Guild Wars 2

I’ve been hoping to do a successful Teq event ever since the update came up.

Every single day, I took part in one or two Teq events, and every single day, I’ve seen them fail.
Every night I was thrown onto overflows, hoping for the chance to get on my main server because, hey, they’ll probably make it (I don’t know if they ever did make it at the times when I was online), but of course that never happened.
I’ve called out AFKers on map chat (yes, I know it’s useless; since they’re AFK they wouldn’t see it anyway; it’s just how angry I was at the time), I’ve asked people to respawn if they’re dead and return to the battle.
I DPS’ed the dragon when the commanders were calling for more DPS, I went to defend turrets when their operators were calling for more players to defend.
I read the guides, I know how it’s supposed to work and what I have to do, and it’s all useless.

It didn’t even matter that I went on 4 events that were coordinated by guilds, and everyone was on TS (though, I must admit, two of these got to 75% and two got close to 50%).

Yesterday, my guildmates were telling me to get on Deso no matter what, however long it would take, because there it will surely succeed. Several of my guildmates had already defeated Teq thanks to Deso.
I spent 80 minutes in overflows. During these 80 minutes, I got the confirmation that I can enter Deso main 24 times. The first 23 times, I was thrown into another overflow, while the 24th time I got a network error message from the game.
After these 80 minutes, one of my guildmates told me he managed to get on deso main. I joined his party and after another 10 minutes I got in.
Then 20 minutes of waiting, but I got on TS, listening to the commanders on Deso, they were all very optimistic. I was looking forward to finally taking part in a coordinated effort that would succeed.
We failed, only having been able to bring Teq down to almost 50%.

At this point, it’s difficult to describe how I feel. It’s as if I’ve lost all hope of ever seeing this event succeed. I don’t even feel angry any more, because even the anger has been drained from me.
The thing is, I can’t afford to waste 2 hours every night just for an event to fail. I have a job, I need to support my family, game time is a limited resource for me. And wasting 2 hours a day for nothing is one of those things that makes me wonder just what it is I’m doing with my life.

I apologise for ending up writing down all of this on the forums, but there is absolutely nothing I can do any more, and just needed some fellow players to know how I feel.

Hope you’re all doing a lot better than I am.

Get on a server super early and then map to brample pass waypoint and keep trying going through the portal and out again until you get in. Just after a teq spawn is best.

Alas you will probably spend all day trying to kill him. Such is the lame nature of the overflow and server system here. BUT once you get in, stay in. It will happen

Yeah i feel you. My server barely ever bothers doing Teq now. Really really disappointed by event. Total favoritism toward high populated servers and big pve guilds.

I did get 2 kills so far by joining TTS guild that does this event every day and usually gets kills too. But franky how long will it last? Give it another 2? weeks and nobody will do this event anymore. Which is fine for temporal 2 week events we saw in the past but this is world boss so it was intended for him to stay in game like this.

Not to mention, the looot is just…..urgh

Know how you feel, finally did it on Desolation last night after trying to get into main from the start of the event, and Desolation is my home server.

I have to say the commanders knew what they were doing and told us where to go and when, probably if you failed there it was a bit of bad luck.

The portalling in and out of Sparkfly does work eventually, but it’s a really poor show to have to resort to tactics like that.

There’s no great feeling of satisfaction when you do it, just a feeling of thank God I can go and do normal stuff.

I did defend the west turret and north laser bank thing, and just stuck with our commander, to be honest I didn’t have a clue what the dragon was doing.

I just feel I wasted so much time trying to do an open world event because of game and server mechanics, it should have been easy, they should have foreseen the problems and ArenaNet didn’t, I hope they have learnt something from this fiasco.

Desolation is probably best from 1800 hours onwards GMT, they had just killed TEQ as I arrived, killed it while I was there, and were going for it again, I hasten to add I didn’t stay.

My server’s given up on it. I logged in tonight at 10PM and was able to get directly into the home server. The HOME server, on the first try. It was a ghost town.

I gave up killing Tequatl in my main server, I highly suggest you to join TTS or TKS (or their sisters guilds) and join their overflow 40-50 mins before the fight.

I feel the OP’s pain. Still trying myself, but it’s futile. My server only has 1-3 people turning up now, and once Oct 1st rolls around, your chances of a kill seems unlikely.
Guesting is the same, and when you do find a good server, you’re stuck on overflow.
You will have to be very lucky to randomly guest on a server that gets a kill.
I’m all for hard and organised content, but this and the next level 80 dungeon path should NOT be Living World content. Living World should be fun and accessable to all.

LightOfTheMoon.4261:

The thing is, I can’t afford to waste 2 hours every night just for an event to fail. I have a job, I need to support my family, game time is a limited resource for me. And wasting 2 hours a day for nothing is one of those things that makes me wonder just what it is I’m doing with my life.

Fully agree, it would have been nice if the time spent actually resulted in a suitable reward. For example by removing or at least increasing the timer and adjusting the reward to the time spent getting him down, the faster the better the reward.

You should try our server Ehmry Bay. We have a guy named Ronny Aldo who loves the fight to death and stays down there to lead people as long as he can to victory. We have had a taper off but still a large amount of people that stick around past prime time and during but there is often room. He has led many groups to victory that are willing to listen to him and get on TS.

So any low population servers and peeps having issues are welcome to guest. You may not always get it on the first try with him but he has trained many groups to get it and if you fill out the map once you does what he asks you will get it. So feel free to try Ehmry Bay and look for the Ronny Aldo commander tag.

It’s been mentioned, but there’s also a guild named [Teq] – Overflow One, that I believe is still taking members for doing Tequatl runs. We regularly down him, and have managed to set several of the records. It’s often done on Blackgate’s Community TS3 server, and always on an overflow (thus, any server can do it with us). We run generally between 3 and 7 PM PST.

I’d recommend going this route (finding a guild to do it with) over relying on servers, or overflows in general. Overflows are generally disorganized, but many servers can be just as bad (and sometimes worse). I got all my achievements (at least, the ones that require a kill) done in just a day with them. Ironically, after this time, now I’d love it if they made the encounter even harder just if they gave us much more amazing loot.

There are lots of suggestions to guest onto other servers or join guilds, I don’t want that hassle. I just want to be able to log in when the message pops up, show up in the zone, and stand a solid chance of getting through it so long as I do my part. Right now that’s statistically unlikely.

Ohoni.6057:

There are lots of suggestions to guest onto other servers or join guilds, I don’t want that hassle. I just want to be able to log in when the message pops up, show up in the zone, and stand a solid chance of getting through it so long as I do my part. Right now that’s statistically unlikely.

Until Anet sort the overflow and server systems out that will be unlikely to happen. The best we can do is what people have suggested.

Future world bosses will also suffer from the same issues..

Without an event being able to be lost even after multiple tries, winning it becomes meaningless. I hope you realize that.

It wouldn’t be difficult content if everyone could do it.

I agree the overflow issues are ridiculous, though.

Ohoni.6057:

There are lots of suggestions to guest onto other servers or join guilds, I don’t want that hassle. I just want to be able to log in when the message pops up, show up in the zone, and stand a solid chance of getting through it so long as I do my part. Right now that’s statistically unlikely.

What is the bigger hassle?

1.) Waiting around for over a week and not getting anything done. Not getting into the main servers and even when you do, chances are they fail…..or

2.) Join a guild that was made to take down Teq (TTS), that you can sign up for here in the forum, and getting it done 2-3 times that same night?! You never have to leave your server, and since you can be a member of up to 5 guilds, you probably don’t have to drop a guild. Just rep, type in guild chat, and you will get a party invite, then just taxi on over to one of the 2 overflow servers and get it done!

….I joined 2 days ago. I played the event 5 times. ALL 5 were successful!

That is what I did.

If your time is limited, and you’re unable to get a bunch of people together to organize the fight/raid, then perhaps you should try a different World Boss to fight during the week. Once Saturday or Sunday rolls around, you can try again.

What is the bigger hassle?

1.) Waiting around for over a week and not getting anything done. Not getting into the main servers and even when you do, chances are they fail…..or

2.) Join a guild that was made to take down Teq (TTS), that you can sign up for here in the forum, and getting it done 2-3 times that same night?! You never have to leave your server, and since you can be a member of up to 5 guilds, you probably don’t have to drop a guild. Just rep, type in guild chat, and you will get a party invite, then just taxi on over to one of the 2 overflow servers and get it done!

….I joined 2 days ago. I played the event 5 times. ALL 5 were successful!

They are both a hassle. There should be a third option.

Ohoni.6057:

What is the bigger hassle?

1.) Waiting around for over a week and not getting anything done. Not getting into the main servers and even when you do, chances are they fail…..or

2.) Join a guild that was made to take down Teq (TTS), that you can sign up for here in the forum, and getting it done 2-3 times that same night?! You never have to leave your server, and since you can be a member of up to 5 guilds, you probably don’t have to drop a guild. Just rep, type in guild chat, and you will get a party invite, then just taxi on over to one of the 2 overflow servers and get it done!

….I joined 2 days ago. I played the event 5 times. ALL 5 were successful!

They are both a hassle. There should be a third option.

Yeah option 3, just don’t do it.

Seriously though, if you consider option 2 a hassle…. and if this is for something you really want to accomplish, then I’m afraid to see how you handle real life situations. People are providing you with options and it sounds like you are just to lazy to try them. You want to be able to just pop in at the last minute and have the chest handed to you. Then you come on the forum and just complain about how bad you have it, rather than taking charge of the situation and making Tequatl your kitten.

you need to play a game where you log on once a day and collect loot, try moshi monsters online

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Ohoni.6057:

What is the bigger hassle?

1.) Waiting around for over a week and not getting anything done. Not getting into the main servers and even when you do, chances are they fail…..or

2.) Join a guild that was made to take down Teq (TTS), that you can sign up for here in the forum, and getting it done 2-3 times that same night?! You never have to leave your server, and since you can be a member of up to 5 guilds, you probably don’t have to drop a guild. Just rep, type in guild chat, and you will get a party invite, then just taxi on over to one of the 2 overflow servers and get it done!

….I joined 2 days ago. I played the event 5 times. ALL 5 were successful!

They are both a hassle. There should be a third option.

Yeah option 3, just don’t do it.

Seriously though, if you consider option 2 a hassle…. and if this is for something you really want to accomplish, then I’m afraid to see how you handle real life situations. People are providing you with options and it sounds like you are just to lazy to try them. You want to be able to just pop in at the last minute and have the chest handed to you. Then you come on the forum and just complain about how bad you have it, rather than taking charge of the situation and making Tequatl your kitten.

To be fair, making friends can be hard for some people. There’s a psychological term for it, but it escapes me at the moment.

Ohoni.6057:

What is the bigger hassle?

1.) Waiting around for over a week and not getting anything done. Not getting into the main servers and even when you do, chances are they fail…..or

2.) Join a guild that was made to take down Teq (TTS), that you can sign up for here in the forum, and getting it done 2-3 times that same night?! You never have to leave your server, and since you can be a member of up to 5 guilds, you probably don’t have to drop a guild. Just rep, type in guild chat, and you will get a party invite, then just taxi on over to one of the 2 overflow servers and get it done!

….I joined 2 days ago. I played the event 5 times. ALL 5 were successful!

They are both a hassle. There should be a third option.

My experience doing 2 (of course YMMV):
1.- Asked for the invite in early afternoon in the thread.
2.- Logged into the game when I got home from work, invite was waiting for me.
3.- When I decided to do the fight, I represented the tequatl killing guild, zoned into sparkly fen.
4.- Someone said to join on them for port to overflow, I joined his party, joined into overflow, left the party (to leave space for more people to do the same)
5.- Waited for the event to begin while I did dailies (granted, took 2 attempts to kill him the first time, I just used the time to finish the dailies and level up crafting a little bit).

Not really much of a hassle IMHO, I didn’t need to install any software or use any kind of voice chat (everything important was explained on map or /s), heck, I could have even represent back my regular guild after being ported and it wouldn’t have made a difference..

Ohoni.6057:

There are lots of suggestions to guest onto other servers or join guilds, I don’t want that hassle. I just want to be able to log in when the message pops up, show up in the zone, and stand a solid chance of getting through it so long as I do my part. Right now that’s statistically unlikely.

Well If you just willing to “show up” and “get through” you can try to beat any other world boss in this game – its pretty much how it works.

However, Tequatl is a rewamped world boss with increased difficulty. Just “showing up” is no longer enough, im sorry. Overflow One [Teq] beats this world boss nightly 2-3 times, every attempt will take you 1hr+ including preparation and getting into correct overflow. Its not that bad if you actually try to cooperate with people instead of being an antisocial kitten

p.s. I wholeheartedly agree thought that this boss needs a lot of improvements. It needs a clear timer, clear preevent and possibly ready-check to spawn since timer is pretty tight

Smooth Penguin.5294:

To be fair, making friends can be hard for some people. There’s a psychological term for it, but it escapes me at the moment.

You don’t even have to make friends to get into an organized group’s server. I’m not exactly an outgoing person – I’m not even in a guild on my server. Nothing but a perceived “hassle” is stopping them from hopping on a designated voice chat to ask for an invite, or keeping track of commanders/guilds they see leading frequently, and asking them for a ferry into the correct instance.

I get the impression that “too much of a hassle” for this person is anything that requires more effort than just “log in, waypoint, receive chest.” And to that, I say not everything in every game is meant for everyone. There are plenty of things I will never do (or be able to do) in this game, and you won’t catch me complaining about those things being too far beyond me, so maybe it’s time to accept that Tequatl isn’t meant for every type of player either.

That said, I do believe Tequatl should continue to be as deadly as he is, but scale downwards for fewer players so that smaller servers can have a chance to gather the numbers to tackle him.

Yeah option 3, just don’t do it.

Seriously though, if you consider option 2 a hassle…. and if this is for something you really want to accomplish, then I’m afraid to see how you handle real life situations. People are providing you with options and it sounds like you are just to lazy to try them. You want to be able to just pop in at the last minute and have the chest handed to you. Then you come on the forum and just complain about how bad you have it, rather than taking charge of the situation and making Tequatl your kitten.

Nah, you’re exaggerating for some reason I don’t understand. I don’t want anything handed to me, I’m willing to do my part from start to finish and do it well, I just don’t want all the hassle before-hand. I don’t want to have to sign up for anything or wait around for an hour, I just want to be able to log in and play, and not have it be a complete cluster-kitten that is entirely outside my power to fix.

However, Tequatl is a rewamped world boss with increased difficulty. Just “showing up” is no longer enough, im sorry.

I don’t consider “inability to log into any server with a decent chance of completing it” to be a feature. It’s inconvenient, but has absolutely nothing to do with “difficulty.”

Overflow One [Teq] beats this world boss nightly 2-3 times, every attempt will take you 1hr+ including preparation and getting into correct overflow.

And you don’t see the problem there? It’s a 15-20 minute encounter, it should take 15-20 minutes to complete, start to finish. You’re tacking on 40-45 minutes to that and claiming it’s “working as intended.”

I get the impression that “too much of a hassle” for this person is anything that requires more effort than just “log in, waypoint, receive chest.”

If it makes you feel better about yourself to assume the worst of your fellow players, then go right ahead, but if you actually care about accuracy you might have read exactly the opposite out of my earlier posts.

If you dont want to go through the effort to join an organization to kill Teq then there is nothing we can do for you. Thats the easiest and most logical way to get a kill if you seriously wanted to kill him.

I wasn’t aware there was such an organization/specialized guild group until now.

I rarely visit the forums, except when there’s patch notes and/or I’ve had a bug with the game. After the patch today I logged on to see what they’d updated since the 17th, then decided to look through the forum here since I’d just made my first kill (got into my server when the patch hit!).

Guilds like that are great, and had I known of it days ago I couldn’t saved myself a lot of frustration and many hours spent!

However, I’m sure there are a lot of people like me out there that weren’t/aren’t aware of it. For those people, it’d be nice if some other option was available other than the suggested 1. waiting & failing, 2. joining a guild that is advertised on the forums, and 3. not doing it.

If they can’t do something about the overflows, it’d be nice if there was even some sort of cross-overflow chat system. Then all the overflows could get an announcement that a guild formed to kill the dragon. Programming wise that probably wouldn’t work, but I’m still wishing I’d heard about the guild days ago!

Sabreene,

Join us it is not too late: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/tequatl/Tequatl-Terror-Squad-3-SLAY-THE-BEAST

I have now had 7 of 7 successful runs in this guild.

Naerina.3486:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

To be fair, making friends can be hard for some people. There’s a psychological term for it, but it escapes me at the moment.

You don’t even have to make friends to get into an organized group’s server. I’m not exactly an outgoing person – I’m not even in a guild on my server. Nothing but a perceived “hassle” is stopping them from hopping on a designated voice chat to ask for an invite, or keeping track of commanders/guilds they see leading frequently, and asking them for a ferry into the correct instance.

I get the impression that “too much of a hassle” for this person is anything that requires more effort than just “log in, waypoint, receive chest.” And to that, I say not everything in every game is meant for everyone. There are plenty of things I will never do (or be able to do) in this game, and you won’t catch me complaining about those things being too far beyond me, so maybe it’s time to accept that Tequatl isn’t meant for every type of player either.

That said, I do believe Tequatl should continue to be as deadly as he is, but scale downwards for fewer players so that smaller servers can have a chance to gather the numbers to tackle him.

Yep.

I went into the TTS thread and saw a guy telling people to whisper him for an invite. I logged into the game last night. He was on. I whispered him and got an invite to the guild. In the guild chat people said to join them in a party to get to the correct over flow, so I did that. They were also saying that Teq was 30-45 minutes away.

I worked on my Daily progress in SparkFly Fens for about 30 minutes and then went to the Teq section. He still wasn’t there but the event just north at the heart was, so I did it. I read through the instructions and like a good soldier joined the zerg. I waited about 5-10 minutes and it started.

I fought my little heart out even. I only died once and immediately went to the wp, like I was asked to do.

We beat Teq for my first time. The in game rewards weren’t hot but they more than covered my costs. The thrill of seeing Teq go down was awesome enough. So awesome and satisfying in fact I felt like I needed a cigarette.

I hung around the in the same overflow and worked on the remainder of my dailies and map completion. I finished the daily and my map completion went from 15%’ish to 65%.

Teq appeared again so I joined the zerg. While we didn’t defeat him the second time, there was a problem with the turrents, we did get him down almost to 25%. The second time the map was thrown together very hastily and we didn’t have a commander. It was a lot closer to a PUG (if I understand the term correctly) and we still almost did it.

Long story short…

I am a casual noob playing my first MMO and do so by solo playing 95% of the game. I sent one whisper message to another player. He didn’t say anything to me, only sent a guild invite. I repped the guild for an hour or so. I didn’t have to go out of my way and be anymore extroverted than normal.

I showed up and I killed him.

If that is too much to ask then I am sorry.

I am a casual player. I totally understand and am okay with not all the content and updates being for me. I know that I hate jumping puzzles. I don’t whine and cry if they add a new one because it isn’t something I don’t like or that it is too hard. I just go on my merry way working towards map completion.

OP, I will explain what you are doing wrong.

It is not a solo fight, as simple as that. Your individual efforts mean very little in the fight and also by playing just in overflows your building yourself up for failure.

I have explained this before, either join a guild that is doing Teq or add/find players who play at your time who are in such guilds.
This fight is meant for you to approach other players who are in the actual server, once you’re in their party, you simply right click on their portrait and click join in Sparkfly. This will get you into the actual server. Once there, try and join TS/Ventrilo w/e the server is using and then help fill the crucial roles.

Consider the overflows as bunch of villagers going at a dragon with pitch forks, they are not going to win. You need to enlist in armed forces and bring in the heavy artillery.

Also I am not sure of other servers but JQ gets about 8-10 kills every day. Also its become increasingly easier to get in the main server now since many players have lost interest.

If you dont want to go through the effort to join an organization to kill Teq then there is nothing we can do for you. Thats the easiest and most logical way to get a kill if you seriously wanted to kill him.

Maybe you can’t, but ANet could, but requiring less hoops to jump through. Tequatl should be beatable by whatever group happens to be in the zone you’re in, so long as everyone puts forth a reasonable effort. That’s the whole beauty of GW2, what makes it better than other games, that it scales content to the group available. The new Teq encounter fails at this, HARD.

You can say that players who are doing it this way currently as “doing it wrong,” and in a sense this is true because the current content does not accomodate such players, but it should.