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Okay, I missed out on the Miniature reward meta because of this (as well as terrible Aetherblade spawns and bugged JP’s/caches), and yet again, I am attempting Obsidian Sanctum only to be constantly bullied by losers who think it’s funny to pick on PvE’ers trying to complete the JP. I’m not talking at the start where you can easily run or portal if you die, I’m talking like 5+ minutes into the JP at a point where you’re navigating tight jumps and some bonehead loaded with food buffs is throwing magic at you. So needless to say, it’s annoying as crap to re-do it by getting player killed, not through jumping error. So do we all need to be avid PvP’ers to reach achievements now? I live in Australia, and since starting GW in 2006, PvP is just no fun with the higher latency, because skill goes out the window against players with much lower ping, so I don’t PvP except for the Dailies occasionally. Can we please stop putting meta achievements in places where the bullies like to take advantage for free kills?
I know the Sky Pirates has finished (it went so fast!), but I can’t shake this from my mind, and Support gave me nothing aside from ‘ask on the forums’, so here we go; Was anyone else unable to complete the meta reward for Sky Pirates due to a lack of hologram spawns? I was walking up to every hologram projector I could find, even waiting up to 10 seconds in case of lag, and I kid you not, after a test run of passing over 27 holograms across 3 different zones, I got TWO Aetherblade spawns! That was a specific test run after chasing holograms for days and gradually realising the 50/50 spawn rate was seriously not happening for me. On top of that, I couldn’t complete the Goemm’s cache due to the fall-fall-splat bug, and kept lag-dying on the Caledon cache where all the Veterans are.
I know from past experience it is likely useless to ask for any sort of adjustment for an expired event, because the end all is, I didn’t reach the achievement, tried as I did. But, I would really like to ask if we could please avoid chance-based/bugged meta achievements in the future, because I feel it really kills what most (if not all) people love about Guild Wars; fair event rewards. It should have been simple to achieve the Miniature, and although I put the time in and have a truckload of useless candy to prove my presence (I triggered them if there was no Aetherblade spawn), I couldn’t reach the area-specific kills because of this issue, marking my first missed meta reward so far… Yay… -.- The moa races were chance-based (and expensive), but the meta was easily completed without it, as was the pesky crab minigame I sucked so badly at, but for the shortest event to date (I think), trying got me nothing.
Anyhoo, excuse the length, I’ve just always enjoyed earning GW event items since I started in 2006, so missing one even though I put in the time is annoying.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or intended, but one thing that bothers me and kinda kills a bit of the coolness of Transmutating, is the fact that damage reports label the items as the original pre-transmuted item and vendors display the correct name, but use the original items’ icon. As an example, I combined a rare Duelist set (prefix/skin/rune) with an exotic Emblazoned set (rarity/level), and when I die it says my ‘Emblazoned’ piece is damaged, and at a vendor, it appears with the correct Duelist name, but has the Emblazoned icon -.- My point being, it never really fully becomes the item you ‘ordered’, so is there a way around this or just accept that it’s a cool idea with an identity crisis side effect?
Even though pretty much everything I agree with has already been said, both positive and negative, I just want to say this: I am a completionist, I have ALL Guild Wars event headgears, weapons from the BMP, and a heap of other stuff. How? I KNEW what to do and the events worked. Yes, I fully understand this isn’t GW, but it is still Anet, and theoretically their ethic should be the same. If an event spazzed out on a mass scale (like this one), they would run a Redux the following weekend. But as it stands, my inner completionist is already feeling incomplete by these bugs etc. Don’t mistake me for an ungrateful entitlist, I love this game, I think what some of you calling us entitlists are missing is we don’t hate GW2 and/or Anet, but when there is a huge lead-up hype to a ‘One-time only’ event, and it’s broken and can’t be completed, that is very fair grounds for frustration, especially for the many (myself included) that set time aside for it. People say we don’t give credit where it’s due? There is LOTS of praise about the game around these forums and the web, just not in this thread, because obviously, this isn’t a praise thread, it doesn’t mean we don’t think highly of the game outside of these bugs, we would like to see that our purchase and dedicated time isn’t in vain.
Agreed, last night I was on 2009 points, now after the patch and ‘fix’ I’m still only at 1968. Well, was on 1968, after some play I’m now on 1977, but still… It would be appreciated getting this fixed properly, thanks =o)