Guild Wars 2

So … this evening’s post-reset Taco attempt was a disaster. It had nothing to do with the amazing team of folks who make it happen daily. We were defeated by:

1. Skill lag. People standing around hammering a button for 10-15 seconds prior to the skill casting.

2. Quest timers off. Laser phase start & end were not in sync with the HUD.

3. Underwater whirlpool during phase 1. What?!

4. Laser “stun” phase lasting 5 seconds. With the timers off, we even ran in early to try making up for the server timing problem, he landed, 5 seconds later, he AOE-stomped the DPS pile.

This is a popular server event and people generally have to wait 2 hours or more. Two hours! We sit and wait and wait, then sit and wait some more. I don’t mind failing if we mess up, but that has not happened in weeks.

Aboms spawning inside the laser? Nasty bug. Server not synchronized with the fight & everyone in the zone? That’s about as frustrating a bug as you can encounter. Since it takes a giant number of people to succeed at this fight, there’s no excuse for server-side problems like this.

Seriously irritated and disappointed.