Guild Wars 2

awge.3852:

I use sword/torch in PvP and WvW with my heavy conditions – bunker build. Sword is an all around solid weapon to right with, but torch requires you to time its attacks properly. Fire damage hits really kitten condition builds, so you need to squeeze all you can out of it. To get bonfire to work, you need to follow the flow of the battle to where your enemy will be in melee combat, or forced to be via cripples/immobilize or by exhausting their endurance. Throw torch should be used the moment they successfully escape bonfire, so to keep them eating fire damage for as long as possible. With a solid condi build you should do no less than 700 fire damage per tick and that’s pretty deadly already; especially because you will try to stack bleeds and other conditions on top of it.

In my experience, if you will be stuck fighting on melee range, due to your own choice, the nature of the fight, or due to your opponent’s pressure, them make them fight on top of bonfire and maximize your damage. If your enemy has very strong melee capabilities then it would be wise to use signet of stone + bonfire, have them waste their burst on it and possibly their heal as well, then follow through with your own burst to bring them to their knees.

For the record, don’t run Axe/Torch unless you know exactly what your are doing, it’s a kind of setup that is more successful on ranged encounters, give it a try against a thief in WvW if you need to understand why.

What is your build? I am not getting anywhere near the numbers most are – I’d love to improve.

mtpelion.4562:

Vol.7601:

That’s a pretty kittenumption in regards to how the loot table works…

This is the funniest auto-censor I’ve seen yet.

I vote for that word to enter the dictionary in four years – spread it lol!

Rikimaru.7890:

Who wrote this plot? I had seen people act more logically in Disney films.
What I am talking about is how easily Scarlet managed to destroy Lion’s Arch.
Seriously what’s it going to take for LA to see a real threat when warned about it?
I mean just 2 years prior to it LA suffered 2 major attacks! First from Zhaitan and then from the Karka. They really need only 2 years to become carefree again?
I am not saying that Scarlet should have lost the battle instantly. But there should be at least some real resistance preventing her from landing in LA and starting her digging operation just like that.
Question: WHERE IS THE PACT AND THE AIRSHIPS THEY USED TO FIGHT ZHAITAN?
Even if I were to believe they all got destroyed you would think they build new ones after 2 years right? So why aren’t any of them fighting the aetherblade airships? And is the pact on a 2 year vacation or what? I mean they defeated Zhaitan but celebrating for 2 years when there are 4 other dragons left is a bit too much. And aren’t our characters suppose to be commanders of the pact?
I mean if this was for real I would instantly go to Fort Trinity and say “Soldiers of the pact the terrorist Scarlet is going to attack Lion’s Arch we must not let that happen!”

The only explanation would be that everyone lost hope and want to live their life to the fullest for as long as they can. Yeah well that would make sense but BEFORE Zhaitan was defeated and not AFTER. At this point everyone who lost hope should have regained it and joined the fight because now it is clear that it is possible to stop this apocalypse.

Hundreds, indeed thousands of magic users and we didn’t have any wards up?

I agree, the illogic is palpable.

Some of the story is just plain in your face but doesn’t move the story forward or add depth.

Oh! But wait it gets better – while you are fighting and dying, Rox and Braham are standing there in the town square when every other FAMOUS NPC rezzes.

The illogic continues.

ParaldaWind.4523:

I remember around the time of leagues when the optimization patch came through, skill lag was almost entirely removed from the game. For the longest time, I remember fights in Stonemist with at least 2 queued servers, and there being minimal skill lag with even 3 in the same spot.

Recently, however, skill lag has come back in full force. In T2 we can barely have 40vs40 fights without the servers crapping out. What happened?

Insanely worse even in a moderate zerg.

So bad that I am dead seemingly without even getting the chance to see myself downed – isn’t that nice?

adil.1804:

who cares bound world xp. We have hackers and nobody wants to play www anymore.

Well they know that because they have been moving these postings around – so we all hope to hear an answer on that one soon.

taek.9386:

So now that Fractal lvls is account bound across all your characters, you should be able to do the same for WXP

kthxbai!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

World XP and You

by Devon Carver on November 27, 2013

3.5+ months but not a single word on the release date – we’re not being impatient, nothing is announced this far in advance and NOT implemented.

Substance E.4852:

We just have to remember that WvWxp consolidation just isn’t as important or easy to do as simply doing away with Glory entirely and implementing a whole new system in it’s place.

Says more than all the postings I’ve seen since day 1.

Bravo to you for either finding that or making it.

Our hopes are still high – ESO isnt’ better than this – yet.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

Substance E.4852:

We just have to remember that WvWxp consolidation just isn’t as important or easy to do as simply doing away with Glory entirely and implementing a whole new system in it’s place.

I just love that gif! It perfectly summarises exactly what is on Anet’s mind.

I also love the fact that the forum home page starts with the words “Welcome Be Heard!”, and yet they infract all our posts which point of anything that needs fixing or shows the game negatively.

I think I have about half infracted comments and not one of them was disrespectful in the least.

Thanks to all who are posting in this thread about waiting and waiting and WAITING for WvW to get some love and attention as it has needed (*cough pvp too, oops re-cough Living Story) since day one’s release.

We respect what is said and expect honor to be exhibited by the devs – honor to say something but put a date on that “something” and stop acting like we can wait – this one can’t.

Anet seems not to know just how many really poor people play this game. And the poor in China – talk about really poor. WxP not being across an account is an issue that should have been addressed before release – I can’t imagine how some would ever be able to have more than one commander with decent gear – it takes forever to move up ranks and be able to spend those very important points in WvW for mitigating SOME damage.

And they are going to open in China where hacking is for all who behind a curtain of tight control? The hackers here are nothing compared to some there. Wake up please guys, we already have some hackers in WvW on some servers…

RcKelly.9263:

Lion Are Now moving to Blacktide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZF0yLlENE8

….sorry underworld

Targeting in WvW? Whodathunk!

I am impressed with your build and the fighting I saw in the video.

I haven’t seen that kind of numbers from any of my hits on any character – so if you want to share that build, please, I am sick of dying in WvW.

Go Blacktide!

Curby.4897:

As the title says, is there some super build that just allows a theif to come back from near death to full hp and still pump out damage at an unholy level?

Just happened to me. 23 bleed, 5 torment stacks, burning and poison from a sigil. I can’t see his hp bar and he just cartwheels away and full bar heals himself with a lunge back skill.

WTF is that kitten? What is the skills name? Oh btw, it totally cleanses all of my condis.

When there is no way to beat a character with anything less than another of the same type and build, something is very, very wrong.

Two shots and dead – most of the time that’s exactly what happens when I can’t shake a thief.

Anet can see that there are huge inequities in some characters’ abilities against all others and yet never really addresses it. Why?

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Seems like everyone has left my server over the last few weeks. Not even a single commander online right now on any maps. Are there any NA servers that usually have commanders on regardless of what time it is? Really dont like going into WvW on my days off and getting steamrolled by 40 man zergs and constantly having Outnumbered buff. If we do manage to finally take some stuff its immediately gone if we have to leave to go help out on a different map. When we do manage to get a large group together that isnt filled with uplevels we just end up facing 3 guild groups at once. Its just not fun. What are the more WvW oriented servers since it also seems I picked a PvE server?

Thanks for asking this question – I am moving servers and I need to know this before I choose.

Kilger.5490:

theodor.3480:

Constantly being chased in wvw/pvp by thiefs/warrs because they think youre a free kill (sometimes they are the free kills)

Being attacked by warriors and thieves is one of my favorite parts of being a ranger… 9/10 they end up running (if they can).

Wanna share that beast build? **

Sreoom.3690:

You have five other alts maxed to 80 yet get tired of their mechanics and return to ranger for the agony and the ecstasy.

I have exactly that – all 80s and I keep going back to my Ranger – the one I started on and the one I will leave on.

Do we grouse a bit about our state, especially compared to the glory of the Ranger of old? Yes.

Is that because we are angry?

Nope.

For me, and maybe for many, it’s because we cherish Ranger as we have from other games, we have more fun with this one character and will not shelve it no matter how frustrated we become with broken mechanics and lack of equity with our fellow mates in the fight for Tyria and for the Universe.

We fight with races who are just now becoming sentient – and we are the ones besides the Sylvari who will nurture these new friends in the fight against tyranny and evil.

Rangers are the natural healers, the natural friends of the forest creatures and with that I will hit the thing that hurts my feelings about my character most.

If I am a real Ranger why would I EVER TARGET A FELLOW CREATURE not bothering me?**

I should not be ABLE to hit an animal – they should all be green for Rangers unless they are malevolent.

Hitting a doe while taking a tower, for a Ranger, is so totally out of character that it breaks the immersion that all of us are looking for.

JorneMormel.9850:

- If you play a GuildWars2 “Beastmaster” profession.
Want to play as real Ranger? Try Guild Wars 1.
- You had expectations of playing a viable archery profession.
- You have ever wondered how “throwing traps” actually works.
- You feel traits are useful.

I feel your pain my friend, I feeeeeeeel your pain.

Obsidian.1328:

Eosaujii.5713:

-In WvW, standing on a wall spamming your superior ac down on the zerg below you, only to have the ac disappear (health = 0) just as you press the 3 key… and you happen to have your Greatsword equipped!

Yes, you do fly serenely out into the middle of the zerg, and the zerg pauses to laugh at you!…..

Done this a dozen times at least.

Last night I was alone in a tower in WvW and exactly that happened, but it hadn’t happened in a while and I thought it had been fixed, so luckily for ME I didn’t move and waited until the UI cleared back to there being a tower and an AC under me.

Oh!The joys of the bugs in WvW!

To the —→* gotten low on hp and started to run away, swapped to GS to escape, hit Swoop, only to realize you forgot to clear the target you were trying to Swoop away from.

I say I want an escape button that unselects enemies!

Escape/deselecting doesn’t work every time…

TurtleDragon.3108:

- You get kicked from a PUG immediately upon joining.

The devs never believe this one – I hope it gets to a thousand likes.

eye floater.7140:

I have an 80 guardian, 80 war, 80 necro, and the rest of my characters are over level 35. My ranger is 75 at the moment, but after playing him a while I started to hate a few things…
kittenTY kitten UTILITY SKILLS.
HORRIBLE-FEELING MELEE [sword/dagger] (It’s so far away from fluid it’s solid)
NO SURVIVABILITY.
Gokitten, I want to play ranger but they really screwed this class over.
I come from playing a GW1 ranger, and the way they MAKE you have a pet 24/7 is ridiculous. Play like you want to?
Nope.
Anyone have some miraculous build that can solve all my woes?

So far I’ve read half the postings in this thread and seen one whole build as a suggestion.

I know there are many and in PvE I am beast – I am a strange mixture of armor – exotics with all but one ascended trinkets.

Don’t forget the importance of food in WvW and PvE – without it even without ascended gear other players will trounce you for your lack – use what they do and come out better than even on most fights IF you can mitigate some damage while pushing your elites and other “larger” damage makers onto the target.

Pets are underrated – the warhorn birds can do some serious to deadly damage – and moving faster while wielding that one handed sword isn’t exactly small potatoes in DPS if you are geared for crit chance/crit damage, eating food, and using tools like Precision boost and crit boosts.

My build for what it’s worth:

10 -IV
30 – II – III – IV
30 – I – VII – VIII
0
0

Signet of Renewal
Signet of the Hunt
Flame Trap
Entangle

My gear is a mix of crit, toughness and precision with some vitality thrown in – probably my lowest stat but I can still rez others while taking some serious damage

I use Troll Unguent for healing so I don’t have to stand in the spring, it takes from players in a zerg but me rezzing them is far more important to me than healing others who are still up.

Moljnir.2905:

I seem to have become incredibly unlucky.

Before Tuesday 11th March, I participated in the 3 knights event in LA and upon a successful kill, received the 6 chest reward and the odd power core. Since then, despite further successful events (~10), I have not had a single power core drop.

Is the God RnG really that annoyed with me? I know I could buy the items, however, I wanted to participate in the events and have at least a chance of getting the rewards.

How’s it been for others? Have you sustained the level of power core drops since Tuesday or have you noticed a change (decline?).

I have two. After this whole even, I have all of two.

When players are blatantly pushing their AFK’ness in your face, time after time, it’s time for ANET to do something.

When the AFK’er flaunts his ability to AFK – all lose. The server’s honor is besmirched.

Out of all the pics I took of people standing afk at different times during the events, none speak as strongly as this one.

Ema.4953:

She added nothing to the story, she did nothing in the battle for LA or the extended version of battle for LA we currently play.

Why is she there? Will she play a greater role in the future?

Apart from being a token Asura and being “cute” she doesn’t seem to do anything. Have I missed something?

I disagree with you.

She’s hyper-intelligent but so very unhappy and disgruntled…

Mystic.5934:

I was in an overflow, we killed 2 knights but the 3rd was at like 10% health when the timer ran out. also when the timer ran out, I got the option to move off overflow to the main server. I picked up the 6 champ boxes, moved to the DB server, found that they had succeeded in killing the knights, so I went and joined the fight against the prime holo (which we won).
anyways, dragonbrand kills these knights reliably (at least when I play from ~6-10pm)

6-10pm what time zone?

phlemhacker.1372:

Borlis seems to be pretty bad at now.

Go to any of the larger servers during their peak times.

Sea Of Sorrows is busy most of the day but more at night (after midnight PST)

Ft Aspenwood is BUSY around 3pm PST until about 10pm PST.

Jade Quarry is busy most of the time as is Blackgate – but I haven’t guested there lately since SOS seems to be the sweet spot for anyone wanting to play late at night US time.

chronometria.3708:

It’s an interesting issue. While I appreciate the addition of a disabled character, I do feel that its still somewhat lacking in that it plays to the stereotype of – “Disabled people must be super intelligent or something like professor X and Oracle”.

I`d be a lot more impressed if we saw a disabled norn or charr who wasn’t somehow gifted with an intellect and gadgets that basically made their disability into a benefit.

While I like Taimi, I feel her disability is tacked on. If Roxx lost an arm and was then told she was unfit for the warband – that would be a significant plotline involving disability.

When I see postings like this, I know that there are people who might not be handicapped in the way many others are and they can’t comprehend it in the least.

Taimi gives hope to all who are struggling with disease and maladies produced not by us, but by those very forces that were “supposed” to help us when we are very ill.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/escape/Battle-for-Lion-s-Arch-Open-Issues-and-Tips/page/7

That said, the events that are having issues have not been fixed.

We all know what the issues are and there are many threads and postings – I fully expect this thread to be moved or deleted.

Blaeys.3102:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

We are currently working on the difficulty of the Assault Knight fights; I realize that sometimes its hard to get a full overflow or that there are non peak hours where server populations will be lighter. Hopefully with the difficulty changes, it will also make it easier for a good server to get ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’.

I think you meant to say “full population server” instead of good server.

The developers and others at Arenanet need to get it out of their head that challenging and requiring huge numbers arent the same thing.

We can say it again and again – the fact is this isn’t being addressed.

Scaling to the five to ten players who are in any event on ANY server after 2am (unless you are opposite in time and population, don’t get stuck on the time) is not a “scaled event”, it’s an event that absolutely is meant to fail.

We stayed for the whole “event” no more than seven of us and we dented the knights to about 85% and that was it for the time limit.

We were working our tails with an event that can’t allow just the few who do show up to be able to win.

Supreme.4051:

You know that if you are blinded Entangle will miss all targets. The veteran scouts can spam blind so watch out before using the skill. Also if people use lemongrass/runes of melandru/traited -condi duration they will be able to just casually walk/tp out of Entangle.

So yes it’s a pretty useless skill in WvW

I wasn’t blinded. I wasn’t conditioned. I was overwhelmed. I was watching the icons that show what you are hit with.

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Still 2 more matchups before things are set in stone.

I firmly believe that Fort Aspenwood should be in Gold, but given Dragonbrand’s more impressive wins against Stormbluff Isle and Sanctum of Rall, their rating could land them ahead of FA into the Gold league.

Pitting Dragonbrand against Mag and SoS next week should settle whether they can hang in the Gold league.

Sorrow’s Furnace is holding their own against HoD and Crystal Desert, pitting them next week against NSP will be interesting to see which one will end up in Silver.

FA in GOLD? You have to be kidding!

We haven’t gained that many people to be able to handle the zergs with SOS, MAG and several others most times of the day and you think we can handle GOLD?

Not even.

We have lost several larger guilds – we don’t belong in gold and possibly not even in silver.

At this point if Ft Aspenwood makes it into Silver it won’t be worth the time in WvW.

My elite – Entangle – absolutely went off – then I wait for… ANYTHING and get not even a DROP of damage to an NPC or any of the other players around me, I went for the Necro Beast and took several pictures of the NO DAMAGE… while I was downed.

How about fixing our skills to actually do something when we manage to get them off completely – two or more seconds before we are downed?

Here we are, overwhelmed, don’t have much of a chance, but that becomes none when our skills just fail to work at all.

ThunderPanda.1872:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

Well….. it has been like 4 months since this is announced and we haven’t heard anything since. Season 2 is going to start soon….. Is this going to be released anytime soon?

I have WXP from toons I deleted.. but I just can’t bring myself to delete the WXP boosters I did work hard to get.

That my dear friend is an anomaly of programming.

I get that and many more fun graphics breaks.

As a player who has played since pre-release but who didn’t “find” WvW until six weeks before the first WvW season, I find that the “numbers” we are asked to play off-peak times are the times when the other server has their DAYTIME and we are not only overwhelmed, we are destroyed.

We can’t get our keep back except during our “day” (PST 3pm until about 12pm PST).

Thereafter it’s a 20 to 30 man MAP of players in Ft. Aspenwood who, understandably won’t even tag up when this occurs and are frustrated by the sheer lack of competition – it’s a slaughter not a skills game.

After the sixth death trying to get our keep and our own areas back to include our camps, here’s what we keep seeing, the picture speaks for itself – that wasn’t even all of them, half were still at the camp.

Please address this before the next season starts.

Alacrity.4312:

Nothing wrong with pet AI
Last time I ran ranger in a zerg, I d/c – cos my clever bear stowed the useless rallybot

I have no idea where you people are playing but as a Ranger who has played thousands of hours I am not getting anyone down in WvW very often.

Ranger are still the kittened of all kittens in this game.

kokiman.2364:

CC Danicia.1394:

Please don’t delete them!

You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know, 2 weeks later.

It would have been nice to know that before I deleted thousands of them.

Every other material like this has become useless if the event is over – so historically we were right to start deleting – next time maybe someone will say ‘hey, that’s not its only use’ and overwhelm us until the next iteration of that next use.

CC Danicia.1394:

Please don’t delete them!

You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!

We’ve been deleting them like the rest of the overwhelming ascended materials that we don’t have any more room for – the bank and even our characters are pretty full.

Psychol.5783:

Blades, ascended mats, fractal fragments, fortune scraps, teleportation devices, twisted collectibles, skins, gauntlet tickets. A lot other stuff is sitting on my alt and the question is why I cannot sell these items? they’re not showing my progress or skill, they are crap for me but might be worth to other people and for sure they are, you can buy back items with fortune scraps but I don’t care about visual look and I can’t sell them.

I do more deleting in some game sessions than I do playing.

Vol.5241:

Raeth.4376:

Now I’m returning and I’ve linked up with a former guild and want to join them, but now I find while the transfer was free before it’s now something like £20 for the gems to be able to do this. That seems an inordinately amount, I get the reason for the cost but it still seems a lot, and kind of punishes those who joined the game later or took a break from the game and want to join their friends.

I’d be fine starting a character from level 1 but the way the system works stops that from happening, so now I’m kind of stuck on a server where I know no one and those I do no I can only guest transer to and even then I couldn’t do the pvp or wvwvw.

It’s an appropriate amount. It prevents large guilds from leaving servers frequently and messing up the rankings, as well as spying. The alternative is to have server transfers free – and that’s something that would just be terrible for WvW.

It’s your fault for taking such a long leave of absence – Anet said well before release that server transfers would be paid in the near future. They even gave 2-4 weeks advance before they introduced the fee.

And yes, you absolutely can delete all you characters and still be able to transfer for free. That’s your best alternative.

Otherwise, pay for the transfer costs or ask your new guild for loan/donation.

Wanting to transfer as a single person should not be as much as “a whole guild”.

Goodness… people like you want to make the rest of us feel bad because we have real lives and care about real people more than a game?

Wow.

Toothy.8640:

Hi,
I have played necro since day 1 of this game, largely using conditions although I have a set of gear for most builds. I have a full dire ascended set for wvw, and mostly for pve I use zerker dagger/wells.

While I agree that this boss is not especially rewarding to fight, you can easily help by simply equipping an axe and using skills 1-2, putting on signet of spite for the extra power if you don’t want to bother swapping out to a zerker set, and simply un-trait dhuumfire so you don’t burn yourself. Use the flesh wurm and bone fiend, and perhaps lich form for a bit of extra damage. All of these skills will work fine against the boss, you’ll barely damage yourself using the automatic bleed on crit skill even if you’re using full rabid.
Death shroud auto attack is another option you have, and won’t inflict any self damage. Building death shroud is easy using the staff auto-attack, which also won’t do any conditions to you, and you’ll get some life force if your minions die to the boss. If you find yourself taking bleed damage, use the blood fiend instead of consume conditions, which will heal you for around 900 every time it attacks, which is more than enough to make up for any damage you take, and also does a little damage too. You could even trait for minion damage since you have the slot unlocked as you have 30 in spite, which will help significantly as their damage is unrelated to your gear.

This build will work just fine!

Ascended dire gear is still very strong in wvw, so just because it doesn’t work in one boss fight doesn’t mean Arenanet hate you or zerker warriors are evil at heart.

In other words, we have to play your way or any way without conditions or we can’t participate and get the rewards.

Do you comprehend how ridiculous that sounds?

Add Ranger to the mess – we can’t use any of our condition skills either – and nothing mitigates anything.

This patch is a disaster to any condition dealer.

roachsrealm.9284:

there are crafting stations in every home city and every starter zone, and in Ebonhawke. That’s 11 full places you can craft anytime you want. I cannot believe we’re going to start complaining that there isn’t a 12th, overpopulated and lagged option for us to use instead.

lol! People like you amaze me. I’ve gone to several cities, gone to the net and asked players – not many know where any of the “11” crafting areas are.

Laserhog.5049:

On FA main we killed green, got red and blue to about 5%, then in the last few seconds blue HEALED back to 75% health. I’m calling this fix a massive failure. The only people that got any kind of reward were some people at green who got some deluxe boxes. The rest of us got nothing except the chance to wait another 40 mins to try again. The 50/50/50 is a nice idea but I really don’t think it was necessary.

All we wanted for the fix was to get drops from the knights, or a reward for the event. But no, now they go and make the event harder with no visible increase in rewards.

Great job.

We are all seeing the same things in different areas…

The Knights are not “scaling” or they aren’t scaling properly to the actual number of participants.

The AFK problem is still here – and now it’s much worse with buffed Knights/Scarlet who can’t be conditioned and split forces.

BAWW.8104:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

All of the Battle for Lion’s Arch achievements have been tested for their functionality and do unlock correctly; I have a few tips/notes for each:

Six Minutes to Knightfall

• This is likely not awarding due to the way we are currently awarding participation and rewards. Once we fix the first two issues listed in this post, this achievement should be attainable for everyone who gets event credit for an Assault Knight in a map.

Nope, it’s not unlocking correctly

Red was the first one down, and a few individuals at red got the achievement the very moment it died, before the other two colours were even dead. It’s still being awarded to random individuals for no apparent reason, just as it did the past few days.

No one else in that attempt got the achievement, despite collectively achieving exactly what was required.

I agree with everything you said and I saw similar things going on.

This event is far from fixed to be able to do it without everyone losing somewhere.

digitalruse.9085:

Hebee.8460:

I think a solution to this would be to port to scarlet’s lair entrance as it is just out of range of her gun.

I think a 10 second invulnerability when teleporting in would be a solid solution as well since she very well may have fired at someone standing by that door.

Most of the players are downed when they enter into the Scarlet part of the quest…

That negates skill and builds in failure – I am sure that was not the intention of going into the instance…

In reality, we would use shields, armor and mitigation going into that area but not one of our skills or armor help?

Something is very wrong if we are supposed to be the heroes of Tyria… Pretty weak “hero”.

We need to know how many people are in any given map/instance and if the events are scaling because there is no way with five and one afk, we had any kind of a chance against Scarlet in her instance after the Knights…

Something is very, very wrong if this is supposed to scale to the number of players because it is not scaling at all.

If it is not scaling – what is the minimum number of people – stop playing “hide the info” and tell us what to do to beat these re-buffed and impossible knights and Scarlet instances.

Simonoly.4352:

Err did they also reduce the damage that the Knights take from direct attacks? I’m in full zerks and I was doing pitiful amounts of damage compared to before.

I was with a group of 35 trying to take down the Red Knight and we couldn’t even get it past 50% health despite everyone playing consistently well and everyone always having the buff.

What’s going on?

Everyone in the instances I was in was saying that condition damage was gone – as in G O N E.

Post patch, patch, patch, the problems are myriad and go in so many directions that this one issue has many threads with the serious problems and feelings of being given less than what was intended.

All of us should have been given a gift for not getting a single loot for the many times we DID get those knights down. :’(

morrolan.9608:

Also pet classes should be carefully considered when crafting achievements. pretty unbelievable that apparently no-one tested these at anet on a ranger or mesmer or necro.

I have to say that if my pet is whatever percentage of my damage and my damage matters and I really should not use it in a battle like this – the pet needs to be able to be turned off and I be given that damage ratio back!

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

Ryoki Hokishami.2756:

So, they nerf the loot AND make it harder, and don’t compensate us for the bugged loot we missed? This “finale” might be the worst LS event thus far. My friend was actually having fun with the new champ chest fun, it was great fun to get a lot of boxes to open. But this? No, this is bad. Very bad. No one’s going to come to these events much anymore, I’m afraid, at least on my server, which is one of the lower pop- servers.

Why make a grindy game where it takes months to get the T6 mats for a legendary, then punish people for getting adequate loot for once? It’s silly.

Agree. I’ve done this event a number of times now, and received loot on only my first attempt (that was on the first day). I just watched my hubby participate in a post-patch event, only to see it’s been made harder, but at least he got a loot drop, albeit with no core! (Do these things even exist…? :\ )

And as for the knight’s scaling- no, no they don’t. Tried to do this last night (SEA) time, with perhaps 15 people and barely made a dent in one of the knights, let alone kill three of them within six minutes. So… no quick knight kill equates to no Knightfall achievement; no getting anywhere near the Breachmaker to attempt the hologram kill; which means all of the achievements associated with that event are also out of reach.

And… heaven help any hapless condition appliers that happen to be one of the 50 buffed players at one of the “new and improved” knight events…

WELL if they are NOT scaling we have a problem here that can not be fixed by what Anet just did!

Jabberwock.9014:

The biggest thing is definitely these selfish achievements. For god’s sake, stop putting in achievements that encourage people to afk, leech, or otherwise go against the interests of the group. Same thing happened with jungle wurm causing people to selfishly wurm hop to get achievements, so they obviously aren’t learning the lesson. Either that or it’s some kind of twisted social experiment to see if a group can succeed in the presence of leeches.

I can make a 100x better achievement just off the top of my head: kill all colored holograms before they split. Requires coordination and actually HELPS the group. Hell I can even come up with a name for it: “Chromatic Crusher”.

I have put screen after screenshot on the forums showing the afk who ruin a “scaled” event but Anet still to this day will NOT answer why they aren’t fixing this very impacting issue.