Guild Wars 2

Canach works now on Emry Bay. Only Problem is, that without Noll he is not giving anything. So I understand this is fixed and thank you for that, but a lot of people can’t go any further without Noll being fixed first.

Could you look into this as soon as possible. Not only does it seems to get out of hand in general chat but how do you think all the new players will experience GW2 being broken.

Come on Anet you guys can do it! Just use the force.

shaktiboi.5194:

eightbitnerdy.2905:

Canach is attackable on Maguuma but does not give a post quest update or mail.

This. Canach is still BROKEN

Turns out you can’t do anything with Canach until you do Noll’s event, which of course is bugged. So you can attack Canach, but the next step can’t happen unless you have finished Noll’s step.

Gilgamesh.2310:

shaktiboi.5194:

eightbitnerdy.2905:

Canach is attackable on Maguuma but does not give a post quest update or mail.

This. Canach is still BROKEN

Turns out you can’t do anything with Canach until you do Noll’s event, which of course is bugged. So you can attack Canach, but the next step can’t happen unless you have finished Noll’s step.

After u’ve attacked Canach, you gotta talk with him again to get the mail. If you didn’t already know that.

Yeas Fahd is broken on Stormbluff as well. He is just sitting there on the event to get rid of the Krait patrols.

Do you still get kittened over if you disconnect from Fractals of the Mist?

Yeah……we’re going to have to move Anet down to the supply room in the basement room B, and no, you don’t get to keep the stapler.

about Canach, I’m a support guardian (lvl 80 Asura) and I do only 100-300 dmg in that area. I tried to get the mail 9 times allready but still didn’t got it only gold medals. A friend came and he gets it in one try. but he does have 3k dmg in that area. I hope it will be fixed asap because now im not able to do the event and the event is a (big) part from the Lost Shores event. Please answer I want to be sure if I’ll be able to finish it or not.

-Thanks for your time- Desolation -

Boreas The North.1892:

Well this seems like nothing but a whine post, so I guess I will throw in my two cents.
Thank you ALL Anet employees! I can’t even begin to imagine how tough it must be to activate and event right in the middle of LA and simultaneously trigger npcs/events appearing all over the world. I think its really cool and brings a new level of immersion to Tyria. I LOVE the “catch you offguard” cinematics, please keep them coming for all the holidays and new content! I’d also like to thank you for trying your best to do damage control while working under such a tight deadline. I can’t honestly say I ENJOY the idea of “one time events”, puts a lot of pressure on folks to show up or miss out on something REALLY cool like the Karka invasion. I know that my buddy is gonna be heartbroken when I tell him what he missed, but he had work at that time. Just keep up the really good work, you guys are doing and incredible job of making us a part of how the world we love to play in grows and evolves.

I am not against having new content and even one time events. What I think they should learn from is all their previous events. Such as during the end of the beta weekend events and all other dynamic events such as orr where it becomes senseless AOE by the masses and most people cannot even see the foes they are fighting. Having everyone bunched up in the city for the event was bound to have this occur.

Having people AOE or swing a sword mindlessly without seeing the foes you are fighting isn’t in the least fun. It’s pointless.

I am expressing my viewpoint in hopes they will actually LEARN from this and make BETTER content. It’s called constructive criticism. Praising poor implementation simply encourages more poor implementation.

Drunken Mad King.8193:

I am expressing my viewpoint in hopes they will actually LEARN from this and make BETTER content. It’s called constructive criticism. Praising poor implementation simply encourages more poor implementation.

They haven’t seemed to learn so far and they shouldn’t have to learn in the 1st place. This is an establish company.
Well here’s to hoping, I suppose.
Not expecting much at this point.

Could you please just mail us the updates at this point. Some are getting updated with Canach and some not. I’ve fought him several times and no mail. No update.

Many were here and could have completed the quests yesterday or last night but had to give up. It isn’t fun trying to figure out how to get a quest to update or moving from broken one to broken one hoping that you will get an update this time. This if for the ones other than Noll. I know Noll is still broken and I’m not even trying him.

Hey Arena, love your game, played 400+ hours.

But this is the worst executed live event I’ve ever seen in any MMO so far. Sorry, but it’s just not good enough

I am certain that you will improve in the future.

Thanks

If it hasn’t been mentioned yet just wanted to mention that Pastkeeper Saballa is currently still bugged. The event starts to rescue her but her path is out of whack and she just gets stuck on a cage and thus event can not be completed at this time.

I managed about 2 minutes of killing mobs at the lighthouse before the crashes started. I managed to collect (and eventually hand in) about 8 pieces of the event items that were needed, but then I got DCd a few times and when I got back in the event was over and I had no reward, no recognition, nada. Any way to find out how many people this happened to and back-compensate them? All good and well apologising (and thanks for that), but I cancelled an evening out to attend this event and got all of nothing for it.

I appreciate your hard work for this event and trying to fix what is broken, but this all became too much of a headache to follow imo. A good game for me is a game that doesn’t need me to check forums at all. Preferably I don’t have to plan my agenda for the game either. (I know, it is a very high treshold). And then having to follow updated guidelines to not mess up some one time event achievement is not that fun to me.

But I hope that this again will prove to be a good test for upcoming events.

Noll still bugged in Caledon. Unable to interact with him.
Missed the first event due to it being 6am in Aus.
Given the pages of bugs, the bad timing for many players it would seem reasonable to expect changes to the way these ‘One time events’ are run.
So that all can enjoy and participate a suggestion would be to make them ‘One time weekly events occuring every few hours or a couple of times a day. Please consider this option as the way it’s going, these events are just a cause of frustration and will turn people off the game. Many friends and myself did not even bother participating in the Halloween events because of timing issues being overseas, and by the time l did start the scavenger hunt at least on one lvl80 to get a backpack upgrade from the starter level one, the patch to remove content was applied.

Could join the bandwagon and go on a tirade of all the bs taking place, but I think Anet gets the jist of how frustrating and fail this has been for so many. Just glad I didnt put RL on hold for this event. Have yet to participate in any one time event that was a success or a joy to be part of.

I’m so tired of all this complaining. Anet is working on a living, breathing world. That in its self is difficult. There my be a few bugs, you may have lagged during the event, but give them credit for what they are trying to do. This is the first time this type of thing has been attempted. The game is still new. You can’t expect everything to be perfect. You need to give it time. I for one had so much fun with Fractals of the Mists. Me and some guildies played that for 4 hours, and we got to difficulty 5. To me that’s the way dungeons should be. Whens the last time you played a game and didn’t have to pay for a new area? Or new armor? Shut up with all the nonsense or go back to playing WoW. Stop ruining my experience. Good job Anet, keep up the good work. You guys are freaking awesome!

I appreciate you guys are trying to fix the problems. I hope the next events will run a little more smoothly.

Is there a chance you could just, idk, in-game mail everyone the map piece Noll is supposed to give us? So that we could continue on in the event?

kanebrandyn.9321:

I for one had so much fun with Fractals of the Mists. Me and some guildies played that for 4 hours, and we got to difficulty 5.

Lucky you. Some of us can even get to the dungeon.

I just wanted to say thanks to the Anet team for working hard to fix the bugs with the update. I realize people are frustrated. I took 1/2 a day off of work, and was barely able to do anything with that time. But the programmers are people, not robots. They’ve been working round the clock to get this event out and while the bugs are frustrating, they are happening because a HUGE amount of people love this game and are wanting to play. To me that’s a good sign! If events are this popular, it probably means even more events and updates to come. For a free to play game to be this epic and gorgeous is amazing. To have free updates and free content added? Very awesome.

Thanks Anet for a great game! Now I’m off to find Noll.

P.S. I am really really glad to not have to hear the “Citizens of Tyria” speech. That bothered me more than the rest of the bugs combined.

Ok Fahd isn’t bugged he just doesnt tell you you get a shell. Its in your inventory,.

How bout next event you do something really complicated. Like maybe have it be something we find by accident out in the world exploring.

Sorry Anet, but your game lacks environmental depth out in the world, things that make each area unique enough to revisit it on occasion. These broken “lionsarch” stay at home events aren’t the way to go. In fact, they are more annoying and confusing than fun.

THANK YOU A-NET! I love that you are going to give us all this new content every month, in a fun and interesting way. Its amazing, awesome, wonderful. That said everything is still bugged on my server, and it’s frustrating, and the one time event would maybe be better as a one day event that repeats a couple of times? I was there for it, but just the end since it started at the exact time i needed to leave to get my kid at school. If it was still a one day event it would be unique but give more people the opportunity to experience it. And I think the scavenger hunt type quest lines are great, but better instanced, like some people said. As for the new dungeon, I love it! The idea behind is so fresh! But I know me and other guildies kept experiencing Serious GW2 errors and would be kicked out and forced to start again. I feel like there should be a certain amount of time before you reset a dungeon on people. DC’s, errors, ect happen.

6 hours have passed but no bug fix.

When???

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

We’re very sorry about this and hope that you can continue to experience The Lost Shores and help us retake Lion’s Arch and repel the Karkas!

I’m sorry too. After trying to run bugged content yesterday and AGAIN after this “fix”, I’ve decided I’m not going to even try again. There are so many things wrong with the implementation of this “event”, I’ll not even attempt to articulate them all. And you’ve put a time limit on players to try and complete something that your game is preventing?

Just sad.

Enjoy your weekend event. I hope it’s fun for you.

Noll is down on Sea of Sorrows, many players standing around him confused, apparently a Player broke him on purpose (how?) …

Sent in a bug report, this hasn’t been the best experience in a mmo i’ve had, pretty broken event all round, sorry..

I got the largos reward even though he was bugged. I really don’t know how exactly, I found the karka shell in my inventory when I went to merch the drops I had from the lake. He was stuck in his "let go kill some krait" mode. I talked to him but nothing changed, I then interacted with his chest and got some dialogue about finding the owner. I talked to him again and got the same speech from earlier. I thought I’d go and see how Noll was doing instead of just waiting around but go and empty my bags at the vendor first and thats when I found it. I hadn’t even noticed acquiring it! Took it to the lionguard and got my 5 commendations (but no karma). Don’t know if that helps anyone but hope so.

A bit off topic. After reading update notes, ascended weapons are now in the game? If so, why does the trader not have an Ascended search option? Is this an oversight or is the Ascended items currently in game account bound/bop?

I’m thinking that this event coinciding with a ‘free trial weekend’ may have been a bad idea – I know this sure as heck wouldn’t have won me over.

How are all you players even playing? I get connection error every 1-2 mins. Can’t play at all. I don’t under stand how people have been trying this event for hours yet I can’t stay connected. (I’m on sorrows). I’ve never had connection issues before this event. Is there something I can do on my end to help with this connection issue?

Is it too much to ask for content that’s been thoroughly tested?

I mean, bugs in the repeat-ability of a step in a quest chain are inexcusable. Canach is sill broken after this “patch”, and asking me to wait until Phase 2 starts to complete Phase 1? Come on. It’s embarrassing, really, and on a weekend when you’re trying to increase your player base through free trials.

If you can’t handle the demands of your content update schedule then hire more developers or change your goals to be more attainable.

I think I’m going to play something else.

Canache not working as of this point on Borlis Pass. SOME people get the reward but very few

Just a suggestion for Noll, have him despawn 1 minute after the event is completed, then have it start again 1 minute after that, so people that aren’t getting lucky for kill credit won’t have to wait hours on end.

Pastkeeper Saballa can’t move, pls fix it.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

We’ve identified the fix for Noll’s event but this fix will require additional time to implement. Because of this we’re going to leave the Phase 1 dynamic events (investigation of the Karka attacks) open even after Phase 2 starts (Saturday November 17 at 12pm Pacific Time), which will allow us to push a fix for Noll’s dynamic event later so that players can complete phase 1 of The Lost Shores event.

I really hope this applies to ALL of phase 1 and not just the chain with Noll. Because I’ve specifically made time to play this event even though I normally can’t on weekends, but said time starts right at 1pm my time (which is noon PST, launch time) and I will be very disappointed if I can’t complete the other scavenger hunt with the underwater races just because they were bugged past the time when I logged off last night.

fahd still broken on seafarer’s rest. he’s started the krait patrols event but isn’t moving from his usual spot, so cannot progress.

it seems like poorly executed events will be a mainstay on GW2. the ideas are great but i think the coders and testers should be fired. and surely they should have learnt their lesson from the mad king events that there’ll be LOADS of people on to overload the servers.

to those who complain about us complaining, saying we should be grateful and all: yes, we should be grateful that the devs are trying to make this game fun, but that was in their “manifesto” and most (if not all) of us bought (i.e. paid precious money on) the game on the premise that the game would be fun. lagging with a 30 second delay and buggy NPCs don’t make the game fun. the couple of hours i spent trying to do the questline could have been better used playing dungeons with my guildies or exploring the bits i haven’t explored.

please Anet, be realistic and prepare better for christmas, etc. repeated apologies and quick fixes don’t go far in helping your reputation.

Guess I should go back to ps3. U guys really should fully test everythg before launch. Halloween were this bad as wel

Fahd on Tarnished Coast appears to be broken again. He’s just sitting there and no krait patrols are spawning.

And one-time events are still a good idea?

BearKit.9457:

Pastkeeper Saballa can’t move, pls fix it.

Having this problem on Emhry Bay as well. I got the Potion and Shell. I can’t get the Scroll because she won’t move very far from the cage (after doing her little ADHD swim first).

I’m trying to get everyone in the area to just let her die to see if that fixes her (or at least gives some of us a ‘little’ satisfaction). So far no takers.

I’m enjoying things, even bugged. I don’t expect perfection in anything and certainly don’t feel entitled to it.

For those of you complaining about Canach, you need to talk to him after he yields, then look at your mailbox. Remember that you might have to wait 5 minutes for him to activate if he was just defeated. For Fahd, once he is beaten and gives his little speech, loot the chest. I didn’t see any need for Krait patrols, though I might have missed them in some spam effects. For both of them, make sure you “tag” him. Unload a ranged weapon in his face a lot!

Tarnished Coast, 11 am EST, both were completable.

• To complete Phase 1, you have to complete the dynamic event chain leading to Noll before Saturday November 17 at 12pm Pacific Time

Kindly note that some people like me were notified yesterday that the event chains were bugged, and did not even try to do them — I just played around in the Fractals of the Mists waiting to be notified that a fix was made..

I’m not going to be able to get on-game today until after the deadline for the first two chains, so my question to you is — do you care if anyone has a chance to participate in the content you worked on?

I understand that bugs are unavoidable, but if you’re going to have such an aggressive schedule for real-time world events, I think more testing was warranted. Either that, or, you should have spread the event out over a week so you had time to fix issues as they came up.

I guess my expectations were too high because of the superb quality of your Halloween event — I’m disappointed in Lost Shores event and at this point don’t really care if I see any of the limited content at all because of the poor execution of days 1 and 2.

That said, Fractals is pretty awesome.

For what it’s worth, Sabala is working on Emhry Bay on the ‘overflow’. At least as of the time of this posting.

Well, I really wish I was home to finish the first event, along with the others, but I had the time to play the new dungeon…and

It was AWESOME!

I will have to wait for Sunday to play the next event and new zone, which is a bummer.

Aside from the lag, time required for the dungeon to actually open, and other bugs(most which I did not encounter), I’d like to say thanks to A-Net for doing this:
It is a learning experience for everyone…and the new content is great.

Fahd is NOT fixed! Tried on 2 different worlds.

Fahd al’Eshadhi is still broke.

Citizens!

Citizens!

Citizens!

Further proof that one time events are a bad idea.

So during the first day of event I personally can say thanks only for PvP rewards and for new dungeon. The event itself is totally bugged everywhere, so sad…

Drunken Mad King.8193:

I am not against having new content and even one time events. What I think they should learn from is all their previous events. Such as during the end of the beta weekend events and all other dynamic events such as orr where it becomes senseless AOE by the masses and most people cannot even see the foes they are fighting. Having everyone bunched up in the city for the event was bound to have this occur.

Having people AOE or swing a sword mindlessly without seeing the foes you are fighting isn’t in the least fun. It’s pointless.

i agree, having an entire server bunched up mindlessly dpsing is asinine game design on so many levels. it doesn’t make anyone feel heroic, or part of something bigger than themselves… it just makes people feel that what they are doing doesn’t matter.

being stood in a huge crowd around an npc/spawn point waiting for something to happen is the kind of thing that happened in mmos 5-10 years ago. it wasn’t fun then and it still isn’t.

better game design would be:

pirate ship being attacked by a huge sea/crab creature. npc’s running around causing mass hysteria. maybe dynamic event at multiple points in lion’s arch to hose them down to control the crowds. other dynamic events running simultaneously where players help to position/build siege weapons to down the creature. maybe even an escort type event where you need protect an npc who is leading an assault type mission onto the pirate ship itself where he/she plant’s high yield explosives to take down the creature.

crowds controlled, siege weapons firing, huge explosion…

creature slinks back into the sea. water is silent. bubbles… then hundreds/thousands of smaller crab-like creatures who then start to swim out of the bay into lion’s arch itself. now, there’s a new set of dynamic events where you help the previously hosed-down citizens of lion’s arch to arm themselves and enter the fight. another simultaneous event where you use barrels and such like to set up choke points at various points throughout the city, perhaps another where pirates who were on the ship attacked by creature have managed to swim to the beach and are in need of medical assistance. of course, people want to kill stuff and there’ll be plenty of that to do too.

wave after wave is eventually defeated. citizens of lion’s arch cheer…

huge sea creature resurfaces and starts to climb the lighthouse king-kong style. another cluster of simultaneous dynamic events ensue. then… lighthouse explodes. creature is flung off, badly wounded. huge net falls out of the sky (those resourceful asurans in hot air balloons!) creature remains shackled in lion’s arch for the next day or so, heavily sedated with a dynamic event every 15/30 minutes where it attempts to break free.

this avoids over reliance on single npcs. it spreads out the action which will alleviate lag/poor framerate issues. most importantly, it empowers players with the ability to CHOOSE what they do. they can see things happening as a result of their actions and there’s a constant reminder where they fit into the bigger picture because of the giant crab creature that’s either in their face or on the horizon.