Showing Posts For Cubivore.9410:
I liked the event. Maybe not as much as any of the GW1 events, but it was still fun. No need to list the things I like, because it’s obviously everything I don’t write here. So I’ll just quickly list my criticisms.
1) The labyrinth was utterly boring in my opinion. If I wanted to run around and kill mobs I could do that in the regular game content. The novelty of killing plastic spiders, candy corn elementals and glow in the dark skeletons wore off for me on day 2.
2) Pumpkin carving was nice, but I found it quite hard to find enough pumpkins to complete the achievement without farming the labyrinth. The problem mainly residing in criticism 1.
3) This is my biggest complaint: The mad king’s clocktower. I love jump puzzles. I’m known in my guild and the circles that I run in to be the biggest jump puzzle nut of us all. Now, I complain not necesarilly about the difficulty.. But the way it was implemented into the game. I tried for hours on end to jump, only to fail because some fat charr and/or norn got in my way making me unable to see my character or where I would land. I even found some of the charr players trolling the CT. They completed it several times already(which is fine; by all means do it as many times as you like), but they stayed there purely for the reason of griefing other players by blocking their view. This is supported by their chat, not just based on my personal opinion. Also, there are problem players that think using speed boosts that affect all nearby players is a good idea. Okay, if it helps you then use it, but it does not help me. In fact, I think it makes things more difficult because I do so many jump puzzles without speed boosts and I am used to the distance my character will jump. And lastly, I felt that it was quite bugged. There were many times where I would be standing still waiting for the side of the tower to break so everyone couold continue.; And while waiting for no reason I would be grabbed by hands(without the green mist near anyone) and taken back to the lobby. This also occured when I was running around, nowhere near an edge or a jump and taken back to the start(Yet again, no green mist close to me).
Now here are a few things as food for thought on how to remedy said CT situations:
A. Give the puzzle an optional solo instance, or an instance you can bring a party into. This would fix not only those griefers and flat out annoying players(Sorry norn and charr I know a lot of you are legitimately doing the puzzle, but it doesn’t change the fact that the rest of us can’t see). For those players that get a bit laggy at times it fixes their issue(I have great connection, but I’ll stick up for you minorities).
B. Create seperate lobbies for players who have completed the puzzle already and players who have yet to finish the puzzle. Although I think the former fix would be better, I think that this would be embraced by Anet much more quickly. This one would at least put my mind at ease that the norn blocking my view is probably legitamitely trying thus keeping some of the would-be problem players out.
There is nothing I can say on my end about the bugs. I’m not a programmer. So i leave that bit up to you.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way, and I mean no offense to charr and norn players. So all of you racial defenders, please try to avoid tearing me to bits.