Guild Wars 2

Tonight I was doing my daily achievements in Frostgorge and ran into this bug 3 times in one hour. Two were under water, one was on land. I must say, of all the nasty bugs in this game, this one must be one of the worst.

Yes, it has been very flaky lately. I haven’t had it switching targets to another enemy, just dropping the target so it has to be re—targeted and occasionaly target changes to a friendly player.

/edited for word filter lol

This has happened to me 3 times so far. Once I stayed in combat due to my pet and couln’t get out for hours.

I ran into the same situation as you did. I tried to take out the sidekicks by myself because no one was around and found that they respawned quicker than I could kill them. The group is extremely dangerous to a single player and I nearly got killed more than once. I ended up having to give up on the whole thing and was never able to access the vendor. I believe he is the only one in the game that I was never able to access and I was pretty frustrated about it at the time.

It happens to me on my thief. I fix it by logging out and back in, but it’s a pain to have to do it so often.

Asura Female Ranger

The ears are sticking out through the helm. I have worn this helm for 6-8 weeks without this problem. I just noticed the ears yesterday. As you can see, the effect is devastating.

The armor style is the Berserker’s Prowler set which I crafted. It was transmuted with crafted exotic armor to retain the look.

I don’t know if this is related, but my mithril nodes have not been resetting hourly, the way they used to. The resets have been erratic or not at all. For example, Sunday I mined 2 nodes in the morning and they didn’t reset until the daily reset in the evening.

This is new and looks awful. I love this helm and have used it for a very long time now. This did not use to happen before. Please fix this I beg you.

I find it intrusive. As long as there is an opt out button, knock yourselves out.

Aggro seems to be a game of musical chairs. It’s happened countless times to me that someone running through Orr and dragging a bunch of mobs with them will pass by me and the person instantly passes aggro to me. Some people seem to be doing it on purpose. I’ve seen a number of complaints about this in chat, so it’s not only happening to me.

Bruno, it’s a piece of cake for thieves to drop aggro. Try doing it on a ranger some time.

Grawl, because they walk and talk funny.

As a solo player, I would be thrilled if the dungeons were soloable but until then, I’ll just continue to ignore them. No matter how many achievement points I miss out on.

I am a female irl too and I don’t want breasts on my asuras. Thank you.

+1

I would like this too, if not completely turn them off, then at least tone them down by about 80%. I can’t find my cursor and my loot.

I like the downleveling system, but it is too aggressive at times. I am level 80 and sometimes get downleveled lower than the mobs I am fighting and get promptly butchered if I face several of them. I think me being a couple of levels higher than the mobs in the area would be enough downleveling.

Selkie.3854:

Would very much like to be able to search for just the armor type I can use without seeing ALL the armor available.

I would very much like to be able to filter by armor type as well.

Mad King Thorn, hands down.

Haette.2701:

There’s a lot of stuff in this game that’s bound and doesn’t need to be :\

Like rotten eggs. I don’t get that either.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

It’s going to end with a build. Not a bang but with a whimper. I think it’s say to safe we had enough one time events for this holiday.

Haha! It’s good to see that you still have your sense of humor after all the craziness of the past week.

Haltus Kain.4578:

I’d be surprised if power was up by Saturday in a lot of the places hit by the hurricane.

IMO, the best option would be to simply use the in-game mail to send players some kind of consumable that, when used, triggers the ‘attend the party’ achievement (that’s the only achievement the hurricane prevented people from attempting, correct?) and possibly a witches hat.

Some people with whine about giving hand outs to players who didn’t ‘earn’ it, but attending the party and obtaining the hat aren’t really things that require any degree of skill; so givging those items to players who were unable to log in and get it for themselves would be a very nice gesture from Anet.

And how would Anet verify who was truly without power and who just didn’t bother and wants a handout?

Khal Drogo.9631:

aliquis.9180:

Khal Drogo.9631:

And btw farming (Orr/dungeon) produces predictable results, MK is a time lottery which apparently works for most and not for others

Anet also has diminishing returns implemented on those, while there doesn’t seem to have been one in the MK dungeon.

Also, there aren’t very many valuable items to get in the regular game other than precursors. In the Halloween event, there were many new drops in the 10g-50g range available.

Yup but there are 3×6 dungeons daily. And if I wasnt getting a generic exo, I wasnt likely to get the new drops. It is possible to get generic exos from the regular dungeons.

I get that. What I meant was that in the regular game, Anet takes steps to prevent you from getting too much too quickly. In the Halloween event, they didn’t seem to be concerned about that, even though there was a lot more to get. That has the effect to widen the gap between a lucky person and an unlucky one.

Khal Drogo.9631:

And btw farming (Orr/dungeon) produces predictable results, MK is a time lottery which apparently works for most and not for others

Anet also has diminishing returns implemented on those, while there doesn’t seem to have been one in the MK dungeon.

Also, there aren’t very many valuable items to get in the regular game other than precursors. In the Halloween event, there were many new drops in the 10g-50g range available.

I didn’t. I don’t object to the RNG in general, but feel it’s inappropriate to distribute rewards this unfairly in a holiday event.

I think they started sending those mails based on player feedback, but it’s not clear why you think the phase 4 mail needed to be sent on day 1.

Mad King says is insanely awesome. I’m addicted lol.

Nesher.6580:

They can still release their patch. It shouldn’t be difficult for them to keep this running through the weekend lets say & still be on track for their big patch.

They already said it can’t be done, do you have some information that they don’t?

I loved the event overall. Some parts were not for me, but I’m ok with that. My favorite part: the witch costume.

The one thing I hated and I’m quite angry about is the MK dungeon. To make an activity with forced grouping and forced jumping, both of which some people can’t or don’t want to do, already sucks. And then to make that activity the ONLY activity where all the good loot is available AND the only activity that’s farmable is just disgusting.

Tinni.4351:

I didn’t make the cauldron either! We should start a guild! “Crap Jumpers Anonymous”! ^.^

Haha! Well I don’t know if we’re succeeding in making the OP feel better, but you’ve made me feel better. So thanks!

I never even tried the tower either, but I tried to jump into the cauldron in LA for an hour and never made it.

The problem with jumping is that, while many people love it, many others don’t. Jumping has the effect of excluding people from content. The more difficult you make it, the more people you exclude. The designer of the tower jump puzzle stated publicly that he only expected about 5% of people to make it. That is rather extreme, but that was jumping for its own sake and easily enough avoided. When you start making jumping a requirement as a means of accessing other content, then you run the risk of alienating people.

Leo G.4501:

I’ve put in multiple hours every day during these events, bought 10 keys with gems, had about 18 saved over 3 characters and saved at least 16 mystery tonics from past chests opened (don’t ask me why I saved them, but I did). So I opened around 30 chests, probably another 15 MK chests, I participated in all the events (although not very long on the PvP ones as I didn’t have much fun with hand-me-down abilities), got most of the achievements, got the Mad King Thorn Memoirs complete edition and ran the Ascend into Madness dungeon at least 20 times.

I think out of this whole event, I got 1 armor drop that had a rune that sold for 30something silver and a recipe for one of the new runes that was priced at 3 silver.

Frankly, I don’t feel bad about practically getting nil, but it’s not easy to still have fun while others have fun AND get cool stuff.

I think what’s worse is that, as the event goes on, more and more people only want level 80s to run the dungeons and most all just want to run it fast as possible.

Basically, the premise of the whole event is tarnished by this random ultra drop that you may or may not get. Not only do people become enslaved to the random, but on a personal level I have less and less fun the more of the same drops I get. Oh, more candy corn, custard and a trick-or-treat bag? Woop…now what can I do with them? Give the candy corn for bags? Okay…-dumps all CC on kids- Wow, more candy corn, custard and some fangs…is this suppose to be fun at some point?

I think you’re right. What started out as a festive party with pumpkin carving and candy corn mining has turned into a rat race/get rich quick scheme for a relatively small number of lucky people. I find that kind of bewildering and alienating.

The expectation of fair and equal treatment is not a slippery slope argument and it is kind of offensive to even suggest that it is.

An example of a slippery slope argument would be that accomodating those affected by the hurricane would set into motion a chain of events that would result in the closure of the game.

No one is arguing anything of the sort.

nachtnebel.9168:

aliquis.9180:

Daboom.1987:

I’m also talking about Mad King dungeon

I’m kind of upset about that one too. I don’t mind the tower jump puzzle, which I could just ignore. But I killed the MK twice and was never able to make it to the chest. I think it stinks to screw people over like that.

This might sound a little harsh, but if you are really not able to reach the third floor I really hope that they will never let you drive a car. You have to jump once to reach the second floor and twice to reach the third and both times their is no time pressure involved. You also don’t even have to move, just stand their and take a leap forward and you will reach the flying rock or the floor. All you have to do is to hit space and w shortly afterwards.

You’re right. That does sound harsh, and pretty silly too because I’ve been driving very well for 31 years now. But I have vertigo and motion sickness really bad, so I can’t use an escalator, for example. I’ve never made it to the third platform, and I have no idea where I land because I have to close my eyes when I start falling to keep my stomach from turning.

Daboom.1987:

I’m also talking about Mad King dungeon

I’m kind of upset about that one too. I don’t mind the tower jump puzzle, which I could just ignore. But I killed the MK twice and was never able to make it to the chest. I think it stinks to screw people over like that.

Cerise.9045:

Vanecrox.5094:

I agree that a “token for skin” system would be nice, but the MK dungeon allows us to get many of the same items you’d get from a Black Lion chest (even keys). I’m sure that those of us who don’t go out and buy tons of BL chests are appreciative of this fact.

They could do it like Rift did with events. They had a special mount for one of them that had like a 0.1% chance to drop from rifts(dynamic events) so any random person could get one. But another way to get them was to play 5 hours per day every day doing event stuff and gathering 5000 or whatever of the event currency for that event(you couldn’t buy that currency off other people so you had to earn it) and buy the mount from the event vendor. The amount of currency needed was really high so only the few people who did an insane amount of grinding for it got it and you had to pass up on some weapons and costumes and whatever because they used the same currency and you’d never be able to get everything so it was still a trade-off. But people who didn’t grind for it also had a chance to get the mount as just a random drop from doing the events.
And of course all of it is soul bound to protect the market from abuse.

But that’s more or less exactly what we have now and what you criticise. Except for soul binding, which is about the most anti-fun feature in existence, period. Soul binding doesn’t protect the market, it eliminates it.

The official statement has been made and a reasonable explanation provided. There is no point is speculating why Anet isn’t doing this, that, or the other instead of what they are doing.

Personally, I am glad that Anet is not getting into the business of deciding which disasters are worthy of accomodating and which aren’t. That would have been a potential mine field.

Schiann.8620:

gadenp.7586:

Well, if they actually extended the event because of Ms Sandy for the Americans.

They will be setting a precedence. In which they will have to extend or change events for any or all “problems/events/ disasters” that crop up across the whole world. Unless they want to say that Americans are special.

There aren’t that many natural disasters in a year that it’s unreasonable to wonder if they might find a way to accommodate folks.

Worldwide, there are about 400 natural disasters each year, affecting 230 million people. That’s more than 1 per day. Most just don’t make it on the news.

I guess Anet is pushing the technology to its limits with many parts of this game and they’re right on the edge between what’s possible and what isn’t yet possible.

I usually don’t get too frustrated when stuff gets bugged, because I’m so astounded that all these amazing features are in the game in the first place.

ElementBlu.8372:

So by this logic, people who win the lottery should have a different type of currency because it’s not fair that I have to work for my money and they just got lucky… Regardless of how kRiza spelled it, this is still a pretty absurd idea.

The idea isn’t absurd, but your analogy is.

This may be a solution for some of those affected by this issue, but not for me. I am only interested in crafting something that is not available any other way. Basically, I am looking for alternatives for crafting a legendary, because the look of the legendary version of my weapon of choice doesn’t happen to appeal to me.

DeathCrayon.5802:

I’ve run it 6 times and got a stack of BL Salvage Kits, a kitten ton of halloween mats, the Halloween shield and the Greatsaw skin.

They wouldn’t be complaining if they got what you got.

Well, it seems that we have 2 camps here.

Those who want to hand everything to everyone and despise those who may have more time and gold than they do.

And the market players and speculators who are only concerned with profitability and getting rich.

I say, a pox on both your houses.

And btw, I have lost nothing in this except a long term goal. I was lucky.

Silvermink.1456:

aliquis.9180:

Berethos.4526:

@aliquis

They’re not getting it on sale for cheap – they’re effectively winning it in a contest that only lasts four days.

Arachnophobia, which is what I had planned to make over the next few months, has 42 available on the TP for as low as 26g.

Rich people will buy several, save them for January and sell them for 100g

I do realize the profit potential for speculators here.

The issue is that if something is also available as a drop then crafting it, especially when the ingredient list is excrutiatingly expensive, becomes irrelevant.

That’s the mistake I think Arenanet is making here.

Berethos.4526:

42 available, out of how many thousands are playing and doing multiple runs, and is a supply that won’t be renewed except via crafting after the 31st, meaning prices will absolutely shoot up?

Still not seeing the issue, and you’re still not looking at the long-term picture.

I am not concerned with the prices in the future.

My choice is: buy one right now on the TP for 26g or spend months grinding and saving and build one eventually for about 150g. Do you, in all seriousness, have a problem understanding, that this has made me lose interest in crafting it?

Berethos.4526:

@aliquis

They’re not getting it on sale for cheap – they’re effectively winning it in a contest that only lasts four days.

Arachnophobia, which is what I had planned to make over the next few months, has 42 available on the TP for as low as 26g.

BlueStoat.9157:

I went out and bought a fancy new car… then I whined to the dealer when they started selling for 80% what I paid the next year… no I didn’t. I paid to get it first and be the only one on the road with it. STOP WHINING BECAUSE YOU DUMPED 100+gold into something. if you have that much you should have though about how to spend it more wisely.

No one in their right mind would build a kit car over a period of months and 10x the cost, when the finished product is for sale for cheap.

It should either be a kit car or a production car.

It should either be a drop or be craftable but not both.

So you got to make a book that’s appropriate for your level and you object to the fact that higher levels get to make a book that is appropriate for them?

I could be wrong, but I don’t think that low levels are meant to get the higher book since that would be way overpowered.

Judge Banks.9018:

Rumble was supposed to be the 3/4 I needed, but I never discovered anything when entering, neither side allowed me to discover an area required for this achievement.

Anyone else suffering from this bug?

Have you been to the clock tower? I had the same problem as you and entering the clock tower fixed it. You don’t have to do the jump puzzle, just enter and leave.

Cerise.9045:

aliquis.9180:

Cerise.9045:

@aliquis
before you go about advocating corporate greed and cash grabbing read this
http://www.arena.net/blog/is-it-fun-colin-johanson-on-how-arenanet-measures-success

But what if your business model isn’t based on a subscription? What if your content-design motivations aren’t driven by the need to create mechanics that keep people playing as long as possible? When looking at content design for Guild Wars 2, we’ve tried to ask the question: What if the development of the game was based on…wait for it…fun?

Having event rewards be tied into participating in events = fun
Having event rewards be tied into entering your CC info = anti-fun

Having outfits in the cash store is fine, it’s great even. I bought outfits in GW1 and am doing it again in GW2. But the halloween weapon gambling? It averages out to about $70 per weapon skin, but it’s tied to a gambling system which entices people to keep trying and trying instead of offering as a directly purchasable skin. If they wanted the weapons to be rare they could have just as easily made it so you had to trade 250 of some soulbound event token in order to keep the item rare.

All I said is that a high quality product that is expensive to make is worth paying for. The fact that you twisted that into me advocating corporate greed says much more about you than it does me.

You’re trying to twist a complaint regarding the fun factor of the Halloween event into an argument about whether or not we should give our money to ANet. You may believe the two issues are completely inseparable but plenty of other MMORPGs over the past 10+ years have proven that they are not the same thing. By pretending they’r the same thing you’re just creating a strawman argument that nobody can argue with because it has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Your post I was originally responding to was an attack against even having a cash store in the game, even if it is entirely optional. According to you, paying money is anti-fun, period. You’ve since revised your position a bit so that you don’t sound like a complete lunatic. I congratulate you on that.