Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer this is a rant from my previous forum post. I hate posting here because I can’t be anonymous.

I want to know how long it will take for Anet to fix collection for Bifrost III?. Why not just delete it or just program it to say just beat shatterer?. Why is it so difficult for Anet to move away from RNG? to request that players don’t use blind on a shatterer event so that we the player who NEEDS the collection from 100 players attacking shatterer, knowing full well that he can be blinded, and it can only target 5 players to be crystalized. So let’s do the math on how bad this RNG is 5/100 times then factor that they don’t use any skill that involves blind within 7 minutes or their traits doesn’t randomly use it or their pets that randomly cause it.

It took me 18 hours to do coral farming to get 10 diodes required to get the painting collection. Over 500 harvesting ticks and the worst part is to find it underwater in level 50 maps added the fact that you can only harvest them once.

Overall I WAS enjoying the Bifrost Collection for the people who can just ignore the RNG congratulations you guys are saints. I went through this collection not because of cost (That doesn’t matter to me). The small little things like this makes the entire collection precursor collection faulty and not worth doing.

I just want to know how long will it take

i hope they fix it soon , this is enoying .. i was enjoying it till i hit the RNG wall again !

I am getting pretty close to collection 2 and I fear the last one. I really hope that ArenaNet will fix this soon. 1 – shatterer should not be able to get blinded + maybe cast more crystals, as five is really not much. 2 – fix this coral mindless farming. Increase the chance at least 10 times. Farming that thing for 18 hours is just unacceptable.

dont get me wrong , corals is hard and time consuming but it is ok because it is doable .. my problem is with stuff that cant be done .

Joe

Well, I know…shatterer…. I will just wake up before 5am and find empty map…it shouldn’t be a problem. I could find empty shatterers many times before HoT and was angry about it.

Mortifer.2946:

Well, I know…shatterer…. I will just wake up before 5am and find empty map…it shouldn’t be a problem. I could find empty shatterers many times before HoT and was angry about it.

You can also go late! I’m not sure of the time threshold for pre events starting… I have shown up 3-5 minutes after his scheduled time, and only about 12 of us showed up to the fight (yes, this was after megaserver implementation). Maybe you can get a party together to try to do this.

Mortifer.2946:

Well, I know…shatterer…. I will just wake up before 5am and find empty map…it shouldn’t be a problem. I could find empty shatterers many times before HoT and was angry about it.

Seriously everyone finds this solution okay?

Akyl.8647:

Mortifer.2946:

Well, I know…shatterer…. I will just wake up before 5am and find empty map…it shouldn’t be a problem. I could find empty shatterers many times before HoT and was angry about it.

Seriously everyone finds this solution okay?

Not even remotely ok….

Not OK At All !

I just wanted to add my support to this concern. I couldn’t care less for most of the complaints about cost for the precursor crafting, and time gating ascended materials etc. Up until the Shatterer part, the collection has been fun, and did its job: to be a non-RNG way to get the Legend. This one part is ridiculous and should really be seen as a bug, despite the reality just being an unfortunate combination of low probability conditions.

As is now, due to blind on Shatterer and the phenomenally low chance you get hit, it goes against the core of GW2 which is a game that wants to always encourage playing with others. This collection discourages that. If I could find an empty map and do it myself that would be great. There is a growing group of people trying to get crystallized yelling at everyone to stop blinding and then hanging around for 10-15 minutes after yet another failure to commiserate over how helpless we all feel. I did 4 Shatterer’s today and never even saw a single crystal freeze.

It might as well read: Find an instance of the map where there aren’t 40 mindless people blinding a boss that is already too easy and doesn’t even seem to cast the ability you need him to.

At the current rate, I might just farm shatterer every day until I make about 800-900g and buy the precursor that I was 800g invested in crafting before I get frozen.