Guild Wars 2

Yamagawa.5941:

If you’ve ever tried soloing (or heck, 5-manning) the Karka queen, you’ll know it takes quite the effort.

Most temples (big events in their own way) can be completed with fewer than 5 players.

Scale wise, the Karka Queen needs a bigger Zerg to take it on. Just, not all things scale properly from 1 player to 150 players. If you want to respect it as hard, just try soloing it.

Every time i did before the patch it was fine, not big groups but never lost at it. But after this patch is pretty much guaranteed i will never be able to soloing Karka Queen.
Yet, comparing to the other HardCore bosses that require much more than only numbers, Karka Queen is just not in the category. I believe Jormag would fit one slot of Hardcore better than Karka at this point.

I believe most of you know what i am talking about.

Karka Queen dies in 2 minutes of “AFK Auto-Attackers”, i am very confuse in understand why is Karka Queen considered one HardCore Boss?

I believe that’s one insult to Tequatl and Three Head Wurm, Karka dies faster than the lvl 15 area boss, Frozen Maw Shaman. If there is a boss more worthy of Hardcore, it must be Jormag.

Is it just me or you’re also wondering the same thing?

One of the biggest things for me, would award daily Chest and Trait on Attack AND Defend event. Adapt the Defend Events also to fail, if we defend 1, the 2nd it will be harder.

Zok.4956:

Max Lexandre.6279:

World Bosses have turned into massive zergs of lag and auto-attack afkers.

I have to agree. Yes they have.

I the past world bosses were something special for me. After the patch, they are not anymore.

Greetings.

Exactly what i was trying to say!
People end say saying i’m a whiner, but i just want my World Bosses back! Do it with small parties, guildies, challenging stuff, not this, definitely not this.

I really hope ANet reads this thread and doesn’t get into “Ignore-Mode”, we need Feature Patches for the better, not for the worse.

I mostly agree with Uruz, ANet must want to start a good relationship with the community, find ways to hear us, interact better and not use this current system that only drives people against ArenaNet and against each other at this forum.

This recent changes caused complicated issues to deal with, inside the game when i do world bosses i see people on flame wars most of the time, it’s one example of what is happening impacting the communities (specially European Servers).

Roleplayers are a huge complication, if you roleplay now on PvE people get mad at you and send you to “several places”, “kitten”, etc… As Roleplayers are now also with MegaServers, so ANet is really acting against its own community, it’s the inverse of building one Healthy Community.

If your items apply for a refund they will give it to you, simple.
Sad they decided to give us refunds over make changes to don’t go with the alternative they presented us.

Maybe with the MegaServers, specially on PvP Lobby and some specific maps, it’s actually being gold-seller friendly as they can reach much more people, also they are more now (megaservers maps again) so we must keep reporting but most certainly we will keep with more spam of Gold Sellers since this patch.

nGumball.1283:

When you grow up and become a fine man/woman you can open a gaming company and pay half of your team to check the forums everyday and answer every single person. When that happens please inform me so I can give your game a try and if doesn’t suit me I will insult you, all the people who work for you and call you trash.

I am not asking that, the massive threads around the forum to “collect feedback”, but we get nothing else from ANet than silence, it’s not 1 person asking, it’s many and several times on such threads, they never reply the questions, they end up being 1 more post there doing nothing.

If they are collecting and discussing the feedback they are getting, on the community side we get silence, and that silence is certainly causing people around this community to feel ignored, that the problems at not being addressed and the threads just being merged/blocked. ANet must get community aware “We know there is being problems / issues / annoyances, with some of the new changes we made on patch and we are working on them.”

That would be enough to calm down the community, just signal us that our feedback is being heard and that it’s causing things to happen development side.

I believe there are some things here:
1st, ArenaNet should really be aware of the foreseeable problems that come with the changes they made on this patch, because we found ourselfs into issues that block our progression or gameplay into several things that are actually minor things that could have been avoided, such minor things cause major issues sadly.

The 2nd is that, the systems they introduced to have potential, but the odd thing is this minor things can cause Players / Guilds to have a complete nightmare to achieve after the 15th, what they easily did before it, we can’t be surprised people are complaining when we on certain “features” only lost and won nothing than new problems to deal with.
Let’s take the Guild Missions as one example:
- We lost capability of put our whole Guild (that is large enouh) into the same map, the system just takes everybody apart just like Overflows and if there are Meta-Events running on the map, oh dear, you just will find yourself into “Join In” button spam due full messages, some of our members were not capable to finish Challenge because they simply could not get in!
- Guild Missions as we learned yesterday the worse way, with the Mega Servers when it’s about starting them you can likely face a brick wall because other guild already started the mission, before we could guest in another server and start it there as alternative, now we just enter the same MegaServer waiting the mission to fail.

When there is this tsunami of feedback on the community and everything is merged into one MASSIVE Thread that seems to be simply ignored, where questions are never replied…. Rage is just a secondary effect.

Yes there are several things hitting guilds hard, the missions when the X mission is already on by other guild and the others can’t trigger as everybody joins the same mega servers.

And when we try to put our guild at the same place, the Mega Server promise is a lie on that aspect, the very same thing as overflow, it keeps breaking parties and guild mats apart onto several MegaServers. It’s worse than before because now all the maps do have populations on it, so we don’t risk put around 50-100 guild members on it and it gets full.

With the map limitations to be around 150 people, one large guild will face one nightmare to put everybody on the same place, as we just today tried.

I already pointed that out yesterday:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Errors-on-the-Official-World-Boss-Schedule/

It’s still to be fixed, somehow they managed to mistake the official timing itself, when it was posted it was correct, someone Troll edited that. :p

Again, in 15min says in timers it will start Jungle Wurm, but what will start is Frozen Maw, that are 3 errors were Jungle Wurm is not the boss that spawns.

=/

Balthazar is affected in the way you can’t just track the event, there is no timers and you must be in the map to see how are pre events going, if any, what is very frustrating from the older system where we saw everything that was contested or not.

ArenaNet, not thinking ahead when it comes to foreseeable problems. I have indeed noticed that, not fair if DE/FR speaks English to command such and they are instant ignored on team chat.

All the talk about “Oh don’t worry your party and guildies will not be separeted”.

Such lies, on majority of the bosses i have done till now with my guilds in party, we enter in different megaservers. I don’t get this, if it wasn’t enough this absurd timings of boss spawns to if we fail it once, we can’t do it anymore… grrr such Beta, very launched 1.5years ago.

Heya there.

On our server right now we got very confused after did the World Boss:
Taidha Covington 7:00US – 10:00 USE – 16:00 CET

On the official Schedule it says at 16:15 CET (15min after the Taidha), Jungle Wurm shall start. Yet what we saw was the Frozen Maw Shaman starting, something is not listed there for another 2 hours.

Or ANet doesn’t know what time their World Bosses spawn anymore, or there was one typo / edit on such blog post because wurm is starting every hour on those 3 hours.

Please correct the world boss timings on https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-megaserver-system-world-bosses-and-events/ .

Aidenwolf.5964:

Max Lexandre.6279:

AKA Mystic Toilet.

And yes something is absurd at Mystic Forge rewarding lvl 70~ when we put 4 80s at it.

They didn’t announce a change to the formula so is this a bug?

What i heard it’s rares to have increased chance to return exotics, yet, not sure if that includes in return they have the chance to be not lvl 80 exotics.

Doomguard.5094:

I have nothing against these “raid” bosses spawning a bit less frequently every day because I feel that can add to their “epicness”, but these spawn times they gave us every 8 hours aren’t good. They should each spawn 3 times during prime/evening time instead of middle of the night and during lunch time as these two won’t ever be popular and serve no practical purpose. If not then the guild summoning requirements need to be drastically reduced to ensure everyone can get enough tries at them.

The current summon prices seem to be taking it for granted that we will actually kill the wurm every day of the week for that price, but for people still practicing the fight this is too much as they could really use multiple consecutive tries for practice and now with the current prices they will easily drain all of their resources in 2-3 days, then spend 2+ weeks getting more merits and influence before they can try again.

10000000000000000000% Agree.

The multiple tries before the main try give us the opportunity to train and teach the new players at the event how-to, yesterday it failed because too many people and we didn’t had any run before to teach them, what is half way gone to fail.
The guild costs for this things are absurdly high to point it’s not viable even for a guild dedicated to do Wurm only.

AKA Mystic Toilet.

And yes something is absurd at Mystic Forge rewarding lvl 70~ when we put 4 80s at it.

Corian.4068:

Hannelore.8153:

Its more that it robs players of an experience that cannot happen anymore…

If we’re gonna tell it like it is, then it’s more that it robs you and the OP of your chance to get that trait without paying for it. I mean, let’s not make it about players if it’s about the trait.

You forgot about the Daily Chest, for who is not caring about this traits and wants to do what have always done till this evil patch, do world bosses. —’

The temple defend events should be removed, it should be all a Pre-Event upon all map CS and ML like every other world boss (that we had before, because now it’s a timed … )

If not removed, Defend events should get harder each time the defend event starts so no matter how much people is there, it can fail!

We can’t rage this much against ANet, we need to yes, insist with them till they melt so this game’s community voice is finally heard.

There are problems that are actually minor things (but with great impacts on players) with some of their new systems that they need to first admit and then discuss with the community the paths to take from there.

Not that the changes are bad by themselves, the ideas are nice, some specific implementations work awfully, specially hurting PvE Players.

I’m not liking Mega Servers because of solo, i’m not liking because TOO MANY players at World Events, too much lag, too little challenging events.

Things should be balanced, not a random madness like it is.

ANet Just needs to understand this:
- Harder Events are Not go from 2-3 Minutes of Auto-Attack to 5-10minutes of Auto-Attack.

If they understand that, they are half way gone to make events actually one nice experience to everybody, that after this patch, it’s huge zergs of people, and a lot of lag.

The major problem i have noticed since the patch is the way the TS Communities did work to major events before and can’t adapt to this new timings.

Before we had Karka > Teq > Wurm on prime times, several times a day, on the wurm aspect specially the event is failing way to much, too much new people refusing to enter the TS, it’s a fail over and over again when this event requires more organization that goes beyond what GW2 itself can offer.

The World Boss Guild Upgrade, is far expensive to even the biggest PvE Guilds dedicated only to Major events, that can’t simply handle spawn only 1 event of this kind per day.

So yes as the big Guilds, TS, Communities that do this major events make clear, they aren’t happy about this for more than justified reasons. I Hope ArenaNet changes the way this World Bosses are implemented inside Mega Servers or we will go from PvE to ZvE (Zerg vs Environment).

Heya there, depending if you’re EU/US and also be aware if you transfer now you can’t play WvW till the season ends.
For example in EU, Gandara is one good server that recently was boosted on its rankings, with a lot of action. Choose one server with high focus on WvW is choose queues most of the day. ^-^

The systems to fix down-scaling and up-scaling as said were poorly done on PvE. Sadly caused people to group on the same places every time, after the 15h orr is being zerged amazingly. The leveling only caused the several maps balance a nightmare, and the way things is far from, balanced and equally rewarding.
On that aspect if GW2 was the first MMO able to offer other kind of progression that is not leveling, i imagine it could have been better. ^-^

People avoid 3 head wurm because what such event requires to be successful goes way beyond what this game can offers, in terms of TS and several experienced guilds on it to achieve something profitable.

Since this patch there is too many people refusing to enter TS, and Mega Servers only scare us more when it comes to the difficulty organizing such large groups, specially the part of get them together on the same place.

On the other things, Anet must learn something:
- Harder content is not taking events like World Bosses from 2-3min of Auto-Attack do 7-10min of Auto-Attack.

Beldin.5498:

So .. player play in the open world as if the world was open to them ?

I have a great advice for you, that i have read sooo often in the last months :

Wurm and Teq are very easy .. just join TTS .. thats all.

Maybe you people now start to understand the main complains against these type of events.

These events as Wurm and Teq are fun, are challenging (something PvE needs so much) and also rewarding.
We just did today on 3 Runs, German Try, International EU Try and another guild try, sadly, they all failed, and they were all organized on TS for voice-chat commanders.

As there is a lot new people at this events that refuse to join TS, they are being simply “dead height” on the event itself, but that was a problem we had before, right now we have the extra problem there is only 1 wurm spawn in the timeline most people play.

Yup wurm just failed again our overflows as there is no TS organized Try, and of the 3 tries i heard to being done, none did succeed.

Before we had the chance to organize again in 2 hours, we will keep fighting for our World Bosses and its current integration inside MegaServers. ^^

I would say PvE as turned into ZvE.

A New gameplay style people, ZvE = Zerg vs Environment.

It’s sad but true, i want my PvE Events to be challenging again.

The answer is simple, a complete madness!

Wurm Event right now is where well, all TS organized teams and guilds are doing it, but there is FAR thousands of people trying to join 3/4 separate organized tries…

This timings changes to Wurm event in specific turned the community upside down, now everyone floods the BloodTide coast at this hour desperate to join one organized try, as we don’t have anymore 2-2h time windows for this event.
If We try to discuss this with the event organizers, their reply “It is not our fault that ArenaNet is not using any brain power before implementing such nonsense.”

I’m sad, tired of click “Join In” button because i leave my work 30min before the event starts and all organized maps and overflows are already full.

RIP PvE Events.
Edit: I found one awesome thread about this issue with the major meta-events created the by the major EU guild that does them: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Save-our-spawns-lt-3-GW2community/
Check it! ^-^

We all need to support this.

It’s absurd Anet, Absurd this limitations! We need events to afford people that work and study to be able to do them, not the opposite like you just did. The TS teams that try this events are very small and with thousands of players trying for like 2-3 tries at a time in 150 limited maps… You must figure how much people is being kicked out of this events.

Harder? Are you trolling me?

Behemoth may be hard-longer, but Fire Elemental gone from 5min to 20seconds till die.
Not only that, we don’t even to move anymore since the aoes do no damage at all.

The huge majority of the world bosses are just easier, since the major zergs we now notice on PvE World Bosses can’t be stopped by any scaling, Behe had one nice idea of force people to run after the portals to, or Crystal Dragon that now crystals spawn far away. If we talk about Jormag it’s the only one well done on its difficulty.

It’s still absurdly easy, do you see anybody actually even go down at World Bosses since this patch?! Only at temples at Orr are still challenging enough.

If we need to thank ArenaNet for something on this, is for how things are worse than before.

I feel i’m in a different game and excluded from the Community when everybody where i am is speaking French or Deutsche.

As they now don’t care to respect other players speaking English on the global chats, other players may remain silent because there’s people speaking their mother languages on the global chats.

I have hopes ANet will get there, at this point we already noticed we can’t expect much from them, and that our feedback is only heard if the community enters in rage-mode to a point it can become unstable and ANet must take action.

Things should not be that way, this updates should improve the gaming experience to everyone, not limit it, my style of gameplay was hugely limited by this feature patch and i’m being forced to play the way ANet want, not my way.

I hope they figure out they should stop taking actions against PvE / Farm, because we PvE/Farmers are not hackers or bots, we are players like everybody else.

I found that i can burn Fire Elementals \o/

No mater what we did, ArenaNet did not care, did not listen, with the same reply over and over again.

It’s lack of respect for party of the community, just because it’s one minority doesn’t means they are not players who deserve to be respected and their opinions heard.

For me i feel sad clothes are gone, i requested my refunds for Outfits and right now i am worried is about World Bosses, that had the biggest change that forces PvE players to really change the way they play. Since this strict timers that do not care about people who can’t play much every day that works/studies to how events are being attacked by massive zergs of people that turns one before nice experience to one lag experience.

I want to keep playing the same, yet the game seems to not wanting me to, with the new World Bosses and PvE Nerfs, i am demotivated to keep playing the same amount of time.

I was just fine before the patch, i don’t want cute skins, i want my World Bosses back, there was nothing wrong with them before. There is no PvE player that can be happy about this patch, unless they decided to go play different things as PvP / Dungeons.

World Bosses have turned into massive zergs of lag and auto-attack afkers.

Gratz ANet, you managed to do the opposite of what you said recently before the patch “we want to spread people towards all maps”, nope, Orr is being zerged like it never was before, people have little things to do on PvE due the lack of meta-event spawn…

And now Meta Events are just ruined, too many people, it’s not even challenging anymore, the biggest challenge is deal with the lag, something i only had in WvW now in PvE, i just can’t deal with this change, this is not a new feature, this is destruction of the actual game features that were working just fine before!

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Max Lexandre.6279:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Just wantet to stop by to say that the RPers are also feeling betrayed by ANet. So if they don’t want you to farm and don’t want you to roleplay, I wonder what we’re supposed to do.

Go to PVP? Seems they want to force us to play PvP one way or the other.

I can remember ANet trying hard to push GW2 into the ESL scene. In my opinion, the balance is way too bad to be competitive whatsoever.

That’s also the thing, we should play what WE want, not what ANet want us to play, how can they don’t loose players if they nerf our gameplay style? O.o

The scaling that cused issues is at Arah Escort to Shank Anchorage, if there is +10 people it spawns 2-3 champs with major aoes that get npcs down and fails event in a matter of seconds, we decided to leave the area and let only 5 people do the escort to make it possible.

About Grenth, Grenth was never made to be Zerged, he zergs you back.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Just wantet to stop by to say that the RPers are also feeling betrayed by ANet. So if they don’t want you to farm and don’t want you to roleplay, I wonder what we’re supposed to do.

Go to PVP? Seems they want to force us to play PvP one way or the other.

Khisanth.2948:

Well they did just take care of the issue for Melandru and Grenth. Maybe they will do the same for the others.

Oh they awarding the trait for the defend event. Well, why not award the daily chest also for defend? This game oddly requires events to fail to be able to actually win them!

Don’t merge please, this is not about any feature from the Feature Pack!

Continuing the title, forgot… to thinking ahead, when it comes to foreseeable problems.

What is happening with Orr, temple defend events are being done for more than 30 hours already in some places, and people are getting mad trying to actually, well, fail events to do events.

With the PvE nerf we are seeing the same thing that happened on the first times after the game launch: Orr is being Zerged by bajillions of players. I’m trying to use guests in hopes to get the temples closed and do the pre-events, but this clearly needs some attention from ANet or people will keep under Flame Wars on Map Chat with who is doing the defend events.

Orr is the last stand for PvE players against the nerfs it seems.
Can we have one look at this issue please?

EDIT: This is not only about the Traits, it’s also about the Daily Chests that right now i was only able to do 1 of all World Temple Bosses at Orr. If they changed Defend Events to reward the traits and not the Daily Rewards, this will keep causing problems between who wants the Daily Chest and Who wants the Trait.

ANet is incredible on this global PvE nerf. Without Orr temples, the biggest supply of T6 and Ectos of the game is shaking.

We will need to wait to the stocks to start to shake and the demand to increase to see what’s the real impact of this Nerf on the game. ANet keeps acting like people who farm are some sort of hackers or bots, there’s no respect anymore for PvE Players.

:(

Yes, PvE is awful, i have been playing today, i can’t’… Just… Do it.

Hello there.

I am very confuse about some Meta-Events with daily chest not being on the timings list of GW2, and also bugged due the API madness on the timers of this specific cases.

I’m talking about Fire Shaman, Dregde Commisar, Foulbear Chieftan…

Why are those “not considered events” anymore? What are their timings? It feels… Bugged.

LordByron.8369:

Max Lexandre.6279:

One refund can’t be rejected if you purchased one cloth item from the gem store that is now one outfit or tonic.

does this means they could refund witch costume?
Its so awful now i asked but still waiting

P.S. also while we are here…is there any other costume without “the bald” effect?

I believe yes, and Mad King, Winter’s, Cooks…. As after the community pressure they decided to expand refunds to outfits.

I am also sad with Mad King set, i was suprised by only 4 colors for the whole set from the piece-per-piece customization.

guardian.6489:

Guys…. read this list: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Megaserver-Rollout-Update/first#post3909472

The only place in Orr that has the mega-server rolled out onto is Straights of Devastation.

There are just more people then usual in Orr due to the fact that they want traits which is why all the temples are unlocked most of the time now.

This can’t be right, so why i tried to party with guildies, they were on the same map (no overflow) but not with me, also without the “Join” option?

If this isn’t MegaServer on Cursed Shore… what is it?!