Guild Wars 2

Maybe these boxes can drop like the shatterer wings? They were ridiculously expensive to buy with candy, but as a drop much more obtainable via the TP.

Did you check the Black Lion vendors in the auction house that have the other old stuff?

I don’t have a legendary (not even close), but this sounds like a cool idea to me. Maybe someone wants a legendary shortbow that isn’t rainbows and unicorns. Or just wants something a bit different. It could actually get more people interested in making legendaries in the first place.

I beat it on the smallest possible asura. There were plenty of large characters there… at the beginning, but they dropped out.

Gnat.9405:

The feature page is already up and a lot of this information isn’t anything new. The Prince is already confirmed to be Thorn’s son, as noted in the release page. We knew the Clocktower was coming back as well

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-15-2013/

Just FYI, but this thread was up before they released the info. That’s why it was labeled “spoilers”.

Zomaarwat.3912:

Im on PS too, same story, didnt kill him once. I had no idea he’d spawned, does he have a regular timer now?

Yes, after the event ends, 30 minutes later there is a one hour window in which he can spawn. So he spawns quite frequently.

TTS does a bunch of kills every night. It has five full guilds, and from what I hear we have started a sixth guild as well. Try in game mailing one of the leaders for an invite.

That’s five overflows for one kill. I killed him three times last night, and there were people coming and going, so it is even more people than you are estimated. And that was on a Tuesday night… it’s even more people on a Friday or Saturday. I know there are at least a few servers who still do it every night as well, and probably some other organized groups (there are Tequatl guilds on European servers, for example).

I believe it is meant to be an event you have to organize to complete, and I think that if they can tweak it such that lower population servers would have a better chance to beat him, it would be an improvement. However, the fact is, a lot of people are still doing this event daily.

Yes I joined a Teq guild during the first week. My server has never killed Teq. The guild is cross server and has now spanned to six guilds (the first five are full). People are still doing this event many times a night, just not on their servers. The design may not have been the greatest for scaling on lower pop servers, but it still stands that people are doing the event.

Joining a guild is not exactly hard, so I wouldn’t say I went to great lengths to do it. The fact that the guilds are still growing (we filled five overflows last night) means that many people are still doing the event.

I love seeing old stuff return alongside new content. Why waste the older stuff on a single event when they can bring it back? We get to see the return of favorites and new players get to experience it as well.

I am confidant there will be enough new stuff to keep everyone occupied.

I’d probably have bought all of them if 800 gems unlocked each for my entire account. I bought zero though.

Siphaed.9235:

CLOCK TOWER RETURNS!
https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/68370Screenshot-06-Mad-King-Tower.jpg
(Spoiler #1 in the above screen: Notice the gear the lady is wearing? That’s a new set. Don’t know if it’s actually “gear” gear, or if it’s “town” gear. Either way, that’s something NEW!)

I don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but that gear isn’t new. It’s light karma gear.
http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/k5/light/display_looks.php

Chainsaw skeleton tonic
Various blues and greens
Mad King helm (pumpkin head?)
Karma drop

Beldin.5498:

Just look here :
http://gw2dragons.com/dragons/leaderboard]GW2Dragons

Half of the servers have killed him only 1-5 times, and the numbers on Vabbi came just from guilds that used that server for guesting.

Yeah .. really time to ruin Jormag and Shatterer in the same way.

@DaveNic
Totally agree .. i also often liked to do Jormag late at night just with a few people .. the fun now is gone thanks to the stupid timers.

I’m curious, how is that data collected? My server (Sorrow’s Furnace) isn’t even listed, though I would be surprised if we had killed him even once. I think most people gave up and started guesting or joining other guilds less than a week in.

Rennoko.5731:

ElenaDragon.8401:

The problem is that you can’t just join in once it is up. Random timers make sense if you want people to start to show up after the event starts or just want to pull from people already on the map for other reasons. However, with Tequatl, you have to be already in place and organized when it starts, and this means everyone has to wait.

I would much prefer a longer time between windows and a shorter window. Why would it matter if the timing is predictable?

The world wouldn’t feel “alive”, without the randomness on the timer.

Sounds like a good response to me.

You have to balance feeling “alive” with tedium though.

The problem is that you can’t just join in once it is up. Random timers make sense if you want people to start to show up after the event starts or just want to pull from people already on the map for other reasons. However, with Tequatl, you have to be already in place and organized when it starts, and this means everyone has to wait.

I would much prefer a longer time between windows and a shorter window. Why would it matter if the timing is predictable?

Hmm, I killed Tequatl three times yesterday. Once just before the reset and twice afterwards.

I agree that it is not a good design that turrent operators are depended upon so heavily for the success or failure of the event.

Sounds extremely useful any time you run low on inventory space or run out of harvesting tools.

I got 5 pieces for the daily outside of the dungeon, but it took a while.

I got the mini from one of the smaller event chests after the patch (the “exotic” one).

Aisina.4963:

Asuran females are even worse. Brilliant hair, crappy add ons because they can’t be dyed properly. Huge disappointment after the initial excitement of change! Give us proper dye slots for hair accessories, and make some features toggle able.

Great example is the original Asuran female hair buns, could have been my favourite if it wasn’t for those stupid bows and ribbons. Just stop with ribbons.

Anyway, poor Asuran hair choice is the reason I’ve been bald ingame for the past 12 months, please, if you’re going to update hair, and make us pay for the luxury, at least let us dye it properly, it would be a start, and I assume a lot easier than creating models without the accessories.

My Asura has red hair, so I just dyed the ribbons red as well, and they blend in quite well. If I wasn’t able to match it though, it would annoy me. The accessory should be dyeable like the rest of our armor. I mean, who knows at character creation time what permanent color scheme they want to use for their character? This can change quite easily with armor upgrades, and it would be nice to be able to change the color of the hair accessories as well.

Hmm, I never fired the megalazer manually, but I got the achievement a long time ago.

I suspect this is an oversight due to the changes to Tequatl, and hopefully will be updated so that players can still get the achievement.

I think you have to kill him for the achievement. I meticulously stayed away from any poison, but didn’t kill him and didn’t get the achievement. On another fight, I was pretty sure I had been hit by poison, but still got the achievement. I think it’s buggy.

Fafnir.5124:

Do teq minis still drop?

Yes, I finally got mine today!

Just killed him on overflow like 20 minutes ago.

I have been having so much fun doing this with TTS, and this round I got the mini Teq! Thanks TTS!

“Idle players will now be ejected from the hylek turrets during the Tequatl the Sunless encounter.”

Sounds like they can be AFK before the thing starts, but while the event is going on they can’t be AFK.

I’ve been running all of world 1 nearly every day (and sometimes W2Z1 as well), and I’ve gotten 4 tradable skins.

Yep, yesterday I saw a no-no cloud in W1Z3 normal. It just sat there though and didn’t try to electrocute me. I guessed it was a bug.

On a similar note, I also saw the fire elemental animation in Metrica Province yesterday when the fire elemental was NOT up.

I think it happens for everyone. Still seems like a bug though.

goldenwing.8473:

I’ve played a healer in every game I’ve played over the last 13 years.

Not because it’s my first choice. Usually because my guild needed it.

I often played a healer on my 2nd PC, manually, reaching over and hitting buttons, moving as I needed ….usually while I was main tanking…. and/or raid leading.

I’ve played a healer along with two other characters at the same time … manually …. while main tanking… and/or raid leading.. and providing a damage class. Ditto for off-tanking in raids.

I’ve played a healer for 5-man instances (doing them with 4) through several games. I was usually knitting at the time.

The only time, I’ve played ONLY the healer was when healing another main tank in raid instances. Most of those were engaging enough to require my attention. Mostly.

Particularly if it was a main tank I didn’t know.

I like doing group support. Don’t get me wrong. I also happen to like tanking (melee) and doing damage (both ranged and melee).

GW2 is the first game that lets me do all 3 at once, contributing to a group, without having to swap gear or shape shift, or hit like a pansy.

RIFT came close with the Chloromancer. Close. That was only one class. I guess I should throw the Cleric in there as well. Ok. Two. Oh, and toss in the Archmage from Warhammer Online which I used for pvp. Weird weaving mechanics.

GW2 offers more variety.

And I’m not knitting.

<3 this post, especially the parts about the knitting. I only knit while waiting for an event, like Tequatl.

I got the title three days ago and I’m still killing him daily.

Flameseeker.1563:

So for days we’ve been talking about Teq fight, what’s wrong with it and how it could be fixed/adjusted, and discussing how the current problems with the game has a negative impact on the community, mostly the overflow system and condition damage.
To that we got no single comment by Anet.

Regarding the availability of a couple minipets we get an answer within a day.

I do like minipets but i think you should get your priorities checked…

What the devs respond to is not necessarily according to their priorities. Simple questions with simple answers are easy to reply to. More complicated complaints and questions are probably something they are working on internally and have no definitive answer for yet.

I’ve done it all solo, and much prefer it that way.

I’ve seen this a lot on Sorrow’s Furnace as well. To be fair, this is usually just before reset, so it probably fills up a bit after that.

Of course it’s a test. Rather than revamp every dragon at once, they do one the way they think it should be and see how it goes. I’m sure all this feedback is important to them, and hopefully they can take it into consideration and tweak the implementation of Tequatl and also future events.

Paying gold to get into a guild? I’ve never had to do that. Find a better guild.

The few TS/Mumble runs I have been in, there were only a few people talking the entire time. Most people didn’t say anything and just listened. It makes it much easier for a person or a few people in charge to give out directions by voice than trying to type them. Also, it is a lot easier to pay attention to vocal instructions than to stop watching the fight and try to read the chat.

I like the idea of a token system. It’s frustrating to attempt content for hours, even days, and then get nothing worthwhile in return. At least with the token system, you know you have made some progress towards something better. It’s much better than RNG.

I have my title now thanks to TTS. It’s been a lot of fun, and I plan to continue to keep killing him with the guild. Thanks!

My server, Sorrow’s Furnace, has yet to beat him, as far as I know.

I bound dodge to my R key a long time ago, and with a fair amount of practice I have mostly perfected the dodge jump by pressing R and space simultaneously. I get it right about 95% of the time now.

Another way to do a long jump is to wait to jump until you’re running off the edge of the platform a bit. For me, this method is harder though, and I’m not sure if it works for this particular instance.

I had heard there were two issues with checkpoints in W2Z2 tribulation mode. One, a cloud checkpoint that doesn’t work, and two, the previous checkpoint that spawns you in spikes. I completed this on Saturday and both seemed to be fixed. FYI.

Better rewards would mean more people would stick around and keep doing it. The risk versus reward for this event is not balanced when compared to other events in the game.

That was awesome! So much fun.

Everything looks like it is made for an ant on asura.

I’d love an invite. Thanks!

Still no Sorrow’s Furnace?

I have this problem too.

In my opinion, rez downed. Defeated players should run back. Too many times I have tried to rez defeated players, and I just end up downed or dead myself. Downed players can be rezzed very quickly though.

I did it long ago on my first character (for the title, star, and Gift of Exploration). However, now that I have the title, I have less incentive to complete it on my other characters. It would be nice to have a larger reward for this massive achievement.