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Mad King Thorn Boss Fight info and a video of arrival
kefkah
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in Guild Wars 2
Mad King Thorn Boss Fight info
and a video of his arrival in Tyria... epic.
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Video was cool, was there and all, but I was expecting more from this 1 time evetn
there's a whole dungeon the 1 time thing was just for the intro to the dungeon unless you meant more from the intro then I could see..
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Server dropped as we were making the killing blow.
Even though I said I was bored of GW2, I was extremely curious about this "Mad King", so I decided to pop in, got a group, and tried to kill the Mad King...
And then we got disconnected, and I can't get back in because of some kind of BS error about a firewall...
Any idea how to fix it?
They're posting on twitter that it's not a server but a connectivity issue, presumably on their end. I guess only thing to do is wait and hope they resolve it soon.
I expected more since ANet really hyped this 'one time event'.
Basically it was a 1mins video that didn't work for some people because the servers bugged out and the dungeon keeps on crashing.
Its early days and stuff needs to be ironed out but I can't say I'm impressed.
Some in my guild are really upset and I'm getting figures of 50% of servers being bugged out either on the video or the dungeon. Which is hilarious.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
Anyway it appears we can log into the servers again.
Kinda lost heart now though as I hoped I'd be back in the dungeon, as I'd been soloing Thorn when I got down to almost killing him. But back in Lion's Arch.
Ah well...
Did they cry? I'd sure like to think so.
It was a technical problem, if they could have predicted it then they could have predicted the winning numbers for that one $500M mega lottery jackpot.
Some things you can only react too.
"I understand that if I hear any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, Ill have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
made a vid of the cut scene as well. can watch in 1080p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTlnCR_0sls
Finished it several times with 5 friends. ArenaNet's system sent us to the same phase immediately without a hitch. The boss was extremely well designed, and we all had a blast. The rewards went really well for me, (an exotic worth 1g and 5 fine transmuation stones, compared to everyone else's greens/blues.)
Between this boss event, the Lunatic Inquisition mini-game, and the Clock Tower jumping puzzle, I had a blast this holiday season. ArenaNet really outdid themselves for Halloween, even with the admittedly slow start. I think some of the skin prices could drop more from black lion boxes, and I'm not a huge fan of cash shop RNG items, but I'm pleased with the overall holiday.
Can't wait to see what they have in store for Acrt 4. Rumor is that it's a giant party, which sounds fun to me!
My Guild Wars 2 Blog can be found here: Divinity's Reach
awsome:) going to try it when i get home
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
To be clear, the 1 min video was meh as a 1 time event. I was expecting more based on the hype, like maybe the mad king jumps out and starts killing everyone.
As for the instance, that is not 1 time but something you can do whenever (during the event), I had fun.
I crashed about 5 min before the event, which was sad because I logged on early to get through the overflow; but being the event was just meh this was not as big an issue.
I had a group of 5 and we entered, 1 person bugged out hard and could not get into our instance at all. We ended up 4 manning it.
The instance itself was fun, once we got through the frustration at the start (we didn't relize it was a 5 man and tried to duo it....). The loot was meh for me, no golds (except crafting matts) but that is to be expected with the RNG. 2 members of the group got good loot, the wife and I did not.
The hiding the chest 1 level below, was just funny. Luckily we had 2 people in our guild who found this before too many people just left the instance thinking they were done.
Lots of bugs with this event and to be honest this is a little disturbing. Yes you can give them credit / blame where you want, but they have repeatedily said how the game is optimized to reduce the require bandwidth. When you don't have a steady income, minimal servers is needed, and with minimal server/hardware I think this is going to become the norm, not the exception, for buy to play games.
I'm guessing you didn't survive?
Don't think it has to do with B2P model at all.
ANet is slowly finding out why 'one time event' is a bad idea. Biggest MMO server / infrastructure is probably EVE-Online and even that has to do TiDi when fleet sizes go up to the 1000s.
Technical limitations are almost impossible to fix regardless of business model. Even WoW can't handle 1000+ toons at once and that engine is old with people on hardware that's light years ahead when it was made.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
i remember some of the older MMOs, my memory is foggy but if I remember right AO and AC had dev events but back then there were a lot less people playing at once... i do remember some of the farewell events like SWG was a laggy nightmare...
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
lol just about everyone did..
then there was a huge clump of players at the spawn point that went LFG.
I've solod him 3 times now. Once on my Mesmer, twice on my Thief, hes not hard to solo and you can get out of range and heal back up(out of combat) and in doing so he doesnt regen...just slip in and out of combat as much as u like with him. Not really worth it though, rewards seem to be mediocre after the first time...all I got were greens.