Guild Wars 2

Salt.4621:

On the plus side we get to live in Australia while the others don’t. Only works if you go outside though so MMO forums aren’t probably the best place to brag about such things.

Everything is venomous outside tho

This comp is about making a music clip?
I think I know why Australia wasn’t included.. we were all brought up on ‘rage’, would be unfair to the rest of the world (every aussie knows what I am talking about ).

I’m glad that living story isn’t actually done that way, can you imagine dredge and krait forming an alliance.. I would ALT + F4 so fast.
Plus, once Scarlet has finally been downed anything else after that we have can be pretty sure will be a better villian. Rather than having a better villian now and then having to deal with Scarlet later.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Vincent Von Demetri.1450:

Tilion.4062:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

ghost.3208:

I think they did this before with the Tequatl Rising update, my guess is that they don’t want to spoil it and wants us to experience it first in-game.

Correct.

And that is a well thought decision I should say.

Players will have finished the content by then . I’d say at that point it’s more of a review than a preview, kind of pointless. On the upside, fits well with the patch theme.. pointless!

Those that rush to finish the content in less than 24 hours most likely don’t need the preview in any case. The entire game does not revolve around hardcore “rush” players.

I have a feeling that this content is gong to be something we can’t finish in a day, kinda like Teq how they expected him to be downed in a few weeks and it took us a few days, except this time it will be a nightmare to complete :P crosses fingers

I really think the solution is to have a checklist that only appears one by one as they are successful. That way if you hit 23/24 you can see that one of the zones has say 2 (and you know from sources like duffy etc) that there should be 3, you only have to redo that zone instead of the entire map. Also, if you choose not to follow any guides it’s not giving away any hints and it means that your character doesn’t suffer from Alzheimers :P

Is it possible that lag/poor internet connection could be the culprit which is why it’s not reproducing on the testing servers?

For all newbies so they know what any of the grief about the event is about (I still think its awesome even though a bits been changed). Hoping with fingers crossed some of the events still make a come back this year.

Halloween 2012

Things that have been added since last Halloween event:

- Blood Prince Instance
- The ability to convert 1000 x candy or corn items into one item
- Prince Blood mini
- Candy Corn mini
- Candy node at home

Whats been removed:

- Scavenger hunt
- Fiery book back piece
- Mad King Dungeon (I hope this comes back this year somehow as it was my fav!)
- Reapers Rampage (also this aswell)
- Mad King Entrance to LA
- Candy nodes everywhere
- Halloween phases / acts

Whats the same but different:

- Bags for bank tabs etc (although i think last year we were just given one?)
- Lions Arch
- Lunatic maze (champs are harder now but i like that)
- Lunatic Inquisition
- MK says (but no more entrance)
- Halloween recipes (ie staff, bow and shield) – recipes have changed now but still available
- Both events had skins and minis available via gemstore
- Haunted doors
- clocktower

Not sure if I am missing anything?

So essentially we have traded the Blood Prince instance for the MK dungeon, reapers rampage and scavenger hunt plus had a few things shortened (ie MK entrance).

Personally I don’t think its a fair trade off, when really the events should be bigger and better over time instead of the other way around because all the same code has been created the previous year. ie didn’t need to re-create lions arch from scratch.

That said, I still like the event.

I got 2 masks and no bags lol

MatthewMedina.5419:

Internally, we’ve been completely unable to reproduce this issue.

But how do you track internally which ones were successful i.e. do you have a few lines of code that tests if it can be transcribed again (meaning the 1st try was unsuccessful) and if so does each ‘node’ have a unique variable (I’m assuming so because the achieve couldn’t be complete without all). If so, you could easily add it to the gui without giving away the locations (unless successful). Would be easier than trying to replicate.

The Blood Prince has a knack of killing women, maybe he will destroy her.

The next holiday season event has the toymaker, so I don’t see her lasting that long.

Makes me think of Teq

The prices for everything is messed up..

If you look at chattering skulls they are about 1.5s each.. so 1000 = about 15g.

However, you can buy Gibbering Skulls on the TP for 2g.

So either the chattering is going to drop, or the gibbering is going to go up.. but I guess that will all depend on whats going to happen over the next week or so.

The mechanics in the game get lost on a lot of people, but then not everyone ‘gets’ mechanics. I’ve sat there in chat and tried to explain to people how it works but still people won’t listen..

Best thing to do is just to tell everyone to stack on viscount or they will get killed by missiles. People listen to that (after being downed once) and the pink goo will spawn underneath him so at least damage is somewhat o.k. although everyone will get knocked back when it hits 10 stacks.

You just have to assume that people will never get mechanics because its a diverse crowd.

That all said, if you know the mechanics then you as an individual are pretty much safe and the ones that don’t listen, at least they are being somewhat effective rather than being downed.

I’ve been using this labyrinth event as the perfect excuse to level and love it.

whosyadaddy.7941:

it’s ony been out a few days

I feel like I have to write this on every forum thread.. the items that are 1000 x the old items drop from mobs. So you can get 200 drops and get recipe and not spend 700 gold.

I’m just running labyrinth to level my alt (lvl 28) and noticed them drop when I saw two stacks of skulls and was wondering why they weren’t stacked together.

the cobs can drop from mobs.. so 15 cob drops = bag.. no gold needed

Just so everyone knows.. the items that require 1000 x whatever it is you want to make, drop from mobs.. so you can get 1000 x whatever in basically one drop.

so whats the point of the center bit now? having the same event but removing the main event from it isn’t very cool :/

I think I’m going to wear my wings to annoy everyone who waited for the very last minute to get achieve and found out they had waited too long to do something that took only a moment to do.

You didn’t even have to defeat Teq, just turn up. Easiest achieve ever!

Also, if you didn’t turn up for at least 4 fights against Teq, you don’t deserve Teq wings.

Victory.2879:

What’s really funny is that they thought it would take a week or two to conquer Teq, but the window to do the achievements was only two, so much muddled thinking going on.

You didn’t have to DEFEAT Teq for the boss week achievements. you just had to turn up to him 4 times over the two weeks.

Maybe there’s a connection between Teq not appearnig and the US gov shutting down?

WHEN IT’S READY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ended up joining a TTS guild and after a few fails with them finally got a kill with 5 mins left on the clock.
Gotta love weekends!

That would be perfect

Which is in 8.5 hours from now, when us Aussies are all asleep :/

Whats is the best server for say.. 9pm Aussie time when we are all online? ie any NA servers that usually down Teq around 2am server time?

So after guesting to TC for 16 hours yesterday with no kills (he was killed twice before I got onto main) and joining a Teq Kill Guild only to hop on in time for the last fight which was a lose (after them winning the previous 4 fights).. I’m really not having much luck. I have yet to defeat him and have done about 50 fails now.

I live in Melbourne Austraila and the time here is now around 6pm which is when most Aussies log on to play. There is no use trying to do Teq on my server (Sea of Sorrows which Teq is still undeated and forever will be – guilds have guested over and wont be coming back)..

What servers around this time of day/night have a chance of defeating Teq?
I just want to have one kill and get the achieve and never bother with it again. Any immersion I had in the game has now gone completely out the window.

I think it depends on the jump pad you use to leap over the tidal wave

I’ve been on TC main now for 16 hours (got on just after they had a win) and no wins since.. can’t say I haven’t tried. That’s the event done for me now.. 50 or so fails all up, not a single win and have been guesting to servers who do get a win. Over it.

I’m guessing after boss week all world bosses will go back to normal (ie no timer and less health) including Teq.

Until then its just going to be all hit and miss and be at the right place at the right time (even if you know the fight back to front).

invite please

Brings people together? by guesting onto servers and sitting in overflows whilst trolls sit AFK on turrets.

I usually get onto main once Teq has been defeated and he never gets defeated again after that. I do about 8 – 10 fights a day and I have never been on the main when the main has won. So I’ve had about 30 – 40 fails and most my time is running inbetween the two zones.

So much fun.. great game.
I’m ready for the next MMO to come out.

Timers are in place on all world bosses, so maybe they will get removed on all (including Teq) once boss week finishes?

Still no kills. Plus progressing backwards. Teq still had 95% health when timer went off last time on the main server.

perfect
Couldn’t see any mention tho if their should be a small rezzing party or if people should run back from WP?

What strategies have worked and what haven’t?

Just wondering why anet have put northside turrents that cant reach zerg (unless theres meant to be 2 zergs, 1 for each leg?)

Anyone have success with just one zerg on one leg or is he usually killed with 2 zergs?

Best thing I have seen on Sea of Sorrows main server so far is someone on the turrent facing the opposite direction trying to kill adds :P

edit forgot to mention the adds weren’t anywhere near him/her

Sheesh find a server that is most active in YOUR timezone.

Fellow guildie opened 200 chests yesterday and nothing. Then decided to open 5 more today and got 2

The answer is simple:

Make a free roll at a precursor daily, even if it is 1 in 1000 chance.

Will get people logging in daily (content can get them doing different things to remain logged in), if you are unlucky then hopefully after logging in every single day for 3 years you should strike Gold. It’s an already RNG item so no harm there, but at least you will KNOW if you are dedicated to the game then a precursor will eventually come to you (I’m talking about any precursor – if you get trident after 3 years of trying then you can in fact cry then).

Doomdesire.9365:

Been playing since release
At the top of my head, I can probably think of about 12 exotics that I looted since release, with the best being Final rest

I’m about on par with this. Mind you all the armour I’m wearing is from throwing in 4 x rare into MF to get exotics.

Got mine on my first attempt of Shadow Behemoth.
Look at TP and it was 40g, the next day it was worth 20g.

They are legend-wait-for-it..dary!

I logged back in just to see what was happening while Tera was updating and it came up with a message saying that GW2 was already running (it was aaaages ago since I had played!). I looked and it was hidden in the windows 8 task manager and no where else. Could this be the reason why DR is messed up??

Maybe the perceived X-files conspiracy mind set is because we have been playing other MMO’s that are a lot more rewarding and not so much of a chore compared to this?

My experience with the Nov patch was the day it came out I was getting rares and also got 2 exo’s.. and has gradually been getting worse and worse.. so much now I am happy when a green drops.. well was happy because I still haven’t logged back in for a while now and don’t really plan to after all of this kafuffle :P

I predicted this is exactly what would happen.
Also, seeing as we paid for the game and they took our money they don’t really need us on their servers anymore because we begin to generate a cost.
So.. I’m dropping my loot on another game.. and will watch the perceived profits drop

I own the CE and used to throw money at the cash shop constantly. I don’t even play anymore. I haven’t even logged in to see the new patch. The reward system in this game has got to a point where there just wasn’t any point playing anymore.

spritefire.5234:

. it never gets fixed, all we get is just a msg about it and everything calms down until people realise its been 2 months and they did nothing about it other than talk to calm us for a bit. Seriously, I feel like I’ve just wasted my time with this MMO.

There you go.