Guild Wars 2

I’ve decided to do once a day for the wings. I was shocked at today I guested 2 high tier servers who I had guested yesterday. They dropped half in numbers and I wasnt sent to overflow.

Timothy.7204:

This is typical of everything that is happening in this game anymore. The majority dislike something, yet the few posters who always defend Arenanet, always get their way. They are always the ones saying don’t change this, or make this permanent. The very people who are going to ruin this game.

The storyline clockwork fights were FAR more fun than this dragon. This dragon is nothing but griefing players. You can’t even stand around without being insta-killed by those green fish head sticking out of the ground. And why does the sky get sunny/brighter soon as the dragon appears, shouldn’t it be the other way around?

I count myself more an Anet loyalist then those who defend every inch of this game. I like to give my opinion on what I think will improve the game and what will actually ruin it. Blindly following/defending everything that Anet releases will turn into the Jonestown Massacre all over again. They are human and they make mistakes. If you try to blot out every person who gives an opinion by saying “qq” “Its perfect l2p” then your ignorant and will be the only person left when the game ends up a perfect image to you.

This has got to be the most stale content released since launch. Not only is it frustrating but it is a time sink and offers very little in the way of story. Sorry Anet I am not pleased.

I just lag way too much. I go in and my skills do not go off in the whole 15 minutes. I randomly get kicked out to character screen, jump back in and have to wp because I’m dead. I checked everything and internet is fine. It works perfect when Im out of the event circle but as soon as I enter I can not get a skill off. It just blinks. I walk over poison, run into tequatl, run around and I do not die until I get kicked off to character screen.

Is there a way to fix this or am I just not going to be able to do this event? btw I usually run everything on high but for this I have it all on low.

Vorch.2985:

Actually, what blackgate did was have only ONE commander for DPS, that way ALL the turrets focused on a very small area, giving permanent swiftness and easy access.

It was beautiful

Wasn’t this patch supposed to remove the stacking in one spot while dpsing? Well it seems every server will do this from now on.

The mechanics are really fun we don’t stand and attack to beat him anymore. The health pool is too big and the required damage is annoying. Needs to be scaled or something, atm im not sure. But good luck. Hope you guys find a way to beat it and it is actually easy. Feels like everyone is missing something obvious.

lol thats why I posted it, its clear and actually follows logic. Doesnt have any QQ just the logical path that things may go. I would love a counter version of this.

All I’ve heard so far is that low-pop servers with 10-30 people had it worse.

All I can say is hope it works out for them…BG cooperation was off the roof they are already a tier 1 wvw guild and are used to that, so saying BG beat it is really not a portrayal of anything. I wanna see some other server maybe tier 3 in wvw beat it without the communication in TS3. Which should not be required to beat the boss.

Atrabelos.7584:

My predictions:

1. (12 hours – 2 days) Blackgate defeats Tequatl. Brief celebration by the game as a whole, for being the world first and showing that it can be done. Interest in the event is revitalized as everyone attempts to be the second server to defeat Tequatl.

2. (Rest of event) Blackgate manages to defeat Tequatl a handful more times, but more often than not has issues with PUGS or cannot muster up enough DPS to defeat Tequatl. Due to Blackgate’s enormous influx of people from other servers during the event, this prevents them from mobilizing their server 90% of the time. Still, during this interim, 2-4 highly organized guild groups from other servers in the game take him down as well, to much fanfare.

3. (After event ends) Interest in Tequatl plummets as servers realize that Blackgate’s old level of coordination is impossible, due to lack of motivated players and an increase in player groups doing standard PvE content instead of joining in. Consequently, Blackgate’s occasional triumphs quickly die down, and tension between those attempting to complete Tequatl and newbies or other players questing in the zone grows. Much influx on the forums directed at bashing newbies in the zone, leading to general flame wars. ArenaNet introduces several bugfixes to Tequatl, in addition to adding an AFK timer on the turrets. This does not stop trolls from messing up the fight on occasion.

4. (Month after event ends) Tequatl is still considered one of the hardest bosses in the game, and virtually impossible to farm due to a combination of general PvErs subtracting from the available population able to fight, as well as an influx of “dedicated trollers” who make it a goal to AFK on the turrets or otherwise make the fight unwinnable. Despite ArenaNet’s attempts to patch this, they continue to find ways around it, up to and including simply not participating. There is an active push to let ArenaNet raise the population cap in the zone, or make Tequatl an instanced area for the same amount of people. ArenaNet declines to comment, instead cryptically saying that they are “looking into” ways to fix the fight.

5. (2 months and beyond) Tequatl is rarely attempted on any server, and even on Blackgate is usually ignored, with guilds on rare occasions challenging him (and usually failing). Apathy for the event grows, and even though the trolls leave due to minimal interest in the event, they are still often brought up as a reason why the event shouldn’t be attempted. From this point onwards, Tequatl is thought of as a broken, subpar world boss. ArenaNet’s cryptic comments about “looking into it” break the fight further, or are never delivered at all. From this point onwards, Tequatl is used primarily as a “prestige boss” who up-and-coming “elite” guilds from all servers challenge to show how good they are to YouTube. Despite their best intentions and accomplishments, the guild attempts are met by the populace with a shrug, a groan, and inane arguments in LA about what constitutes being a tryhard.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

you guys are all kittenes. rarely do i defend anet for anything, but this time they’ve made some challenging content and all you kittenbags can do is complain. gtfo. go play some weak-kitten wow.

wow just wow…dude people can have an opinion its better then sitting on our kitten all day and having a 1% success rate. You need to chill and maybe even take a pill.

Lol the complaint aside (which is like nothing new atm) you made me laugh with “sends you over to Mount Maelstrom” which was how I felt. I went got a coffee my character was taking a hike through bloodtide.

Zalzan Kavol.9048:

Seriously, you may be the first person to imply it is not difficult enough. Lots of things that 1-hit you, waves to avoid, tons of adds to fight, multiple mechanics to master, and requiring amazing levels of organization and communication is not real difficulty? Of course it will also have a massive health, cuz’ after all it is an Elder Dragon, but there is a lot more to it than a basic tank ’n spank that just takes too long.

I’m so lost on this patch guys. Is it supposed to be living story? What is the story? Why is it just a dragon that comes every 1.5hrs?

Atrabelos.7584:

My predictions:

1. (12 hours – 2 days) Blackgate defeats Tequatl. Brief celebration by the game as a whole, for being the world first and showing that it can be done. Interest in the event is revitalized as everyone attempts to be the second server to defeat Tequatl.

2. (Rest of event) Blackgate manages to defeat Tequatl a handful more times, but more often than not has issues with PUGS or cannot muster up enough DPS to defeat Tequatl. Due to Blackgate’s enormous influx of people from other servers during the event, this prevents them from mobilizing their server 90% of the time. Still, during this interim, 2-4 highly organized guild groups from other servers in the game take him down as well, to much fanfare.

3. (After event ends) Interest in Tequatl plummets as servers realize that Blackgate’s old level of coordination is impossible, due to lack of motivated players and an increase in player groups doing standard PvE content instead of joining in. Consequently, Blackgate’s occasional triumphs quickly die down, and tension between those attempting to complete Tequatl and newbies or other players questing in the zone grows. Much influx on the forums directed at bashing newbies in the zone, leading to general flame wars. ArenaNet introduces several bugfixes to Tequatl, in addition to adding an AFK timer on the turrets. This does not stop trolls from messing up the fight on occasion.

4. (Month after event ends) Tequatl is still considered one of the hardest bosses in the game, and virtually impossible to farm due to a combination of general PvErs subtracting from the available population able to fight, as well as an influx of “dedicated trollers” who make it a goal to AFK on the turrets or otherwise make the fight unwinnable. Despite ArenaNet’s attempts to patch this, they continue to find ways around it, up to and including simply not participating. There is an active push to let ArenaNet raise the population cap in the zone, or make Tequatl an instanced area for the same amount of people. ArenaNet declines to comment, instead cryptically saying that they are “looking into” ways to fix the fight.

5. (2 months and beyond) Tequatl is rarely attempted on any server, and even on Blackgate is usually ignored, with guilds on rare occasions challenging him (and usually failing). Apathy for the event grows, and even though the trolls leave due to minimal interest in the event, they are still often brought up as a reason why the event shouldn’t be attempted. From this point onwards, Tequatl is thought of as a broken, subpar world boss. ArenaNet’s cryptic comments about “looking into it” break the fight further, or are never delivered at all. From this point onwards, Tequatl is used primarily as a “prestige boss” who up-and-coming “elite” guilds from all servers challenge to show how good they are to YouTube. Despite their best intentions and accomplishments, the guild attempts are met by the populace with a shrug, a groan, and inane arguments in LA about what constitutes being a tryhard.

This ladies and gents is why TimeTravel is not only possible but might have already happened!

Guest to Blackgate, They have the only success so far.

sirflamesword.3896:

It’s what I did, and it feel like a good portion of my server did. I just wish Teq had real difficulty instead of the artificial difficulty of a high health pool. This had made me lose what little faith I had left in the Live Team. At this point we should just let the people who like artificial difficulty do what they want, while the rest of us trickle to other games.

Just ignore it man. I think I will do that, although im still in the middle. I do not want to touch that boss. Let the people who keep saying only people who want to cooperate will stay, keep trying.

RvLeshrac.2673:

Arrow.3856:

Just like to say, the Anet worshippers are as bad as the people crying about a nerf. Take a step back both groups and look at it objectively. The QQ are saying nerf it NOW, while the others are saying wait a week! Nerfing it now is reckless, it HAS only been up for a short time, Waiting a week has the increasing chance that the area will actually become a ghost town and first week of LS will be a failuire. So both need to just suck it and tighten it up, so tighten yourself up. Im talking about the naughty opera, Go live the your not boss of me dream.

It looks like Anet does not have any indication of putting a nerf. I mean they congratulated the server who got it first. It kind of says, we are happy with it and someone beat it. So let Anet do what it wants and hey if you do not like the fight, your failing over and over, dying and wasting gold, then do not do it. Just move on and let those who love to do the event over and over failing so to figure a way. I personally am going to wait for everyone else to find a way so I can run some dungeons and I’ve failed the event 7 times so far. Enought for me. So as I said Tighten it up!

And when they take it as a sign to redo every other WB in exactly the same way?

What happens when they decide to take the same tact with every dungeon?

Doesn’t affect you right now? Great. When it does affect you, it’ll be too late to make ANY difference.

didnt read it did you…sigh + you not attending the event with every other person who keeps failing will be a clear sign of a bad system when no server but BG has the numbers + cooperation to succeed. BG might aswell be renamed as Tequatl

Just like to say, the Anet worshippers are as bad as the people crying about a nerf. Take a step back both groups and look at it objectively. The QQ are saying nerf it NOW, while the others are saying wait a week! Nerfing it now is reckless, it HAS only been up for a short time, Waiting a week has the increasing chance that the area will actually become a ghost town and first week of LS will be a failuire. So both need to just suck it and tighten it up, so tighten yourself up. Im talking about the naughty opera, Go live the your not boss of me dream.

It looks like Anet does not have any indication of putting a nerf. I mean they congratulated the server who got it first. It kind of says, we are happy with it and someone beat it. So let Anet do what it wants and hey if you do not like the fight, your failing over and over, dying and wasting gold, then do not do it. Just move on and let those who love to do the event over and over failing so to figure a way. I personally am going to wait for everyone else to find a way so I can run some dungeons and I’ve failed the event 7 times so far. Enought for me. So as I said Tighten it up!

Navi.7142:

One of them got an ascended.

I love this. Made me laugh

Get ready for the upcoming nerf to champ loot, only way to get people to focus on other content. Nerf the content players like to do.

This was a laugh for a while between our guild, I was on the turret and we had like 5 protecting me until the champ risen grub spawn and do that scatter poison that ticks for like 5 secs. It landed on the turret and went down instantly. I then try rebuild but that scatter is like aimbot. So we’re like drag it away from the turret…turns around every 2 secs to attack the turret lol. I’m like this can’t be this hard to kill. Friend knocksback down the small hill and it gets 60 defience. Throws scatter of small posion aoe and one lands on me for 10k. Btw Im on my PTV gear traited for tough/vitality. I heal it off and we’re taking this thing on for like 2 mins get it 90% when he scatters which hits all the meleers and we all die from the posion ticks. We have about 3 mins left on timer with 3 turrets down on the south end. We run back see about 8 on him and with us its about 13. We know we lost might aswell take him on. Event fails and we see zerg turn to us and attack the grub. Half zerg gets hit by fish and dies other half gets hit by risen. It takes us an extra 2 mins to take the grub out with the remaining 40 people.

So thats my story anyone else got any funny things happen to you?

Awe.1096:

Arrow.3856:

Ive actually never seen people this angry at Anet. I mean I thought AR dungeon release brought out ragers but this patch has got everyone in a knot.

AR required a bit of effort for some achievements. But I could setup a team, find 4 decent people to run with, tune our strategy and then enter and execute it in an instance which was our and our only. Same as high level fractals. Now compare that with trying to organize 100+ zerg of random people (some of which wont even care or stay AFK) without any synergy of skill, builds and gear. Its doable as BG shown. But running 100 metres in 9.5 sec is also doable as Usain Bolt shown. Now where is the treshold? I shall wait with my judgement some more days or weeks to see how new Tequatl win ratios around the world will evolve. But for now I am concerned.

Yeah I know where you stand man. Same boat as you Im just not sure where I stand because it is the first day. Great example there. I will also keep seeing how this fight goes.

Setun.4368:

darkace.8925:

DarkWasp.7291:

Slaet.4513:

TBrother.9138:

What did you get as a reward?

A rare and 100 Dragonite Ore.

Is that really all?

You get:
– the chest for killing him (character bound)
– the bonus chest for killing him (account bound)
– four Dragon Chests (one for getting him to 75%, 50%, 25%, and 0% health)

All told, I got an exotic, three rares, a handful of blues and greens, some ascended crafting mats, and a bit north of 10k karma.

Edit: I also got three Gilded Coffers from the Dragon Chests, for what it’s worth.

100 Dragonite Ore is pretty kittening nice, in addition to all those bonus chests you mentioned…Definitely worth it to get it dead.

100 dragonite ore is pretty sweet, its about 1-2 weeks of guild missions. Everything else is worth 10s

Ive actually never seen people this angry at Anet. I mean I thought AR dungeon release brought out ragers but this patch has got everyone in a knot.

flickky.2634:

Arrow.3856:

Awesome job Blackgate, get ready for hundreds of people transfering/guesting. But seriously you guys have crap load of cooperation and time to actually do this for loot worth maybe 4g? Man The only reason I’ll probably do this is for the achievements (im a hunter) and if Blackgate keeps up the record, I guess I know where I will be guesting.

Blackgate already has a community teamspeak and with the amount of wvw we do it just comes naturally to co-ordinate. If you have the resources, why not use them.

don’t hate the playa, hate the game

I wasn’t hatin’ I’m actually glad someone killed that dragon so now I know which server to go to for my achievements. And I was being serious with the congratz. I just don’t see myself doing this after I get most of the achievements for the boss. I mean the fight is great but the reward for it is just RNG and with my luck (no luck) I don’t want to waste 30 mins(15 min boss and 15 mins wait on map so not in overflow) for something that we might fail or if we succeed we don’t get anything. ATM Idk where i stand, I love the mechanics to the fight but there seems to be alot of loop holes like, low-pop servers, off-peak times, uncoordinated groups… But keep at it and I will join you guys soon as a guest in BG

Awesome job Blackgate, get ready for hundreds of people transfering/guesting. But seriously you guys have crap load of cooperation and time to actually do this for loot worth maybe 4g? Man The only reason I’ll probably do this is for the achievements (im a hunter) and if Blackgate keeps up the record, I guess I know where I will be guesting.

This is the best fight, dodging the tidal waves, cleansing the fear/poison/weakness while taking his buffs down. I’m just sad that this excludes alot of those people (not me I’m on DB) who are on off-peak timezones or low-pop servers. Needs a bit of a fix to the scaling and I think it will be perfect.

Like I said, way too much cooperation expected. Esp when you know most people are not geared for it. I saw how many thieves get owned by the tide over and over. I mean its a pug fight. You really can’t expect everyone to go into parties and all parties work together. But we shall see, maybe we are missing something.

Cant rez 30 people while you have to protect the turret users getting attacked constantly, getting posioned every two secs. and then tide comes and everyone trying to rez dies. It really does require alot of co-ordination and alot of skilled players. Too much to be expected in this environment.

The mobs that spawn from the event do not drop loot, the mobs that were there b4 the event drop loot.

I would understand if we had people fail with about 20, 30, 50% his hp left but Our overflow was only able to get him down to 85% with everyone trying and commanders commanding.

waste of 15 min boss atm Ill probably try a few more time and if we still have people who do not listen, i wont waste any more time. Wasted 30 mins so far.

I wish everyone actually hoped on the forums to find ways to do the boss. unfortunately people just want to show up and get their loot by hitting 1

Im pretty sure it would be easy for them to put in a last logged on date, I just don’t think guilds have been on their things to focus on for a very long time. This needs to be changed, every patch they put in something for pve/wvw/pvp/LS and they need to add in guilds to this equation

Can we get some love for guilds? I love missions but I would trade 4 living story patches for something like guild halls or gvg. We haven’t got anything in so long :’( Alot of guilds have also hit that point where they have all upgrades and capped at 250 merit each week. Please any update for guilds?

The last thing they said about guild housing was they could easily put in the generic style, like all other MMO’s but they want to take the idea of Guild housing and make it into their style. I say screw it give us the generic type and change it over time to what you want.

I also wish they would make it a pvp zone so if someone other then a guildie enters you can kill them in 1 shot

Whats up LFG. Its Arrow here from [ARES] Dragonbrand, coming at you using the power of the internet. Are you sick of being unnoticed, unloved or just plain left out? We’re not just a guild, but A Community. And man I used to be in a server like that, honestly it sucks. Like you I posted on the forums and luckily I got an invite into the ARES community. I’ve been in Knights of Ares for the past 7 months. Right now we have closed public reqruitment but officers are allowed to go our and select players who might fit in with us. I believe you fit in! I could go on and on but it would be easier for you to just check out our guild trailer (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AME7SxuJuKg) and website (at http://knights-of-ares.enjin.com/).

Whats up Arcane! Its Arrow here from [ARES] Dragonbrand, coming at you using the power of the internet. Are you sick of being unnoticed, unloved or just plain left out? We have members from all over NA servers and we give them as much time as they like to transfer to Dragonbrand. We have a great active voice chat, all our members are mature like minded players, We have mentors who are willing to teach dungeons to guildies. We’re not just a guild, but A Community and I could go on and on but it would be easier for you to just check out our guild trailer (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AME7SxuJuKg) and website (at http://knights-of-ares.enjin.com/).

Whats up DuckHunter. Its Arrow here from [ARES] Dragonbrand, coming at you using the power of the internet. We’re not just a guild, but A Community. At ARES we have by-weekly spvp or wvw but our bread and butter is purely pve. We have an officer system to teach new players dungeons (called mentors). We are very organized have the most dedicated leaders/officers. I could go on and on but it would be easier for you to just check out our guild trailer (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AME7SxuJuKg) and website (at http://knights-of-ares.enjin.com/).

Whats up Kali. Its Arrow here from [ARES] Dragonbrand, coming at you using the power of the internet. Are you sick of being unnoticed, unloved or just plain left out? We’re not just a guild, but A Community. The whole point of a guild is to make it’s members come together and become a tight community. At ARES we try to make sure that we do not make the same mistakes that old/large guilds make. I could go on and on but it would be easier for you to just check out our guild trailer (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AME7SxuJuKg) and website (at http://knights-of-ares.enjin.com/).

Sent you a PM Zaphax

Ill bump it too. As an officer it makes it so much easier on us when we have all the information. Sticky this thing already

Hey man just a fellow dragonbrander. If you are looking for a guild in dragonbrand I think you might get more bites from our own Dragonbrand forums. http://dragonbrandforums.com/ Good luck

Sent you a PM SweetCream

Sent you a PM Tommy

kailin.4905:

1.Pay to win
2.Not alt friendly (more once a day chest/dig spot garbage)
3.Lag
4.Bad collision
5. Just a glorified daily (need to run it every day for about 10 days just to buy 1 skin)

The only positive is left in this freemium mess is the art design team. Kudo’s to them

1.How? You can farm 30g in 2hrs and pay for an unlimited coin.
2.So people dont farm them on first week and leave.
3.First day of content release, you are not the only one logging on.
4….
5.You can just buy the skin off the TP its like 3g.

Nope not hard at all esp normal mode. Breezed through it until we hit the icewall. Its fun and all you really need to do is stop taking the game serious, lay back and have fun. Stop worrying about what achievement you need or how many baubles you have left. Just have fun and use your head. Its easy if you stop trying to rush through content and expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter.

So first few hours of SaB had a great fun little party with a bunch of guildies. I ofcouse bought the unlimited coin (had trouble with coin from last time). We got through World 1 easy. I mean we all did it before and although we messed around alot, we got it done no sweat.

Then we got into World 2. You guys really out done yourselves! We loved the hidden traps, the misdirection, puzzles, etc. It was all designed perfectly. We had great feedback in the ice skating zone love it <3 We had no trouble too, we put our minds to it and worked it out. We hit a dead end when we needed a torch to move forward but hey thats on us for spending our boubles on junk the whole time :p

We decided to try out Hard-mode world 1 zone 1. O-M-G that was a laugh-fest! Watching each other step into traps and die in the funniest way possible had us laughing like crazy. We managed to get to the second checkpoint but didnt have enough time to continue :p I’ll be Back!

Great game so far, thank you for this. Really enjoying it.

I’ve been slaving away at the achievement Portal canceler and still have not got it. I thought I would leave support/forums as last resort. 2 maps got bugged for me. I have stayed through both invasions from beginning to end and closed countless portals. Ive done this several times and the achievement wont recognize it. The first one is lornar’s, ive done it like 3 times and haven’t got credit. Second is Fireheart rise I’ve done it 2 times. So pretty much missing frost and fire and invasion canceler. What can I do to get some help with this?

We do pretty good in handling guild events, although it takes leadership and dedicated officers to keep track of 50~ during missions, while teaching the 10~ members new to missions. Anyway, Im not bothered with the name guild wars or whatever, if you have played enough MMO’s you would know that after some point you leave and what keeps you interested in the game until the next big update is hanging out with guild members/new friends.

I like how Trice explained it, there must be a lot of work put into these living story events for sure. I think most people would gladly sacrifice one of the living story patches for an update dedicated to Guilds. Just my 2 cents.

I actually thought that they would have announced something like this at PAX before the finals for spvp.

Banquetto.9521:

xephire.8324:

Wow speaks volume about the player base.To think that someone would need to post on the forum to look for a dungeon party.Good job ANET.Good job.

About three hours ago, you asked the question “Well if you don’t like complain threads why read them? Since they are not for your eyes….”

I would now like to ask you: why did you read this thread? It’s not a complaint thread and thus clearly not for your eyes.

lmao +1

I think this thread would serve better purpose in the dungeons forum.

So I have a few questions about guilds, for any of those ArenaNet employees that are hanging around the forums, feel free to answer “no comment/can’t answer”.

1-Anything being worked on in terms of guilds? How long until we hear about what they might be?

2-Will we see guild halls any time soon?

3-Guild alliances were a vague subject at launch and a bit was said. Will anything like that be coming soon or is that out of the subject?

4-It has been a while since guilds got anything since launch (apart from missions) will the long awaited guild vs guild be seen any time soon?

Most of these subjects had been touched upon duing the first quarter of gw2 launch but we had no update since. I believe these are important questions due to one single fact, at end game one of the biggest reasons people stay in game is to see their guildies and friends. Adding more content for guilds would make sure less people leave.