Guild Wars 2

Ok first of all, this is a positive post, which lately come rarely from me. But here goes…

I’d like to thank personally and in the name of all players that are fans of gauntlet event to ArentNet to finally making a nice challenging content for more serious (maybe even hardcore?) players.

I enjoyed the fights so much, I even did most of the achivements, which happens rarely for me since I don’t like the living story updates so much till now.

The things I really liked:

• Real punishment – It’s how it should be. You make a mistake, you die. I only wish more boss fights were like that.
• Trial & error approach – You actually have to learn the attack patterns and behaviour and not just run around spaming attack and dodging half of the time.
• Clear sense of progression – Tiers and 4 bosses in each tier. Every boss gets harder (not totally necesary for each proffession maybe but very close).
• Diversity – Bosses have different mechanics that force you to change your playstyle. You end up learning more about your class this way and try out different combinations of skills, traits, stats, …

Things I did not like (nothing is perfect):

• Camera problem – whne you’re near the dome your camera gets obstructed by it and especially in Liadri fight can cause some problems until you get used to it eventually. But this doesn’t mean it should not be fixed.
• No waypoints for Gauntlet – It’s pretty kitten boring to run all the way up in case there’s noone around to ressurect you.

That pretty much sums up my experience with gauntlet arenas.

In the future I’d really like more of this kind of content, hard, unforgiving and challenging. All the people that grew with games like Contra, Mega Man, Super Mario, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden (xbox) will surely appreciate this kind of content.

I just want to raise some awereness that Guild Wars 2 has also fair amount of hardcore players and giving us at least something will be much appreciated.

For all the casual people complaining about it:
Suck it up or just don’t play it. Noone is forcing you to do it.* You tell us the same when we complain that content is not challenging and too easy. Fair enough?

For all the brave warriors stuck at Liadri
Keep calm and fight on!

Well said. I totally agree with everything you have outlined. I have been working on getting my “light up the darkness” achievement and just yesterday I got the build down and started committing the fight to muscle memory. I can now get 8 lights on her most times and I have also got her down to the 10% to 5% hp mark a few times before being dropped out the arena, lolz. today I just adjusted my runes and a trinket and sigil to get more damage and I will try again over the next few days. (once I get more tickets lol XD). They need to fix the camera though like you mentioned.

VIVA LA HARDCORE!!

Just a shame they still fail at giving out adequate rewards for it. A mini pet< title

“Real punishment – It’s how it should be. You make a mistake, you die. I only wish more boss fights were like that.”
More like that? You mean like every single champ?

aspirine.6852:

“Real punishment – It’s how it should be. You make a mistake, you die. I only wish more boss fights were like that.”
More like that? You mean like every single champ?

And 0.5s later you and 20 other people are rezed by 200 people still alive and the fight is over in next 10 seconds… Unfortunatelly this is how it works.

That is how it works, but the one shotting of people is nothing new.

It is in these challenges afaik.