I find it curious that some groups kill him super fast while others are failing miserably.
…since i understood how that exploit works, i’m no longer surprised by those speed kills.
I don’t think it’s an exploit exactly.It was here for atleast 2+years and Anet still hasn’t done anything.I think what they only have to increase the critting spots.
The speed kills are absolutely due to the guardian exploit. It’s happening on TT well. Anet needs to fix this asap. It’s terrible and trivializes content.
I really wish these were not account bound because I would gladly buy them off you. I was lazy and didn’t make a spinal back piece during the whole attack on LA thing. I have the back thing and power cores, but I still need to “level” the back piece up. It’s going to take a long, long time at the rate I’m going.
I didn’t take a screenshot. Though maybe someone in my guild did. I’ll see. Just bring many guards with symbols and that symbol trait and you’ll see what I mean. It’s ridiculous and I’m shocked it hasn’t been hotfixed yet.
You are crazy. The new LA is a massive improvement over the homeless hovel that it was.
No way. It’s boring, bland and has no character. It doesn’t even feel like a city. Feels like a themepark. The ship theme it had before was more unique and interesting.
Black Citadel for me now probably. Though the Grove is very pretty.
I’m pretty appalled at this thread. You have tons of world bosses. But you still think you somehow deserve to faceroll through TT now too? As for Teq, he is still puggable. You need to organize and actually have people make an effort, but it’s doable. I think once they fix the crit issue things should be fine with Teq. He really should not be faceroll and needed the buff desperately after the condi patch.
But OP thinks because he paid for the game he should be able to do everything. Hey, I don’t spvp, but you don’t here me demanding to be able to do that so I can get glorious armor now do you? I am a TERRIBLE jumper. But you don’t hear me calling for jumping puzzles to be nerfed or gotten rid of. I simply accept that there is some content that’s just not for me and move on to do the stuff I do like. Anet has created a game with different things for different people. They specifically said that TT was meant to be hardcore content. HoT will be bringing more “challenging content” supposedly. So Anet disagrees with you OP. They are trying to have something for everyone and that includes the more “hardcore” players as well.
The only thing they need to fix is the crit issue. They should NOT touch his health. At least not yet. Fix the crit thing and then wait and see. I’m pretty sure in time the pugs will be able to do teq again just fine.
sighs I REALLY hope Anet follows through with this challenging group content in HoT and hopefully they hold to their guns and do not nerf the content if people complain.
Anet, any idea why you give Mesmer Perma Stealth in the first place?
100% stealth duration increase + pulsing boons every second is way too much. It is even worse than thief because they can set up a 15k burst right beside you and you can’t see it coming.
Honestly, instead of kittening people up later with all the nerf, how about do some real testing before you release something. Yknow these guys are greedy folks that don’t care about balance a single bit. If you take away something from them after you given them something first, they’d refuse to buy your expansion! Totally bad move!
PU mesmer is fine. Sorry, but stop calling for nerfs of other classes. And I say this as a person who also mains ranger.
The more I visit it, the more I dislike it. It’s called Lion’s Arch so where are the lions? Where is our big lion statue? Instead we get lobsters and octopus. It feels like Disney land. I want our pirate ships back.
Post-scarlett LA might have been a ruined mess, but one thing I loved about it was the small areas that were very compact with useful things. You had all the crafting stuff, bank, merchants and tp super close. It was great. And there were multiple areas in the city with these things so you didn’t necessarily have every one piled in just one place.
If any member is doing that (or being abusive in any other way), screenshot it and tell a leader/officer for that particular guild. Most of the big guilds do not accept that kind of behavior and any member acting like that will be reprimanded.
That’s not really true. I am in one of those large organized guilds that run TT regularly and we welcome non-guildies too. We only ask that they get on teamspeak and listen. It’s absolutely not acceptable to be rude to them just because they might be new to the fight. As long as they listen and do their best, it’s fine.
Teq was changed a few times. Was also bugged. He is incorrect though. At one point teq was bugged and was harder. The mega laser was doing no damage. People complained here on the forums. The bug continued for a LONG while and eventually people learned to deal with it. Then the laser was fixed and if anything the fight became too easy after that.
I have Asperger’s and do not like being in groups so im limited in the content I can do.
In over 2k hrs I have never done a dungeon or a fractal.But I did do all the world bosses every day except triple trouble.Have I to loose another part of the game i enjoy and the so called hard core who already got fractals and dungeons and triple trouble get more.
You have TONS of bosses and you are complaining about 2 bosses being too difficult. Like I said, organized groups/guilds need MORE content to do together if anything not less. Though teq isn’t even hard. The crit thing needs to be fixed and people need to relearn. Once they do, they will kill teq just fine.
And Tommy, yes instanced large group content is exactly what many have been asking for. That’s why everyone is holding their breath about this “challenging new content” for HoT. They are hoping it is instanced raid like content.
It seems like it’s doable, since in Tera you can make child characters. The difference is, they have long animal-like ears. In the Korean version, they can even wear skimpy armor. So it’s not like it’s not allowed.
I could make one with an Asura, but they are ugly.
That Tera race is bloody creepy. And the skimpy outfits on them even more so. I would hope to god Anet never creates something like that in this game.
In the context of the whole population? They are insignificant. You are speaking about fractions of a single percent here. A tiny fractions at that. No content should ever be finetuned to such small subgroups, while being denied to everyone else.
Actually, Anet outright said TT was supposed to be “hardcore” content for super organized groups. So they disagree with you. They need more content for organized groups if anything.
Also, the newest problem… people are leaving halfway through. Failure’s become a self-fulfilling prophesy just like Triple trouble.
If people aren’t confident they’ll win, there’s no reason to waste 15 minutes. This ensures it’ll fail.
Thiss so this…
Welcome to the family with TT, where nobody does them anymore.
TTS, Att, TxS and gw2community are hardly nobody. And plenty of organized groups can still easily kill teq. People need to get out of their faceroll mindset and play better. This was how things were when teq rising hit. This is nothing new.
It is new. It is double the toughness with a crit spot that is now not targetable (located under the front legs) and with faster accruing hardened scale stacks. It is broken to anyone that has played Teq for years. It is a waste of time and not worth the reward now given the high chance of failure.
You are misunderstanding me. Teq has more health and can be crit, of course that’s new. But teq being not faceroll and being something you need to organize is NOT new. We went through this same thing when teq rising came out. People whining on the forums. With time people learned. Yes, even pug groups. And before you go “but teq was made easier” actually teq changed several times and at one point he was bugged so that the mega laser did not do damage. What happened? People complained on the forums that he was too hard and they couldn’t kill him. This bug lasted a while. Eventually pug groups did kill him before they finally fixed the laser. After that, he became way too easy.
Teq is in an ok place. One thing they could fix is to make him critable anywhere (his foot, etc) and not just in that special spot in between his feet. People do need to stop with their faceroll mentality and organize to do it though even if they fixed that.
I’m all for the ranger not getting nerfs but this is a dumb thing to be upset about.
It listed the skill as using Call of the Wild in it’s legit form, 30s cooldown and all. This was a bug that has now been fixed. This isn’t Anet doing a 180 and backroom nerfing us like they did with the other traits.
And they dont fix the grenade barrage that hit 20k in one skill use? That’s flawed logic.
That’s a bug too. And this is Anet we’re talking about. Bug fixes happen when they happen. They aren’t always on top of every bug I’m afraid.
Well sure it is fine… But look at what we got compaired to any other class (except thief lel) and the clarion bond is one of the only great trait we got. And the fact they nerf clarion bond to 30 sec (they did not fixed it, they NERFed it)
People need to stop saying that. It’s not a nerf. They fixed it. It was bugged before. It always was meant to have the 30 sec cd. Look at the original livestreams introducing the trait.
Now if you want to argue that the trait isn’t good and that it needs to be synced to pet swap, fine. I certainly am not opposed to that at all and I think most people would support this. Though I do think you need to be careful what you wish for….Anet might just raise the swap on pets. -_-
Also, the newest problem… people are leaving halfway through. Failure’s become a self-fulfilling prophesy just like Triple trouble.
If people aren’t confident they’ll win, there’s no reason to waste 15 minutes. This ensures it’ll fail.
Thiss so this…
Welcome to the family with TT, where nobody does them anymore.
TTS, Att, TxS and gw2community are hardly nobody. And plenty of organized groups can still easily kill teq. People need to get out of their faceroll mindset and play better. This was how things were when teq rising hit. This is nothing new.
People have gotten too lazy. They need to get their crap together.
I was on a so-called “organized” pug map and it was a disaster. Why? Because it wasn’t really organized. They were still in the old faceroll mindset. They were thinking if they still did what they used to do that would be fine. That’s the attitude. They didn’t have a proper south hills defense. Turrets were going down constantly because fingers weren’t being killed off quickly. People weren’t reflecting. Too many people afking dead. Too many people ranging, etc…you could get away with that crap before, but you can’t anymore. And to be honest, you shouldn’t be able to get away with that.
If people get their act together they can do this fight. My organized map did it with 8 minutes and change to spare and has done so regularly.
Teq is still very doable with an organized group. We kill him every time with 8 minutes and change to spare. He needed the buff. It was ridiculous how fast his health was going down after the big patch. Teq is not meant to be completely faceroll.
If you double click on the skill, it still casts at your feet,
if you have it as hotkey, you can simply set the option to have it cast on key release, meaning it you just have to release the key while you quickly hover over yourself.
its honestly not hard to adapt to, and its alot better than having to be forced into a trait to be able to ground target, since alot of people prefer that way anyways
I don’t click my abilities, I have an mmo mouse. I did set it to fast cast. Problem is when you are in a large group with lots of particle effects it’s very difficult to even see where the cursor is when you do that. I might end up just changing it back. It’s annoying but I suppose since my necro is an alt I don’t care too much and it’s not the end of the world.
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Those people get slots too even though they purchased after january.
Yeah, I changed both my sunless greatsword and staff to zerk stats. Worked just fine and changed them into the Zojja GS and staff, which I then transmuted back into sunless.
I don’t have wurm armor, only other ascended armor pieces which I also changed to zerk just fine. So you walked up to the forge and hit “F” and it does not show your armor that’s in your bags? And you have all the mats necessary to change them in your bags too?
Nobody has their new (post-community announcement) slots yet. So as of this moment, standard has no slot and Deluxe and Ultimate will notice only one slot. Give them time, they will roll them out soon enough.
I actually like the new system and I’ve been playing since launch so I’m not a newbie (not that there’s anything wrong with newbies….welcome all newbies!)
With the change standard gets one slot and deluxe and ultimate will have 2 slots. And yes, don’t confuse the beta character slot. That can’t be used for anything other than the beta character. I don’t think Anet has rolled this change out though. Be patient.
I have to agree here. I really preferred the non-targeted wells because I loved to just run into stuff and drop my wells instantly. It would be nice to have the option to change it back.
I wouldn’t say it ruins things for me, but it’s definitely a nuisance.
I agree with the buff, but it’s sad that it’s just an HP buff. It would be nice if they added more actual mechanics. Especially to the other world bosses like shatterer.
But yeah, teq was getting way too faceroll and needed the buff desperately.
I’ve been on teq pug maps since the HP was patched that did just fine. You still need to coordinate teq and organize. That’s always been the case since the teq rising patch and that will always be the case. And it’s not hard to organize a map in chat folks. It’s just not. He needed the buff, he was ridiculously easy before and both teq and triple trouble wurm are NOT supposed to be faceroll easy bosses like shatterer (though quite frankly imho he should be buffed in difficulty too). There are plenty of faceroll bosses for those who want them. There should be more difficult ones as well.
Suggestion: If you think this is OP, slightly increase the CD on pet-swap to balance the class and leave it in sync w/ Clarion Bond.
The trait was interesting and worked well w/ some of the new ranger mechanics and traits; the change seems like a knee jerk reaction and takes away our ability to use it as part of group and combo strategy. During a fight these two can get very out of sync.
That seems over the top to me. Why on earth should we increase the CD on pet swap for the sake of clarion bond? Now that would be a truly knee jerk reaction if Anet did that and I hope they don’t.
In both the original trait stream and the updated trait stream, this trait had the same cd as the actual Hunters Call. This was a bug fix, not a nerf. It’s your own fault for being salty at the change.
That’s why I’m confused that so many people seem caught off guard by this. It was pretty clear that they intended it to be 30 seconds from the start and that they just fixed it. Maybe way back when they did the livestream people should have complained back then if they thought it unfair.
That said, it would be very nice if they would give us some way to track the CD.
Yeah, I’m confused as well. I thought it was always 30 seconds and if you trait warhorn it would be slightly less. But I haven’t played around with it. So was it bugged to work every pet swap or something?
Maybe someone can come and destroy it again and bring back our pirate city. haha…
The more I think on it, the more I realize that the new LA is my least favorite city. It just has no character and feels too themepark. Doesn’t feel lived in.
Making it even easier is not the way to go. They need to buff up the difficulty. Luckily Anet has already recognized that world bosses are too easy, so they might look into fixing the situation.
Like others recommended you really can’t go wrong with a warrior. It’s a pretty straight forward class and good for a newbie to start with. Second to that a guardian isn’t bad either.
