Guild Wars 2

After Blackgate beat teq, a lot of people have been saying that the event is too hard because it requires too much coordination and is only possible with 120 people on VoIP. After watching the video, I don’t feel like this is the case. For the most part, the main thing blackgate did was positioning, and positioning isn’t something that requires VoIP.

In the runs I participated in, 50% of the people where at the turrets, which amounted to a lot of wasted DPS. Even the people damaging teq himself were really spread out, making it hard to cleanse the poison around them, and to buff them. Blackgate on the other hand had most of the people at teq, and they where clumped up in one big ball. That way it was easy to buff them, and the amount of poison pools the turrets had to cleanse was much lower.

This is something that i think a zerg will be able to learn with time, like how most people learned to go to the safe spots in the Claw of Jormag fight. Once people learn where they should stand, more people will start succeeding more.

Once enough people group together, even people who didn’t know they had to group up will join the group because of the zerg mentality.

Also because you can chain mega lasers, i think the fight is easier than it seems. Its much harder to get from 100% to 75% than from 75% to 50%.

TL;DR: I don’t think the fight is really as hard as it seems and doesn’t really require an ungodly amount of coordination.

It doesn’t require coordination or VoIP if people know how they are supposed to do.

This doesn’t mean VoIP and coordination doesn’t make it a lot easier.

I kinda agree with what you’re saying. I think that a good commander and people that are willing to listen to what is being said in map chat are enough to beat it.

You assume that people need to know what to do. until then , VOIP is much easier and much faster way to coordinate groups of people who just showed up and haven’t bothered to get any info on the event and who don’t read map chat. And there’s plenty of those people.
I’m not saying that everyone will use teamspeak or whatnot, but the more ppl actually do it, the better results will come out. Same for WvW, same for dunegons, VOIP is an advantage. Typing takes time and can get you killed. Simple as that.

In other words, yet another event where it is better to stack and DPS than spread out.

I think the VOIP is just helping people do it on day one. I expect people will be completing it without VOIP within a month. Once people have learned the mechanics and the pattern, it’s going to doable without the VOIP. The VOIP advantage is basically just because people don’t yet know what they are supposed to do and having someone tell them it is sidestepping that problem.

VoIP makes coordination easier, but it’s not required.

I’m not saying that VoIP doesn’t make it easier, it really does. I’m saying that I don’t think it’s required. A lot of people on the forums are saying that Tequatl is too hard because you will always need a VoIP with 120 people to coordinate enough to beat him. I wrote this post to try to argue that eventually, once enough people understand what to do, we won’t need VoIP to succeed. I believe that in a week or so, we will see the amount of groups beating the event go up drastically.

hedix.1986:

You assume that people need to know what to do. until then , VOIP is much easier and much faster way to coordinate groups of people who just showed up and haven’t bothered to get any info on the event and who don’t read map chat. And there’s plenty of those people.
I’m not saying that everyone will use teamspeak or whatnot, but the more ppl actually do it, the better results will come out. Same for WvW, same for dunegons, VOIP is an advantage. Typing takes time and can get you killed. Simple as that.

I agree. I never said that VoIP isn’t an advantage (it’s a huge one and was probably the reason they succeeded) but I said that when enough people understand what to do (which will take time) we won’t need it. I think it’s the main reason why so many runs of Tequatl are failing, and why he seems so hard right now.

Probably won’t be needed in a month time, when many more people have been through the drill. But to get there, to get experience, i think servers will find VOIP very helpful, if not necessary.