Guild Wars 2

Nadha.6097:

regarding the whirlpools.
do you mean those that suck you down to get the “treasure”?
If yes: they also spawn on a “fast” Tequ, you just don’t see them properly.
Stand close to one of the bone whips (I did use the landside ones close to the water opposite the turrets) always before the defence event start (even the first) and look out closely for one, it usually spawns right at the foot of it.
You don’t see them very well from all the clutter.
I was going crazy trying to get the achievment until someone told me.

So stand near a bone whip close to shore near the turrets?

Linken.6345:

+ they have said they are looking into the events that require another event to fail first for precursor crafting.
We dont know if these devs looking into it are the same ones that are moved to living story team and are not looking into it anymore tho.

hopefully theyre looking into events like Teq too, since it doesnt have to fail, it just cant be done so…. well. which is just as f***ing stupid.

Valentine.4286:

Okey three things
I agree its not the best that certain events must fail to get the right thing done.
BUT
For the first event, if you log on after after a patch update all maps are reset. Sooo there is nothing to defend and therefore you can get your event. What I did when I needed a similar event done.
For teq, try getting on a map not full. Log off when started and back on, prob getting on different server with fewer ppl. Then easy to get it slow to 75%.

The more you know

i didnt know that patch thing, but even that is problematic. Who knows when the next patch will hit, so instead of getting my legendary when i have everything ready and good to go, i have to hang around a map for 6 hours OR pray that a patch hits?

As for teq, i tried that too, and it just sent me into a map with 0 people and 1 minute left on the timer and 0 dmg on teq. so no whirlpools there either.

When you work as hard as you have to to get a leg in this game, and only spend 10 bucks here and there to speed it up a little bit (bought a few deldrimor ingots for t2 steps) you shouldnt have to depend on random conditions and praying that things go wrong. You should be rewarded with the thing you worked for, ESPECIALLY if youre not getting what you need cause youre doing an event TOO WELL. like….. wut?

None of this is directed at you btw, just my thoughts on the matter.

This is a rant. TL:DR; Anet makes seriously s**tty design decisions with regards to crafting preqs.

After hours and hours of grinding and hundreds of gold spent, i finally get to the last two pieces of dusk t3 crafting, and as soon as i get them i have everything i need to craft twilight.

But anet decides it’s a good idea to lock the last 2 collection pieces i need behind events. Spent over 6 hours at Temple of Grenth today until i convinced a map to let defense event fail so i could get the chain of events that leads to the portals i needed. Annoying as hell, but whatever, it’s just 1 piece, right? All i need is Teq and im done, Yay!

Get to teq to find out that he doesnt spawn whirlpools if you burn him fast. So… I can’t get what ive worked my a** off for because we do an event WELL?? I have to beg the map to burn slow, or find on overflow map that takes him to 75%, but NOT TOO FAST, before i can get sucked into a god d**ned whirlpool (dont give me the "he always does it at 75% crap, cause ive done him 3 times today, and had multiple friends watching with me, and not a single f***ing pool was spawned)? WTF anet??? Could have had twilight TODAY if anet had made some common sense design decisions.

EDIT: Seriously though, they need to fix this. Nothing is more disappointing in an MMO than working your a** off for months to get something only to find that you cant get it because the devs blocked it behind stupid conditions that are more punitive than they are logical. Make whirlpools spawn at EVERY stage of burning teq, Make portals at grenth spawn during defense AND attacking the temple. How f***ing hard is that??!!

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Any help is appreciate. Thanks

Thanks Sandra, i appreciate it

So im trying to buy gw2 for my friend for xmas since it’s on sale, and i put in all the billing info and it seems that it’s gonna be registered to the email im already using for my account. How do i buy it and make it so he can register this copy to his email for himself? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

So im trying to buy gw2 for my friend for xmas since it’s on sale, and i put in all the billing info and it seems that it’s gonna be registered to the email im already using for my account. How do i buy it and make it so he can register this copy to his email for himself? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Phy.2913:

Xemnas.3924:

Burnfall.9573:

Xemnas.3924:

Phy.2913:

Teq requires a lot of people. It’d probably get a lot more interest if they removed the timer.

but whats wrong with that? it didnt make ANY sense whatsoever that a 10 man team could do teq by themselves. Why cant the GW2 pop actually enjoy a challenge instead of wanting everything handed to them? This is the problem that causes a lot of hardcore MMO players to leave GW2, and im even considering it. Not that anyone cares, just my personal opinion.

This is the only mmo who uses control mechanism to force players to kill, with limitedly time.

Not only that, it completely violates any Fun mechanics in this game.

The reason, many left; (not saying your reasons aren’t valid), is because of Arena.nets’ control mechanics of punishing players who don’t abide to their ways of “fun”.

Phy is 100% correct, what is so interesting about being controlled and punished by a tyrant and an oppression mechanic; a.k.a “timer”

My server finally woken up and refuse to submit to this “timer”.

fair enough, but i really dont htink anet was trying to control and punish you. Theyre jsut trying to add difficulty to the events and add more stuff that needs doing in order to make it more fun. I mean, can you really say that the old teq was fun? or even shatt or jormag, when all you have to do is sit there with auto on? the events were EXTREMELY easy, and thus, boring. Therefore, they tried to make it more engaging and difficult. Did they execute that properly? Maybe not, but at least theyre working on it.

You can make it more fun without adding an automatic failure mechanic that punishs smaller servers. Does a timer really make it fun? All I’ve seen it does is add anxiety and frustration.

well like i said, they didnt do it perfectly. Maybe less populated servers should have longer timers? all im trying to say is that the way the events were before was just terrible, and i like the fact that they are working on it.

Burnfall.9573:

Xemnas.3924:

Phy.2913:

Teq requires a lot of people. It’d probably get a lot more interest if they removed the timer.

but whats wrong with that? it didnt make ANY sense whatsoever that a 10 man team could do teq by themselves. Why cant the GW2 pop actually enjoy a challenge instead of wanting everything handed to them? This is the problem that causes a lot of hardcore MMO players to leave GW2, and im even considering it. Not that anyone cares, just my personal opinion.

This is the only mmo who uses control mechanism to force players to kill, with limitedly time.

Not only that, it completely violates any Fun mechanics in this game.

The reason, many left; (not saying your reasons aren’t valid), is because of Arena.nets’ control mechanics of punishing players who don’t abide to their ways of “fun”.

Phy is 100% correct, what is so interesting about being controlled and punished by a tyrant and an oppression mechanic; a.k.a “timer”

My server finally woken up and refuse to submit to this “timer”.

fair enough, but i really dont htink anet was trying to control and punish you. Theyre jsut trying to add difficulty to the events and add more stuff that needs doing in order to make it more fun. I mean, can you really say that the old teq was fun? or even shatt or jormag, when all you have to do is sit there with auto on? the events were EXTREMELY easy, and thus, boring. Therefore, they tried to make it more engaging and difficult. Did they execute that properly? Maybe not, but at least theyre working on it.

DeathMetal.8264:

The problem with Teq is scaling. The other mechanics can remain the same (use of turrets, group strat to defend batteries, etc) but Teq like other world bosses SHOULD scale to be considered by the general player base.

I asked around it before (and I personally experienced it as well):
You can only do Teq with 80+ people AT THE MAIN Teq event, all Lv80 and decently geared.

Unfortunately, a zone can only hold so many people. And at times, the zone can be full, but that doesn’t mean EVERYONE at that zone is doing Teq. This presented the main issue of scaling. Without proper scaling, it means that to do Teq, players have to rally ALL willing and able players to the event. Unlike other bosses that scale, Teq can’t be defeated with 20 people, not 30 people, nor 50 people.

Sure, a dedicated guild can do it and there’s this guild that do Teq at overflow. But that is a work around, pulling people from different servers at one overflow, and camp it and hope you dont disconnect.

That also doesnt help low-pop servers, or servers who dnt have enough pop at a certain time, and limiting players who can only play at certain time.

Teq need to scale, it can have a minimum scale (say 20), but he should not require 80+ or full packed zone to be done.

i can agree to this, but say, still have a timer? For instance, i dont think it makes sense that 20 people should be able to kill teq in 5 minutes, so make it so 20 can do it, but it takes a minimum of 15 mins for that small of a group to do it? idk, something to balance it out and still make the smaller group have to put in a little work.

Mojo.7986:

“if thats the reason, its kinda ridiculous. a 10 minute, 15 min max event is too long for a guaranteed 2 rares?”

Max event? Max fight, not max event. Your credibility was lost right here before you even started pontificating. The organization and spawn waiting alone are not worth any reward. The general population likes to play the game, not stand around for an hour waiting to play the game.

You really should have some experience with something before offering an opinion.

that point is kinda ridiculous, seeing as no one minds waiting for shatt or jormag, didnt even mind waiting for teq until they buffed him. Why? cuz they are/were easy. But they put a little challenge to teq and all of a sudden the wait time becomes a problem, not the difficulty? Hihgly unlikely, seeing as I farmed the dragons for months before they buffed teq, and very rarely did anyone have a problem with waiting an hour and 15 mins for jormag. Anything else you wanna say?

Phy.2913:

Teq requires a lot of people. It’d probably get a lot more interest if they removed the timer.

but whats wrong with that? it didnt make ANY sense whatsoever that a 10 man team could do teq by themselves. Why cant the GW2 pop actually enjoy a challenge instead of wanting everything handed to them? This is the problem that causes a lot of hardcore MMO players to leave GW2, and im even considering it. Not that anyone cares, just my personal opinion.

zenleto.6179:

Ah, fair enough then. I see that excuse given a bit as well in game.

it annoys me quite a bit. I’m a person who liked a challenging event, not like EQ hard mind you, but teq is right up my alley now, and im glad they buffed him. I would LIKE to do teq without having to join a specific guild. But of course, all the casual, lazy players who want everything handed to them dont want to do it, so by consequence i cant do it either.

zenleto.6179:

Xemnas.3924:

Well from what ive heard, people are saying “It’s too ahrd and takes too long for the reward to be worth it.” and to me, if thats the reason, its kinda ridiculous. a 10 minute, 15 min max event is too long for a guaranteed 2 rares? Seems like everyone in this game just wants everything handed to them. I understand the desire to have fun, but the general GW2 population doesnt wanna work for anything it seems like. This is why GW2 has been losing a lot of the hardcore MMO players to other MMO’s; cuz the gen pop comes across as casual and lazy, doesnt wanna actually work for anything. Excuse my rant. Just saying what ive been seeing lately.

You’ve been seeing this lately but haven’t been on for months? Was this thread just an excuse for this particular rant?

yeahhh shoulda worded that better. I saw it a bit before they buffed teq (everyone complained about how hard Karka queen was) and i started seeing it a lot just after they buffed teq, which is when i stopped playing. I logged on today and asked why no one was doing teq, and they gave the “too hard” speech. Thats what triggered this rant.

Adine.2184:

you get at minimum 3 rares and 1 G for a teq kill so its worth it to me . I personally have to guest to another server cause mine doesn’t do it unfortunately which I’m fine with to be honest cause ive met a lot of cool people on the other server that i never would of come across otherwise .

which server are you on and which do you guest to?

Well from what ive heard, people are saying “It’s too ahrd and takes too long for the reward to be worth it.” and to me, if thats the reason, its kinda ridiculous. a 10 minute, 15 min max event is too long for a guaranteed 2 rares? Seems like everyone in this game just wants everything handed to them. I understand the desire to have fun, but the general GW2 population doesnt wanna work for anything it seems like. This is why GW2 has been losing a lot of the hardcore MMO players to other MMO’s; cuz the gen pop comes across as casual and lazy, doesnt wanna actually work for anything. Excuse my rant. Just saying what ive been seeing lately.

So i havent been on in a few months, but today i got on and it seems like no one is doing Teq anymore, and i havent gotten around to checking Shatt and Jormag yet, but im assuming no one does those? Am I right? If so, why is that?

Tray.1502:

Same here, dont worry your not alone

:( i just dont understand how the patches could create issues with my FPS when ive never had issues before

Okay so I haven’t played GW2 since jan (during which time i had no problems with FPS), and after playing for a bit these past couple days i am suffering from low fps even with groups of 6-7 people. It seems these new patches have somehow screwed up my fps. Any ideas?

Sqwiggles.8649:

I haven’t had this problem to the extent that you’ve had it. I’ve had a problem where my sound will sometimes lag in huge events, or I will simply not hear any of the skills I’m using. Not sure if it’s the same problem, sound familiar to you?

Yes this seems similar, like you said not the extreme of mine, but yes, it sounds similar

Ok so i just spent about a week with support and they finally told me that they could not identify the problem and told me to check the forums. The bug is this; during large events such as dragons or even when there are more then 6 or 7 people doing things at once, my sound cuts out. Now, it’s not like i cant hear ANYTHING or it gets muted or anything like, but in things like dragon events, i never hear the dragons sfx and only hear 3 or 4 abilities going off int he background when there are more then 20 people there popping off abilities. Anyone have any idea what’s causing this? We found through support that it wasnt my drivers or game options. I don;t think it’s my speakers cuz they dont have issues with any other games. Another thing that might help is that when support told me to change my settings (sound quality to fastest and mixer to most stable) while moving the cursor in that option, my game froze, multiple times.