Guild Wars 2

As I see it, Arena-net has to go back on damage control again. The Lost Shores was supposed to be a fun one-time event, that more or less backfired on them. Now they have more problems than before.

People who got one of the better pre-cursors immediately got a 150 – 250g boost. The average player got less than 10g in loot. I personally got about 8g, not including the Shell and 20 slot bag.

How to do think all the commanders you see around go that title? By gambling for pre-cursors, the average unlucky player takes months to acquire 100g.

Anet developers, how about creating a level 80 ‘one time’ per account quest chain that upon completion rewards the player with an account bound pre-cursor, this cannot be sold but can be traded between characters.

Example ~

Quest Giver
I have discovered part of a treasure map, but I have better things to do yadda yadda..why don’t you “The player” hunt for the next part of the map?

The player gets the map which leads them on various chains to complete the full map, something like the scavenger hunt until all the map pieces are complete.

Part II

Upon finding the location of the treasure (Make it so it can be in a different location for each Pre-Cursor) is guarded by a fierce Veteran (Solo) or Champion monster. Player defeats the monster and is rewarded with an account bound random pre-cursor.

Obviously, RNG still plays a part in what you get so if you wanted a dawn and you get The Colossus then, well too bad ~ transfer it to an alt and get working on that legendary since at least know, your 50% of the way towards attaining one.

We’ll see how this plays out tomorrow for most servers. But I’m guessing these things will happen in no particular order ~

If your on a low population server and want to run fractals, no more overflow server either so the player will be forced into these decisions ~

1) Transfer to a “higher” population server
2) Transfer to a very high population guild/Raid guild

Either of which is a bad choice, I’m a guild leader and since our guild is casual we’re already starting to lose members to hardcore raid types to run constant fractal runs and/or people are transferring of the server which is just a bad really.

Server guesting will not fix this problem period, low population servers now need a permanent way to join Lions Arch overflow at the click of a button regardless of their current zones population in order just to probably run low level fractals.

I can’t even get the Pois in the cavern, the area is deader than a ghost town.
My SS says it all ~ people got tired of being one shotted by Karka and left I guess.

The whole event is a mess, all the players are confused ~ we don’t know what is going on with anet, very little communication – forum mods are handing out forum infractions like Christmas presents – so far, everything has been extremely poor quality, and very poor support from anet.

There has been no reports, no comments transmitted to players about the status of Phase 1, pretty much everyone is stuck at any of the steps ranging from Noll and beyond. Lets not even talk about Phase 2, as I see this event being a major PR problem for Arena-net and damage control needs to happen, lets see what happens tomorrow when most of the players don’t receive the once-in-a-lifetime rewards. Expect the QQ to really spiral out of control.

Lets not even talk about the event today that didn’t happen for thousands of players.

Everything is broken/bugged. You haven’t missed anything at all really, so really count yourself lucky.

Yep ~ a total mess and waste of time for tens of thousands of players. Tomorrows event, better be perfection otherwise I think we might see more people quit in disgust.

Easy way to beat the suit is this method. 2 up top on either side dropping the lava – one tank kiting and 2 of your highest DPSers following the tank moving as a group.

Its even possible to do it with 1 person up top dropping lava down but that person would have to move pretty fast from one set of controls to the other side.

Actually, I like the swamp fractal. Its short and easy, and mossman is a straight forward kite and fight

However, in the defense of the OP ~ without a coordinated group it could be difficult. First time, our group took about 30 minutes just to open the tree. Second time we did it, we got it on our second attempt.

Consider yourself lucky that your that far into the chain, most of us are stuck way back at Canach.

Same pretty much happened with the Halloween event ~ considerable parts of the event was seriously bugged, they don’t care. Its like, Anet force feeds you junk food, if you don’t like it, then eat nothing.

lol @ someone saying the gear is only better by a small % – maybe you should look at the gear you can get more closely then.

Some of the fractals are pretty fun with a good and geared team, some of the fractals though are downright poor and frustrating as hell.

The inquest prison fractal was horrible ~ we ended up just quitting out of that one. Getting up the jumping puzzle with the harpies knocking you off wasn’t the problem, getting inside the tiny room at the top and having to fight a veteran bomber, champion ettin and a champion fire shaman was – the fire shaman alone practically covered the entire walkable area with lava fonts. Anet – this needs nerfing, one champion there is enough!

Don’t forget, all the people on low population servers get really screwed over. Right now since its an event, it is really easy to get on the overflow. Come Monday, most low population servers will be back to business as usual and getting a group to do fractals will become tougher, forcing people to join mega guilds or we might start to see the birth of hardcore progression guilds ( ala WoW )

It has not worked for me either.

Yup…first thing people tried, it was obvious. Players are getting ready to give up ~ I’m trying the obvious forum posts see if anyone had any remotely good information, but sadly looking like its bugged for alot of players.

There’s a bunch of people in this overflow server reporting the same issue, tried everything ~ clicked everything ~ tried the sequence and they are not opening.

They are not opening for alot of people ~ even tried the so called sequence people keep shouting out, still will not open.

The OP is talking about using BL keys and opening Consortium Chests, not BLCs. Since no one else has replied, I don’t know that answer either..I’ll guess we’ll find out later.

You should try to reason with the people who got burned during the Halloween chest incident, and the obvious follow-up with the MC chests.

Come tomorrow, expect a crap storm of posts about people complaining – to me, I got burned once and not falling for it a second time, plus besides I don’t trust ‘gambling boxes’ since, if you’re a real gambler then you should know, the house always wins.

Lets see who really learned a valuable lesson

Doesn’t bode well for crafting actual ascended gear..

Yeah, Astral has it right ~ and I bet you guys haven’t even seen some of the gear people have been linking in map chats – some of it is atrociously overpowered compared to current exotic gear.

Honestly if anyone was to acquire the top level of Ascended vs exotic gear..the exotic wouldn’t even remotely stand a chance, so basically the entire balance of the game very much hinges on how easy it is to acquire ascended gear. Personally for me, if this level of gear becomes a massive grindfest to acquire, such as gold farming etc ~ Then I’ll seriously be looking elsewhere for my MMo fix because, we all know…the people with the most bots farming, will get the most gear.

However, if getting ascended gear is purely, and I mean purely based on completing fractal paths and going ever deeper instead of farming, then this could be a good thing – right now, this could go either way.

Yeah, but the cost to craft them could be pretty ridiculous. After all, gold isn’t that easy to acquire – its not like the average player can farm up 100g a week.

Basically, unless these ascended items are acquired much in the same way current dungeon exotics are farmed with tokens, then it’ll fail and the entire game will suffer.

All ascended gear makes me worry about the future of Guild Wars 2, the items what has been linked in map chat stat wise have all been massively superior to exotic gear, meaning we could be witnessing the end of casual guild wars 2 as we know it.

The reasons; exotic gear right now is somewhat easy to acquire, thus keeping playing field pretty much even especially in W3 – if ascended gear will be like other MMos where only the top 5% of players will likely acquire it, then W3 balance could alter very dramatically and could even start a mass exodus of casual players, leaving servers with even more problems.

*Also, Legendary items are hard to get for the average player. At the moment, most if not all the people currently carrying around Legendary weapons have all had alot of help and/or exploited/botted/credit card the way to them. Trust me, they are not that easy to get.

Honestly, it purely looks like Anet is travelling purely down the greedy gambling box path, especially after the disastrous halloween events. Honestly, if you guys spend even 1c on the TP to gamble and lose, its your own fault, I for one – will not be spending any amount of money.

Lucky Stars is gearing up for the Lost Shores and all future content, if you are looking for a casual guild with many guild upgrades/guild buffs – then please contact me or an officer for an invite.

This issue started again last night, several guild members unable to join party and/or then found themselves in what appeared to be a seperate ‘version’ of the world and was forced to re-log to get back into the party.

Right now, trying to do a dungeon (AC) with guild, and one of our members is unable to enter the dungeon with us. So yeah, something going wrong with parties again.

Update: We couldn’t do the dungeon, the groups was randomly dropping and then kicking us out of the instance. This needs looking at asap!

I said there was probably about 250k players at the moment, I took that from looking at stats from Raptr and Xfire then combined them, sure not everyone uses either but many do and both apps show a massive general decline since launch.

Some of you guys should really consider yourself lucky that your on an active server, Emhry Bay is definitely among the lowest population servers – even Orr is somewhat dead at peak times, our server never has overflow active unless some special event is on like Halloween and only then, LA has overflow.

As for transferring, if guild influence actually transferred then it wouldn’t be an issue even if your in a huge guild re-building all upgrades from nothing will still take weeks/months.

I agree, Narkosy. Halloween boosted the server pops briefly, then after the event ended, back to ghost towns. I’m honestly, struggling to keep our guild afloat – between people quitting the game, non-representing members and very little in the way of new members joining its becoming a major problem.

Several large guilds on our server have already transferred off in the past week. If it wasn’t for the fact our guild has guild upgrades IV/III/IV/V pretty sure our guild would have moved off as well, but since we’re a casual guild, we don’t want to lose all that influence.

Take ‘high population’ with a grain of salt ~ like Lolnotacat said..all the servers are ‘high’ yet most low teir servers are ghost towns, my server Emhry bay is a ghost town – besides the Halloween event, I haven’t seen the overflow server in over a month and many other servers are in the same situation.

Server guesting, is really only a bandaid fix to the problem – its not going to magically solve it. Anet can easily merge some servers together without messing up the W3 teirs, everybody wins.

First off ~ Free transfers need to end now. The longer transfers are in operation the harder it’ll become to re-balance the game in the near future, its no secret GW2 has lost a very significant amount of players since launch and many servers are seriously hurting for players, in both PvE and PvP – and with free transfers in-effect many guilds are just jumping ship now which is making some servers suffer even more with very low populations.

PvE

Many (Group Events) obviously need a decent amount of players, especially events in Orr which require very significant amount of players, alot of servers now just don’t have the numbers to successfully complete these events which prevents progression which leads to more people leaving the server. Lets not even talk about dungeons!

W3

Population is really the key to winning, sure tactics play a part but really it boils down to sheer numbers – the top tier servers have 24/7 full W3, and the bottom tier servers have outmanned buffs almost constantly, Anet don’t you see this as a problem?

Whats going to happen when 80%+ of players transfer off dead servers and only bots remain? This is already happening, and honestly anet/developers you need to start fixing this problem now, instead of worrying about content to keep the remaining players happy, that can come once you have fixed the hole you’ve been digging for yourself.

I think what needs to happen is maybe the bottom six servers need to be condensed into 3 creating a new tier, also free transfers needs to end, discuss?

Not true, even places like Cursed Shore are dead on some servers – at launch GW2 sold..2 million copies, right now they is probably less than 250k players across all the servers.

Hello Retsuko, please contact me or any of our officers for an invite

Hello Scarlot, you could try our Lucky Star Guild

We are a casual PvX guild – even though we have alot of anime/gamers we also have many non-anime fans who like our casual environment. We have many guild upgrades, currently working on Architecture Level 5 and always have guild buffs up and running.

Lucky Stars is still recruiting for our casual friendly guild, the Hurricane affected many of our members but we’re still open for business. Nothing will stop our super cute guild

I can also tell that Araneyl hasn’t played many other MMos either, this was one of the worst implementations of a Halloween event I’ve personally seen. On ‘paper’ it sounds good, it just was executed and constructed poorly, and there can be easily 5 maybe more reasons why.

1. Crippling bugs and issues through-out the event
2. Gambling/Lottery system for skins
3. Significant issues with the dungeons (MK being one of them)
4. Clocktower was far harder than it really needed to be
5. Event was shorter than any other MMo
6. No support/care for people affected by Sandy
7. Required very excessive amounts of grinding (Master Carver Title for example)
8. Event was too hardcore, casual players and people who work etc..was overlooked

They don’t care Icy, along with what seems alot of other players on the forums.

I care, about both issues. I’m annoyed that we wasn’t giving the same level of customer service, on the flip side I’m glad you guys in NJ managed to pull through, some places in NJ..not so lucky

@Tyrick, its about fairness. And what Sharna said is 100% true, god help Anet is something happens in Korea during an event and they get a full extension or a reset.

One of the main problem with forums is lack of immaturity to see why people actually complain, alot of people chalk it up to entitlement and they so wrong, its about having the same chance to acquire something in game that stands out from the rest of the mundane, its about fairness and many players are far too competitive, even in PvE environments the game has become competitive, how many players you seen bragging about Chain Sword Skins etc?? Its really amazing how many elitist players this game has in such as short period of time after launch.

I personally see no real reason or excuse to extend the Halloween event until Sunday evening, most people are getting power back and that should give a significant chance for players to get some/all of content. To people seeing this as a negative? Explain why would PvE content…even bother you that other players might actually be able to finish it?

Yeah, but no love for all the players who missed all the other content and thus, have no chance at the title or any of the exotics.

I thought the Halloween event was handled and executed very poorly, tremendous amount of bugs right from the start. BLC // Mad Chests was more or less a scam in-disguise and zero support for people suffering through the Hurricane who wanted to take part and finish some of these events, and for the most part felt like a slap in the face to many players who have already suffered a significant ‘event’

Please, for future events ~ it should be about having fun and entertaining the players. Do not make ‘time-limited/one shot’ events which require the player to be online at a very specific time. Also, extend the length of events in general – example, GW2 Halloween events started 22nd October, however WoW Halloween events started 18th.

Also, please do not go down the gambling path for items – if you want to give out items for events, either give them in FREE boxes, gem store one time purchases or by completing specific events. Finally, if you want to have very very difficult events (clocktower), then these should be added first and should be fully tested to minimise problems that could/would cause player frustration/griefing.

Actually the OP is wrong, GW2 rewards persistence rather than skill. However, skill does play a part though but if you keep trying, you’ll essentially win unless you go insane – the clocktower JP was a clearly defined example of that…lol

Until such a time all the camera bugs can be fixed, please consider all new jumping puzzles, especially event ones – make them less annoying like clocktower.

I agree that ‘entitlement’ is a dirty word in MMos – the reverse is also true for people ‘bragging/showing’ off, all online games have both – the problem is when you have problems that prevent a large amount of people from achieving something in-game that otherwise, they ‘probably’ would have completed; there really should be something for them at least.

To all the people who are saying the event shouldn’t be extended, your reasoning is flawed – and again, in all honesty ~ Its’ both petty and selfish.

My current views on anet is really, honestly at an all-time low – not only with the BLC chest scandal and now this, I don’t even know what happened after all that mess since I’ve been offline since mid-Monday.

But from now on, any future events I’m going to take them with a pinch of salt, I’m not going to trust anet to be fair, and I’m not going to spend money on gambling.

Your being somantic, this is about countless numbers of legitimate players who want to actually have somewhat of a shot at finishing these events. Its not about fairness, because that is a weak excuse. If your on a US server, and the US suffers a tragic event then the US servers should at least have an extension so players could equally part-take in festivities, the same could be said for Korean or EU servers for example – there is no bias – no ‘favoring’ countries.

From what I read earlier after getting back online, actually sickened me really to think a company would essentially snub alot of loyal fans, many of which in some dark hours might want just a little bit of fun?

I personally got back online about an hour ago, I managed to see a glimmer of the rest of the events before anet took it back down, I don’t know whether to rage about that, ragequit and actually go do something about all the damage instead or just complain about how anet fails the players yet again.

I also call BS on that – it isn’t anything about being fair or ‘special’ its about players, members of the communities who actually want to finish events/achievements/content.

Anet, please extend the Halloween events so many people who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy can have an equal shot at actually finishing some of these events. I’ve only been able to get back online literally about an hour ago!

I only got online about an hour a ago and tried it once, didn’t even know it damaged your armor. The entire jumping puzzle isn’t a test of skill, its a test of patience and honestly, it sucks ~ simple as that.

I am starting a petition for it to end Nov 5th because I, like many have been effected by Hurricane Sandy – I’ve only been able to get back online, literally about an hour ago.