Guild Wars 2

Seriously what the actual kitten is that?I will tell you what it is,it is the most gamebreaking thing i have encountered in any PvP game, and i’ve played them all.

Struggling and barely overcoming a deficit of 200 points while playing in 4 just to be punished by whatever that is that gives control of all the bases to the enemy team in an instant.
It is so kitten awful when the enemy has the player advantage and sits at 450 points while you manage to break even and get hold of all 3 bases just to get kittened by whatever that piece of kitten is and lose. It makes me rage on my team mates who have no guilt whatsoever.

Assuming you’re talking about temple of the silent storm. The buff in the water appears at 8:30 in the match. Just be down there when it spawns and expect a few of them to come as well though in hotjoin it’s common for no one to show up. Just look up the map on the gw2 wiki and it lists the times.

Dfalus.3659:

Seriously what the actual kitten is that?I will tell you what it is,it is the most gamebreaking thing i have encountered in any PvP game, and i’ve played them all.

Struggling and barely overcoming a deficit of 200 points while playing in 4 just to be punished by whatever that is that gives control of all the bases to the enemy team in an instant.
It is so kitten awful when the enemy has the player advantage and sits at 450 points while you manage to break even and get hold of all 3 bases just to get kittened by whatever that piece of kitten is and lose. It makes me rage on my team mates who have no guilt whatsoever.

So short summary is you lost because your team (And you aswell obviously) were unaware of tranquility.

Quick summary for you then: It spawns at 8.30 and you get there by either:
1. Jumping down the holes next to where you obtain the Stilness meditation, it spawns on the far end from the stairs.
2. Going through the doorway at the central point (Gate) and heading down the stairs, cross the bridge and you’ll end up next to it.

It has a fairly long channeling time, it can be interupted and if you jump down one of the holes at around 8.40, you’ll get there just in time to interupt anyone on it or alternatively channel it yourself.

It is hardly gamebreaking but I must admit that before I had learned about it I did share your frustration over “what the taco is that OP lark”.

Both teams have the same problem. Nothing rage infusing or unfair about that.

YOu guys do not seem to realise that actually takes 0 skill and such buff/relic/power up should not exist in a pvp game.Claiming the core of a game with little to no effort is game breaking.

It’s acrually rather weak since in most tourneys, most teams will just start a huge team fight at the buff and waste lots of time..

but since I’m bored and a bit hang over I’ll explain a bit how the map works!

• Bottom Buff (the one where the water is) appears at 8:30, 2:30 and once you cap it, I’ll take control of all points. best strategy is go down where before the time, and if there are people there, someone someone with survival to just stall while other people in your team cap points

• Top Buff (the one in between altar & temple, by the 2 holes) this Buff will grant your team double points… so if you have 1 point, you will be rewarded as if you had 2, if you have 2 you will be equal points as if you have 4 caps and if you have 3 and buff, you will get points equal to having 6 caps! this one is prob the most important one.

• Side Buffs.. they are not recommendable… but, they can be good, each buff grants you 3 points per kills so if you have 1.. you get a total of 8 points per kill and if you get them both, that’s 12 points per kill. which could add up really fast assuming your team is good at winning team fights.

oh… last note, all buffs need to be channeled and are EXTREMELY EASILY INTERRUPTIBLE! any amount of dmg will cause channel to fail making it impossible to get them if anyone from the enemy team is there. and you can’t cap while stealth/invul or anything

the mechanic is only game breaking against teams who ignore about the buffs or simply don’t know about them

Bottom buff only appears at 8:30 and 2:30, not 5:30.

On a second note the buffs take skill because you cannot plan for something so late in the match, the skill lies with how your team rotates to contest/capture the buffs.

I remember one game where my team held a 2 cap on altar and temple, with gate contested. The enemy team had 4 at bottom buff and 1 on gate, so we decided that we would run in and suicide to stop the cap, delaying until we ressed to suicide again. In the end we didnt get a kill in the buff fight but we won the match by adjusting our strategy on the fly.

even if the enemy team does manage to get the tranquility buff, your team does have 8 and and a half minutes to recapture those points..

also the other buff at the top near the pits that fall into the water give you x2 points for each node you have.. so if you make sure you get this buff at the same time tranquility spawns you only have to retake one node to be on equal point gain.. as they have 2 nodes and you have one node churning out x2 points

Dfalus.3659:

YOu guys do not seem to realise that actually takes 0 skill and such buff/relic/power up should not exist in a pvp game.Claiming the core of a game with little to no effort is game breaking.

It takes as much skill as capping a point.
If nobody oposes you, none.

ahhh mate I share your pain. Lost 3 tournaments in a row because of this stupid buff. anet is heading in wrong way with their ideas. There are 2 good maps – RoC and FoN, rest are half PvP/half fun maps

Let me tell you my story. Once, we were being lead by the score of 250-300, with 2 captured point belong to the opposed team. We decided going for Transqulity, I, bunker Eles with my friend, Bunker Guardian, reached the point first. There are 4 others of the other team there as well to make sure we would not get the Transquility. We 2 hold them 4 quite well on our own. So we told our other 3 mates to go for their points instead and decaf them. The match turned into our favour and we won.

Lesson: Transquility is a buff but your main point is not getting it but to prevent other team to get it. If they are overextend themselves, your team could easily triple cap with no need of Transquility. So it is ok as it is.

Devitz.2136:

ahhh mate I share your pain. Lost 3 tournaments in a row because of this stupid buff. anet is heading in wrong way with their ideas. There are 2 good maps – RoC and FoN, rest are half PvP/half fun maps

Really?! Temple is an amazing map, probably the best one there is right now (Except for the water and the bugs it presents).