I think it really would be best if they – like someone suggested – remove the account from the server if not logged in for a while.
Then let choose a new server if players return after some time. Let them choose lowest population servers for free and higher servers only for a small fee(but still should be a lot lower than a active player paying a “transfer fee”). This would prevent then logging tons of players in again and chosing the same server that might have gotten already a lot of more players because of lower transfer costs.
Keep Spirit Watch. I don’t care about Skyhammer.
Give Temple more prioroty. Should be more often than other maps. Best map in the game. Favours strategy because the buffs can turn around a lot even if the individual 1 vs. 1 player fighting skills are not that strong. And since it is a team game I like it if strategy is important and such things are possible.
Use mesmer. Let mesmer tank 3 other players. Your 4 other players can easily overwhelm the other 2 players at enemy team. Win.
The 4 vs. 21 are still annoying. (1 leaver on your team, no pet classes vs. team with 2 necro, 2 mesmer where each of them can tank more than 1 of your people because of all the pets).
The first half of the puzzle actually is the easiest. As already said you need to hold down the right mouse button constantly. And jump fast without thinking too much. Maybe you are losing time at the “short jumps”?
There are some areas where these small candy cane sticks are sticking out(2 always) where you need to be careful because the jump is much shorter. But you can learn to do this fast. Side jumping is good. Jumping sideways or forward but not directly forward(you maybe would jump too far then).
Should be number 1 priorty at their list for future updates and stuff. Yet they do only other stuff. That won’t earn them money. Other crappy stuff nobody needs… is not making WvW players buy gems.
Maybe they would buy more gems if they could transfer servers. But certainly not with wrong population. If you want go to a low population server where you are outmanned(and maybe less fun) then you should not have to pay a high price(because that server is “very high”). Nobody would transfer. Nobody would buy gems = bad for ArenaNet. Not earning money.
I’m taking a break atm. Bought a few games at Steam the last sale few weeks ago and soon next sale(winter/ christmas sale). And after that season 1 I need a break… after playing a lot of one and the same game it gets boring. And I need to play the tons of other games I bought/buy at sales(probably not even finishing one of them completely lol).
Next 1-2 months break(only daily for laurel + living story for unique rewards from meta achievement) and I hope when I return they have fixed some major issues(including this iwth the “very high” population on low populated servers).
It’s gettnig boring. Always the same… that maybe could be a reason why people stop playing. I am not stopping completely. But after the boring league season 1 where I played a lot I need a break now. And with christmas and the Steam christmas sale soon I need to play tons of other games so I’m only logging in to do the daily for laurel – and because I hate walking around a lot without having fun just do to the PvE daily I just do the PvP daily(even better now with better PvP rewards). So no WvW for maybe next 1-2 months for me. I hope ArenaNet can fix a few of the important issues in this time.
Report them for botting. Afaik already a dev said in sPvP forums that you can report leavers or afk people. So why not even here?
I think if they do someting on purpose to prevent the autokick that kicks you when afk then it should be considered botting. They would have to use some automated key at the keyboard or still be online(if they insult you sometimes then they probably still are online).
They are ruining it on purpose which is against the terms of service. If they don’t want to play they should go afk and then be auto kicked. Not circument the autokick. This is like exploiting.
1 toypocalypse run and you’ll get this early + other achievements. You don’t need to touch the things in open world. Too slow and grindy when all stuff is done much easier. Even if you want to gifts it probably is not a good way to do open world gifts.
More gifts = more chance on rare stuff. Bought 2000 with glory and could immediately buy about 200 more with that ugly sweaters, hats, socks. So probably each giant gift is 1.1 giant gifts(10 percent more to buy with the sweater stuff that drops and hats and socks).
Or just use the 5 free char slots and only play 5 classes. This is enough. Tons of people only have 1 main.
When I read someone “level 2 pvp engineer” and “level 80 pve engineer” I lol’d. There is no reason to make 2 engineer’s other than racial skills(especially interesting because of toolbelt) which are not even available in sPvP. He could just made only 1 engineer char.
Yesterday opened 1000-2000 and got 1 mini and a lot of recipes. Today I had bad luck. They changed quartz to normal. Got almost no back item recipes(either lower drop rate or bad luck) and no other special stuff(mini or endless tonic or unbreakable bell) from 2000 gifts.
But then…
I salvaged all the crap and opened match reward chests because I was in the mood to get rid of stuff. 44 unidentified dyes.
Guess what. First one was Abyss dye. Ha ha. Selling for gold, I don’t need this. Enough other cool looking colors. Like pink lol.
Yes. Glad I opened a lot of gifts already. Still have tons of glory… too bad. If I knew this I would have opened even more before patch. They also heavily nerfed the drop rate of recipe for back items(price for Grenth already about at 3 gold from 60 silver increased). Glad I still have the skins in my bank which I got from yesterdays opening 1000 chests(about 5 each skin recipe). Now 2000 opened, not a single one.
I guess they wanted to counter the people from sPvP that would not get too much stuff with all their glory because cheap access to gifts. Wondering why giant gift price still is at 2 silver tp now that they contain less stuff(before it even was lower I think, 1 silver x copper and better stuff).
Edit: Change seems about 1:1. I have 198 normal quartz from 2000 chests. Yesterday I got almost 200 charged from between 1000 and 2000(more like 2000) chests. So it is much worse. 25 times better + you saved time.
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If we say patches are every 2 weeks… then next week would be too early(maybe only some small Wintersday story patch for story stuff). But 4 weeks it already is January 7th.
Till 21th really seems too long. Would mean they bring 2 more story patches for Wintersday? Or just let it as it is and only do balance fixes the next 6 weeks?
The NPCs ingame obviously are talking to your char. If they say something about music skills they mean your char has music skills. You can do it without music skills of course by just playing the game and being good at the gameplay.
Any changes they should make: They need to make it so even people not interested in musical stuff can play it and get good scores(with a bit training but not tons of training or musical eductation, this should not be required).
Remember: It is a game. They want players to play(and maybe pay). Making it too hard will drive away players(= less customers and less people that might pay). Especially if it is christmas soon and this Wintersday is like christmas event and they want easy stuff where people can have fun instead of getting frustrated. Hard stuff they can make at Halloween to scare people away lol.
Afaik we have 5 tonics we could get last year with mystic forge. This year with recipe(haven’t tried yet, I will try later seems according to patch notes the bugs have been fixed).
They all transform only in 1 toy but with endless uses, right?
This tonic:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Toymaker%27s_Tonic
Still possible to get from gifts? And it transforms into random one of these 5 toys? So I could just only get these and spam it randomly until I get the toy I want? Or are there different toys than the 5 normal small endless tonics?
This tonic:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Gift_Dolyak_Tonic
It says "Double-click to transform into a Wintersday toy for fifteen minutes. You will be unable to fight while transformed. " bu is it really random toy? (it does not even say random this time) or is it only Dolyak every time?
And can you still craft this at mystic forge if you get lucky(with the other endless tonics you can craft with normal recipes now). Price at TP for this seems insane atm. So if endless tonics are not too expensive to craft I might try this if still possible.
You might have to rebuy and use it again. At least only 1 wasted recipe then… because you automatically knew all the others and could not use all the 5.
Technically you learned some other stuff(darksteel givers thing) and they probably can’t check from their data which person used which recipes for tonics and then unlock you the tonic.
Sorry. You have to use recipe again. And hopefully it really is fixed this time. Need to check this later.
Most of the people randomly press jump. Or just stay on top of the wurm and spam press jump button. I got 2 credit the first time. 2nd time when I joined when he was nearly dead I also got 1. Probably finishing this today and hopefully manage to be there at start of another event to get the last 2.
I only found it strange that spider queen(she also fell out of exploding tower and could be veteran only) is champions when the other achievement there is much easier(still people whine when 1-2 events are enough to kill all cocoons).
Most of the time low rank(glory rank) are better than higher ranked. I am still in 40-50 percent. At least there it is the case. Because otherwise all those 40-50 would be higher in leaderboard ranking. Then often they are the ones complaining and also doing stuff like afk because “others are noobs”.
It happens. Changes happen. I’d also have saved the limited stuff(only craftable once per day if you craft) and use other stuff to craft even if it was more expensive.
I would prefer if precursors stayed expensive. If I find one as drop I could make easy money that way – nice thing for people that need money and don’t like to farm and don’t want to pay real money a lot. Of course you’d need to be lucky. Would be bad for newer players that did not have this chance anymore when some people got 5-6 precursors as drop and sold them and got easy money.
If they really make crafting I’d like to have it possible to upgrade that “mystic weapons” which alsready use a skill point item which are crafted at mystic forge – maybe in combination with something ascended because ascended gear is prelevel to legendary. Those mystic weapons atm are exotic. Could be upgraded to ascended precursor(make precursor ascended then and remove it from loot).
I think they could just add a popup menu where you could join fractals. For all the dungeons do the same. Like with Heart of the Mists and WvW area.
But then again: I already think these is too much and would like to have it more realistic – having the players to actually use these portals in LA and remove the port function to Heart of the Mists and WvW.
Then now you know it that there usually is a WP. Probably was bug. If it happens next time then restart immediately as not to waste time and then die near the end without being able to respawn and thus ruining it.
So it always is 2 tier okay. Then would be 12 after 20*2=40. Then 6 more = 18. But 15 because of the cap.
Ranger pet rez needs to stop on interrupt. Just like with any other skill you use which can get interrupted. Can’t be that you really have to kill the tanky bear or perma CC him because he still can come back to rez. I immediately go press F, then after ranger downed interruped run there to press F again. Only class where I try to finish even if he is still hitting me and usually might be better(against other classes) sometimes to kill with normal attacks(only normal attacks if you have lots of people to zerg him down).
How do you calculate 60 times? Tier 1 is 1 AP for 1 completion, right? Then tier 2 5 additional AP for 19 completion(20 total). Would mean 6 AP. Then does it start at tier 1 again?
You would need to do 60 times yes. Would give you 18 AP but because of cap only 15, right?
Or other 2 times directly start at tier 2 with 20 completions and 5 AP so you get 6+5+5?(first one has tier 1 with 1 completion 1 AP)?
Good guide. I managed to complete it 1st try with all Dolyaks 95+ percent health. Bit bad start but we used hay and then stayed at top health. Seems a lot of people still know how to play from last year.
I like tons of siege near Dolyak and a bit other siege spread out to take the aggro while the “mass siege” far away from mob spawn near your Dolyak takes the waves out.
Candy Cane smasher good for AoE. If robot spawns I prefer to switch to rifle(strong single target and only 1 boss then). And stay away from Dolyak area so player won’t pull him there and make him AoE your siege there + Dolyaks. Other weapons not needed(that repair pistol thing).
Sometimes at some frozen lake(I think every time after 2 waves after killing boss) some additional presents spawn to loot.
I regularly grief AP farmers in Crab Toss that want to get the win and use fishing pole on them even if they don’t have the crap. (It’s still a legit strategy to weaken the strongest so he won’t get easy win).
Don’t think in LA it is griefing. You still get loot and don’t need to do much for event credit I think. Would be hard to lock someone completely down.
Still threads about this? I’d only like to see rallying limited. Downed state itself is fine and necessary. Also it should be possible to rally if you are in a 1 vs. 1.
But certainly not: 4-5 enemies rallying from 1 guy they tagged which got killed far away.
I also can confirm this bug. Used on my weaponsmith and endless princess tonic recipe. I hope this info still got saved so I won’t have to use another recipe after they fix it. But to be sure I won’t use other recipes until they fix it. Not to waste them if we need to use one again after the fix.
Edit: Yes, Giver’s Darksteel Inscription. I also seem to have learned all the other recipes. They all must give Darksteel Inscription.
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Another suggestion: Turn them into gold boost. 50 percent more money(okay it really is silver) while having such a item equipped. But don’t make it possible to get more of these in the future.
Old players will have a bit more way to make money this way.
Anyone know that stuff you need for the tonics this time. I know there is recipe but don’t want to log to another char to check it atm. Still need to open thousands of gifts from glory vendor ha ha. Clicking, clicking… fun.
Too bad it’s not a team achievement. Even if it is only 1 time you need to return present yourself(and not more than once and even more achievements than last year) I don’t like this. I would prefer if it were more than 1 stuff but always team stuff. 3 or 5 wins of your team.
Still a nice thing. So much better than sPvP Spirit Watch because here is no conquest stuff to cap points and only capture the present and return it.
Seems most still know it from last year. With lfg tool I immediately found a group where we saved all Dolyaks until end at my first try. Still need a 2nd run I think for other achievements that require to have it played a bit more.
Yes, if you know how to do it it is really easy. Smashing thing all the time and building stuff near Dolyak and some a bit away to distract. If robot spawns all move away from mid(so he won’t kill your stuff there) and use rifle to zerg it down.
Don’t think they will make it harder(for winter and christmas they want it so most people can get all achievements). But maybe we could get some different stuff with same mechanics and not limited to Wintersday as permanent activities for premade groups – with harder stuff and achievements.
Good job. I remember last year I complained becaus it was hard for me at the beginning. Always died early. Then after some few tries I always managed to stay until finish and got 400-500 maybe sometimes even more than 500. But 600 is really perfect. Must have taken long training.
Only bad thing about this event is that I need to reset my key bindings lol. Can’t play with the usual othey keys I use for utility skills and need it as numbers.
Edit: And why hear? Do you not look at the things that are coming down? I play it without sound atm lol. Still easy. First try this year 380(messed up and got thrown out 1 time at hard). Probably I will get 500 at 2nd try. But 600 a bit hard.
I just think of it as some text I’d need to type fast. Probably if I set the keys to asdf jklö (my keyboard base setting where your 4 fingers start for typing at my keyboard layout) and then made at screen some paper at my screen to mark the different colors as asdf jklö then it would be even more easier.
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Yes I now about the other meta from nightmare stuff. And about the mini. Other stuff from the gifts are those 2 ascended recipes for back items and then some endless or unbreakable stuff, right?
Unbreakable bell and some tonic. Are there different tonics or only 1 tonic? I think at tp is some gift tonic and toymaker tonic from last year? But one of them is at 250 gold so probably not possible to get from gifts and only the cheaper one at gifts?
Why is this only a “veteran”? Even in tower it was one of the hardest so kill and was champ sometimes. I know the veteran still has a lot hp. But strange that it is only veteran not champ. Could to more damage. Maybe this would stop people from whine all the time because it gets killed too fast – if it was champ and did instadown a few more = more rezzing needed, less dps.
Any special stuff besides achievements and the thing you can trade at the merchants(for hats socks and sweaters)?
I think we can get 1 more pet because we could not get all pets last year? (from this meta achivement we do to choose as reward)?
Any other special stuff? Worth doing tixx instance(not toypocalypse) again other than for that achievement where you have to kill toys? (which you also can get in open world I think)?
Yes. Dulfy has a guide. Check it out. Better than trying randomly because some options are not easy to guess.
What about the respawn? Did they remove this? I mean last year did you not automatically respawn?
Edit: Or WP if others sayt it is WP. If there is no WP for some and others have WP then it might be a bug.
Oh okay. So there is an “event” and I probably see some orange circle at the map then? And can only donate when there is a pre-event? I will look for that later. I hope it is not too rare. Don’t want to wait 5-10 minutes doing nothing only because of achievement.
It is most annoying if they wait at the checkpoint and if you have a few of them jumping in the wrong direction because some ice platform is not yet respawned at first path which sometimes confuses you and makes you jump after them. It would be easier to ignore them if they were mist only. (And maybe just let that platforms at the beginnig stay spawned – I mean it is not really a timed difficulty to run through that very reasy first path – to no need for a timer which only annoys people that respawn and have to wait 1-2 seconds if the first platform needs to respawn).
Which ones do count? I heard the repeatable do not count? So I probably should not try to jump the JP 350 times(1 time tier 1, the another 19 to get 20 for tier 2 and then repeatable 15 times)?
Or does it count if you max the repeatable ones?
Please. The tons of other people are annoying. I would prefer if they were “ghosts” like in clocktower which was much better. Why not here where it is more necessary(longer puzzle, clocktower you could easier ignore them because the puzzle is short)?
With the trick not to wait for blue gifts it is easier. Still a bit hard. I recommend to always take the checkpoint and only do it for achievements.
Do these achievements even count to meta? Heard somewhere the repeatable stuff does not count.
So only reason might be to do it for some daily achievement.
Farming of course is not worth – as we already heard. Rewards are low and even if you get 3 gifts every time it is not worth because you can just do some regular PvE to get tons of more money and then buy those gifts.
Edit: And as to skipping platforms at the end: Best to time it so you don’t lose time at the first platform and can run directly to the 2nd without waiting for the 1st. Or at least so you can run to first directly before boulder is coming(and then immedietely out to the next). Bit a problem if boudler is on the way and you have to wait a long time at 1st platform but not enough to go to 2nd already.
Icicle stuff(AoE at last path) not a big deal. Run after the attack(when red circle still is up) as not to waste time. And skip last platform dont wait for boulder and run to presents to not lose time.
Wind I never had problems. Only remember at at the very start a bit blowing. Then running fast and never see any wind. Only red circle AoE at last path… and maybe after the exploding presents 1 wind thing which does not kill me often.
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Nice to see the monthly changed. Haven’t done a daily yet but I only completed monthly now and saw we get 20 mystic coins, 1 luck essence(500 luck), 5 salvage kits, 5 of that crafting ingredient and 10 laurels and 50 silver.
I think that wasn’t there in the past(at least not silver and not the mystic coints and luck essence for PvP monthly).
Actually they are not punishing anyone. If there was no limitation some people would have full ascended armor really fast and then cry for more and ArenaNet would have to introduced the next tier above ascended already which would make it even harder for new players to catch up.
This way it will take longer and people that are farming a lot – the “more dedicated players” – will have more fun because they can have fun a lot more time and not get all armor at day 1 and say “i’m finished, i’m bored, introduce new stuff”.
I thought about a different suggestion. A bit similar to that from OP post. Why not still let it be tiered? Instead of giving all the AP in the reward chest make another meta which resets every day.
Let the small subachievements only increas the meta by 1. Each step of the meta gives a few AP so you get maybe like 5-10 AP each day if you complete the meta which should need max 4 sub achievements to complete(those indvidual are giving 0 AP and are only to increase the meta count). So people doing only 1-2 achievements because of time still would get a few AP(if it was in reward chest they would get nothing then).
And AP farmers can get all AP without doing everything.
People not farming AP might still get more. If previously we did only 4 for laurel and got 4 AP then now we could get more(depending on how much they want to give max – 10 maybe a bit too much, maybe 1,1,2,2 max 6, a bit more than before for people only doing 4, bit less for people that did all that stuff).
You only need to complete 4 of them. And you can simply use the same 4 you had to complete before. I am utterly confused. Am I missing something here?
Oh really? Sounds good for players that don’t care about AP then.