Guild Wars 2

Olvendred.3027:

It’s simple. The Gift of Battle always required 500 BoH. Before they brought out achievement awards, you had to go into WvW and kill enough players (shock horror!) to buy it. Essentially, playing WvW has been an important element of making a legendary since the beginning.

The only problem was when the achievement awards started giving everyone hundred of BoH. It has now been remedied to something like the original vision. And as has been said, there are workarounds to this requirement that there weren’t for the original one.

You never had to kill anyone in WvW to get BoHs needed for legendary. All you had to do was some jumping…

Got another kill. Thanks TSS,TKS and VOLT!

Got HIM!!! Thanks to all who participated, especially leaders.

I hope there are still free spots. PMed you in game for invite. Thanks.

If beating this event requires to exclude players from the map (by bringing party members into non-overflow), then it’s a biggest failure in entire GW franchise history…

Knote.2904:

difens.1326:

vonHerman.1728:

Seems like another event that will be abandoned after some time.
Vide Karka Queen.

That’s clever plan on ANet’s side. Less ppl attempting teq = less good drops = less gold = hope for more gem purchases = some ppl fall for it = profit for ANet.

Wow you’re deluded.

The most profitable activity in the game is the easiest and most mindless activity, so no that theory is bunk lol.

Maybe I am but don’t you see the pattern? One patch gives us a carrot in the shape of more/better loot, then next patch takes it away somewhere else. It’s not the first time.

Amandil.2149:

This! The fight is great. I just wish I could do it coordinated with a group and not with pug zerg. There are always people trying to coordinate the fight, but to much people die in front of Teq and wait for a rezz. Everyone wants to get a turret but don’t know how to use it.I believe It strongly depends on the 6 people that sits on the turrets in this first first phase. Protecting the turrets isn’t a big deal.

You just contradicted yourself. The fight is NOT great because of the very reasons you posted

vonHerman.1728:

Seems like another event that will be abandoned after some time.
Vide Karka Queen.

That’s clever plan on ANet’s side. Less ppl attempting teq = less good drops = less gold = hope for more gem purchases = some ppl fall for it = profit for ANet.

darkace.8925:

We just got him to 50% on Blackgate. Methinks we’ll have the bragging rights for getting world first.

Clearly some kind of exploit :P Serverwide ban incoming. BOOM.

You won’t reach 100 tries. Ppl will abandon him after failing it for 10th time with 80 copper reward. That’s realistic.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Tobbygnome.6793:

Sea of Sorrows killed him, here is the screenshot for proof.

I don’t know, that looks fishy to me :P

Definitely a fake, he didn’t get ascended precursor. Like we all will when we finally beat tequatl, right?

bhagwad.4281:

I like this update. I don’t care about feeling as if I’ve achieved something etc. What I care about is story consistency. A dragon should be almost impossible to defeat. It was absurd when we all used to wait for teq and just DPS him down.

Arah storymode says hello. You afk for the whole final battle shooting at AFK elder dragon. Story consistency, right…

RLHawk.3290:

Wait… so no bugs ever made any clients loose any time whatsoever? That’s the ONLY thing any players are loosing from this — a bit of time that they spent getting the achievements before the patch.

If our client lost anything because of our fault, compensation always follow. That is a good practice and right thing to do.
You seem to diminish the value of our time. I tell you this: time spent working on achievements might not be much for you, but they mean alot for some of us.
I’m done discussing this. Too angry to type correctly.

RLHawk.3290:

This is absolutely not true, difens.1326. As a professional programmer myself (non gaming related) who rolls out updates to several clients semi-frequently, it is pretty much impossible to test EVERYTHING thoroughly enough to not have ANY bugs. If you want to make perfect software, you’ll never release anything EVER. Because it can ALWAYS be better. And yes — I’ve messed up some things that have been irreversible, like this. It’s part of the job. So you can bash on ANet or bash on me all you want, but every piece of software you use will have issues from time to time, rather you run into them or not.

And for everyone complaining about 10 or 20 laurels — what in the world is wrong with you?! You’ll get your 10 just like every other time! And if someone gets 20 (which is just speculation atm anyway afaik), why is that a problem? Isn’t our “in this together” attitude something we pride ourselves on as a GW2 community? We revive our fallen, help out strangers with tough battles, and don’t/can’t steal kills/loot/harvesting nodes. It’s certainly something I pride us on as a community and brag about to outsiders who’ve had bad experiences with MMOs. So if my fellow hero played a ridiculous amount and got his monthlies in the first 2 days of the month and gets rewarded extra, then to him I say congratulations! What is there to be envious of? They’re not taking anything from me, and I’m given everything I deserve.

If you were close to getting monthlies and had them reset, I can understand being disappointed. But if you got them that fast, you’ll have no trouble getting them in the next 27 days, and it seems like a small price to pay for all the incredible content ANet delivers constantly.

I have over 10 years of experience in medical software development and support. Of course bugs happen. Of course things go wrong. I messed up my code several times. But never in my entire career, I made my customer pay for my mistakes. If I screw something up, it is I, who pay the bill.

Kuzzi.2198:

If you managed to do a portion of the monthly in 3 days then you should have no trouble completing them in 27 days.

I managed to do the portion, because I had some time off work. I won’t have the chance to do this in September anymore.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

After investigation by our programmers, they have determined that the fix to this issue would be too risky and could end up making the situation worse than it is. Unfortunately, this means that we’re not able to make changes to correct the issue. We’re sorry about this and we will be implementing ways to ensure this doesn’t happen in the future.

Lazy and unprofessional excuse. Like I said in the other thread, you, as a company, do not respect us as your customers, nor you value our precious time. Lack of proper testing, lack of proper planning and stupid ambition to release new content every two weeks caused this. Fine. No more excuses, no more failures like this. You won’t see any more money from me. I don’t care for laurels or achievement points, but I do care for my time. Obviously you don’t. End of story.

More like never…

Don’t bother asking for reverting this change. Hear this failNET: you don’t respect me as your customer, my time and efforts have no value for you? Fine. You won’t see a single gem purchase from me anymore.

PS. Rollbacks are done only as last resort when something terrible happens with the database. You could have just mail the essence to those who already completed their monthly. Your lack of planning is astonishing.. oh wait, it’s not…

No point to play living story if you can miss its ending due to someones mistake. Weeks to complete all other achievements and you miss the last one just because you don’t look at those forums every day. GG ANet, you surely learn from past mistakes.

If this is not fixed soon I’m going to quit the game. I’m an achievment hunter and they mean alot to me. I was very frustrated seeing all my slayer, weapon master, survivor and gold hoarder achis gone. Fix it now!

I can’t log into the game, Is it only me or a global issue? There is nothing on GW2 twitter or in announcements about known issues with logins today.

Lol i lost all gathered oris and saplings but nodes are ‘used’ and I can’t harvest them again. GG ANet.

Avikitten938:

Back down to 57 silver after selling all my materials for 20g+, yay

Post a ticket right away if you lost mats but did not get gold.

I lost progress on my daily and everything i have gathered before crash is lost.