Guild Wars 2

No, the baby is still on the way – looks at timer – see we’ve got another 12 hours till it arrives!

8/9 – Sorely disappointed in this unexpected decision.

Spiky.8403:

You should blame yourself. I got my wings 3 days after update and it didn’t take longer than 2 hours. Things never end well when you wait for the last possible moment to finish them. If you had no chance to log in is another story of course – all you can do is HOOORAY another temporary content I missed!

Partially true, but it’s not my fault for having a job and working all day/night long. And I will not wait 2 hours for a 15 minute fight that clogs the servers and puts people into overflow just to screw up the encounter cause people don’t know the strategy.

But hey SAB is STILL up………………

FINALLY got my pet. Did it on my warrior 0/30/30/0/10 with sword and shield and longbow as my weapons of choice.

Gear: Zerker (exos) with Ruby orbs

Arms traits
III
II
XI
Defense traits
IV
VIII
XII
Discipline traits
III

Skills
Healing Signet
Endure Pain
“Shake It Off!”
Signet of Stamina
Signet of Rage

Also had a Mango Pie for additional HP reign.

I think that P1 is very crucial to the timing of this fight. Once you know how the red circles move, it’s very easy and you can down the phase quick.

As for P2, once you get the timing down on the red spots, you will have an easier time kiting the mobs. If she gets near you at the start of p2, hit her with the sword, if she’s far away, smack her with the longbow skills. I just kept going back and forth with weapons and eventually got her down with longbow.

Shield skill #5 and Endure Pain are insurance policies if you have no endurance left and are in a red circle of doom.

You should have no problems with hp loss, maybe toward the end, but the heal sig and mango pie keep you very healthy through the fight.

And now, onto super awesome mini pet and not seeing this boss ever again.

I enjoyed the Queen’s Gauntlet to an extent. Had some near close calls that kept me on the edge of my chair. However, Liadri’s fight is, in my honest opinion, a wrong step for the game’s future. I hope NOT to see cheap 1 shot kill bosses in the future. I learned a lot from the fight after 150 tickets but have yet to complete it due to:

1. Lag/skill lag: Biggest problem for a lot of people. I get on early to take her out, but when a lot of people show up and start their farming of events, it really kills on the timing of specific skills or dodging red circles of doom. And you guys are getting rid of PvE culling? I hate to try this after next week’s patch.

2. 1 Shot Kills: Honestly, if there was an obvious 1 minute charge that 1 shot kills you that’s ok, you have plenty of time to dodge or avoid it or whatever. It just sounds like a poor decision was made in the office as they looked up the “How to Make Boss Fights Hard” book. The red circles are fine, I know how to dodge these after fighting Subject Alpha 1,000 times in CoE, but at least they let the players off with 1/4 of their health and a crude lesson not to stand in them. Point I’m trying to make is, soften up on either the circles or the visions.

2.5 That ^$$%$#$##@# White Hole that is DIRECTLY on the corner of the dome.

3. Que Times: I really don’t want to wait in line for these fights. I have my food buff on and its ticking away precious amounts of time. Along side you have farmers who are taking up space as well farming God knows what.

4. Time Limit: I didn’t really have a problem with the time limits on these fights, just some intense parts here and there, but managed to kill before the floor drops into lag hell.

5. Camera + Small Room = Bad Experience: I’m kinda iffy on the whole camera thing, some times I can see just fine, other times I am up my charr’s behind. Make…the…room…bigggggger.

6. Crystal pick up time: Way too slow to throw. I think that a automatic hit would have been better instead of targeting and throwing it wasting time on the vision coming to blow up.

Things that I liked:

1. Wallet. Thaaaaank you for whomever came up with the idea for the wallet. Very convenient for players and hey free bank space to put my 20 black lion kits in lol.

2. Event farming AKA the exo bags: This is a nice touch to get a few extra items and silvers, I don’t mind the DR on champs/legendary bosses. Also enjoy how getting t6 mats are a lot easier than farming Orr or any other specific place in game.

3. More dungeon gold: After completing a dungeon, a gold piece plus the daily grab. Nice, but I fear with inflation hitting, items will be a lot more. We will see how this plays out.

How to fix Liadri:
Just giving my 2 cents on how to fix Liadri up a bit for post 8/20 patch.

1. Red circles do a set amount of damage:
P1: 1/4th of the character’s HP
P2: 1/2 of the character’s HP

Would give people a reason NOT to stand in circles and make people learn their lesson. Plus would make gravity balls less of a hassle to deal with.

2. Liadri’s HP down by 5%.
Not that much of a fix, but if I’m fighting what appears to be an evil mesmer of sorts, i expect her to have less HP than what she has already (AKA light armor). I don’t know the value of her HP but yeah, just a little bit off the top.

3. Platform color to a dark grey.
It’s not much of a complaint of mine since I watch where I’m going, but the dome’s color of the grate is blending in with everything lol.

4. Instance the fights.
Making a separate instance will give players a reason not to complain about the lag or the events going on underneath. And when players fail to beat the boss, a prompt can ask the player to retry the fight or leave the arena. This would cause less to lose gold due to waypoints and your que time will be instant. Also, it would encourage players to possibly buy more tickets.

Don’t forget about lag and skill lag messing up a lot of people while inside the dome. Can’t tell you how many times I died due to my toon not picking up the crystal after I pressed F three times.

Bovinity.8610:

Interesting that as time goes by, there’s fewer and fewer “omg Liadri is impossible” posts. =D

It’s really not THAT bad. Everyone can do it.

Tell lag/skill lag its not THAT bad.

Liadri just shows poor boss mechanics and not much thought to be put into a fight. Ditto.

After a few more ties, I’m done with it for good. Nice minipet but not worth this frustration

It was just a very big hole. Nothing spectacular to it.

took me a few days to farm it, it’s not so bad. Just kill people during 2 minute grace and be good at surviving if they put you at a different location on the map.

I love how I randomly die every second with no lag at all gg

Started with Aetherblade update and has been on my game ever since. Even the new update is impossible to jump around without lag spikes and such. So much wasted silver on easy jumps…

Heck, even the forums crash too!

I’m glad I’m not the only one with this problem.

Usually happens to me in WvW or in a dungeon for some strange reason.

Can I blame the 90+ degree weather for this happening?

Thought it was a weird mail or something until I saw the attached kit. Thanks for the freebie. When was the bug active?

Anet knocks on my front door

uhhh…

I loved Cantha, such a beautiful place, especially the Shing Jea Island and then going into the concrete jungle known as Kaineng City and escaping through the sewers to the Echovald Forest/Jade Sea. And fighting Shiro, good times.

Well, it was a beautiful continent. I would imagine a majority of Cantha is gone. Ecovald Forest would be underwater as well as a major part of Kaineng, sewer systems and underground tunnels completely submerged, only leaving the top of the city to survive. Which would leave Shing Jea Island, I’d imagine most of the island is still there but much of the smaller villages going higher into the mountains.

And I’m sure in time, they will rebuild in DR with time as they figure out how to build properly lol.

Maybe a Shiro return? Anybody? Tyrian invasion?

Why all the hate on Trahearne? I liked him…

Now Logan, there’s a guy to hate.

I am Iron Man!! (now how to get on the GW2 Facebook page with this…)

http://youtu.be/C_X0CHjaMnc

I think you might have this one missing. If not just look around and scan.

Honestly, I’m quite alright with getting into dungeons and having the fractal spam go on. As far as the cathedrals are concerned, I say people were tired of them bugging out or repeating the same thing for 10 minutes over and over again since every time I turn around they are contested again. It’s just a pain to do and not have a solid holding for 5 hours or whatever time (dunno how long we actually hold it for). The only thing to me that FotM killed was my LA chat.

I enjoyed the Halloween event, had lots of fun with the jumping puzzle and throwing my monitor outside :P I kid….

So I was in between for Lost Shores, it seemed very small from the previews and I was right, fractals are amazing and I had fun with the different challenges it gives players (and seeing people get killed to wind lol).

The final event was very laggy but was able to finish it 20 champion karka appear on this topic oh boy….

On the subject of the ascended armor, I’m ok with it for now, just as long as they give us a chance to grab the armor as well in future expansions. I really think this madness that is happening is just nonsense, much like the gas crisis, it will be ok there’s plenty of ascended armor for all lol.

Now I know why I’m never on here that much because of these silly negative posters and people bashing the game, glad I just play and don’t complain too much.

they are…cute!

I’m amazed to see people helping out others such as going out of their way to res you or help down the champion boss you accidentally aggroed.

While the forum shows the latter, the online community is good enough for me.

Dear ArenaNet,

I am Iron Man

que Black Sabbath

already bought my hot pink rare dye from the marketplace.

Mathemagician.7314:

I just hope Zhaitan is bugged, I feel like he probably does things and fails to activate

I really, really doubt they meant for the last boss, the mighty dragon, to just take a coffee break while you rock him with cannons.

that plus during the cut scene, there hardly isn’t any epic music playing as the dragon hugs the pillar like a child holding onto an ice cream cone. (I won’t spoil the scene but you get the idea).

bugged on Sorrow’s Furnace =(

been trying for days for this one.

warrior seems better off with a greatsword. And I do agree Asura know how to handle those big small blades lol

thanks anet for those sleepless nights, best mmo company evar!

Honestly, now that you say it, I don’t think I could go back lol. This game is too much fun and the way it keeps you inside the world is the best. Gotta grab all those karma points for gear…must..grindddd

“As a GW1 veteran…”

I stopped right there.

Maybe the team wanted to make the game different and not exactly like GW1. I say they pulled it off with flying colors.

LifeSuxTR.6528:

I am elementalist.

in spvp :

warrior comes. stuns me+frenzzy+Hundred Blades (18k damage to me ) = i am dead.

in pve

i am trying to kill boss with best items.(80 lvl exotic) i cant deal damage as newbie warrior.also my defance is less than warrior.

so nerf warriors or buff elementalists.

Well there’s the problem right there…you’re wearing cloth.
Cloth = dead.

Dunno if you were expecting cloth to be the best armor or not.

I would assume that Mhenlo would have gone back to Cantha to continue some sort of training. The last monk bender lol.