Guild Wars 2

So tonight, with the help of a very patient and kind guildie, I got through World 1 Zone 1 Tribulation Mode. Not being the most proficient of jumpers, this was quite an achievement for me to say the least. About 4 hours of play. At the end, with the boss killed I started to collect the mass of baubles that drop and was then zoned out to Zone 2 in about 5 seconds much quicker than when you play normal mode…and without having had the chance to loot the glorious chest. And therefore did not get the first component of the skin. Is this as intended?

It does feel like the time to loot is a bit short, but it never happened that I zoned out without actually collecting the reward. I tend to use the whip for it, especially in W1Z2, cause there’s a trap near the chest. Maybe if you do it again you can still open the chest and get the skin bit? If you’re still up to it, good luck.

Gyl.1238:

So tonight, with the help of a very patient and kind guildie, I got through World 1 Zone 1 Tribulation Mode. Not being the most proficient of jumpers, this was quite an achievement for me to say the least. About 4 hours of play. At the end, with the boss killed I started to collect the mass of baubles that drop and was then zoned out to Zone 2 in about 5 seconds much quicker than when you play normal mode…and without having had the chance to loot the glorious chest. And therefore did not get the first component of the skin. Is this as intended?

And yet you need to wait like 30-40 seconds after killing each worlds zone 3 boss…when you have NOTHING to loot. This imo should be reversed (or do what fractals does and let you choose when to move on).

They should give bonus chest loot for skin mats right after you kill boss,I know I would be kitten ed if I missed that loot after 4hr run..

Loot the chest first?

you loot everything first, then look at how many things you managed to get while the timer is counting down. the timer for world 1 zone 1 is a bit short though i think it’s perfect, it’s entirely your fault for not looting the chest. if you ever care to do this mode again then message me, i’ll be more than happy to run this mode with you or anyone else.

The timer for World 1 Zone 1 has always been very short (even in Normal mode). It could maybe stand to be extended a little, though I wouldn’t want it to be as long as some of the later worlds which have silly 40-second timers.

There should just be a party continue prompt like in fractals. Solved.

This is one of those things that stinks of lack of thought in SAB’s design.

Timer shouldn’t exist here. I get 10 second timers almost everywhere solo and then there’s the 40+ and I’m like “what am I missing that I need 40 seconds to find?”.

“Boss has been activated, be there or miss out! HURRY!” warning…

Pretty much the only thing you can do is open the chest as soon as it’s available and then go for the rest of the stuff and hope you can get it all.

So frustrated right now….feel the need to vent. I just spent 3hrs in world 1 zone 3 getting all the achievements in tribulation mode. When we got to the frog king we found the lily pads to him to be extremely sensitive and hard to cross. Finally made it over and killed the frog king. But, while standing on the center lily pad I randomly died for some reason as the boss sunk into the acid.

Rage inducing as it is to say…I could not make it back to the lily pad with the chest in time and after all that work I received no achievement for completing the zone or my 3rd green coin from the box. Even though it gets under my skin, I can accept not getting the coin (there should be no timer), but no zone completion when I killed the boss!! Way to reward players after you stress them out with difficult content. I guess I should be happy I got all the stores and honeycombes….After this there is no way I am playing this box again/ dedicating time to it….not if all that work can be rendered pointless so quickly…

Thanks for the replies. In particular those people who have offered to help, which is very kind. In case people don’t realise, at the end of World 1 Zone 1 Tribulation mode you get a loads of high value baubles round the outside of the big chest and the glorious chest is inside the big chest. It is obvious now that you have to loot the glorious chest first though there is nothing obvious about it when you are there for the first time. I can live without not getting the baubles but it is not getting the King Toad Z-1 item that really has prompted me to post. It is rather an essential reward. I don’t understand why this could not be rewarded in a bonus chest rather than having to loot. No doubt it’s just me, but this seems another example of content made more frustrating by its temporary nature given all the achievements to try and get in the time available on top of other “routine” aspects of the game that you might like to do such as dailies, guild missions, running dungeons and fractals with guildies, etc. I am not sure I can face doing this again and for me, if I start to say there is content I am not just going to bother with, then I am going to wonder whether it is worth bothering with the game full stop.