Guild Wars 2

I want to give a shout-out for the live support team… you guys did an excellent job of quickly addressing the bug with the bloom drops. Go you!

Then I’d like to shout in a different way entirely at the people who designed the event. There are so few interactables per event that the only way most folks get any participation credit is by hitting things, and any decent zerg is burning the mobs way too fast for that to be dependable. There aren’t really any mechanics to speak of for the other people to handle(other than the plant’s personal space issues), so it just turns into a massive tag scramble. Add in the fact that you’re not incentivized to see the events to completion and it’s just punishing people for not being selfish jerks who tag and ditch.

It’s un-fun and lazy, but I could ultimately put up with that… I routinely do the Shatterer fight for loot, after all. What really rubs salt in the wound is making an honest attempt to participate and finding that it interacts badly with the mac client crashiness which is exascerbated by busy zergs and which we haven’t heard anything about in about a year , which costs me my buff stack when it rears its ugly head. Guys, you CAN make buffs that persist through a discon. You’ve done it before. This just punishes people for events outside their control (and also Mac players), and that’s just silly.

This event is causing enough kittens on the forums to make Bob Barker cry, and frankly, the people responsible for implementing this clusterkerfluffle deserve every one. I remember the previous invasion events (very cool), and I really wanted the one leading up to the first expansion to be fun.

I really enjoy the game, and assuming this kind of frustration isn’t the norm going forward, I hope to have a lot of fun in the Jungle. Silence is implicit support, though, and I was too frustrated by this not to speak up. So whoever’s fault this is… (points at metaphorical stain on the carpet) Bad designer. Bad. See what you did wrong, and please don’t do it again.

And to anyone else with a Mac, well, good luck I guess. Maybe some day it’ll get out of beta.

Later edit: Extra bonus for the crashy/Mac crowd, if you discon at any point during one of the invasions, you don’t get blooms at the end of it even if you got a stack built up after. Did three invasions… two were before the fix, one after. No blooms yet.

mac client probably always be beta. I think they just make beta client as cheap way to get mac customer to buy then do not care. I solve this problem some time ago by boot camp Windows 7. I use it only to play GW2. So much better. Like a new game. I give up on broken bug beta mac client. It is junk because cider port and no support from arena net.

It’s basically the Scarlet Invasions except:

- Your map can’t fail. Aka, there is zero illusion of challenge.

- None of these events are any fun. At any given one, you’ll spend most of your time waiting around for the plant to die/become vulnerable.

- You LOSE gold while participating in them, thanks to waypoint costs, gold costs on the bloom “rewards”, and a baffling lack of loot, karma, or event gold.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

It’s basically the Scarlet Invasions except:

- You LOSE gold while participating in them, thanks to waypoint costs, gold costs on the bloom “rewards”, and a baffling lack of loot, karma, or event gold.

Good point, forgot that one. New/poor players need not apply, I guess.

Did 25 min of Kessex events, got DCed, and ofc lost all my stacks and ended up with nothing… I give up on this farce. And I don’t even use a Mac…

The entire event felt like trying to get event participation in the Thaumanova Reactor Fire Elemental pre-event. You maybe hit a mob once and then it’s dead and you didn’t tag it. Then you have to hork it half way across the map to have the exact same thing happen again.

Just… Why? Who thought this was a good idea?

Extra bonus for the crashy/Mac crowd, if you discon at any point during one of the invasions, you don’t get blooms at the end of it even if you got a stack built up after. Did three invasions… two were before the fix, one after. No blooms yet.