How is it possible that after two years the game is still not able to recognize if you participate in an event
The situation: I join the fight against The Shatterer. That is an example of a boss fight where 95% of the people just auto-attacks the boss. But the fight has some interesting mechanics that most people probably don’t know. I join the few players who are standing at the cannons and mortars. Because we have one player more than there are mortars I man a cannon and shoot one or two volleys in the direction of the boss. When the Shatterer spawns some of his lieutenants on top of the mortars I defend those by killing the creatures. I also destroy an Imprisonment Crystal that spawns a few meters away from one of the mortars. And than the fight is over. I don’t get the event completion and I don’t get the rewards. I checked my combat log. It shows that I killed quite a few branded creatures and it even shows two hits from The Shatterer. So there can not be any doubt that I participated in the boss fight.
This bug makes me so mad that I don’t want to play the game at the moment. I even consider quitting the game. Earlier this evening I made a positive post about next weeks feature patch. I defended ArenaNet the last few days in several fora against all the criticism they get (feature pack is not big enough, they suck and whatever other stupid comments people have). But getting punished for not auto-attacking a boss kills all the enjoyment I have in the game.
From your 2nd post you KNOW the answer to your question (you didn’t cause enough damage to trigger participation in the World Boss event), so why did you post this?
Report me if you want, but you seem to know full WELL why you didn’t get the reward and just seem mad that the game does not work the way you THINK it should. Go do the event the same way again and then a 3rd time and you will define insanity.
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Hmmm. It’s more than just hitting the boss sometimes.
I was in Frostgorge once, doing an ori/ancient wood run. The claw event was going on and one node was by the event. I ran over, got the node, rezzed 2 people who were downed and ran on. Didn’t hit a single mob. Didn’t hit the dragon even once. When the event ended a bit later I got a reward chest on the side of the UI so I ran back to the site, saw the big chest and was able to loot it.
Maybe the claw is glitched and maybe the Shatterer is tougher, but if he hit it a couple of times and did other event related stuff, he should have gotten the chest.
One question, OP. Did you happen to use a char that has been in that area for a couple of days, doing stuff there? If so it’s possible to hit DR (diminishing returns) and not get rewarded. That happened to me when I had a char in that area over several days. I did that event and didn’t get a chest.
Even in Tequatl, everyone runs in for a burn phase. Once he’s low in health and you know it, run in and help finish the job. The mechanic that you complain about is also what prevents afkers from just instantly having access to rewards.
The cannons don’t seem to be of any practical use. Whenever I try them, either the enemies were just vanquished by somebody else, or I don’t hit them. So I leave the cannons alone. I would not consider them bugged, I consider them badly/insufficiently designed. The problem with them is not the event participation algorithm, it’s just that you don’t hit anything with them.
I am using only the mortars as long as at least one is available. There are two more at the eastern side of the event area, just in case you didn’t notice. If there aren’t any available, I join the zerg. But the last times I met the Shatterer, I always found my place at a mortar.
How is it possible that after two years the game is still not able to recognize if you participate in an event
The situation: I join the fight against The Shatterer. That is an example of a boss fight where 95% of the people just auto-attacks the boss. But the fight has some interesting mechanics that most people probably don’t know. I join the few players who are standing at the cannons and mortars. Because we have one player more than there are mortars I man a cannon and shoot one or two volleys in the direction of the boss. When the Shatterer spawns some of his lieutenants on top of the mortars I defend those by killing the creatures. I also destroy an Imprisonment Crystal that spawns a few meters away from one of the mortars. And than the fight is over. I don’t get the event completion and I don’t get the rewards. I checked my combat log. It shows that I killed quite a few branded creatures and it even shows two hits from The Shatterer. So there can not be any doubt that I participated in the boss fight.
I’ve gotten credit on a mesmer without every touching the Shatterererer, just defending the mortars/canons.
But of course we know the game isn’t consistent about this type of stuff. For starters, defending/healing/escorting doesn’t always lead to event credit, whereas massive amounts of raw damage always does. This isn’t a mechanical problem alone: ANet is trying to avoid leaving exploitable loopholes (e.g. if you can get credit by rezzing people, then people will deliberately die); raw damage is harder to “fake.”
In the meantime, since I know that the game works like this, I never rely on the “interesting” parts of the fight, i.e. unless I’m specifically testing (for SCIENCE), I make sure to also deliver the raw DPS that will guarantee me credit.
I don’t like it, but it works and it isn’t very hard for me to do (again, even with a mesmer).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Yeah, buggy, and from your post it sounds like you should have been rewarded for participation. Especially if you are killing adds near the mortar and cannon.
Question, though: you said, “combat log…shows two hits from The Shatterer.” When you fired the cannon, did you have The Shatterer targeted, and did you get numbers? i.e., did your combat log say, “You hit The Shatterer for xxx damage.”? That makes a difference. Manning the cannon and shooting in the direction of kitten without targeting means you may miss. Cannon is NOT like the mortar, it must be targeted to do damage. If a player were to only do that, they would not hit the boss and would not get any credit for the event. I know, as I did it once to test.
