Guild Wars 2

Haha that wouldn’t be bad.
Honestly, and I dunno what they have planned, but for getting the lower level area’s regular activity again, such as the dynamic events being done, they should really enroll some mini-games in those starting areas.
More of this type would be nice!

Glektor, I don’t want to turn this into something related to how the healer/support classes are in terms of events participation (topic for another thread/and has been done before lol), but definitely agree as this event does showcase that aspect.

Car, I wondered if Toxx did or not. I don’t recall killing much of the toys period, but did always attack Toxx with the rest taking a break from building up

Archduke, I think it is clear that no matter what Arenanet brings through the pipeline there will be a huddle of players upset and complaining. Happens with all MMO’s. That said, Snowball Mayhem was okay but felt under-balanced between professions/skills (not to mention some items that you could find were useless as it wore out before you reach the enemy lol), definitely preferred Toy Apocalypse though.

Ah Toast, too true. But, points didn’t matter. At all. Without the ‘engineers’ they wouldn’t have survived after all!
Haha yeah true Angel. First time around though we didn’t have any hay dropping that could be found. Poor Dolyak’s didn’t last to the end, although one did survive till the 10th round.

Still fun regardless. I’ve gone back in a few times just to find other ways to block off the attacks. lol.

As somebody PM’d me about this. Yes I realize my score is low compared to the team as a whole. I am disappointed in it myself even. But you really don’t earn points doing the defensive portion. Our setup basically saw the Commanders dealing with Toxx at points while the rest of us were strengthening the walls/snowmen, and upgrading the Siege, as well as healing the Dolyaks.

This actually worked out quite well as in the end all five had survived and hardly had any health missing whatsoever.

All in all, a blast was had!
Happy Wintersday!

Wintersday was a blast, but aside from the awesome Jumping Puzzle, Toy Apocalypse is what I will miss the most. Nothing like building Snowmen and Siege equipment, while building up defensive walls to protect the Dolyaks. Reminds you of the old school recess days building snow fort’s and waging war

The Achievement may have been dropped down to just needing one left surviving, but myself and many others will always be proud to have led and protected all five. Even Miss Duchess whom always seemed to take the most beating. With only a sliver of health missing on any Dolyak at the end.

Kudos to those that took part and listed in the screenshot!

On the fifth day of Wintersday the Asura gave to me…
Fiiiiiive golem gears
Four running Logans
Three shiny “shinies”
Two Quaggan hatchlings
And a partridge in the Pale Tree!

It is ‘starting’. At least in Lion’s Arch, wintery-tree’s are growing in front of the Bank… lol.

So maybe this isn’t a bug, but in a way it is… I think.

When you equip the goggles and take your leap of faith/dive, you have the option to do the dives on the way down. HOWEVER other than the animation, you do not know if it actually ‘clicked’. Now that we have an achievement based on hitting on all these dives, and having no way to tell if the dive counted, it is pretty disheartening when you have done them all and see that you haven’t actually had them all counted. How do you know which one wasn’t counted? heh.

Just wondering if there can be any type of toast popup notification or something that you completed the dive? Anything simple would work to show it clicked. Either that or the Achievements list to tell you which ones you’ve managed to hit and still have yet to do. Maybe even separate it to it’s own list like the Jumping Puzzle’s has.

Thanks for your time!
-Spike

So after 2 months or so, is this still bugged at 4 and 6?

It isn’t the Dungeon. It is the crafters/trading post kings/banker’s. Look at where the players are all huddled around on the Overflow or regular map. I’m on BP as well, and this is how it is. If it was the Dungeon they’d be overflowing the area of the entrance. They aren’t.

Anywho it is a necessary evil, that is more than welcome.

So recently heard back from support regarding a question I had. Back in the day when the Halloween event was mentioned and what we had to look forward to, we were told that the new Dungeon and JP would be permanent fixtures. Obviously this isn’t the case… and maybe those articles mentioning it were mis-wrote or mis-understood on the various sites and gw’s own forums.

Question here is, did something at launch change this factor? or is it due to the way the wave based instance for the JP was set up which makes it impossible to be non-instance like any of the other’s in LA or elsewhere in the world?

I know people hated it as it was aggravating to them. But there are a ton of us that enjoyed it and even miss it. I know I for one miss the awesome music accompanying it hehe.

Is there not someway that Lion’s Arch can have a single doorway to the Mad King’s realm to re-enter that JP and the Dungeon too? Or are those gone for good, until next year sadly?

Just looking for some dev-love here for possibly the best JP in the game which deserves more love!

Thanks!
-Spike

//Side note… Be awesome to have a JP specific category on the forum.

Gaile Gray,

I’ll add this to my ticket as well, but wouldn’t it make sense to know who got a chest (a good 98% at least) by simply running a query and outputting which players have the 20 Slot Chest? They wouldn’t have it if they didn’t attend the event. If they got d/c’d. Or attended the event but didn’t care to take the time to finish it and thus missed the chest (their loss, and shouldn’t be rewarded, but that’s a different topic).

Querying for a single item that was in the chest for ALL who looted it after the boss, would give you a good 98% accurate statistics. If you could then expand on that to see who sold it to a merchant or deleted it, that would provide the remainder.

Then done. You know who looted. Then either send out a chest with exception to those, to each account, not character.

Seems simple on that front.

Personally I did Day 1, fully, Day 2, fully despite being broken at points, and Day 3, fully. I was disconnected two or three times during the big hours long fighting on Lost Shores, but managed to reconnect each time. And complete the big and completely well done boss fight to get to the chest at the end. Yeah the rewards were pretty poor, especially compared to what everyone is getting in their chests mailed to them, but we did the work and then partied on the corpse!~

Thanks
Dedicated Guild Wars player since 2004ish

Meh he’s welcome to his opinion but not going to justify it with a reply. Obviously somebody has their mind one-sided.

But anyhow, seeing how Necro’s are not that tough. Their down-state is pretty abysmal (by this I mean they are masters of the dead, why must they suffer? lol) Okay maybe not so much but seriously it seems like, even with the trait on, their downed state is the less ‘impacting’ then any others. Fear is the best here, but you won’t be able to res yourself with a horde around you and only sending one off fleeing. You need to kill someone first and that isn’t at all as powerful as any of the other professions. Or am I wrong?

To counter-weight this properly, it would be nice if fear was removed from the downed state to something that allowed the Necro’s to fade into the mist’s like F1 does, and be invisible for a short time to get away from the enemies.

Oh believe me I don’t want the corpse’s used for minion summoning. Necro’s would stand no chance against the other professions if that was needed! But traversing corpse’s would still be much welcome.

Also… any idea why or how this makes sense? Elementalist (or Mesmer?) upon Downed state can get out of harms way even while downed, yet a Necro, master of the undead, can’t do squat… not to mention F1 still leaves them just as vulnerable rather than harder to hit. Heh.

And by this I mean from Guild Wars. Where you could do so much with dead corpse’s of enemies and allies.

Consume Corpse. Normally this isn’t one that would fit, BUT given how overpowered other professions are, or specifically due to Portals, this should be allowed for Necro’s.

Necrotic Traversal. Same thing here. These two skills would be so welcome for the Necro’s that don’t want to just be Minion Master’s or that other common type.

Dunno. Just miss these two abilities from GW1. Was a mess in Guild vs Guild battles obviously but in WvWvW it is already a mess with Portals in use, so don’t see why this isn’t allowed in game.

:)

@Volkon, that’s so cute Xmas gift of Gems too?

Pictish.3410:

I did think the scavenger hunt ended a little bit abruptly with only a jug of karma for reward, at the end of phase 2 they said they would call you back, I thought there would be a final part maybe confronting the consortium, finding their leaders, finding out exactly what those plants did to cause the KAks to follow them home.

I figure the monthly planned events, holiday or not, will have a set story going forward like that. Kraka’s being just the first blow. I expect we’ll hear more from the Consortium in December

It may be that the OP missed the email stating ‘report to Sanctum Harbor Docks in Lions Arch’, with the ‘Show me’ button, and entitled ‘Urgent Lionsguard Operation’. This was sent on Saturday in regards to the Phase II.

It is true there was no such clear mail stating to go to the harbor again on Sunday for Phase III, but just the fact they mentioned Southsun Cove you would have known from either participating Saturday or seeing the mail in your box that you got, and if deleted, unfortunate.

Found out today while trying to run it that the map is level 80 now, so was a ball to get over to the starting point.
Thankfully it’s still possible as the ridge scales will chase you but if you don’t stop you can out run them. Now not lucky if you happen upon a shark while swimming, or sea scorpion, even kraka. Oh boy! My main character is level 60 btw, so hence why this matters to me.
And yes I believe the exploit is still there but never tried it so not sure. I know somebody was there just yesterday with a Mesmer porting people up that would pay them, as mention in this thread earlier too.

JP’s in MMO/MMORPG/RPG games have never been fun honestly. Hate to go off topic with another game but it will be brief. SW:ToR. Jumping in that game is a pain and doesn’t feel very fluid which makes their JP’s pretty tough in the long run. GW2, jumping feels fluid. Dodging is a mechanic that fits well. The JP’s while some may be difficult, are not stressful and end up being a blast in the long run

@redknight I suppose you can do it that way… Lol. Takes away the fun of it though. :/

Glad to see so many enjoyed it as well. And even those that hate JP’s, at least found enjoyment/addiction or respect the design aspect.

Still waiting to hear who was behind it though. I want to say JF since it felt akin to the Mad King Clock Tower, but would hate to take away credit to somebody else if it wasn’t him.

I get so bored sometimes waiting for new JP’s, I find areas that look like they could be and see how high/far I can go, lol.

@han, yeah thankfully none of them are required to progress anywhere really. Those that are are already pretty simplistic anyhow

Seeing how the event’s over, kind of hoping we can get a response on this by any of ANet’s staff.

Ramelie.6950:

Thank you Arenanet for a great gaming weekend topped by a great time at the last event last night (for me in the UK). It was so much fun to play with so many other players all rushing around trying to help each other and complete the event. Even if you died that was always someone to ressurect you almost instantly. Certainly there was a lot of friendly appreciative chat after the ancient Karka was defeated.

I hope that Arenanet realise that 95% of the people had a great time it is just the 5% moaners that dominate the forums.

Thanks very much

Ramélie

Well said, minus the last line which will attract the complaints.

Event was a blast. And yes the participation and overall friendliness of people in-game during it all made it better. If you died, somebody, or a group of people, would ditch attacking the Veteran and go to rez. This happened throughout the entire course.

I hope Anet’s team reads the in-game chat on the servers for the /say channel especially on the conclusions. Lots of appreciative praise and overall positive attitude (even from those dc’s multiple times, but got back in). Which can’t be drown out like it is being on the forums with so much negatively.

I did get dc’d during the 2/3 of the battle where the fissures part was and had to relogin and zone into another overflow where they weren’t even close to getting that far yet, so more of the same repeated. But still fun.Never said it sucked or was going to rage quit. We knew it would be difficult and get ran over (or rolled over in this case hehe). Can’t complain.

GW2 came out practicality two months ago…
and you want to compare it’s running to GW1, which has been at it for years?

Not seeing the logic.

The event was a blast. And now it’s over. So quite complaining and just go back to what you were doing prior.

SilverWF.4789:

There is more than enough World events in the 75+ zones

Aye this may be true, but they should still ecompas outside that area. That is what Lost Shores did well. Plus the ones in the 75+ are always running, which makes em’ available whenever.

These are more fun because they are one-time or a specific time-frame. Known about ahead of time, so you can plan for it (if possible. RL of course trumps all).

But also because you have everybody coming together to do one massive event with a feel of satisfaction at the end.

Tho, I would have liked an ‘end’. Just hearing the Lionsguard chatting about other possible threats is fun to hear, but talk to them tomorrow and they won’t know what Ancient anything. Of course they were no-name npc’s just standing there right at the cave entrance.

Unspecified.9142:

Bumpity cause I really would like to know. The “weekend” is effectively over and it just doesn’t feel like this part came to a conclusion.

I still have my Candy Corn machine too but I know it’s not good for anything. I just can’t get rid of it.

I want to use it on the actual spirits/ghosts in various places. Won’t work but still…

Apologies OP!
Didn’t realize you were speaking on multiple characters. :/
I know the server hopping on the same character, wasn’t possible. Didn’t do that it on purpose but given a friend of mine by the time we finished and got the chest, they were at the point of the steam fissures, so I joined them on an overflow.

I’m just glad I was able to steer clear of the big attacks so only had to repair my hood, gloves and boots. Chest and back are so exp.

*They are a blast. *

Guild Wars 2 needs more of these World-wide Dynamic Events.

Obviously the lag and dc’s would need fixed by shrinking down the population on the servers. But other than that, the difficulty, the length, it all should stick. A World-wide Dynamic Event should not be shortened to the length of a normal dungeon boss fight or DE after all.

So yep. Bring em on!

@OP. Your friend was lying to you about multiple full runs including loot, sorry. But cool if he did wind up with all that in his single run.

That does suck man. And honestly if Anet were to be looking at who should still get the rewards or access to the chest, these are the situations that should be at the top. You, at least started from the start and worked all the way near the end. Death was your reward, at a point where nobody could get to you in time. There are many like this. With that in mind, those should still get some sort of reward, even mailed.
Unlike the ones complaining, that were likely the same that just sat back and watched everybody else do the fighting in the Reinforcements phase I or II, then found later that all the chasing up and then down, was to get to the chest, which they rightfully so, are too distanced from to get to safely and in time.

They did alert/warn us prior that day three/Sunday’s phase three would be a multi-hour event. So shouldn’t be that shocking it took 2-3 hours non-stop.

The boss would still be impossible in a group of five. Unless you mean ultimately the final portion where you were all the way down in the bottom… Which yeah could be instanced to five, but takes away the fun and difficulty aspect.

Deathcry.6540:

The one time boss kills should be instanced for parties of 5. None of this world boss stuff.

I don’t think we all want to wear our hands out for 24 plus hours … as that is what it would have took with just five people.

Actually scratch that. It’d be a whole lot of dying, and regen health on the vet’s, champions and of course the Ancient one.

The Ancient one actually got speedy at that point, and pushing it up the ramp was obvious. But so many weren’t reading the notes on the side or clicked them off I guess, about destroying the webbing. Same then when got it back to mid level. Then finally all the way down. Although we were worried when it started rolling and not moving downwards that it glitched… that would have sucked! Instead it started walking backwards like it knew it was bugged up and had an alternate programing to retreat rather than roll lol.

Melpomene.2367:

Only part that dragged on was the reinforcements. I set my necro up high where they coudn’t reach me, I was lagging so hard lol. Everything else was pretty fun though! ^^

I did the range thing for awhile then the close up fighting. But yeah… Learned quick that reinforcements meant dead minions, hehe. But the fact they kept coming kept people on their toes. Those that actually went afk for dinner or to watch streams and whatnot, were left behind when the next phase rolled, and probably few of those missed out on the chest at the end, which honestly is fair. Given, the whole point was to be active and have a part in taking him down. Not sitting around doing nothing or auto-targetting.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Spikedadragon.6015:

I just wish we had a collectable area for event items…

I’m such a packrat, and space is precious especially when you already purchased more slots lol.

Not likely, as bag/bank slots are a cash shop item. There are also new crafting materials which conveniently don’t deposit into collectibles…..

That’s my point. It’s not infinite to buy though, lol. And the holiday/special events have their own collectables that aren’t collectable to the … you get it, otherwise I’d say that word yet again! It’s a shame really as my storage is already filled thanks to stuff like that, especially all the candy corn/trick-or-treat bags and the like. If I find something new to store, Its a pain to figure out what to rid of.
I still have the Candy Corn machine thing for hunting ghosts, heh.

If you stick around the Lionguard start talking about how things can return to normal and a hint of other creatures from ancient times that may find their way back lol.

Lag was a pain but dodging and getting out of the way still managed to work out. Didn’t get much loot drops through the course, which was expected, but the chest at the end was worth it. The boss fight itself, well worth it. Nice mechanics!
I’d love to see more of these where you get a sense of accomplishing something.
That and it was just fun to chase him up then back down lol.
For the people dying in explosions, they must have missed the timer on the right, flashing even. As it was easily avoidable by dodging back once or twice. Even if you were right up close to him at that time, as dozens of us were.

Bring on December!

I wish we could repeat it. It was a blast. Both the whole event and chest rewards. Although Dusk is now pretty much dropping in price every second on the TP. Too many got it I guess.

Haha I thought the same..

Like Master Roshi of DragonBall fame

I just wish we had a collectable area for event items…

I’m such a packrat, and space is precious especially when you already purchased more slots lol.

People can’t res you normally, but if they keep trying to heal it’ll work. We got one of our guildmates out just by doing that.

Sure it took upwards of 3 hours. And maybe a server disconnect once or twice, meaning starting again at another point on another Overflow or the main server.

BUT

The whole battle was fun.

Especially the end chain with the pushing back of the Ancient to the final push.

Kudos Arenanet. Well done

Party in the lair!

TheLordQ.1857:

Depotboy.6204:

This event has been….wow.

You’re right, this current DE has killed everyone trying to attempt it. The kicker is when we go to waypoint, we either crash and have to restart, unable to join our parties in the now full overflows OR we sit at a never ending loading screen. How do you design events that your engine can’t support?

And if you do get into an overflow, surprise! No bridge, no waypoints, no Phase 3.

If you hit a Overflow, the DE is still live. You just gotta get over to it in the top north west of the map.

If you have lag, go to an overflow. It isn’t needed though as long as your internet connection is good, and you aren’t doing other stuff on it like downloading ‘stuff’, watching streams and the like.

Exactly.
Also enemies aren’t invisible.
Also you can dodge to avoid the AOE-just be smart.
And its funny seeing all the dead people around you while you happily continue the fight and dodge.

tmorrow.5189:

Practice on the mad king’s clock tower prepared me well for this puzzle. Both puzzles are similar in that everyone gathers together and gets in each others way at the start (making it very difficult) and both involve quick, precise jumps, mostly on the run.

I was thinking the same. The Mad King’s Clock Tower would have been a good ‘stepping stone’ towards one like this

Samfisher.7942:

“I really hoped for more underwater content”…So rangers can test out their new awesome underwater changes from the recent patch! Right? RIGHT??

Rangers don’t belong underwater!
Heh. In all seriousness, never did understand how they would fit for underwater combat. Thankfully they have pets underwater at the least.