Guild Wars 2

Chris Barrett.3280:

We’re investigating a bug or bugs involved with delivering this tournament’s rewards to some players. We’ll update this thread when we have more information available.

Dropping my name in also, and wondering if there is an update?

Aidan Savage.2078:

Stop making duplicate posts (this goes for EVERYONE else complaining too). Block them, report them (for scamming, spamming, botting, and gold selling), and be done with it. Anet works as fast as they can to ban accounts, but when people are blithering idiots regarding account security, a lot of those accounts spamming the messages are stolen accounts. If people secured all of their accounts better, none of this would be as much of an issue.

The bolded section cannot be stressed enough. Protect your accounts people.

Why isn’t there one of these threads for Elona? Cantha was cool and all, but I really loved Elona.

That said, I just want the map to expand. Be it further in to Tyria (Crystal Desert, deeper into Maguuma, etc), Elona, or Cantha, give me more!

Silvercyclone.1462:

It would be nice if they added a precurser of your choice to the 10k AP chest. That way its not too easy and not too difficult to get one.

Maybe the 15k or 20k chests. 10k is fairly easy with the LS achievements.

I did it just last night with a pug megaserver, and it went fine.

In fact, it was probably the most positive atmosphere I’ve seen for Teq. No one was ‘screaming’ at the turret operators, just lots of encouragement.

The spawn times are kind of dumb though.

Wethospu.6437:

Shikigami.4013:

Wethospu.6437:

How to define wiping (one guy wiping, party resetting fight, all dead)?

“Wipe” means “all party members died”. It comes from “wipeout”. A single person dying is a death, not a wipe. I don’t know why some people chose to start calling dying “wiping”, probably a desire to sound more “cool”.

As for the rest of your post, it becomes too lengthy and too tiring to answer you, so I won’t anymore..

Exactly. Current dungeons which allow resetting encounters just don’t work with your system.
If your implementation is too tiring to explain then it is probably too complicated.

I think by tiring, he meant that trying to convince you that you aren’t 100% right is tiring.

He’s probably right.

I’m not saying that improvement shouldn’t be encourage. There was a time when I was “omg Lupicus is too hard nerf him now please thanks lol.” Then I learned how to play my warrior, and realized that I was kind of being a kitten.

On the flip side, not everyone plays the enormous amount that I do, and not everyone wants to work that hard when the play.

Perhaps those people should be denied dungeon rewards by your standards, but I believe that there should be an option.

As a side note, I PUG quite often, and I find that many people actually want to do the dungeon correctly, don’t know how, and are used to elitist jerks that just brush them off. There are problems that stem from elitists as much as from laziness…perhaps you should consider how you are contributing to the problem/solution.

Regarding AC, I think the knockdown is excessive. Otherwise, I enjoyed path 1.

All the knockdown on AC path 1 seems excessive…hilarious, but excessive.

So, here is my take on this:

Dungeons are supposed to be used to farm roughly 1300 tokens to get a set of armor. You are going to have to do this over and over and over and over until you want to puke all over yourself. At some point there was a dream that dungeons would have material reward in them. As it turns out, you only get blue items, with the occasional green. I have never dropped an exotic, and I have dropped three rares. And I run a lot of dungeons.

So lets review the risk-reward: lots of risk for almost nothing. You have exceptions like CoF, you can easily make gold on it, but for the most part, it’s crap.

Then you had this patch. I’m not sure exactly where it came out of, but I know where you should put it. I was super excited about the change to CoF path 3. I logged in thinking “I will be able to do path 3, this is going to be so awesome!”

Wow, I was so disappointed. Three torches? yeah, okay, but double the mobs because it’s the SAME AMOUNT OF ENEMIES. That’s stupid. And because there is no rezzing in combat, every encounter became a chore. I play a bunker warrior (yeah, I said that) with my guild, and we all thought the whole thing was dumb. It was not fun.

Segue: Fun – noun
1. something that provides mirth or amusement.
2. enjoyment or playfulness.

I PLAY games to have fun. Currently, this game is becoming work. Work is not fun.

I hope you see the issue. At this point, I’ve basically given up on Legendaries, named exotics, dungeon armor, pretty much everything. I have several characters not at level 80, and I will enjoy playing them.

The end game content in this game is so poor, so disappointing, that it makes me feel sorry for those of you that work at Arena Net, because you have to play this kitten for a living. At least I can turn it off.

So, I implore you to fix this. This game can be fun. It can be something everyone enjoys. But you’re going to have to try. You’re going to have to do better. If you don’t, you will lose customers. You will lose business. And ultimately, you will lose your jobs. So think about that the next time you decide to pull some moronic update out of your collective kitten

DancingPenguins.9875:

LunaticSerenade.7615:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I do intend on putting more waypoints into dungeons, but due to the work required for this upcoming patch we didn’t get enough time to make it happen.
I’m not a fan of “punishment running” wherein your punishment for failing is having to run a long distance back to the fight. To discourage res rushing potential we went initially with fewer waypoints. Now that we are implementing a new tech, I would like to add more to reduce the time spent running back to an objective.
We have more info coming soon to how the system will be working.

I just want to let you know that your grand fix to CoF path 3 did not make that path any better.

I’m almost done with this game simply because of your ridiculous design and failure to listen to your customers about anything.

Good work.

How are people failing CoF? How are people even dying?

Who asked you? Go away, troll.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I do intend on putting more waypoints into dungeons, but due to the work required for this upcoming patch we didn’t get enough time to make it happen.
I’m not a fan of “punishment running” wherein your punishment for failing is having to run a long distance back to the fight. To discourage res rushing potential we went initially with fewer waypoints. Now that we are implementing a new tech, I would like to add more to reduce the time spent running back to an objective.
We have more info coming soon to how the system will be working.

I just want to let you know that your grand fix to CoF path 3 did not make that path any better.

I’m almost done with this game simply because of your ridiculous design and failure to listen to your customers about anything.

Good work.

[edit] Also, the waypoint thing? Stupid.

The first thing that comes to mind is Lupicus. It seems like there is exactly one way to beat him, and while it requires a fantastic (and not quite PUGable) amount of team work (and that’s pretty neat), it frustrates me that the only way I can beat it is with one method.

It just seems like there should be more than one way to do it.

I would also love some assistance with Arah, so if I could add anyone, that would be great.

NA server (Stormbluff Isle); Eastern Time.

I would like to add to this that it is extremely discouraging to me that there is only one way to beat some things. In a game like this, that should not be the case.

[edit] I meant some, not most, so I fixed it. :/

NA server. :/

I tip my hat at your willingness to do it though.

Either of you are welcome at any time to prove your claims and run me and my group through it.

Put up or shut up.

haviz.1340:

LunaticSerenade.7615:

Now that I figured out how to find my posts. -.-

I just tried it again (same group), and while he didn’t reset until we all died, it was like I was doing no damage.

This boss is just so f—-ing frustrating, I’m contemplating giving up on the Arah armor (and possibly the game, though probably not) entirely.

His barely frustrating if you start thinking instead of trying to faceroll him like 99% of other bosses. If you’re pugging, try taking people with more than 2.5k achievement points, it’s not good indicator but better than nothing. You only need 2 people who know what to do there.

1. Knowing what to do means little when what you have to do it with zero margin for error.

2. Achievement points mean nothing…but the group I roll with all have 2.5k or more.

3. I just did it in a group with all five of us knowing how to do it, all of us thinking instead of trying to “faceroll,” and it still failed.

In short, your statement is invalid in the light of the facts. Please stop trolling me.

Arena Net:

A response would be lovely. Just saying.

haviz.1340:

LunaticSerenade.7615:

This.

This boss is making me want to quit playing this game. Seriously. One boss, in one dungeon, keeping me away from super awesome armor.

I’m so close to screaming curse words at my computer and quitting Guild Wars 2 forever.

Don’t nerf the one of the only two challenging bosses in normal dungeons. Adapt and he’s easy.

If the entire party does everything perfectly, sure.

I’m not saying make him a piece of cake. Make him doable in a PUG situation.

haviz.1340:

LunaticSerenade.7615:

-snip-

True, he resets sometimes but very rarely, you had to be very unlucky to get it on your first round (happened once in about 80+ fights). You shouldn’t resign yourself from trying again.

Plus, who told you you can’t fight in melee?

Now that I figured out how to find my posts. -.-

I just tried it again (same group), and while he didn’t reset until we all died, it was like I was doing no damage.

This boss is just so f—-ing frustrating, I’m contemplating giving up on the Arah armor (and possibly the game, though probably not) entirely.

Superfrick.1536:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Discuss the recent patch here.

Dear Anet: I will send you a cake if you nerf the Giganticus Lupicus. Seriously. Look at the Data. How many teams get up to that point then quit? And how many HOURS do they normally invest into the dungeon before giving up?

This.

This boss is making me want to quit playing this game. Seriously. One boss, in one dungeon, keeping me away from super awesome armor.

I’m so close to screaming curse words at my computer and quitting Guild Wars 2 forever.

I just posted this in the bug section:

This just happened to my on Path 2. My party composition was Warrior, Guardian, Elementalist, Engineer, and Necromancer. We’re all in a guild, communicating by voice (except the Necro). We’ve done extensive research (the Necro and I both really, REALLY, want the Arah armor), and have the process down.
So, we’ve engaged Giganticus.
Phase 1: We’re stacked up, Ele, Necro, Engi doing ranged DPS, guardian and I damage spiking Giganticus. Can I mention the rage and disappointment I feel at the existence of a boss that cannot be fought melee? While I (the Warrior) can use a longbow, the Guardian has nothing. Anyway, we get him down to about 70% life with only 2 grub buffs. Awesome. This is going smoothly, hard but fun.
Phase two starts. Party wipe. Okay, that sucked, but that was our fault. Start over.
Phase one: This time, we get through with no grub buffs. Incredible!
Phase two: This time we dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge like champs. We’re hitting him with a ton of DPS, his bar is going down. two members go down, we have them back up within seconds, back to damage. Then, while I am actively hitting him, he is actively hitting the Guardian, he resets.
What? I look again. He is fully reset.
At this point, as I’m sure you can understand, many choice phrases were said. We took a small break, discussed, and determined that this is almost impossible.
Now, I love this game. I’ve played over 700 hours in the last 90 days, 265 hours on my warrior alone. I’ve experience numerous frustrating situations (jumping puzzles?) with a sense of victory afterwards. I’ve persevered through bugs, glitches, and epic fails since the head start period. I have three level 80 characters. I loved Guild Wars 1, I love the lore of Tyria, a couple guild mates and I have conversations about the future of this game as it relates to Elona and Cantha (the Dervish was my favorite character in GW1), I’ve even created a back story and family line for my level 80 thief reaching back to my Dervish from GW1.
Arah path 2 has left me feeling a great sense of disappointment. I understand that Dungeons are meant to be hard. I appreciate a good challenge. I’ve run Twilight Arbor numerous times and it’s still hard. But this… resetting while being attacked? This kind of glitch/bug, and I sincerely hope it is a glitch/bug, should not be allowed to exist.
I hope this get’s fixed as soon as possible…I reeeeaaaaaally want that armor.

This just happened to my on Path 2. My party composition was Warrior, Guardian, Elementalist, Engineer, and Necromancer. We’re all in a guild, communicating by voice (except the Necro). We’ve done extensive research (the Necro and I both really, REALLY, want the Arah armor), and have the process down.

So, we’ve engaged Giganticus.

Phase 1: We’re stacked up, Ele, Necro, Engi doing ranged DPS, guardian and I damage spiking Giganticus. Can I mention the rage and disappointment I feel at the existence of a boss that cannot be fought melee? While I (the Warrior) can use a longbow, the Guardian has nothing. Anyway, we get him down to about 70% life with only 2 grub buffs. Awesome. This is going smoothly, hard but fun.

Phase two starts. Party wipe. Okay, that sucked, but that was our fault. Start over.

Phase one: This time, we get through with no grub buffs. Incredible!

Phase two: This time we dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge like champs. We’re hitting him with a ton of DPS, his bar is going down. two members go down, we have them back up within seconds, back to damage. Then, while I am actively hitting him, he is actively hitting the Guardian, he resets.

What? I look again. He is fully reset.

At this point, as I’m sure you can understand, many choice phrases were said. We took a small break, discussed, and determined that this is almost impossible.

Now, I love this game. I’ve played over 700 hours in the last 90 days, 265 hours on my warrior alone. I’ve experience numerous frustrating situations (jumping puzzles?) with a sense of victory afterwards. I’ve persevered through bugs, glitches, and epic fails since the head start period. I have three level 80 characters. I loved Guild Wars 1, I love the lore of Tyria, a couple guild mates and I have conversations about the future of this game as it relates to Elona and Cantha (the Dervish was my favorite character in GW1), I’ve even created a back story and family line for my level 80 thief reaching back to my Dervish from GW1.

Arah path 2 has left me feeling a great sense of disappointment. I understand that Dungeons are meant to be hard. I appreciate a good challenge. I’ve run Twilight Arbor numerous times and it’s still hard. But this… resetting while being attacked? This kind of glitch/bug, and I sincerely hope it is a glitch/bug, should not be allowed to exist.

I hope this get’s fixed as soon as possible…I reeeeaaaaaally want that armor.