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I am not a big let me achieve every achievement in the game but the new updates to Queen’s gauntlet makes it almost impossible for some.
The first two tiers are a bit rough and frustrating but after you figure it out you get the hang.
Then the issues.
The last group for the pirate crew in Tier 2 is somewhat overpowered……
It took way more tries than last time and I had to use my ranger and pets to even make it through. The issue is not the healer but the time frame. I completed it within the last second on the ranger and realized that all the npcs get way more health than they should in my opinion. It is just a suggestion since most people are not zergers and you are trying to nerf that even in a single person arena.
The Ooze Subject 7 achievement for killing.
Last year we would run around in a circle since the minions would spawn near the player or the pets/clones. Now they spawn right next to it making this achievement near impossible. I have watched several people again and again try different routines…I have tried on my warrior, mesmer, ranger, ele, thief….with several different strategies….after losing 20 tickets to this one achievement and having controls for some reason whenever lit on fire go into the wall of the arena…I quit…
It was not enjoyable nor fun.
The waiting game
I understand we are to watch one on one arena battles when waiting but with the number of people trying….it takes a really long time during the active hours….I feel they should have an npc that takes you into a private instance to handle this and not fill up the Crown Pavilion while others are attempting to fight the buying event downstairs.
P.S. I believe the new way bosses are down below as in how they handle zergs are great but the almost no loot and being penalized for it is just wrong…it takes way too long to complete with groups because the bosses scale and makes it so you expect us to be amazing addictive gamers….I just feel if this turns out like how WoW did, then I will give up on gameplay and just focus on roleplaying cause not everyone is a hardcore gamer wanting to out stat and out play everyone…
I AM NOT ASH I AM RED I DO NOT WANT TO BE THE BEST POKEMON MASTER I JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN!
Megaservers legit made roleplaying let alone being inside the city just horrid.
This was one of the worst planned ideas I have seen happen and the town clothes/wardrobe feature which sounded amazing just turned into a hindrance.
This has just made roleplaying in guilds and anything total garbage.
Yeah the trait system is amazing on the new traits and learning/needing to do things to gain them like gw1 but not getting a trait a level now makes it even harder to do things.
Legit this made dungeoning at 25 in AC impossible for new players.
I posted this in another thread but still this is ridiculous so posting it here.
I agree with this…I bought most of the clothes and armor types for my characters including double and triple on town clothes.
I loved roleplaying on this game to the point where I was on it every other day at least an hour if not more. The skin idea I thought would make it so we could put skins on our items without the transmutation or a cost…clearly that is not intended and you want more money. This is becoming a gold funnel I feel which makes me rather depressed.
Also items becoming tonics is ridiculous. I did not mind it if it was certain things but a cherry blouse shirt should not be a tonic. An example, “That cherry blouse silk shirt looks so good on you. It is too bad you are not wearing any pants.”
or the cargo shorts being just shorts. The hats are also good examples but most hats do not remove your clothes cause they are armor skins.
I feel like this patch to most we thought was to clear up inventory space and make the items and bags more organized, but clearly it was just a way to force more money out of our hands.
I was looking forward to this patch for the whole week and now I am just so furious about it and the costs of clothes along with the server issues that I wish we could get refunded on all the stuff we gave this company.
I am ashamed to consider myself a fan of Anet games now because this has become just another money pincer for roleplayers.
I agree with this…I bought most of the clothes and armor types for my characters including double and triple on town clothes.
I loved roleplaying on this game to the point where I was on it every other day at least an hour if not more. The skin idea I thought would make it so we could put skins on our items without the transmutation or a cost…clearly that is not intended and you want more money. This is becoming a gold funnel I feel which makes me rather depressed.
Also items becoming tonics is ridiculous. I did not mind it if it was certain things but a cherry blouse shirt should not be a tonic. An example, “That cherry blouse silk shirt looks so good on you. It is too bad you are not wearing any pants.”
or the cargo shorts being just shorts. The hats are also good examples but most hats do not remove your clothes cause they are armor skins.
I feel like this patch to most we thought was to clear up inventory space and make the items and bags more organized, but clearly it was just a way to force more money out of our hands.
Now before I begin love the revamp on most dungeons that are permanent in game but the holidays after Halloween have been a bit of a letdown.
The weapons are the best improvement so far since the skins are very reasonable. The price markings for the basic design ones in the gem store sadly though I feel should be 250 gems max or less. The ones in game blow them away with the unique new animations and layout from the sling shot to the candy cane.
1) MINIPOCALYPSE
……..The Mini pack from halloween being 350 or 500 gems I forget was a genius idea…. Buying a stack of the 3 minis and knowing what they are to buy another stack just to build the exotic made perfect sense and was reasonably priced. Last event it was a disaster not even selling anything in the store but in chests….The chest idea with drops totally was unreasonable I feel…..not all players live this, I may have 80s but lots of players play maybe once every other week like my brother and some other friends. The rp community which I am one of the roleplayers in the Tarnished coast one is well….let’s admit it we are addicts…great beta testers and great gamers because we grind like heck just to get our items to roleplay a unique and different character and yes no matter who says it roleplayers love to flaunt ic with clothes….we want to be like an npc and be known so customization and unique skins help that tons.
Solution: I feel the minis sold should be either 100 to 150 gems each not 350….that is half of what a costume is which comes out to around 10 dollars. Most people would not spend 10 dollars on one in game item but really like 5 and yes I am comparing it to various mmo games….even old GW1 where costumes were five to 7 dollars. The expensive town clothes do not bother me much it is the fact that a mini costs almost half of that making it seem overpriced. I would love to see mini packs again but selling them individually should be lower in price…….
Second for the exotic, making it a decent drop rate from personal gifts is still okay but I feel not worth it. Why not make it so people can use any 4 holiday minis to make the exotic instead of the 3 required personal gift drop minis.
2) Mystic Cogs and the funny early April Fools prank.
So do not know if it is a prank or not but the fact that Toxx gives us 200 cogs out of the holiday chest. The other gifts were great but if you did every path you got 500 cogs which are used to make 2 holiday minis…..so far no one has found a mystic cog recipe for under a 250 stack. What do I do with this….not enough to make a mini….can’t sell them can’t trade them….I believe the cogs are his joke of saying at least I didn’t give you coal or a defected toy. Out of character I believe it is more of some kind of anet joke at us saying now don’t you keep thinking of that third mini you want come spend some.
A way to improve this I feel is make cogs still available through gifts at a decent drop rate and a small stack of 5 to 10. Also could give 25 cogs a day at each path of the mini dungeon meaning you get 125 cogs for doing each path one day.
3) Hard Boring Dungeons…..
So the holiday dungeon with the 5 paths first time fun second time still fun third time alright fourth time we got it fifth time seriously someone scrap Tox the Golem. So we all experience it get the great rewards open the chest feel like we did a good deed for the holiday and got gifts for our trouble. Now after all five paths are done and 24 hours have gone it is time to try again….feels like some kind of tedious job as a helper elf. Bam all set and ….no cog…no material…just gifts which we will get mats for more minis that can’t be made or skins for weapons. Because of how it went I felt like okay picking the path would give some mats to make another mini and even the frame but it was just the path….felt like a total let down to the excitement of the dungeon. We hold off the annoying skrit rats and do the job that was needed to be done. Then all were thanking each other but no one showed hyper emotion. It seemed like all of the players even me in the group felt like we just wasted 10 minutes on the game which yes it is a game so we are wasting time but if we did something enjoyable or even got good things at the end for wasting the time then it would be no big issue.
On the later planned events I feel we should be able to get items again or mats from the dungeon and not a bunch of gifts that are the same amount each run.
The reason achievements are not listed are because unlike the previous ones I feel the achievements were perfect….if you want them all like I do yes it is a grind but if you are aiming for the title it is just doable enough that you can spend maybe once or twice a week during the holiday season working on that title to get it. It should take most about 6 to 8 hours total for it if they are not skilled or at 80.
It is because they have been working on that feature…..some people who go through codes listed it on the guru and showed pictures of it.
The item is called Name Change Contract….. no clue of any other info.
Many believe it will be similar to the total makeover kit where you buy in the gem store and get an item that is a one time use.
The tool will probably be account locked and spoken of in the future when they have some more time on their end than handling holiday event bugs and issues.
While I miss the preview, I imagine it’s better for Anet than the constant complaints and such from the surprisingly large number of people who can’t read and buy the wrong thing, and don’t figure out that their character can’t wear a certain thing until after they buy it.
I feel people that do not pay attention need to accept their mistakes…Heck I bought wrong class items before and I never filed or complained to a gm….my mistake is my own and I will just spend some more time earning gold to get what I want.
Previewing being restricted is just inconceivable!
I feel like our rights to view what our other characters could wear got revoked.
Heck I am sick and I even am logging in here to keep the thread alive and kicking.
As I stated in my comment above along with others this was not a smart move. It is as if they did not take input or ask us….someone who works at anet decided meh I don’t like being able to preview items I can not wear…so instead of making a character that can use it, I will just remove the previewing of those items just cause I can. looks around slips it in patch
Was this some kind of vote in the work place and if it was why did the players get no say.
I totally agree with this thread, I understand you are busy trying to fix previewing for the trading post but no one wants to log out check an item on their character that can use the item then log back in to decide if you sell it or not…..allow all classes to see what other classes can use.
It is a shame to take away such a simple feature.
So it’s not a strong argument but I feel that we should make the Shatterer stronger.
So far I have done it eight times each fight lasting from a few minutes with about 30 players to five when there was only 10 players counting myself.
This is the dragon shown on the ads and one of the faces for GW2.
Also now with the boss achievements which are amazing by the way, the one for this guy just seems to difficult. It may seem not but with a fight window time like listed above, the crystalizing happens only a total of once maybe twice per battle then waiting for another three hours. The reset timer is fine I feel for the dynamic event but make him tougher, he puts maybe one person in a crystal to five people per fight and they shatter so quickly even if you land most of the hits you don’t seem to get credit.
As a ranger lv 80 with focus in precision when shooting on one crystal with a short bow this should give the credit. I also tried a variety of attacks each time, The second and the 8th time I would use a longbow with Barrage keeping two crystals in the aoe range and still get no credit. I took into account maybe I was not hitting them fast enough but for 6 battles in a row now I stand there not shooting the dragon keeping to its side waiting. The crystallization prison happens, I shoot repeatedly at the crystal clearly first with maybe another person and boom no credit if I don’t land the last hit it seems.
After all these attempts at it and only getting credit for legit 3 crystals all in the same battle of the small group of 10 which was my 5th attempt, I feel that this dragon really should be a tougher battle. Heck it would be able to stop the dragon farming considering it happens so close together and you can run from one dragon to another usually twice a day with the timers.
Now for a few suggestions I thought of,
1. The shatterer crystallizing players should be more dramatic since the npc shouts out about it. Instead of having it be such a joking matter when he puts a small amount of players in a few crystals, make it an aoe effect. Anyone within the radius of the dragon as in being able to not see him fully so say from the broken structures around him could become a giant crystal. It would still be a prism but that would make a lot of people fear meleeing him and make a bit of a challenge for the 50 zone.
2. Have him move around or create a kind of defense, it is strange to have him stand in one spot if he does not create any form of defense than a few mobs. In Jormag we got burning ice and shields of ice, in Tequatl we get bone walls and giant norns that walk and explode, the Shatterer could be a crystal wall….or even a cocoon of crystal it seems like the type to wrap itself up in crystallizing skin and claw its way out recovering a bit of hp. The stunned healing factor with him bowing before us makes me laugh for some great photo ops but that just makes it even more disappointing to see him let us punch him in the face, he didn’t lose a wing or anything he just decides to kneel after crystallizing a lot to gather hp that doesn’t even seem to be a productive form considering the mobs he is facing.
The other ideas I had were simple ones but not really needed which was to make the lieutenant dragons that form near the end come during 2 more hp level points. This would make it indeed tougher since most panic and do not focus on the dragon. The other was to actually make a battle where the 3 dynamic dragons would come together for a huge battle. Would be an amazing event to have Jormag, The Shatterer and Tequatl all fly to orr once a day to attack the pact. If Zhaitan was getting so scared of us and was starting to send hordes of risen and giants to our doorstep I could totally picture him calling at Midnight server time for a night attack on the fort from his three big guns.
I understand what your saying but it really was not a bug much in the beta. I had my buddy list remaining the same with nicknames till the mid September updates.
Seems now whenever a new patch is downloaded I log in to see all my nicknames changed and feel bad since I am messaging people asking who they play with related to 3 characters I am constantly rping as.
I reported it too but I am thinking now on getting some kind of add on like Enjin for my guildwars2roleplayers chat and finding a way to just make a list on who is who to pop up.
Heck maybe I will learn some display names finally for once related to the characters I rp with the most.