Guild Wars 2

This is a rant. TL:DR; Anet makes seriously s**tty design decisions with regards to crafting preqs.

After hours and hours of grinding and hundreds of gold spent, i finally get to the last two pieces of dusk t3 crafting, and as soon as i get them i have everything i need to craft twilight.

But anet decides it’s a good idea to lock the last 2 collection pieces i need behind events. Spent over 6 hours at Temple of Grenth today until i convinced a map to let defense event fail so i could get the chain of events that leads to the portals i needed. Annoying as hell, but whatever, it’s just 1 piece, right? All i need is Teq and im done, Yay!

Get to teq to find out that he doesnt spawn whirlpools if you burn him fast. So… I can’t get what ive worked my a** off for because we do an event WELL?? I have to beg the map to burn slow, or find on overflow map that takes him to 75%, but NOT TOO FAST, before i can get sucked into a god d**ned whirlpool (dont give me the "he always does it at 75% crap, cause ive done him 3 times today, and had multiple friends watching with me, and not a single f***ing pool was spawned)? WTF anet??? Could have had twilight TODAY if anet had made some common sense design decisions.

EDIT: Seriously though, they need to fix this. Nothing is more disappointing in an MMO than working your a** off for months to get something only to find that you cant get it because the devs blocked it behind stupid conditions that are more punitive than they are logical. Make whirlpools spawn at EVERY stage of burning teq, Make portals at grenth spawn during defense AND attacking the temple. How f***ing hard is that??!!

Okey three things
I agree its not the best that certain events must fail to get the right thing done.
BUT
For the first event, if you log on after after a patch update all maps are reset. Sooo there is nothing to defend and therefore you can get your event. What I did when I needed a similar event done.
For teq, try getting on a map not full. Log off when started and back on, prob getting on different server with fewer ppl. Then easy to get it slow to 75%.

The more you know

Valentine.4286:

Okey three things
I agree its not the best that certain events must fail to get the right thing done.
BUT
For the first event, if you log on after after a patch update all maps are reset. Sooo there is nothing to defend and therefore you can get your event. What I did when I needed a similar event done.
For teq, try getting on a map not full. Log off when started and back on, prob getting on different server with fewer ppl. Then easy to get it slow to 75%.

The more you know

i didnt know that patch thing, but even that is problematic. Who knows when the next patch will hit, so instead of getting my legendary when i have everything ready and good to go, i have to hang around a map for 6 hours OR pray that a patch hits?

As for teq, i tried that too, and it just sent me into a map with 0 people and 1 minute left on the timer and 0 dmg on teq. so no whirlpools there either.

When you work as hard as you have to to get a leg in this game, and only spend 10 bucks here and there to speed it up a little bit (bought a few deldrimor ingots for t2 steps) you shouldnt have to depend on random conditions and praying that things go wrong. You should be rewarded with the thing you worked for, ESPECIALLY if youre not getting what you need cause youre doing an event TOO WELL. like….. wut?

None of this is directed at you btw, just my thoughts on the matter.

+ they have said they are looking into the events that require another event to fail first for precursor crafting.
We dont know if these devs looking into it are the same ones that are moved to living story team and are not looking into it anymore tho.

Linken.6345:

+ they have said they are looking into the events that require another event to fail first for precursor crafting.
We dont know if these devs looking into it are the same ones that are moved to living story team and are not looking into it anymore tho.

hopefully theyre looking into events like Teq too, since it doesnt have to fail, it just cant be done so…. well. which is just as f***ing stupid.

Valentine.4286:

Okey three things
I agree its not the best that certain events must fail to get the right thing done.
BUT
For the first event, if you log on after after a patch update all maps are reset. Sooo there is nothing to defend and therefore you can get your event. What I did when I needed a similar event done.
For teq, try getting on a map not full. Log off when started and back on, prob getting on different server with fewer ppl. Then easy to get it slow to 75%.

The more you know

That’s good advice if you can be at home when the patch hits. For everyone in Europe the patch is usually mid-afternoon on a Tuesday, when most people are at work.

So making sure you’re in the map just after the patch would require taking a day off, which seems a bit much just for one part of a collection for a cosmetic item in a game.

regarding the whirlpools.
do you mean those that suck you down to get the “treasure”?
If yes: they also spawn on a “fast” Tequ, you just don’t see them properly.
Stand close to one of the bone whips (I did use the landside ones close to the water opposite the turrets) always before the defence event start (even the first) and look out closely for one, it usually spawns right at the foot of it.
You don’t see them very well from all the clutter.
I was going crazy trying to get the achievment until someone told me.

The whirlpools do open on fast teq – As soon as he hits 75% and the phase starts to change, a few whirlpools open up. I’ve been sucked down five or six times so far since starting last month (And stopping with SAB’s release)

Nadha.6097:

regarding the whirlpools.
do you mean those that suck you down to get the “treasure”?
If yes: they also spawn on a “fast” Tequ, you just don’t see them properly.
Stand close to one of the bone whips (I did use the landside ones close to the water opposite the turrets) always before the defence event start (even the first) and look out closely for one, it usually spawns right at the foot of it.
You don’t see them very well from all the clutter.
I was going crazy trying to get the achievment until someone told me.

So stand near a bone whip close to shore near the turrets?