc is a horrible design that nobody likes (unique instances please…)
4) 2 Hour spawn timer – w/ the aforementioned overflow issues; horrible idea.

/QQ

1. Agreed!
2. Agreed x.x
3. I actually don’t mind. The only thing I mind is randoms joining just to be “part of it” but not following instructions or not getting on voice chat to at least listen to commands… or hell, if you don’t want to do that, please just stick to the commander tags =(
4. I think it’d be broken with any less of a timer. By the time you’re done with one run/attempt, you only have a bit over an hour to go before the next starts. I think we should be glad that the respawn timer isn’t something like 12 or 24 hours =P

3. Agreed, but I don’t think that’s something that can ever be completely eliminated, thus the problem. Not to mention, just following the commander for these fights is unfortunately not enough.

4. 12 or 24 would be rather crazy.

Heard about the bug you ran into with the head phase, we at TTS also ran into the non-despawning crimson wrum.

Honest if there wasn’t any RNG scaling bugs or at work all the servers that have been close would have got a kill by now. It honestly feels at this point that the first server will be the luckiest not the most skilled. It’s been a ton of fun when it works but these bugs ruin the experience.

Also agree about the timer… I really wish it were every 1 hour till the next patch to give us more time.

Overflow is my bane. I spent hours waiting to get into my home server where the big commanders and people were planning. And after I got in, I got dc’d for some unknown reason and had to wait again.

Please please please make home server people top priority and force guests into overflow first. I home here because i want to play here, not overflow.

guardian.6489:

Heard about the bug you ran into with the head phase, we at TTS also ran into the non-despawning crimson wrum.

Honest if there wasn’t any RNG scaling bugs or at work all the servers that have been close would have got a kill by now. It honestly feels at this point that the first server will be the luckiest not the most skilled. It’s been a ton of fun when it works but these bugs ruin the experience.

Also agree about the timer… I really wish it were every 1 hour till the next patch to give us more time.

I don’t agree with this. I think scaling bugs often make the event way easier (those super DPS phases where you take 95% in one burn). Also, every 1 hour would just be insane in my opinion, there are many people who are doing this for many consecutive hours and I am sure they prefer to have those longer breaks that we have now, to recover.

Dont forget random DC. You can never know you disconnected because of the server or you ISP. But when you do all your work is gone

Tbh, while I love these battles, it would really be beneficial to try and bring back the district system from GW1. Overflow just does not cut it.

Celestina.2894:

Tbh, while I love these battles, it would really be beneficial to try and bring back the district system from GW1. Overflow just does not cut it.

District system would not help. As long as the events would require close to the zone cap, the district would either have enough people (in which case it would be full, and you would not be able to enter) or would not be full (in which case you would be able to enter, but you’d fail the event due to not enough people).
Basically, there’s no meaningful difference between overflows and districts as far as those big boss battles are concerned. The problem lies not in overflow mechanics, but in the high pop requirement for the fight.

HownDoog.8529:

Overflow is my bane. I spent hours waiting to get into my home server where the big commanders and people were planning. And after I got in, I got dc’d for some unknown reason and had to wait again.

Please please please make home server people top priority and force guests into overflow first. I home here because i want to play here, not overflow.

That won’t help, even the lower populated servers are getting overflows and no one is guesting there. If you choose to play on one of the highest population servers, overflows are something you must accept for now. Plus if they did give home server top priority for events, more people would transfer (even black gate opens up at night sometimes) and people would further concentrate on fewer servers causing more overflow issues. In summary, not gonna happen.

Astralporing.1957:

Celestina.2894:

Tbh, while I love these battles, it would really be beneficial to try and bring back the district system from GW1. Overflow just does not cut it.

District system would not help. As long as the events would require close to the zone cap, the district would either have enough people (in which case it would be full, and you would not be able to enter) or would not be full (in which case you would be able to enter, but you’d fail the event due to not enough people).
Basically, there’s no meaningful difference between overflows and districts as far as those big boss battles are concerned. The problem lies not in overflow mechanics, but in the high pop requirement for the fight.

Districts would help with this particular problem. Right now we have full servers and empty servers. And a half empty overflow. Nobody can leave overflow and people from low population servers can’t enter it.
With districts there would be several full districts and one half-empty. During the night there would be less districts and during Prime time there would be more. But most of them would be full in any situation, unless there was not enough people to fill even one or two.

Kurr.4179:

Yep, no point doing it until it gets fixed thoroughly.

This. I was there last night when Amber bugged during Phase 2 and we couldn’t complete/fail the event. A Dev had to come in and reset the server.

Not touching this one again for awhile.

Kilandros.2098:

Kurr.4179:

Yep, no point doing it until it gets fixed thoroughly.

This. I was there last night when Amber bugged during Phase 2 and we couldn’t complete/fail the event. A Dev had to come in and reset the server.

Not touching this one again for awhile.

We lost the world first race anyways, I’m done lol.