Guild Wars 2

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That video shows group well equipped (if the lowest equipped one is at least full rare as he stated, most of them have exotic armor anyway) that ended up completing the event without killing all the mobs, starting to run around near the end, with one death (funny: the guardian) and at least 2 of them with many near-death moments.

I don’t really think it shows that the event is doable as intended (killing the mobs instead of kiting them) ….

Kurp.3207:

I’ve done all the paths multiple times now with random PUGs. The only issue with Alpha (and pretty much most of the dungeon) was the amount of health they had, and according to patch notes that has now been fixed. Gonna have to go try now.

I totally agree.
I think it is the most fun I had battling a boss in the dungeons as he’s tough but can be managed by observing him to learn how to evade his attacks without becoming simple.
The only fix I would have made to CoE was to lower a just a bit his health.

If you stack some toughness and vitality and not only power/precision you can easily survive the crystal. I survive the crystal -when it hit me- with my elementalist even without teleporting out unless I’m low in HP.

One week ago I bought a Superior Rune of the Nightmare with my elementalist to give it to my necromancer because the vendor tooltip didn’t show them as soulbound (unlike other equipment from the dungeon vendors).
When I bought it and opened my inventory the rune was Soulbound (120 tokens lost for a item stuck on a character that does not need it)

I sent a mail to the support and they answered me (after 6 days) to “carefully choose what I buy and to consider every item bought as final”.
Totally missed the point about the WRONG tooltip that display the runes as NOT soulbound.
1) Please adjust the description of the item so people don’t buy it by mistake. (and, if possible, maybe make a way to refund people who bought this because of it, removing also the rune from the character)

2) Now that tokens are account bound can’t you make the equip from dungeons vendors account bound with soulbound on equip? (so people can’t sell it and can use it on only 1 character but they can still use it if they bought it with the wrong class)

Me and my group die at most 1-2 times in that event (and our defense/support warrior usually don’t die) but without wipes, we do it on the first try.
Our typical group is:
1 elementalist (Me) 20 Fire /0 Air /20 Earth /20 Water /10 Arcana with a Staff
1 ranger (with traps and bow traits line, with a bit of vitality trait line)
1 warrior (defense/support trait lines)
1 thief (don’t know the build)
1 free member of our guild, usually another ranger with spirits

But I AGREE that the mobs in that event absolutely need to be TUNED DOWN a little, at least make them level 75 (if I’m not wrong they are 77 elite mobs)

Most of the golems do area attacks, so it’s probably NOT the wisest idea to stay near Zojja.
Aggro them running and attaccking on the outer ring of the room, killing the non-elite mobs to reduce the incoming damage.

I hope someone from Anet will say something about this problem. At least they should correct the tooltips.

Lewis Burnell.2493:

You only get tokens now for completing an entire dungeon, to the very end of the path you chose.

He didn’t the dungeon today, he did it BEFORE the last patch.
He also stated that he HAD some tokens.

I heard that it happened to a few other people in the forum, by the way.

Horatiu.5391:

i wonder if there will be any actions taken against those who exploited CoF. For me was very frustrable, in every party i joined, i had to exploit or quit/get kicked from party… so, i decided to not do CoF till it’s fixed. But, if there will be no actions against those, then i took a stupid decission.
Others got easy tokens and are in huge advantage, we, who decided to not go that way, have to do the normal way and … i hope ANet will know to manage the problem, i mean, they don’t want in the future, people discover new exploits and use them counting on “no punish”.

Last time in CoF we had to take a pug player and we had to say several times to him
to NOT jump over and do the magg bomb event.
There are groups that doesn’t exploit that thing.
We did the jump in the last room thing only one time because a new member of the group told us “hey, you don’t have to do that part” and after “defeating” the last boss it did leave a bad taste in our mouth.

I agree that the mobs during the bombo are really too much, have too much HP and do too much damage. But it’s doable without die 50 times, we die just 1-2 times at most, I’m an elementalist, others are rangers and thief. Only our warrior can manage to not die half of the times.
But IT’S OBVIOUS that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to do it by killing the mobs.

xlilashx.2903:

That would be pointless, because people will find the easiest dungeon, farm it and get what they want. They may as well just get rid of all the dungeon :/

I agree. I don’t have any problem with different dungeons tokens, if they’re account bound instead of soulbound (and Anet just did this).

Brewbeer.8239:

If it doesn’t say that they are soulbound on acquire, report it as a bug, and maybe try to get support to fix it for you.

This is what happened reporting it as a bug:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Refundable-Token-Purchases

I sent a ticket to the support to pinpoint it and asking if it is possible to have back the tokens and remove the rune from the inventory as the tooltip was misleading, after 6 days they answered to think at every purchase as final and to think carefully on what I buy.
Totally missed the point: I did’not buy it by “mistake”, I bought it because the vendor didn’t show the RIGHT object.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Refundable-Token-Purchases

The real problem is that the vendor tooltip for the runes DOES NOT say that they are soulbound on acquire.
I also bought a Superior Rune of Nightmare with mi elementalist for my Necromancer.

It makes sense to make also the equip from the vendors to be account bound (plus soulbound on use, if they want to lock it on 1 character)

I agree with the op but he forgot about the Runes:
the vendor tooltips does not say that the runes are all soulbound on acquire and I bought one Superior Rune of the Nightmare with my elementalist to give it to my necromancer.
SURPRISE! The Rune in my inventory was soulbound!

I sent a ticket to the support to pinpoint it and asking if it is possible to have back the tokens and remove the rune from the inventory as the tooltip was misleading, after 6 days they answered to think at every purchase as final and to think carefully on what I buy.
Totally missed the point: I did’not buy it by “mistake”, I bought it because the vendor didn’t show the RIGHT object.

Also this problem with armors is absurd: if they’re soulbound on character Anet should have disabled the possibility to buy an armor you can’t use.

The best solution is to make also the equipment you buy account bound, and possibly asking for a confirm about buying items showing the stat of the item you selected (except for the 1 token stuff maybe)