Guild Wars 2

Yeah I get it the event is hard… seemingly really hard. That is fine. My huge issue with it? Running barrels. It is NOT fun.

Why the hell do we all level up our characters? To do damage. ArenaNet took this away and introduced barrels (the same from the nightmare tower might I add) to force players to all do the same damage.

Anyways its no surprise a bunch of PUGs failed that particular event.

Champs don’t drop anything (I killed a ton) and then the pre-finale… you get to run barrels back and forth like some crappy fetch quest.

I don’t like the Wurm event. It could have been amazing. The Wurm from inside the tower was pretty awesome. This event is honestly garbage.

To defeat this boss you literally need 3 groups of three (one for each wurm)

1 group for barrels
1 for support n rezzing
1 for CC

Yup I don’t see a PUG doing this ever.

Uninstall your game then. Spamming 1 is pretty much no different.

HellsPriest.6745:

Uninstall your game then. Spamming 1 is pretty much no different.

Haha I get it… you think im a newb, 1 pressing, Zerk gear kid eh?

I hope others are more willing to have an actual discussion than you. Tell me how you will get 3 PUGs in three separate areas with 3 groups to take down 3 mostly invulnerable Wurms in 15 minutes?

Tell me how you can get that many people who do not work together to work together.

Tell me how running barrels in a group on a thin piece of wood works when you cant see the piece of wood due to zerg, so you wait until you can see the kitten ed ground. It’s not fun and there is no skill there, just forced fetching.

Now tell me to go press 1

You don’t know me or my skill level. I like things difficult. I am being practical here.

Now I have played the Giant Watchwork and lost twice miserably and loved every minute of it. That event isn’t easy, it’s about the fun.

I’m more than willing to have a discussion with you. I can tell you exactly how you do it. TTS Community. We are attempting right now, we have over 5000+ members. We have been working on it since the patch came out. It is called being communal with people, maybe start a guild dedicated to world bosses….etc. There are many ways. Take your guild, make an alliance with another guild, and work together

PUGS do not work together, communities built by players work together.

I know that I have made the biggest gaming community within Guild Wars 2, and we have beaten Tequatl more than any other guild or group in this game. We plan on doing the same with all new hard bosses.

:) Good luck, I hope this inspires you to start a community, or something to bring people together rather than just complaining on the internet…and watching other complain on the internet. (I did it, it worked…and I’m nobody special…so can you).

HellsPriest.6745:

I’m more than willing to have a discussion with you. I can tell you exactly how you do it. TTS Community. We are attempting right now, we have over 5000+ members. We have been working on it since the patch came out. It is called being communal with people, maybe start a guild dedicated to world bosses….etc. There are many ways. Take your guild, make an alliance with another guild, and work together

PUGS do not work together, communities built by players work together.

I know that I have made the biggest gaming community within Guild Wars 2, and we have beaten Tequatl more than any other guild or group in this game. We plan on doing the same with all new hard bosses.

:) Good luck, I hope this inspires you to start a community, or something to bring people together rather than just complaining on the internet…and watching other complain on the internet. (I did it, it worked…and I’m nobody special…so can you).

For me it isn’t only about winning. It’s about fun and reward along with a challenge.

Tell me how the Wurm is fun? It really isn’t. It’s just a giant Barrel-chain-run pain in the Kitten! I wanna fight them and the mobs, not fetch barrels like I am playing Toxic Spore events.

The big difference is Mobs drop things in every event besides this one? Why? I don’t mind getting punished for failing but if you are 99% likely to fail, not have fun or get any drops. Well, there isn’t much of a reason to try once you are tired of it.

I foresee a boss who will sit barely played and what feels like wasted content.

We haven’t beaten him yet, but I think it’s been pretty kitten fun so far. Really intense. The barrel thing is only ONE of the 3 wurms. If you don’t like that wurm, you have 2 other wurms you can help out with.

Mobs don’t drop anything in Tequatl either, it’s the end rewards that are worthy!

HellsPriest.6745:

We haven’t beaten him yet, but I think it’s been pretty kitten fun so far. Really intense. The barrel thing is only ONE of the 3 wurms. If you don’t like that wurm, you have 2 other wurms you can help out with.

Mobs don’t drop anything in Tequatl either, it’s the end rewards that are worthy!

I will research more on it.

HellsPriest.6745:

Mobs don’t drop anything in Tequatl either, it’s the end rewards that are worthy!

Hilarious! RNG means that most of the loot from any event is junk, so it’s a number’s game, period. Long events that fail often and are definitely not fun means less chances to hit that loot table at the sweet spot and annoyance getting there. It’s teh maths. More power to those who like Teq or these barrel worms, it ain’t me. Spoon

Well, as sad as it is, those mobs not dropping loot is kind of necessary. Otherwise you’d get into the same situation as what happened with the Scarlet invasions where people would ignore trying to complete the invasion in favour of just farming the Champions from the events.

Tyrantis.8640:

Why the hell do we all level up our characters? To do damage. ArenaNet took this away and introduced barrels (the same from the nightmare tower might I add) to force players to all do the same damage.

Well if seeing numbers pop up is what counts as fun for you, I’ve got some spoilers for you: After you remove the wurm’s defenses with the bombs, then you do damage while it’s vulnerable. Tah-dah!

If you don’t want to run the bombs, fighting and controlling the mobs is also an important job while the rest of the group is running the bombs. Plenty of numbers there, but yes, there’s no loot. But that’s not why you do a big boss encounter anyway, right? Trash mob loot? I sure hope not.

Also, it’s difficult to see where the bombs are supposed to go, because the red arrow gets hidden under a pile of enemies.

Had a go at this wurm head today, and ANet really need to figure out their event scaling.

Sure, i am built tanky rather than zerker. But when i end up face with a at level trash mob pirate and it eats bomb after bomb (playing engineer), i can see why people go “zerker or GTFO”.

Never mind that with a targeting system that stinks (i tabbed, cleared target, tabbed again, and didn’t get the wurm head until i moused for the transparent yellow crosshair), and no practical add management (The CC available is long cooldown, usually single target, and very short duration. Never mind the complete lack of taunts) makes these fights a glorious technicolor mess.

Any kind of open world group event seems to devolve into a bar brawl right now.

FYI there is to other paths that you can choose to go down to fight a different head with a different mechanic.

Tyrantis.8640:

Yeah I get it the event is hard… seemingly really hard. That is fine. My huge issue with it? Running barrels. It is NOT fun.

Why the hell do we all level up our characters? To do damage. ArenaNet took this away and introduced barrels (the same from the nightmare tower might I add) to force players to all do the same damage.

Anyways its no surprise a bunch of PUGs failed that particular event.

Champs don’t drop anything (I killed a ton) and then the pre-finale… you get to run barrels back and forth like some crappy fetch quest.

I don’t like the Wurm event. It could have been amazing. The Wurm from inside the tower was pretty awesome. This event is honestly garbage.

To defeat this boss you literally need 3 groups of three (one for each wurm)

1 group for barrels
1 for support n rezzing
1 for CC

Yup I don’t see a PUG doing this ever.

That’s exatly the point. Wurm was designed to be beatable only by a very coordinated group. This was stated in the various interviews and notes about this content.

PUG is never going to do this.

Carrying barrels to worm brings me memory of GW1. I like it :P

OP speak for yourself, did the fight 3 times yesterday and it was heaps of fun

Trash mob scaling is awful. 35 ppl on an event = 8lvls up for infinite respawning trash mobs with aoe CC? yeah it’s easy as dancing through the eye of a needle. :P

The barrels are a nice option for low damage classes to participate too and be succesfull. Might not be big numbers fun but still when you are usefull for the end kill I would find that fun enough.

IT’S SO NEW, AND EDGY, AND UNIQUE. WURMS? POWDERED KEGS? OMG FRESHEST AND BEST IDEA I’VE EVER SEEN.

Now add content to WvW please.