The people who say don’t give up, its really just lucky that your timing allowed you to be online when the community driven guild took over, and you happened to get into that organised map, for 99% of players this will never happen, I wouldn’t care so much about this meta event, if it didn’t have an item achievement locked behind it, Anet really messed up here, and im fed up sitting in that TD map trying to rally people to do an event that they have no interest in, not with DS, AB having easier more successful runs that reward you.
Anet either need to move the gated item behind this achievement to a different world boss, or have the ability to buy it from an NPC, else people will be forced to stand in a map that no one bothers with.
Also to add further insult to that TD map, last night when the Meta was about to begin, we have several people open up taxi’s and in the LFG tool all you could see was,
Taxi, AB meta
Taxi, VB meta
Taxi, Teq
No one will go to TD over these other events, as they know these other events will succeed, why would you waste your time on a map that will likely fail in under 10 mins.
Anet need to acknowledge the problem in Tangled Depths map.
Ive used Sennheiser for over 10 years, they are great headsets.
Dedicated cards will use a PCI slot yes.
A gaming headset is only as good as the soundcard its being plugged into, are you using on board sound or a dedicated sound card, what is your budget?
Thing is I wonder has the pre rate been changed, im well accustomed to the RnG of the forge, but since HoT it seems a lot lower than ever.
Another failed CHAK event, /sigh
I just don’t understand why all the other parts where linked to older world bosses, and the last part was linked to a meta event that no one attends too, it would almost be as bad as linking something to the Triple Trouble event, they should have linked it to something like Jormag or even Silver Wastes Meta,
Unless Anet change this, I will be restricted, as no one has any interest in doing this map, which is unfair to most players who are restricted by everyone else playing.
I would love to see a RED Post on this topic, even if its just so they acknowledge the problem.
So here we have a new armor that is behind achievements, which in itself is not so bad, it makes people explore and maybe fight/do random things they wouldn’t normally do, but alas, someone at Anet may have over stepped a mark here.
Most of the armor is easy enough when it comes to world bosses,
Defeat the Mark II golem in Mount Maelstrom – Legs
Defeat the Modniir Ulgoth in the Harathi Hinterlands – Shoulders
Defeat Taidha Covington in Bloodtide Coast. – Coat
Defeat the Shatterer in Blazeridge Steppes – Gloves
Defeat the karka queen in Southsun Cove – Boots
All of the above are easy enough,
Then we have this
Defeat the chak gerent in Tangled Depths. – HEAD
This is not a normal boss though is it, it requires a map setup close to Triple Trouble, which in itself wouldn’t be to bad IF you could get people onto the map, I don’t want to have to rope in an entire guild to get 1 achievement based item, the map is horrible, people are avoiding it like the plague the ONLY reason I see now people in the map is because they are running towards Dragon Stand to do the meta there,
The 1 time we managed to get people onto the map, we ended up with about 40 people and the event failed in less than 6 minutes, there is no timer on the maps to let people even know when the meta will begin etc,
You either need to do a revamp of this map and the meta on the map, or move that item needed for that collection to another world boss/event, I do NOT mind challenging content infact I welcome it, what I do mind is, me being restricted to something ingame because I need to hope and pray that the other 80 people on the map want to do the same thing as me, and know how to do it.
HoT was a great launch, but this 1 meta chain has really put a damper on it for me and a few friends.
If you removed the rewards from EOTM, there’d be only 5 guys there, and 3 of them would be the the EOTM designer’s wife, grandmother and ex-wife/dog.
People go there to level alts, k-train or farm badges for their legendary.
People go to WvW even with the bad rewards. WvW is an end in itself. EOTM is a means to an end.
If you removed the rewards from WvW there would be no one in the maps ***oh wait nevermind.
The point is people hated EotM because its not what they wanted, but the hard truth now is, that EotM is now WvW and the boarderlands are the slow K-Trains, and the more and more PvE pugs that realise this, the more the boarderlands will be K-Trained and the WvW guilds will move into EotM for the battles.
Colossus 3: Watery grave requirement change
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I thought the whirlpools auto spawned after the first burn phase, normally the zerg as left the area though so most don’t see them, but im near sure that as soon as the first 25% health is gone in the area around teq when that shockwave goes out the whirlpools spawn.
How are people beating Tangled Depths Meta?
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This meta is crazy compared to the others, people just do not seem to know what to do, ill have to look out for an EU guild/team that has organised a map for this, as trying to pug this is horrible, you spend all that time prepping a map for it to fail in under 10 mins.
Installed 64bit client today, what to say about it,
Well its fantastic, truly impressed, only last week I made a post about needing this client, and you came threw, granted its in beta, and some people are getting random glitches, but for me its 100% rock solid, i tried the Dragon Stand meta last night on the 32bit client, got to the first spawn of enemies and crashed out, today did the full meta chain with no problems,
I recommend that anyone who runs x64 bit OS to install this.
You kind of have to take everything Devon says with a pinch of salt, he has been a ghost on the WvW front for 18+ months, he made a post a couple of years ago about WvW going forward yadda yadda and when it didn’t come to light, he disappeared from the forums when people started asking, the fact that the new WvW rewards are bad, the new maps are bad, and big wvw guilds are bailing, yet Anet think WvW is a success says it all really.
If anything EotM is more WvW than the new maps,
The new WvW maps are horrible, they are massive and don’t work for this game, with the number of people you can have on a map, if you could get 500 ppl per sever per map then maybe, but the small numbers compared to the map size doesn’t work, I jumped into WvW today and all boarderlands where empty, EB wasn’t much better,
So I jumped into EotM and there was 3 map zergs on the map, all fighting each other, no K-Train just fighting, I seen WvW guilds in there battling it out, people in chat saying they would rather EotM battles than WvW because the maps suck,
Anet hammered the final nail into the WvW coffin with the HoT release and the maps they brought with it, so you either Queue for EB, move into EotM or go home and find another game.
WvW is shocking, every home boarder land is dead, there is nothing happening at all, by the time you see someone has taken something and you get there, they have long gone, they just turned WvW into the slowest K-Train in the game, its terrible, I decided to have a look in EotM to see what was happening, and BHAM 3 massive zergs, people all talking about how WvW is bad, and the WvW guilds would rather roam EotM now instead as they can actually get a fight, abet it be against pugs mostly.
If Anets goal with HoT was to make an excuse to finally remove WvW from the game due to lack of interest and players, BRAVO mission succeeded.
Unless you can get into EB, then WvW is officially dead.
Same problems with Hearts and Minds, first time rift was in the air, 2nd time no one could interact with it, and we couldn’t fly, invisible wall blocking us, the instance is broken.
The final story quest Hearts and Minds is 100% broken,
The first time we tried it, the rift portal spawned out in the open air we had no way to reach it at all, I submitted a bug report ingame on this one,
We then re-entered and we could not use the first rift portal,
2 instances 2 bugged, this is so poor its not even funny.
Further more there is no way to leave the BROKEN instance unless you log out and back into the game, there is no option to leave, if you die all you get is retry,
If you leave the zone that the instance starts in, you have to to the previous quest all over again to get to the final instance again,
Seriously was this not tested.
So for those who have already mastered all the fractals, what do you recommend for higher level fractals, are Guards still useful, ive seen plenty of mesmers, but as Anet did not move AR away from armor I don’t really want to grind out 2 sets of AR, so would you recommend Guard or Mesmer ( keeping in mind the Elites for each class )
I don’t think its people leaving the game after HoT, I do think there is a problem/bug with the megaserver assignment though, ive seen parties enter a HoT map and 4 of 5 people get out onto different maps with various levels of people going from near full to no one about,
Anet really need to look into this problem, as its giving some people the sense that the maps are dead when they are not,
The same is happening with fractals, parties all hitting enter and being put into separate instances or all being kicked out to LA, something is clearly not working behind the scenes.
Im guessing they are waiting to release the Crystal Desert maps where there was Sand Giants roaming. Least that’s my hope anyway.
This site allows you to select your weapon, and has a detailed break down, and uses live market data to get you costs etc, you can input what you currently have and it tells you what you still need gold wise.
This does not have any of the new weapons yet as well no one knows what they need.
Maybe because it’s a beta and they don’t want a huge rush of people who expect it to solve every problem ever and have no issues?
Too many people wouldn’t bother reading any attached info, “64bit client? no idea what that means but I gotta have it cause its got more bits and mo bits mo betta, and better client means all my problems will go away!”That said, this is really cool news, does it require a separate download of the dat file?
Or will it piggy back off of the one I have?
Read the FAQ, it says, that they use the same .dat file.
Why did ANET not announce this on their own official forums first, I don’t know anyone who uses reddit, yet I heard about it in game from someone who does, this is crazy, its not the first time Anet has posted something on reddit and ignored their official forums,
This sort of thing that people have been asking for since launch should have been announced on these forums,
Thank you to the people who posted where to find the client download.
To those saying they wont admit to it, the admitted to it a year ago.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Crashes
Did a level 30, and I didn’t get any rewards for it, it did not count towards daily 21-50 nor did it unlock in the achievement panel to say that ive done level 30, I don’t want to start doing 50+ if its not recording that im doing them.
You have to do a 20 first to unlock the next 21-50
Question? I am using the same client but am not getting these errors even though I am running my settings on high. Wouldn’t this suggestion that maybe the errors are cause by how the motherboard and OS are handling memory management?
If it was purely down to OS/HW Anet never would have admitted the client was at fault, before HoT was released I very seldom crashed ingame, since HoT released its been 2 or 3 times a day, this is echo’d across the game, I have no doubt that in some cases peoples hardware isn’t helping, but an outdated client is adding to them woes and in the right circumstances GW2 eats more RAM than google chrome.
I agree that the farming of the maps should be the way to get the XP needed, but they could increase the XP for some events, doing a 20 minute event to get 16K XP is a joke, it should be 40K xp for events,
But
Before we used to get Writ of Experience which now take 20 to make a Tome, but they should be used as 20k XP for each one towards a mastery, as they are useless right now.
Since HoT has been released there have been several topics everyday about game crashes etc, most of them are OOM related, after looking on the forums for someone about OOM – Heap errors.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Crashes
On this topic a year ago an Anet dev said it was there 32bit client causing the problems with restricted memory usage,
If ANET know this is a problem back then, why continue to make a game that requires masses of players to be in the same place at the same time, spamming skills on a boss, that will increase the likely hood of a crash 10 fold, 64bit has been the norm now for along time,
I have to agree now with others who have posted in the past, Anet you need to get a 64bit client so that people can make full use of the hardware they have, there is no point in putting out content with stunning GFX if, we cannot play due to OOM issues or have to turn down the settings so it looks like crap.
The OOM issues have gotten so bad that some of my friends wont even log in now because they know they cannot take part in some of the new world events, I don’t think this is how you planned the HoT launch.
So simple question, are we going to see a 64bit client or are we going to be plagued with OOM issues due to an outdated client.
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Participation level versus game crashes
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Already posted this idea several days ago, it needs to be put into place, that if the game crashes it will hold the spot on the map you where on for 5 mins, getting real annoyed at spending an hour doing the meta to get booted in the last 30 seconds and not being able to get back into the map I worked to finish the meta on.
Problem was, that people were just farming them for gold.
Of course people farmed it for gold, Anet nerfed every other zone and event to within an inch of its life, they removed so much loot from the game, events where mobs and mobs of enemies would spawn and drop no loot at all, the dungeon gold farmers was 100% Anets own doing, if you remove the rewards from all other areas of the game and leave 1 main source then people will flock to that source,
If Anet had fixed the loot drop problem across the game instead of nerfing it into the floor, then people would have had a reason to move away from the dungeons, but as they got so focused on removing the loot, people had no choice,
And now they have nerfed dungeons, not because they don’t want people doing them, but because they want to try and force people into Raids/Fractals, only from what im hearing Fractals loot has been nerfed 10 fold also,
As great as HoT is, Anet are pushing the game towards buy Gem and Convert to Gold as they are removing every source of loot in the game, and the chests/rewards in the new zones are bad they need buffed, you have to spend an hour in a new zone to get the same reward as an old 15 min dungeon run,
People who review these games are noting this, in the long term this will do more damage to the game, which is truly sad, as they have done a great job with HoT, but rewards have always been Anets downfall, and continue to be.
When you contact support, you are not contacting the dev’s they are 2 completely different teams.
I’ve had a couple of crashes. More than I used to have but not significant enough to affect me game play. I’m probably crashing once a day. I assume they’re working on it.
This will depend on when and where you crash, as to whether it affects your game play,
In the last week ive had more crashes in game than I did in the previous 3 years playing the game, now granted its a new game and bugs/glitches happen, but to be in Auric Basin for over an hour doing the world Meta event, get all four vines down to the final burn, and then have the game crash and not get rewarded and lose all progress etc, and then not beable to get back into the same map, id say that has pretty massive impact on someones playing experience,
So much so that I can see some people avoiding the new maps completely because of it, and unless Anet either,
1, fix every bug /glitch that stops the crashing
2, introduces a reserve slot system so it gives you say 5 mins to reload and get back into the map,
Then these complaints will continue, and sadly people outside the game looking at it and maybe looking up reviews who see, WARNING don’t get the game, it crashes and you get no reward etc, are going to avoid it, and tell there friends to avoid it.
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Refund cause bugs and balancing after go Live
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Its a new patch, given the masses of players playing and everyones different setup the game is bound to run into bugs/crashes, hence the several hot fixes, some of the fixes that are listed will not affect you, and you may have never seen them,
Just be grateful they are fixing the bugs, I just wish they would talk more on the forums about some issues that are arising a lot, instead of replying on reddit, given these are the OFFICIAL FORUMS.
So for anyone who has completed this Meta event before the HoT update, to get the mastery points for it, is it making you go back and do it again? I thought all completed content before HoT was grandfathered into the new game, just want to know if this is a bug before I report it or not.
Its ascended, it was exactly the same when ascended armor was introduced, most of them mats will drop in the new maps just as you play them, its only a super grind if you want the new armor in a week.
So I know there have been a lot of topics over the years about Magic Find, and whether it works or not, but have Anet finally killed off MF,
In nearly all new maps, Dry Top, Silver Wastes, and all the new maps from HoT they have heavily scaled back drops from enemies and moved it into chests, I find these chests and nearly all bags to be subpar, it bugs me no end that when you do a massive meta event and the final reward is some blues and a green.
I think it would be nice if Anet gave an official stance on MF and its future, its been capped at 300% for along time now, has it not been raised because they want to remove it, or what, some people are still wasting gold to get MF boosted and it maybe all in vain.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Change-Hero-Challenge-Icon/first#post5655905
Already suggested this a week ago, I don’t know why its not changed yet, I can only imagine what it would be like for people with bad vision or colour vision issues.
On the crashes part, this is why I wrote this.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Anet-time-for-reserved-slots/first#post5676392
Anet responded to topic on reddit about this issue saying that they know about this issue and are working on fixing it
The topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qtuk7/any_word_on_glitched_map_completion_rewards/?
That’s great, but I hate the way Anet will respond on Reddit but completely ignore there own forums, it would be nice to get some official communication on this, im holding off on map completion because of this bug,
This bug was known about on day 2 of the HoT release since then we’ve had what, 11 patches to the game, and this one is still there!!!
I stopped reading that review when they wrote this
“I do like Guild Wars 2. According to the game, I’ve spent 728 hours playing it. 30 days”
How can you properly review a game for the masses that you have only looked at for 30 days, and given there is only 720 hours in 30 days, it further adds to the mystery, im guessing being AFK in LA for a month cannot really constitute playing.
I hope they won’t add anything like this. The dc’s are great! They are the only way for me to jump into full maps shortly before the reward without grinding all the events for hours!
Yeah… I have to agree that I actually did that a few times… spammed Join map when I knew that map is doing great. And finally I join at the end, tag something real quick and get the reward xD
Well as Anet tweak the new system that gives rewards on participation you will no longer beable to spam join map, tag 1 enemy and get rewarded, so yea that mutes that point.
It needs to be added, its crazy that you can spend an hour+ on the map doing all the events, get kicked out at the final minute of the meta, and someone else can jump in get rewarded for doing nothing, while you lose all progression, and rewards.
Its an end game level 80 zone, what more is to be said, you cant even compare it to cursed shore.
Its not overly difficult to run threw, the only thing I will say is, the respawn on some enemies is a little fast, which could probably lead to farming, and esp around some vistas etc, it feels like that no sooner have you killed it that it has respawned.
You shouldn’t be looking at it like it costs 900-1000g compared to the pre which is maybe 800g
There is a massive difference between 800g right now, and 900-1000g spread out over several months,
The ONLY reason its so expensive atm is because some people are racing to be the first to do it, and with this, its pushing up the demand for certain items/materials.
If you are planning on using the pre crafting and trying to push it in under a week, then its cheaper to buy the pre right out from the TP, if you are planning to doing it slowly say over a month or so, then its cheaper to do the crafting.
Like I said, 800g in 1 day is not the same as 800g over a month or 2.
And here I thought the Casuals were only 1 %
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The entire game was based for causals until this HoT HP came out, then ppl started QQing hard over it, really really hard over it, so much so they where giving the game bad reviews etc, so Anet caved in and lowered it to 250,
I don’t see what the issue was, since HoT Launch I managed to get up to around 310 HP and ive only been in 2 of the new maps, ( granted older points where already awarded from previous events etc )
The only people who I can see having a genuine problem are PvP and WvW, both these game modes should have had it fully unlocked upon entering, but when you leave these areas and go back into PvE it becomes gated again,
I find it disappointing that Anet changed this less than a week after launch to appease a few people compared to the game population, yet major topics about loot nerfs across the game go completely ignored, and the massive exploit that is CoF farming for mastery points is still allowed.
Ive seen this come up time and time again over the years and never thought much about it, but since HoT was released ive had more crashes in a week then ive had the entire 3 years previous playing GW2, granted its an expansions and crashes happen, and bugs need worked out, but in saying that.
We where on the Auric Basin map doing the final Meta event and defending the city, we organised the map and where on the final burn, when BAM game crashed, I logged back in, and where I did get the 3 chests for the event, it put me onto a new map, so I could NOT get into the rooms I need below the map,
We need a reserved slot system so if you are doing a world event and the game crashes you get xx mins to log back into the map and you can continue as before, I know several people now this is happening to, and its making us actually not want to log in, as we are putting all this time into it and getting nothing back.
Its a sad state of affairs in game where people are only making parties now known as anti DC parties.
They could also make it that when your party members are outside the range of the mini map but on the same map it shows them, as it stands in order to find a party member outside the range of the mini map, I have to use M to load the world map and locate them.
It kind of makes the mini map useless.
The first few times I seen this since HoT launch I just figured I wasn’t at the event long enough, but today at the Shadow Behemoth I was there for the duration of the event, I did the pre’s and the final boss, I did get the daily reward ( as it was the daily today ) the final chest, and even the world event chest reward, but it did not give me any XP reward at all,
This has to be a bug how are you supposed to farm XP for mastery’s when world events don’t give XP rewards,
Like I said this isn’t the first time, ive also seen this at Shatterer, and Grenth in Cursed Shore.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Got-100-TD-No-Reward
Turns out you are not alone, also that post above has a RED post so its not like they are unaware of the issue, yet still not hot patch, this is why im holding off completing the maps.