Guild Wars 2

I spent last Marionette attack building and repairing Barricades in my line. As a result = no reward at all.
ArenaNet, please, fix it.

If you only ever building and repairing Barricades you are really doing something wrong.
It would most likely require you to stand around doing nothing at times and clearly not helping with the most crucial part of the event (the chain parts).

lordkrall.7241:

If you only ever building and repairing Barricades you are really doing something wrong.
It would most likely require you to stand around doing nothing at times and clearly not helping with the most crucial part of the event (the chain parts).

I guess his point is, as there are limited hammers, someone should keep one in hand for the entire fight.

Honestly though, you can let some barricades fall if there are enough people to slaughter the watchworks, so just drop your hammer and get some hits in :p

Wow, I have been using a turret engineer so I could repair/build while still being able to attack enemies, hearing your case, I think it is just unfair. In the meantime, try using utility skills, such as traps for rangers and thieves. But really, repair should register as something that contributes to the mission. And it does a lot (minimally for lane 4 perhaps since siege are the only things to fix). Nobody likes to do that job, kids like action more, a one track mind. Unsung heroes like you should be rewarded as well as the whole team does. Just think about it, in WvW you get XP and WXP, and repairs register as participation in an event so you get rewards as well. So PvE repairs should register as participating in the event as well. Otherwise, fellow builders/repairers, let’s leave the hammer and just “have sum phun hyuk hyuk”.

I fought in the arena against the champions twice and won BOTH times and didn’t get a reward either. It may have nothing to do with simply staying on defense…

There’s no point staying in the lane when your lane is up for entering through the portals; you should’ve gone in and got your achievement killing a champ in order to sever a chain.

LinkR – you only get awards from fighting champions if all 5 portal groups manage to kill their champions, then you should have Energy Probe Defender advanced one step. This achievement requires you to fight (and win!) champions in each of the 5 lanes for the complete achievement.
In general you can do 2 each Marionette event, ie. portals at lane 1 & 4, 2 & 5, 3 & 1.

Dondarrion.2748:

There’s no point staying in the lane when your lane is up for entering through the portals; you should’ve gone in and got your achievement killing a champ in order to sever a chain.

LinkR – you only get awards from fighting champions if all 5 portal groups manage to kill their champions, then you should have Energy Probe Defender advanced one step. This achievement requires you to fight (and win!) champions in each of the 5 lanes for the complete achievement.
In general you can do 2 each Marionette event, ie. portals at lane 1 & 4, 2 & 5, 3 & 1.

Sorry, my fault. I left out that we actually won. We DID defeat all 5 champions and broke every single chain.

lordkrall.7241:

If you only ever building and repairing Barricades you are really doing something wrong.
It would most likely require you to stand around doing nothing at times and clearly not helping with the most crucial part of the event (the chain parts).

IF you drop the hammer you are doing something wrong<-essential item for stacking mobs and dpsing them down which is necessary for completion

Fafnir.5124:

IF you drop the hammer you are doing something wrong<-essential item for stacking mobs and dpsing them down which is necessary for completion

It is fully possible to complete it without ever having someone repairing (or even building) the barriers though.
Not killing the champs and cutting of the chains is however not possible to do if you want to complete the event.

lordkrall.7241:

Fafnir.5124:

IF you drop the hammer you are doing something wrong<-essential item for stacking mobs and dpsing them down which is necessary for completion

It is fully possible to complete it without ever having someone repairing (or even building) the barriers though.
Not killing the champs and cutting of the chains is however not possible to do if you want to complete the event.

Are you assuming that someone who is building and repairing barricades doesn’t also go through the portal? Why would that be the case in general or assumed about the OP from their post? Building and repairing barricades increases the chance for success by increasing the distance mobs must travel and forcing them to stack at choke-points and they should get built.

Unfortunately, if you do decide to pick up the hammer and perform the task of barricade building as it is designed you get no key fragments if you don’t use your utility skills (and even then you will get much fewer). So use your utility skills, just don’t equip ones that won’t also help with chain cutting.

I think the barricade building mechanic is a bit buggy in general. I have even gotten stuck in a barricade when I built it and only dropping the hammer got me unstuck.

Psientist.6437:

Are you assuming that someone who is building and repairing barricades doesn’t also go through the portal? Why would that be the case in general or assumed about the OP from their post? Building and repairing barricades increases the chance for success by increasing the distance mobs must travel and forcing them to stack at choke-points and they should get built.

I am assuming that simply because that is basically what the OP is saying.
If he had gone through the portal he would have gotten credit (and thus rewards) for the event.

The OP may be referring to the reward for a successful chain cutting or key fragments dropped from mobs killed in the lanes, they weren’t specific. And I believe the only reward dependent on participating and succeeding a warden fight is the general reward for any event and does not include loot. If any lane severs a chain all lanes get a reward chest even if the marionette is not destroyed.

I responded to your posts not because of what you were specifically saying to the OP but because your message in general, that barricade building and repairing is less of a benefit to your lane than attacking, is bad advice.

Right now it seems ANet’s event mechanics overly emphasize offense…