Guild Wars 2

People have been complaining about Normal Mode. Tribulation Mode is safe. TM difficulty is as intended, Normal was not.

And wasn’t that thing about “new SAB only for people who are into that thing” meant for TM, not normal?

TenkenSan.3482:

Everytime there’s “hard” / challenging content, they just go and nerf it because of all the people who keep complaining they can’t do it… .

Hard content is not meant to be done by everyone, especially not within the first week of release.

After trying many times yoruselves and eventually managing to do hard content, they nerf it because of all the complaining…it’s almsot as if they’re just laughing at you and say: “well.. nice you’ve tried and got everything through skill/perseverance, now we’ll give everyone else the achievements for free.”

It’s really saddening this happens everytime.
I’m glad they didn’t nerf Liadri.

Many of the issues weren’t hard due to skill barrier or concept, they were hard because of the game engine. Things like knockback into rapids as the geysers lowered – despite you being in the clear, getting knocked into rapids on random objects despite you being in clear. Not to mention people don’t really enjoy being flung halfway across the level for one mistake. Other things were simply not ideal in player minds like long stretches of content with lack of checkpoints where one mistake in the room killed you (and this is normal, not Tribulation). I don’t believe that’s the type of difficulty Josh Foreman was going for.

Raziel.9738:

I can’t get to the shortcut eagle using the spin flower anymore. Tried 3 times just now.

You shouldn’t need the spin flower to get to the shortcut eagle.

Similar issue. Trying to get all baubles…

Can we get a reset button or something like that? I was forced to restart, couldn’t get a bunny to hit me.

Thanks for the videos. I’ll be doing this later tonight.

As a future Meteorlogicus owner (bought Storm after I read the announced changes), I’m saddened the trail/glow when stowed is gone. Those were some of the things I liked about it.

hamsteak.1368:

hold up

you waited 2 hours for someone else to do the event?

This is what I’m confused about as well. The meta event doesn’t take that long to complete (I often leave Razen dead right before the take over/defense event so anyone who needs it can finish the rest). The contested thing in my opinion is just to show the tug of war between the Flame Legion and others (forget if there’s an exact faction) in the area. 2 hours seems like a long time to have waited and not run the dungeon.

Vizier.3164:

Maybe add a suicide button on F1 key?

I did get stuck once by something that knocked me into a pit. And I had 2 guildies complaining about getting stuck in a wall. Since there are no waypoints, re logging kinda hurts.
A suicide button would solve all those problems. Don’t put it on the flute tho. Its kinda hard to play the flute if your perma knocked down cause of the water, or 2 or 3 rocks knocking you back in between them for a minute >.<

I second this suggestion. My cousin and I got stuck at various points due to the push blocks or the light up step stones pushing us into walls. While I was able to get out via death by dug up bunnies, he couldn’t get any to spawn, so he had to relog.

I’ve also gotten my head stuck in a rainbow in infantile mode.

For those who prefer video, here are some from some players.

Song Locations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH6oQm23rnA
Elite Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ8DuBI2Tk

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

Pandeh.5248:

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

How do you like the way the Warhorn sounds?

MOAR SQUIRKY SOUNDS please!

BLELERLRLRLLELEELEEEE!

Pandeh.5248:

Tbh, It’s pretty cool. It could of been a bit louder? (Or is it just my settings?)

I’m not sure about the volume. Try adjusting Effects Volume in your settings.

…. Is that the cloud rainbow sound effect from Infantile Mode? If so, brb, getting warhorn.

Coldin.2840:

Now, I know Josh has said there’s over 1000 baubles in World 2, but I’m still thinking that all the upgrades available are just a bit too pricy.

The flute is 250. The upgraded candle is 400. The nunchucks are 400. The upgraded health potion is 350. The new wallet is a full 750, which means having to get a full upgraded wallet, and then make sure to get to the store without spending/using any.

It just feels all a little much, especially when upgrades like the candle are required to progress.

The wallet is 500 (unless you were referring to it’s new amount that it can hold). And I believe the upgraded potion is 300.

But yes it is quite a lot.

Chiming in for my cousin and I. We both ran through on Normal mode first, then Infantile. We’re both at 31/33.

My thoughts after playing W2 Z1-2 (Normal). First playthrough at http://www.twitch.tv/royblazer/b/456028865 (9:35)

-Rapids, oh god I hate rapids. Some of the issue was on my part, but it is really annoying and frustrating to get sent all the way back down the river and have to repeat everything all over again. I’d definitely prefer if they acted like poison, and if they slowed your movement down while you wade through it, over knockback chains.
-There needs to be more checkpoints, or perhaps put the checkpoints right before a difficult section where you know a player will die a ton. The gap between points is too large, and coupled with the zone length, it gets tiring. Having to repeat the same few things repeatedly isn’t particularly fun. Similar to what was said in this video: http://youtu.be/L4YBCt-1JNs?t=41m33s Watching the same thing over and over again isn’t necessarily entertaining. Playing the same thing over and over definitely starts to veer into not entertaining. Especially if it’s to get back to a difficult part you want to complete. We’ve passed the previous challenges, but we have to go through them again and again (upon death) if a checkpoint is further away.
-Why do the dart / arrow traps OHKO? Them doing damage and knockback would be enough for people to avoid them.
-The difficulty jump between W1 and W2 is drastic. I expected it to be harder, but not that much.
-That aside, because there are achievements, I will force myself to complete everything. Even though I want to ragequit and never enter World 2 ever again.

No present here either.

http://youtu.be/RV-QAxOUP24
The person talking to me in the very beginning of this video in whispers got his present.

Sparkfly Fen
Lonar’s Pass
Timberline Falls
Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Fireheart Rise
Harathi Hinterlands
Blazeridge Steppes – X
Bloodtide Coast
Fields of Ruin
Gendarran Fields

I was on the home server when I did Blazeridge, and it didn’t count. Haven’t seen it come up again during my play time, so can’t test.

Sparkfly Fen
Lonar’s Pass
Timberline Falls
Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Fireheart Rise
Harathi Hinterlands
Blazeridge Steppes – X
Bloodtide Coast
Fields of Ruin
Gendarran Fields

For me so far.

This has happened to me too. Just finished up Blazeridge for the first time, and it should have been my 7th invasion. However, I’m still stuck at 6.

It’s a lot of time to spend on an event that doesn’t give credit, so it is quite irritating.

I wouldn’t consider it as bad if you got points over time. Like a point every 1-2 seconds or so for staying alive. It would encourage people to use more parts of the map that weren’t chock full of supplies, and you don’t get punished for not killing or camping a base.

This actually might be the first event achievement I’ll skip out on. I severely dislike the mini game, and grinding to 2,500 points is eye gouging. Even Aspect Arena achievements didn’t take as long.

Not hard, but extremely boring and time consuming.

JoshuaC.1320:

I’ve bought gems during the times said, and I didn’t receive a kite.

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Oh ok. I can see how that would be handy in the cliffs.

I wonder how many zephyrites became paste while putting all those sky crystals about… maybe they all had death shroud too? :P

I’m half convinced it was Kiel who put them there. Lots of people having to pay waypoint costs, make them lean more towards lower WP costs in the future vote. Conspiracy theories abound.

I’m guessing by tomb raider, he/she’s referring to the actual game series, in which you can have a lot of splatting on the pavement when platforming.

And then Death Shroud saves your death by absorbing the damage.

Retroactive rewards are once a day. So you’ll get the 1,000 one tomorrow, 1,500 the next, etc.

I think the achievement for the amount of races completed needs to be changed (maybe -10 to match the other infinite looping one), but other than that, it’s a fun game.

Though I recently got called a map hacker for finishing first when everyone was still catching up. Lol.

theblackerbanana.5130:

One thing missing from the old one that should have transferred is the total amount of points earned in each category. As it was in the code for the old one it shouldn’t be hard to implement in the new one, I’m hoping?

That and (this has prolly been suggested loads of times before) but more specific stuff like which dungeons are missing etc?

I want specifics so bad. Kinda disappointed that this overhaul didn’t include it.

Just did the dungeon again. Immediately after Mai Trin and Horrik came from the 3rd barrage phase, Mai Trin initiated another barrage phase (for a total of 4).

The 4th barrage lasted around the length of the 2nd.

Completed the dungeon fine, but it did cause us to have about 15 seconds left for the 15 minute timer for the achievement.

Give it a shot. I’ve had better luck with PUGs (the last one I had was absolutely perfect – almost zero communication, but everyone played off each other well) than guild runs, quite honestly.

It’s just a crapshoot with PUGs. While you know the skill level of your guild, you won’t know the skill level of the members of the PUG. You may get a terrible group, an average group, or an amazing group.

Keep in mind that sometimes, guild runs can be worse, because people can be more lax with fellow guild members. If you’re downright bad in a PUG, you have the risk to be kicked. Forces some people to up their game. Sometimes.

Zaxares.5419:

This thread should answer your question:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/PERSONAL-SPACE-what-needs-to-be-done/page/2#post2313085

And yeah, the wording was very ambiguous, and it wasn’t until a dev confirmed the exact requirements in that thread that people understood what was really needed to get the achievement.

Then there was another response via ticket that said something else, in the same topic.

The problem with the explanation you linked is that many still cannot get it, even though they avoided said attacks. I personally can attest to having avoided every single barrage phase shot via stealth, and no achievement. This leads to confusion about the requirements, and whether or not it was a bug or not.

Crovax.7854:

Day Trooper.3605:

Is this what the game has come to? Nobody wants to work towards achievements as they are intended to be earned?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/Personal-space-IS-bugged/first#post2315567

yeah, because “earning” those achievements works as intended…

Pretty much this.

Relogging at least pretty much guarantees you get it, to avoid all the bugs.

It’s definitely not just the barrage phase. A thief (had the achievement already) and I stealthed through each barrage phase without getting hit once, and I didn’t get the achievement.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you don’t complete the achievement over the course of a month that it is available then the problem probably isn’t the amount of time.

Granted I would love for this dungeon to be permanent and the achievements permanent as well, but I don’t think time is the limiting factor, skill is.

Also there is no reason to expect all the achievements to be done with one run though. The fastest method is not the safest method, thus the time and the dodging achievements are meant to be done on separate runs. There are multiple achievements like this already in the game, and such is common in other MMO’s as well.

You get until July 9th to finish it. That’s not a month. That’s 2 weeks.

I’m also starting to tire of all these achievements with temporary events. I hate seeing empty bars in achievement lines, but I hate temporary achievements even more.

Not to mention that it’s possible for you to be completely locked out of said achievement if you’re on a server that doesn’t even have the entrance.

What’s with the poor decision making on these achievements recently?

http://dulfy.net/2013/06/11/gw2-dragon-bash-achievement-guide/#5

Unless you’re a completionist, you don’t need the achievement at all. And unless you have extremely terrible luck or draws at RNG / whatever you want to call it, it won’t take long to get it done.

I was there for less than an hour, and made back most of what I spent. I think I lost maybe 30-40s total.

Yes, it worked(?). I was told it is now disabled though.

Wyre.7458:

Kal-Spiro-9745 You made a good point about the holograms, but mostly you have a very unique point of view and I’m not surprised that you are unsatisfied because you are obviously very picky. :P
For example, who doesn’t pvp?
I just hope you don’t make a thread every time a game makes you unsatified, eventually you could have your own forum category.

Me. I only participate in the event PvP games for the achievement points, or else the missing rows irritate the hell out of me.

Every time a new event rolls around, I sigh cause I have to play another PvP mini game for achievements.

It’s probably meant to be a partial gold sink. Hence the high number. Could’ve been other ways, like to reward less if you bet less, but eh.

Yup, not there.

Though I just received one as a thank you for having bought gems at one point since launch.

This has something that’s been happening to me for quite some time now. Not every day, but sporadically. And just now it happened again at the end of a dungeon, causing me to lose out on the entire reward.

The issue at hand is the game freezing, yet not crashing or disconnecting. Skills stop responding, players stop doing anything, whatever mobs are nearby stop doing anything. Audio continues. However, I can still talk in party and guild. People I talk to can read my response, but the game shows nothing updating besides chat. This has happened at world bosses, dungeons, and even standing around doing nothing.

I’ve waited upwards to maybe 2-3 minutes before, and never disconnect. I always have to close the client manually and relog. If I don’t, it remains in the frozen state, yet able to communicate with other people.

Any idea why this happens, and what I can do to fix it? This seems to be the only real tech issue I’ve been happening with GW2.

Basic PC Specs
i7 2700K 3.50 GHz
GTX 660 Ti 2Gb
8GB Ram

15 Mbps Down / 5 Mbps Up connection.

Having the same issue. Canach skips over the mines and they blow up on me instead. He wasn’t rearming, detonating, or anything.

Something I’ve noticed. If a detection beam sound goes out, followed by the disable noise. It’s not safe. It turns back to red almost immediately. If you disarm and only hear the disable noise with no detect noise, it’s safe.

I find the text to be unnecessary. So long as you stay out of mines, it doesn’t matter.

As someone who does story on all characters (currently have 9), I’d say it would be better to up the rewards. We don’t need people never doing them again (because then story parties would be even harder to obtain), we need people to do them with new players or people who want to do them again.

I think this is commonly referred to as achievement boosting. It’s done in more games than just GW2. When people want to get achievements without hassle, they organize a group to do so. As far as I know, no game development company has deemed this to be cheating.

Keep in mind that people may have limited play time. Who knows, maybe they’re leaving for something the next day. These people may like to have all the achievement lines filled out, but can’t seem to get it via normal playing. The mini game is temporary content, making one of these achievements a bad offender (Crabtacular relying on luck).

If you don’t like the way they do it, you have two options at this point. Leave or continue about your business (which some may argue you know you’re purposely trolling/annoying them). It’s similar to parties for dungeons. Don’t force people to skip mobs, don’t force people to kill all mobs. Find the group that suits you. Trying to sway the majority present will only result in arguments and rage.

Imaginos.3756:

• Veteran Kara: going bllergrh gurgglbe blhareaa etc… uses the same voice and text bubbles that the farmer who gets eaten and has to be rescued in Bloodtide coast does. No other karkas do this. Someone forgot to delete the scripts out of the copied mob or something.
• Southsun Supply Crate drops: 4 hours + not a single chest. None from everyone else who answered in the zone either.

For the first. That means that the Vet Karka contains Ander, one of the bounty targets.

Happened again at Shatterer.

Just got it as well. Like Fungalfoot, I stand by my previous statement. Completely luck based and it should not be this way. Also lucky that the match I fell into had some people trying to purposely stay together.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The big ones only target crab carriers as well. Here’s how to get Crabtacular:

1. Grab crab.
2. Run from other players.
3. Run towards big karka.
4. Dodge big karka roll.
5. Watch karka roll over everyone who was chasing you.
6. Laugh.

7. Look at the person/people off to the side purposely staying out of the way so they don’t get run over. Realize your strategy didn’t work as well you hoped it would.

Taegos.4132:

Just got this, best way to get it is to lure every one to you, then charge right at the karkas.
wiped all of them out in 1 swoop last game. Not hard just have to wait for the karkas to get in a group.

You can’t really “lure” people effectively. Every player acts different. Some can straight out grief you by standing to the side.

Frost.2908:

I completed all the crab toss achievements with ease, including this one unknowingly lol
But if you are having trouble with it id recommend guesting to a lesser populated server… or one rated lower on the wvw chart

Also watch the boxes that drop there’s 1 conch shell that is nothing short of amazing! Grab it and the crab and you can fear everyone into the enemies and pretty much hold them off indefinitely…. or at lesat until you get the achieve lol

I hope these tips help

If I recall, the minigame pulls people from all servers, not just your own. Most of the people I’ve played with have guild tags I’ve never seen on my server.

Fungalfoot.7213:

This achievement is pretty much impossible to get in an match with intelligent players. I seriously hope it gets changed as it right now just relies on dumb luck.

This. And trying to coordinate with randoms is almost impossible, because not everyone will say anything or agree to it. It’s just plain dumb luck, it’s not an achievement.