Guild Wars 2

I understand everyone farms/plays in different parts of the game, but there are some events that have been broken since this patch, and even though are reported don’t seem to be getting fixed, even with several hot patches since update,

•Svanir Shaman Chief – Since the update I have not seen this spawn once, everyone escorts the NPC, and as soon as that totem spawns, BAM its down, an uplevel could take it down solo in under a minute, and as soon as its destroyed the event succeeds and no one fights the boss ( result NO LOOT )

Gates of Arah Pre event – on the pre event for the gates of arah where you had to escort the NPC’s to just north and south of the steps to Arah, there was a 5 or 6 minute defense wave, where mobs would run at you, ( this was 1 of the last remaining places in Orr where you could farm ) since the patch, this event spawns NO enemies at all you stand there for 5-6 mins for the event to fail then continue to Gates of Arah ( result NO LOOT )

I posted this in general so that more people who cover more zones of the game can post the current broken events since update, as if it goes into the bugs section it will be never seen again.

I do understand this game is no longer play how you want to play, its more play how we want you to play, and its aimed at those who play for like an hour a day, but what about us who play more than an hour a day, and like to farm in the game??? yet surely removing all the loot, and having events succeed without doing anything, and getting no loot either way, has got to be the wrong way to go, the Orr events put a lot of T6 mats into the game and now there are no enemies to kill.

I promise you they’ve been working on the broken events. They are aware of it. I got lucky enough to talk to a Dev that was doing Shatterer a few days ago with the lot of us and he told us they were aware of the problems and are working on fixing them.

I can also promise you the game isn’t going “no longer play how you want to play, its more play how we want you to play, and its aimed at those who play for like an hour a day”.

Unloveableone.6082:

I promise you they’ve been working on the broken events. They are aware of it. I got lucky enough to talk to a Dev that was doing Shatterer a few days ago with the lot of us and he told us they were aware of the problems and are working on fixing them.

I can also promise you the game isn’t going “no longer play how you want to play, its more play how we want you to play, and its aimed at those who play for like an hour a day”.

I hope you are right, because right now the feeling between me and my friends whom I play with is that this game is no longer for those who want to play more than an hour a day, the feeling is they are removing loot from this game at an alarming rate, the new dailies are terrible the are nearly forcing people into sPvP or WvW, else you need to grind it out, the old system was fine, why change it, ive logged in today and the first time since launch I wont bother with dailies as they feel like a chore now, I went to Orr and broken events combined with no loot made me leave,

It seriously feels like they are moving to the play an hour a day then log out type of game, you’d figure than with some apparently big games coming out this year they would want the most tightknit community they could have to boost there game, instead they seem to want to push them apart.

As it stands I can no longer play the game the way I want, everything I did before including farming before update is now either broken or no loot rewarded, also you said a dev told you this ingame, yet they cannot come to the forums and address the community here with a proper post other than the, “we are looking at it” come on, why would someone come back to this game after leaving it for another game.

There is nothing bugged they are just nerfed in order to buy gems or buy from bots because seems to be plenty since update …

Bosses are no longer attached to events. They spawn at certain times. There’s nothing special about it in most cases, they just spawn.

The event chains were left around for newbies to do.

I don’t do events very often, but thought I’d give it a go over the last couple of days. Whether an event meta chain completes or not just seems random. You have a bunch of people waiting around for the boss fight and it doesn’t show up. This happened several times in a roll for different events. A lot of time spent map jumping to see which one is actually working. Waste of time at the moment. Someone speculated that it may be the new wardrobe system…the boss just can’t decide what to wear.

On a side note, there should be an option for an in-game event timer, and some clearer instructions on what you are actually suppose to do next in the chain. For new people with no one experienced present in the group, means some of the events are just frustrating because the objectives aren’t clear, or/and the maps are too convoluted. When the events do work they are quite fun.

JtotheOtotheE.9032:

There is nothing bugged they are just nerfed in order to buy gems or buy from bots because seems to be plenty since update …

Of course that’s their intention!

note the sarcasm.

I have seen no problems wit the Svanir Shaman so far. You should maybe post that in the bugs forum and also notice on what server you have that problem.

Ok I Did It.2854:

•Svanir Shaman Chief – Since the update I have not seen this spawn once, everyone escorts the NPC, and as soon as that totem spawns, BAM its down, an uplevel could take it down solo in under a minute, and as soon as its destroyed the event succeeds and no one fights the boss ( result NO LOOT )

It’s not a bug. It’s just faulty design. Preevent starts even when it’s not Shaman’s turn to spawn. In that case it ends at the totem phase. This happens, by the way, to several other events with pres.

Just check the timer to see if it is a valid preevent or a fake.