Guild Wars 2

Glad to see that more tournament threads are being created! If you are tournament savvy all the way through Sunday; make sure to come to ours as well!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Fort-Aspenwood-Winter-Tournament/first

December 30, 2012
12:00 PM PDT
HoTM, Fort Aspenwood, NA

:)

> Thursday Bump <

Hour is set to 12:00 PM PDT!

Hope to see you there!

>> Thursday bump <<

Tournament hour is now set to 12:00 PM PDT!

We hope to see you then

Rezz.8019:

What about the time, at what hour it will be? Also, how exactly will it be played? I need more details, if possible please.

Hour – TBA; will be decided by this Thursday Dec. 27
Time – PDT; server time.

Tournament Details: [based on participant pop]; open to Full server that signs up. Spvp 16-32 team 1vs1, 2vs2, or 3vs3 03-08 minute duels. Hosted live!

Tournament Links:
http://upperechelonguild.com/forum/m/8572275/viewthread/5321276-official-echo-winter-tournament-robbq/page/1
http://twitter.com/GW2MC
http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/topic/218-echo-fa-winter-tournament/

Barrons.7290:

Might have been better to make the thread in general discussion as it gets a whole lot more traffic and mods wont move it (they didnt move my event thread i made for my event i finished a few weeks back). Also have guildies and friends help keep it on page1 as people dont really go past page 1 on forums.

I will most certainly take this advice next time, thank you! I posted it 17 days ago in both linksville & spvp forums to attract a certain spvp audience but next time I will do that to encourage more views.

>> Bump <<
Just reminding everyone that I will be having this tournament set for December 30, 2012!

Please take the time to sign-up! You don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to both:
1. Enjoy the game in a bright new aspect.
2. Compete to earn valid cash prizes!

>> Bump <<

I just wanted to let the public know that we have the tournament scheduled for December 30, 2012!

Please take the time to sign-up! You don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to both:
1. Enjoy the game in a bright new aspect.
2. Compete to earn valid cash prizes!

I wanted to leave a copy of my thread from the Linksville forum to encourage structured PvP gamers to the following event:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

Hello folks, I am here to introduce to you one of my 3-yr successful winter tournaments that will take place in the North American server hosted by myself in Fort Aspenwood! Currently the tournament itself is restricted to being an in-guild thing, so as long as you meet the following requirements and join us, you will have access to this Winter Tournament taking place sometime Dec. 30 – early Jan!!

Tournament registration requirements:
1. Any Age can participate!
2. Must be a Frequent Fort Aspenwood player. (Preferably)
3. Must register in http://toygamers.forumotion.com
4. Must signup here, on the Fort Aspenwood forums, or on
http://toygamers.forumotion.com/t309-seasonal-tournaments

The reward of the event is going to be a chance to win either a $15 (1200) or $ 30 (2400) gem card serial key. I’m practically using my birthday money to fund this event, and everything here is legit. All I need are some contestants!

If the event becomes a success, and mass gamers signup, then I might plan to do this annually or even open the doors to a GvG tournament blueprint I’ve had from previous siege guild MMO’s. Regardless, whether you are feeling burnt out in North America’s Fort Aspenwood world server, or you want to join us, make sure you follow the above steps!

See you soon!

Hello folks, I am here to introduce to you one of my 3-yr successful winter tournaments that will take place in the North American server hosted by myself in Fort Aspenwood! Currently the tournament itself is restricted to being an in-guild thing, so as long as you meet the following requirements and join us, you will have access to this Winter Tournament taking place sometime Dec. 30 – early Jan!!

Tournament registration requirements:
1. Any Age can participate!
2. Must be a Frequent Fort Aspenwood player. (Preferably)
3. Must register in http://toygamers.forumotion.com
4. Must signup on this thread post.

The reward of the event is going to be a chance to win either a $15 (1200) or $ 30 (2400) gem card serial key. I’m practically using my birthday money to fund this event, and everything here is legit. All I need are some contestants!

If the event becomes a success, and mass gamers signup, then I might plan to do this annually or even open the doors to a GvG tournament blueprint I’ve had from previous siege guild MMO’s. Regardless, whether you are feeling burnt out in North America’s Fort Aspenwood world server, or you want to join us, make sure you follow the above steps!

See you soon!

Definitely GW2. ME3 is a great game, but this game blew my mind before and after the hype of Mass Effect 3 came out.

Don’t worry about it. Re-log, wait for 5 minutes and then post your LFG differently. The system stops people from spamming the same thing, so change it up a little.

Community Coordinator; CC Dalmarus

Hi all.
Due to the amount of time the event took to run on a character, swapping to another character to run the instance again on a different overflow server is not considered an exploit by the development team. While there was an extremely small chance for individuals to jump to an overflow that required little effort to complete, the majority of players participating in the final event put in a lot of time and work so as such, they were entitled to receive the same reward for completing the event again. This was designed as such to allow those players who couldn’t hop on exactly at 12 noon PST an opportunity to participate in Sunday’s event.
Thanks for your feedback, which we’ll be sure to consider for future events, but for this event, this thread and topic are closed.

I wanted to update on the main lost shore feedback thread in case there were any individuals who misunderstood the situation and wanted someone from the development team to clarify it to them and missed out on reading the archive response.

Hope it helps clear somethings and hope we can all be more friendly in the coming days.

Arch.8061:

How does everyone thinks about what we have now and requires what kind of fix to this “mess” ANet has created? What’s the first priority they should fix? How should they run this kind of event in the future? Please state your opinion and points. Fast and short.

First priority of compensation should go to those that disconnected without reward at the final phase of the event.

Second priority of compensation should then go to Asian/Oceanic timezones that had difficulty in error 32/49 log-in server/client issues that were unable to participate or did but shortly disconnected on the event.

There should be no compensation for those that chose to sit it out or are requesting to ban half of the community because they are pompously jealous of the rare/exotic drops.
In fact the only ones that deserve a ban are themselves.

If they decide to repeat this event, they should do a minimal run of it with lesser drops than provided at first to make it fair for those that spent over 6 hours working their way through the entire event chain.

Every bug that everyone has had, has given them data to prepare for the next event. Next time, more community individuals should act in providing information just like a few had so that more can actively benefit from the event and not focus too much on spoils.

ADDED: There should also be no roll-back whatsoever. Just because some angry people are kitten jealous at everyone that participated should force those that participated a slap in the face .

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

delete all ur loot first, then we can talk.

Produce a constructive post, then we can continue to talk. For now though it seems you are trolling the forums negatively for a selfish disgusting reason.

Ur just a hypocrite. U will understand once ur on the same boat.

Sure call me names, since you are just a kitten hurt player that thinks of yourself more than the community or love the company even gave within this entire new content debut.

Ur just defending yourself, and It’s not like your thinking about the community when u looted 3x

I resurrected people, made a guide for people, advertised about the guide to other threads, and helped people get into the overflow servers.

Who is still thinking about themselves?

because u can’t solo the event on its own, and require more test subject.

The event is made for a group of individuals. Nobody can solo through it, and it seems you are running out of excuses.

Unlike you, I am also supporting positive ideas within this forum. Again, I ask you which one of us is still thinking about greed reasons?

ur only supporting the positive ideas because u got ur cut out of the deal. What about others that are left in a sea of sorrow. Who is the greedy one that loot it not 2, not twice, but 3 times, while the rest of us want our fair share.

I cannot believe how immature you are, honestly. The most rewarding thing I got from that event was having everyone act and function as a caring group. You are so bent kitten hurt on the drops that it is clouding your judgement. Geez

Do us all a favor and just stop posting. Your failure in reading comprehensible posts made by the community shows in your attack toward the community.

No you do us a favor and read the posts by the rest of the community. Tell us who is right when the 95% are calling for head vs the 5% that took advantage of it.

You are within the 5% vocal minority that has been QQ’ing for a while now. Therefore those of you who are wishing the more than half of the community to be beheaded for a digital trinket you are furious about are wrong.

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

delete all ur loot first, then we can talk.

Produce a constructive post, then we can continue to talk. For now though it seems you are trolling the forums negatively for a selfish disgusting reason.

Ur just a hypocrite. U will understand once ur on the same boat.

Sure call me names, since you are just a kitten hurt player that thinks of yourself more than the community or love the company even gave within this entire new content debut.

Ur just defending yourself, and It’s not like your thinking about the community when u looted 3x

I resurrected people, made a guide for people, advertised about the guide to other threads, and helped people get into the overflow servers.

Who is still thinking about themselves?

because u can’t solo the event on its own, and require more test subject.

The event is made for a group of individuals. Nobody can solo through it, and it seems you are running out of excuses.

Unlike you, I am also supporting positive ideas within this forum. Again, I ask you which one of us is still thinking about greed reasons?

ur only supporting the positive ideas because u got ur cut out of the deal. What about others that are left in a sea of sorrow. Who is the greedy one that loot it not 2, not twice, but 3 times, while the rest of us want our fair share.

I cannot believe how immature you are, honestly. The most rewarding thing I got from that event was having everyone act and function as a caring group. You are so bent kitten hurt on the drops that it is clouding your judgement. Geez

Do us all a favor and just stop posting. Your failure in reading comprehensible posts made by the community shows in your attack toward the community.

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

delete all ur loot first, then we can talk.

Produce a constructive post, then we can continue to talk. For now though it seems you are trolling the forums negatively for a selfish disgusting reason.

Ur just a hypocrite. U will understand once ur on the same boat.

Sure call me names, since you are just a kitten hurt player that thinks of yourself more than the community or love the company even gave within this entire new content debut.

Ur just defending yourself, and It’s not like your thinking about the community when u looted 3x

I resurrected people, made a guide for people, advertised about the guide to other threads, and helped people get into the overflow servers.

Who is still thinking about themselves?

because u can’t solo the event on its own, and require more test subject.

The event is made for a group of individuals. Nobody can solo through it, and it seems you are running out of excuses.

Unlike you, I am also supporting positive ideas within this forum. Again, I ask you which one of us is still thinking about greed reasons?

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

delete all ur loot first, then we can talk.

Produce a constructive post, then we can continue to talk. For now though it seems you are trolling the forums negatively for a selfish disgusting reason.

Ur just a hypocrite. U will understand once ur on the same boat.

Sure call me names, since you are just a kitten hurt player that thinks of yourself more than the community or love the company even gave within this entire new content debut.

Ur just defending yourself, and It’s not like your thinking about the community when u looted 3x

I resurrected people, made a guide for people, advertised about the guide to other threads, and helped people get into the overflow servers.

Who is still thinking about themselves?

SundayTrash.9562:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

SundayTrash.9562:

Isn’t it suspicious they release a patch with no changes, except for putting an end to the exploit.

Again, the following is what their action was and in no way do they ever mention it was an exploit. Please learn to read and stop using incorrect information due to your newly found frustrated jealousy.
Forum announcements:

We’ve updated the game for routine maintenance only!. No content changes were included.
about 23 hours ago

than shouldn’t the event still be intact.

The event was given a set time and a set date, and now that it is expired people should move on just as they would have from Halloween.

Now that we have the new content (i.e fractals/island) we should all be coming together to build new event ideas (or even repeated mini ones) instead of QQ’ing about not being able to drop a precursor weapon, while knowing full well that anet already confirmed a reddit rumor about doing some precursor scavenger hunt.

Without the math in-game we all assumed it was 1-15% so thank you for providing this! Glad someone else is fending off the haters!

SundayTrash.9562:

Isn’t it the community job the call out people that took advantage of the exploit?

No it is not because you are defining the event as an exploit when it clearly wasn’t. An exploit my friend would be someone doing the same event on the same character but since the chests were character-bounded, the community instead made new characters which were scaled to level 80 to enter the island last weekend and completed it multiple times using the same method.

In repetitive conclusion: the community did not exploit the event.

SundayTrash.9562:

Isn’t it suspicious they release a patch with no changes, except for putting an end to the exploit.

Again, the following is what their action was and in no way do they ever mention it was an exploit. Please learn to read and stop using incorrect information due to your newly found frustrated jealousy.
Forum announcements:

We’ve updated the game for routine maintenance only. No content changes were included.
about 23 hours ago

SundayTrash.9562:

As I mention before, why stop it at 10pm when it was suppose to go till midnight, because they must had realize people were exploiting it.

Let’s just face the fact that the comment above is just speculation for being angry at those that were able to do it multiple times. The update patch was timed at a bad moment and I agree it took the event down at your least convenience, but that is not player’s fault and you shouldn’t be attacking your own community this way.

Spottycat.7218:

—> Additionally and limitedly, any characters who were L75+ as of (date/time of ancient karka fight) will receive the reward items given by the chest at the end of that fight. (All items soulbound and unable to be salvaged, as this is to make the items available to people, not to give people money)

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Just blanket reward everybody, acknowledge the issues and state that you’ll do better next time and lets put this crap behind us.

In light of having to face a bunch of haters in the community that want to back stab others instead of working together has forced me to come here and agree with this idea except with a few tweaks:
unsalvaged items/non tradable/account bound items should be:
1. Karka 20-slot bag
2. Karka Jewel
3. Karka Accessory

And that is all anyone should automatically receive as compensation. The only reason the vocal minority is complaining is due to some receiving precursors and they feeling kitten over it. Unless they were on the list of those who d/c’d right before obtaining the boss chest, they should not under any circumstance receive any exotic or precursor as a 20-slot account-bound bag, jewel and accessory should suffice their greed.

~ Bear

SundayTrash.9562:

Avatara.1042:

SundayTrash.9562:

francisling.2987:

What is that ‘do the right thing’ up on the title?

I think murdering my boss for the stickynotes of things-to-do he puts on my table everyday is the ‘right thing to do’. Should I do it?

I did the event twice, from start til end. 5-6 hours in total.

Are you going to pay back my 3 hours of legit (and painfully long) questing?

The 3 hour was ur choice, and you choose to exploit. Bannable.

Playing on multiple characters is an exploit now. Well, looks like 99% of GW2 is going to get banned.

let me ask you, can u be at both place at once? The event was suppose to happen once, by the time ur character is done with one, the event should not have repeated again on a overflow server.

Because the event repeated on an “active” overflow server, the main factor that the event phase 3 was supposed to run from NOON PST through MIDNIGHT PST should have taught you that by further reading staff stating the event would scale players only “once” during the weekend to level 80, would allow all player’s characters to participate.

Therefore after finishing one server, having party hop off to other active servers, and redoing the event chain with another character was indeed not an exploit.

Honestly, the only reason everyone is complaining about killing the population for using common sense after completing the event once in 1-3 hour duration is because for some, precursors dropped. That is all. Which in my opinion is the most selfish disgusting reason to even attack the community.

So please, it is a request from a fellow community member: Stop this garbage, be patient and let’s see what new content anet has in store for EVERYONE in the game! Geez

magnafides.8136:

Come on, use your head. The special Karka loot was account bound. It’s pretty obvious that the one time event was meant to be run by one character per account. However Anet was a bit overconfident and didn’t restrict the chest per character, thinking that it would go smoothly on all servers. I made a conscious effort not to hop on another character, especially after what Anet did to people who just bought items at a vendor. I’m sure that my decision to take the high ground will be in vain, though.

The difference between the two is that the Karka event was account bound. Each character could only do the chest once allowing each player to bring their alts scaled to 80 to redo the event in active overflows. The event started at noon PST and ended at midnight pst. The duration in between demolition squad and final phase was 1-3 hours. There was no exploitation done.

The vendor exploit was indeed an exploit because players on the same character bought a vast amount (100x++) of items and tried to get away with it.

Two different situations my friend.

If you haven’t done so; read the following thread.

I wanted to reply my post here but instead ended up creating a whole new thread myself.

This is my reply to those ill-mannered peeps wanting to ban the community, or believe illogically that there was any kind of exploitation involved:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Directed-complainers-READ/first#

Awesome idea! Here’s my answers

1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ¹⁰
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ¹⁰
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ⁹
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ¹⁰
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – ⁵
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ⁸
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁹ (I missed Miyani, but P3 made up for it)
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹⁰
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – [10/10]

Icas.3860:

Ohhhhh, my thread got some replies!……………WOT…………

As for my definition of “experience,” I’m not going to bother, since I believe that its most profound form is as a verb, and who defines verbs besides dictionaries and philosophers? I think that what you experience isn’t as significant as how you experienced it.

Interesting opinion! Though I must digress that overall I was being disappointed to those “forum posters” who made no effort at all to attempt the event. These “trolls” were for the past 8 hours spreading a negative air in the forum, and sitting away from the computer, only to request “compensation” for the massive cater threads that followed. My “low self-esteem” comment was directed at those type of lost souls who just log on the forums without a positive reason whatsoever.

ANET has already confirmed the following on their facebook 8 hours ago:

We have a team looking into disconnection problems that prevented some people from receiving their event rewards.

We will implement a solution so that people who participated will get their rewards, but this takes work on our end, so it will not happen today.

Keep an eye on our forums and social media channels, we will let you know once we have the solution in place.
Thank you, and we apologize that you were unable to claim your rewards.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this ~RB2

& As for the last paragraph; it was a “one-time-event”. This had nothing to do with where you were born as the time was given out in their wiki a long time before they initiated the event chain phases!
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Lost_Shores
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/november-2012/

In short recap; the positives are what most of the community needs to focus instead of resenting an event they either could not make it, have staff working over their network issue or simply did not do it at all & just want to jerk the community negatively.

The positives I am talking about are:
1. Possible Reddit Scavenger Hunt for Precursors.
2. TP has dropped (currently) all precursors/and legendary ingredients by 100-200g per! (will be dropping until December/just keep checking prices)
3. Most of the event-specific jewels can be bought via some karma vendors as a replica!
4. December content!!
5. Fractals Dungeon is going to be permanent!
6. Island is permanent!

Honestly,

Look around, read and most of all breathe my friend! Not everything has to be negative around, and if you are a player so dissatisfied / unable to adhere to reason then sorry that I could not help you.

I agree to this because I am tired of trolls flame baiting me or anyone else for that matter! It removes the ability to get your post infracted under the normal circumstances and really helps put a stop to those negative pioneers!

So I was thinking if there could be a sort of “block” feature that could crossover in-game’s block list and on the forum so that if Person A blocked someone and made a thread, all the trolls that person A has blocked cannot “choose to reply” on person A’s thread.

I am tired of seeing trolls, negative delinquents flame bait gamers trying to help out and negative behavior overall. There should not be a reason why negative behavior is encouraged like other games, and this would take care of a great deal of painkillers within the forum.

Obiwan.8102:

get off your high horse the tone of the OP is just so over superior .. you realise some of us just did EXACTLY what you said and had the plug pulled minutes before completion …. it so easy for you to rant about this when you clearly already done it ….

love to see how much you’d type if you were in our shoes!

Honestly, you come to complain because you did it (or tried to do it) in minutes, when I posted these instructions 4 hours ago says something about your character.

I understand you are frustrated, but the only ones who are raging about it are the ones that believed they could do this in minutes. The duration was 1-3 hours and wasn’t something that could have easily been accomplished quickly solo. This thread was to be used as a reference, a guide, for players to quit their forum nagging and turn their focus in-the-game by utilizing their player skills and asking other players for server information.

Instead of nag at me for something you did not achieve, why do you not stop what you are doing, go out and take a deep breath/fresh air, and then come back civilly? For all the negative attacks on me, your lack of reading skills is on you. Not me.

Edit: I deleted posts after this one. Please keep it clean and on topic guys so that we don’t have to have a forum moderator keep an eye on this tiny reference thread!

wolfie.7296:

So the real instruction should have been to got to the harbourmaster at the ship not the actual ship.

I summarized the instruction, however instead of trolling and insulting my thread, you could have realized that the “harbormaster” or Southsun Cove Transport Faciliator NPC was the only NPC that took players on the ship to the island as mentioned in the following wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Lost_Shores/Phase_2

Please research before posting!

Your welcome! Less nagging makes the world “go round and round”

Samfisher.7942:

So how about having some form of compensation, or event extension for those whose event time would put them at 4am on a MONDAY morning?

I still disagree, but alas, if they chose to do that then you wouldn’t have missed anything previously already lost because you can acquire those items via karma vendors, and precursors dropped 100-200g from the market making them cheaply acquirable!

Anyway, my disagreement isn’t to those that already did it, participated in it, or disconnected and have a valid reason for not receiving their rewards. It is towards those childish fellows that did absolutely nothing, and want something from it.

There are more alternatives than suggest to be spoon-fed. Just got to go out and read.

Nobody is going to miss anyone that leaves the game like a dramaqueen, posts it on forums like a 9 year old, and then trolls on everyone’s post like a kitten.

As for your case Opakkus, just submit a report in-game or via customer service. The issue is being looked into, and you will get compensated as long as you participated, and killed the boss at the final phase.

It will take several days to work on the compensation, but try to turn the fright into an advantage to appreciate their response and information you may have misunderstood or uninformed a bit more.

Do not aim for failure, aim for success, and Drew even though you faced an unfortunate unique experience, don’t let it down your view on the game.

A negative topic leads nowhere. Try being more positive! Coming soon we will have countless of enjoyable events that you might consider worthy, such as scavenger reddit and bubbles.

Let’s all be + on the good things that came out of the event, if you did not enjoy it like the ability to acquire the lost items via karma vendors, and that trading post has lowered the prices to ectos/precursors and other needed legendary craft items by 100-200g.

Jaric.5679:

Stop —boasting-- Saying that this is a sure fire way for people to get in.

Edit: ‘boasting’ is a bit over the top. If I had to do this, I would repeat the event officially every 3-4 hours over a 24 hour period, calling it a ‘re-enactment’ or similar for the sake of form. I would also lock the chest opening per account rather than character, or make the rewards far less valuable.

Sigh on people that edit their post more than once after posting;

My post served as a reference to get in when the event was going on. The event has now closed according to several threads in the forums, and now this topic will not be needed again (unless they decide to extend it).

‘boasting’ would be being a kitten for telling everyone that I got awesome gear, but you don’t see me doing that; instead you see me rallying people to go play the game instead of negatively whine around here which is the type of behavior you are encouraging.

IF, and this is a strong iff they should ever extend it, then consider yourselves lucky! If they don’t, then like I provided above, there is more positive content on the way, and that itself should make people stop QQ’ing about it, and focus on the good stuff coming!

Evil.7529:

Those who missed lost out big, there is no denying it no matter how mad it makes you when people point it out.

I am not mad, I’m just being “Evilly” blunt by telling them it does not matter. Half the items you gained from the chest are recoverable by karma vendors, and the precursor drops are irrelevant compared to the large rumor that anet will implement a scavenger hunt allowing more drops in the coming weeks + already the market TP has dropped 100g-200g in prices for some of them.

Jaric.5679:

Paranormal, you keep comparing this to the clock tower event, which was repeatable by design. Stop doing that, it’s not the same at all. Your suggested workaround in the initial post gives you a chance (not by Anet design) but is no guarantee of it working. I have a friend not at work this afternoon trying the overflow trick for about 5 hours, has lost connection three times after finally getting on an active overflow. He has no rewards whatsoever.

Stop boasting that this is a sure fire way for people to get in .

As for Jaric, this one-time-event was (as it has now ended according to forums) repeatable by design as long as you were in an active overflow server and did it with a character that never did the event chain before.

I did it with 3 characters of mine. Most Fort Kitten players did it more than 5 times. Some went hardcore and did it with every character, even if they had to create lvl 2 characters!

What does that say? It says that IT worked, but anyone that QQ’d and decided to avoid my post missed it. Shame on you not meh bro on that one.

In order to get the reward, you had to jump to the overflow server, new character, and here’s the crucial part: COMPLETE the entire important chain, or participated and opened the chest when it was available

If your friend participated, and disconnected right at the chest, then tell him to NOT WORRY because it is being looked into, and as long as he reported it, anet will compensate those that participated at that moment but crashed.

Geez guys, also note that you can recover some of the lost accessories via crafting, and karma vendors. All is not lost! just keep a positive and keep reading patch notes!!

I disagree.

The only valid reason you should get rewards should be network disconnection at final phase. The rest are selfishly and utterly opening a can of worms for the small minority asking to be catered.

Instead of asking to be catered, here are some positive news for all of you:
1. Reddit highly rumors anet will implement a precursor scavenger hunt soon
2. dungeon / island is permanent so you can hunt shells
3. if you trade in a couple of shells you can exchange them for accessory replicas you would have otherwise dropped from the chest.

DancingPenguins.9875:

If Anet designed game and regulated the economy with such a heavy hand so players won’t be left out, this event certainly backfired. One time events are too exclusive and too exclusionary.

At the very least, there should be some kind of system that allows players to go back and revisit the events even if it’s on their own.

That’s your opinion, and I respect it. However this was a one-time-event and by participating, creating a character, and playing the game in general you chose to abide by their rules, their design, and their method.

I would offer the suggestion that you create a thread about it with some ideas over how you would change it, but please let’s stay on-topic here and devoid from negative feedback on this wonderful bear++ thread!

Vigil.3408:

Paranormal Bear.2539:

Simple steps:
1. /map ask people if anyone in their guild/pug group is in an active server.
2. request to join
3. right click person in active server and join server
4. you will be queued; be patient and you will enter.
Wala~ how simple was that?

Here. So you can understand, I’ll bold it for you.

You can not do this. People in another shard do not share the same map chat.

Paranormal Bear.2539:

If you feel that way, then you have the “choice” to leave the game and stop playing. Nobody is forcing you otherwise to enjoy the content Arena Net gives out to their players, or follow their “well made” design in place.

You’re spot on about that, and you’re right. There are a lot of people who have already done the uninstall, and I’m not far off either. Just because YOU got YOUR chest does not make this event “OK”.

Honestly, instead of editing your post 3 times in a row, you could at least edit it before posting it.

Perhaps I have either not been clear enough with you or you just misunderstand. So I will bold it as well: If you publicly kindly ask others if there are others that they know in an active server, they will respond kindly to you if they know of anyone that is still farming in an active early overflow server

As for the people who chose to uninstall, good for them! Less QQ’ing in the forums to deal with, and will not effect the main game population not one bit! If anything, after phase 3, lots of players are going to be pleased and excited with the recent/future changes of this game!

Sorry.6741:

OP maybe you dont realise that a lot of people already spent 2-3 hours doing this event, only to be disconnected or lagged out and thus missed the reward. Almost none of the many thousands of players complaining were asking to get to repeat that horrible lag fest. They asked for their earned rewards, and Arenanet already replied that they would find a way to get them the rewards for participating in the event.

What you are saying is that for some reason, those people should do the event again, lag and dc’s and whatnot again. Why? – alot of them didnt enjoy it the first time around, let alone have any reason to bend over backwards in order to find themselves in an overflow so they can repeat it.
I am sure there are those who are repeating it infact, since the original thread has 600 replies or so. But that came about without the tone of your OP, and without the condescension and lack of empathy you show.

Network issues are already being looked into by staff via twitter, facebook, and in-game. Those that missed the reward because they sat out on it/or want to be catered disgust me, and I just will not tolerate it.

Rewards were not guaranteed to begin. What you acquired was an experience. Some got items others did not, and others did vise versa. Everyone gained something from this event, and instead of QQ’ing in the forums, those of you could still be out there hunting for the “reward” you all missed.

As for your second paragraph; the answer is to have fun, and to give the event a 2nd chance. If you give up just because your first chance of it sucked, then it is your fault for the things you are complaining about. As for hurting your feelings, I apologize, but honestly I will never show empathy to those that sit back wanting something while others are out there working hard to get rewarded for an optional one-time-event.

This is a common bug as noted on facebook and twitter. I would report it, or send a ticket to let them know about it.

Otherwise, please try to be patiently positive.

Vigil.3408:

You are living on an entirely different planet to the rest of humanity. We do not have a chance.

Yes you do. Everyone has a “chance.”

You can not select which over-flow server you zone in to. The very few over-flow servers which do have this event still running are full. The vast majority of people have no way of communicating with those people who are on the over-flow servers to form a party and get on said over-flow servers.

Simple steps:
1. /map ask people if anyone in their guild/pug group is in an active server.
2. request to join
3. right click person in active server and join server
4. you will be queued; be patient and you will enter.

Wala~ how simple was that?

You do not speak for Arena Net when you say “this was intended”. If it were ANYTHING like the Halloween Clock Tower event everyone would be able to do it whenever they wanted, and the event would repeat. This is not the case.

1. Arena Net has too much on their hands to deal with QQ whining people in the forums.
2. If you played the clock tower you would understand the process + character reward system.
3. If you played the clock tower you would know it was a one-time event and it is unknown if it will come back for players to do it “whenever, excuse my french, wanted”

The sheer fact that god kitten chest drops literally the most expensive items available in the game, FOR FREE, is wrong. Especially when Arena Net have locked out a huge portion of their players from even seeing it. It’s a horrible, ill-conceived design.

If you feel that way, then you have the “choice” to leave the game and stop playing. Nobody is forcing you otherwise to enjoy the content Arena Net gives out to their players, or follow their “well made” design in place.

Glog.4275:

I thought doing the event again with the same level 80 would result in no chest at the end?.

Correct because each chest is character bound. Meaning you can only do it once per character, but you can do it multiple times as long as you meet the following:

1. Active overflow that has either event ongoing:
a. Defend demolition team
b. Kill reinforcement karka
2. A character that has not opened the chest yet.

lol :B well, I bet those tool tips will be removed once the entire event is over on multiple overflow servers. Good reminder to show that it’s still going on/ opportunity for more character farming

This is not an exploit, and I bet you that you will find the same answer anywhere.

Halloween Mad King Clock Tower also provided this opportunity. Since acquiring rewards from the 3 hour event is bounded per character, you may redo the event and farm for rewards as long as you do it in a different character. Meaning you may only do it ONCE per character.

Hope that helps you in the long run, and perhaps encourages you to log back in to try your best to kick off at least a positive experience!

I got Spark from the chest. :-)

The Final event is repeating in multiple overflow servers thus the event is truly “not over” yet. However if you already completed it by one character, you cannot complete it again unless you switch to another character.

Here read this; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Feeling-left-out-on-Phase-3-READ/first#

Helping bring forum sad people to the game to find overflow servers that are still active so they can become happy forum people again!

Vigil.3408:

This is absolute rubbish. There are people claiming to have run this event 3 times (laughing all the way to free loot and precursors), when I haven’t been able to even do this once.

I’ve tried for the past hour to server/shard hop in the hopes of getting a look at this event, but it’s fruitless. There is NO WAY Arena Net intended for someone to get multiple shots at this chest whilst others are left high and dry.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

I know you are frustrated but this was very much intended as the last halloween clock tower event went as far as every character could do this once and have a reward per character.

Reminder that precursor dropping is only at a 1-15% rate, you should be happy that besides being the first to test the new content, you also received some common unique exotics/items via the chest if you worked hard and fought in the dynamic event.

If all you did was stand there, leech and hopped for the chest, then remember that you are only able to acquire rewards if you participated in it. Which shame on those that did that and decide to go RAWR at the forum.

Even after this event closes, you are still not left dry. There are plans to make a precursor scavenger hunt and the prices for them fell hard. So for a few weeks to maybe a month, our market(s) will be screwy and what matters is that everyone will have a fair shot at acquiring a positive experience.

Kromsin.6359:

It is. Go look at the ops other posts. Guy blames people for having a low self esteem. Pretty odd.

This guy is keeping the positive air in the forums while telling you guys to do something about your problems in-game while you still have the chance!

QQ’ing at the event and sending pew pew’s at devs for your laziness is unacceptable! You can waste your time all you want with me, but don’t think twice that you will be catered by anyone after they see how you spent your time during the last few hours of the event!