Guild Wars 2

My engineer is like a lazy housecat, and in being so will seek only the finest (and most obnoxious) sleeping arrangements known to Tyria. She’ll also prybar you in the face if you try to move or disturb her in any way, and what with that obvious gift of technical ingenuity, will ensure that you never get close enough to try!

Syrus Venomtongue is a mean, nasty kitty!

Definitely wasn’t cool sticking precursors in a one-time-only event’s loot table. A unique title, the 20-slot box and the accessory would have been perfectly fine with most people I’m sure. But seriously? Disproportionately rewarding the playerbase whom, individually, gave no more or less an EQUAL contribution than the other guys/gals around him/her? Way to go creating a huge ocean of enmity in the community.

I appreciate that RNG is RNG but this just wasn’t a good thing to do however honest your intentions. Now I’m stuck playing with the forge yet again as I have been since the game released and prior. I’d pay you guys for the gems/gold to buy it off the TP… but then the thought that I’m giving my money to just-another-player who contributed no more than I did kinda makes me want to put my fist through the monitor. Bad move? Oh yes.

QQ. Whatever. I enjoyed the entirety of the weekend, but that finale isn’t going to settle with me any time soon.

(To clarify, during the initial introductions to the event we were told we would all be rewarded with something special for our contributions (the box and accessory). It rubs me the wrong way when some people are rewarded more (a precursor). Exotic or not it’s not ‘just’ a common exotic. As far as I’m aware, that’s the general issue people are raising and the reason people are justly annoyed. I would have felt the same if I’d have gotten lucky and others had to just look on like we had. I just hope that in two years time I’m not still toying with the forge in the hopes I’ll get my precursor)

I personally found the reactions of the other players to be as hilarious as the puzzle itself. When everyone was emote crying or just raging whilst waiting for the next attempt, it gave me the strength to carry on. Took about 30 – 40 minutes, with the biggest Charr I could muster (and all the acrimony of my then comrades ;p)

I am not the most confident person when it comes to fighting other players, so WvW is touch and go for me. I can get involved, and often do, but I can’t say I don’t find myself getting freaked out most of the time. The thing that is really winding me up though (and it seems to be something Anet curiously condones, considering their lack of attention to it) is that these particular puzzles are fodder for campers and other such excrement with no clear respect for their server or that of any other.

I appreciate that I’m in a WvW zone and that any movement across the place is likely to get me into a scrap with someone. Single combat I’m okay with – two or, at most, three, maybe – but if I am actually capable of consistently making it to this puzzle without so much as a scratch, across vast plains and whatever-the-hell-else is in my way, why should I suffer ambush after ambush within the puzzle itself and get forced to run the gauntlet all over again only to meet the mob again? Sure, I could wait until 2am, 3am… maybe even 4am if I’m determined, but why should I?

I’m pretty sure camping and stuff like this violates ToS, becoming a form of harassment when it’s the same guys again and again (which it normally is). Not to get political or the likes but why can’t we just have a weapons-sheathed debuff or something that prevents us from even using weaponry in that particular area?

Make of it what you will, but my hope at least is that this may be something already under consideration.