Guild Wars 2

Please continue putting out content like tequatal in the future!

Yup, I avoid all PVE for the most-part because I find it extremely boring and not challenging. Finally we have pve content that requires a community to band together, and fight in an organized manner in pve. I hope there is more content like this coming.

Good job Anet!

If you take the time to cooperate as a group, this fight is more fun than anything else in GW2 so far. I can’t wait to see the next world boss revamp!

I completely agree, in every sense kitten the haters.

Had some of the most fun with attempts on Teq even loosing was ok because you knew it was the best you could do.

Then when we won the feeling was amazing it was such a sense of achievement.

More please ^^
Thanks!

I completely agree. Keep up the challenge. More satisfaction when its completed.

Just chiming in to agree. This is and the gauntlet are my favorite PvE updates so far. Now let’s get Shatterer up to speed. ;-)

Tequatl is a nice fight, it’s a refreshing change from most PVE. My only concern is, once this is no longer new in a couple weeks, how hard is it going to be to actually get a large and coordinated enough group together to kill him? That’s already near impossible for a lot of servers, putting even more load on the servers who are doing it regularly through guesting.

And please don’t compare this to Liadri. That fight was poorly designed in every way, from the poor visibility floor, being in the same area as large farming groups causing framerate issues, the cramped arena affecting the camera, and the reliance on nothing but cheap one-shot kills for difficulty. Tequatl is something that actually takes skill and coordination, rather than just spamming dodge and block nonstop.

signed!

Its a great fight!!

Yep, thanks for putting content easily ruined by afk people and trolls in open world, making it so only large guilds and groups can complete them by hijacking overflows or home worlds for themselves to avoid having the people mentioned above – by effectively creating instances for themselves. Causing those people to go in any real overflow and making this event near impossible to finish there.

If you intended to make a raid content, just make a raid content. Instanced and with the instruments to kick afk people, trolls and people who aren’t willing to work for a goal.
Otherwise avoid ruining other open world events.
Because while i like a challenge, i don’t like seeing a couple random people being able to ruin it for an hundred other ones.

This is coming from a person who has never done elite level content before. Played WoW and never got to raid. Always heard about it. Was somewhat intimidated by the dedication or the organization that went into it.

With that said, I’m a native of Blackgate and really wanted to try my hand at Teq this weekend. I joined a few PUGs in overflow and never got beyond 25%. Rather than quit and do something else, I googled the server TS. Learned about taxi joining into main. Listened to this awesome really focused, non-pushy chick from Just Leave give instructions. She organized the group with help from a few others. The dragon came down and the whole experience was amazing to watch, listen, and participate in. We destroyed the dragon quickly and people were cheering.

Sorry for the tl;dr. It was an eye-opening experience for me. Thanks to Anet for the content. Its the most fun I’ve had in this game since Halloween with the Clockwork tower. Keep this type of stuff coming as it forces people to listen, learn, and play together. Also thanks to everyone on the blackgate main and teamspeak. I had a really awesome experience with you guys.

Coming from Blackgate, the following compliments may be biased.

This event is probably one of the single-best community builders that GW2 has released to date. Getting people into TeamSpeak or another VoIP program is the biggest challenge. Instead of working against a wave of resistant pugs and unknowns, you’re working with people who have a voice and an opinion.

Hard content like this presents a challenge to learn and develop skills. There is a part of the community that CRAVES this. Slowly, Blackgate has been trying to share the experience with non-native guests and show them how much fun it is going through the work needed to kill Tequatl.

There are those from low-pop servers, casual players, and the generally lazy that are begging for nerfs. They contest that they shouldn’t have to engage in hard content; that content like this is a way of excluding them. I’d like to think that they ask for nerfs because they haven’t been able to have the full Tequatl experience. Or if they have, they can’t keep the experience because their home servers lack the resources to do so.

A+ Seriously. Best gaming experience I’ve had in a long time.

Manuhell.2759:

Yep, thanks for putting content easily ruined by afk people and trolls in open world, making it so only large guilds and groups can complete them by hijacking overflows or home worlds for themselves to avoid having the people mentioned above – by effectively creating instances for themselves. Causing those people to go in any real overflow and making this event near impossible to finish there.

If you intended to make a raid content, just make a raid content. Instanced and with the instruments to kick afk people, trolls and people who aren’t willing to work for a goal.
Otherwise avoid ruining other open world events.
Because while i like a challenge, i don’t like seeing a couple random people being able to ruin it for an hundred other ones.

only good post in this thread.

The best test of the value of this content should not be during the first week of its availability. Once the fight has been around for a while, we’ll see if the people who want hard content will keep doing it, or if it will be done regularly only by a few guilds and ignored by the rest. It’s possible the event will become more doable over time, as cannon griefers and randoms looking for the achievement leave off, making it easier for coordinated groups to actually be in the right zone, and reducing the chance that poor play or afk players will make the event harder.

IndigoSundown.5419:

The best test of the value of this content should not be during the first week of its availability. Once the fight has been around for a while, we’ll see if the people who want hard content will keep doing it, or if it will be done regularly only by a few guilds and ignored by the rest. It’s possible the event will become more doable over time, as cannon griefers and randoms looking for the achievement leave off, making it easier for coordinated groups to actually be in the right zone, and reducing the chance that poor play or afk players will make the event harder.

Afk people, maybe. But i assume some of those will always be there.
Poor play, it could be. But again, people that simply don’t care about having the right equip, following a strategy or simply being good enough will partecipate anyway – maybe just in a reduced number.

But do you seriously think that trolls will avoid partecipating in the only event that permits them to surely ruin to the fun for another hundred people without any risk of getting banned?

Yeah more content like this would be great

It was kitten hard.
keep them coming.

Nick.6972:

Apart from low fps and invisible characters everywhere, this is probably the best fight I’ve ever had in GW2 (first being Liadri).
So here’s a thanks. And please, don’t listen to people who want to trivialize everything.

Low fps and invisible characters everywhere plus skill lag are the worst part of this game which ruined wvw experience, now pve aswell. Fix this first, thanks later.

Manuhell.2759:

IndigoSundown.5419:

The best test of the value of this content should not be during the first week of its availability. Once the fight has been around for a while, we’ll see if the people who want hard content will keep doing it, or if it will be done regularly only by a few guilds and ignored by the rest. It’s possible the event will become more doable over time, as cannon griefers and randoms looking for the achievement leave off, making it easier for coordinated groups to actually be in the right zone, and reducing the chance that poor play or afk players will make the event harder.

Afk people, maybe. But i assume some of those will always be there.
Poor play, it could be. But again, people that simply don’t care about having the right equip, following a strategy or simply being good enough will partecipate anyway – maybe just in a reduced number.

But do you seriously think that trolls will avoid partecipating in the only event that permits them to surely ruin to the fun for another hundred people without any risk of getting banned?

Stop griefing? No. However, depending on how regularly the fight is done, and how good their access to the information that a try is upcoming is, there might be less of it, anyway.

/signed

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Keep it coming Anet awesome Job

waiting for hours on end doing absolutely nothing is fun as hell..keep it coming.

I agree with those above who actually enjoy this content. Been having a ton of fun getting on TS with the server and killing this bugger over and over again. I kill him at least once a day if not 2-3 times now.

For those who can’t see other people. Adjust your settings, if your computer can’t handle it, then I am sorry to hear that.

Just coming to say that I LOVE the new Teq fight! Even though we might not win against him every time, I’m really enjoying working together with my server to coordinate the fight. The loot is slightly lackluster, but I still do it every time because I love being able to do stuff with other people in such larger numbers, especially since dungeons are restricted to 5 people.

One of the best content and updates ever. You finally managed to get people on servers to work together (WvW was a good attempt). People are satisfied at just beating Tequatl and not at what pops out from the chest rewards (although that’s an added bonus). The one and only blemish on this – the overflows, the wait in between and as result, the number of AFKers.

Agreed. Very fun stuff!

This is 1 challenge for my guild we take overflow and have 85% of map. Its very cool when Spvp and WwW all united trying kill this. So we alreydi killed him about 6 times. use only our mans sorry for my english

The Tequatl fights have been epic. It’s great to see real coordination and teamwork to get things done. Here’s to hoping that we see a revamped Shatterer and Jormag!

Great job Anet! Looking forward to the next patch.

Overcoming challenge is more rewarding than the reward itself.

Challenges and difficulties make content more rememberable – I still remember grinding a whole month in GW1 just to get max Lightbringer and Sunspear to have a chance of wining Mallyx and completing Domains Of Anguish.

If this is the best they can come up with it’s time to move on. You guys really think this will be done in a few weeks time? There are not enough people on most servers to complete it, it’s only being completed now because it’s new.
Look at some of the servers now, most people are just on afk because of that kitten daily.

aspirine.6852:

If this is the best they can come up with it’s time to move on. You guys really think this will be done in a few weeks time? There are not enough people on most servers to complete it, it’s only being completed now because it’s new.
Look at some of the servers now, most people are just on afk because of that kitten daily.

Dont care about any servers. My guild do it solo.

Nick.6972:

Overcoming challenge is more rewarding than the reward itself.

Challenges and difficulties make content more rememberable – I still remember grinding a whole month in GW1 just to get max Lightbringer and Sunspear to have a chance of wining Mallyx and completing Domains Of Anguish.

Agreed. This is what all of my server mates and I were saying all week long. We finally beat Teq tonight and yeah, rewards were bad.. Really bad. No noticeable loot to speak of on anyone. But the fight, and banding together as a server and finally defeating him was worth it and reward enough.

Forkada.8376:

aspirine.6852:

If this is the best they can come up with it’s time to move on. You guys really think this will be done in a few weeks time? There are not enough people on most servers to complete it, it’s only being completed now because it’s new.
Look at some of the servers now, most people are just on afk because of that kitten daily.

Dont care about any servers. My guild do it solo.

Doubt it. But that’s hardly solo is it.

This has been my experience (notice I said my), load into Sparkfly, check map chat if it already seems toxic move overflows, find one that seems to be friendly people preparing where everyone is going to go, then I stay, so now i wait an hr+? (my server still hasnt popped saying I can join), Teq comes the main zerg gets faced rolled, now at some point you say how many times do you waypoint? Or do you waypoint and dont bother to rejoin the zergball (death is eminent anyway). 15mins is over and its a fail, do I feel epic? How do I help, get better armour? Buy the food needed? Stand around waiting for my server to pop and get the overflow again, rinse repeat.

For the first time since this started I really thought last night, this is the overflow thats going to do it, we had a guild that had already completed this numerous time, the orgainising was at epic scale, the information being handed out in map chat was said with enthusiasm and everyone was ready, tray of food popped for those that didnt have, best skill usuage was told, but what they could do nothing about was the 30+ afk people around the turrets upscaling that area to something seen at an aether farm. I thanked that Commander that tried to lead that overflow as he apologized for failing, they failed something they had no way of controlling.

Maybe once I get lucky and win, I will feel the same as everyone above, but will I want to repeat it? (back to sitting in sparkfly)

According to one survey on this forum, over 90% of people do not want to even get close to this event anymore. Not everyone shares your sentiment, then.

Show me the survey and the number of people who did it.

Actually, nvm, it seems that the survey’s creator neglected to update it for the last 7 hours since the original post. We’ll have to wait for the reliable results. However, keep in mind that the number of people who are already sick of zergfests (teamspeak ones included) is significant and for some, large amounts of teq-like content would mean the death of their fav game. Me included.

Really enjoyed this content, it brought what I love about WvW (coordinated efforts by large groups of players) into PvE. Probably the first time I didn’t feel guilty for abandoning the borderlands in order to experience new content. Love it!

i’ll say it again i don’t think this content needs to be nerfed, however I really feel they need to fix the entire overflow system and make tequatl either spawn more frequently or be able to be summoned. Hours in between is definitely the worst thing about this fight, easily.

I am going to throw a bit of dirt into this pond but opinions are just opinions. New Tequatl is not fine. Sitting for several hours doing nothing (well I guess I could farm a bit things in Sparkfly) is not my idea of fun. Log in at 6am to secure a spot for a kill at 11am while being mostly away from keyboard or watching youtube vids in between attempts? Aint nobody got time for that! And for what? 1% drop chance of Ascended Weapon? I rather grind 5 Ascended Weapons on my own, thank you very much. Yes, thats how it works right now. Unless you want your finger to fall off from clicking on Join button when you try to taxi later on. And overflows are a deadweight unless you go super-lucky and some Tequatl killer guild joins your overflow while you happen to be there.

And no, Tequatl is not hard content per player skill. When I do him on successful groups, I do exactly same things as I do when I zerg new Golem or Megadestroyer or Karka Queen. There is not much more to it. The whole “difficulty” comes to either be super lucky with being in the right instance at the right time or spending pointless hours while playing Overflow metagame. This is still miles and miles away from heroic raiding in WoW. And no, I am not going back to WoW, I prefer GW2 much more. But this whole new Tequatl thing is not well executed. Not even close.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Yup, I avoid all PVE for the most-part because I find it extremely boring and not challenging. Finally we have pve content that requires a community to band together, and fight in an organized manner in pve. I hope there is more content like this coming.

Good job Anet!

Agreed, this world boss fight is pretty amazing.

dcypher.2590:

i’ll say it again i don’t think this content needs to be nerfed, however I really feel they need to fix the entire overflow system and make tequatl either spawn more frequently or be able to be summoned. Hours in between is definitely the worst thing about this fight, easily.

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I am a WvW player but staying forever in WvW isn’t an option. Releasing challenging content like this for PVE gives us a nice break from WvW. For me, it bring more people together who had to organize and cooperate to kill a Boss, not just stand below it and auto attack. We always have to evolve as players and get used to new conditions, not just stay static and cry when they bring us a new difficult task.
We failed more times than kill Tequatl but everytime we came stronger back, with new tactics till we killed him.
The only thing i would like to change is having a pre-event before the boss spawns, so people have time to get ready
Give us more nice fights Anet!!!

Yes, don’t hold back, revamp all of the world bosses to the same format. Then, after they’ll stop being done, it will be all the more visible and perhaps we’ll be able to end this change before it creates even more problems.

Some people may not realize this, but not all content is meant for everyone.

The one thing that bugs me about the fight is the sheer lack of cooperation on my server. If I had to guess, anywhere from 25-50% of the players on my server are AFK, and they just stand there throughout the fight. I think if someone is AFK for more than 60 seconds they should be auto-kicked.

Awe.1096:

I am going to throw a bit of dirt into this pond but opinions are just opinions. New Tequatl is not fine. Sitting for several hours doing nothing (well I guess I could farm a bit things in Sparkfly) is not my idea of fun. Log in at 6am to secure a spot for a kill at 11am while being mostly away from keyboard or watching youtube vids in between attempts? Aint nobody got time for that! And for what? 1% drop chance of Ascended Weapon? I rather grind 5 Ascended Weapons on my own, thank you very much. Yes, thats how it works right now. Unless you want your finger to fall off from clicking on Join button when you try to taxi later on. And overflows are a deadweight unless you go super-lucky and some Tequatl killer guild joins your overflow while you happen to be there.

And no, Tequatl is not hard content per player skill. When I do him on successful groups, I do exactly same things as I do when I zerg new Golem or Megadestroyer or Karka Queen. There is not much more to it. The whole “difficulty” comes to either be super lucky with being in the right instance at the right time or spending pointless hours while playing Overflow metagame. This is still miles and miles away from heroic raiding in WoW. And no, I am not going back to WoW, I prefer GW2 much more. But this whole new Tequatl thing is not well executed. Not even close.

Pretty much this. There are so many issues with the fight that it completely overshadows anything that can be seen as good.

It might be the greatest thing ever put into the game but the technical issues ruin it. We don’t need anything else like it until anet sorts their problems out.

How come I’m still enjoying this battle even in an overflow with massive zerging while having settings on low/medium and 10-15 FPS or less?