Guild Wars 2

Ahh, thanks for that! Looks like I have some reading to do X_x!

Hey guys
Just wondering if anyone could let me know (in a nutshell) what content i’ve missed over the last couple months?
I moved overseas and haven’t had any time to get on and play – until now, downloading the client as I type this XD
Anywho, I last played around the start of “Secrets of Southsun”, so I have my cute little flower accessory and my weird alien-like back slots, but that’s about it.
According to the wiki I’ve missed 6 releases ( last stand at southsun, dragon bash, sky pirates, bazaar, cut-throat and jubilee) and I plan on reading up on them later on, but could anyone just give me a blurb about what happened during all of that, and maybe super obvious things that I need to know (I think achievements had a big change too?)

Any help would be awesome Can’t wait to get back in game!

Quick score update & a reason to get in WvW and have some fun! :

Here you go!

Score update for those interested!

A very blue-looking score update!:

^ and I’m looking for some new friends to make during this timeslot! There isn’t really much more to say than what everyone else has mentioned in the thread already, but we’re all still really excited to make some new buddies to play with!

Can’t believe there isn’t a score update yet!

As an Oceanic FA player (since headstart!) it is so refreshing to see new guilds join our server in the timeslot. We have been waiting a verrrry long time. I’m super glad IOJ chose our server, as they were great opponents. On the flip-side, I do feel for the IOJ’s that haven’t transferred, it must be really painful over there at the moment >.<
It’s a nice change to see the maps painted red. The score doesn’t matter this far into the match up, but it’s great considering last night I was sweeping up all of FABL with about 15 people after CD wiped us almost out of existence!

The last couple of hours have been awesome fun in WvW! CD roared through FA BL and left us with close to nothing – But we managed to grab it all back while watching the same scenario unfold over in IOJ BL. Both IOJ and FA have pushed through and are back on their feet now, With CD still holding onto EB.

Score and Map Update:

Score update for those interested:

Better late than never! :

Sunspots.9861:

You should come to TC Warm Ember. I think you will be alot more appreciated here

As much as I hate to say it, I’ve actually thought about hopping to TC lately… It sucks because i’ve been on FA since… BWE’s, and I had planned looooong ago to join a server with anything Kurzick related (I love kurzicks!) But I find myself losing all my server pride lately, and I have met so many awesome TC-inininans. You guys seems like a really friendly bunch!

Sigh I make an effort NOT to post on this thread because usually everything turns into a giant pile of drama, but for once i’m actually super sad about my server On behalf of all the kind, friendly and not kill hungry players of FA, I apologise.My computer crashed and had a big fit before the Doly event happened, so I missed out on it ;_; but I really wanted to join you guys because I love making friends/hanging out with people from opposing servers. I do it all the time at EB jp, laying/sitting/dancing with random CD’s and TC’s at the big chest It makes me sad to see all the anger towards my server, and the lack of respect we have from you all I guess what I really want to say is, yes, there are bad apples on my server, but remember there are a lot of other FA’s that arn’t Don’t judge me because of the server I call home! -waves white flag-

I woke up at 5am, I’m Australian, so it was a very early start. I began the event as soon as it started, and after 3 hours I had made no progress because by that stage i’d been in 6 different overflows repeating it all. I gave up for a couple hours, only to return and find out overflows were still running the event. I tried my luck, and after about another hour I finally got a spot in an overflow. I made it further than I ever had, and then the new build happened. -sigh-

Arklain.6429:

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… If this is anything to go by, only people who were at the final boss will get a reward, which is fair enough. But what about hundreds of others like me, who never even got to that part because we were all foolishly repeating the event chain in vain for hours, over and over and over again in several overflows after being either disconnected or having our game crash? I WISH I could have gotten to the boss, I TRIED my hardest to for hours, but it just didn’t work out for me. I hope people in my situation will also get some consideration from Anet.

I was lucky enough to participate today, woke up at 5am and was super excited for the event. But after almost 12 hours (on and off), and having repeated the first two sections of the event 3 times each, and the 3rd/4th section once, I never made it to the chest. I never made it to the section where you kill the final boss, due to massive lag, client crashes, and then finally the new build. I wish i’d just slept in this morning…

I think this would an awesome idea.

The main thing that worries me is who they’ll be giving rewards to now. If it’s just the people who were in the final boss battle but dc’d, that’s a good thing for them, but what about people like me who never got the chance to make it that far?

I did the demolition event 90% on one overflow, then my client crashed, then I finished it on a second overflow and got credit for it, amazingly.
I did the reinforcements stage THREE TIMES, got to 90% 60% and 70% (roughly) on 3 different overflows before getting lagged into server disconnections.
I logged into my 5th overflow and everything was over.

What about people who didn’t get credit for either of them because they didn’t manage to do enough damage to the Kraka?
Will we get the chance to open the chest?

(continued from above)

Phase Three - Oh gosh, phase three….
I guess i’m going to be a bit biased in this section but this is my personal experience.
>Firstly, no one in my overflow really knew where the event would trigger. GW2 website said lions arch, rumours were twitter had said LS. Once we got past that hurdle, things got worse.

> The mail with the location to start at came too late. You pretty much had to get to LS yourself, wait for the mail then run to the poi, only to figure out that wasn’t actually where the event was happening, it was further north.
> – The Demolition – A great idea, but badly executed. I couldn’t see any mobs unless they had died, or I had died. All I did was stand back and tab through invisible creatures, again not receiving credit for kills. (44 mins into it, my sound went all "weowowowowwweeeowww"" on me, and then my game froze so I had to restart the client. When I logged back in I was in a new overflow, where the event had not progressed to the point I dc’d at, so I waited a good 15mins to be revived and re-join a group. Once rezz’d we made our way to the Ancient Karka.)

> The Ancient Karka was hit by a tree, and then started spawning a lot of adds. We got the reinforcements to about 90% killed when due to massive lag (none of my skills, heals, or player-reviving-options activating for about 5 mins), my connection to the server was lost and I had to re-log. This put me into my 3rd overflow, where the reinforcement bar wasn’t even a half full. Again, the lag was so bad i’m pretty sure I never got to activate a skill or heal, and was kicked a whole 10+ minutes later. I then re-logged into my FOURTH DIFFERENT OVERFLOW, where the reinforcements bar was completely empty, and I had to start again. I didn’t lag in this overflow,
and we managed to get 75% of the reinforcements killed before, AGAIN, I got the weird “weooweweoww” sound bug and my game froze, making me close the client and re-load. Upon reloading to my now FIFTH OVERFLOW (and every overflow I hopelessly tried to join after this one) the event box told me the event was now over.

So, after all that my main points of feedback are:
> Send mails early, be more descriptive in the Event Progression box
> Find a fix to the whole not-getting-credit for kills issue, so that everyone is recognised for their participation
>Find a way to do events where the lag will be minimal, or at least bearable, without massive dc’s for players or people who waypoint to res
>Fix Overflows so that you don’t lose your place or have to restart/miss events

and some others i’d like to add:
>I think the chest giving precursors/lots of exotics was a bad idea, especially as this was a one time event
and
>Consider scrapping the one time events in favor of instanced or re-playable events so that people from all time zones can attend (I woke up at 5am on Sat, Sun, and Monday to do these events because i’m Australian)
It might be a lot to ask, but that’s my PERSONAL experience and feedback (and a little venting!).

This has been my experience with the Lost Shores events. (This is looooooong)

Phase One -
>The build up was exciting, and the idea behind the first event was great, but the amount of lag (my auto-attack was in slow motion for me, a shortbow shooting at the rate of a longbow or less) was hard to play with. Also, the fact that you could do thousands of damage to a Karka, and still not receive any credit for the kill was another let down, especially when a certain drop was needed to hand into the event npc. It makes it feel as though you’re just helping everyone else kill the monster faster, yet you yourself don’t really matter in terms of the game recognising your efforts.

>The mini-missions afterwards I thought were fine, they were the right length – not too short but not too long. The main problem with them however was they were almost all completely bugged (Sylvari and Largos NPC’s) or ill-explained. I think the event information box should be more detailed, not just tell you the name of an npc and make you guess the rest.

>Fractals is a fun dungeon which can be further expanded later on, which is awesome. My only problems with this is the elitism it creates (people making gear, level, and difficulty barriers – I run the dungeon with my boyfriend who is level 65, and he has been kicked multiple times because of his level) and the new tier of armour which I thought was a bit of a slap in the face

Phase Two -
> Again I felt like there was a lack of communication with this one, I was in an overflow for about 15mins and the event hadn’t triggered, but I got the option to travel to non-overflow, which I took my chances with. Upon entering the new server, the event had obviously triggered and was about halfway through. I had no idea what was going on, I saw a giant Karka on half health, then regen to full health, about 30 people dead around it, and everyone else standing on a near-by bridge trying to lure it over. Rather suddenly we watched a very short cutscene and had the option to travel to the Lost Shores. Everyone ditched the Karka and set sail.

>The event chain on LS was very enjoyable. It still had the problem of doing lots of damage but not getting event credit, but made up for it because it felt awesome running around helping to scout/take back/rebuild the island. My main problem with this was the abrupt ending. I wasn’t sure if it was over or still going, for quite a while after.

(to be continued!)

This happened to me too, after an already horrible morning of Guild Wars… :\

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Event-Feedback-merged-threads/page/9#post785924