Guild Wars 2

The 10 second ICD would account for a bit. When you combine all three traits, however, you basically spam burning around your character every 3 hits. The hope was that the combination would grant AoE boon removal. In practice, only one boon is removed (total), even if burning is applied to multiple foes around the player (instead of one boon removed per burned target).

Been toying around with some new builds. Radiance V “Searing Flames” seems to have an internal cooldown that I haven’t been able to pinpoint. It also does not function as you might expect when combined with Virtues VIII and Virtues XI.

Supreme Justice does allow you to apply burning faster. This highlights that either the Searing Flames internal cooldown is possibly longer than 10 seconds, or the combination of the two doesn’t work.

Permeating Wrath does apply the area Burn and does work with Supreme Justice (procs on hit 3 instead of hit 5), but does not consistently remove boons from enemies around the player as expected when combined with Searing Flames. This was tested in a 3-on-1 situation, with no pulsing AoE boons activated.

More testing needed, but that’s what I got so far.

I posted this in a Lost Shores forum, but I think it could apply to future events, so I thought I would post it here as well.

The one-time events help create memories for those who participated. Some of these memories are great – tales of several hour-long adventures that culminate in a fanastic reward! Others, however, are tales of woe – adventurers beset by lag and disconnects, ending with a mad dash to a chest that disappears before their very eyes . . . But nonetheless, memories are created.

My idea – take those memories, and recreate them as a one-time fractal! This will no doubt take time to put together, but hear me out. For anyone that participates in a one-time event and cannot receive the rewards (disconnect, lag, chest disappearing), they get mailed an account-bound token (a la the Pact token at the end of your personal story). They take this token to Dessa to be sent back in time to replay the Karka event, and claim the rewards! That way, they still have to “earn” it (mass prizes not sent out through the mail) AND they can enjoy the event mostly lag-free by making it a 5- or 10-man instance, tuned by difficulty, of course. To make it so that token-holders don’t have to run it entirely in a PUG, make it so that a token-holder can create the fractal, but token-holders must also exchange that token at the end to open the chest. If your guild or friends are halfway decent people (and/or have already gotten their rewards), they would still want to help you succeed, and would also get drops, exp, and karma along the way (just not the event chest at the end).

I can’t speak to how Anet tracks completion/participation of these one-time events, but it . . . could . . . work? Maybe? They don’t have to give these tokens to the entire player base, but those that were there and tried, but could not due to technical difficulties. What do you think? This could even be used for future one-time events that have similar participation issues, since the fractals are supposed to be slices of Tyria’s history . . .

Personally, I ran the event (Ancient Karka) a few times, suffering multiple disconnects and was dead to lag a good deal of the time. I didn’t make it to the final leg. I couldn’t even waypoint out! I had to re-log until it put me on an overflow that had an empty field before I could waypoint back to LA. It would be nice to play the event as Anet intended, earning my rewards, instead of just watching it play out as a slideshow on Youtube . . .
Please let me know what you think – feel free to play devil’s advocate and suggest ways to improve the concept!

@Kosmos: Thanks for the support! I think SOME kind of instancing for these events would really help. Almost snorted chocolate milk out of my nose thinking about Anet slapping my controller out of my hand. That’s exactly how I felt! Stupid big brother Anet . . .

Shameless plug for an idea I had. I went through about ten pages (TL;DR, but I tried!) looking to see if someone already posted. Please take a look and see what you think here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/An-idea-One-Time-Event-completion

It’s an idea to get credit to those that started to participate but couldn’t finish for whatever reason. I see lots of people calling for getting loot in the mail, flat-out repeating the event on all servers, or rolling the event out every 4/6/12 hours, and instancing, but I have only seen one other person post the Fractal idea.

End shameless plug. I hope that Anet can find a way to resolve the issues!

I had an idea about one-time events and their possible repetition. I created a post here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/An-idea-One-Time-Event-completion

It involves the use of tokens (like the Pact one) and the new Fractals dungeon. Please give it a read. I hope it helps generate some discussion!

I’m combing the forums to make sure I didn’t jack someone’s idea, and I see others are starting to pass it around, too. NickChabby.8907 just posted in another thread like 3 minutes ago. I hope this gains some traction! It seems like it could have a lot of uses.

The one-time events help create memories for those who participated. Some of these memories are great – tales of several hour-long adventures that culminate in a fanastic reward! Others, however, are tales of woe – adventurers beset by lag and disconnects, ending with a mad dash to a chest that disappears before their very eyes . . . But nonetheless, memories are created.

My idea – take those memories, and recreate them as a one-time fractal! This will no doubt take time to put together, but hear me out. For anyone that participates in a one-time event and cannot receive the rewards (disconnect, lag, chest disappearing), they get mailed an account-bound token (a la the Pact token at the end of your personal story). They take this token to Dessa to be sent back in time to replay the Karka event, and claim the rewards! That way, they still have to “earn” it (mass prizes not sent out through the mail) AND they can enjoy the event mostly lag-free by making it a 5- or 10-man instance, tuned by difficulty, of course. To make it so that token-holders don’t have to run it entirely in a PUG, make it so that a token-holder can create the fractal, but token-holders must also exchange that token at the end to open the chest. If your guild or friends are halfway decent people (and/or have already gotten their rewards), they would still want to help you succeed, and would also get drops, exp, and karma along the way (just not the event chest at the end).

I can’t speak to how Anet tracks completion/participation of these one-time events, but it . . . could . . . work? Maybe? They don’t have to give these tokens to the entire player base, but those that were there and tried, but could not due to technical difficulties. What do you think? This could even be used for future one-time events that have similar participation issues, since the fractals are supposed to be slices of Tyria’s history . . .

Personally, I ran the event a few times, suffering multiple disconnects and was dead to lag a good deal of the time. I didn’t make it to the final leg. I couldn’t even waypoint out! I had to re-log until it put me on an overflow that had an empty field before I could waypoint back to LA.