Guild Wars 2

Here’s what I just found in my e-mail inbox:

Hi there,

We are currently in the process of looking into this issue. However, it may take a while for us to resolve this matter. Please remain patient while we investigate.

I understand that this is an inconvenience for you, but be assured, we are working hard to fix this problem and we will have a working solution for you soon.

Regards,

GM Andreas
Guild Wars Support Team
http://support.guildwars2.com/

So, let’s wait some more. Although I’d really like to get some gems, like Auxilium.

If they fix the bugs, the dungeons are all good, tbh. You really need to work together as a group, and – shocking as that might be – actually use what group utility spells you have.
Every class has some form of boons or conditions to help out; if you’re stacking glass cannon players without group utility, you’re going to have a bad time.

This speed clearing thing is BS, imho. You are using it as a crutch to counter exploits. Newsflash: make dungeons not exploitable and spend some more time fixing bugs rather than punishing good players.

rickets.1386:

Yes this is exactly how it should work but it is not. Many people who have not run dungeons in a week or so are getting DR’s on first runs. I’m happy for you because it seems to be working as intended, but it is not the case for many of us.

Oh yes, I am totally on your side, and even if I am not experiencing the bug my guildies are, and no one wants to do dungeon runs with me anymore, really.

Just did another run where my mates got 45 badges, and I got 60. It was the first run for everyone of us since yesterday 10 PM GMT (so a day has passed by).

I can’t believe you people (“it’s okay you only get 45 badges”) are too thick to read the patch notes. First run in a wing (not dungeon!) should always yield 60 badges, which amounts to 180 tokens in three runs per day. There should be no hidden DR according to the notes.

Maybe an example helps you to understand:
New day. I run Magg in CoF, and it yields me 60 badges. If I run Magg a second time, DR kicks in, and I get 45, and even less for the times after that. If I, however, decide to go and do the other wings in CoF (or other dungeons at all!) I’ll receive 60 tokens for my first finish in whatever wing I clear, and less for the next runs in this particular wing.
That’s how it’s in the patch notes, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Btw: I have never exploited (why would you? It’s easy) CoF, but I ran Magg a lot. In fact I’m only missing another 50 badges for the pants, and then I have the complete set. Funny thing is, I still get 60 badges for every first wing clear per day, and less for consecutive ones, while my friends who have done less dungeons than me get random numbers anywhere from 45 to 15 for the first dungeon in the day, and even less after that.

@ Robert:

We still managed to do a run in 20 minutes, and the difficulty really is fine. Maybe a tad on the difficult side, but still not Flame Effigy overtuned.

What irks me:
- Fire extinguisher room NPC AI is terrible. He randomly attacks mobs off the path and dies. Terrible.
- The kite / bomb setup / damage race room is bonkers. We stacked our boons, and still ended up graveyard training. We were able to kill the first pack of mobs before the second spawned, but then the event overwhelmed us. Maybe tone down the amount of mobs a bit? The “extra bow dude”… wasn’t the best idea. Imho.

What really irks me:
Dungeons are not rewarding anymore. After doing exactly one run (not per day, I really mean once, to experience the dungeon) in each explorable mode there is no reason to do more.
Loot drops are utter crap (pardon my French), the token sets take too much tokens to be worth while.
And if you do decide to grind out the 70ish runs (!) it takes to get a full set of armor (which is a massive time investment) in one wing (which was already indirectly penalized by awarding a badge bonus for completing differeng wings once a day) you start to lose coin (which is a big deal, considering the time you spend grinding for tokens in dungeons).

I’ll take a bit of a dungeon break until something is done about these issues.

^
So, you’re basically telling us to shut up about the 30€ worth of gold we lost because of a bug? Not sure if you’re a good troll, or just something that would get me banned from the forum if I actually wrote it.

And: not even a response in here from ANet yet. That is pretty bad. Not “I’m quitting the game” bad, but still terribly.

Yackeroeni.5768:

The big problem I have with this si not that we (Far Shiverpeaks) always lose, but that we always stay in second position or sometimes third, so we are always red or blue. As I need one poi and one vista in the green part of Eternal Battlegrounds (which we are obviously not going to take from Vizunah as they always stomp us), I would very much appreciate it if the team colors were random rather than based on your ranking.

This 100 times.
Missing 2 POIs and 2 Vistas, and will never get them – because they are deep in French territory. And I play WvW a lot..

Still nothing?
Wow.

I bought a crate of Berserker’s Draconic Armor, too (for 12g, which seemed decent, about as much as you’d pay for a whole set), and received a wonderful set of yellow items, which I was able to sell for 3ish g, so I made a loss of 9g.

9g – at the moment – get you 3300 gems. 3300 gems can be bought for more than 35€, just to put that into perspective.

I don’t want any money, I don’t want the armor set, I just want my 9g back. It takes a lot of time to farm gold in this game, and losing 9g hurts a lot, especially if it is because of a bug (the box is labeled as “Berserker’s Draconic Armor”, but that is not what’s in there).

(oh, and I opened a support ticket and did not even get any sort of response)