Guild Wars 2

I remember I saw a GW2 review in YouTube, made by an “Angry Joe” dude (I think that was his name – I might be wrong tho).

What really sold me into buying this game was when the guy said that “camping” (waiting for a boss to spawn) was “a thing of the past”.

Recently I hit L80 with a couple of my toons and I started doing Dragons.

Well, “trying” to fight dragons.

“GW2 = No Camping”? What a steamy pile of you-know-what.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong, being the n00b I am; but when I play GW2 this is how I do Dragons:

1) Arrive 20 minutes before the 30-minutes window. Sooner than that = overflow.
2) Once you’re in the area, you can engage in a plethora of thrilling activities, such as:
a) Gather some crappy material
b) Pretend that you’re a tree and don’t move for the next 55 minutes
c) Do what I do: Grab a book while the stupid game engine decides it’s the right time for the monster to appear.

c) is a great option. I just finished the 3rd book of the “Song of Ice and Fire” series and I’m already well ahead reading the 4th book.

Now, my question is…. Is this the way GW2 is supposed to be played? Camping and waiting an hour doing shait and just waiting for a boss to spawn?

This is getting quite boring. I’m feeling somewhat disappointed.

You could…

(1) Not arrive so early and risk the chance of going into an over-flow shard.
(2) Move around the zone! There are plenty of things to do and explore while you wait for the right time to come back for the event. You don’t have to just sit there.

(3) Play the game instead of just camping that dragon(/metaevent).

Honestly, while it’s fun to do once for achievement, twice mayhaps for loot, trice to show for your kid brother. It’s not that fun to do 875th time for that 1 rare item.

After all, you are camping that dragon for chest, either hoping for that rare->ecto or jackpot with (named) exotic. You’re not forced to camp that dragon – there’s other activities going on all around the game. You could, idk, mayhaps group up to do a dungeon? SE paths 1&3 are doable 12-16 minutes, cof1 7-15 minutes, half dozen dungeon paths take >30 minutes and all those would net you 60-69 dungeon tokens (which, in some cases, turns out to be 2 rare->ectoplasma) in addition to all that silver from dungeon bosses.

However, it’s you yourself who makes that choise.
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Good choice on books, “Song of Ice and Fire” is such a must read that I think you came out good from all this waiting

Justfor.6018:

Now, my question is…. Is this the way GW2 is supposed to be played? Camping and waiting an hour doing shait and just waiting for a boss to spawn?

No, it isn’t. You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to play the game as it comes, not to schedule your playtime around some out-of-game numbers you found on a third party website.

Players are not supposed to know the spawn time of a boss. You’re spoiling it for yourself by using Dragon timers. The game is not to blame… you brought it on yourself by using a cheat. This is what all the cheats do: they make the game boring in the end.

ley.8973:

Justfor.6018:

Now, my question is…. Is this the way GW2 is supposed to be played? Camping and waiting an hour doing shait and just waiting for a boss to spawn?

No, it isn’t. You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to play the game as it comes, not to schedule your playtime around some out-of-game numbers you found on a third party website.

Players are not supposed to know the spawn time of a boss. You’re spoiling it for yourself by using Dragon timers. The game is not to blame… you brought it on yourself by using a cheat. This is what all the cheats do: they make the game boring in the end.

Not true. However, I would like you to show me where the Anet stated it was a cheat. Also how is it different than taking a note on paper to see when the dragons were killed and count your own timing. Or more regular example: asking your friends who are in the area to find out if the dragon is up or not. It’s completely the same thing, it’s not “some third party program”, it’s players communicating with each others and improving the flawed system.
Waiting for dragons is fun. You get to do lots of productive things.

You can only get the chest 1 per toon per “day” per event if you are doing the dragon minions events on more than 1 toon then your are “Farming” and really shouldn’t complain
if you are part of a guild, members will usually tell you when pre-events are starting and you can decide when you want to go over there.

If you’re going to camp a zone for 2 hours just so you can get 1-4 rares, then you need to reanalyze and think if its efficient

2b. Its “make like a tree and get outa here!”

Wow.

Last night (Fri) I didn’t go to overflow, not once during my whole session.

At one time I finished The Shaterer and tele’d immediately to Sparkfly Fen – barely one or two minutes before Teq’s appearance… and I didn’t go to overflow!!!

Simply awesome.

/me = happy dude.

Angry Joe is a fun guy to watch, and it’s always good getting an opinion of someone who’s not directly a jounalist or games reviewer that will often gloss over elements.
However, his review was based off of near I think a week or two of playing an MMO.

You can not buy, play and review an MMO in the space of two weeks, and use that as defining reasons for people to buy it. They too will get to two weeks (or usually more) then hit that wall where it’s not as fun. Anyway…rant over.

I may start doing this book stuff – I’m trying to read more in my spare time, but only often do it travelling to and from work. Since about this time last year I’ve read about 5 books, which is a huge change from reading almost none at all.
I’m more inclined to do artwork (I work in the creative field), some illustration or animation, but having to alt-tab continuously is a tad bit troublesome.

Anyway…No. it’s not how the game should be played, but there’s a whole lot that it shouldn’t be that it is now (I’m looking at you 80’s only groups).

PS: Any Books people could recommend to me, since I’m coming up to the end of my current read.

nethykins.7986:

PS: Any Books people could recommend to me, since I’m coming up to the end of my current read.

Without knowing your personal reading tastes, I would recommend the Black Company book series by Glen Cook. There are a ton of books in this series and the publisher has been re-releasing them in x3 book omnibuses over the past couple of years.

Narrative style: The books are written in 1st person. While I got used to it and came to like it, this can be an issue for some people.

World style: Medieval low fantasy. While their are some hedge mages and some mages of near god-like power, the setting mostly lacks any other kind of traditional fantasy elements.

Theme: This series is basically an anti-hero saga. In Book #1, we see the Black Company in their natural state. They are a mercenary army who operate by a real code of honor, but find themselves mostly employed by despots. For all intents, they’re basically honorable villains. Yet over the course of Book #2, events have occured to make them KOS to their former employers. As a result, Book #3 has the “bad guys” now move over to the “good guys” side while still retaining the methods and ethics of honorable villains. (Also on a side note, they favor under handed tactics over direct conflicts. They’d much rather poison a tavern instead of fighting some kind of heroic battle with the people inside the tavern. Depending on a reader’s biases, this could be a good thing or a bad thing.)

Warning: Like true warefare, sometimes a character or two will get killed off. They will always die in some kind of momentus event and go out with a bang, but it can be a bit heartbreaking at times. While this aspect shows up a little in the initial trilogy, it is a main theme over the 2nd storyline saga. “Soldiers live and wonder why.” This is a quote from that 2nd storyline (which contains the bulk of the books in the Black Company series) and it captures one of its tones.