Be honest, for once, Anet. YOU, not us, YOU released code that set your players against each other. Your decision, not ours. Fixing it is… It isn’t “good”. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Just what is going on behind the scenes? Who is making the decisions? Why are they making those decisions?
Never attribute to malice what is easily explained by ignorance.
Not that I’m calling the devs stupid, but you seriously need to chill. The testing for these couldn’t happen in an actual play environment. There weren’t 200 real players lusting after a priestess’ death to compete with the need to have one wraith spawn half a map-area away. There isn’t a large contingent of devs trying to make an established event chain fail to farm champs while the testers are pushing it forward towards the one that gives the goodies they want. The mindset is not the same and never will be.
Now it IS the testers job to consider modes of failure, but often times it takes cultural intervention before some of them will come to light. Unfortunately, we’ve been down this road before. , so this possibility should have been seen coming. But think a little bit before you go accusing people of snickering into their sleeves as they purposefully set people into a rage.
Be honest, for once, Anet. YOU, not us, YOU released code that set your players against each other. Your decision, not ours. Fixing it is… It isn’t “good”. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Just what is going on behind the scenes? Who is making the decisions? Why are they making those decisions?
Never attribute to malice what is easily explained by ignorance.
Not that I’m calling the devs stupid, but you seriously need to chill. The testing for these couldn’t happen in an actual play environment. There weren’t 200 real players lusting after a priestess’ death to compete with the need to have one wraith spawn half a map-area away. There isn’t a large contingent of devs trying to make an established event chain fail to farm champs while the testers are pushing it forward towards the one that gives the goodies they want. The mindset is not the same and never will be.
Now it IS the testers job to consider modes of failure, but often times it takes cultural intervention before some of them will come to light. Unfortunately, we’ve been down this road before. , so this possibility should have been seen coming. But think a little bit before you go accusing people of snickering into their sleeves as they purposefully set people into a rage.
People are angry, Friend. I am angry. I have had to restrain myself from lashing out at some random new player, for just playing the game. I mean, it is really bad design, and yeah, sure it may simply be a matter of complete and utter ignorance that highlights ANets DIRE need to test things, or it could be by design, which highlights a whole different kettle of very stinky fish. Regardless, people are angry and that is not going to get solved by the usual PC sugar coated nonsense. They need to start owning up. They have lost the trust of many players, me being one, and regaining that will not be with more sugar and candy.
Supposedly they may be gathered from patches of mushrooms, but I’ve gathered every single type of fungi node, gathered at least 5 on every single map of the game, and still got not a single one.
Do you need something else other than the collection to make the drop available, like having the Egg of Darkness in your inventory?
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Astralaria 3 – The Mechanism collection is so buggy. I have been hit by the Matriarch’s fire countless times today with the capsule in my inventory and it just won’t work. The same with the one from the Mega Destroyer, I have done it and received the chest three times now and nothing… it is very frustrating.
Nevermore:
Power over siegemaster and Power over Barradin don’t seem to start
Friend of the owl spirit – the event is required to fail and never does apparently because of people doing the map or trolls. For some reason this is a very popular event nowadays.
Not a big thing, but still feels a bit underwhelming is warriors skill 5 with Astralaria, the effect from the axe is only inte center while the old whitish is all over it.
Here’s a print: http://imgur.com/1upOqK9
Dunno if you could do anything about it but maybe forward it to the designteam.
Other than that, I really, really love Astralaria, more satisfied with it than twilight and the journey to achieve it was actually good! Except the 14days timegate and to force people fail one event. But the evil me now wants other people go through the same thing if they want to have it >;D
HOPE T4: Risen Crystalline Phial (put down the wrong Phial involved, opps!)
Depends on the defend the temple lyssa event to fail and even if it does fail there is only a 50% (rumor) chance the Champion Wraith even spawns…Help!
HOPE T4: Mordrem-Influenced Crystalline Phial
Depends on the defend the temple lyssa event to fail and even if it does fail there is only a 50% (rumor) chance the Champion Wraith even spawns…Help!
this double, this event is the most frustrating thing i’ve ever come across in GW2
Nevermore:
Power over siegemaster and Power over Barradin don’t seem to start
Friend of the owl spirit – the event is required to fail and never does apparently because of people doing the map or trolls. For some reason this is a very popular event nowadays.
Did anyone do these events in Plains of Ashford this weekend? They never seeem to start.
Friend of the owl spirit has become the most frustrating thing I ever had to do in GW2.
Why wasn’t it fixed until now???
Nevermore:
Power over siegemaster and Power over Barradin don’t seem to start
Friend of the owl spirit – the event is required to fail and never does apparently because of people doing the map or trolls. For some reason this is a very popular event nowadays.
Did anyone do these events in Plains of Ashford this weekend? They never seeem to start.
Friend of the owl spirit has become the most frustrating thing I ever had to do in GW2.
Why wasn’t it fixed until now???
I completed the Siegemaster event last night. Haven’t done the Barridin chain yet.
Didn’t have a problem this weekend with Baridin or Siegemaster…pretty sure Owl Spirit was stealth patched late yesterday afternoon….the event did not fail and got my collection piece O_o
Tried til 4 in the morning to get this Risen Crystalline Phial from the Temple of Lyssa take over event…2 nights in a row (woooo weekend) and could not even try, tried reasoning with people on the map, only response was 2 toons showing up and demanding I give them !500 gold! or they would proceed to defend. I refused and they did, so I turned it off and went to sleep.
I’ve had the first collection for the Minstrel opened up since it was available….and harvested every mushroom in sight. Not a single indigo mushroom to be seen anywhere.
Didn’t have a problem this weekend with Baridin or Siegemaster…pretty sure Owl Spirit was stealth patched late yesterday afternoon….the event did not fail and got my collection piece O_o
Did the events in snowden drifts but i didn’t get the item for the collection.
Are you from Europe? At what time did you do the events for Baridin and Siegemaster?
I keep geting the message that baridin army was defeated and i dont have any dialog options with the npc.
There is a major problem with "Bolt II: The Perfected Sword" collection. I posted in the bug forums, sent in tickets, and yet its seems only to bother some people. At the last item in Bolt 2 there is a bug that when you ask the weapon master npc for the recipe for the "Balanced Sword Hilt" he gives you the recipe for "Weighted Sword Blade". This blocks progress and makes it impossible for Bolt 2 to get finished. After a serious investment in mats this is so annoying. On the bug report forums, I believe there was a few post about this already, but it would be great to fix, so i could continue this project.
I am currently working on Dusk collection tier 3. After pouring in a lot of mats, gold and time, I am missing only 1 thing from completing this pre: using the gloominator in Tequatl’s watery depths.
However due to the way the fight works at the moment, that mechanic never triggers (burn phases end too fast and he never spawns the whirlpools).
Astralaria IV has a collection item gated behind the failing of Defense of Arah in Cursed Shore. (I mean, I guess technically it’s somewhere in the ‘Assault the Gates of Arah’ chain, but that never happens seeing as it’s so easy to hold and defend.
Been sat here pretty much all day trying to reason with people so they let it fail just once, but to no success. Would be nice if the “Magnification Lens” would be available from another source, such as the Eye of Zhaitan in Zho-Qafa Catacombs in Straits.
Xandra – 80s in all classes – Ele/Guard mains – [TL] – NSP
Nice post but could you add the fact that Astralaria Vol 4 needs Defense on Gates of Arah to fail so in the retake we get 2 items one from the Eye and the Wizard. Either take out the defense event out of the game or make a workaround. It is my journey for the legendary, I shouldn’t rely of an entire map.
I want to echo this. I want to echo this so bad. I managed to find a map where Arah was contested and a small group managed to do the event without announcing. I rage quit so hard after that. I went off on a long tangent of how much I’ve spent on gems and how much time I put into the game and I can’t get the one item blocking about half the Gift of the Cosmos achievements.
Astralaria IV has a collection item gated behind the failing of Defense of Arah in Cursed Shore. (I mean, I guess technically it’s somewhere in the ‘Assault the Gates of Arah’ chain, but that never happens seeing as it’s so easy to hold and defend.
Been sat here pretty much all day trying to reason with people so they let it fail just once, but to no success. Would be nice if the “Magnification Lens” would be available from another source, such as the Eye of Zhaitan in Zho-Qafa Catacombs in Straits.
Also this. If it was the Zho-Qafa Eye of Zhaitan, it would be much easier and less rage inducing.
I’m also getting a good amount of frustration trying to get the Ley-Line Front Energy. It’s difficult now to complete Dragon’s Stand with the crash issues. I get kicked from my map in the middle of the events and can’t get back in.
Is/Has there been any thought as to changing this to where players don’t have to choose between doing a failed meta with 200% or joining a sucessful meta with 0%?
One more request to fix the Risen Crystalline Phial(HOPE IV). Just impossible to reason with ppl to wait for the defense event to spawn. Tried it numerous times now and it’s always the same. You tell them to wait, they ignore it, you tell them that there will be more loot if they wait, “no way” “spam 1 harer on the priestess”, tell them that they will still get the loot for the meta-event even if they wait, to no avail the priestess must die asap.
pls fix this, suggesting to make the phial drop from the priestess instead of the champion wraith.
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I see that the new content in HoT are to much time gate , the need of full map to complete the meta which involve time to organize the map and taxi people in , in short I quit play HoT because I don’t need another job when I come home , I miss the fluidity of events in the old Tyria and that’s what keep me playing GW2 …..not HoT but the old Tyria. The HoT events are nice but gets very boring after you played it for a month ……I can leave with that , but only thinking that I have to watch the clock constantly to see when the meta starts , taxi people in to get full map , organize groups …..I prefer go do other things.
Raid rewards : do you realize that raids have no rewards ?
Most of players go to raid already with ascended armor/weapon , than you collect 150tokes to buy a new piece of ascended gear ( with 4 stats ) to realize that the gear you get is the one you already have and have only 3 stats…..so what’s the point to do raids if you receive as reward items that you already have ?
Please change the meta events in HoT so every one can enjoy it without frustrations that cause toxicity between players …something more fluid without depending to much on other players.
Thank you in advance.
P.S Forgot to mention one very important issue : Invite to join more populated map.
THIS FEATURE DON’T WORK AT ALL , in fact I ALWAYS GET MOVED TO EMTPY MAP INSTEAD …so I stop using it……this should be fix ASAP.
Everyone keeps telling me that buying legendaries off the trading post is cheaper/better than crafting them via masteries. Is this true?
Yes ….remember that GW2 have a nice P2W system.
Just buy gold with gems and get your Legendary in no time ….by the way …..there’s nothing challenging on collecting 1000 piece of that , 500 of this and so on.
So if you don’t have time to waste on running around collecting mats …..trading post is the way to go
No collectible should be gated behind failed events, or mechanics that make you upset that another player is playing a specific way.
The third collection for Dusk requires the defense event in the Cathedral of Silence in Cursed Shore to fail (for Grenth’s Darkness). It upsets me a lot, since Cursed Shore is an area where lots of other players farm events, so people ALWAYS do the defend event.
It is even more upsetting that the same problem with a different temple in Orr was in the first collection!
i don’t know if unbound belongs to this topic, but my problem is my unbound does not move and float, i saws someone’s are moving and floating, so quite frustrated….
There is a major problem with “Bolt II: The Perfected Sword” collection. I posted in the bug forums, sent in tickets, and yet its seems only to bother some people. At the last item in Bolt 2 there is a bug that when you ask the weapon master npc for the recipe for the “Balanced Sword Hilt” he gives you the recipe for “Weighted Sword Blade”. This blocks progress and makes it impossible for Bolt 2 to get finished. After a serious investment in mats this is so annoying. On the bug report forums, I believe there was a few post about this already, but it would be great to fix, so i could continue this project.
21 days and still bugged, i guess i didn’t expect much, see image and tell me why some have this problem and others don’t and why you cant make an adjustment to let us all finish and get to the next set of bugs…
No collectible should be gated behind failed events, or mechanics that make you upset that another player is playing a specific way.
The third collection for Dusk requires the defense event in the Cathedral of Silence in Cursed Shore to fail (for Grenth’s Darkness). It upsets me a lot, since Cursed Shore is an area where lots of other players farm events, so people ALWAYS do the defend event.
It is even more upsetting that the same problem with a different temple in Orr was in the first collection!
Anet said somewhere this will change. So you can get credit just for defending, the update will happen sometime this year.
for me the achievement that is blocking me is Aerated Ooze from Juggernaut III. That’s the last one I need now. :-( Falling for much longer than 10 secs doesn’t give me the achievement (chromatic ooze was applied, glider not opened, doesn’t matter whether dying at the end or surviving by dipping into water).
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