Guild Wars 2

Only way I would be fine with this is if every 5 seconds a speech bubble appears that says “WHERE’S PETER?!?! WHERE’S PETER?!?!?”

Zeqasa Saitou.4256:

Anypony who doesn’t rez a fallen combatant is just selfish.

This game is based around helping each other out. If a player has fallen, and is dead, of course it scales the enemy. The game is expecting players to revive him/her. 5 players reviving 1 fallen players is much faster than expecting them to walk back, and the amount of dps contributed by those who are revived already greatly increase the amount of damage your group is putting out (rather then their corpses just rotting). This is just basic math. lets say 5 people deal 100 damage. 1 falls. now your deal 80. over 10 mins, riving the 1 to deal 100 again results in a much higher number than the 4 dealing 80 and yelling at the 1 that fell.

think about the group, and the others playing this game. And of course, remember that this IS just a game. That is what makes a great community.

Think about others, like we did at launch.

Nope. Waypoint back. Being there dead simply encourages the Zeqasa’s to clump up in an easy to destroy stack causing 5 more to become useless instead of 1/6 not doing dps, you now have 6/6 not doing dps.

Rez the downed, leave the dead.

I got a scrap, 5 bags, gathering booster, 2 unidentified dye. (I think that was it, maybe 1 more item?)

OP proven false. Not only did I get the item that was “Removed” but I also got the item that “Replaced” it.

It was the weekend. They don’t work on the weekend.

If people would make a habit of refusing to rez anyone who is fully dead. This wouldn’t be an issue.

Who cares about the scaling. Stopping to rez them to full…

1. Removes your DPS as well as theirs.
2. Causes a bunch of people to go to one spot to get splatted by AE as they rez.
3. Increases your “value” for an enemy to target making #2 worse.
4. Causes you to be semi-prone and vulnerable.
5. Probably gets you killed as well as them because of how long it takes to rez adding yet another loss of dps.

It is simply not worth rezzing fully dead people. Ever.

MauricioCezar.2673:

HI mr troll , you are not welcome here.

“Learn to dodge” , Oh sure, as if I don’t know how to do that, and as if was only about that. Tell me mr troll, do you NEVER get downed? Are you so kitten good that if you type /deaths the number show as ZERO?

Either way, back to the topic, is this really the way it works?

I wasn’t trolling you.

You asked if it was supposed to leave when you get downed. (Title of the post.)

I told you to learn to dodge (Number one reason of getting downed is failure to dodge. And especially apparent when you watch the vast swaths of people who cannot dodge things like the knights highly telegraphed attack).

I told you not to get downed.

I also gave you an option to reduce the "It costs 5 silver!!!’ cost.

Why bother, even those who DO it are not getting the achieve because it’s broken.

But to answer the question. You must join a mega guild that opens their own overflow and actually prepares for the event instead of mingling with “WHERE’S PETER” and “ANYONE FOR SPIDER! DON’T LET IT EAT A COCOON!”

Learn to dodge. Don’t get downed.

Also you can buy the buff that corresponds to the faction you joined and it’s only 1s.

Stability makes fighting the knight in melee range extremely easy. Stand your ground and Hallowed Ground make for a good amount of pure beatdown time.

Add in necromancers using well of power (Especially during condition reflect stage) for even more fun times.

It is every fight with the hologram. No reset on the chest.

Yes.

The chest spawns where the hologram was. The scarlet that goes to the door is a distraction and it worked =/

Kalavier.1097:

Fenrina.2954:

Kalavier.1097:

IIRC, Patch 3 was to make it so people could actually consistantly get loot for successes.

Nope. That was the one that apparently turned off loot.

Patch 4 reworked Knight mechanics (increasing knight’s defense in the process), and tried to fix loot success, but failed to really solve it. And patch 5 finally fixed loot, but added additional issues.

Edit: Anet said they were taking time to polish the final updates, correct? If that’s true, it does not show with this update.

For all the saying of “removed loot” I just got an assault core and 6 champ boxes from a FAILED knight event. IE, I was at green, green failed. I got those boxes. I got 6 boxes from a failed blue knight event.

I don’t see anything about “nerfed” loot.

In either patch 3 or 4, they removed all loot from knights. The patch that “fixed” it was a patch that SAID that anyone who participated got loot, when in reality only those who defeated their knight got loot. The last patch is the only one where everyone got loot.

So you are simply missing a timeframe where loot was removed.

Eidt: Poof Ninja Vanish!

People play what they like. People also understand when a class is sub-par and undesired like the current state of the Ranger. It’s no coincidence that Ranger won the “What class needs the most work” CDI hands down…

You can get cores both from the knight event and scarlet event.

I have gotten up to 3 in an event. Others I think have gotten up to 5.

That’s 2 chances every hour for every player. If you didn’t cash in when they were broken drops, you lost out. They will continue to drop in price unless things get broken more.

Yep. No legendary.

Be afraid, be very afraid…

Here’s the trick.

1. Have a group or two ready and waiting at the spawn. It’s always the same place.
2. Engage IMMEDIATELY upon spawning. No waiting for people to arrive since you already are there. Any “trolls” who engage with you are a 1 in X (X being how many people you have there.) chance of even being the target of the cocoon.
3. Focus entirely on killing the cocoons, unless you have snare skills, snares should be blanketing the spider when a cocoon is started. Even if a “Troll” doesn’t help by pressing 1, you can kill the cocoon just fine.
4. ???
5. Profit.

That should be MY sword….

Rytlock.

So manly he doesn’t even show up and sends Rox to do the job for the honor of being in his warband.

People knew that’s what we were “Supposed” to do. Most people tried it. Failed miserably, and tried the zerg. Won it handily and never stopped.

Too little too late. Everyone that did it got the achievement others trying the hard way now can’t even get up to her to try =/

Fungalfoot.7213:

Body blocking would solve everything.

I can see it now.

1 person joins a group, gets into a spot where the other 4 stand in front of him so he’s stuck. They demand 4g to let him out.

The new “Selling dungeon spot” meta!

Lions arch attack wasn’t the fault of scarlet. If you look at the stone in the lion fountain you can totally see that it was the work of the asuran microbots…

Look at them simply as skins to transmute onto your ascended weapon.

That is exactly what it is. It’s the remaining amount of people who can get the attunement buff. Starts at 50 and goes down every time someone gets the buff.

There IS a counter.

It’s on the right side of your screen in the event data. It says “Calibration” of some sort. That is how many “buffs” are still available. If it says zero you better be moving to another knight because you can’t deal damage.

The only politics in this thread is correctness.

Grouping makes tagging easier. It is also good for if you get disconnected you have an “anchor” to get back to the same instance you were in whether that is home or a particular overflow.

That’s about all there is for benefits.

aelflune.8590:

Kumu Honua.2751:

That’s why point number 1 is to be there BEFORE it spawns so that you can react to that. If your entire group engages, he has a 1 in X chance of being the one being targeted.

If there was no one else there before it spawned, I don’t know how this piece of advice is useful at all.

Seems someone will always have something to say to excuse bad behaviour.

Except that if the OP wants the achievement, they can get a group or two of friends to be sitting at the spawn point waiting for the champ to spawn. If they engage immediately then they will have 10 or more people ALREADY READY to destroy cocoons and no one can bother them.

I wasn’t excusing bad behavior. I was telling them how they must proceed to have a better chance. They can’t just wait for it to spawn and then run there from wherever they hell they are and HOPE that it succeeds. They need to be proactive.

1. Get there before the champ spawn.
2. Engage immediately.
3. Focus only on killing cocoons. Then if no cocoons do damage to spider.
4. ???
5. Profit.

Vigil keep has all the portals.

You can get there by going through the lions arch portal in your starting city.

You people would never survive Rift Bosses. This stuff is kindergarten in comparison.

They should change “Blade shards” into “Generic Event Token Item”

That way all the GETI you own can be used to make any event item in any event and only take up 1 space instead of Blade Shards, and Heirlooms, and Belongings, and Power Cores, and Cyphers, and….

Right, but they still didn’t send the gems before they got the answers to the survey. Same deal for me. Answer my survey and then I send gems.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Give Anet 400 gems and they might do your survey.

They didn’t give the gems to people before they answered THEIR survey, why should they get gems before MY survey? =p

I have to say that next to southsun, this is the absolutely worst update they have ever done.

That’s why point number 1 is to be there BEFORE it spawns so that you can react to that. If your entire group engages, he has a 1 in X chance of being the one being targeted.

Here’s a question.

Why didn’t you kill the cocoon? You can target and destroy the cocoon yourself.

They can make it only slightly harder by not helping to destroy the cocoon from within, but if you are really working on it..

1. Be there BEFORE it spawns so that there’s enough to take out anyone cocooned. Don’t wait for it to spawn before you get there.
2. Focus down cocoons.
3. Immobilize/Chill on the spider is important if there is someone who isn’t helping to destroy the cocoon from within whether because of lag or trolling.

Play better. Play smarter.

Taygus.4571:

Skip the blue knight, it has an auto heal bug making it very difficult, better going red/geen.

It’s not a bug. The twisted mender flock that goes by every few minutes needs to be intercepted or they will heal the assault knight.

It is highly annoying, but if they are killed before getting in range to heal the knight then everything is fine.

Pay to win requires you to be spending real life money for items only available with said real life money. It also requires that said item gives significant advantages over others who do not purchase the item.

Since you can obtain back slot items without doing so. Pay to win does not exist.

Yep, patch notes are either unclear or they screwed up yet another thing.

What gives is that only the people who kill the knight they are fighting actually get a reward.

Since you and 4 others were the only ones at green and failed to kill it, you didn’t get the reward.

Those that came after did so after killing their knight and were already guaruanteed a reward.

It’s a terrible reward mechanism.

Solus.3926:

so, how do you know if you are number 51, or 49th in a group?

do ‘commanders’ have special group notifications?

do we all group at one gate to LA while 3 designated Commanders pick a 50man ‘team’ each and tell the rest, try again in an hour?

ANet, does “shooting yourself in the foot” mean anything to you?

On the right side of the screen under the event progress it says how many more buffs are available. If you do not have the buff, and it says “0” get the hell to another knight.

I would like to see Anet’s feelings on the event. I would even be willing to buy 400 gems if I could get them to answer.

1. On a scale of 1 to 10, How would you rate the current player base enjoyment of the current living story?

2. On a scale of 1 to 10, Are you happy with the amount of cores that are entering the game? Is the price at a point where you would like it to remain?

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, How well do you think you handled communication about the issues with the event?

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, How well do you think that event scaling is working?

5. On a scale of 1 to 10, How do you like how the rewards are achieved in the current (March 6th patch)?

6. On a scale of 1 to 10, How happy are you with the success/failure rate of the knight section of the event?

7. On a scale of 1 to 10, How happy are you with the success/failure rate of the scarlet hologram portion of the event?

8. On a scale of 1 to 10, How would you rate the overall living story?

9. On a scale of 1 to 10, How happy are you with your performance in creating, balancing, testing, and overall completeness of the living story?

10. Why do you hate me so much? (Essay question.)

Worst part is that they expect a full 150 person server to NOT have a bunch of morons screaming “WHERE’S PETER!?!?!?!?!?!!?” or “Who’s up for spider queen achieve!”

This was a terrible patch.

Guess I don’t get a colored blade. I’m not paying 2g per core.

There is no loot anymore.

Taygus.4571:

just keep searching and keep asking on map, eventually someone will see him

Please no! I can’t take another “Anyone seen peter” in mapchat….it’s every 20 seconds!

Megis.9264:

What servers actually switch the order around? Mind keeps adamantly going with RBG…

Which is your server. Dragonbrand is a BGR server, I’d like to do your version because the zerg is truly mindless and cannot be swayed.

Moveable UI elements should be MANDATORY for all MMO creators.

Everquest vanilla (Yeah, that long ago) had a fully moveable and even customizable user interface…

Better zoom out/zoom in is not a balance issue. Why are we prevented from doing it?

Actually it is. In wvwvw, you can’t use certain siege in certain places because the camera does not allow for your targeting reticule to be placed at certain spots.

Those who use the zoomhack stuff CAN do it for that reason alone. There is a balance issue involved in the zoom. Don’t get me wrong. I hate how close it is, but there is a balance issue to consider.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Aza.2105:

Hey Colin,

I would like to see Anet address the insane particle effects.

I can never anticipate when to dodge the statue of dwayna attacks because of this. You can barely make out the enemy model. Particle effects are nice and all, but in gw2 they are overly done. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this issue in any mmorpg I’ve played.

Yeah we’ve done a number of steps already this year to improve it, but we have a long ways to go to get it cleaned up to the point we’re happy with. It’s something we’re continuing to work on for sure, but we’re focusing way more on game performance currently before we turn back to the FX side.

How about an option to simply turn off particle effects. Leave the ground circles from enemies, but for all that is holy please let us turn off particle effects!