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On our attempt last night all the bars showed dead for all the knights. And that was at the start so we had no way of knowing what was going on – so of course we failed and no chest. Sigh
Knights aren't dropping loot [Resolved]
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Foxgloved.3029
Nope – only one loot in the 4 runs yesterday. I think maybe getting loot is a bug. Ya gotta just play this game for fun cause if you expect it to actually work like it is supposed to you will be disappointed. It is just a way to spend your excess hours. Don’t expect loot and then you will be surprised and happy when you get it. Kinda like finding a pony under a pile of horse manure.
Ha – noticed you didn’t talk about the loot – oh yeah – it ain’t dropping so that is not a problem.
Welcome to Bug Wars 2 – the game where you spend your time, spend your money and the game bugs out on you. That is why they call new content day Patch Day now. You don’t really expect the game to run smoothly do you? Stick around for more bugged play in the new bugged season. LoL
Dear Brutal – I love you. Best laugh I had all day (well most of it was sitting in buggy content hoping for the opportunity to kill Scarlet). Think of GW2 as a hobby. As hobbies go it is cheaper than owning a wooden boat and we are at least out of the rain and wind.
On that note I think I’ll get out the old credit card and buy myself a torment shield in remembrance of GW1 & DoA, creepy place that it was.
Good luck. Too logical. Will never happen.
I vote for real expansion over endless buggy LS stuff. As I write this we are having 2nd patch of day one – need I say more. Give me Factions, Elona, something with some real meat to it. Give me new dungeons (not more Fractals please, they are so unpleasant). Do we really need to have the mad scramble for new content on a 2 wk rotation?
7.1 is all I can give it.
I do love the return of torment weapons tho it is too bad they are just skins. Would take some nice Vabbi armor skins too please.
Was in the first group to go thru in FA & we succeeded. 2nd, 3rd & 4th rounds in overflows were bugged (2nd one Blue kept regaining health, all 3 killed in next 2 w/in time limit but we got no credit) so we couldn’t get to Scarlet. That took up basically everyone’s whole day. Some of us don’t have unlimited time to play this game so it is mighty inconvenient to come up against constant bugs w every new content.
It is amazing to me how generous GW2 players are about this. It’s just business as usual. Anet puts out new content and you might even be able to play it in a day or 3 – or not. The “Aww shucks we screwed up again, we’ll get back to you” method of dealing w this is getting really annoying. And I am not interested in all the other games w buggy content. That is not the point. We hold up our part of the bargain by buying this game, playing it, using the TP, spending real money, and rightfully expect to have a product that is ready to play.
Yes, Anet! Where is my loot? I Hate having to spam my loot key to pick up my loot. Since there is terrible lag many times I am long gone way before the loot drops so there is no hope of getting it.
It’s my loot and I want it dropped in my bag. You could do it in GW1, well do it in GW2 please. Am sure there must still be 3 or 4 precursers sitting out in the grass in EB, unclaimed because I had to get out of Dodge before the hammer train killed me.
And to add insult to injury, you can be standing right next to your loot, spamming the loot key and it still wont drop in the bag depending on the terrain or some other mysterious reason. It is a silly and useless system and needs to be fixed.
you can trade directly – just stand in what used to be our beloved LA and offer to sell what you have to someone else.
The good news is you don’t pay the TP. The bad news is that you have no recourse if someone just takes your item and doesn’t pay you – or the reverse. LoL
Agree w you, esp about stowing the blasted worthless pets – my final answer is to use a bird – they at least don’t stand w their butts in my face when I am trying to do a jp after they have mysteriously popped back out into my area. Sigh.
Yes, esp for totals – could not care less about tiers. Just give me the total please! I believe the tier system is set up for those that must have immediate gratification and a few points along the way – so if they don’t finish the entire monthly they at least get something.
I think destroying LA forever is a dumb idea. It was a great place to congregate and there is something to be said for that. The new area has no crafting place unless you want to pay Anet – pfft.
What is going to replace it? Who wants to be stuck in Divinity’s Reach or any of the other cities and see no one – towns that are totally inconvenient to anywhere.
Is it time for guild halls?
After reading this I am a little perplexed. This game was launched in fall of 2012, which OP noted – now that means that OP has played since the beginning of the game and did not know several basic facts – how to use wiki, what a knowledge crystal was, had never done story line and did not know how to use basic lfg. I find this a little ingenuous. And in a dungeon to go back and help another toon and not stick with the folks that know what they are doing? You cannot play that way in this game in those circumstances.
As for chat – the game is rife w adolescent types, no matter their age. That is the demographic that pays the bills for anet so you can ignore silly stuff or not – cause it ain’t gonna change. And if you have played this game for the total time it has been in existence you already know this.
It may be that this game is just not a good fit for you and your needs. If you feel it is or you want it to be you are gonna have to pull up your big girl/boy boots and figure it out. Read the wiki like a book, take notes, go to Dulfy and read all that can be found on GW, watch utubes of places you want to go and have never been to. Treat it like a job so that others do not have to carry you around.
And for heaven sake gear up and weapon up like you mean it. Learn your skills and how to make best use of them for your class. Use food, potions, oils, get some canisters to repair armor along the way. No preparation in the game is like no preparation in life, a detriment to you and all running with you.
I say to you “Buck up! Go forth! Be brave!” But it is your responsibility to make this happen and not depend on others to carry you around. Join a guild but know that the expectations are such that you will quickly be expected to carry your own weight. So use the resources available to you, become informed, learn from others and enjoy yourself.
So it seems that legendaries that were originally made to kind of prove you had done all aspects of the game and were a grinding fiend now should just be gotten by not having to do much of anything.
That was always the case. Just buy one from the TP, Just get out the old credit card and pay out the money if you don’t want to do the work that goes with it. Simple.
Frankly, I would like to see legendaries as account bound and never be for sale. Now that would make them meaningful. But then the TP would miss out on a lot of $$$.
I like the fact that you have to have a certain ranking to get gift of battle. It is not called gift of pve or gift of achievement chests or gift of immediate gratification – it is Gift of Battle.
I also think that you should have rank 100 before getting a commander tag. Silly me.
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Hmmm – ok so I can go back to my server’s actual wvw map today and be run over cause I am a tourist and only come up here when there is a special achievement (and be a bag farm) or I can hang out in EOTM and get lots of bags. Yeah, I think I will just bag farm there for a while – still get the achievements and don’t have to bother w actually playing wvw. Cool. Don’t like that nasty old wvw place anyway. This is sooo much more pve.
And this season (uhh tournament) I don’t have to do as much and I can get more “stuff” and transfer back and forth depending on who is ahead. And get more stuff. Perfect.
(p.s. – the “stuff” is not actual stuff, just skins so it is all good)
rolls eyes
Yes – tho why I say yes is beyond me.
Could Anet please make our wvw points acct bound before then!
Why does everything have to be dumbed down? Sure, not everyone got to finish all the achievements – well that is just fine. Work hard, play long, get achievements. Wander in for a couple hours a week and get some of the achievements. So be it.
4H works on the Swiss method – everybody gets a ribbon and it is all pretty meaningless.
I understood EOTM was just a place to go to wait for the server to unload? If folks stay in there to get all of the achievements then servers w less population lose yet again. I think this is a bad idea. Bad, bad, bad. Lazy way for Anet to not have to deal w the map overflow problem.
Leaving DS in big wvw brawls is a dangerous move at best – so the lock out makes a sensible necro try to find a safe place to wait it out (good luck w that). So yes Anet – another vote to fix that bug.
Actually w my old compy and 5fps in fights, I never noticed the problem as I usually just found myself dead on the ground but w compy upgrade it is very obvious – that couple second delay is a real problem.
Roll an engi – - – Next? lol
Maybe this is dumb ? but is someone recommending celestial for necro? Have lots of crystals so that’s no problem and working on ascended. Use toon a lot in wvw now, running pvc w runes of tormenting on one set of armor w staff, well, sigils of malice and torment on weapons.
Had thot maybe dire would be good for condi necro but don’t see it mentioned by anyone. Any information would be welcome – and no I am not a zerker type. lol
One commander tag does not fit all. The only criteria now is paying 100G to get a tag. We have “commander” tags up there on toons that have played the game 2 wks. Does anyone see a problem here? Like the toon does not know any maps, how the game is played, etc etc. Maybe it is time for a change in tags – would also be nice for pve.
Tags with choices – You can choose the mode you want. Cost still 100G.
1. BLUE commander taco as used now – but if the toon (or soon the account base) has less than 100 rank points it is GRAY. That at least warns everyone that the toon is new and may or may not have a clue.
2. RED tag for havok that can only be seen by folks in your squad. That would be really helpful when the map has multiple groups running. Not everyone wants to blob and small to medium groups need a way to keep track.
3. GREEN tag for guild raids, practice, etc. seen by guildies only.
Anyway, just a thought on tags.
Double Ugh on FA, TC, Maguma match up for what seems like the 88th week in a row. The more casual players on FA are just not going to go up there to be ganked over and over again.
I do not know how you do the match ups but they seem skewed when they are the same week after week. Doesn’t anyone at Anet even make an attempt to keep things interesting? Or maybe review what is going on?
Guess it is a good week to chase champs.
My thoughts as a mostly pve & wvw player on spvp
1. Rewards for spvp from chests is redundant and worthless. Keep getting the same stuff over and over again ad nauseum.
2. Saved glory to spend at next level but after first 2-3 chests it is just junk again. So how will that change?
3. Guess I could stand at the mystic toilet up there and try to make something better but why can’t we just get better drops instead of the same stuff over and over again?
4. The idea of somehow earning legendary skins in pvp is very bad. That would mean that it is just another skin. I don’t want to see every other toon running around w Juggernaut if they didn’t reallllly earn the darned thing. The only way it would be fair is if the people who have legendaries can just have a skin of it to use in pvp. Period. Any other way of obtaining it is going to cause another kitten storm like ANet trying to foist off poorly reskinned T3 cultural armor w glowy bits in the TP as a fresh skin . Taking months of work in this game and making it valueless does not seem like a good idea.
4. pvp seems to be getting further and further away from being a welcoming place for casual players. I am up to Dolyak probably as much as anything because of time spent playing not because I am great at pvp. Have basically quit doing much of it because hotjoin is painful and full of verbally abusive players – and I don’t see how dangling gold in front of folks is going to make it better. We shall see.
No – No – No. Sorry you pd RWM for the skins but the answer should still be NO you do not get to keep it. Sorry. Maybe you can hound ANet into giving you something special but that is between you and them. That would even make the armor MORE special for half the price etc etc. ANet will come up with something if they feel like it but more importantly maybe they will think before they try taking the lazy path again. Or not, who knows.
Wow! I thought I would be the onlly one who was really put out by ANet being so lazy and stupid to think that my T3 lt armor is now ok to call NEW w stupid glowy bits added to it and downgrading its value by about half. What were you/they (not that anyone from ANet will read any of this) thinking? That we might not notice?
In the past new skins have occasionally been quite nice but this is just pure and utter laziness and lack of understanding the basics of the game they supposedly created.
None of these skins are new or original and should therefore be removed from the TP and replaced with something NEW or not replaced at all. This is doubly true of the light armor. What a crock.
Could not have said it better myself.
Anet grade on Teq the Funless revamp – FAIL!
Been at 12/13 since day 3 of the event – thot I had a list that worked but am on about my 18th additional hour trying to find the last zone.
Of course now the areas are just full of farmers so at least 1/2 of maps fail and folks are happy as clams to let those of us know that are still working on this that they don’t give a crap. Blech.
Really tired of new content as is everyone I talk to in my guild of over 450. It is wearing us out. We are tired of having to spend untold hours chasing after stuff to get these achievements that are bugged, fail more than 50% of time. I know, so don’t do it. Can’t man, am 100 pts from 10k chest. This game is tough on an achievement junkie.
Just give us a list like noted above – great idea
LOL – could be my favorite thread. Thanks for the reality (GW2 style) check.
Jumping puzzles – for me the most challenging part of the game. At game’s beginning it took me about 10 hrs to do the Broken Wall. JP’s are HARD, they are a challenge to do and do well. I whined, I whinged, I got sweaty palms, ground my teeth. I hated them w a passion. Then realized it was my problem, my issue and if I wanted to take the time to figure them out, work w guildies on how to become competent at them I could learn how to do them quite well. And for Goehm’s Lab a friendly guildie gave me a port.
Get help from your Guildies. Noone to help you there? Find another guild to join that has more helpful folks. Teamwork and running w buddies makes it easier and less annoying. Or as another option – don’t bother with them. Noone puts a gun to anyone’s head in GW2 & forces anyone to do anything. It is just a game. Do what you like. Don’t do what you don’t like.
The definition of eletist seems a little harsh to throw at peeps who don’t have a big problem w JPs. Take a deep breath. IT IS JUST A GAME….
I agree w Zooku. Since most of the time I have written in here it has been to complain about something, it is nice to say Good Job Anet.
Especially like the races. They are a hoot and great jumping practice. Finding the crystals was fun tho I kind of wish I could have gotten them all one more time. Some of those locations were a real test. And the backpacks are very nice.
Anyway, thanks again Anet!
HaHa – so here is the kicker – got enough charged crystals and made the insignia on my lvl 400 armorsmith (of which I have 2 presently) and it is glitched.
I cannot make a piece of armor – the insignia does not show up in the discovery panel – GO ANET! Another great buggy process in a game where new buggy content is all important. Gotta love it.
To answer dust question, when you make your lucky clovers get a lot of other t6 mats in the process, so do that early on in the process. ALso, take lower level mats, sell them & buy what you need. Sell everything that is not needed, salvage all drops from lvl 70 up. Use all your laurels to buy t6 mats. Takes months.
So glad to see this post. Put one in myself similar to yours after making the Minstrel for my Necro. Got no response. I like the skin for the Minstrel but was blown away by the lack of effects from it. Occasionally when I switch to the weapon I hear what faintly sounds like a rubber band twanging – yeah that’s just what a harp should sound like – not! As for the musical notes, they are glitched most of the time and I rarely see even a fleeting view of them. What a disappointment.
Did not know that another offhand has footsteps. If weapons all take the same long arduous time to make then some weapons should not have everything to make them special and other weapons basically have nothing.
The real problem is that noone at Anet gives a hoot about this problem and noone there will read this thread so noone there will have to do anything to fix it. I am afraid that for those of us that have made this weapon, we are just out of luck. But we will get new skins that are 10 times more interesting than our poor little legendaries. What a shame.
Got to top of jump poppers where there is a doorway w consol next to it – Keil does not make it to this area, stays down on trail and consol not working so it is bugged. One person left group and someone who had successfully done the dungeon agreed. Bugged. Nice dungeon other than the fact you can’t complete it……..
Now some of you may think that is a silly question – but after 4 months of working on my legendary weapon – it has zip cool animation. The hours, the grind, blah blah blah. And with The Minstrel you get what is in fact a nice little harp. No animation whatsoever, no sound I can hear, nothing at all.
Making the minstrel did not require fewer dungeon runs (and CM paths are way harder than the 10 min CoF runs), lvl 6 mats, clovers, ectos, yadda yadda. And it does NOTHING but sit there and remind me that I sure spent a lot of time for nothing much. I don’t care about globs of what looks like petrol or little flowers on the ground – but could the weapon do SOMETHING cool for all that work? I think I saw a couple notes come off it once, but am not sure at this point.
What a disappointment. I guess if it ain’t a big bad two-handed weapon then the devs just decided not to bother with it.
There should be a warning posted somewhere by Anet that they just lost interest. But note – they can bring out gathering tools that have cool animations – so why don’t they buff up the “legendary” weapons that are basically featureless. . . . . It would be a nice gesture to those of us who went or are even now going to a lot of work for very disappointing results.
Lag, Dc’d 3x since this morning. Blech. Have played 8 times. Impossible to make any pts, and other side score rising too rapidly to be fair. Some kind of cheating going on atm. The process is fun but is really disappointing to never make any pts while being run over by mob from other side. Also, when res you lose your extra skills and can never get any new xtra skills – at least I have never found any. Gonna lose all players but the kids on this one. Waste of time.
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Read that patch fixed hints. My hint broken was the mailbox full hint which I have complained about in the past – several months ago.
Let mailbox fill up and now there are 12 letters in it from game and still no “HINT” that the box is full. WIll let it fill up to over 20 and see if that fixes it. This is annoying. It takes time, I can’t pick up my rewards and clogs stuff up. It is a little thing but when you advertise that something is fixed it would be nice if it were true.
I know, everyone is busy making new buggy content. Sigh.
It has been interesting to see the new content as it comes out. The majority of folks play it and don’t say anything anywhere about how they view it. Only a few peeps take the time to ck out the forums and try to give some input. Which may or may not be appreciated by Anet but maybe should be looked at more seriously than it currently is.
It’s one thing to have a vision but it is another thing to serve your customers with what they want/expect. It’s all about making us happy so we dont wander off somewhere else.
New content is fun because it is new and different and there is the hope for something special, a fresh reason to keep playing. An example is right here in Karkaland. Farm those shells because the new merchants are going to have some cool new stuff. Uhh, wait a minute, it is just old armor – not even a new skin. Ok, blinky weapons that drip blood (ewww) are available but I personally was hoping for some different armor. Stacks of shells and nothing worthwhile to spend then on. Bottom has dropped out of market too. Ahh well.
Go in to the towns, not enough players, masses of karkas spawn and instant death – repair armor – rinse and repeat. Go to merchant when 4 towns held and he sells white junk. About 4th time he sells the “good” stuff noted above, but only momentarily. I gotta ask where the fun is in that. Not having much here nor are others I talk to on ts. Not to mention horrible lag, random annoying disconnects, slide show-llike fights, stupid overflow.
Totally agree w HawkMeister. He said it so well.
WHAT!!!!! Anet is going to make us do this again? We have to run all over ANets creation cause they are too lazy to fix their screw ups? That moderator had better be wrong. What a crock!
I cannot believe that this will not be taken care of – what a waste of time and effort to go find the creatures, port to different areas, spend a bunch of gold so that ANet does not have to support this game appropriately. Nice job ANet.
Ok – yeah – lost achievement points –
Dear ANet, Please fix this screw up so you don’t have to listen to us complain please. This game is annoying enuf w/o inexplicable negative changes to achievement panel.
tyvm
Yup – slayers all screwed up – 999 of 1000 on most now – bet Anet is just as annoyed as we are but if they can just fix it soon it would be nice – rolls eyes and bites tongue so not to make a nasty comment…
Ahh – dungeons. To start off, I am a dedicated GW2 player, 4 toons thru story line, all crafts, almost all JPs, top of line gear and weapons, over 1k hours – but dungeons are so painful. Couple days ago spent 5 hours w guildie team, on ts for comm and only succeed w 2 fractals. Trying to keep everyone alive requires what you call res-rushing. BS – it is just trying to get back to my guildies before everything goes further into the toilet yet again. One player got dc’d so then down to 4 so not enuf dps. This is fun? Impossible is not the definition of a challenge. This game appears to be made for Alpha players who do nothing but dungeons. I have tried about 3 of the regular dungeons and they were long, ugly, depressing, purely painful & unpleasant experiences. New guildmates who are less experienced want to try them and then I think – uh oh – we will surely not complete this and waste hours in the process. But we go, we try, we die over and over and over again. No one is having fun, everyone is busting their butt and success is rarely if ever achieved. And the loot is crap as frosting on this poisonous cake. 20-30 deaths, canisters, orbs, lots of silver. Wow, reading this I wonder why I bother, others are asking the same questions. Our guild of over 150 really has only about 40 who play now. Rest look like they have given it up.
I frankly do not see this GW having a long life if everything in it is done for pvp players and dungeon fanatics. Regular players, the bread and butter of this game, can’t make the cut, can’t play at the levels required to do anything but story line over and over and over again. Boring. And don’t get me started on wvw which is just a zergfest. Who would bother to even go in there any more either.
Wish I could be or feel more positive. Wish I didn’t have so much time and energy invested in this game.
Noticed this also. Nice work Anet.
Ahh – my favorite rant. If you finish the daily every day of the month then wouldn’t that be the monthly? Duh. That is much fairer than the current random crap we have to do now.
And it is supposedly PVE – so why not keep it just PVE. WvW is not PVE, dungeons are not PVE, Fractals are not PVE.
For your own sake please DO NOT USE THE BLT – it just took my money and a bunch of other players money – they are having some kind of serious problem w it as near as I can see. ANet needs to get its act together. This is not still beta and all this foolishness is really not acceptable. Lost nearly a gold.
HELP! BLT just took nearly a gold and did not give me my stuff. Since there is no record I guess I am just screwed. Orichalcum ore and 15 orbs. They had better fix this. And it better be soon.
Got in overflow – got no event at all – got bored = will probably not bother with any future events until ANet gets its act together (maybe 2-3 yrs from now).
Sad that so many people got only a big dose of disappointment and wasted time but this comes to us from the same bunch that can’t fix the bugs in personal story lines for over a month. Why are we surprised?
Maybe some really smart Anet person will read this thread and notice that people are not very happy about this last weekend. How much fun is wasting time, being confused, not being able to attend events, being placed in overflow for hours at a time and having nothing work as it should.
I hope we dont have the dubious pleasure of any more of these events until maybe some time after ANet gets at least personal quest issues straightened out.
1. What good is a special event if people cannot progress through their story line?
2. Why give a free trial weekend during a totally bugged special event?
3. Why add more crafing supplies that noone has room to store?
4. Why have a final event that is bugged that people can’t even attend?
5. Why give out skins that wont go on ALL armor?
As with all else, I expect no answer but do feel better for the chance to vent.
Anet appears to be very focused on pushing all members into PvP & WvW – sigh. There is no way I will ever get a monthly achievement since it has nothing to do with actually playing the game for a month. Why not get something for making all or 90% of dailies mean something. Month is an accumulation of days. That says it all imho.