Guild Wars 2

I’ve just had the joy of being part of the event and seeing it fail in part because the instance was capped but a big bunch of players in LP refused to help out.

Consider yourselves lucky all you get is a repair bill.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Do you go to a playground and expect everyone to leave just because you want to play soccer?

Yes, if it is a designated soccer game time. I mean I really can’t fathom how inconsiderate someone would have to be to shove themselves on to this map at this point just to do “defend the bridge”. You’re not doing it except to be contrary. I refuse to believe anyone is THAT rude than to do this specifically to be contrary. “Oh I don’t like this meta so I’m going to level up in the 15th overflow of some random map, let’s say… Lornar’s Pass.”

Lord Kuru.3685:

Fluffball.8307:

Get off the map or help.

Don’t tell other people how they should play the game.

Then don’t ruin an event for 160 people. As someone mentioned, you know what’s going on. You know people are scrambling to get on this map. GET OFF, die, or participate. Insanely rude to be on this map if you’re tooting around farming onions.

If you saw a soccer game taking place would you decide to start looking for four leaf clovers in the middle of the field?

At level 80 you’re looking at a 2-3 silver cost for waypoint and repair, and even lower at lower levels. Get over yourself. I love that a world boss fail have an actual consequence, we need more of this!

Doggie.3184:

They need to buff it to kill all the mobs and wildlife in the zone as well.

Yes, it should wipe everything. Players dead, Friendly npcs dead, hostile mobs dead…critters, you guessed it, dead!

I wish these threads were a joke. There was one last week where the player didn’t even know what had killed him.

Look. If somehow you didn’t read the update, don’t notice the swatch of commander tags, the endless map chat about the event, or the fact that we’re all camping main server and loading overflows just to do the thing, or you did notice those things and still didn’t help, then frankly you deserve to be killed by the laser.

These two weeks are NOT a good time to be in Lornar’s unless you’re there for the event. Level somewhere else please.

Hate to break this to you folks but the real “farmers” are not in the champ trains, they are in SE p1 farming the crap out of it. Those people in the trains are in fact, normal players who just want to get stuffs without faffing around for 6 hours and getting jack.

All I keep hearing is is jealousy and envy that some players are having fun and getting rewarded for doing so. There is no real reason to break up the players in QD other than spite.

Please, ArenaNet, do not make large-scale ‘raid-type’ content instanced. I prefer it the way it is. Thank you.

For me the daily feats is like the daily laurel vendor visitor. A free achievement.
This is what I do:
1: go to a master chef, and ask for cooking supplies
2: locate ‘Rice in bulk’ and by one package (49 karma)
3: unpack to recieve exact 25 riceballs
4: keep clicking on the riceballs till you eaten all 25
(you dont need to wait for the effect to wear off, it only costed 49 karma and your done within a minute with this achievement)

I’ve only been playing the game for a few months (82 days to be exact according to /age), so I still consider myself a new player. You may or may not agree with my being a new player. Newer player might be more fitting. At any rate…

I don’t see anything wrong with the Queensdale champion train. In fact, I personally thought it was kind of a cool thing, something I hadn’t seen before.

My first experience with it was when I was attempting to get the vista point in the bandit lair (can’t remember the name). I attempted it a couple of times but kept getting killed by the bandits in the area. However, after seeing the train make its way into the bandit station, I managed to get the vista point, since the bandits were all dead. Seemed pretty cool actually.

I was never put off by the train. As a new player, I didn’t run around with a group, so trying to kill any of the champions wasn’t even a forethought. In fact, I don’t know if any new player would attempt to kill the champions anyway… at least not without being part of a group. And since the train runs non-stop, a new player can tag along, be a part of a group for a short while, kill the champ and move on his/her merry way.

I think there is entirely too much of people worrying about what someone else is doing with their time in the game. People should probably pay more attention on their own fun rather than someone else’s.

Stop worrying about how other people play the game and you will enjoy yours more. I see a few comments in these anti-train threads that I think are either unfair assumptions or flat exaggeration.

1. Assuming new players are a bunch of imbeciles. It seems the anti-train crowd assumes that new players will stumble across the champ train in Queensdale and just get stuck there and never do anything else ever. If they do finally break free it is assumed they will just be a bad player and somehow ruin the game for the anti-train players. Apparently it is assumed that new players are too dense to see all that other stuff on the map, all these prompts to do other things, all these different places will go and just assume that the champ train is the game. Apparently new players will stumble across the champ train and come to the conclusion that GW2 is the smallest MMO in the history of MMOs.

2. Exaggeration on the impact it has in /map. I do the champ train on and off a few times a week when I’m leveling an alt or just want to relax and goof around for a half hour or so while waiting for something else to start. When the champ train became a ‘thing’ there were a fair amount of arguments about champ sniping. The train has been going on so long now that almost everyone is used to it and doesn’t even comment when it happens now. I guest on a few servers and this seems to be the norm at this point. The only time I see problems is when someone goes out of their way to disrupt the cycle and then taunts the people in the train (since we are all assuming here, perhaps some of the anti-train people posting in this thread). Some players seem to have made a career out of that but even then usually once someone says something everyone else says something like, “Oh, that’s just so-and-so. They always do that just ignore him,” and that’s the end of it.

3. People should be doing “X” and “X” to level or farm because it is better. See my first sentence in the post.

You may feel that doing dungeons and WvW or what ever is a better way to play and more fun. That’s fine but just because you disagree with another play style doesn’t mean you should dictate how others play the game. If you don’t like the train then don’t do it. What are you doing hanging out in the human stater zone to see how apparently disruptive it is anyway? Shouldn’t you be doing a dungeon or fighting Teq or something? Or maybe if you are so concerned about new players go find some and show them around other parts of the game. You know, be proactive and help them avoid their impending doom of getting sucked into the champ train.

Well this thread settles it, I was doing Mari on ele, but now I’m going to do it on ranger from here on.

I didn’t have time to read ALL of the posts, but I noticed a trend of thinking that E is a woman. From the short story Anet posted on the website, which is about Marjory in Divinities Reach, I got the impression that E was a man, and certainly not a asuran progeny since E held a dagger to Marjory’s throat

I heard Trahearne courted Ceara when they were much younger.

We know how it ended.

Here on Aurora Glade we explain the mechanics multiple times in map chat, and squad chat, and overall the morale has been overwhelmingly positive. Even when a lane fails, people will yell out “good luck next lane, you can do this”.

I’ve never told anyone to go read dulfy. I personally feel that the commanders do a much better job at explaining things, than some website does. I also feel it’s the job of the commanders to keep morale high. Last night it was kind of touch and go for our attempt, but even as the last team went in, we remained confident that we could still make it. And make it we did.

Largos, largos and largos.

Organization Sekhen.2481:

My norn mesmer
I have no idea what happened…

Yes you do. Anime happened. Make it work for you. No shame.

Needs more Karka backpiece.

Aedelric.1287:

Almost every time I did the event most people treated each other with respect and were supportive/cheering rather than condescending or hateful. Even on the rare occasion we suffered a fail people were still great sports about it.

I am on Piken Square, in case you are wondering.

Ha yes, I’m on Piken Square as well and I have the exact same experience! People cheer each other on, give tips to first timers and the overall atmosphere is excellent.

In the overflows I’ve mostly found that the positive and encouraging ones tend to succeed, where those that are full of “omg u all suck it’s so easy!!11111 i can solo this on my main!!!111” or “it’s everyone’s fault except mine i never died ever it must be the rangers/engineers/elementalists/classidontplaymyself!!!” rubbish, usually fail.

For a game having karma as a currency, that actually makes sense to me! I think that if people can’t maintain a positive and encouraging atmosphere towards their fellow players even in the face of potential defeat, they don’t deserve the win anyways.

Most players don’t understand that others will perform better when you treat them with respect and patience and don’t lose your skritt as soon as something fails.

Just stay happy and explain how it works in clear terms, and the next fight will be better.

@gambit, You can not assume they had days of trying, perhaps it was their first time trying. And if people are blaming others for doing a ‘’bad job’’ then yes, i will call them out for being a**es.

Rule 1 for this event – Dont be a kitten.

I think I spotted the problem, Akimbo. I think you’ve confused the word ‘achievement’ with the word ‘entitlement’.

I think you’re being punished for being a crappy teacher.

No one shows up with the intent to fail. But they may lack the knowledge needed to win. If you’re so certain that you’ve mastered every nuance of the fight, then you need to master one more: sharing that knowledge.

Healix.5819:

If all you want is the meta reward, simply participate in the event each day for the daily, which will raise your meta progress.

^^This^^

That’s the reason why they added the LS daily. So that people with little time on their hands can finish the meta achievement. It just takes time.

If all you want is the meta reward, simply participate in the event each day for the daily, which will raise your meta progress.

Telling somebody that the queensdale champ train is a fast way to level is being honest. The champ farms are a nice way to bring a community together. I’ve made friends from the Frostgorge champ train myself. I rarely see new players told to level in Queensdale without the usual, “but it isn’t recommended for your first character because…” warning attached. Not everybody is skilled enough to do all of content, and I don’t believe a champ farm is the cause of that.