Guild Wars 2

Tachii.3506:

It’s the inevitable conclusion to all that is good. People will find ways to exploit and use minimum effort to get what they want.

AFKers and uplevel leechers are two of the most prevalent groups that will usually make any Gold Medal map implode into obscurity. I just had it happen today with what was initially a TTS map.

There really isn’t any solution for this aside from making these events a large group instance, which I don’t see this ever happen considering pretty much nothing in this game is like that (I guess you can say WvW and EotM is kind of like that, but still you can’t really control your guild members getting in at all).

You can’t really blame uplevels.
Some of those people are actually new, and have as much right to experience the blitz as you do.

People who afk run after run, should be reportable.

1 & 2 is a must, number 3 not so much.

XacTactX.6709:

Taygus.4571:

XacTactX.6709:

Someone did the intro for me and I skipped both cutscenes including the explosion.

Thats quick… you used gaurd but what weapon (I’ve never played guard).. sigils etc?
btw, do white weapons, the ones that don’t soulbind, stay “unlocked” even with sigil on them?

For gear use a level 0 staff with sigil of bloodlust and justice (or speed but there are no monsters to kill during the runs). Armor use level 0 white gear and put different runes that give power, you get +40 power and the armor stays account bound. Buy rice balls from cooking vendor for +20 power.

The optional stuff: get collector’s edition for a banker golem, get primeval vintage armor with collector’s so you get a helmet and shoulders with power runes. Get executioners axe halloween toy for running speed. Get polla from dragon bash with garnet pebble (not possible anymore). Get hero’s band from preordering gw2 (not possible anymore). Get an unbound backpiece with garnet pebble using a transmutation splitter (not possible anymore).

Well that was detailed. thanks

XacTactX.6709:

Someone did the intro for me and I skipped both cutscenes including the explosion.

Thats quick… you used gaurd but what weapon (I’ve never played guard).. sigils etc?
btw, do white weapons, the ones that don’t soulbind, stay “unlocked” even with sigil on them?

krisztian.6513:

It would be a tiny little bit too much to take auto attack and call it an exploit :x
Tho I dont do pavilon but I used to do that on some uselessly easy worldbosses (frozen maw for example). After so so so many kills I just drop a fireball at it with activating autoattack and I get a coffee

It’s an exploit, it’s meant to be an aid, not a way of getting rewarded while afk’ing.

This is what botting is. being away from the computer and getting rewarded for it.
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btw these people did it for 3+ runs that was about 35min of afk and getting the gold reward, helping not at all.

pdavis.8031:

Taygus.4571:

Astral Projections.7320:

A lot depends on if you have the banker golem that comes with a new character or not. If you don’t have that option then something like a ranger might be best as at the end you will be level 4 fighting a lot of level 10s. You will have an axe for ranged and a pet to hold agro. If you have the banker golem then you can set your char up nicely with max armor, runes and sigils.

As for the looking for group thing. Mostly because it can get boring to solo it. Once you know what to do it’s not hard.

actually about that banker golem…. thats the “bonus pack” or whatever it’s called with the wolf elite.

Does EVERY character you make get the golem for..well life? That… would certainly be useful as a keyfarmer

No…the banker that comes on a newly created character on the delux, or collectors edition only lasts for 2 weeks, then cannot be used any more. But every character you create, as long as you have one of those editions, comes with a banker golem, unless they decide to get rid of it for some reason.

thats what I asked, I know it’s 2 weeks… but if I delete a key character, and create another..I’ll get the banker again?

I did wonder at the waste of buying a 2 week golem on a key char.. XD
…this makes much more sense.

Nick.6972:

How come you never see females complain in threads like this?

Why do you assume all the posters are male?

RedStar.4218:

Purple Miku.7032:

While playing? Yes. While standing idle? No. I solo dungeons all the time, so they come even slower than if I were to do in groups. Having to destroy several bloodstone stacks in an hour is just obnoxious and no one should have to do that because a very small minority of people have 20 characters and want ascended on all of them.

While doing champion farms ?

If not, I really meant the “getting more than 3 stacks every 5 minutes”. Assuming you got 20 dust per bags, that’s more than 12 champions to get a stack. Even with champ trains you weren’t killing 12 champions in 5 minutes.

If by several you mean 3-4, than you shouldn’t complain when newer players have to deal with getting them now.

And I’ve been destroying a lot of dust. And a lot of empyreal and even more dragonite. Yet I’m not complaining for the 3 seconds it takes to destroy a stack.
I’d rather complain about having to type “Box ’o fun” when I want to destroy one…

lol this… killerstreak booster destroying anyone? XD …. now that is annoying!.. .. dust..nah quick and easy.

Stars.2179:

For emp fragments. I happen to also have a 4th account of 2 mesmers stationing on 5 different jumping puzzle. Each of the main account also have 1 mesmer stationing at 3 other jumping puzzle. Each jumping puzzle gives on average 7 emp frag. So
I get about 7 × 5 × 6 = 210 emp per day per account. And 17,000 / 210 is just slighlt over 80 days.

This…doesnt make much sense, they’re account bound, and can’t be traded to your other accounts………..

Astral Projections.7320:

A lot depends on if you have the banker golem that comes with a new character or not. If you don’t have that option then something like a ranger might be best as at the end you will be level 4 fighting a lot of level 10s. You will have an axe for ranged and a pet to hold agro. If you have the banker golem then you can set your char up nicely with max armor, runes and sigils.

As for the looking for group thing. Mostly because it can get boring to solo it. Once you know what to do it’s not hard.

actually about that banker golem…. thats the “bonus pack” or whatever it’s called with the wolf elite.

Does EVERY character you make get the golem for..well life? That… would certainly be useful as a keyfarmer

pessimist.7294:

Unfortunaly there is no report function for “inappropiate behaviour” so we cant do kitten against them.

we had thought they were botting, and had reported for that S:.
until one of them came back and was giving out when they saw the chat.

Though.. if you set the auto key..and go away… is that not the same as using a script? (just because it’s in game, doesn’t mean it’s not exploitive..it clearly is….. would reporting them for botting be wrong? …idk, I wont report for botting again, until anet says something about it…but it aint any different…)

Normally what I’ve seen is on pyro, guards use the “auto attack” on the reflect … and they can stay there doing that, run after run after run…

had one guy who believed “he was helping” even though he was doing 0 dps from attacks/heals etc.

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anet needs to be tough on these people, a 2 week suspension should help deter it.

yep, asked for….many times.

at the moment there’s not much reason for a mini…I’d love a slot..even if they charged gems for the mini pet slot. (so long as it turned up an ALL characters)

Xenon.4537:

Why do people do this in groups? Can’t you solo it just as easily?

because if 5 people are going to key farm.. why not do it together?

its not hard by any means, but its an mmo, and people like to do things together

it depend if you’ll be switching weapons/using sigils.

but mostly pick a class you know best.

I like doing it with ranger as its fairly easy, though it does take me an average of 28-33min.

warrior is supposed tp be the fastest. but a friend does it in about 20min on ele.

Vol.7601:

Djinn.9245:

Venirto.4208:

I’m a bit surprised how quickly this thing escalated. People don’t want to organize groups for the blitz anymore

The other day there was a TTS Commander (only 1) in my Pavilion instance who tried to organize several runs from the random people there. She even gave out a TTS Teamspeak channel – only 3 people joined her on TS and hardly anyone listened to her directions (typed out) during the runs. By the third run and everyone killing the bosses willy-nilly and then running to Boom Boom, she gave up and I don’t blame her. She’ll probably never try that again.

If Anet is going to have this kind of event that requires organization, they should give a special achievement or title to people willing to organize people who are not in their guild (Herder of Cats?). Of course it would be very difficult to tell who is actually trying to organize so I don’t know how that would work. But there needs to be some kind of incentive.

She would have got a lot more people if she went to the other full bliztz channels and advertised to those who are still trying to get in.

That’s how blitz raids start. You don’t just go to a random map and ask everyone to hop on TS.

This, and you cant expect pug maps to join ts either.

Azrael.4960:

Sounds like things working as intended. You’re supposed to be relegated to a minor role since this is Trahearne’s story not yours

LOLz…. love it XD

On a plus side,
they havent made a gear threadmill, ascended is still not necessary for most game play. And skills are still much the same.

basically, you’re not left ‘behind’ in anyway, (apart from missing some fun content).

trait layout looks a little different, but it’s just simplified. (though starting a new character pretty much sucks now.)

There is a liadri appreciation thread….

personally I like easy content and would prefer not to see liadri type stuff in dungeons. (for one less people would run them dungeons.)

Manasa Devi.7958:

Out of all the festival content, I like the gauntlet the best. But I won’t be playing it a lot anymore.

See, I’m out of gauntlet tickets. It seems I’ll have to either buy them at the exorbitant price of 20s plus 35 festival tokens per 5, or spend hours in the pavilion getting an occasional bronze reward. I just can’t seem to get into a pavilion that has more than 2 or 3 players who actually want to do boss blitz. Taxis only ever try to take me into full instances, no matter how long I keep trying.

I’m not going to buy those tickets, they’re SO not worth the price. I’m also not going to spend many excruciatingly boring hours playing musical chairs with servers, to end up with enough tickets to last me just a couple of minutes.

I thought this game wasn’t supposed to “make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun.” It actually does.

Or you know, join any number of teh temporary guilds for gold pavs, and do 2-3 runs..
I cureently have 3 stacks of these kitten tickets, and have been destroying the rest. you get soooo many from gold runs, that are litreally 5 mins long.

If you’re wondering guild for gold runs there’s [GOLD] on eu, or JD I believe do it, and TTS

Meehael.8240:

Luck maybe even shouldn’t have upper limit, but, to compensate that, it should increase more slowly. Roughly, maybe double the chance per year played (if it is made time-gated).

no

Just bring in crafting uses for luck.
(when the majority of playerbase has 300% mf, and anet will know, I’m sure they’ll increase the luck level then…. and probably readjust drops to make up for it >.> )

Valdemas.4960:

Well, not sure about bad loot, got into a hardcore Gold pavillion farm the other night and had 40 Gold chests in 4 hours. Event kept finishing about 4 minutes before timer end and the donating was fast (admitedly I did donate 20s every try so there’s that). So 400 champ bags in an evening I find quite decent. Oh and them festival things I exchanged for t6, 3,2k of those got me 10 resource bags.

yup, the loot is better than ye ole champ train :P

I’d like this!. as it is now, luck isnt very useful.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Stars.2179:

It’s confirmed. ANET officially nerfed the bloodstone. Each bag only gives 0-2 now instead of 0-8…. WHY WHY WHY? Why do you punish NEW players?

AND on top of that you don’t even document it in the patch note!

Because players like me have 8 stacks of dust and nearly a full stack of bloodstone bricks. And I’m not even someone who goes out and grinds the champ trains. I’ve got that much from simple daily routines.

So, you’re ok with a nerf, because its too much bother to right click> destroy.

makes sense …………………..

RedStar.4218:

It’s not that hard to dodge it. It’s rather predictable because she charges up her attack (or something like that).

But it does kind of annoy me how reflecting skills are getting hit more and more after each updates.

Hey, now ye know how condition appliers/healers… anything else thats not pure power feel. :P
~lolz~

Anet keep saying they want to encourage build diversity..and every change they make gets further and further away from that.

BlackyWarsX.5384:

Good question. Maybe they have no time for every single encounter in the game and do it on a “we have to change this boss now so we change the circles now too” basis?

They fixed teqs burn achieve(bugging teq in the process.) dont think they’ve changed the rings though.

So not sure thats it XD.

I do much prefer the orange circles as well. And I hope they eventually update all bosses etc with these circles.

My issue is diiferent.

type" I’m lf gold pav".
~random people join my party, and into the pav I’m in >.> ~

~I leave party~
repeat until lfg says you’ve left too many parties, you now how have to wait, with no count down to how long,………… >.>

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

Didn’t it let us gather all 50 regular crystals last year?

as far I know, you still can.
but it doesnt tell you if you’ve gathered more than 40.

Guhracie.3419:

I went in, found a group of people going, “Which boss are we doing first?” so I gave a quick summary of the strategy, which received the response, “Nobody’s doing that, so we might as well zerg to bronze.”.

This.
This is so frustrating. “nobodies doing that” so instead of starting to split and what not.. they ignore you and prefer to continue to get less loot for more time.

I dont understand it at all.

lolz

Or you know, work together in a pav, no zerging and go for gold.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Just one problem: Your life bar really doesn’t recuperate as a necro. The theory behind death shroud and attrition is that you bounce between them, constantly using whichever is higher. But you can’t heal in death shroud, so that doesn’t work. On top of that, the necro’s self-healing abilities are all rather weak outside of the heal skill. Necros are actually the class that is weakest to attrition when it is supposed to be our strong suit.

This,
Its this very reason I tend to pop into deathshroud early into a fight. Not risking health dropping. If you hit into DS while health is low, there’s a very real chance when you come out of it, you’re goose. (unless you trait for healing, but thats really not worthwhile).

It’s really frustrating to not be able to take anything from your group healing..or if you decided to go lifesteal from that. While using DS, a very important mechanic to our class.

What I;d like to know is if the devs ever plan on looking into it, or if it’s coding difficulty. Or if they’re actually happy with us not being able to heal.

Teon.5168:

Taygus.4571:

Thats the thing though.
all anet is doing here, is encouraging disorganisation…. rather than those bronze runs.. going well there’s 50 of us here on one boss..why dont some of us split off….
..
now people will be like "well, gold run aint that much better, lets just zerg, because I dont want to communicate. " ..even though its still better.

so i don’t know. I’m not a fan of this change.

I hope you’re not right, but you very well may be. This certainly could encourage more bronze runs. I sure hope not, as I really enjoy the good gold runs…..nothing like 6 small pugs working like a well oiled machine and communicating and coordinating to knock off 6 bosses all at the same time and in a short amount of time.

Last night, there was only around 25 or so in the zerg for both bronze runs, with a huge spread on player levels. So even if it could have gotten organized, I doubt if it could have done a silver or gold run….just too many lower levels.

I usually try to play around 5-7pm pacific time when I want to get into a bb gold run…..but there are a lot of times during the week where that just isn’t possible…..hence the late bronze runs that I just do for xp when I am in a lazy mood.

I’ve encourage a few pug organised runs.
about50% of the time it works.

The other 50% of the time, is what I base my assumption on. The comments and attitude and then lack of chat…is why assume organising a bronze run into a silver or gold…is going to be much harder.. because less people will care about it.

I hope to be wrong truly. I do love encouraging a zerg to split off and changing up a bronze to a gold run. It’s great. but the fact that it only happens 50% of the time. I can only assume it’ll be less now.

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On the upscaling, thats a different issue. The lack of traits really affects upsclaed players, something anet doesnt seem to have looked into.
However.. it’s better to split 25 players into 2 or 3 teams, and take down the bosses like that. As its still quicker, even if you’re already in bronze. I assume it will STILL be quicker, like that, even with these changes. but I worry less players will care.

Elathan.4902:

Why do you need a separate set of ascended armour for each of 21 characters?

Ascended gear is bound to account, it would make sense to keep one set of armour per weight and keep track of which character it is on.

And not sure I know where it’s confirmed, as it isn’t stated in the patch notes that I could see.

because it’s annoying to switch between characters. having to constantly go to a bank from wherever you are, having to drag them off, into the bank..and back out again.

If you switch alts alot. (and people with alot of alts generally do). Its alot of hassle.

On top of that.. you may have condi necro & a zerk necro.. ..and so you’ll want them to have thier own gear.

(I’m not someone who will ever make ascended for all my alts, just my necro and ele….. I could share the ascended daggers between them, but with having to take a trip to the bank rather than stay wherever I am..it’s just simpler to make 4 ascended daggers instead of 2 and share. .. as costly as it is..)

or..if they want.. make WvW more like PVP, in that, you cant use nourishments and your gear doesnt matter.
There, easier to balance and no worries of pve tweaks affecting pvp play.

Kaleban.9834:

Tim.6450:

I disaggree, players on the forums should not get an advantage over the other players.

Who said anything about forums? There is this snazzy thing in game called e-mail, ANet could simply send out a mass mailer to every player. Boom.

EVERY player?
how do they know which players wasted 1000’s of chances? or even a 100…

They’re not gonna check through EVERY account.

Teon.5168:

Taygus.4571:

Teon.5168:

Edit: Am also wondering, if once the raid gets to bronze, if the rest of the bosses taking more damage and dealing less damage will enable small teams of 3-4 players to run around and effectively take down some of the bosses that the zerg hasn’t engaged, yet. Will have to give it a try tonight and see what it is like.

small teams of between 4-6 could already take down the bosses without the zerg >.>

Taygus.4571:

3 levels on 40-50minutes of gold run play. level 62-65

Oh yea, I know…(have done that a few times when I was fortunate enough to get into a gold run)……but am wondering when the bosses damage drops in the bronze runs….just how small groups will be able to be to take down a boss.

Don’t get me wrong, gold runs are much more preferable, imo, and I realize the leveling is a ton faster than bronze runs……but they’re very difficult to get into when playing late(after 9:30-10pm pacific time) on the west coast. Sometimes one has no choice but to get into the disorganized bronze runs

Thats the thing though.
all anet is doing here, is encouraging disorganisation…. rather than those bronze runs.. going well there’s 50 of us here on one boss..why dont some of us split off….
..
now people will be like "well, gold run aint that much better, lets just zerg, because I dont want to communicate. " ..even though its still better.

so i don’t know. I’m not a fan of this change.

Xenon.4537:

Taygus.4571:

Xenon.4537:

Taygus.4571:

… anet really didnt add anything to help facilitate organisation.

Don’t you ever wish Anet didn’t have to go out of their way to add sophisticated and costly features to facilitate communication, cooperation, and organization? Why must human beings behave so horribly in video games? Why do we have to be babied and hand-held into playing a certain way? Why can’t we just use map chat and teamspeak and Jolly Cooperation?

firstly..
why should we have to use teamspeak?

secondly. Alot of people have map chat turned off, they do not think of turning it on. It’s not intentional, they just usual have it off and doesnt cross their mind to turn it on.
In this case, anet should force chat option to default. ie map =on

For EU. You could have a group who want to listen, bat happen to have a different client language than yours.
The client language block, is a default setting, most people do not know this exists. This is definitely anets problem and yes they should have created something more to facilitate organisation.

Also, how much more costly would it have been, to simply have all boss health shown on map, despite which boss you’re near?
and then to have (since boss scaling clearly has this ability.) to show number of players which are within 1800 range of the boss?

If anet wants to create organise content, I’m all for it.
but organised content, requires organisation tools.

Those ideas are great, except I’d be a little worried about screen clutter if there are a lot of bosses and other metrics which need to be shown.

As for teamspeak, I think it is absurd for people to refuse to use it, especially for hard encounters. It’s free and takes 30 seconds to download and install. You don’t even need a mic to listen to a commander. Sure you might be able to see the bosses health bar, but you can’t honestly tell me that pugs stop DPS at 5% without someone barking the order verbally. And good luck getting suppressed in chat trying to type commands. That’s assuming you can or even should be typing messages in the middle of combat. And as you said, some of those people don’t even have their chat turned on. You’re advocating we force chat to be turned on, but don’t force people to use voip? You want to enforce an older, archaic means of communication which directly interferes with combat performance and is plagued by anti-spam measures, yet disregard a simple, free, easy-to-use, streamlined, 1 button form of communication?

pav is in no way hard.
map communication is more than enough. On pugs we call the stop order at 10% and slow order at 15%. Works just fine.

I meant mini version of all boss health.
With numbers showing on the boss you’re at.

That shouldnt be too much clutter, though you’d probably have to minimise achieves/story pop up on the side.
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I dont think expecting people to use a program outside of game. (with god knows how many channels you ‘d have to link into if you do random pug servers often).
It’s out of the game. It should not be expected just to get through content.

If anet wants to make content like this, the need to make in game features to aid organisation.
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saying all that, I know a few people who have bought comm tags JUST because of pav. So I cant help wonder, if it was just to encourage another gold sink.

Teon.5168:

Hobbs.9260:

2-4 extra champ bags is hardly considered even close to significantly better. If anything the changes made bronze even more profitable now. Zerging/farming each boss individually plus the event rewards for the blitz itself gives quite a large amount of karma for not much work, and now bronze rounds will take like said above probably half the time as before. Even more karma can be earned in a smaller time. This will also help for those wanting to lvl their low toons being able to defeat a boss faster for more event rewards and not be as harmful to the overall group being a low lvl.

Personally, I find these changes great, it is a good way to appease both groups. Those that want to organize and go for gold still can, nothing has changed for that. Now though, those that would rather zerg each boss and not be penalized for their prefered choice of game play can do so. Honestly zerging a bronze was more profitable to begin with over gold, karma exchanges into some serious gold.

I suppose I should have said “significant” in relationship to both the overall reward and time commitment, as gold and silver runs were a lot quicker than most bronze runs.

But you’re right…..this will now change. People will still run gold and silver runs, but bronze is also farmable now, too. Last night I was doing bronze runs on one of my 60+ characters, just to see what sort of xp I would get. Ended up getting around 2 levels in around 75 minutes or so of bronze play…..not bad, but not something I would do on a regular basis…lol. But with the new changes, I would imagine that 2 levels will now take around 30 or so minutes, which is definitely worth it.

Will be interesting to see how it changes things in the boss blitz.

<—3 levels on 40-50minutes of gold run play. level 62-65

Hobbs.9260:

2-4 extra champ bags is hardly considered even close to significantly better. If anything the changes made bronze even more profitable now. Zerging/farming each boss individually plus the event rewards for the blitz itself gives quite a large amount of karma for not much work, and now bronze rounds will take like said above probably half the time as before. Even more karma can be earned in a smaller time. This will also help for those wanting to lvl their low toons being able to defeat a boss faster for more event rewards and not be as harmful to the overall group being a low lvl.

Personally, I find these changes great, it is a good way to appease both groups. Those that want to organize and go for gold still can, nothing has changed for that. Now though, those that would rather zerg each boss and not be penalized for their prefered choice of game play can do so. Honestly zerging a bronze was more profitable to begin with over gold, karma exchanges into some serious gold.

a good gold run takes 5 minutes…………. you’re saying zerging is better than 5 min + 2 min for donations + 5 min again?

Teon.5168:

Edit: Am also wondering, if once the raid gets to bronze, if the rest of the bosses taking more damage and dealing less damage will enable small teams of 3-4 players to run around and effectively take down some of the bosses that the zerg hasn’t engaged, yet. Will have to give it a try tonight and see what it is like.

small teams of between 4-6 could already take down the bosses without the zerg >.>

Xenon.4537:

Taygus.4571:

… anet really didnt add anything to help facilitate organisation.

Don’t you ever wish Anet didn’t have to go out of their way to add sophisticated and costly features to facilitate communication, cooperation, and organization? Why must human beings behave so horribly in video games? Why do we have to be babied and hand-held into playing a certain way? Why can’t we just use map chat and teamspeak and Jolly Cooperation?

firstly..
why should we have to use teamspeak?

secondly. Alot of people have map chat turned off, they do not think of turning it on. It’s not intentional, they just usual have it off and doesnt cross their mind to turn it on.
In this case, anet should force chat option to default. ie map =on

For EU. You could have a group who want to listen, bat happen to have a different client language than yours.
The client language block, is a default setting, most people do not know this exists. This is definitely anets problem and yes they should have created something more to facilitate organisation.

Also, how much more costly would it have been, to simply have all boss health shown on map, despite which boss you’re near?
and then to have (since boss scaling clearly has this ability.) to show number of players which are within 1800 range of the boss?

If anet wants to create organise content, I’m all for it.
but organised content, requires organisation tools.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Meglobob.8620:

But why would you pay them 1g?

You can just join the party, then r-click on leader of party, click transport to pavilion, now your in gold pavilion, then just leave party. All without paying them 1g.

Except you probably won’t get in immediately. Most of the times you have to spam the join world button for ages before you finally manage to get in (unless you get lucky).

By that time the party leader has kicked you already.

party leader could kick/leave party..even after you pay.

I would never pay for a taxi, for this reason, cant trust that I’ll actually get to taxing in. Just join a guild that does pav runs.

FrizzFreston.5290:

Saying people that get scammed deserve it? That’s definitely not making you more believable. There’s no way of knowing a person is indeed in said overflow or not at all.

In order to organise, people “need” 6 tags.

I mean this is like dumping 50 people in a field and telling them to “go organise”, with a dozen different nationalities, limited communication (1 maybe 2 chat channels), no knowledge of what people need to do, no established method on how to tackle the content.

Because really the content itself isn’t actually all that hard, but for random people to go organise? That doesn’t even happen in real life.

Once organised though, the content really is fairly easy. I have yet to see a complete group fully wipe at a boss. So each boss is a cake walk, killing them at the same time might prove more difficult. Maybe you hit a few silvers, but that’s it.

Every so often I get into a pug map and start calling out to people.

for example, during funding;
“shall we make this an organised run all? ….I’m waiting at pyro..anybody eles care to join, remember 6 per boss is enough …lets do this”

During a bronze blitz.
“boss y has nobody, we only need 6 at a boss, 5 people come, come join me, lets speed this up”.

It’s about 50/50 this works.
And you turn a unorganised pug map into an organised, sometimes you start get comms, and before you know it, you’re getting golds easily.

Now I’m not disagreeing with you, anet really didnt add anything to help facilitate organisation. And what they shouldve done has been commented at large (hopefully they’ll take into account in future content).

I just wanted to point out, it’s not that hard to organise a pug map, I find it seems to be getting easier the longer blitz is around. This is because more people know what to do, and more people are communicating.
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[This part isnt directed at you]

, someone else above mentioned, during zerging.
There’s alot of people who know they can tag a boss, walk away and still get credit. But stay there.. because being in the middle is boring/got there first/ dont want to because its fail anyway.
My point here is, just asking people to leave isnt enough.

If you want it to be quicker… say something like “I’m going to wait in the middle, already got my tag… who’s coming with me?”.

Or anyone want to farm pirates? (assuming wigs is dead). Dont complain about the zerg, if you’re participating in the zerg.

rincewind.9528:

I want to cry.
I still want the mini. I really want the mini. But I don’t want to do the gauntlet. I don’t even want to step in the Pavillion again.

I was going to try this weekend… but I keep doing the cuterace because I still need more tokens and I can’t decide between the panda and the dolyak, so I’m hoping for a favor drop. And saving because I’m not lucky and probably will not get a favor drop.

Guess that next week I can try… but I don’t want… but I want the mini… why anet? Why you put a cute mini there?
I even failed to pass the first tier the last time… and my only lvl 80 char is… well… her equipment pretty much is horrible. I only got one exotic weapon, a warhammer. Full clad in yellows crafted.
It gonna be impossible, isn’t?

ask someone to do it for you…. if you know someone near you or trust someone with your account.

tigirius.9014:

Suggestion: Take it a step further. Saving builds and dual spec with outfitter. That way we can switch between gear/traits when out of combat on the fly.

definitely this.

Meglobob.8620:

But why would you pay them 1g?

You can just join the party, then r-click on leader of party, click transport to pavilion, now your in gold pavilion, then just leave party. All without paying them 1g.

This

had 2 people ytd, use auto skill ..on their reflects, and went afk.. they did this for the 3 runs I was there..and probably more….

that isnt helping… and seems really unfair that they can get away with that.

Ravenhunt.2735:

Done it with all classes, naked, phase1 Nekro Lifeleech, also naked… and so on.
And im by far not the best player.

She is not to hard, she is not “do it in the first try”.
She is “Try it, if you fail, try it harder”.
Learn the routine in all two phases.
When you lerned the phases, the black cloud/rain, the lightfields, the voidriftthingies, you beat her very easy.

I can write a guide for the first phase, step by step.
No damage, when you manage it right or very less damage from her AA.
No dodge needed.
You run this way every time, with every class.
Believe me, when you do this 20 times… you wish to jump instant to phase 2…

if you did it naked, your idea of hard is very different from the majority of gw2 players.

She is hard, and saying otherwise is only a dig at players who are finding her difficult.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/fotfw/Tips-for-beating-Liadri/first#post4071345

and check the subforums for your classes

Khados.8147:

One thing I’ve liked in other games…the ability to right-click an item and lock it, making un-salvageable, un-sellable, and removing the ability to destroy it.

thats why invisible bags exist….not saying r lock clicking aint easier…but with these bags, clicking lock will not happen.