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I want to start by saying that I have only been playing the game a few weeks (started at teh beginning of the last event) and I do enjoy the game in general. This event, however, was a total disaster. Let me tell you how it went from my experience. For note, this was on a level 40+.
Friday: I log in a few minutes before, and wait patiently for things to begin. Suddenly the cut scene starts, however, it has no sound. Partway through I get kicked off to the character selection screen. I log back in and end up in the overflow server, which wouldn’t be be a problem except that there were fewer people so it took longer to kill the creatures. Of course that doesn’t really matter because I couldn’t see nor target them. I ran around reviving people mostly, but that was all I could do. Finally we get to the ancient karka and I can see that one. YAY! After we kill it, I go try to do the investigation quests, only to find both Noll and Fhad are bugged. I logged out and back in several times trying to find an overflow where they weren’t bugged, but never did.
Saturday: We stand around for about 20 min. waiting for the catapults to finish. Finally we get a cut scene, but all I see is a few seconds of water and a boat mast, then it’s back to normal and the event text has changed. I decide to shrug it off and go on. I get to the pier and am asked which of the two I want to go to with no information about where they are, or if it matters which one I go to. So I choose one at random and soon find myself in the middge of a zerg ball. There are so many people everywhere, and so much going on that the lag becomes too much. I ended up with 3 FPS, unable to move, unable to attack. After confirming with friends that the NPCs were still bugged, I logged out in frustration.
Sunday: Despite everything that had happened, I wanted to finish this, and was hoping that the rewards for it all would be worth it. I got booted from teh main server minutes after the event started, and had to wait around on the overflow server for there to be enough people to help. Finally we get going. Unfortunatly, because I had turned all my graphics settings to the lowest setting in order to help prevent lag, I couldn’t see the ground effect circles nor the puddles of poison. These things should always be visible, even on the lowest settings, otherwise that isn’t really the lowest playable setting, is it? So after many deaths and finally figuring out what was wrong, I adjust it, but die in the process. No one seems to be coming back for me, so I release to teh waypoint. A few minutes later I finally appear there, with that phase of the event done and me getting little credit. So I try to get back to the group, but by now karka have respawned and are all over. By the time I sucessfully join them again, we are to the point of driving the ancient back to teh nesting grounds. I don’t know how long that took, but just as we were outside the cave, after 2 hours and 20 minutes of this, I get kicked out again. I frantically try to get back in, only to be dumped in a different overflow, which had completed it all already. Again, I log out and back in several times trying to get back to teh server I was on, but never could.
In the end, for the whole weekend event, I ended up with no loot, no story, and a small amount of xp, similar to an hour or two of playing.
Me too. A bit over 2 hours of fighting and then crashed. Couldn’t even get back to the overflow server I was on. No rewards for it at all.
Just ask people in-game, like across the map (/m). They/we are happy to help. Not a bad idea nonetheless, but chances are people have been there before and will help. Plus it encourages player interaction instead of the game giving the answer to you.
I have tried this, and seen others try, and keep running across the same problem. How do you know what your looking for if you haven’t found it? I can’t ask for it by name, and listing off everyplace you’ve found already takes too long.