Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

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Posted by: Clem.2963

Clem.2963

ArenaNet, your quest design is godkittenabysmal.

Throughout the personal story the difficulty has been incredibly inconsistent.
The early quests were easy, as you’d expect.

Around the level 30-60 stages, I found the personal story incredibly hard. I was dying many times and finding the only feasible method of killing the harder foes was running around in circles for half an hour while blasting spells at them, which is quite dull and quite boring.

Then between 60-80, I found the personal story stupidly easy.

And now, I’m trying to do ‘The Source of Orr’. At the beginning, you’ve got this decent sized army right in front of you. So yeah, this looks pretty promising, good army to help, shouldn’t be too hard.

But… The army aren’t following me? Why are they just standing there? WHY ARE THEY THERE AT ALL IF THEY’RE NOT GOING TO HELP!?

Another thing I’d like to point out is; when you choose to make the personal story server-side, it makes it REALLY kitten hard for people who don’t have a GW2 data centre in their country.
It’s pretty hard to dodge things when you’ve got a 270ms of latency to deal with. I’m currently tying to fight the eye thing which shoots pink stuff across the floor which, like I said, is very hard to dodge with high latency. Also when I die and respawn at this boss, he regains FULL health. kitten!

ANet, clean up your quests and for the love of god, allow boss calculations to be done client-side if the player is doing the personal story solo.

Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

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Posted by: Clem.2963

Clem.2963

Hmm… Seems it gets even worse.

I now have to do a dungeon for my “Personal” story.

And of course, I can’t find anyone who wants to do the dungeon. Hate it when I can’t play a game at my own pace.

Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

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Posted by: Clem.2963

Clem.2963

Well the last boss fight (if you can even call it a fight) was a complete waste of time.

Tap the number 2 key for five minutes… That’s… literally all you do…

This game has a lot of good stuff going for it, but my god the personal story is not one of those things.

Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

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Posted by: Rophus.1469

Rophus.1469

Um…. Lol……….. I am currently on a short business trip on the other side of the planet, and not only am I able to dodge things like your average mob’s attacks, pre-nerfed dungeon bosses, players shooting at me in WvW, Eternal battle ground jumping story turret dodge, personal story….

I can admit that sometimes I die, but dodging them is entirely possible. All you need to do is either guess when you opponent is doing something hence dodging 2 secs in advance, or just dodge 2 secs in advance in general. :P Can’t wait till I get back home!

Why present the player with a large NPC army, if they're not going to help?

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Posted by: Clem.2963

Clem.2963

Um…. Lol……….. I am currently on a short business trip on the other side of the planet, and not only am I able to dodge things like your average mob’s attacks, pre-nerfed dungeon bosses, players shooting at me in WvW, Eternal battle ground jumping story turret dodge, personal story….

I can admit that sometimes I die, but dodging them is entirely possible. All you need to do is either guess when you opponent is doing something hence dodging 2 secs in advance, or just dodge 2 secs in advance in general. :P Can’t wait till I get back home!

I look forward to hearing how easy the Source of Orr is with a high ping.

If you ever get to it…

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Posted by: Greyfeld.7104

Greyfeld.7104

Um…. Lol……….. I am currently on a short business trip on the other side of the planet, and not only am I able to dodge things like your average mob’s attacks, pre-nerfed dungeon bosses, players shooting at me in WvW, Eternal battle ground jumping story turret dodge, personal story….

I can admit that sometimes I die, but dodging them is entirely possible. All you need to do is either guess when you opponent is doing something hence dodging 2 secs in advance, or just dodge 2 secs in advance in general. :P Can’t wait till I get back home!

“The game is fine! If you can’t be buggered to work on your psychic intuition, that’s not Anet’s fault!!”

/eyeroll