Guild Wars 2

Myst Dawnbringer.9138:

I’ve never played with nastier people in my life than the ones doing 5 man dungeons and they were just screaming at some poor guy who didn’t tank or heal the way they expected him to. Seven years on WoW and only a few figured out that the LEADER’s responsibility is to teach the others how to get through. Kind of like Commanders. Get it Commanders just because you pay 100g for a tag doesn’t mean you know what your doing. They should have to take a test to get those things. You give me hero’s I’ll do it. Not a problem.

You should give it another go. Sure I ran into some bad dungeon PUGs, but I’d say 95% of the time it’s good fun. Join a guild, it’s great for getting a dungeon group that will not rage and kick.
And while commander tag doesn’t mean commander skill is sort of true in WvW, a lot of commander badges were quite helpful in PvE – guild missions, champ runs, Scarlet invasions etc. At least on my server. So hopefully the same will be true for Tequatl.

I expect a fail for the first time we go there on my server, people will not know what to do and just start autoattacking the dragon. Even worse if you have the bad luck to spawn on the overflow.

I suspect I’m one of the few that actually watched them give players the chance to fight the new fight at their birthday bash dealie.

What should happen is people slowly get caught up to the point of knowing what those previewers know. Groups on each set of cannons, cannoners doing their thing. groups doing damage to Teq, at every 25% defend cannon nodes for a couple minutes, repeat, get reward if you win, none if you don’t.

The hardest part will be getting people to realize that every aspect of the event gives credit. It’s not like Jojo where only hitting Jojo gives credit and clearing ice pillars gives nothing. Kill adds, hit Teq, clear fields/buff allies with turrets – it all appears to be credit worthy. And we all know Gold is the same as Bronze when it comes to loot possibilities (just less XP, Karma, and coin).

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Raven Paradox.1860:

ArenaNet learned from that horrid mistake that made a living world event be nothing but a farm for failing.

One can only hope.

Though this update was in the works for 3 months approximately before the Jubilee and Clockwork content went live. So it’s hard to tell.

However, the Claw of Jormag event champions don’t drop loot, so it they adopted that philosophy then there’d be no distraction to the event.

Hence the whole reason why nobody even comes to do Jormag till later, when the second stage starts. I think the time limit will help get people interested in the meta for Teq.
The only problem will be profit-time ratio on Teq. Given, they said that it will get increased loot, but if it’s one more green for the effort put in, people will quickly whiter out of the event itself, and it’ll become something of a dead meta that nobody wants to do because it takes too long.

Is this more farming…………………………….. “Yay”.

No, heres what will really happen;

People killing teq, getting maybe 25 to 50, then

‘Your game will restart in 2 min’

Solid Gold.9310:

Is this more farming…………………………….. “Yay”.

Uh. How is a fighting one boss farming?

The problem with all this speculation, is the mechanics of Tequatl based on what is known thus far try their best to prevent most of the bad things that can occur with the zerg.

You can’t afk and get the 25% credit for the chest.

You can’t ignore the champs since they are spawning during the ‘You can’t touch Tequatl while he flies’ phase, so you need something to kill amidst the veterans that go down very quickly anyways, they are that buffer.

You can’t just idle either and attack Tequatl, you need turrets to remove the Karka Queen-like stacks on him unless you want to do all of 100 damage from many auto-attacks while the poison that now persists on the ground kills you.

Speculating is fun, but at least think of the big picture here, Tequatl is A-Net’s second attempt at making a world boss able to engage everyone involved. Karka Queen was the first, but as someone mentioned her requirements for spawning are kind of shotty for low pop servers….

The only thing that might be bad is those people interested on the %, since we don’t know if the reward for Ascended is based on a kill or any of the chest drops.

If tequatls loot is given at the end based only on suceeding, then they havent learned anything, trying and failing and not getting anything will turn most people away.

What my understanding is, every 25%, youll get a reward, but your chances for something great increases each time and even moreso if you succeed.

We will see

deSade.9437:

This forum is full of seers. Will I ever get married?

Yes. To the man of your dreams.

Samhaim.8956:

There is no pre-event for Tequalt, it’ll be announced the same way clockwork invasions were, so everyone will have the same chance to get there.

That makes me think there should be some log or window in game that lets us know the current status of these world events when we log in. I haven’t been able to fight scarlet since the end of clockwork chaos.

I give it two weeks before people will get all their achis and it will become dead content. I very much doubt Anet will provide proper rewards for all the effort that will be required.

Warobaz.9543:

Samhaim.8956:

There is no pre-event for Tequalt, it’ll be announced the same way clockwork invasions were, so everyone will have the same chance to get there.

That makes me think there should be some log or window in game that lets us know the current status of these world events when we log in. I haven’t been able to fight scarlet since the end of clockwork chaos.

Did it twice plus another two times I decided to skip it. I hope the dragon timers catch up soon.