Guild Wars 2

FAAAAAAAAAABUULOUSSSS!!!

It’s amazing what Anet did with this Event, it honestly feels more lively and brings hundreds of players together to fight this event.

I love hearing all of these players getting together and strategizing for the next fight, we have groups set up and players listening and working together to kill this boss.

IMO players should get some better loot from the fight, and future fights for bosses like this. Reason I say this is because it takes plenty of teamwork to get this done and players should be more heavily rewarded (with better rewards) upon completion.

I hope Anet continues to add more challenging and fun content like this for Guild Missions, World Events and Anything PvE.

The best feeling about this is that this fight feels almost more like one of the enjoyable traditional raids I used to play in MMOs back in the day. I’m excited for more content like this and possibly fights where teamwork is crucial for a win.

Great Job and Keep up the Great Work Arena Net!

Quality stuff, big thumbs up for Tequatl!

:)

It might possibly be the single best piece of content added to the game in the last year but that doesn’t change the fact for quite a few people it’s about as unfun as it can get due to over tuning on low pop servers and/or the many many technical issues the fight highlights.

The actual fight isn’t really all that hard as well. And then there is the fact that 15 minutes farming champs in Frostgorge is more rewarding which is severely disappointing.

fellyn.5083:

It might possibly be the single best piece of content added to the game in the last year but that doesn’t change the fact for quite a few people it’s about as unfun as it can get due to over tuning on low pop servers and/or the many many technical issues the fight highlights.

Also not fun for those of us who refuse to wait doing nothing for 2 hours between fights in sparklefy fen just so we can actually fight in our server and not in overflow.

morrolan.9608:

fellyn.5083:

It might possibly be the single best piece of content added to the game in the last year but that doesn’t change the fact for quite a few people it’s about as unfun as it can get due to over tuning on low pop servers and/or the many many technical issues the fight highlights.

Also not fun for those of us who refuse to wait doing nothing for 2 hours between fights in sparklefy fen just so we can actually fight in our server and not in overflow.

That one falls under the technical issues I mentioned.

The technical issues that plague the Tequatl encounter should have been fixed before the encounter was implemented. Anet is building content over a foundation that is made of sand rather than concrete. That never ends well.

Sorry but 2 thumbs down for me. The technical problems should have been solved before release, as well as the event itself—it’s not fun for a number of people :-(
They should have opened a new area on the map, made a new dragon, called it for what it is—a guild type event that works with 100 people working together using their 100 slot teamspeak.

Blude.6812:

Sorry but 2 thumbs down for me. The technical problems should have been solved before release, as well as the event itself—it’s not fun for a number of people :-(
They should have opened a new area on the map, made a new dragon, called it for what it is—a guild type event that works with 100 people working together using their 100 slot teamspeak.

This, they have basically removed two encounters, orig teq, something that could be done regularly, and new teq, which will be abandoned after its downed a few times, or the next dragon in line gets updated.

Totally agree it should have been a completely new encounter/instance of some sort.

Overflow did get my knickers in a knot, but once I had endured the 6 hours of toe tapping in the main, waiting for the Crystal Desert’s Teamspeak leaders to come together for the big event… and we knocked that randy dragon on her butt.. well, that feeling made it all worth it.

I suggest that (as much as I agree that it was a horrible issue) the overflow problems were so frustrating that they made the win that much sweeter.

That said, I haven’t bothered to go for a second, and will gladly wait until the load tapers off or a resolution is devised.

I think his great, but the loot can be really lacklustre. RNG doesn’t help, either, but I killed him and even with the three bonus chests, plus the daily kill, I ended up with three rares and like.. 6 greens. Putting in so much effort to get something I can get doing ACexp Or CM, reall disheartening and takes out some of the incentive to bother.

Agree n disagree. I agree because it true that it brings a lot of ppl and the fight is challenging enough. Disagree because overflows are a complete mess and teq’s chest is so laughable its almost insulting to what anet is giving us for defeating this dragon. Why can’t a person of X server has a priority over some1 who guests? If im in jq and i come for teq i watch &^%^%^& who guested to my server to be kicked and get back to their holes! in 5 days i could only get to my server three times and its normally at 3-4am wtf

Blude.6812:

Sorry but 2 thumbs down for me. The technical problems should have been solved before release, as well as the event itself—it’s not fun for a number of people :-(
They should have opened a new area on the map, made a new dragon, called it for what it is—a guild type event that works with 100 people working together using their 100 slot teamspeak.

I have to agree with this.

I don’t like the encounter and will never do it in its current form. But I do understand that there are players like you (OP) that do like it so I’m glad they added it for you. I just wish they had placed the fight somewhere else and been a whole new dragon. I actually liked the old Tequatl.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Agree n disagree. I agree because it true that it brings a lot of ppl and the fight is challenging enough. Disagree because overflows are a complete mess and teq’s chest is so laughable its almost insulting to what anet is giving us for defeating this dragon. Why can’t a person of X server has a priority over some1 who guests? If im in jq and i come for teq i watch &^%^%^& who guested to my server to be kicked and get back to their holes! in 5 days i could only get to my server three times and its normally at 3-4am wtf

The main servers are not a guarantee for a good fight. Most organized groups just find a newly created empty overflow for themselves so they don’t have to deal with the pugs and/or afkers on the main server.

I sincerely hope they don’t nerf Teq in any way. It stands as a testament to what not to do in open world PvE in an MMO, and its value as a case study really depends on Anet not changing it and I hope they don’t. I am willing to sacrifice one area of the map if it means no other areas are emptied in the future.

I love the TQ encounter. It has been nothing short of FUN every time I participate. There are a few aspects of it that I do hate:

1. I hate the people who deliberately set out to make it fail. If any of you are reading this right now, I am reporting you when I see you Akitteng in a turret or on the laser. It falls under “Griefing” and it is against the EULA.

2. I hate that since the event started (patch day) I have yet to play on my own server. I don’t mind being on overflow, and they suit their purpose, but I would like to play on my home server. I am sure I will eventually.

3. The rewards are meh. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to be able to say “Yay! We killed him!” but unless they tweak the rewards in a good way, people are going to go on to bigger, better, shinier things.

Othe than that, I think it’s about time we had something that you can’t steamroll. Let the complainers carry on, but don’t nerf the event.

Don’t like the new Teq encounter.

Time limit is too restrictive.

Fields of death spammed every where in the water where you cannot even see the red rings.

Latency dependent mechanics such as the shock wave jumping.

Overflows. Overflows. Overflows.

On my server. We haven’t even seen what Teq is like beyond the first phase outside of a youtube video.

The dragon itself is uninspired and uninteresting.

Do not want more of this.

new Teq is pretty fun. But I wonder after I get my achievements, will it still be worth?

Breaking Bad.6241:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Agree n disagree. I agree because it true that it brings a lot of ppl and the fight is challenging enough. Disagree because overflows are a complete mess and teq’s chest is so laughable its almost insulting to what anet is giving us for defeating this dragon. Why can’t a person of X server has a priority over some1 who guests? If im in jq and i come for teq i watch &^%^%^& who guested to my server to be kicked and get back to their holes! in 5 days i could only get to my server three times and its normally at 3-4am wtf

The main servers are not a guarantee for a good fight. Most organized groups just find a newly created empty overflow for themselves so they don’t have to deal with the pugs and/or afkers on the main server.

i tried on my server twice today. completed it once with 2:53 minutes left and the 2nd time we failed but Teq was at ~30%. In over last 12 overlfows best i’ve seen is getting him to 70% and most of the times he’s not even getting below 80% rofl.