Guild Wars 2

Anet Unleashed this patch like a plague on an unsuspecting populace. It is rife with socially-rebuked changes to dailies, bugs, and random client disconnects. Let’s take a look at what we know:

DAILIES

• Nice that they change, not that they force grouping—see note on ally combos
• The Evade daily on the rotation is a handy thing to keep in the rotation; it teaches discipline and helps hone reflexes in this game’s combat design. Smart pass.
• Ally Combos are covered by an Achievement called “Teamwork Gets it Done,” so outside of being a Monthly, something like that has no place in a Daily. Players don’t always want to group, and that gates dailies, which should be geared toward the average nine-to-fiver with a life and a houseful of mouths to feed.
• Crafting, as a daily, is a pointless, grindy duty that’s irrelevant to a trailblazing level 80 completing the map. Gathering, on the other hand, is something that impacts your whole account, and is ideal for a daily.
• Why are underwater kills needed for dailies? That’s gating, and forces players to seek out a specific region in which to dole out their combat prowess, rather than simply play the game normally. Kill variety or not, sometimes you simply “happen upon a lake” that satisfies that need. Don’t force it.

BUGS

• ALLY COMBOS are clearly broken. I do believe this has been addressed by ColinJohanson, already, but do not let an effort to fix this renew an urge to stick it back into the weekly rotation. It does not belong in a daily.
• Dodging is a little hit and miss, now. This is either from lag or a client hiccup; sometimes a knockdown blow will still hit and throw you to the floor, despite seeing “Evade” pop up over your character. Still, may be lag.
• by Kumu Honua.2751 There are fractal zoning issues that are preventing players from joining; when they do join, they zone in dead.

There are more, I’m sure, so they’ll be added as they’re reported, thanks!

DISCONNECTS

• As the emboldened subject heralds, there are some unusual disconnects happening, tonight, particularly on the Tarnished Coast. They make no fanfare of stalled skills or jogging in place—the game simply disconnects you to the character select screen.
• Following a reconnect to the game, some of the content is rolled back a few steps. It was noted by a few peers that their Renown Hearts had rolled back a few steps, or even had their completed Renown Hearts undone by 10% or so.

So that’s what is on the table, so far. The disconnect issue is clearly a gamebreaking issue that sets players back a few notches, and needs to be addressed, first. Colin clearly addressed the combo problem by taking it out of the rotation, but consider the notes above. I play this game to play with friends, but sometimes that’s not always possible. I lead a demanding professional life, and I don’t always have time to group, but I was always able to squeeze time in for those old dailies. Don’t fix it if it isn’t broken. The rotation is nice, but don’t force “grindy” activities. Reward diversity, but don’t force us into a cage. Reward teamwork (see events), but don’t force grouping for the sake of a skill best honed as a larger group, rather than a pairing.

I imagine people will be using this advantageously to try their luck at forging items and/or opening boxes in hopes of a rollback in case they get unlucky. This needs to be fixed ASAP.

Fractals are totally fubar too. Many times people don’t join in the fractal, or when they do afterwards. They enter the fractal dead and need to be rezzed.

If you have Lava from the shaman and wipe. It lasts for an HOUR and cannot be removed meaning you die over and over and over. Only option is to reset via lab or 4/3/2/1 man it at that point.

That last part was rather funny.

Kumu Honua.2751:

Fractals are totally fubar too. Many times people don’t join in the fractal, or when they do afterwards. They enter the fractal dead and need to be rezzed.

If you have Lava from the shaman and wipe. It lasts for an HOUR and cannot be removed meaning you die over and over and over. Only option is to reset via lab or 4/3/2/1 man it at that point.

That last part was rather funny.

Good info. Will add it to the list, thanks.

I can’t believe the quality control is so bad at ANet that every single patch has so many bugs, many of which never truly get fixed.

You don’t actually know what ‘gating’ means do you?

Wasselin.1235:

I can’t believe the quality control is so bad at ANet that every single patch has so many bugs, many of which never truly get fixed.

Notice also that the game’s economy is so badly inflated that Abyss dye is now going for 22G+?

Jarek don’t forget all those things you mentioned were made worse by the fact players in Europe etc were only given a few hours to do these slightly new dailies, some after having completed their dailies already. This was a fail for many of us because of slow updates, disconnects, mini roll backs, not having time to prepare for said dailies so we missed the complete daily.

Why couldn’t they tell us before the update this new daily would suddenly kick in and in this manner and what it would be so we could prepare as time was so so short for some of us and because updates are known to be almost always problematic?

PLUS the dailies do NOT encourage players moving about more zones making them better populated for group events and I’m sure I’m not the only person annoyed at that.

JarekCyphus.7068:

Wasselin.1235:

I can’t believe the quality control is so bad at ANet that every single patch has so many bugs, many of which never truly get fixed.

Notice also that the game’s economy is so badly inflated that Abyss dye is now going for 22G+?

How the hell is that justifiable?

JarekCyphus.7068:

ALLY COMBOS are clearly broken. I do believe this has been addressed by ColinJohanson, already, but do not let an effort to fix this renew an urge to stick it back into the weekly rotation. It does not belong in a daily.

Hey genius, have a Engineer fire a flamethrower at your feet while you fire a projectile…

Burning shot.
OMKG a Combo…

YOU’RE WELCOME

Soulstar.7812:

JarekCyphus.7068:

ALLY COMBOS are clearly broken. I do believe this has been addressed by ColinJohanson, already, but do not let an effort to fix this renew an urge to stick it back into the weekly rotation. It does not belong in a daily.

Hey genius, have a Engineer fire a flamethrower at your feet while you fire a projectile…

Burning shot.
OMKG a Combo…

YOU’RE WELCOME

HEY GENIUS! It’s Broken.

YOU’RE Welcome! Do us a favor next time and post something actually constructive.

haha the disconnects have made my work on the daily’s a joke too, what next?

Soulstar.7812:

JarekCyphus.7068:

ALLY COMBOS are clearly broken. I do believe this has been addressed by ColinJohanson, already, but do not let an effort to fix this renew an urge to stick it back into the weekly rotation. It does not belong in a daily.

Hey genius, have a Engineer fire a flamethrower at your feet while you fire a projectile…

Burning shot.
OMKG a Combo…

YOU’RE WELCOME

Wow dude, wow… /epicfacepalmofthegods

Scar Rufo.7935:

haha the disconnects have made my work on the daily’s a joke too, what next?

I actually consider myself lucky that there was enough time between needing only the 5 events and the first DC of the night to not roll back that progress. I think I’ll just wait for things to settle down and try to finish them, later. Annoyed that my Renown Heart got undone, though.

JarekCyphus.7068:

BUGS

DISCONNECTS

• As the emboldened subject heralds, there are some unusual disconnects happening, tonight, particularly on the Tarnished Coast. They make no fanfare of stalled skills or jogging in place—the game simply disconnects you to the character select screen.
• Following a reconnect to the game, some of the content is rolled back a few steps. It was noted by a few peers that their Renown Hearts had rolled back a few steps, or even had their completed Renown Hearts undone by 10% or so.

I can confirm that. In the midde of an event fight (Straits of Devastation): DC to the character screen and after logging back, the event wasn’t there! (logging back was within approx. 10-15 seconds)

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Uncontested waypoints have been added to Cursed Shore and Straits of Devastation. Players that have already achieved map completion will retain it without having to discover these new waypoints.

Not true, one have to discover this waypoints (go there and discover it). Oherwise the map completion show only 98%.

Grent: “Added several new abilities to the Champion Risen Priest of Grenth.”.
Grent is only a joke (a bad one!), right? Have you ever tested what you have done with Grenth?

new Orrian Jewelry Box has been added to karma vendors across Orr
You seriouse??? You put trash item (Unidentifiable objec [trophy, soulbound] sell to the vendor for 2s/each) into a 4550 Krama-box!?! If you are going to make a lottery, you should announce it as LOTTERY!

Special Events: Pumpkin Carving is on 0

Heavy Crafting Bag (better we call it: heavy crafting bug) for T6 mats:
Three pice of T6 as revard for one laurel for THIS new kind of completion of the daily achievement? The news: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013 was talking about “Rewards” and not bad jokes. Really upsetting!