Guild Wars 2

Heh, grub helped us defend our (blue) keep once. We wiped the attacking army in lord’s room with the grub’s help and then farmed the grub afterwards. It was glorious.

Nice Video in Spanish Defeating Tequatl in Yak’s Bend

Thanks ARENANET XD
www.guildwars2.com.mx
Gracias desde Mexico

To Tequatl I say, “So long and thanks for all the fish!”

I just wanted to thank you for them. Gonna go roll around in them again.

Cymric.7368:

Wow YB, now I know why CD made a post complaining abt your golems. I don’t really have a problem with you using them, except… stop littering our keeps with them!

Every time we retake a keep we see a golem, or tow, full health alphas and 1/2 health omegas etc etc. Like they are disposable underwear and you use them and throw away :/

What’s crazy is, YB definitely has enough people to just throw down rams everywhere instead of porting ever more golems to take a whole map. Last night in HoD BL – 3 Golems in garrison – 4 golems in Bay – 5 Golems in NE keep, etc.

If you had 4 small teams of 10, instead of 40+ golems, you could have simultaneously taken 4 towers/keeps with 3 rams each in less total time, and instead of 3 defenders running around the map trying to stop you, you would have had .75 defenders per objective.

Also, the YB on here seem classy, if you could remind your servermates that spamming /laugh isn’t classy, and after steamrolling a considerably less populated server with a zerg and golems, they should be /saluting us for trying to defend at all instead of pve-ing for the next week.

Wow YB, now I know why CD made a post complaining abt your golems. I don’t really have a problem with you using them, except… stop littering our keeps with them!

Every time we retake a keep we see a golem, or tow, full health alphas and 1/2 health omegas etc etc. Like they are disposable underwear and you use them and throw away :/

Anet will have Tequatl join the larger server too.

I’ve taken part in the event many times, and while some have been successful, it seems the chance for mistakes that can snowball into a failure is very high.
Relying on the turrets to cleanse the zerg, and relying on everyone to be stacked tight enough to benefit is usually too difficult to do consistently, and people constantly go down from the waves which are right next to the zerg point.

I have been thinking about an alternative way to take him down, and it might require a bit more organization, but I think it could work out well.

The key would be to break the zerg up into parties of 5 or 6, and each group could stand at one of the fingers that spawn around teq. Each groups job would be to focus on teq and as soon as the finger they are assigned to comes up, burn it down.
This should, in theory, take all the pressure off the people attacking teq and also remove the pressure for people on the turrets to do a perfect job, which lets face it, doesn’t happen enough.
With the pressure off the turrets to cleanse continuously, they can focus on skill skill 2 and 1, to add more DPS to teq.

3 people per turret set, 10 people defending each side, 3-5 killing only fingers closest to the turrets and between teq and the turrets, and the 5 people per finger around teq comes to 82-86 players.

I know this is a perfect situation, and with afkers it could be very difficult to organise, but if enough people could gather together and be organized, it could be a good way to fight Teq.

Additional players could form up in the normal place, since all the pressure for from the poison should be greatly reduced.

So thoughts, if its a good idea, a bad idea, if it could work or be tweaked?
I think it has potential

Practically everything I’ve been ‘complaining’ about.

Your design of this fight was very good.
- It’s much more difficult than the other fights you’ve made.
- Chance of failure is pretty high. Hopefully the reward is pretty good.
- Players need to know the fight to succeed.
- There’s a lot more going on than the near cinematic experience of most boss fights.
- Despite players being angry during the fight, there seems to be enough good manners amongst them (or common sense) to revive people when they are down (for now).
—- revive really needs to be more important to people or the social climate of this game is going in the pits though.

Comments:
Really, the fight is a good experiment. It shows you’re trying to make the dragons a little less static and a little more difficult.

Suggestions:
In the future make dragons act like dragons? Currently they all simply stand in front of guns and die.
How about having them move around the map a bit? Torment the world just a little. These are dragons right? Severely temperamental mesh objects?

Yaks bend just beat him.

Congratz to Yaks Bend, Just killed Teq with over a minute to go. Gratz guys!!

Yes it is hard, but that because 100+ people needs to be organized and you need to find tactics that suit the whole players not just yours. BG’s way does not work for us at all.

Yes, AFK people and people who do not listen are annoying. But it is about the world, your sever and all the players in it. It is not about what you like to do and how you like to play. This is a WORLD event.

In the last two days people started to learn. They start to listen, they want to beat the beast. I made a lot of new friends in the game.

It is good that it is NOT intanced for such the social reason. We haven’t beaten it on Kodash yet. Best attempt was about 26% percent AFAIK. We would have needed about 1 minute more.

From today on the AFK and more casual started to leave and the more hardcore players stayed the whole time on the map and we organized taxis to get our people out of overflowst that needed to go or had a dc. As the AFK guys were never in some group nor on TS they could not get back.

We tried a lot of stuff and failed often with new problems as we tried our different approaches. But it is starting to work. But we need a 100+ zerg we only get later afternoon early evening for this event. Phase 1 is the problem here and sometimes the turrent defense.

I am sure once we beat this and have the critical mass we can repeat it often. Don’t know if we will…

Especially the people who just stand there spamming 1 are actually learning to jump/dodge. In the moring out of 100+ people 75 did not survive two waves (yes, it is that bad). Now most of them make it and just get a few knowbacks when they do not pay attention or picking up downed players.

Yes the waves are easy, but not for people who never dodged properly. They are learning. I like that. Especially on a glass cannon server with zero movement skills for most of the players (our WvW has no decent zerg movement either). Same for our dungeon runners and so called elite: they are just great in glitching and skipping meaning avoiding challenges.

Even if we failed we are having fun. We want to beat Tequila, no one cares about loot or whatever. It is the challenge. And then repeat it to see if the tactic is good and get the achievement title!

Also this in not a Lidari. No camera issues, lag is acceptable (hardly happens, and way better than WvW on any given hour of the day) and you can clearly see what’s happening.

Sure, the timer is artificial. But without any artifical limitation it would be easy for everyone. Time and map limit and coordination is what makes this difficult. This is what makes an MMO. 25 man raids are also limited artificial by the number of people who can participate.

The bad thing here are overflows! That is horrible here, as overflow rarely works decent. But there is a map cap and that’s the problem. If there was none or higher Teq. would just need more HP or less time to beat for compensation.

I hope Anet will not copy Tequatl with Shatterer and Claw of Jormag as there are cannons/mortars as well and do them different. Hope there are new challenges and not copy and paste jobs with different textures.

Love you Anet, this content is great. Sure, not for everyone, but same goes for Fractals, dungeons and jumping puzzles. I forgive you for Liadri for this one.

Let some people farm their champs we take the 100+ player raids (ok, as close to a raid as we can get at the moment) any time.

And those who do not like, it do not have to play it. Sure not an 80 zone, but if it were an 80 zone HP, damange and stuff would just be greater. So no biggie. And even level 65 players are working with us. Everyone who is interested counts. Rares, exotics, ascended? No one cares.

So next prime time and we finally can join the ranks of a lot of other servers who did it. Fingers crossed.

Amazing fight here on Yak’s Bend, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOtEGXACys

Check minute 14:50!!!!

Missy.7356:

Can someone please tell me the requirements to get the chest at 75%, 2 times now Ive been in a overflow thats got him to below 75%, 2 times ive seen people get chests. The last time stayed close to commander, even got sent to a watery grave and no chest for me, so what do you have to do to get a chest, coz id hate to be in a server that actually kills him and get nothing.

(by server I mean overflow, since I havent guested anywhere)

Apparently you need to participate in a succesful laser defence.

Hey there!

So this thread has two reasons.
First, of all, because of the high demand, we will make a second guild. The Tequatl Slayer Squad [TSS]! Dont write me now. I will start this guild 00:00 gmt+2! You can then pm me. Please don’t spam and just ask politely again 10 minutes later if i didn’t read the first time. I got literally two whisps per second at prime time, which makes it really hard! ^^

[TSS] Is now full. [THS] is now open!
———-

I will only accept private message applications, since I can invite via rightclick there, which makes it much easier for me. So please respect this. I won’t invite anyone who posts or mails me. There are just too many of you in order to do this. Sorry! =)

At the moment both together now have more than 1000 members! Thanks for all this support guys! We really appreciate it! =)

Second reason for this thread. This is a success thread! TKS and TSS newest achievements will be here.

Tequatl kill count [TKS]: 35
Tequatl kill count [TSS]: 29
Tequatl kill count [THS]: 14
Actual amount of kills: ~37 (+-2 I guess. I’m not there all the time, but some write to me about new kills ^^ So maybe some are doubled or some missed out)

Vabbi: 1
Fissure of Woe: 2
Ruins of Surmia: 2
Overflow: ~32

Record on the clock: 7:42 (Organizing commander of that run: Enns!)
SRSLY!! Good job everyone! Enns set it up! Special thanks to him! Well done!

Commanders/Officers in charge of the operations so far:

Defeder:
Storm Lightning
Playmate I
Klakk Bumm
Hinagiku Hyuga
The Quiet Mirage
Aisina
Veteran

Attacker:
Lyss Firefly
Garzvog Barzûl
Darkashara
Scyler
Pumillion
Aliciente
Mor the Guardian
Harsekyugan

Organizer:
Sunlazu (special thanks for organizing a really freaking lot!)
Storm Lightning
Aldorion (thx for lending me the 100g for a Commander too ;)
Aisina (Thanks for taking my spot while I was gone!)
Garzvog Barzûl
Mor the Guardian
Shehr

Buff Food Buying:
Talz Flametooth
Failith

Special Thanks:
- Hans Kreuz for setting up the new TS! =)
- Cassella for opening the Facebook group ^^
- VOLT/ Jammi Doger
Thanks alot for letting us use your ts server! We wouldn’t be anywhere without it!

(Sorry if I forgot some. I can’t remember all names. Just tell me!)

Thanks alot for all of you!!!

(Screen is from a guild member. Thanks!)

Maybe they’re releasing an Extreme Makeover Kit and Tonn was the first to test it out.

Something tells me he’ll return during Wintersday. Maybe Festive-Tron, or Scrooge-Tron.

I agree, though, it’s nice to see light-humoured returning characters every now and then.

Although Bloodlust and Leagues are a terrible idea, Anet you are still continuing. Please do atleast one thing though and change the US leagues from 2 (12 servers) to 4 (6servers). Currently one of the biggest fears in 1st league is the top 5 servers have population that dwarfs the bottom 7. If each server is going to play each other in league atleast once that will give 4 out 7 matches to be complete blowouts and not fun at all. I am sure bottom 12 servers will experience this. The population for US wvw servers isn’t as balanced as EU and needs the servers divided into groups of 6 instead to have better matchups. These league servers below matched up with each other will give ALOT more balanced matches then dividing servers into 2 groups only.

SOR,BG,JQ,TC,DB,FA League 1
Mag,SoS,SBI,EB,CD,BP League 2
YB,KN,IoJ,DH,NS,HoD League 3
SF,GoM,ET,FC,AR,DR League 4

TLDR
Although Leagues are a dumb idea we need 4 leagues in US instead of 2 to make matchups not blowouts for atleast 50% of 7 weeks duration.

They release stuff “without testing it”: people complain.
They test it and people complain.

I would rather have these test than getting into a situation where my character is locked into something due to a bug.

I agree that it might have been better to leave the LFG out of the preview page though.

So the pirates would start talking like pirates?

…well that was implemented quickly.

When I was leveling cooking on my Charr Elementalist, I joked with a couple other Black Citadel Chefs that we should start the “Flan Legion”, vanquishing foes with delicious desserts.