Guild Wars 2

CETheLucid.3964:

Crapgame.6519:

What makes you think they will? Companies rarely admit they made on error in their ways.

Crapgame.6519:

I’m not sure they will admit anything with regards to this

Crapgame.6519:

Didn’t ask for an apology.

But how do you really feel?

Crapgame.6519:

You posted on page 14 and replied to me. Notice other posts with different names? Maybe others do share similar opinions. Imagine that.

Right? It’s almost as if different people have differing thoughts and opinions on things, like golem rush events.

Last I checked, WvW is even more populated than usual with folks playing with golems, not less. Certainly nothing that indicates people hate the event.

If it’s such a lousy event don’t you think people would vote with their feet primarily, in addition to their mouths?

Oh and BTW, if you’re trying to make a point with regards to the post count here: it’s a megathread merged with every repost regarding the event.

The positive and the negative. It’s neither impressive nor comprehensive. But hey, we have a week.

The question is, are those people that are actually enjoying it going to come back once they cant just run around the map karma training?

They are farming and this weeks to go area is wvw for the farmers, next week they will be gone, so in that case this was not an event for the WvW’ers but for the PvE farmers to get some extra loot bags and wxp. Its not like they do not have anywhere else to go, EotM, Silverwastes even people still farming in Orr.

So this event was for the farmers to get their wxp up ready for HoT, except we all know that anet will change that up since you know they hate vets having an edge..

Oh and btw I did vote with my feet.. ive played like 30mins since friday as someone that usually plays +4hrs a day, event is bad and most of my fl is empty when I do log in to check.

CETheLucid.3964:

Crapgame.6519:

What makes you think they will? Companies rarely admit they made on error in their ways.

Crapgame.6519:

I’m not sure they will admit anything with regards to this

Crapgame.6519:

Didn’t ask for an apology.

But how do you really feel?

Crapgame.6519:

You posted on page 14 and replied to me. Notice other posts with different names? Maybe others do share similar opinions. Imagine that.

Right? It’s almost as if different people have differing thoughts and opinions on things, like golem rush events.

Last I checked, WvW is even more populated than usual with folks playing with golems, not less. Certainly nothing that indicates people hate the event.

If it’s such a lousy event don’t you think people would vote with their feet primarily, in addition to their mouths?

Oh and BTW, if you’re trying to make a point with regards to the post count here: it’s a megathread merged with every repost regarding the event.

The positive and the negative. It’s neither impressive nor comprehensive. But hey, we have a week.

The question is, are those people that are actually enjoying it going to come back once they cant just run around the map karma training?

They are farming and this weeks to go area is wvw for the farmers, next week they will be gone, so in that case this was not an event for the WvW’ers but for the PvE farmers to get some extra loot bags and wxp. Its not like they do not have anywhere else to go, EotM, Silverwastes even people still farming in Orr.

So this event was for the farmers to get their wxp up ready for HoT, except we all know that anet will change that up since you know they hate vets having an edge..

There are some questions I would loved to be answered. Why chose this style of event?
Where is the fun supposed to be had? Explain the reasoning behind this event, since it had to be sold to someone sitting at a table during a meeting.

If they are changing badges, tell us, if they are trying to get rid of the over abundance of Golems be up front about it, if we know why we have to put up with this rubbish and its for a week then maybe everyone wouldnt be kicking up, but as it stands Anet just ruined the only game mode I enjoyed for no reason than for some karma trainers to have a laugh which they could already do in EotM.

I lasted 15mins, 30 secs from gate to lord down, this is NOT fun.

Time for a way to get GM’s attention in real time, not a day later when its all over.

We have a keep full of balisters, over 50 people have reported the same siege troll that has been a thorn in our side for over 2 years, short bans havent worked, his still there laughing and we still have no way of contacting anyone quickly enough to get this resolved. This is now… its quicker to gripe here than getting help when you need it.

Report for botting? how long before someone takes notice,
Send in screenshots? Again how long before someone actually reads the emails.
Log out since this isnt fun – instant.

For a while now I have been getting an error and kicked out of game, this only happens in silverwastes, I thought that it was a dat file issue but I repaired that and Im still getting the same problem.

Only Silverwastes, no other area does it, it comes up with a window error and auto shuts game down, is there any reason why this map has this problem?

At first this was funny, then it became not so funny, which then lead to it being tedious now its just outright annoying.

They destroy siege, the guard work on the gates if left unattended for too long, the rate at which they re-spawn is stupidly fast. Not sure at this point if removing white swords would be better, since no one is checking.

But really, get this fixed.

Personally Im at a point of being done, how one person is allowed to grief a whole server and gets a 2week ban and is now back to doing it all over again after being promised that this account would be watched closely.

As of right now, I couldn’t care less about his rights to play as he wants, since those rights infringe on the whole community, and we want this to stop. If you wont ban him, then at the very least stop him being able to use supply, claim anything or use siege, if he wants to be the village idiot, can we at least treat him like one.

Got 2 upgrades stalled at 0 as well, was hoping that it would sort its self out, but 24hrs later still looks the same.

Stuck on last file, restarted game to see if that fixed it, but now i have 1 file remaining and 0% downloaded, been like this for over 30 mins.

Making me sad reading about the camera changes and not being able to actually get ingame to see it

Yes, Im bringing this back up, how much longer can one server be griefed by just one person that shouldnt be allowed in WvW his supply drained keeps, killed golems, claims the Keeps, throws down balisters, turns trebs (tho this can also be good since he refreshes them) troll portals BUT after numerous amounts of emails to support, and his still griefing for over a year, im sorry but watching an account closely means what exactly?

Everytime I see him in wvw makes me not want to bother, since there is nothing you can do. How hard is it to make it so these people no longer have access to wvw, EotM is can be open to them but keep them out of WvW, spy tactics maybe norm in war, but if caught u face death… its not hard if someone is still doing this after a year, they cant say they are new and dont understand, play the way you want went a long time ago, trolling a wvw community should not be allowed for this long.

Presuming the “report” mail actually works? Since I just reported the one I got.

Having the same issue on a char in Frostgorge and now one stuck on loading screen in wayfarer, looks like a old problem when char got stuck since the progression icons of map do not reveal at the bottom of screen, leaving to do timeout gets this error – 7-11:3:191:101

EU playing on NA server.

Funnily enough never really took any notice before no white swords, but why doesn’t the attack warning cover the whole tower, like in Jerris or Ogrewatch, standing on the hill you lose touch with the tower and the warning message.

Yep, i know, with all the issues there are I called on this one…. but this one nearly bit me today in the proverbial youknowwhat !

Nightingale.8364:

I do believe that the simplest and most satisfactory solution to this problem has actually been solved by Anet without thinking about it.

The adopt a dev scheme has worked to put anet devs on almost every server, playing in wvw guilds that have welcomed them with open arms. These devs have seen for themselves exactly what happens with siege trolls.

Goodbye Fla********x

So do we have to wait for another event to get rid of his replacement?

At least we should have a report feature, theres nothing worse than seeing 5 omegas walked off a cliff because someone thinks thats a fun way to play and nothing as demoralising for everyone else that is helpless whilst he does it apart from sit in a golem until he gets bored.

This topic had dropped to page 3.. so im really asking what is going to be done.
(This is not a necro of an old post but and ongoing problem.)

Mattargul.9235:

Neko Dudley.2495:

Vanquishing maps…

Dude! Lonar’s Pass. I don’t think I spent much time in LP, so after having cleared maybe 90%, I thought, Hey, what’s this?, when I came to Grenth’s temple. Oh, it’s clickable! Will it spawn a boss monster? clicks - loading screen appears Oh, nonononoNONONONO!!! character is in underworld - all vanquish progress is reset - have to run all the way back from Camp Rankor through Snake Dance and Dreadnought’s Drift to get back to Lonar’s Pass

This made me laugh so much, I could almost hear that NOOOOOOOOO!!! from where im sitting. Thank you for bringing back those memories of vanquishing and I still think the person that thought up the explored title was a sadist.

For me, I miss my guild, some were EU and others NA, once free transfers ceased and regions locked in GW2 we were scattered all over and too stubborn to leave where we had become settled in.

Bumped as a reminder.

For each post giving a way to self police someone else has come a long and posted how easy it would be to abuse it. WvW is competitive and a work around would be found, as much as I enjoy wvw the player base can not be put in a position to troll each other.

As someone posted earlier about walking Golems off the ledge, Ive seen players bored that have built a golem, their own golem and gone for a walk, this isnt a troll but will be treated like one but then Ive seen 1 player take all golems in a keep one by one and jump off side of buildings, we can not police ourselves without there being some kind of abuse since for every good intention there will be someone with a bad one.

Atm the siege troll knows that we cannot do anything, but if he was given starting with a 3hour time out and extending the time, a flagged account should not able to enter wvw during tournaments, he gave up his right of fair play once he has been giving a certain number of timeouts, but this really can only be policed by unbiased.

Someone suggested a GW jail for a set amount of time, you think the guilds wouldnt have a field day with that even with their own members, you died? jail you go!

Aquachills.9013:

We had this problem on BG some time ago with a person named Manual Breathing.

Anet Devs have told us in the past to report that person for spamming.

Edit: Yes they came and took care of it personally, it took about a day.

15 emails to support just from myself regarding this issue and still the problem exists, they will investigate and they will not contact me further.

So all this comes down to what server you are on? Sorry to sound disillusioned but when all you can do is send emails and then get brushed off, the griefer is just laughing at us since all we can do is watch or log out.

Mistforged weapons still had 2 ways to gain, wvwvw and the karma train in eotm.

rfdarko.4639:

Missy.7356:

Lets not forget EoTM was added which is just a karma train, that would allow you to get to rank 5 in one evening. since you gain more wxp from that area than from wvw itself. One evening doing something you dislike via 5 evenings? Thats a weeks gameplay for some, doing something they dislike/find annoying/loathe.

Except you need to be rank 14 to get the gift of battle so….maybe its more analogous then you think? And the fractals only take 5 evening because of the time-gated daily chest. Its only an hour or so an evening vs a full evening of karma training.

Would take me longer since Id have to get to lvl 10 first :p

NovaanVerdiano -Didnt you all complain about no reward in fractals? You wanted drops? That still didnt get everyone else to like them.. even with more rewards.

Astralporing.1957:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

It’s like… “I want a Liadri mini but don’t want to beat Liadri.”

Or… “I want the fractal backpiece but don’t want to do fractals.”

Or… “I want COF armor but don’t want to do COF.”

Or… “I want this tentacle back piece but don’t want to do all the scavenger hunt tasks required to get it.”

The last two actually happened, you know (PvP CoF reward tracks, and Zephyrite vendor). Point 2 has also partially happened (not with the fractal capacitor, but books and quivers were given an alternate version that didn’t require mist essence). Just saying.

Of course, if we do decide to go that way, then all other items with limited acquisition options (balthasar backpiece, both sets of announced new pvp armor, etc) should also get similar treatment.

Lets not forget EoTM was added which is just a karma train, that would allow you to get to rank 5 in one evening. since you gain more wxp from that area than from wvw itself. One evening doing something you dislike via 5 evenings? Thats a weeks gameplay for some, doing something they dislike/find annoying/loathe.

I totally understand if i need/want a dungeon armor then I would have to do a dungeon, luckily for me I dont want one, I also do not need a legendary so again I do not have to do a dungeon, I’ve already got ascended trinket/back piece/weapons without ever going to fractals, we are talking about a skin from LS if you want to get an infused one then I understand why the “Mist” stone is needed from fractals, but I prefer the other Mist War being that waged everyday.

Since I had this issue… managed to free chars by guesting, and not using waypoints , since as soon as I tried to map to a diff area I got a char stuck. Ofc after a couple of days of being free, I forgot my own advice and waypointed… now i have a char stuck again.

If the next patch has us mapping about all over then this thread is going to grow quickly.

Update: now unable to log into char that wasnt previously stuck and using a portal instead of waypoint got me stuck as well. (at this rate il run out of chars to play on, tho sticking in same area is just as annoying)

ISP :BT

Region : EU

Server : NA Tarnished Coast

(reposting the same from the bugs thread since IM not sure where its supposed to go, bug or tech)
Having same problem with code 7.
I logged on to char in Field of Ruins, waypointed to Gendarran Fields now getting the same code everytime i try and log in, stuck on loading screen til it times out.
On another char I logged in fine, she was in Lions Arch tried to waypoint her too South sun now stuck on loading screen til she times out, now pretty scared to move any char by waypoint since thats appears to be the issue for me, able to gain access til I try to move via waypoint then lost to loading screen.

UK here on NA server.

Having same problem with code 7.

I logged on to char in Field of Ruins, waypointed to Gendarran Fields now getting the same code everytime i try and log in, stuck on loading screen til it times out.

On another char I logged in fine, she was in Lions Arch tried to waypoint her too South sun now stuck on loading screen til she times out, now pretty scared to move any char by waypoint since thats appears to be the issue for me, able to gain access til I try to move via waypoint then lost to loading screen.

UK here on NA server.

Update : recieved an email from support, saying they are aware of the issues to and keep an eye on the forums.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Missy.7356:

So they didnt envision everyone logging in at once, everyone zerging thro a map with NO lower cap, and everyone being in the same place at the same time and it still would work ok?

Eh, it’s not the “didn’t envision it”, it’s the “how do we plan around this” issue. I mean, they knew this was an issue back when Lost Shores launched and *failed kitten day one.

At least this isn’t “one time only”. Ugh.

That would be called forward planning, but why do that when a hotfix will do.

lordkrall.7241:

TYHE.6435:

Oh, and it was just impossible to predict that many people may press TALK to key NPC. right?

Not really.
But it is one thing to predict that people will do something and another entirely to know exactly how many and what will happen.

They don’t build stuff to break after all.

So they didnt envision everyone logging in at once, everyone zerging thro a map with NO lower cap, and everyone being in the same place at the same time and it still would work ok?

I got as far as the 2nd char stood there like a fool for 20mins and left, not sure when Il get round to doing it again, worst is my friend who was with me got to the 2nd charr 10 secs before and managed to complete… so instead of doing it together, Il be doing it alone.

atheria.2837:

Twinbros.5372:

Trust me I feel your pain. TC has been stuck with JQ and BG for god knows how long now, it’s the reason why I don’t WvW anymore. When we drop down to tier 2 for a week or two I’ll rejoin WvW, not saying TC stay in tier 2, but a break from Tier 1 would be refreshing and worth playinv WvW again.

I moved from Tarnished Coast after recently moving to TC thinking maybe they would be able to win one time out of four or five, but, because they have no way of winning and are in the wrong tier as many servers are now I was forced move again.

Losing week after week is demoralizing even in a game.

Guess Anet wants to keep people spending money for moves by not fixing WvW.

Anet, many servers are in the wrong tiers.

Anet, when are you going to switch the servers into their correct tiers?

Anet , when are you going to listen to anyone in WvW at all?

How many times and in how many ways can the thousands of us say it before you will fix the tiers?

I understand why anyone would have issues with losing week after week without any hope of winning, ever.

Please, fix WvW.

What do you actually get for winning? 2 extra greens and that “oh” 1 second as you open those jiggly chests. Im on TC and I can find fun, I never look at the points, but I count winning as.. did i have fun in my playtime tonight.. well hell yeah, since nothing like winning a fight against the odds and that LOL moment when you got ran over and jumped on.

If people keep transferring around for that easy win then tbh there is no real competition, Piper (if thats you) then tbh TC is better off now with all your negativity that was constantly in /m. Also by choosing not to play WvW because not winning meaning being 1st then you become part of the problem too.

Why anyone that wants real fun, and I mean actual playing of WvW not PvD karma train are choosing to always transfer to those that are winning, atheria has been constantly knocking TC since they transferred off HoD and I’m presuming transferred from some other losing server before that. Il choose that outnumbered server anytime over the roflstomping one since thats when a community builds its backbone, thats when real fun can be had since its not just running around in a circle but working together and TC does that.

In short, you dont have to be on the “winning side” to have fun, you just need to get yourself out there and find it. I personally think all Toasties are great

Zaxares.5419:

She’s proven very useful, but I agree that we need to put a leash on her so she doesn’t do anymore impulsive stuff which could result in her, or me, becoming Scarlet 2.0.

Funnily enough after the final cinematic… as my poor warrior got off the ground, my first words were… that kittening kid is going to get me killed!!

None of this really has effected me since I had all traits unlocked except the new ones, I play WvW alot, the trait unlocks shouldnt be there, yesterday I must have helped people befriend the merc camps 10 times, at least half of those times we got beaten too it or ran over, then another 10 min wait til we could try again, these people will prob not want to come back to WvW again once they finished.

And Kill the grub? Do the people responsible know how long that thing takes to die? You are not going to get people to help in wvw that dont need this. I know Im not going to waste 5 mins beating up on something that will give me 4-6 boh when in that time i could have prob gotten alot more.

You can not force people to play a way they dont want to, give people an alternative thats not skill points and gold, the new one traits I paid for on my alts.. but ive been here since beta and that still burns that i will have to pay 15g an alt just for the new ones. Tbh I hate dungeons I have 1 class missing and this has made me realise I dont need it so i wont bother ( thats a char slot that i no longer have to buy)

I really hope that these threads are being read by people that can do something to change this, what happened to play the way you want.. this is not cosmetic, these traits are needed so people have a choice.

/end rant (off to kill another 50+ dredge because I cant say no to people that need help)

Ive given this megaserver a while, world bosses are a total zergfest with no hope of ever failing, where it is pretty nice when exploring to bump into someone doing the hearts with you.

The map sizes are too big for the world bosses when most of that map is stacked up in one spot, ive even turned down everything when i decide to do these events and still theres more lights than a harrods christmas tree.

I miss going to home cities and seeing and talking with people from my server, I dont want to see guild recruit messages that do not relate to where I am. I remember a time when you became outmanned in WvW you could go to LA and ask for back up, now try it. Does it really matter if your on a less populated server and your home city is empty, then you can use you guesting rights.. there are no mobs, no bosses. Coming from TC id prob like Divinity to be the home instance.. but LA would prob be the better choice

Let us have our community back please, we aren’t asking for all of Tyria just one small place to call home.

Same thing happening to me, UK

5049 hrs over 631 days. 0 Precursor

Infact if I get a exotic drop a month Im lucky.

Nerelith.7360:

phys.7689:

Nerelith.7360:

phys.7689:

Nerelith.7360:

My Opinion on the current trait system. I think all in all it’s a good one.

…..snip….

PPS I hear a LOT of players talk about how they do Not like " grinding". I remember playing MMO’s before WoW was released. And back then there was a totally different meaning to the term “grind”. Let’s just say that what many new players call grinding… back then was called…. playing.

It seems many players that play MMO’s want it handed to them on a platter and do not really like playing.

try it. go and actually play an alt and tell me it feels better than it used to feel to level.
enjoy having to wait 30 levels to refine your style, and once you hit 30, you only have the equivalent build you used to have at 15.
See how much you enjoy having traits in zones that are 10 levels higher than you are, as your goals.

i get the feeling you are focusing too much on the number conversion of 1 per five levels, and not the real thing people are complaining about, the push back of build refinement by 20 levels and the poorly designed quests to get them.

You know you have a good point. Now let me ask you this. if I level a character …starting tonight or tomorrow to level 80, and still say the same thing I am saying now… what will your responce be then?

I have a feeling even after i do this, if I should still say " I love these changes" you will simply come up with a reason to invalidate my opinion.

So please, Go on record. What will be proven to you, if I start a level 1 character. And get her to level 80, Under the new system, if My opinion remains unchanged?

i will try to analyze what you liked, and disliked, and figure how to improve the system for all. I mean if its really fun, its all good. But i started up a charachter, and i quickly was like, hmm feels like this will be a lot better if autolevel to 30 then do it.

but hey, screw it, ill play with you if you want. Lets travel the road to hel together

Im dont have an agenda or a team here, i am looking at the game overall, and how it is for new players and alt players. I have 8 professions of every class i dont have to level a lowbie ever again, so its more about other players experience for me.

Sounds too Much like " I will reserve the right to disqualify your experience, and invalidate your opinion." No thanks. Tell you what though, make your level 1 Character On tarnished coast, we will level and experience the new changes together.

If your planning on seeing how hard it is for new people, do it without spending any of the Gold your 80’s made, remember they wont be able to do dungeons now til they are 80 or find a caring guild to help them or tag as many mobs in the zergfests.

All temples are now trollable, no matter what server mega or otherwise… people defend just because they were asked not. Imo a silly way to implement traits.

Btw the way I brought them on my main im not wasting gold on alts.

Yanslana.5982:

I hate this megaserver. I hate this scheduled event. I hate this update.

I hate the fact that despite deliberately picking a low population server due to not having a high-end machine, there are now constantly 100+ people slowing down my game.

I hate the fact that I have to stay permanently partied during the world boss run or every time I WP I would be pushed to a random map.

I hate the fact that world bosses are scheduled, it turned what was essentially doing a treasure hunt & the happiness of looting a chest into a chore and I constricted at the feeling of PLAYING ON A SCHEDULE.

I hate the fact that you’re asking for feedback here, when 900+ posts raised genuine concerns on the previous thread, and ALL of it was ignored and the megaserver went live anyway, with none of the issues people foresaw addressed, and you’re doing it AGAIN here.

I hate the fact that I bought this game and liked it enough to care to even post here. I hate the fact that I don’t have it in me to just say I quit right here right now.

Well said and my feelings exactly.

Im going to go with Fail, even tho I really enjoyed the last cut scene.

I feel sometimes like im undergoing some lab test on human nature, can a map work together? can a 150 people that have no knowledge of each other co-exist to complete? Escape from LA brought some of the most toxic map chat I had seen apart from the aether invasions when people wanting to kill scarlet had to deal with the aether farmers.

If they still have not completed the data on human nature by now, il save them the bother, the answer is No, people will not work together unless they are part of something, be it a big Guild or a server wide event, and to do this they have to force their own private instance. Oh and people hate bugs and changing the way events behave because they werent completed the way they expected them to be played.

Anyway… omg a dragon but if its like Teq or the Wurm then 90% of the player base wont ever get to complete it.

Going to have to say No.

Imo stop offering the super stacked servers the highest rewards…. why should someone get a better reward just because of coverage.. as it stand now if your outnumbered all the time means your having to play twice as hard for less reward, infact it costs more being outnumbered since you have to upgrade more often.

Only winner from this is Anet with all the transfers to the top servers and with EotM now being included for the achieves they wont even have to worry about queues, I dont really care if the super stacked win so they can chest thump about how great they are, give the server a medal… but not a reward that harms all the other servers.

Its just pure greed at this point and not a competition. Personally if its as bad as I think its going to be I wont be playing for season 2.

Fuzzion.2504:

When you competing against a super stacked server like BG, any help is good help. At this moment, BG has grown so large that they have to turn guilds away.

But tbh all you doing is making it worse, so instead of 1 stacked server there is now 2 who really wants to be the 3rd server in that match up?

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Whilst I would love to see the Mursaat make a comeback – I feel like Anet would be putting a little too much on their plate to reintroduce the Mursaat at this point in time.

Tbh in a way I hope not, Mursaat = agony, if this is in a dungeon then fine but Id hate to see people having to get ar just to enter a pve open map zone.

NightShadow.1429:

skullmount.1758:

Hey at least you still get to kill Teq. With my server we try once a week (will be skipping this week due to Pink Day)…
The rest of the time there is no one there.
As for the other bosses, you can always guest on a different server if its up…

Because it’s become a server wide, raid style boss. Gotta motivate your server to do him, and get people organized before hand. JQ beats him twice a day, once right after server reset, and the second one is the second time he spawns, so 2h30min later or whatever his spawn time is. We have our groups made and ready as soon as his spawn window comes up, we know where everyone is going, what everyone is doing, and people from each group on TS with one leader directing everyone. It’s a highly coordinated fight that requires time and dedication but it’s doable.

This is kinda of the problem… you kill him twice a day straight after reset, if you cant be there at that time then there is little hope of getting this done since no matter the server, this area seems empty after that time.

Silly thing is, that other day I was in a overflow (yep just after reset), no ts/rc/vent just alot of randoms that decided we would give it a go since everyone should know what to do by now, and we made it with 3mins on clock. Ofc we had the nayslayers that wanted to do just flawless.. or try for hidden but in the end this the map won because we tried, unfortunately its the people attitude failing this now, “Omg Overflow this is gonna fail”. It took one small group to change the maps opinion, wasnt the smoothest kill id been on, but in a way a lot more fun

Seems to be a PvE title now, something to do when they running around for map completion.. take 10 supply use it, free 30 AP :P

(Im jk, but nothing amazes me anymore, sighs leaves thread)

After reading some of these threads over the weekend and I still hadnt downed Teq I decided that my whole day (if thats what it took) I would see that big chest at the end.

I started at 10am Sunday, managed to get into main server( looking good) I saw guilds and people talking about TS, so i joined them, (looking even better), maybe my day wasnt going to be wasted after all, Teq spawned everything going well, infact too well over confidence is a kitten the battery went down, bringing the Tidal wave, was a lol moment, then the Guilds went back to WvW to wait on next spawn.

Now this is where its goes down hill, word spreads that this is when Teq is going down, the map fills up, 15mins before the spawn the guilds try and get back into the main server, “Its Full” ok drastic action and quick! everyone move to the overflow they in!!! but alas I wasnt so lucky, the overflowed filled before I could join, so I what was left in main server with the 30+ afk’s that joined and decided that maybe they should be studying? We didnt get Teq too 75%.

Not wanting to give up I stayed and watched/took part in at least 2 more fails, its now 4pm, then all of a sudden a Guild showed up, YES!!!! Now i have to download raidcall since thats what we will be using this time… the 1st time was epic everyone calling for heals and help at turrets, but alas the timer was against us, just needed a couple more mins or a turret that didnt bug….. this is where the stars do align for me, they all stayed!! farmed wood, killed champs and talked about what was gonna happen next time…. Ive been told that Teq spawns every 75mins but somehow it didnt feel like it as we waited, at about 6.30pm on that Sunday I finally downed Teq, opened that jiggly chest at side an exotic! looking good opened the BIG chest.. got greens

Id like to add that one of my friends logged in and couldnt join me as the map was full he failed 2 in the overflow and logged off. After 8 hrs (a full working day, lucky was weekend!) the day had cost me more in waypoints, getting the potions and food and the fire powder than I got from chest, but I have a few titles now, but I dont think I will bother with rest unless its an organised event.

This has been my experience (notice I said my), load into Sparkfly, check map chat if it already seems toxic move overflows, find one that seems to be friendly people preparing where everyone is going to go, then I stay, so now i wait an hr+? (my server still hasnt popped saying I can join), Teq comes the main zerg gets faced rolled, now at some point you say how many times do you waypoint? Or do you waypoint and dont bother to rejoin the zergball (death is eminent anyway). 15mins is over and its a fail, do I feel epic? How do I help, get better armour? Buy the food needed? Stand around waiting for my server to pop and get the overflow again, rinse repeat.

For the first time since this started I really thought last night, this is the overflow thats going to do it, we had a guild that had already completed this numerous time, the orgainising was at epic scale, the information being handed out in map chat was said with enthusiasm and everyone was ready, tray of food popped for those that didnt have, best skill usuage was told, but what they could do nothing about was the 30+ afk people around the turrets upscaling that area to something seen at an aether farm. I thanked that Commander that tried to lead that overflow as he apologized for failing, they failed something they had no way of controlling.

Maybe once I get lucky and win, I will feel the same as everyone above, but will I want to repeat it? (back to sitting in sparkfly)

Just done this again, and no chest even tho my party member did recieve credit for fight, i was next to him the whole time except in watery grave where Teq like to put me, went there 3 times, so what i have to do jump on top of laser hoping the game registers im there doing something?

The first time i was on turret defence, thought maybe that was issue, so went into main zerg ball the last 2 times, 2nd time followed commander, only wp once defended laser /no chest. 3rd time as i said on commander and team mate, and still nothing.

This is my last attempt until something is changed in how they work out the rewards. Also this thread is over a day old and still no response.

Be nice to get a response, been asking myself what Im doing wrong to not see a chest at 75, since ive not been lucky enough to get into a server (overflow) that actually organised (not going to sit in sparkfly for hours hoping that its going to be this time), if its a bug be nice to know thats its being looked into, or let us know what we did wrong to not get one at all.

Can someone please tell me the requirements to get the chest at 75%, 2 times now Ive been in a overflow thats got him to below 75%, 2 times ive seen people get chests. The last time stayed close to commander, even got sent to a watery grave and no chest for me, so what do you have to do to get a chest, coz id hate to be in a server that actually kills him and get nothing.

(by server I mean overflow, since I havent guested anywhere)

What is the requirements to get the chests tho, I noticed that when we got him below 75% ( i know Teq was below that since I got the achieve for fire mega laser)some people in map recieved a blue dragon chest and some didnt.

I was one of those staying back and defending turrets, no reward, the person on turret no reward.. so what exactly is needed to get the chest? Not that im worried about not recieving that chest, was junk anyway from what was being said, but when we do actually manage to complete this Id like to know that ive been in the right place to receive it.

Lambent.6375:

Exotics aren’t the equivalent of rares now. Aside from future fractal content, things will still be designed under the premise that players may be wearing masterwork, rare, or exotic gear. (hopefully)

The divide has already been started by the have and have nots, do you really think that those with all the max slots are going to be happy with new content anyone can do in rares? Just look as some of the threads, most are make it harder with great drops so the scrubs cant have any!

This is how I decided to play since Nov, I dont bother wasting gold on something thats not going to be maxed, I no longer play in teams with my alts since they are sub par, if I happen to get a pre cursor drop maybe Il go that extra mile and make it if not then no legendary for me.

I started the crafting on ascended and then realised that I can not get the weapon I want due again to the inscript being down to luck, the answer i got for that was.. run dungeons for tokens and salvage the armour in hopes i keep the inscript I need, so since I dont play in dungeons and i have no luck whatsoever, something else for me not to bother with. (Im that person that has seen maybe 6 exotics, in alot of hrs of play, drop all worth nothing).

I am a GW1 player too, and I saw nothing bad in new players being able to get max armour at max level then having to work at getting the prestige armour if they desired, infact I used to run around looking at peoples mix and match sets but in GW2 i have my settings on low for WvW and I dont care what armour you have if anything id like a setting that stopped all that mess showing on the floor as people walked and black smudges in fights.

As for Teq, I can see that going the same way as Jormag, some will bother and most wont, the invasions have shown us that large groups can not work together, every invasion is the same… farmers farm and the event people rage that zergs wont leave pirates, why? coz the end reward isnt worth that bit more effort.

Soz turned into an essay. But my thoughts atm on GW2 that by trying to appease everyone they are becoming a Jack of all Trades and Master of None.

Seems im not getting an ascended then since I dont do dungeons and Im one of those unless I can get it myself I wont bother.

So basically I have to hope when I get an exotic drop it has the stats I need (only had 6 exotics drop in a year btw, yep some of us have just rotten luck), then I have to sit fingers crossed, do a chant, pray to the god of chance that I manage to salvage the inscription?

Ive checked the other topic, still no response if this was an oversight or meant to be this way.