Guild Wars 2

The last week on GW2 has been one mostly of frustration due to broken DE’s, respawn rates, down levelling etc…all things which I believe Anet have been aware of since release, but have (seemingly) done little about.
During the beta when my students asked me what I was playing I would say “GW2!…it’s one to watch!” Now…I tell them it’s one to avoid. Also I truly felt that during the beta the Anet staff ‘cared’ about their player base and tried to address any problems, if not directly then through factual information and ‘sympathetic’ responses on the forums. If you look at the live forums you may notice a shift away from the ‘we care’ attitude with a multitude of ‘critical’ threads closed, an often curt response (softened with a ;-) ) and replies only to such important issues as “My armour isn’t green, it should be green, why isn’t it green?” type game-breaking bugs an attitude that made me have no more to do with Blizz, being one that makes the user feel like “we have your money now. kthxbye.”
I’m sure there were more points than those listed below, but my cat has been playing with my post-its and I’m sure some have been eaten :P
I’m not going to talk about endgame, dungeons, pvp or the multitude of other things which need fixed, but only a few nights of ordinary levelling, where every night there are more than several things that annoy, aggravate and, basically, take the fun out of playing at all.
Levelling my second toon (necro) from 40/50 to 70+. I have always been at the ‘correct’ level (or one less) for the hearts/zones etc. Starting from 40/50 not because there haven’t been problems before this level, but it’s at about this time that the problems hit you and you’ve had enough of forgiving Anet for poor coding/programming/design etc.
Iron Marches – broken DE Defend seige devourer while it assists troops – both shields up (starter NPC and Veteran Giant Devourer) – talk to NPC says ready to go…or similar…go to Veteran…it’s green and no enemies.
POI Desolann (underwater – in a ‘fissure’ between the rocks. Horibble, horrible camera perspective (and graphical errors – green screen/half seeing through walls) get stuck in one underwater passageway that leads nowhere. In fact anytime you’re near a wall, rock, plant the camera is smacking you in the head. Jump puzzles are mostly ‘hard’/no fun to do due to bad camera perspective.
Stop Flame Legion Ritualists before they summon an effigy (Soldier Mesh) – I killed 2 of 3 on my own…was on half health on the third when assisted by other 2 other players…got SILVER completion. I’m sure they got gold :P
I often play in the early hours of the morning so I don’t really expect to be able to complete a group de, however Fireheart Rise the battle of Bulch Crossing, Vidius Castrum wp – having protected the seige attackers previously apparently makes no difference – ridiculous respawn rate – kill the flame legion, destroy the flame turrets attack the gate and turrets and legions have already respawned again.
Another point directly from my post-it notes “Sev: Breach wp conteked protect from waved but none.” This one is obvious…the wine had already kicked in ^^. This game is leading me to drink.
Area ne/n of Vid Castrum wp plains worms have a 3/4 second respawn – with terrible minion AI (attack things 100 metres away) and 2 patrolling Fireguards and multiple (thank you golem) knockdowns from Wurms = dead. 1 silver to travel to nearest uncontested wp. Nearest wp ALWAYS contested as de broken (attacking waves on 7/8…no more arrive).
Track down and kill effigies in Amduat? Point with Grathzion – firstly he is a golem in disguise…he attacks anything except, of course, the effigies. He dies in 2 hits and if you kill effigy while he is down it isn’t credited on event. Also this area has horrible respawns (often instant – kill one it reappears or worse it reappears 2 seconds after you’ve started an attack on another…this is especially true near the vista with the smoke shamens and the embers. 1s 7c to return to wp 200m away.
So by now I was pretty fed up and leveled from 67/68 to 70 something by crafting. Ok I thought, I’ll be ok to continue in this area now, but actually I’m bored of all this I’ll continue my personal story.
Fixing the blame lvl 66 – Unguent Den – downlevelled to 62 against 68 mobs. Ok a challenge. Kite 3 ogres? from cave mouth they kill minions, pull to Asara warning signs (10ft.) and they run back to cave regenerating health return to finish you off 2 hits = dead again. Finally kill 3 outside cave – rush to cave upped to level 70 and 3 outside respawn ontop of 3 in cave…step outside cave downlevelled 62 = dead. 3 tries – a lvl 78 can’t reach a lvl 66 story = gave up and come here to moan
Where is this going? Nowhere really. I’m not saying I’m rage quitting, I’m not saying I don’t expect (a few) bugs. But sadly GW2 is not going to be the game I’ll spend hours on, nor one that I’ll recommend to anyone either.

Thats a shame to hear.

Hell of a wall of text to say that, but w/e. Sorry you’ve had that experience, as it sounds that otherwise, you’d be one of those staying for the long haul.

MadFlea.4596:

Where is this going? Nowhere really.

I reached the same conclusion.

I’d say check back in a month or 2 after they’ve had time to iron out the bugs.

@Methesda – I guess it was a bit of a vent ^^ A wall of text for a wall of problems on just an ordinary few nights’ playthrough.

@Gilandred – quotes not working but 22 days ago “Demeaning the opinions of others is, well, rather disrespectful. Take your own advice then.” ;-)

MadFlea.4596:

@Gilandred – quotes not working but 22 days ago “Demeaning the opinions of others is, well, rather disrespectful. Take your own advice then.” ;-)

I quoted and agreed with what you said. Sorry you find that disrespectful:)

Sorry you are having such trouble. Its very frustrating to find broken DEs, as I can also attest, but having spoken with the developers face to face, I can say that they seem pretty earnest about fixing things. I talked to a couple about the bugs and issues, and the general theme was it was working fine in internal testing, but for some reason launch hit them harder than they anticipated. I echo an earlier sentiment, give em a month or two to iron out bugs and try again. I think its just going to take the devs some time to adjust to the different scale and pace from GW1. I recall having some issues with the first game as well, but those got fixed early and I enjoyed the rest of my time.

Gilandred.9870:

MadFlea.4596:

@Gilandred – quotes not working but 22 days ago “Demeaning the opinions of others is, well, rather disrespectful. Take your own advice then.” ;-)

I quoted and agreed with what you said. Sorry you find that disrespectful:)

My apologies then. Looking at your posts you seem very pro GW2, therefore I assumed you were referring to my post going nowhere. Sorry! Never assume, MadFlea,never assume!

I think the quote was taken out of context Gil, could be interpreted both ways, pretty sad that we as human beings jump to the negative context when reading forums :P

I sympathise with you OP, I sincerely hope that given time ArenaNet will be able to address the many issues we encounter on a daily basis, personally I’ve taken a backseat to give the time to mature.

MadFlea.4596:

My apologies then. Looking at your posts you seem very pro GW2, therefore I assumed you were referring to my post going nowhere. Sorry! Never assume, MadFlea,never assume!

I actually wasn’t agreeing with your post, at least not the tone in which it was written. While I’m sure it’s frustrating to encounter bugs and whatnot, I don’t think it’s fair to call-out ANet as not caring and not working toward fixing them. The evidence is already there. Look at the patch notes; look at the developer tracker. Heck, it makes business sense to get these things fixed. They are making headway, and it’s just going to take some time. But no hard feelings; you were venting, and I was being sarcastic. Stick with it; it’ll get better:)

Or, to coutner with Gilandred said, DON’T stick with it.

Go play something else for a couple of months then come back to it… but leave before you get too angry, otherwise you’ll never have the desire to come back.

As there is no subscription fee, there is no hard feelings, and of course, you will probably find that if you get on a hi pop server now, that server will have stabalised ina couple of months, and you can still meet people out there.

I myself, am still messing around in the 1-15 areas, at level 28!

Actually I did the Unguent Den on my level Engineer back then and bit the bullet and dealt with overpowered trolls. Guess running a vit/toughness-intensive build paid off then. 2nd time on my Mesmer I noticed why the area is that way. The signs do serve a purpose as you travel your way down and go around to reach that area from the other side it becomes much clearer and easier.

There are bugged DEs and events but this isn’t one of them. I’ve had some rage-inducing incidents as well but if I gave up over them I’d not be playing games at all. Sometimes rage can be a form of entertainment as well especially if you look back and shake your head about what you went through to achieve this.

As for bug priorities. There’s a good link which will explain way things are sometimes not getting fixed even though they should. I’ve played MMOs which had the same bug in it for 4 years (incl. beta) before it got finally addressed.

MadFlea.4596:

The last week on GW2 has been one mostly of frustration due to broken DE’s, respawn rates, down levelling etc…all things which I believe Anet have been aware of since release, but have (seemingly) done little about.
During the beta when my students asked me what I was playing I would say “GW2!…it’s one to watch!” Now…I tell them it’s one to avoid. -snip-

I don’t know about you but I been telling all my student and teachers and friends and family, coworkers even illegal immigrant and aliens that GW2 the the is devil himself, it is the antichrist, its the end of the world, it is my coffee machine not working anymore.

They charge no subscription fee, which is a excuse for their lazy and negligent attitude towards the game fixing and development post-release.

Like others say, just check back in a few months when they realize there are no players buying gems and start working on the game.

From the various words I managed to pick out of that rambling bug report, I gather you, like many people, have noticed a few glitches in the otherwise epic dynamic events. That sure does suck, but here’s the good news; one day they might not be broke… maybe.

Huzzah!

And on that glorious day won’t you feel the fool for having moved onto another game that doesn’t cause you this irritation. You’ll have missed out on the opportunity to run these events over, and over, and over again. You won’t get your chance to come back to these forums and right a lengthy rant about how boring those events were. Oh I pity you my friend.

Side note, while I was writing that, I got confused and forgot which way I was pointing my sarcasm. So, yah, hope things work out for you, or not, who knows.

Cheers!