Guild Wars 2

The requirements and mats for Legendary weapons are seriously stupid, and need to change. I have alot of older MMo friends who refuse to even touch GW2 because of the intense grind required for them ~ I’m about to make a post about it actually.

Sorry for the late reply Karaad, being Christmas and other things happening Please send me an in-game mail/PM for invite when you get back.

So, I finally get back to good old claw after the nerf, and I’m truely amassed how badly the entire fight is messed up now, hardly anyone does it on our server ~ No longer I see the familar names who would often drop by.

The entire mechanic of the fight is bugged, you can’t even reliable hit the wall with the rocket launcher, I tried standing in many different places, even dead center ~ and it seems to be 50/50 if the rocket will actually hit or not. The entire fight is now just dead boring, broken and totally not worth doing.

Anet, I implore you to fix this mess you created with what was one of the reasons for many people to log in for.

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It is a good, and much needed update However, agony will be an issue for low fractal level players so we’ll start to see people being kicked for not having enough resistance that is the only potential problem with this but overall, it is a good change. Thanks Anet ~ my faith is slowly being restored, one patch at a time =P

Yeah its stupid, they gave us the ability to rerun the dungeons ~ but there really isn’t any point unless you get a decent amount of Stuffing/Wads, which you don’t ~ meaning, I’ve got tons of cogs and 4 frames wasting space.

But oh wait, anets response would but ~ well you could ‘buy’ them from the gemstore…no thanks

Wish I could join a “Fresh” one with all the Dolyaks alive – Its getting pathetic at the moment.

Well, why didn’t people learn from the Halloween event? I’m guessing, each time a new event comes up and new players ‘might’ be joining the game, someone should post threads about the gambling boxes and the potential odds of actually getting something you want, even if anet takes down those threads – they might stay up long enough for people to think twice.

Toypocalypse is a huge fail in my eyes, most of the games I’ve joined have already been in progress with Dolyaks already dead, so many people don’t know what they are doing, not responsive enough and don’t react or build defenses in a logical manner.

Oh, and did I mention joining games already in progress near constantly? Anet, don’t ever make an event like this again. It just doesn’t work with the random pug nature.

Guessing, it hasn’t been nerfed yet since there are still a huge amount of fail games out there. The past 5 games I joined all was already in progress.

Anet, Come on ~ fix this failure of a wintersday event ~ really lets down the entire event.

Aziff.3248:

Yeah with ppl who’re know what to do it’s fun as hell. Best minigame in this event tho (or maybe second to bell-game).

^^ This, with ppl who don’t know what they are doing, its frustrating achievement to get.

Was the achievement nerfed yet so only 1 dolyak needed to survive for the achievement? I’m not going to even bother until thats done, after spending hours yesterday with fail teams, or joining games that was half-over etc.

They nerfed the drop rate which doesn’t help, I was trying for the Princess Tonic too, and I’m seriously thinking if its even worth ‘gambling’ 20+g on something, and still your not gaureented at it. I think, if I was to spend 10g+ on something that has little impact on the game and don’t get it, I would probably ragequit like many others have done.

!!! I just go it, on the off-chance I’d try one last time ~ There is a god afterall!!

itsshortstuff.7148:

an ANet person just said they will be changing the achievement so that you only need one dolyak. (solved)

toxx spawning there was probably a bug.. unfortunately, but didn’t happen to us at all.

length is pretty good, it’s fun. it’ll only feel long if you’re not having fun lol.

what we did was we all spawned in and we realized we were losing VERY quickly so we decided to let them all die so we can all start over together. you might want to do that with the group you’ve got. this also lets you strategize before hand

This is the only good news really lol ~ The Toxx bug we got was frustrating because we was actually doing really well, defenses up, walls upgraded to Crystalline and more or less the Dolyaks was in good shape too.

1) One Dolyak dies, people quit
2) Toxx can SPAWN inside the perimeter near the dolyaks, we just had that happen to us and we couldn’t kite it back out.
3) The length of the entire event is too long, too drawn out and very little reward
4) Players latency matters, people join late ~ mobs can already be attacking the dolyaks
5) Too much teamwork involved, with random pugs ~ one good team who knows what your doing, you win ~ 50 bad ones = lots of people quitting out of the match.
6) Joining a game already in progress with Dolyaks dead or half dead = people auto-quitting

Nothing for me either

And this needs to change, I’m willing to bet good money ~ this will become the latest outcry. Come Jan 3th when the event ends, and people who are actually trying to get one of the endless tonics don’t get one, expect them to quit the game.

Actually they are ‘Solo’ content btw.

Its already become like that though ~ “Get nothing” or “Get it all” there has been clear evidence of that, and again ~ one of the reasons this game continues to lose people daily. Anet/NcSoft need to get it together and start winning back customer support, it can do that by looking at how RNG screws over everyone.

moirweyn.9872:

Here’s how I do it:

1) Approach present, hit F, get blown back
2) Run in, collect present(s)
3) Dodge roll
4) Dodge roll
5) Run away

Thats what I do lol but defeats the purpose of the mobs, hence the gifts being a fail really. There just isn’t any reason for the mobs to be insanely overpowered, I actually believe Anet can’t balance new mobs into the game properly, look at the Lost Shores Karka event with the mobs there being overpowered too.

They are essentially cutting off alot of items so only a tiny fraction of the most dedicated or lucky players will get the ‘fun’ stuff, and this is the reason why I am seriously contemplating quitting the game myself.

In my vast array of MMo experience, I’ve come to learn many things, and that RNG is one of the major downfalls of some great games. Everything needs to be kept in balance, and we all know ~ GW2 is far from balanced right now.

What should have been done, is very simple ~ all the endless tonics/pre-cursors/everything should have been created so everyone could get them, in a reasonable time frame too. For example ~ The Winter Endless Tonics should have been placed on the vendors for a significant, yet attainable price and they should be account bound (Rare with longer reuse timer) and then, to keep the ‘other’ players happy, you could have a much rarer tradable version (Exotic with shorter reuse timer and not account bound)

NCsofts approach to MMos has always been a grindfest, and GW2 is no different unfortunately.

None of the mathematical equations will work because the sample size; is still too low. So there is a significant margin of error. However, that being said ~ even 1/10000 chance is still a horrible chance and I strongly urge Anet/NcSoft to rethink the RNG strategies on future content. Lottery concepts should be kept out of Guild Wars 2.

In retrospect, even with the laws of chance ~ at some point, you have to realize..you have no chance. Lets say, the odds for the unbreakable bell are set at 1/5000 chance, meaning that for every 5000 boxes opened someone in game will receive the bell, the actual odds on you winning that bell before the event ends is so low, I’d almost go as far as saying that there really is no chance. How many of the ‘average’ players are going to farm gold/boxes to that degree? How many will just open maybe a few hundred boxes over the course of the event? How many players will get discouraged and give up? The more people who end up disappointed, are the players anet need to start thinking about.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The small, medium, large, giant, and personalized gift boxes all have an equal chance of dropping the endless tonic and the unbreakable bell. In fact, all of the boxes (excluding MTX) drop very similar things at very similar rates. The only reason there are different ones is largely related to crafting, so that lower level players can find and craft level-appropriate stuff from recipes and components.

The drop rate is far too low, you know it ~ I know it ~ Everyone knows it. And it just isn’t with items like this, its the entire RNG process that is killing the game. I’m sorry, but the OP is 100% correct. I’ve now knocked up over 1000 hours since beta, I’ve enjoyed pretty much most areas of the game, but I’m sorry the heavy RNG emphasis is what is pushing players away, and for me ~ This is most likely one of the reasons I’ll most likely quit soon as well.

Sure, the fanboys are scream entitlement, but lets face it~ They are more or less kids who haven’t experienced much in life, I doubt they have even played an MMo that actually requires you to work for your character, this is probably why hacking is such a huge problem in todays MMo industry.

Just some friendly advice, start considering alternative methods for acquiring items such as Endless Tonics//Elusive items etc etc, because quite frankly I don’t see how much longer you guys can keep pushing the RNG down peoples throats before more people start quitting.

Seriously?

If you combined all the HP of those Griffs…. /mind blown

Quarktastic.1027:

It’s not a skill challenge, it’s a group event. The skill challenge is behind her. That said, I soloed this event, twice…as a ranger. A level 80 warrior in full exotics should be able to steamroll it.

The problem is, you need to kill her to get to the skill challenge. If your on a low population server, or the zone is dead. Then you can’t easily get this skill point, I had to use my Warrior in order to clear it for my new alt.

Then a short while later, another person was having problems with it. And they WAS a new player, no level 80s to fall back on. So, the event really does need amending, there isn’t many skill challenges in the game that require a group in order to get.

Quarktastic.1027:

It’s not a skill challenge, it’s a group event. The skill challenge is behind her. That said, I soloed this event, twice…as a ranger. A level 80 warrior in full exotics should be able to steamroll it.

If you noticed, the actual event to kill her ~ Isn’t labelled a [Group Event] either, that is why it needs to be fixed.

Why hasn’t this been nerfed yet? Sure, this should go in bugs but lets face, hardly anyone especially anet employs take that sub-forum seriously.

This Skill Challenge is notoriously the most difficult one in the game, the mesmer guarding the skillpoint is extremely overpowered, not to mention the event is mislabeled – this should be [Group Event] because no one at comparable level can take her down, she even gives level 80s geared out a hard time.

The entire fight is a joke, needs to either properly labelled or nerfed.

Villious.8530:

Dakiaris.2798:

I understand what you mean…. Everything they have been doing just seems like a way to squeeze money out of players.

Everything about this game derives from that one factor. I like this game, I just hate that’s it’s ALL about the cash shop.

This is why alot of players bypass that by cheating, which hurts the legitimate players. Not only by lowering the drop rates for many items, but increasing the gold costs for items in the TP.

Everybody knows it ~ the question is why? I was just fighting Level 21 Plush Griffons in Snowden Drifts, and the stupid things have about 6,000 hp at least.. As I see it, the world presents are just one big fail, everyone just runs in ~ grabs the gifts and then runs away.

Yeah, once you get them ~ but if your unlucky with RNG…chances are you could potentially go through 10+ stacks and the cost starts to become counter productive for something that should be a fun item which doesn’t have that much impact on the game.

I’m already passed 5 stacks without a single tonic, already getting ready to give up on trying. This is one of the many reasons people have been quitting the game over the past few months, RNG can, and will be cruel sometimes. Nothing worse than trying to get something you want and for the most part, any single players chances are going to be extremely low.

And this is where the problems with GW2 start to appear. The requirements for alot of items are just ridiculous really, and thats why there is a large and organised group of bot farms/hackers in game.

The problem is that making gold isn’t that easy, thats why alot of players resort to bots, hacks and gold farming websites. It only takes a handful of people to mess up the economy, what you have at the moment is a highly bloated economy with all the gold and resources in the hands of farmers and hackers.

Antipode.2518:

That award is for ***PC***-only.

GOTY hasn’t been announced.

GW2 doesn’t have a chance for GOTY, graphics alone will not win that award. Case and Point, GW2 has great graphics, but anet has to work on everything else.

RNG seems to be everything in Guild Wars 2, and guess what – like most people, I despise and truly hate it. There alot of items in game which are just merely cosmetic or just for fun items, such as endless tonics for instance, these shouldn’t be based on a RNG element, the players should be able to work for them.

This is a Christmas event, give the players a REAL chance at some of the goodies. How many parents in real life mess with there kids by giving them a random chance at a good present and something crappy?

I’ve played this game since beta, and I’m starting to get tired of the endless carrot on a stick chasing for anything remotely fun. My suggestion, make all the endless tonics account bound and make them actually attainable without any RNG elements period, you don’t have to make it easy, but at least players will have something to work towards instead of getting p/o’d with poor chances.

Location: Plains of Ashford
Event: Drive off the Ogres attacking watchers tower (14)

This should be labeled (Group Quest) as it it clearly not intended for solo play, which is unfortunate since it is part of the chain in order to open up the ogre kraal so the poi is accessible.

The reason this quest either needs nerfing or renamed to group quest is because the waves of 5 regular + pets + veteran per wave, usually two groups at the same time (One from different directions) – Earlier, tried this quest with a guildie so there was two of us and we died many times, in the end I just logged onto my main and cleared it.

The next part of the chain is also mislabeled, as again ~ requires killing many veterans + adds. Not to mention, the chain itself has been notoriously buggy since beta regardless. Maybe, its about time to have a look at this and amend the quest.

Why am i just learning about this now? I want (need) it to go with my Princess Wand =P

xiv.7136:

Pretty sure that never happened, and it’s just you inventing stuff to make a point.

Unfortunately for you, engis are awesome in PVE and in FOM. And it’s not because of their DPS.

I have a level 80 Eng, and compared to my other 80s…they suck period. They need a major revamp in order to be at least on par with some of the classes out there. And before anyone starts, my eng is full exotic ~ I’ve tried 5 different builds trying to find that one decent build, all more or less in vain. Lets face it, they suck.

Yes. this is very very buggy !! I’m on 4/5 for this achievement, I know I’ve so far killed at least another two people with the gift and it hasn’t counted, and thats not counting alot of players dropping the gift when they are about to die.

I got it on the 3rd try ~ the difficulty for the JP was just right. Not too hard, not frustrating either – this is someone everyone can enjoy. I’m glad the developers are listening, so far ~ this event is looking promising

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I was about to post something similar ~ Its really an idiotic move by anet. Fractals NEED access to the overflow server and/or cross server grouping for it to work. Beyond ridiculously if you ask me.

Population is falling on alot of servers, Emhry Bay doesn’t hasn’t even had access to the overflow server in LA for the past few days.

Even gw2lfg doesn’t always help ~ not to mention, for fractals its also extremely hard is no one is on an overflow server..

Am I the only one then who clearly remembers all the posts and fallout from the Halloween event? All the QQ posts about the jumping puzzle? About how many people spent $$ or even $$$ on keys trying to get the skins? Or about about the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy and couldn’t even partake in most of the activities?

So call me Cynical, I prefer to deal with realism here – both events wasn’t done flawlessly, both events had significant problems. For an event to go off smoothly and enjoyable, everyone from a casual to a hardcore player needs to enjoy them and, most important of all, be able to complete them. It has been posted many many times since launch that catering to just one type of player isn’t healthy for the game, and lately it seems the hardcore fanbase has gotten most of that attention.

But again, time will tell ~ Let us see what happens over the next few weeks and decide for ourselves? Win or Fail? Lets just pray Pre-Cursors are not given out to random people this time around..

(The problem is, that somewhere in gaming history PvE became extremely competitive and in that is one of the problems, I think maybe WoW is to blame for alot of that tbh.)

The Lost Shore JP was done very well, once you had it figured out it was pretty fun to do. The clocktower wasn’t at all, that stank of elitism and that was reflected by the multitude of posts afterwards. JP should be challenging, I agree but not requiring luck, or pushing through frustration.

Overall, I’m just hoping for a nice Wintersday event free of grief and frustration, the game and players need it.

With the past 2 events roughly being failures in someway, I’m not holding out hope this event will be any different – Breaking down each individual component down ~

“With festive town clothes, wintery weapon skins, and chests full of holiday treasures, The Black Lion Trading Company has everything you need to celebrate Wintersday! Check out the new items and much more in the Gem Store!”

This reads to me ~ Gambling Boxes ~ This caused more than a few people to rage during Halloween, sure it might drum up some extra revenue but the more people burned, the more people quit. I’m willing to bet the numbers for the lost shores gambling boxes was pretty low. Not to mention the effect of raising the gold to gem costs up again, this upsets the general economy because of players bot farming to get gold, and as you know~~~ players farming gold is apparently a bad thing.

“It’ll take more than a good pair of snow boots to get you through this Wintersday’s jumping puzzle. Speak to the Festive Youth near the snow globe in Lion’s Arch to test your luck—and your balance.”

‘Test your luck?’ in a jumping puzzle?, that doesn’t bode well at all. The Halloween JP caused enough grief, where as the Lost Shores JP was fairly well balanced. Hoping this JP isn’t a frustration fest ~ remember, Wintersday supposed to be a fun time not a time for raging.

Snowball and Choir ~ These could be interesting, I’m guessing the snowball fights will have something to do with the Monthly. Lets hope its not a grindfest such as hit 1000s of players to complete it.

As for the dungeon, that remains to be seen. Lets hope its worth the time for players, after all ~ most will be either fotm or forever farming.

The clocktower was way too difficulty, the Lost Shores JP was about right – it was fun jumping the steam vents, sure it was frustrating at first but once you figured it out, it wasn’t too bad at all.

The worst JPs are the ones which are very long and one mis-jump or failure and you either 1) Die or 2) Have to restart the entire puzzle again.

The server just crashed or something, I got lagged really badly then was kicked off. Others reporting the same. Launcher isn’t connecting either.

How come this hasn’t been fixed yet? Placing down siege weapons and have them immediately vanish. If there really is hard limit on siege, then there should be some way to prevent wasting them.

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