Guild Wars 2

Anet stated that Halloween would no longer be active after the next patch on the 1st of November sometime after 19:00 GMT. They could have ended it right on the dot, but it lasted at least 5 hours longer. Couple this to the fact that you had 6 days to complete act 2. I can only conclude you have no one but yourself to blame if you didn’t do it earlier when you had the time. To those that were prevented due to Sandy. That’s life you can’t have it all.

Not going to comment on everything, I will just touch on a few things.

The final event needs better loading time on at least the Mad King. First time I had to wait 5 minutes before I could actually see or hear him. Sure I had just loaded the zone, but still he should have been a priority when loading. The second time I missed a lot of parts whenever he ported away again due to load times. Did he say Mad King says or not. I didn’t know for it hadn’t loaded.

The scavenger hunt was well done, though it should have been max level 25 zones. I say this with having 3 fresh out of the starter area characters with a complete edition. I ran my characters to all waypoint locations without outside help. For that I do have to applaud the choice of locations for each page. That even a level 4 max can reach the area it is in without that much trouble.

Please do not change the clock tower and make others similar. The only thing I wish to change is better camera work. On my Asura I had to many awkward camera moments that screwed up my jumps. The Norn and Charr were only a slight annoyance to me and I liked to see them fall.

I would like Exploiting to be added to the ingame report function.

Just now I had a player exploiting the Clocktower by teleporting to the chest locations. I was in front all the time yet he was there at the drop down before me. I passed him there as he was just standing there and yet he was at the top before me again.

I reported him under botting, even though he might have been botting, it’s not accurate from what I could tell.

Jump fromVan Halen is the song you want of course. Don’t forget to jump every time he says it.

Currently you can complete all achievements except the attend the party one.

As for the poster asking about the eating the candy corn one. That is for the monthly achievement

Bambam.3961:

You’re absolutely right.. I dont think ANYONE took One-Time event to be One-Time Cutscene.. see how more people would be anticipating an actual event instead of a cutscene. But you probably don’t since One-Time Event and One-Time Cutscene is interchangeable for you.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/What-do-you-think-the-1-time-surprise-will-be-spoilers/first#post560399

So people like me did call it more or less…

The cutscene was in realtime like the vistas. So calling it a cutscene is not giving it enough credit. That also explains why for some it didn’t load completely. It sure didn’t for me, still found it impressive enough.

People overhype themselves by adding to the announcement what they think will happen.

Without the clocktower anyone should be able to get the title.

Halloween hunting is easy in the labyrinth
Halloween events is only 10 again not that hard
It’s a mad king’s world only requires you visit the areas.
Attend the party again you only need to be online during the finale on the 31st
Trick or treat bags well I’ve gotten so many now that I could have gotten the title a hundred times over I think

Also even before Act 2 I already figured only 5 achievements were needed. Didn’t know if that meant you could skip one or like it is now that another one, the clock tower didn’t count.

Chrollo.2173:

Yea lets limit content so not everyone can do it, that’ll keep people playing.

The content in this case is not limited. Everyone can do it. Not everyone will succeed though, but that in no way limits the content as there is nothing for which the tower is a prerequisite.
The 2nd act scavenger hunt is something you can call limited content. As people under a certain level will have a hard time completing it.

Either the lion in the square will explode or implode. End result will set free the Mad King again

Maybe it will even open up a portal to the last Mad King realm for the achievement.

The clock tower separates the men from the boys so to speak. It has nothing to do with casual or hardcore as some have been saying. Those define time spend not how good of a player someone is.
I have done it with all races, but the thing that surprised me the most is how people don’t pay attention to other people. At the start I use a different route from others which allows me to catch up if I have fallen behind or get out in front even more if I had a good start. Yet almost no one followed my path.
The tower requires timing and making sure your path is the fastest one. Yes it is frustrating at times. Yes people will block your view, but that is not insurmountable and past the first 10 seconds won’t matter anymore as most will already have fallen behind or off.

Ask your self why you are failing. Are you to slow than try a different approach when jumping. Are you failing jumps than you need to learn to time your jumps better. Is it the camera than see if a slightly altered path results in a better overview.

As the thread about who completed it shows, more than enough people can do it. Complaining about it won’t get you the achievement though. Dedication and getting better at it do.

I have now completed it with all races. In order of completion

Asura Ranger, only one with speed boost and only 10%
Human Warrior
Charr Engineer
Norn Necromancer
Sylvari Mesmer

Charr was actually most difficult by far in my opinion. To many jumps failed that I would have made on any other race.

Asuran Ranger
10% passive speed boost

Pifil.5193:

@Leiloni.7951
“If you want to discuss short sticks, how about the fact that every Stress Test was done during business hours in the US so we couldn’t actually play any of them? Oh you didn’t hear us complaining about that did you?”

Actually, facebook was full of complaints about that. Those tests were at those times for ArenaNets convenience not for European players. You didn’t miss much BTW, the servers were very unreliable because of the nature of the stress tests.

In the interest of clarity the BWEs started at 8PM GMT (when taking into account daylight savings time), 9PM CEST, the finale events for the BWEs occurred on Monday morning about 8-9 AM.

I think it’s fair to say we Europeans got less practical playing time (i.e. most of us were asleep for more time during the BWEs because of the timezones).

The BWE’s are history now of course but it looks like it’s a pattern that’s going to repeat with this and future events.

Just a small fix. The BWE’s happened during summertime so they were +2 gmt for central Europe, which made the official starting time 10pm CEST. It’s +1 gmt during wintertime.

As for Act 3 we can only speculate. To me the announcement time merely reads Act 3 starts at that time. Nothing more nothing less. As to what will happen and if it is repeated during the day is left up in the air.

Yoshihito.5928:

If getting a refund makes them screw me over even more by closing my account, then so be it. The game is okay but not to the point where I will cry over it. I have my choice of many other games to play, this being one of my more recent purchases. So as the saying goes, “It’s no skin off my back.”

Please get your facts straight. You are trying to screw over Anet by demanding a refund due to your entitlement attitude. Honestly no company wants your business with the attitude you’ve shown here.

Where the OP says short sticks he’s talking about the BWE finale events that happened early mornings for people in Europe. Basically only the jobless could attend those in the EU.
As for the 28th. I’m reading it as the game will be patched around that time to start whatever is going to happen. Other than that nothing is known. It might simply be a whole day of specific Halloween stuff that only happens on that day. As such it would be a one time thing for the Halloween event.

3 minutes, an hour, a whole day. It doesn’t matter people are going to complain that they weren’t able to complete something just before the restart.

To Op it was your own choice to continue on when you should have known that most likely you wouldn’t have been able to kill him before the 3 minutes were up to begin with.

To me Anet should never have segregated the US and EU servers for WvW. Home servers should have been global servers. The servers then would have had a global community, which means 24/7 conflict in WvW. Nightcapping would never have become a problem and the fight results would reflect the truly stronger servers
For PvE they could have used EU and US based servers to keep the PvE relatively lag free.
They can still easily do this by rebooting the homeservers. The WvW gates in LA would no longer go to homeserver specific zones, but have a red, blue, green and eternal designation. The player using the gate woudl be then transported to the appropriate homeserver matchup.

And here I thought a win-loss record would determine who would face who. Instead you get a weird points system that in the end will pretty much stalemate the rankings with very little deviation. It’s already doing so with a third week of VS, FS and RS. If you are going to keep this system at least switch around which colour people represent.

I read 96% of this thread and sadly it is 50% mudslinging back and forth instead of working on a solution.

Instead of working on adjusting the score I would suggest starting the servers from scratch again. Now while on paper the current system seem like a good idea. In practise it simply doesn’t work out that well. Various things on why have been posted in this thread. As I write this the French server I’m up against has over 60% captured. Now towards prime time this evens out, but it’s a lot harder to recapture them as they’ve had the time to upgrade all of them during the night. So not only did they get them easily. It is also harder for them to lose them.

The only real solution would be to even out the global population over the servers. Americans are not going to play on European servers or vice versa for the most part. So simply put, you need to not make that distinction from the start. Remove the reference to location and people will spread out more.

A few things would need to change though.
1. Better communication and switching of datacenters between US and EU.
2. Get Guesting working as it needs to be working for this fix.
3. Setup server names for the PVE side and WvW side. Yes they need to be split up
4. Keep US and EU designations for the PVE part. People like to have others around them during their primetime.
5. Throw all WvW server names into one big bag and mix them up. Divide them over the US and EU datacenters again, but always list them in one big list together. Sure people will find out which is located where, but now people won’t be hampered by bad ping for PVE if they play across the ocean for WvW.

Will this truly solve night capping, no. Some will still have this problem, but it will be a lot less problematic than it is now. The servers will have a more global presence and as such will be more competative through out the day.

Konrad Curze.5130:

Sky.9347:

The root of this problem is thus:
WvWvW is and should be a 24/7 game mode; servers are not designed for 24/7 player loads.

wholeheartly agree with the philosophy

Sky.9347:

I think the best possible solution to this problem is threefold:
1) Eliminate NA and EU designations. (language designations would be fine)
2) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)
3) Continue focusing developer attention on bugs/exploits/hacks.

disagree
that wouldnt solve much, if anything. I think that is impossible to achieve balance just by letting the playerbase self control itself, it will never work. human nature, specially on the internet, equals egoism.

24/7 balanced servers is an utopia. it will never happen. lets come into terms with that.

my solution is simple.
abandon the idea of 24/7

1) IP Ban/ Lock NA and EU regions
2) create new Asian/SEA region
3) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)

anyone that doesnt take advantage of that free transfers to go to a region that fits him will see that chars locked.

These two while seeming similar are light years apart. One is about opening things up and the other about closing things off. The latter is counter to what Anet has been trying to do. That is create a game where it doesn’t matter where you live.

“It’s a bad day to travel” – Over and over and over and over…
Ambiance and funny conversation good, repetition bad…

First of, the waypoint marker seems way off. The text says go to the durmand priory, but the waypoint points to a different area, but upon entering the instance you are at the priory.
Second, the boss is misnamed. He has one name in the quest text and another in game
Thirdly, Gixx didn’t speak one of his lines, but was quiet for the duration of that line.