Guild Wars 2

I didn’t like how it wasn’t instanced in the last Jubilee and I have to wait my turn.

I don’t understand what ANet has to gain from making players wait before they get to play.

And with megaservers the wait for the gauntlet will be way WAY longer.

By the time the Gauntlet ended last time, rewards were once-a-day. If it remains so, I don’t think you’ll have to worry about waiting to play after the first couple days.

I think the wait will be long because of the people trying to beat Liadri.

Even on release day the lines weren’t very long. I think after checking all the gauntlet areas the longest I had to wait was behind 2 people. This was on a full server.

The real problems with the gauntlet were:

1. The zerg below sometimes caused skill lag for players if you were unlucky (would be solved with instancing).

2. Camera was terrible especially for large charr/norn

3. Hard to see red circles on the floor, especially for colorblind players. This was mainly a problem for Liadri. Hopefully this will be solved with the simple solution of switching over to the Marrionete/Great Wurm red circles.

4. No waypoint up top. When you died you either needed to wait for a rez (which is hard because when you die the next person in line immediately starts his fight) or run all the way back from the bottom floor.

To be honest, I actually enjoyed it not being instanced more, so I could watch other’s fight and learn their strategy. I didn’t learn Liadri’s AoE pattern until I stood outside the ring and saw someone else fight her (this was before there were any guides).

I think we went through this last time and determined that the longest possible wait time was like 10-15 minutes?

10-15 mins is a VERY long time.
About 5 tries at Liadri per hour is horrendous.

Belzebu.3912:

10-15 mins is a VERY long time.
About 5 tries at Liadri per hour is horrendous.

It’s a long time if you’re just standing there doing nothing I suppose. I figured the whole point of the area down below was to kill time while you waited.

It might be a little late to adjust the code to make it instanced…at this point. Dunno.

Still, I could sort of be on board with this..