Brangwen Liana.5632

I started having this issue yesterday and am still having it now. I cannot log into the game at all. Once I read this thread, I went and looked and yes, same problem. Multiple ghost copies of the client-server are showing up and at least 2 copies show up anytime I try and log in. 1 copy is at 0.00 processor used, and the second copy shows somewhere around 6.4 or so use. Still unable to log in as of a few minutes ago. Update: I got it fixed. I had to go in and remove the multiple clients. Then restart, and I am back up and running.

The mail received in-game is calling it Bonus Event: World vs. World Rush

I went and dug through the wiki. 365 are available through pips. Another 90 are available through the weekly achieves. There used to be language about a cap for each week, but when I went and dug through the wiki I don't see that anymore. It looks like there isn't a cap anymore per se. That's good! Workon on leggie armor here and I need skirmish ticket's in abundance!

Having a bonus event is awesome! Does this mean since one of the rewards are skirmish tickets that you have removed the cap on how many skirmish tickets can be gotten during the rush week?

I have been busy playing, and just realized that there are decorations for SOTO already out. I got my scribe, went in and started in. Ran into the issue with the gate that has already been identified. Still not fixed yet. I really wish one of the ingredients were NOT charged quartz crystals. I have been stockpiling those for gear, and don't like needing to use them for the guild hall to make decorations. Looking forward to more decoration adds. I would like to create a mini wizard's tower in my hall. The walls, floors, etc... are there but need the stuff to in it other than the orb stand.

I am enjoying the new expansion a lot. I was super excited about the new path for another leggie armor set. I have full set of lightweight armor from Raids, and am working on a heavy set in WvW. I wanted to do my medium set using this new PvE path. I am 82% into the collection achieve so far. I have watched a couple of videos of ppl actually calculating the cost and time it is going to take to get the set, and I don't think I have it in me, knowing getting raid armor is going to go much quicker, to work on that set. Its too expensive, and its too grindy for those essences. I get that its leggie armor, but if you want to put that in reach of the general player who has been wanting a set, but doesn't raid and doesn't PvP, and doesn't WvW, its too much. You are going to end up with this cool looking set of armor that most ppl are never going to bother with because its too big of a grind. I am a raider, I WvW, and I don't even want to grind it out. Urgh. Disappointed for sure unless this gets nerfed into the realm of actual possibility. I will likely go back to raiding for my medium set.

I see a couple of different problems being id'ed. My problem is that today I am having trouble even logging into the game. This morning it took 30 mins, and I started trying to log into the game about 50 mins ago and was just able to log in. I can get here to the website just fine. Nothing is wrong with my internet, it's just logging into the game. I keep getting an error regarding being unable to connect to the login server. This is the first day I have had any issues with the game.

Are you looking for a guild to do group content with? We may be the one! The guild focus has changed. We are looking for ppl to join us in group content. Are you friendly? Are you willing to learn? Are you active? We might be able to partner for fun! We are not looking for players who go for long periods of time without playing. So, what do we do? We have been a guild since the start. Quite a few of us are now in the end-game content zone doing strikes, and Fractals. I am also in the midst of building our first static Raid team. We are currently at six players and seeking 4 more with very specific roles needed. Those are 1 healer, 2 dps, and 1 offensive support player. If you are interested in joining the guild, and would like to talk about the raid team, contact me at Brangwen Liana.5632 in game. Brang

Yes, I am aware of LFG. If a commander is on the map and they are just farming exp and writs, they need to tell ppl so they don't waste ppls time. There are a lot of players who are not using forums, reddit, etc.. and are just getting to DE. Don't taxi ppl into a map to get groups to do the events, without telling ppl that is all they want.

I am seeing commanders going into maps and essentially exp farming the DE map without letting ppl know on the map that is what they are doing. If you are a commander who has no intention of doing the actual meta, and are farming the map for writs and exp, please let the ppl know what you are doing so they can find an instance that is running the meta for real!

To provide an update since I have been participating in this discussion, yesterday was my day. I got into a group that beat the meta. What was our winning formula? 1. A high level of coordination 1. Using comms so we could listen to the commander's direction 3. A commander who had successfully beat the boss himself, multiple times, and knew the fight backwards and forwards 4. NO yelling and demoralizing of players, but clear, simple calm direction 5. A full group 6. A good bit of luck due to rng I ran with this commander twice. First time we lost, that was 23 for me. We got the boss to 5% and then she started her squirrely behavior, bad rng, and we couldn't pull it off. Most of us stayed with the commander as he was running again and it was clear he knew what he was doing. That time we beat it with a little bit of time left on the clock. I still believe this needs to be adjusted. The casual player is going to get driven away by the inability to complete this meta as is and they will write off the game. It doesn't need much adjusting, but it needs some. I like the meta, but I probably won't go back there except to help guildies working on it unless the meta gets a tweak. That is a shame as the fight is cool, its just too hard for open world.

That was my 22nd fail. Between 16 and 22 I had three potential successes where we were doing well and then the boss started leaving little room for time to actually fight her. Back to back tsunamis. The tail is sometimes not showing up but the icon is. We hit what has to be an enrage timer and it was game over even though we still had time. I am getting more and more frustrated. I have played with this franchise since the start. Since 2005. I play in Fractals, I have done raids. I do strikes regularly. Yet I cannot seem to hit that group open world where we can successfully beat this meta. Please adjust this boss, without nerfing it, so that it can be successfully completed a lot more often than it is. THIS IS AN OPEN WORLD META! THIS IS NOT A RAID!

Just tried this meta again. 16 times now. Am I mad? No. Why? I am fully confident that you, ANET, will get this straightened out for us. I do hope its sooner than later. So, I just came out of my last fight and I want to share again what I saw. 1. Soo-Won did it again. She is flipping back and forth, with no time between as an opportunity to actually fight her. 2. She also feels like she has an enrage timer on her that is way off. 3. Her HP needs to be decreased a bit so that group actually have the opportunity to fight her. 4. Her tail mechanic was messy all over the place. Even the visuals looked glitchy. I really do like the meta, and I can see myself doing this over time if it can be brought to the level of an open world boss, and not a raid boss. I am taking my main in there, but I couldn't imagine taking alts to a fight like that. My final comment is about the loot. Spending all that time doing the pre-events and then the meta and getting nothing out of it is going to kill that meta once people get their egg.

There is an achievement, Untamed Spirit, that gives a mastery point. You can only get that if you stand in the green circle and become a spirit, and make your way back to the fight without getting hit. Is it that people are trying to grief the fight, or are they trying to get that achieve? Anyone who is an achieve hunter is going to have looked the achieves up and want to get it. The mechanic of the fight should not be so hard that people wanting that achieve can never get it in order to complete the fight successfully.

I have tried this meta 13 times so far. It pretty much sucked up two days of play with no reward to speak of. I actually like the map and the meta. I think the meta, like many others, is too hard for open world content. Here is what I have noticed over the 13 tries. 1. The tsunami mechanic with the orange half circle happens too often. We will just start doing dps on Soo Won and that will happen and we have to stop attacking. It is a boss fight so some of that is expected, but the cadence of it is way off. 2. Too many enemies in the fight zone. Some have recommended they be halved, and I agree. Expect those enemies to be there, but not so many. 3. There are people who want to skip the green circles all together, or just have 1 person do it, and come back quickly to end those phases. Since achievements are tied to doing that phase, its very hard to get people who want the achieves to not stand in the circles so that they can both do the mechanic, the fight is designed for it after all, and get the achieves tied to doing that mechanic. 4. Yesterday afternoon and evening I saw what seemed like glitches where Soo Won was stuck. This was after the patch where this was supposed to have been fixed. I really think this fight should have been set up like Dragonstorm. A public fight a little less punishing and completable, and then a private squad option mostly at the level it is now for those who want to go in and have the harder mechanic. This is a big deal because you tied the Siege Turtle Mount mastery to the meta. I know the mechanic, but if you can have 1 thing go wrong and it wipes because of that, the mechanic is too tight. Most players are casual and don't do fractals, raids and strikes.