Guild Wars 2

[KING] Immortal Kingdom – Fractal Tournament

The tournament will be held the 26th of July 2014 Starting at 14:00 UTC – Server Time

It will consist of 3 rounds of 90 minutes during which competing teams will have to complete as many level 50 fractals as possible. With a total prize amount of 4000g, it’s a healthy change of pace from typical fractals rewards!

The event will be streamed on twitch so each team must have one streamer.

Each fractal will be worth a specific amount of points based on its length based on [KING] Immortal Kingdom’s extensive experience in fractals. Incremental values based on the tier at which you get a fractal will be applied to reward progression, though you’re free to roll swamp over and over if you think you can still win.

The Final Point spreadsheet for every fractal will be published 48 Hours before the tournament, and each registered team will be notified ingame.

There are only Four Rules:

You can’t switch character. (You are allowed to relog the same character for repairs)

All pathways that are designed to block progress through the path must be opened. You may not have any party member(s) get past blocked passages until the required sequence/dialogue has been completed.

You will be disqualified if it is evident that your party has deliberately abused positioning to disable a boss. This means safe spotting a boss, line of sighting to cause a boss to break, etc.

You can’t use gem store consumables and tomes of knowledge – other consumables are welcome.

As far as other aspects of fractals, anything goes, so have fun strategizing.

The first round is open to every team who wants to participate. Afterwards all teams report their scores and close their streams. We’ll download the archived broadcasts to confirm the top 4 scores are accurate, then move on to the second round. Teams that will have ranked 5 to 8 will be rewarded but will not progress to the Semifinals.

The second round, or Semifinals, will consist of the top 4 from the free-for-all, the top two teams in terms of point will proceed to the Finals, where they will face each other in one last round of ultimate destiny to decide the victor!

Prizes
1st place – 2000g + 10000 Gems
2nd place – 1000g + 4000 Gems
3rd place – 500g
4th place – 250g
5th place – 125g
6th place – 75g
7th place – 50g
8th place – 1 Broken Claw

To apply please contact The Rise, Iquasi, Zip or Particlar – And post an application form as a reply to this post stating your team Name and Members.

You can check the teams taking part in the event here: http://bit.ly/1nVeIRP

If you want to get ready feel free to check our extensive fractal guides:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-f7beQOnuHhR9Rkjyv0e6gl4TKU0RVzj

or here

http://www.twitch.tv/jnvsor/profile/pastBroadcasts

And also check our spreadsheet of drop rates started on may 20th in which we just reached over 1000 chests open, so you can get an idea of what are your chances at getting the item you want!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml

We look forward to see you participate and compete in the Summer 2014 KING Fractal Tournament!

For those of you who are interessted in getting the legendary longbow, Kudzu, here are a few things you need to know.

The skin itself – The brown string that makes no sense:

http://i.imgur.com/eHSZnkR.jpg

The Shooting process:

Step 1: The bugged dryad:

http://i.imgur.com/dd02FyH.jpg

Step 2: The golden arrow:

http://i.imgur.com/31mPHmc.jpg

Step 3: Will the arrow stay or bug away:

http://i.imgur.com/MOtlGZF.jpg

Now onto the effect on crit:

It seems that the effect on critical hits is a blossoming effect that layers over the target’s hitbox and not skin, causing it to be barely visible on some targets and nicely visible on others, here are a few examples:

Effect on a Female Human:

http://i.imgur.com/Ei5dzHc.jpg

Effect on a Female Norn:

http://i.imgur.com/CSCeXA9.jpg

Effect on a Male Norn:

http://i.imgur.com/pFc9HAG.jpg

Effect on a Female Sylvari:

http://i.imgur.com/c9R0F3A.jpg

And that’s about it for the Legendary Longbow Kudzu, i do hope most of these issues will be addressed soon as they were for the legendary Shortbow – The Dreamer in the January patch, and hopefully we will have a truly legendary weapon with quality visible shooting and hitting effects.

So if you too wish for Kudzu to be revamped soon to be on par, in terms of quality of animations and attention to detail, with other legendaries, please let yourselves be heard!

Impales.

PS: As most of you know the footsteps of Kudzu are often referred to as the “Puke Steps” due to the use of only one shape repeated over and over, and the quality of its textures and colors being very poor. The center flower seems to grow in either white or purple, even if once again, its is barely noticeable due to the coloration and poor texturing of the “grass” around it.

papry.8096:

Well you play in fractal, you doesn’t open thousand of bag.

I play in fractal, AND, i opened 1.12m bags to get the mini. Check up the thread.

And as a side note, and to clarify something, i never said anything about people being deserving or not, i just pointed out that this whole game is based on RnG and the endgame end up being the ridiculous drop rate items.
People just seem to forget almost all the endgame is based on that system, and on this instance since i put in the effort to get it, i feel like i can firmly say, if you want it, you will get it, it takes time, like everything else.
The general attitude is what bothers me a bit, this whole “I need it and i want it now!”.
Just my opinion, i wanted to share and make it clear, my goal isn’t to offend anyone, just to reassure people that yes it drops, yes it will take time, but yes at some point if you are consistant you will get what you aim for.
It’s sad people forgot about that.

Praise the gods of the RNG Tonic.

Maybe one day we’ll be able to spend a stack of pristine relics or two for it.

:(

TPenny.5071:

Guild leader opened 1.12 million bags and finally got it :P

Opened 1.12m bags, and got:

1 Gwynefrydd
1 Black Necklace
2 Green Necklaces
3 Endless Batwing Tonics
2 Gift of Spiders
71 Zuzus
13,5k Wrappers (approx)
3 Legendary Luck

so assuming the necklaces, bat tonics, legendary luck, gifts and Gwynefrydd are on the same loot table, it was probably just bad luck on my side.

But hey, finally got it

Fror.2163:

Impale.2503:

You can’t use gem store items.

Define those items. If you want to say “no boost”, just say so.

This so broad that it’s entirely possible that you disqualify someone for having a skin or salvaging using the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic (as you well know, the inventory is often full after a fractal). I personally would consider those disqualifications unacceptable. Saying “just don’t use those” is also problematic as it’s being fastidious over non gameplay things.

Also, some other team could be fussy and swear they opened a boost with a key they got ingame. So the used item doesn’t technically come from the gem store.

No GemStore Consumable Items – sorry this wasn’t clarified.

Simply put no boosters, no rez orbs, no repair canisters, no metabolic primer, bonfire camp, etc.

Salvage-O-Matic isn’t a consumable, so it is fine.

And as far as other teams creating a fuss about boosters, the rule is here, Gem Store Consumables is a designation not an origin. No boosters means no boosters.

I hope that clarified things

Megis.9264:

Thanks for royally screwing us over with an ‘statistically’ virtually unobtainable mini.

I still got 2. <3

fellyn.5083:

Impale.2503:

Kronos.3695:

So, at the end you asked your guildies to support you on your failure point/discussion.
Well, that’s and end for me, I’ll wait for ArenaNet and a fix of the droprate.

I just mentioned how ridiculous the reactions for a mini that is attainable atm for some gold/effort are when we have been after a tonic for 1 year +.

They just decided to chip in after reading your rather funny posts/reactions

So you justify bad game design in one area of the game because there is bad game design in a different area of the game.

Perfect argument is perfect. /s

Not an argument at all, you are really thick mate.

The whole point is why fix one minor bad aspect of the game when a couple players cry a river because they want the reward without spending the time/effort/resources – which is fine, everyone has different gameplay schedules – and not one that has been asked for fixing for soon to be a full year when unlike what you guys are doing here, we provided accurate numbers and data, valid options with measured quantification as to fix the fractal issue.

Point is: If they fix this issue, they better fix the other issues that relate to the same exact problem – including fractals – because this will be the 3rd time that they will have complied to a very small % of the overall population QQ’ing on a forum thread while ignoring the fractal issue.

#PointMade.com

I want these changes, SO badly…..

SO….

Badly….

A fix for these terrible drop rates would be the use of the Pristine Relics which are currently useless.

Tonic for 250, weapon skin for 50, would make everyone happy and reward the grind with content specific skins/costmetics. Just food for thoughts Mr. Devs. #Hype

You could even allow a 100-250 pristine relic upgrade to your backpiece to change the color so you don’t have to make a new model. #Value

PS: A fix for the late lag spikes in fractals would be much appreciated, its getting really annoying.

TPenny.5071:

GUILD WARS 2 RAIDS

Raids in Guild Wars 2 are completely different to that in other MMORPGs. There is no “Holy Trinity” so encounter mechanics have to be tailored to everyone helping each other.
We wanted raids to differ from the world boss content therefore each raid will have a portal in the zone the raid is situated.

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UNLOCKING RAIDS & ACCESSABILITY

Raids in Guildwars2 are a guild activity.
We decided to do this to encourage a higher level of communication and organisation between players so you can take on this increased challenge and promote competition between guilds.

• New guild upgrades category: RAID
  1. Research Raid (Mordremoth’s Lair) Unlock – 10000 Influence over 1 week
  2. Research Raid (Tower of the Dead) Unlock – 20000 Influence over 1 week

• This is the one time research to unlock the raid.

• Guild Raid (Mordremoth’s Lair) 3 days – 200 Influence.
  (This opens the raid instance for 3 days for your guild.)

• The Instance area is only accessible to guild the members while the guild buff is activated.

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PEOPLE, CAPACITY & SCALING

There are small guilds and there are big guilds, each community of players varies in size and we can cater for both with instance scaling. Like any open world encounter it scales to the amount of players in the event, your guild instance will dynamically scale to the players inside.

• Only guild members can access this instance.

• 10 person minimum and content scales up to the map capacity of 150 people.

• While encounters inside the raid are in progress it will not scale down, so don’t die!

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RAID CONTENT: BOSSES

Raid content in Guildwars2 is hard.
Unlike most world bosses each encounter will be uniquely tailored to challenge your skill as a team and an individual.

• Hard boss fights with multiple phases.

• Unique roles for individual players such as; kiting, pressure plates, jumping puzzles, cannon firing, etc.

• Each boss has at least one attack that ignores agis and downstate to instantly kill you. Beware!

• If a boss is rooted to the ground there will be a reason for it.
  (no more dragons standing still.)

RAID CONTENT: ENCOUNTERS

Events and regular foes throughout the raid instance are interesting and unique mini encounters no longer trash in which you skip or run past.

• All foes will no longer leash to their origin, they will now pursue relentlessly until you or they are killed.

• Some creatures can sense you through stealth, so hiding won’t work!

• Loot table with; unique and rare drops, raid currency, mystic forge components and mini pets.

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PROGRESSION

There is no gear treadmill in Guildwars2 so content is gated by how well you can work as a team and navigate the mechanics of the encounter. To progress in this new raid environment you must overcome each challenge as it comes.

• As content gets harder you must get better and you are rewarded for your effort.

• As new raid content is released the older raids will be rebalanced to make it more accessible

• The currency based rewards are high while the content is at its newest.

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REWARDS

Unique armour and weapon skins, achievements and titles
Rest TBA

Simply AWSOME.

Would absolutely LOVE to see something like that implemented!

MeGaZlo.9516:

Impale.2503:

MeGaZlo.9516:

Impale.2503:

TPenny.5071:

Guild leader opened 1.12 million bags and finally got it :P

Opened 1.12m bags, and got:

1 Gwynefrydd
1 Black Necklace
2 Green Necklaces
3 Endless Batwing Tonics
2 Gift of Spiders
71 Zuzus
13,5k Wrappers (approx)
3 Legendary Luck

so assuming the necklaces, bat tonics, legendary luck, gifts and Gwynefrydd are on the same loot table, it was probably just bad luck on my side.

But hey, finally got it

Maybe I get something wrong and this is some kind of joke…
But where did you get these 1.12 mln bags?
Or where did you get ~67.000 gold to buy it? Or, may be, 8000(+ ~8000more) hours to grind it? Or even ~4000+ slots to store it? Share a secret. So far everything points to the fact that you.. how to put it mildly… a bit exaggerating

Buy 2 rows of 10 stacks, open, vendor yellow craftable, make cobs, save Balm & Cookies, delete rest, rinse & repeat for 3 days, the first few days were actually a profit for the resell value on cobs/zuzus/pillow cases/etc, i only started losing money the last day and a half.

But in the end i did end up in the negative by quite a bit gold wise.

The most time consuming thing especially doing this for 12h+ a day is deleting dragonite/fragments/food and especially the finishers since the names have to be typed in.

It really isn’t rocket science you know….

And how much time, approximately, takes one repeat of this “ritual”?

Until your eyes bleed, your lack of sleep makes your bones hurt and you start to see the five gods, reach your weak hand at them, to reach behind their heads for Zomorros, and back hand him so he gives you your reward.

fellyn.5083:

Impale.2503:

fellyn.5083:

Impale.2503:

fellyn.5083:

There are lots of reasons why the fractal thing is a bad comparison. For one the fractal thing, you can only get 1 fractal chest a day.

You claim you opened over 1 million bags.

Using your logic you should only complain about the fractal thing after you’ve opened 1 million daily fractal chests.

Your lack of logic, common sense and the density of your mind baffles me at every post.

Scroll up, read my posts and suggestions, maybe use Google translate, you seem to need it – no offense – but it feels like i’m talking to someone who doesn’t speak the same language there mate.

Using my logic, one of you lot should start a spreadsheet and record the Gwynefrydd drops vs the amount of bags opened.

Then if you want to compare it to fractals, you will have time after the patch is over when you only get one Maize Balm a day

I read what you said just fine. What is baffling is that you’re defending bad game design.

I guess you’re obligated to after supposedly opening 1mil+ bags.

And a spreadsheet isn’t needed because it’s impossible to verify peoples claims (like yours) of how many they actually opened for one.

And I don’t need to compare anything to fractals because I don’t care about fractals.

Then please proceed to cry some more, stomp your feet in a fit of rage and whatever else is appropriate.

Since your posts aren’t in my humble opinion productive, i shall ignore the noise from now on

Still wishing you good luck on your Gwynefrydd

I’m actually not crying out at all. Just pointing out glaring flaws in the logic being applied.

And I really couldn’t care less about the mini, too. But I have friends that do. Friends who don’t have the time or inclination to open 1million + bags.

Then i shall pray for their luck and if i ever get to a near mmo death experience again i will backhand slap Zommoros again in their names.

For the RNG!

They will most likely send you one….

Then put the Transmutation Splitters on the Gem Store….

For 1200 per, or 5000 per 5?….

And be like….. ¿Dinèros?…. $_$

Immortal Kingdom [KING] – Desolation [EU] is a recent, small to medium sized PvE guild focused on core players and various PvE Activities – Dungeons, Fractals (38, 48), Tequatl.

You might know some of our members from Desolation from Tequatl Kills such as Particlar, The Ghostly, or other players for the world records posted on Reddit and YouTube such as Zip.

We are looking for a couple more players to join us in our dungeons, fractals in a daily manner. You do not have to be online 10 hours a day, but just be willing to play with your fellow guild-mates in various PvE content.

To apply, please send an in-game Mail to The Ghostly, Zip, or Particlar and you will be invited to do a couple dungeon runs with us as a validation process.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

The Ghostly.

Well the game has been out for two years now, they have always favored a heavy RNG based system for most of the “endgame” rewards, so it really is nothing new to me, it would be like starting to play Wildstar or any othe challenging raid based mmo and complaining not being able to finish the raids because they are too hard.

Its just the direction some games take for their endgame, and in this case yes i would rather have had my mini for 1000 Cobs, sure, but the point is if you put in the work you are pretty much guaranteed to get it over a long period of time/effort, while some people get really lucky and get it very quickly.

I’m fine with this system, but coming clean on the drop rates of items, the diminishing return systems and the way MF works and what it actually affects would make it more comprehensive and allow us to come up with more accurate strategies to get said rewards.

#RNGWars2

I do find most of the reactions funny. This being a mini pet and not a useful resource coming from what is so far the most rewarding content to date.
Trick or Treat bags give an insane amount of rewards – luck, dragonite, fragments, dust, etc. – more than any other reward system so far.
There is ONE rare item you can get through this, probably implemented as a funny little reward, that happens to be a mini – cough, mini polar bear, cough – and instead of looking at it as a nice extra, some people are just not willing to accept that, and going for a “I want it now for a maximum of 2 hours of game play invested”.
Next time before you complain about that, think about the fractal tonic, which has close to the same drop rate, is time gated, comes from a much less rewarding and far more time consuming content.
If we are going to act in a very spoiled way each time something nice rare and cosmetic is added, let’s start by the beginning, shall we?