Guild Wars 2

I don’t really agree with some of these nerf decisions. The black pools Zhaitan spawned were fine, in my opinion. They’re magic of an Elder Dragon after all. In fact, they added a little something to an otherwise dull end boss fight. I’ve seen a lot of improvement in this fight since the game came out, but in the end it’s still disappointing how you end up being a skeet shooter. As for the knockback of the lesser dragons I wholeheartedly agree. This part was not so much difficult as it was a pain, though the setting was cool.

As for the WP problem I feel that the term “strategy” has a way too narrow definition, not to mention that this update could be devastating for the inexperienced players. If you look at Arah you see a dungeon that can take hours of excruciating pain with inexperienced people, especially at the Giganticus Lupicus boss that all have to face. This giant has attacks that can down players in no time, which is fine, because people will help revive you. But the problem is that as soon as you’ve been downed by him, a single attack might defeat you if you’re in an unlucky position. At this point you’ll take very long to revive and your teammates would with this update either have to ignore you or go out of their way to revive you. If they choose to revive you, they’ll certainly be in a lot of danger because of the massive AoE, and it requires a little more effort to dodge when you’re reviving someone. This is not to mention the amount of time it takes to revive, which you could use to kill the boss. In other words, the defeated player would end up being at best an invalid, while rez-rushing could at least bring him back in the game. Already now we see people screaming “experienced players only” when looking for a group for said dungeon, and that tendency would not lessen if the ability to stay alive would become so much more important. Inexperienced players would have a much harder time actually getting experience in there.

fritanga.1623:

well, I signed onto the forums to report this bug since I now have a character stuck on this quest. I tried to find the right thread to post the bug on and discovered many people talking very irrationally about the bug. Honestly, I can understand the frustration because we enjoy playing the game and this one bug is holding us up from progressing in the story line. What really frustrates me more is that when logical explanations are given for when a fix is expected and why it wasn’t out when it was projected to be out, the community of people who are stuck have a ragefit. Please remember that you are talking to human beings here and that they are trying to correct the issues. We all love this game but sometimes forget that people are working to fix it.

Quite frankly, I am very pleased to hear that there is a fix ankittenhankful knowing that it is coming soon. I understand how those who have been waiting for that fix for a while though want the fix pushed since it is a high priority for them since their characters are at a standstill. Just remember that we are talking to people and be a bit more respectful.

I understand what you’re saying, but at the same time I think it’s all right for people to be this frustrated at the moment. The players are human too.
We get some explanations, yes, but I for one have trouble understanding them. I know they’ve got a fix ready, and I know that they want to test things before they release it into the wild, and I know that there’s a lot of stuff going on with the grand November update and other bug and account issues and the like.
But what I don’t get is how we can still not have this bug fixed after so long. The fix may need testing, but they’ve already stated that they have it, and this was long ago by now, so I have some trouble seeing how it cannot have been implemented in the game yet. It’s not that there hasn’t been any updates since then.
I excitedly logged on one day to see the game downloading, and I thought that the fix must have finally arrived, but when I tried the quest again I got the same result. Later that day I saw that the update had included a fix to the bug that made raw candy corn veins appear randomly in the world even after the Halloween event was over. Now, I may not know all the details, but such a bug hardly seems game breaking to me, while this quest bug certainly is, and it makes me question the priorities of the developers quite a bit. I know they’re working hard, but I’m still confused, and honestly a little frustrated with this issue, and I’d really like an answer a little more clear than what we’ve gotten so far.