I think bringing out events like the last one is ok as long as everyone gets a fair chance to be a part of it.
Lags, bugs and disconnections are huge problems, but not as big a problem as getting kicked off the game and not being able to get back to where the person was left off. A simple solution for that is.. don’t kick the player off the server if something caused them to disconnect from the game. Give them time to log back in (like 10 mins) so they can continue from where they left off and not gotten thrown to another sever and destroyed all their progress.
And instead of a big chest on the ground at the end, mail the chest (character bond) for those people who participated in the event so it cannot be exploited.
Btw, Ive seen a lot of people crying because they didnt get precursos from chests and they really wanted. Well, those sound like spoiled kids to me. Random is suposed to be random. I have no complaints about the rewards (even though the best piece Ive got was worth less than 5g). The chest had epics and rares, which is better than 95% of the game content, that rewards loads of crap. Well, I would like to get a precursor, but wont cry because I didnt. I got 2 epics (4 if you count the bag and the karka jewel), a lvl 78 shield and a lvl 80 helm. That was good enough for me, even though the event was ultra boring.
Now destroy your 2 exotics, the bag and jewel plus the shield and helmet and see how you feel so you get nothing just like many people that also participated in the event and got nothing. I guarantee you you won’t do it.
I hate jumping puzzles and avoid them like the plague. It’s great that many people enjoy them and they should continue adding more. Please just keep them in areas that don’t force people to do them in order to advance in game play. I wish we can choose our own fractal areas so I can avoid all the jumping ones
I went to 8 events and completed none because of crashing/disconnections/new build while fighting the Ancient. Each event, I put at least an hour into it. I want nothing but a chance at opening the SAME chest that has the SAME chance of getting precursor(s) as the one from the event. Anet said they will compensate those that didn’t get a chance at the loot… so I’m just waiting to see how many people get precursor(s) from this compensation loot compare to the event chest.
To be honest drops are terrible in Cursed Shore as well. I don’t know what it is but after that patch in which drops were supposedly increased, me and everyone I have spoken to started getting less rares. I really, really hope it’s some bug and they will fix it because it is really frustrating at the moment.
I notice it too. I always farm Veterans in Frostgorge Sound while waiting for the dragon event. The Veterans guarantee loot drop(s). Now, they drop nothing.
With all the complains about people getting multiple precursors, I highly doubt they will compensate the people that didn’t get their loot with the same chest or same chance of getting the precursor as the event chest.
I stop reading after reading this part, “You realize you can go do a dungeon and get the same quality of loot for the time spent in the one-time event, right?”
Another 24 hours means more lags and disconnections and some still won’t get the event done.
Fix it so when we get disconnected or crashed, give us 10 mins to get back into the game, on the same server. This way we can continue from where we were left off and not have to restart everything over and over. This will also solve the problem with people not being able to get back into fractals and it will surely help in future events.
They first need to fix the way how they put disconnected/crashed players to different servers. It’s a very easy solutions.. If a person gets disconnected, just don’t log out their character. let them stay in the server and give them 10 mins to come back.. this way even if they crashed or get disconnected, they can still log back in and continue with the event or instance.
