Guild Wars 2

Would be kind of neat if they would come up with stuff we could do to help with rebuilding and base it on player participation – the more who work on stuff the faster the area gets cleaned up. It could be a variety of thing including stuff for the daily and could encompass a variety of things from going to another area to collect stuff to rebuild and bringing it to an npc to going around and encouraging a certain number of rebuilders, tackling looters, getting enough folk to work on a certain area to show an improvement, etc.

Yeah, this is a ditto post. You were in long enough on what you knew was a non-recurring event to get heirlooms/possessions and never thought to ASK in map chat or check the forums to see if those things might not be available after the event? There were so many ways to figure that out and plan accordingly. The start of collecting ran nearly a month. If it was a gold issue, I cannot help you there. Best one can do is farm when you can get in, sell what you can when you can and bankroll for these events as well as ask for gem cards for presents from the fam/coworkers/whomever loves you enough to given them to you for birthdays/holidays/whatever. Since it was nearly a month some time dedicated to farming and selling may have gotten that cash part. But that part is no one’s responsibility but yours even if you are only a casual player.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Moshari.8570:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Moshari.8570:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Moshari.8570:

Strawman meet JustTrogdor.7892

Look ^^^ I use over used Internet forum terms. LOL ^^^

OR….its a factual term for what you did with your argument: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/strawman.htm

Rather than answer my question in what way it would hurt you…you used a “straw man argument” drastically ramping up the importance of your position to a ridiculous degree.

Nice link but you are wrong and misusing it. What’s next are you going to accuse me of logical fallacies? Maybe post a meme or something. LOL

The post you quoted wasn’t even answer to a question to start with.

do you want another link? http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-straw-man-argument.htm

That’s cute and doesn’t do anything to solidify your argument. But I imagine this is one of those, “I’ll get the last word kitten it!” arguments. Have fun with that.

The vendors won’t be back. Call it strawman all you want. The post of mine you quoted as “strawman” wasn’t even in response to anything you asked. I cashed in all my event items before the update and kept my blade shards. I win. LOL

OMG! I cashed in my items before the update (sheer puter luck on that, though) AND kept all my shardies… oooh I WIN!!! What do I win? Never mind, I WIN…OMG I WIN…I AM A WINNER!!!!!!!

Faints…..

Absolutely nothing says for a non-recurring event that you can’t ASK in Map Chat if anything you are collecting is going to be around especially if you don’t tend to read the forums. Someone on the map usually knows….. There was more than one way to figure it out even if you didn’t/don’t go to forums. Only the recurring events tend to have vendors still taking stuff. Responsibility lies on folk who collected and didn’t bother to check. Rule of Thumb: Non-recurring events – vendors tend to go away, Recurring events – vendors usually are around after. If in doubt ASK. ASK in Map Chat, ask on the forums. Responsibility is yours not ANet’s. They did put it out and in plenty of time and lot of folk DID figure it out. Best one can say here is “I am sorry for your loss.”

I have been SO impressed with the artwork, the music and the voice artists who worked on this. Thank you so much for giving us a great experience. I enjoyed this Living Story regardless of any ups and downs it may have had. The overall experience was definitely worth it. I got my husband to play GW2 because of a lot of this. Thanks again to all who work so hard and to ANet who does their best to try to satisfy such a varied audience.

DaFuzz.3790:

I swear, this game’s community is the worst MMORPG community I have ever seen, even worse than the WoW community. Any time somebody asks a question, it seems like most people will just intentionally throw rude comments about how “you should have known” or “read the forums hurr durr”.

Not everybody who plays this game is such an anet fanboy that anything and everything anet does is justified. The decision to remove the vendor at all seems incredibly stupid to me, not only because there are people that either haven’t turned in their heirlooms/lost belongings (and who knows? some of us have lives and can’t sit on these forums or the cesspool of hipsters that is reddit), or maybe somebodies computer crashed before they had a chance to turn them in, but also from a lore standpoint. Nobody here knows all of the situations people might have run into in their real lives to say they don’t deserve to finish something they quite obviously have the want to finish.

Also, from a lore standpoint…why would the vendor disappear AT ALL?! Would these lost belongings and heirlooms that quite obviously were for the citizens of LA that lost the them all of a sudden not be wanted by the people who owned them?

I am working off an older computer and yesterday it was giving me quite a bit a grief. I had collected my last bit of heirlooms and objects that I wanted to trade in so it was a bit of a heart stopper when the old girl kept going Nada! when I tried to run GW2. It finally started behaving and I was able to do it. If it had not, well, there you go….. such is life…. New one is coming shortly so those woes should be over soon. Things happen and sometimes you can’t finish what you wanted to do. That is life, sometimes it is sucky and sometimes it is da bomb…. Expecting a break because you stubbed your toe, your hair hurts or you broke a fingernail is unrealistic. We had what? almost a month of collecting things to turn in on a non-recurring event. Not hard to figure it out….

Lore standpoint, we don’t need to know why the vendors left. They may have gone to their homes in LA to salvage what is left now that it is over, they may be the looters we see in LA, Lionsguard may have made them go away, we just don’t know. Trust me the vendors were not altruistic in any sense they were BUYING the heirlooms and objects. Anyone can tell you they are going to return stuff….

Latinkuro.9420:

Aerinndis.2730:

This event is not a recurring event. That one is. I am eagerly looking forward to their return as well. I do sincerely feel sorry you lost out on this event. It took a lot of work to obtain objects and heirlooms.

You Sir. or Madam have hit the nail squarely on the head with this one.

all those trophies and currencies are all from recurring events hence the merchants are still present or some other merchant is accepting them.

The Lion’s Arch event is a one time only event hence the merchants are now gone.

Thank you, it is true some people are better at communicating and conveying information than others.

You missed out on X limited edition item, now move on.

Well now…. Life experience DOES count for something!

signed a sadder but wiser girl….

Bottom line any event you suspect is NOT a recurring event ask or check that what you are collecting is worth keeping after the event. It doesn’t matter if you do it in Map Chat or try to look or ask on the forums – someone usually knows….. Otherwise the fault is yours and not anyone else’s.

Dragon Bash Festival – recurring
Bazaar of the Four Winds – recurring
Wintersday – recurring
Escape from Lions Arch – NOT recurring
etc.

and yes, putting that in patch notes would be appropriate but again if you don’t or won’t read those you have other avenues to find out.

Tseikk.9032:

@Aerinndis
I retract that ingame mail thing. Now as i see sonder the seller trades fortune scraps that have absolutely same “stats” as belongings, i can’t see a reason why he couldn’t trade those too. If someone explains me a valid good reason why sonder the seller still trades fortune scraps and not belongings i will leave the thread right away.
at your side note, i doubt it’d be dangerous to state my age or anything, but this thread isn’t about that, if you feel like you have something else to say of that then PM

Discuss the age thing with your parents they may enlighten you. Nuff said about that – rest of us know why.

I believe the fortune scraps are still redeemable because that event will come back around again. The Zepherites come back periodically:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zephyrites

This event is not a recurring event. That one is. I am eagerly looking forward to their return as well. I do sincerely feel sorry you lost out on this event. It took a lot of work to obtain objects and heirlooms.

Would so totally go for an event tee featuring some of the folk… Tiami would be a really great one.

Quaggan plushies…omg….

I would suspect they are naturally invisible but detectable but what Scarlet did made them briefly visible especially since they are now invisible again.

Anyone go down to the very bottom of the drill and see what is down there? Possible ley line remnant energy or maybe whatever she used to trigger it….. Worth a look.

I really can’t see ANet sending an email ingame to say oh, by the way…. The only thing we really have seen them announce in-game is if a patch is coming or that you would be thrown out for inactivity in certain instances.

Possibly they could have had NPCs talking about the vendors going away but even that would not fit in story-wise. How do you know the vendors were going away and why day or so before the ending of this event. THEY don’t know or could possibly know what is going to happen.

I am really sorry for those who did not check or ask and got caught not being able to exchange their hard work. I suspect nearly all of us have had that happen at one time or another as we figured things out in the game. That is life in GW2 and in RL so you can learn from it. If you don’t know or aren’t sure, ask in chat, ask in the forums. (My server talked about this several days ago in map chat several times)

If you don’t have the additional funds to make the purchases you want, start asking for gem cards as birthday and holiday gifts or look at what you do not need to spend to save up for a gem card for yourself. Start farming and selling on TP to get monies to bankroll for events like these and it is something everyone can do.

Another side note, please never, ever state your age if you are a minor on the forums no one but your parents should ever know that info.

Well it was posted in the News and Announcements section plenty of days ahead…..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Alliance-Supplies-Found-Items/first#post3750166

If you frequent the forums and it looks like you do, you might want to consider checking there before an event ends as a just in case or at least post asking about something you have been collecting prior to the event end. This has happened before and will happen again so no one should be surprised. Others have posted asking just that question and were referred to the above info.

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Just a thought, but with population issues so prevalent why can’t these events be more like Edge of the Mists? A universal, multi-server, ‘infinite overflow’ space where low-pop servers can participate alongside the numbers from high-pop servers? Might solve a lot of these kinds of problems.

I really like this idea. It could be better than what is occurring now. You expect interest to fall off towards the end of an event as people get their achieves but it started happening with the patches and continuing issues. It has also been a combination of how this event was done by ANet as well as player issues/satisfaction with how things were going.

Keep in mind there are menders around. One came by and repaired the Admiral to full health after we had him more than half down. So you have to kill those as well before they can get to the Admiral.

April 1 (Fools Day) is a Tuesday…. could be a very interesting day then….

I personally don’t care about gender. Let’s not forget this is a different world and culture(s) so femmes may be more prominent in ways different than we perceive them in what we know. Hommes also have different prominence in other ways. (possibly Sylvari are truly asexual) I see these characters being comfortable within their cultures. One should not try to see others through their own cultural view which can distort but look and see what you can see about that culture and what works and doesn’t work for it. I think ANet has done this quite nicely.

It will be Peter’s new home….

Its like reading the end of the book for me…ugh. I like to live the story not get a recap before it starts. Thrill is walking through the adventure, at least for me.

You can be informative in chat but if folk wont listen not much you can do about it. Good to know though, if you can get the buff its good for duration of the fight, thanks for info.

I think the content is challenging, it is interesting as well but it is up to each of us to work, share and listen as to how to get through the event. I too, would like to see some building or group creating to make a difference for some events. Something cumulative that a server could work at to get rewards would be fun. Also stuff that teaches more about the history. One reason I loved the Speedy Reader achieve was you did get something out of it if you read the books as you went.

Sadly, over and over and over, I have seen folk not paying attention to what they need to do and in some cases same folk are doing the same things, complaining and not seeing they are contributing to the issue. I see people under the knight just trying to melee, not standing in the colored circles to do damage, not looking and taking out the menders (blue knight) and 90 percent getting pulled in over and over and over. Then you have the ones who die and just lay there. In most cases there are people saying what is needed before the event begins. You can’t make folk listen so you can’t be disappointed when an event fails.

You do need couple of folk watching and calling out that the Menders (which spawn near Mariners) are coming and have several take them out as far out from the knigh as you can may make that an even the success. If they get to the Knight you can kiss that event bye cause it will get near full health.

Meta is easily done via the dailies if you are unable to get them on the meta list so it is not a total fail. Guesting to another server is an option if you want to do the knight and holo fight. All in all it is doable in several ways but would have liked to have seen this doable on home servers. My server is not a hard core balls-to-the-walls kind of server. I think many on my server would be right at home at Burning Man, lol. So we may mellow dude our way to any achieves we get….

I have played 537 days and over 2430 hours and have never seen a precourser. Nuff said. I see legendaries everywhere but wonder how many craft vs buy them. I also see a lot of posts where folk find get one precourser after another. I guess if that is what is important or floats your boat then it is important to you no matter how you get it. My focus is just enjoying the game, if I get something special then it is just icing on the cake.

Hisuichan.7983:

8/10 initially. Each patch has taken 1 off that score.

The story content is fantastic and I love the concept of the boss fight. The music, presentation, and mechanics were really cool. There were bugs initially, but nothing too unpredictable, and they patched them the first night so the event was very fun that night and the next day.

…Then came the extra patches, rendering the content unwinnable by all but the largest population servers because they didn’t like the way the smaller servers found to beat it, breaking the HP display in the progress, then outright removing the HP display instead of fixing it to “reduce confusion” by making you completely confused how the rest of the event is progressing.

Basically I would gladly trade night one and all of its bugs for what each of the updates has done to it, and my score of the event has fallen drastically as a result. It was a really good event, and I’m grateful for it, but literally every patch has made it worse to run.

Their heart is in the right place, though, and I’m looking forward to Season 2 on the whole. They’ve done a lot more right this year than wrong. Just that this event went from good to nearly unwinnable on my server.

Pretty much this. I have really enjoyed the LS. Great concept though I did not do everything throughout the whole story. I did enough to get most of the metas though.

I loved the Marionette but was sad to see a lot of folk just would not stick around to learn the mechanics. It was challenging and fun to figure out what you needed to do to beat each warden. I also loved the Battle for Lions Arch, though the many complaints about the AFKer and Leechers were taking the event down a bit. At the beginning I did not see as many but by the end you could run around and find folk afking everywhere. The citizens rescued kept dropping. Or you had the heirloom hunters which in itself I do understand because after all we were gathering them, but they often upscaled events when they ran through and made it difficult for those doing events. I would have liked to have seen individual rewards for numbers rescued and also server rewards for working towards that. Certain numbers rescued by server as a whole over the event = an additional reward over what was rewarded for the hourly rescues. After all our mission was to fight Scarlet’s troops and rescue civilians. I think the Selfless potion should have been tied to the rescues and the Thoughtless one tied to the rubble.

Overall I enjoyed this immensely. Ending not so much but not in the story aspect because I am excited to see what comes next and finding out more why Scarlet did what she did. While the current iteration of the Knight fight while not impossible has become difficult enough that anyone not dedicated to doing it right gives up. It is definitely doable but I am not sure enough of the population is willing to learn what to do to make it successful. ANet is not wholly to blame, some does lie on lazy players who do not want to learn skills to at least survive the encounter. If you are constantly going down or dying or keep getting sucked into the knight’s pull it is you, not ANet’s fault. Learn from each encounter and listen to what others are saying in chat and try to improve.

You can get into that portal with the lowest level spinal backpiece. You do avoid the knight fight and holo fight. You get achieve for talking to Turma at Diverse Ledges and you get an achieve for equipping the backpack.

I am glad they did provide alternatives to just fighting the knights and holo since there have been so many issues. My server is having trouble getting enough to fight them. Not sure if it is out of frustration or lack of interest or folk who got the achieves they wanted out of the event. We did get one down this last hour but last couple hours before we were not able to due to lack of folk and issues with folk obviously not knowing what they should be doing to maximize the event. Right now with the way it is going I do not see anyone getting enough power cores to do much of anything unless they buy them on the TP. Thank goodness the price did drop.

Did you possibly jump just before entering the portal? I think some have reported that as a problem.

You look iridescently cute!

Ask in map chat if anyone has spotted him. I ran across him by accident when coming around the back of the bank and called it out in chat. Folk have been pretty good about doing that at least on my server.

If Braham had allowed Scarlet to monologue she would have been distracted enough for us to kill her too easily.

Last night large group of us entered in the southern portal. One group was able to defeat the hologram. My group got stuck at 50 percent on the Main Hologram and was not able to defeat it. I too have yet to be in an instance where the hologram was defeated.

I absolutely love this story line. I followed him around in Gendarran to hear all the conversations he had. Neat little bot he is.

I had a disconnect while doing same. It is either a bug or you may need to lower your graphic settings (I found this was part of my issue). Every event I have gotten into Scarlet’s ship the Main Hologram sticks at about half to two thirds down and we can never defeat it so I can’t unlock the other two achievements. Yeah, it doesn’t seem fair but life can be like that too. This event will go on for a while longer so hopefully they will keep working on the bugs. If not, there is enough time to do the dailies to get the meta if that is what you want.

If you report what you think is a bug, put as much detail as you can as to what point you crashed – what was going on at the time plus the server you were on. It might help them id what is causing these issues. Check your crash log to make sure you weren’t running out of vmemory also.

Havent been able to get this achieve to unlock. Main holo sticks at half way every time I have been able to get in and we have never been able to beat it.

The Ascended get the color. You have to collect the Assault Knight Power Cores – different ones give the different colors.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tempered_Spinal_Blades

I wish we could dump them in the Mystic Forge for a chance at something…. Same with the bloodstone or anything else we have masses and masses of. Or be able to sell blades to vendors for more obsidan shards.

IoJ instance I was just in was bugged. Main Holo stopped halfway and never went further. At least one other instance was successful. These were on a main not overflow server also.

Also I noticed after a while only two colored circles were showing mainly blue seemed to not show as often.

This afternoon I have been getting the Deluxe Gear Boxes for every boss defeated so it appears to be working at least on IoJ.

Bugged thread is here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Not-getting-loot-from-Legendary-Bosses/first#post3719671

Time to bring in Taimi I think…..

Bug thread on this is here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Not-getting-loot-from-Legendary-Bosses/first#post3719671

Before the patch I was getting maybe out of one of the three boss rewards after doing all three. After patch its been nada. Been partied up and also not and pretty sure I have been getting my hits in and doesn’t seem to matter. Also getting nada for the sundry bosses that have been spawning as well. Not sure if it is a bug but I usually get loot even when zerging so I find it unusual.

You also have to know what to do and how to avoid the pulls to keep the max folk up to get the bosses down quickly. They have good signals as to when the pull will start and you have to get out of the way. That seems to be taking a lot of folk down, getting pulled in and then whacked again so the boss is surrounded by a ring of dead folk.

She’s in the refugee camp. Once Scarlet is killed go talk to her….she has some interesting things to say, lol.

Dude gets around, doesn’t he? Wonder why we never saw him when rescuing civilians……

IoJ main bugged.

I showed two of the attunements but the third never showed when we killed the third boss and the two I had disappeared as I walked towards the gate. Only one of the bosses gave anything out after he was killed and I know I hit them all. (seeing same with some of the other bosses that we killed) The order we killed the bosses were Blue, Green, Red. After I did the Blue I was showing a green attunement but got the blue as well after killing the green boss.

It probably helps if folk will put what exactly they saw not working to help better id the problems.

Someone said he was below the Asura gates this last hour

I found him around the Durmand Priory ruins.

I got 1000 for collectible storage but good idea to ship the rest to alts to hold.

How can 10 gold be a scam or rip off when you already know what the price is? (heirlooms + gold) It is pretty up front and is your choice to pay it or not…. It all depends on how much you want that item. No one is forcing you to buy it.