Mercenaries and Heroes in the GW-2
I think ‘hamburger’ was lost in translation xD. From what I understand u’r asking for heroes or mercenaries because you are having to move to a higher level area since areas lack events/ hearts to level you up to the intended level before you move to the next area. While I’ve experienced this as well I don’t think heroes are the way to go. They were possible in gw1 because all maps were instanced. If they add heroes to gw2 the maps will get overloaded really fast and it will also discourage team play.
Sorrow’s Furnace
You understand correctly that’s what I write. Heroes could do.
I’m suggesting that heroes are active when the card is older than your character. And no, if you leveled one or lower.
I’ve found that my characters progress so fast that they “outgrow” a zone before they finish it. I pretty much just stick to Daily Achievements, Renown Hearts, and Dynamic Events, with some farming for crafting gear. I’ve solo battled and consistently won against mobs 4 and 5 levels higher depending on my class. I’ve also solo battled and lost against mobs lower than me. It’s a matter of picking the battles you fight.
It would be nice though if Storyline instances had a party size of five, where you could fill the party with other players or with heroes or mercenaries. But for the open world, I don’t see a need.
If you have a class warrior, is not surprising, armor and can fight with the enemy, which is 5 Level older.
I kinda agree for the personal story part, the thing is the AI is kinda dumb anyway I mean, even in gw1 heroes and henchies were kinda ok but certainly not optimal and considering it’d take a lot of effort to add a new heroes-system I’d simply get more friendly units to follow you in personal story.
The fact that you get bored after doing that many dynamic events and worry about getting overleveled clearly shows what I think is a big problem with low level areas… which is stats scaling, I think the “max equip-stats” should be lower, I want lower stats else I’m just too overpowered with those extra skills too.
But then you’ll say: there’s low population anyway, so it’d backfire….
…true, but I think a good way to overcome this would be making stronger NPCs, I mean atm they can’t stand a single fight, they rarely survive, I think we should get stronger/more NPCs patrols scaling on the number of players in the map to overcome low player base on particular servers and possibly desert maps.
There’s many ways to avoid the heroes & henchies system, and I’m glad it won’t happen.
No no, they are not in order to replace the players, but in order to equalize the balance of power, if the hero went to the sector, which is much older than him. The enemy that over at Level 5, kills a character in seconds.
Again, the staff Arena, said that the balance of power will be equal. But I often see the opposite, if the GW-1, an enemy squad of five people, and I do too. And now I have one, but to me marching squad.
And if I were you, I write with http://translate.google.ru, what are my chances of the players on the squad?
@Lara Kroft Rus.3954
Man pls stop google-translating your posts I get half the things you’re trying to say.
Anyway dynamic events are set to trigger when there’s a specific number of players in the area, and no I don’t mean the whole world map but just those people that partecipated in one event of the chain it goes like this:
event completed->5ppl->a few mobs appear and the chain ends
event completed->12ppl->a few mobs and a boss appear and the chain goes on
It goes like this, bigger enemies/bosses/champions are meant to be killed with groups and not solo, as they usually guard chests nodes and such things, but they need smart players anyway… would you rather have a real player or an AI controlled unit (which is likely to be extremely dumb considering they won’t jump)?
AI’d be close to useless
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There’s only ONE case for which I would allow anything like heroes.
And that’s WvW.
If there’s empty player slots in the map for your world, you’d be able to go to a NPC that deals with mercenary contracts, and hire up one mercenary NPC that would follow you around.
They would then follow you around to compensate being outnumbered.
Players enter? They’ll take back the slot and your mercenaries will be gone.
Lara, i suggest you need to join a guild and get your guildies to help you get through more difficult content.
There’s only ONE case for which I would allow anything like heroes.
And that’s WvW.
If there’s empty player slots in the map for your world, you’d be able to go to a NPC that deals with mercenary contracts, and hire up one mercenary NPC that would follow you around.
They would then follow you around to compensate being outnumbered.
Players enter? They’ll take back the slot and your mercenaries will be gone.
Terrible idea!
Being outnumbered on a map is a driving factor in warfare!
What Arenanet needs to do about WvW is remove the necessity to get into it for Monthly Achievements and Map Completion, that way you will have less cues and fewer people who are just after the temporary rewards!
I always feel bad when I go about collecting Vistas with my Alts instead of helping out.
As to the topic at hand:
Culling is already bad, so you want to give everyone 1 or maybe more extra NPC to follow them around?
For the personal story you already have NPC by your side.
This game is not concipated for this kind of feature. Just as mounts don’t fit in!
I really miss Heroes myself. I am extremely gun shy about partying with people I don’t know, even in GW2 (way too many times being yelled at…), so despite having multiple characters over level 45… I’ve never done any of the dungeons, or Fractals, or any of the other things that you have to have a full 5 people to do. Having Heroes I could bring along, or even ones that I had to hire to use for X amount of time, would be helpful.
Lara, not just warrior but guardian, engineer, ranger, elementalist, and necromancer have bested 4 and 5 levels above. Even multiple targets with encounters up to 3 or 4 mobs attacking me. My thief has done the same but only 2 or 3 levels above. I just don’t get the mesmer, and it struggles with the same level.
Eleri, find a guild that advertises itself as a casual, relaxed guild. One where they are about enjoying the game and doing so in a friendly manner. Avoid the guilds that just go for the gold/glory/world domination that demand perfection. Even just forming a party with one person and playing the pve game and events is a lot of fun. If you like the way the party goes, add the other member to the friends list. Before long you’ll find you have a list of players to choose from to form a party of five for dungeons.
Sorry if my English is not very good
I miss heroes and mercenaries of Gw1, a lot. Some people don’t understand that they are many people who like to play at their own, and they say: “No! Heroes destroy cooperation” (c’mon man 90% are PUGS that they only bring this:
1- /map “Lfg….”
2- Do all rush mode, and don’t stop to see anythin of couse.
3- Finish, /group “Bye” Skip.)
Some other less educated they say :“No! This is a MMORPG go back to Skyrim noob ….” etc, etc.
Some people like to play with many players and if you have a good guild you can do it, but if you only play sometimes the heroes help a lot and they bring a lot of content (customization, builds etc). The heroes are not necessary, but they help a lot of people to play.
MithranArkanere 0,8957, I’m talking about PvE.
Layka.7465, I play in a dynamic event, but here’s the rest of the time, I’m alone.
The game is not translated into Russian, and chatting, there is no interpreter. Thus, most of the functions of the game, I’m not available.
In the old game, going on a mission, I did not create unit, and Join the detachment, which creates another. It allows to play, despite the language barrier, as not being a party leader, did not have to talk, but to Hi and Redy.
Here I am writing a http://translate.google.ru in the game I can not use it to quickly translate from English, as the text in the program, should be entered by hand, I can not I quickly print anglliysky text.
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I really miss Heroes myself. I am extremely gun shy about partying with people I don’t know, even in GW2 (way too many times being yelled at…), so despite having multiple characters over level 45… I’ve never done any of the dungeons, or Fractals, or any of the other things that you have to have a full 5 people to do. Having Heroes I could bring along, or even ones that I had to hire to use for X amount of time, would be helpful.
What the hell are you afraid of? I have a huge guild full of helpful people and I don’t get yelled at. O_O. No heroes, thank you.
Sirendor 0,1394, read my post above and you will see that not all here, you can show off!
Just want to point that the game is full of that in social networks writes that shame for them, to help someone do the quest heart – in the Dynamic help, but not here.
And there are still stubborn sheep that do not prove that the open world GV-2, there is no competition for resources and trophies! Seeing that I was doing the job, too little heart, that they walk away not wanting to play together, thinking that I’ll share “their prey.”
I have never seen a job when I take heart, ran up to me and offered to the party!
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What the hell are you afraid of? I have a huge guild full of helpful people and I don’t get yelled at. O_O. No heroes, thank you.
This is not a argument for all people. Why you have to force people to play in a big guild? Many people likes to play in a Mmorpg in a single player style, if you want to play with a lot of different people: join a big guild. If you like to play alone but in a open world like Gw2 bring a system with Heroes. Everybody happy.
What the hell are you afraid of? I have a huge guild full of helpful people and I don’t get yelled at. O_O. No heroes, thank you.
congrats, here is a cookie some don’t have a guild nor do they have a desire to be in a guild. I personally would like to see Heroes for dungeons.
What the hell are you afraid of? I have a huge guild full of helpful people and I don’t get yelled at. O_O. No heroes, thank you.
Because of problems with the language (writing through translator), I can not create a squad of players! In the old game, I can easily play with Heroes and Mercenaries.
In the old game, the characters and the presence of mercenaries, not hurt you to create groups of players. From what fright ArenaNET, agreed that there are a hindrance?
In the caves, after a hard enough level to go there only to them. It just needed units of the players. In the dynamic and other events, they are not a hindrance.
If I have Heroes and Mercenaries, this does not mean that I run past the player who needs help. I’ll help him.