Guild Wars 2

Same here, also just about to kill the last boss in Fractals. Thank you Anet. I guess you didn’t get enough negative feedback from the Lost Shores.

Not quitting yet, but I feel like I’m headed towards that direction

Awesome, more than awesome content. Horrible, absolutely horribly balanced system for rewarding players. You want to get rich? You’ll need 90% luck. Skill gets you far, but it doesn’t mean you will get you anywhere other players can’t. Oh we just added this to the game, and it drops from monsters too. Here, have a 0.0000001% drop rate. No, there’s no grind in this game. Oh you just posted a huge detailed thread on forum, trying to help anet, be descriptive etc etc. Here, we merged it into the generel feedback thread. No wait, we lost it in the process (Yes this happened). You want rewards for killing karka for 3 hours? How about a D/C. You have a simple yes/no question? How about we don’t answer that for you. Looks like 50 players doing the ancient Karka. Let’s spawn 20 veterans in their face, so they die instantly. I see you’re almost done with that Fractals of the Mists run. Let’s disconnect all the players.
This all on just one day.

This is the most exact description I’ve read yet. A perfect resume of the event.

unfortunately this will just get moved to a merged feedback thread, and your post, like mine, disappears into nothing

digidomo.1739:

From what I can tell the 20 slot bag is only obtainable from the chest. The accessory with +25 to all stats and 3%mf can be purchased from a merchant in the south west corner of the zone. For 1000 shells.

Thanks for the info! – We’re talking about the new skins and minipets though
(Well, I am anyways)

Just for this angle, some players complained that “hey i found a secret place” … “Eh.. I can’t get out of here”..

Were we supposed to go here Anet?
http://i.imgur.com/MCqhe.jpg

A player asked during the final event, around 1½-2 hours in: “Would you have done this event if you knew it would progress like this?” – He didn’t get even 1 “yes”.

Some of the answers:
“Only if the end rewards are epic”
“The only thing that will save this is if the ancient karka starts dancing Gangnam Style”
“Not even if I get a legendary out of this”
“I would rather take my keyboard and…” – Well.. Stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.

I’m pretty sure this wasn’t the epic event they intended to create, but this is what a lot of players experienced.

6) The final event – So around 100 players rush into the hive and start killing, following the event. All of a sudden poof you’re dead. 10 veterans just spawned on top of 50 players. Repeat this several times for about an hour before event moves on. Would it be that hard to make the monsters run to us instead of spawning them on us? While the rush was somewhat exciting, the majority of players were frustrated that things kept spawning on top of us. But ok. We progress. After 1-2 hours of aimless killing everything that spawns with no idea as to how long this has to go on, people start going afk. They are simply tired of dying, killing the same things over and over, and trying to find the spot where it is least probable that something will spawn in your face. I don’t blame them. The event was 3 hours for our server, about 3½ on the overflow i went to after. 3 hours of just killing the same mobs over and over! Seriously, at the end the chat was spammed with statements of boredom, frustration and anger. There were no reason at all for making that event so long. The event was great, the time it took was horrible.

7) The big redemption – Loot! Finally. At the end we were rewarded, and I even liked the rewards. But from what I read 5 minutes later it wasn’t all joy. Several players were disconnected (not crashed or accidental quits) from the game, and guess what, after 3 hours – You can have a big fat cup of nothing! – Would it have been that hard to mail participants their rewards for participation instead?

While I am having my jimmies rustled myself, remember that I am not alone on this. The chat was horrible during this weekend. Very few jumped in to say they were having a great time. There are serious problems here, and I am worried.

Other not so depressing stuff:
- A lot of people really enjoyed the new jumping puzzles, me included
- The end reward for Phase 3 was great (for those who got it)
- The new dungeon is amazing
- The plot was quite ok, despite people not knowing what to do with themselves
- A lot of people agreed the new map was pretty. They didn’t find it interesting though, due to lack of things to do.

First off: This isn’t meant to be a "#¤% Anet sucks!!1! thread. While this will come off as being very negative, this is the generel feel of what I gathered from reading in game chat and various sections of forum. I think it’s worth for Anet to reflect a bit over.

1) The Lost Shores map – People felt like there was nothing to do besides do the jumping puzzles and try to grind loot from the new monsters. This is what I experienced the most. A lot of people would visit the map for 10 minutes, ask in mapchat “What are we supposed to do here?” – People will respond “do standard type meta events, grind and do the jumping puzzles.” – And most often the tone was negative. (omg this map sucks, etc)

People were actually bored. Very few seemed to enjoy the new content

2) Difficulty vs reward – I found that the map was more challenging than average. While I personally love this, the rewards weren’t exactly on par. There were next to no point in running around killing things. The one reason to kill them – Well, read right below

3) Droprates – It’s not entirely true there were no reward. There are minipets and skins. That’s real cool! Except the droprate is ridiculous. After using 2 entire days in the map grinding Karka’s I found nothing. No skins, no minipets. Ok bad luck happens. But meanwhile, I also asked in chats if anyone had looted any of the new stuff. Twice (And this is over 10+ hours of play) did I get a positive answer. Most of the time I got negative responses ranging from “no, kitten anet” to “no, and i have been grinding for hours” and “They drop new loot?”

But ok, stuff can be rare. That’s somewhat fair (Except the skins are green – Not exactly legendary)

4) Caring for your Collector players – Looking at those droprates, the new stuff must be obtainable in other ways. Yes! You get the skins easily through Consortium Chests. That’s cool, now what about the minipets? You have a lot of players who likes to collect things. People who like to complete things 100% and have every collectible item. With the incredibly low chance of getting a new minipet through drops AND chests you are making this impossible. People either have to spend around 45-50 gold buying them from other players or spend a ridiculous amount of gems to get them. Most people i chatted with agreed with me that the Halloween deal was way better. Just let us buy the critters!

For me however, i find that this is ok – IF the minipets still are lootable after the event ends. But seeing as I through various forum posts haven’t been able to get a simple No/Yes out of Anet, I will take it as a no. Several players are looking for this answer though.

5) Information – This brings me right over to this; Information. It would have been so much easier for players if you would just keep us informed. Everything that has a reward – Players will want it, and if they can’t have it they will be mad. Here’s some things that would have been nice to have: Are the minipets obtainable after the event? Are the skins? How long will the Consortium Chests stay? When will events from Phase 1 and 2 be disabled? You need to be clear about things like this. Players were pretty mad that they weren’t able to complete Phase 1 all of a sudden. No one knew.

Now some of this info might be available somewhere – But you need to make it clear! No hiding things in patchnotes! Preferably, give us an ingame update system where we can read stuff like this.

No – I tried getting a second chest in overflow, you can’t loot it

“All the items found in the Consortium Chest can also be obtained as rare drops from any creature from the new Lost Shores event.”

Everyone’s reading this different, so i’d love an official answer.

Does this mean we can loot these rare drops during the event ONLY, or does this mean that you can loot this at any time in Lost Shores?

Put differently, are the drops unique to this weekend, or will they be available after the event too?

I’d love to see the poll. Especially right now.

I’m also majorly disappointed that you can’t be sure to get the new minis with out a friggin fat wallet or excessive GRIND. Grind, anet, GRIND. Oh right, it was my fat wallet you wanted, nevermind.

I understood that the new skins and minipets was event only item? Am i wrong?

Swedish Chef.6082:

a rare event mini that’s not actually exclusive to the event period, like the Spooky set was

Whats your source on this please?

I’m a longbow ranger, simply interrupt them by using “4” whatever it’s called again. No problem.

This…………………….

Supporting option two. Extend phase one.

I actually for one think the events they create for us are great. Even more than great.

What I’m missing however, is a red thread. I have no clue where to go. I have to go to reddit, dulfy’s or whatever to actually get some idea as to what i want to do – Then i can go have fun. It would just be real nice if it was a bit clearer where to go and why. Hold a carrot in my face please

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

There were some events that we could not extend past Phase 1, unfortunately. Extending all events in Phase 1 would have been a much more extensive fix, requiring much more time to thoroughly regress. Given the time sensitive nature of the event, we extended what portions we were able to effectively.

Our developers are reading all of your feedback and are taking all the critiques on board.

We apologize that this means that folks are not able to complete the Miyani chain.

I’m sorry, but this is simply not okay. A lot of players didn’t have access to this event chain at all. Unintentional as it might be, that’s like saying hey, let’s host an event, but let’s not do it at server X, Y and Z.

Thank you for that. Them patch notes too long. This thread may be locked, my premises were wrong. Thanks to all who settled me a bit down q:

Pustulio.8207:

@OP

I think they said anything that you can get in the chests, you can get from drops while running around in the “Sea Of Sorrows” area, and the dungeon.

If you have a source for this (And not just that chests drops rarely) i’d love to have it

Nevermore.5487:

Do they hold the gun on your head and force you to buy stupid chests?

You aren’t even reading what I’m arguing.

I’d kittening LOVE to buy some chests, no need for your guns. But I’d also like to know that if I buy a decent amount, I’d have the new stuff, instead of this 0.1% or whatever it is chance to get the items I want. It’s that you can’t be certain to get something by playing or buying. You can either grind your kitten off to get chests, or buy for who knows how much cash worth in chests, and still not be sure to get anything. I don’t find that’s ok.

Please read instead of being pissed off that someone argue whether something is a good idea.

munkiman.3068:

Wow. You seriously can’t complain based on the course of action they took after Halloween. Also, give them some kitten time to make stuff to put in the store. geesh…

Why can I not complain?
And as I stated in my first post, I have NOTHING against the gemstore. But if you buy things for your real life cash, is it too much to ask to actually know what you get for your money? Even from their perspective, I’m not sure the make more money this way. If I could go right in and buy the new minipets and skins, I’d probably do so. But with the “very rare” chance of getting them even if you pay in gems, I honestly don’t feel like buying anything.

And no, I don’t feel self-entitled, I just want it to be feasible that if you want item X you have to do Y to do it. But I can’t buy for 500$ chests and know I will have for example all the minipets. That’s a problem to me.

cherrie.8907:

What can I say… GW2 Monetization Director is an ex-Nexon employee who previously worked on Maple Story so don’t expect GW1 store model (despite ANet promising it willstay mostly the same). Expect worst of the worst korean grinder models to creep into the game, especially now that NCSoft is on 50-week low and they will desperately try to push on for money.
Oh wait it’s already happened.

I’m normally the one to downvote these posts into oblivion, but I’m beginning to feel there’s some truth to it. :/

From your Wiki page:

Gem Store: 250 gems each or 10 Units for 1800 Gems.
Mystic Forge: using one of the following recipes
3 island skins (e.g. shoulders), 1 passion flower, 1 passion fruit, and 1 karka shell
A set of mask or shoulder skins (1 light, 1 medium, one heavy) and 1 karka shell.

Can we agree that even the Mystic Forge recipes for the chest contain items FROM the chest itself?

It’s just their way of “Oh you couldn’t use the last 5 chests for anything? You can have another go, if you give us back all the skins you got”.

I usually do research. My rant is only due to that research, but I entirely skipped the line with the chest being a rare drop too. That was my fault.

I’m still nowhere near a fan of having a “rare drop” chest with a “very rare” chance of getting a mini from that “rare” chest.

Say that rare is 1/50 monsters dropping chests. Say that “very rare” mini means 1/100. That’s 5.000 kills to get 1 of the minipets. Niiiice.

For sure I’m not the only collector type of player in this game.
At halloween it was Black Lion / Mad King chests with the VERY rare Item Skins.
Now we get new chests with MORE rare skins and VERY rare minipets.

I’m not normally one to complain, but could you guys at Arenanet PLEASE be less greedy?

I’m quite ok with buying things at the gemstore. But this is too much. A lot of players like to collect things like minipets. You are making that impossible, by forcing us to spend who knows how many gems to get them, because it is left to chance.

I hold nothing against the Gemstore, it’s an excellent idea. But make the items feasible! A bit of random chance is ok. Adding something “very rare” and very expensive is not the way to do it. But ok, i ate that one, and read further down the patchnotes;

The chests are only available for a limited time. NO. Just. NO! If you want us to pay a kittenload of our hard-earnt real-life cash, you give us the time we need.

I love your game and everything about it. But you are beginning to act in the way that shuts down all F2P games – “You want this? – Ok, but you’re going to pay me for it!”.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels like this?

Just a big fat THANK YOU for the official post. It’s appreciated, well formulated and exactly what I was hoping for

Oh there’s a lot of depth. Have you ever tried researching into the lore? Ever followed a Dynamic Event from beginning to end? And from beginning to end i mean more than following a pack bull some place. See the conversations, follow NPC’s. There is a whole lot of depth and backstory if you look for it.

Also, excellent post by Zinwrath. And a difficulty buff would be really nice. I think dungeons are fine, but the PvE world is too easy.

At this point it would be nice to hear an official update on this bug, there’s a ridiculous amount of players waiting to get in Ascalon Catacombs, yet no one has been able to do so for several hours.

Bumping this. Ascalon Catacombs have 20-30 players waiting on Far Shiverpeaks server. Exactly same bug – When we get in that is, that isn’t even possible all the time. Tried relogging, re-partying, having only one player enter at a time etc etc.

Same issue here, still no support either

Which dungeon
– Ascalon Catacombs
If you are joining through the pop-up dialogue or by walking up to the entry point
– Tried both
How many people in the party tried creating the instance
– At least 3 of us
Any other details you can provide
– No one else can get in. See about 20 people outside catacombs trying to get in.