Guild Wars 2

1. ice shields spawn under the earth now and only few skills can damage it.
2. adds dont seem to drop any loot anymore. killed 30+ adds and noone of them dropped anything.

I am 100% convinced (2) is intentional.
ANet may have realised adds were being farmed with no intention of completing Jormag.

well thats silly, opponents should always drop something if they are capable of killing you. Now I have one less reason to go there. Drops from the chests are still horrible so whats the point of doing it if you cant get some extra loot from the adds.

Think that’s bad, after we finally took the time to down the sucker after ice wall problems, everyone DC’ed after his death and no chest when logged back on. Everyone reported.

I was there w/ Himei and a lot of people being d/c.

There was no disconnect for me. So it isnt 100% chance i guess

Just completed the Claw of Jormag. It appears we are unable to target his ice walls because they seem to be spawning below ground. AOEs sometime work, but not always. it took us a while to get him down due to this broken targeting issue.

I even tried using tab to target which normally works just fine, however, tonight all my tab target found was a white moa down the hill.

I really think this patch was released without sufficient testing because there are a few things that don’t work as well or at all now.

Also, half way through my fight with the Shatterer this evening, my mouse stopped working and I had to log completely out of the game and reboot my system. This sort of problem rarely happens to me but for some reason I’ve had it occur more than once today.

There really is no reason I can think of why this should be such a problem but it is and I am obviously not alone.

Pff, #2 (which I am 100% was intentional) was an idiotic move for several reasons:
a: lodestones don’t need to be even more expensive than they already are, and it affects ALL the mini eles, including other ones I’ve farmed for lodestones. This just makes a bad situation worse.
b: Now people are EVEN LESS inclined to complete the event. A number of us after discovering the nerf (and engaging in some market speculation) tagged the dragon, then started farming nearby mobs and made a lot more money doing that than we got from that chest which is rather worthless.

Seriously, if they’re going to do that, might as well make the chest worth while, and reduce the time it takes to get to the stupid thing. If getting the chest is going to be an hour long ordeal, and you get squat for the actual process of participation, then everyone is going to ‘tag & go’ – yet you can’t remove the tag & go process because the tagging limits need to be low enough to let people who arrived at the event late still get the chest. A possible solution off the top of my head would be to increase the drop ratio based on the number of times you tag the dragon. Tag it once, get the current drop rate – with every successive tagging, you get an increased chance for more rares, and a largely increased chance for more exotics (or maybe some corrupted lodestones, to solve the lodestone shortage) – I don’t particularly care what they do with the precursor drop rate in this specific instance from the standpoint of making the event financially worthwhile, because honestly they drop so stupidly infrequently to begin with they can’t even be factored into the equation. However increasing their drop rate as well would significantly aid in the issues with how expensive they have become.

Yep, I started just tagging the dragon and go farm other mobs while others do the work. It more than doubles the profit I make from the chest in 99,9% of the cases.

This is still bugged, but in a slightly different way. The first time the shield spawned it was selectable. Subsequent phases it went back to its previous, bugged, behavior…

An official response from this would be great on whether this was intended (the ice wall being underground and has to be shot with a charzooka at specific locations) just to make this already unworthy event even worst lol. I mean, sure increase the difficulty as much as you like but make it directly proportional to the reward.

Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed the reduced drops from the adds. Guess I’ll skip this event now. Not worth the time for 3 blues and 2 greens from the chest. Barely worth the time with the drops from the adds. I’ll just go farm somewhere else. Until they nerf that too. Rme.. I’m really getting tired of playing for no rewards. Just ridiculous.

Did the event earlier this afternoon, but didn’t notice that much of a change in loot. I do notice I got about 50% less loot than I normally do, but that’s about it. I do still get loot, and the quality doesn’t seem to be nerfed (ended up with an exotic drop, which I never get.)

Its a quantity nerf because the mini eles no-longer drop loot.

I get zero loot from the adds, probably killed/tagged 60-100 adds and not a single drop.

I can understand the need to nerf the loot drops from adds. It ensures that people going to the event are there to do said event and not just farm adds.

And as stated by the topic starter, the ice shield during the first phase isn’t spawning properly. I won’t be going back to do the event until it is fixed because my characters primarily do ranged damage, which doesn’t work while this bug exists.