Guild Wars 2

Don’t worry everyone!
Warriors might be still brokenly high damaging
Mesmers might have the only good utility in dungeons
Condition damage might still be fundamentally flawed
TA forward up is still broken and requires a team way beyond the obvious intended skill-level
There might still not be a looking for group despite the game being out for almost a year
Guild-wars might still not be in GuildWars yet
The Game might suffer from horrible ability lag due to poor programming
Most classes might suffer from fundamental issues with design in terms of builds

But at least we have Twisted Watchwork Finisher! and cool Zodiac Weapons!

Seriously though, there is so much that’s needs to be fixed and polished, why are A-Net concentrating so much on (wow it corrected hard followed by on as kitten, really?) making new content instead of polishing and finishing the current content and engine?

Here are some constructive solutions:

1) Warriors have a monopoly on self stacking might builds that also don’t deviate from their highest damaging tree. With for great justice and their banners too it makes for a deadly combo, where damage wise they can provide everything.

Either boost the base damage of other classes or a bigger rework would be to make might stacking builds by engineer, guardian and mesmer better (stacking more more on party members while still doing respectable damage.) And nerfing the amoutn of might warriors could stack upon themselves.

2) reflect is kind of Op coupled with aoe quickness. Help other glasses gives these effects and maybe bring in builds that can use the protection boon better for classes other than war/mes/gaurd.

3) Condition damage doesn’t scale as well. This is for two reasons. One is the damage doesn’t scale as well from items giving condition damage clearly. Second is that pure power builds are assisted by both critical strike chance and critical damage, making 3 stats on items all synergise. There needs to be another Condition damage stat that is useful, such as condition speed (making it tick faster and last shorter perhaps?) or perhaps allow conditions to crit with a different name, but not do 100% extra damage, maybe less. Call it condition potency perhaps? or Condition aggression? I don’t know.

The second issue is that condition damage doesn’t seem to scale in a party situation, ie there is only 25 bleeds, 1 burn, 1 poison ect allowed. So more condition damage members are only refreshing the timer, making it last longer but not do more damage.

Lastly The ability lag. To me this is one of the biggest. Its horrible and need to be fixed asap not set to a small team. All your skilled programmers should be working night and day on this, its not just a content issue but a large problem with your engine that effects all players gameplay. And if you cant fix it, hire a team that can if the problem really is that difficult, and this is something that should have be addressed in quality assurance in pre-release development testing.

You have my sympathy, good sir, for being unable to read patch notes or prior posts concerning such things. I truly feel sorry for you for being unable to find out that the LS teams do no play a part in bug fixes, but that there are in fact several other teams who are in charge of this. It truly pains me to see that you’re apparently unable to fathom that some of the things you mention may not even be bugs or flaws, but could be working exactly as they should. My condolences, sir.

There will always be bugs in a game. If you expect a game company to focus 100% resources on fixing bugs and not bothering with new content, you’re naive.

Berelious.3290:

You have my sympathy, good sir, for being unable to read patch notes or prior posts concerning such things. I truly feel sorry for you for being unable to find out that the LS teams do no play a part in bug fixes, but that there are in fact several other teams who are in charge of this. It truly pains me to see that you’re apparently unable to fathom that some of the things you mention may not even be bugs or flaws, but could be working exactly as they should. My condolences, sir.

Understand that these patches are not(at least I hope not) governed by one team(Living Story). Id imagine that many different teams working on different things put different updates or whatever into the patches. Majority is living story, but also polish, bug fixes, quality of life, etc. The OP is simply upset that the long-standing problems, some are fundamental problems, still have no fix. He is most likely upset because someone at arenanet doesn’t consider condition damage being non-viable a priority, or warriors being stupidly high in damage. Either that, they dont know how to fix it, or don’t consider these real problems and are working as intended.

Living Story is not the sole purpose of these updates and it is about time that some of these long standing problems are addressed.

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

1. It’s been pointed out by many that there’s plenty of other professions that put out high damage. Here’s a speedrun of CoF P1 done with 1 Warrior, 2 Thieves, a freaking Ranger and a Mesmer.
2. That’s what you say. Pretty sure plenty of people like having Guardians in dungeons.
3. If you’re talking about the bleed cap, you might be right. If you’re talking about crits not affecting conditions, you’re wrong.
4. The LFG tool is something on their to-do list.
5. What the hell do you know about “poor programming”, unless you’re a previous dev at the company?
6. The sPvP stuff at PAX means that we’re not getting big balance patches.

UdderChaos.9743:

Don’t worry everyone!

• TA forward up is still broken and requires a team way beyond the obvious intended skill-level

• Guild-wars might still not be in GuildWars yet

Sir, TA is fine, if your team is not up to the challenge, that is not the game fault. And the second point you made… you don’t even know why the game is called Guild Wars do you? …

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

This will cure what ails you… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSReSGe200A

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Thats the point to make them look on the things theyve missed and havent fixed

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

Were you here at launch?
Do you remember all the technical issues and bugs?

A lot has improved in the game since then

The way to improve something you do not like is to give constructive criticism- that means including how you think it can be improved for everybody.
Complaining is not the same thing.

People saying thank you for something they like is called appreciation- it is usually welcomed by the people being thanked, as is constructive critisinsm

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Stating both the positive and negative things they do can provide valuable feedback.

Telling them what they do well gives them feedback on things they do well, thus they may very well replicate them things that were done well in the future.

Telling them what they can improve on shows where the game is weakest, so they can bring it up to par. With this, you can also point out some suggestions. Game designers and devs aren’t gods. A suggestion that a player makes may very well be suitable for the shortcoming.

That is what constructive criticism is. Saying “You’re doing a bad job, I’m disappointed” tells the devs nothing whatsoever.

TheDaiBish.9735:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Both the positive and negative aspects can provide valuable feedback.

Telling them what they do well gives them feedback on things they do well, thus they may very well replicate them things that were done well in the future.

Telling them what they can improve on shows where the game is weakest, so they can bring it up to par.

This… I’d like to add that gripe gripe gripe nag nag nag does absolutely nothing in either direction. If there’s a bug, report it. If there’s something you think should be added, there’s a suggestion forum. If you think there’s a balancing issue, there’s a place for that too, believe it or not. Nagging, however, helps not in the slightest.

There is still polish to be done in certain areas for sure. Good news you’ll get a new patch in 2 weeks where there is not only something new to do but also little bits of polish here and there.

Rome wasn’t build overnight. You can’t please everyone all the time.

UdderChaos.9743:

Warriors might be still brokenly high damaging

Wrong.

Mesmers might have the only good utility in dungeons

Wrong, replaceable by guards.

TA forward up is still broken and requires a team way beyond the obvious intended skill-level

No.

Here’s my tip to you, stop being bad.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

LMAO Vol the fanboy!

Well guys, seriously. Condition builds are hardly viable in PVE. This isnt really opinion… Sure you can say “I do just fine”. You can do “just fine” with any build. But these builds don’t put out enough damage on mobs as fast as burst do. Especially when it comes to tagging and making sure you get enough damage on the mob to get credit.

Condi builds need serious work. This is the type of thing the OP is saying. Its been this way since launch.

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

Though the OP doesn’t exactly make his/her point in the most constructive way, there is a point here. It does seem as though ANet has completely relinquished all attention away from fixing the problems in their permanent content.

The new shinnies are indeed nice, and some nice changes to gameplay were definitely welcome. But there’s still a lot of persistent permanent content issues in the game that don’t seem to be getting any attention from ANet. I understand, and share some, of the OP’s frustrations.

Saulot.6820:

Sir, TA is fine, if your team is not up to the challenge, that is not the game fault. And the second point you made… you don’t even know why the game is called Guild Wars do you? …

No. Almost all of TA is fine and level appropriate. The final boss of the Forward/Up path, however, is not. The difficulty spike at the final boss can’t be intended, and the boss doesn’t properly reset upon a party wipe. She’s a challenge for all the wrong reasons, requires a certain party make up (a Ranger in your party guarantees that you will be dealing with constant Silvers being summoned), and the fight doesn’t make sense in the 3rd earliest dungeon.

TA deserves a review from the dungeon team, if it even exists anymore (and evidence seems to suggest it doesn’t).

Just to address a few points people have raised.
Firstly the response to the warrior Op damage is just rubbish, a team did cof speed run without 4 warriors well, grats. Meanwhile in normal land its obvious that for the average player that warriors do significantly more damage. There’s no doubt TA and other content is easily do-able with high skilled players of any composition, but its obvious that normal players will struggle to do good damage unless their playing a warrior, and certain fights are a lot harder for them without a mesmer(or guardian in some cases). You proved my point colsey by saying you could replace mesmer with guards, making the obviously exclusion of necro, ranger, engy, who all struggle to being anything worthwhile to a team at the moment, and you, by omission, have admitted this.

But as for the answer of “But they have fixed so much” and “Lol noob they have more than one dev team”. Well that’s not good enough. These are not minor issues, they are really big ones, and only off the top of my head, it is clear that A-Net are poorly managing their resources. A-Net pays a certain number of developers, and if 10 people, say, are busy making a parrot sing for the gem store, that’s 10 people not working on fixing these problems, its pretty simple. I think they really need to get their priorities straight, fix the main problems before making more by introducing content, its lazy to be honest.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

There have been months and months of constructive posts about these various issues and they have been ignored by a large. Only the lag delay has be issued, and they said something a long the lines of “cant fix it easily, have a tiny team working on it”. It’s just not good enough. This isn’t an indie game from Korea its a major western publisher with clearly so many resources it can have several teams working on new content bi-weekly yet they are allocating these tremendous resources at fixing these dire issues, it makes no sense. But if they want some constructive ideas, ill put some in the OP.

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

Sure what you post is considered constructive criticism,what other people post are considered unreasonable

Berelious.3290:

You have my sympathy, good sir, for being unable to read patch notes or prior posts concerning such things. I truly feel sorry for you for being unable to find out that the LS teams do no play a part in bug fixes, but that there are in fact several other teams who are in charge of this. It truly pains me to see that you’re apparently unable to fathom that some of the things you mention may not even be bugs or flaws, but could be working exactly as they should. My condolences, sir.

This. Also this topic comes up every patch. Be thankful for new content, it has nothing to do with bug fixes or class balancing. If you don’t enjoy the event, well they can’t please everyone. I have not liked a single event up until the last two myself so I can understand the frustration.

Keep giving feedback in the proper forums if you feel things need to be changed. If you don’t they will just close or move the thread anyway.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

Sure what you post is considered constructive criticism,what other people post are considered unreasonable

What’s constructive about OP’s post?
_

Warriors might be still brokenly high damaging
Mesmers might have the only good utility in dungeons
Condition damage might still be fundamentally flawed
TA forward up is still broken and requires a team way beyond the obvious intended skill-level
There might still not be a looking for group despite the game being out for almost a year
Guild-wars might still not be in GuildWars yet
The Game might suffer from horrible ability lag due to poor programming
Most classes might suffer from fundamental issues with design in terms of builds

Here’s what I would do [and some questionable points by OP]:

-Warriors still have tremendous damage with little risk. Perhaps trade off high damage with less mobility/weakness?
-Mesmers might have the only good utility in dungeons. Can we please have other classes in game that can provide buffs to the rest of the party [but OP completely ignore guardians and warbanner/shout warriors)
-Condition damage might still be fundamentally flawed [ this one has no solution, it’s an infrastructure problem]
-TA forward up is still broken and requires a team way beyond the obvious intended skill-level – can we perhaps change the boss mechanics and at least get a confirmation from a dev that this is not intended and a bug?
-There might still not be a looking for group despite the game being out for almost a year. I know I can use gwlfg.com but it would be nice to have it in game.
-Guild-wars might still not be in GuildWars yet [‘Guild’ in GW2 has nothing to do with fighting other guilds]

2 weeks updates really seems like they prefer quantity over quality.
The gauntlet was buggy as hell for example.

Id rather have one quality update every months/2 months than mediocre full of bugs 2 week updates.

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

Sure what you post is considered constructive criticism,what other people post are considered unreasonable

I’m sure he’ll gladly take back that statement if you would kindly point out where the OP provides any constructive Feedback…

All I see in the OP is that 1. The OP sucks at the game. and 2. WAAA WAAA WAA fix it now because you are stupid Anet.

Vol already pointed out that the LS teams are not responsible for balance or bugs. Which pretty much nullifies everything else the OP said.

I’d post the list of bug fixes that they’ve done over the last year but since it runs into the 1000’s it would take 5 or 6 posts just to fit in the post size limit and would take hours to format…

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

As far as I can tell, Anet hasn’t fixed or polished much of anything since beta. When the things they haven’t polished outnumber the things they have, people have a reason to complain. Try to find one new patch without at least 15 bugs. You can’t do it. Anet absolutely needs a Public Test Server at the moment, because apparently they are unable to test the content properly themselves. Proof of this? Look at every single patch since beta. Now go to the bugs section of the forums.

Galtrix.7369:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

As far as I can tell, Anet hasn’t fixed or polished much of anything since beta. When the things they haven’t polished outnumber the things they have, people have a reason to complain. Try to find one new patch without at least 15 bugs. You can’t do it. Anet absolutely needs a Public Test Server at the moment, because apparently they are unable to test the content properly themselves. Proof of this? Look at every single patch since beta. Now go to the bugs section of the forums.

kitten right.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

xephire.8324:

Vol.5241:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet has fixed and polished so much content, why are you concentrating so much on all the things they haven’t?

Because that’s the only way they can make and justify their point.

Completely ignore all the positive aspects but point out the negatives.

You see it a lot in politics (i.e. never say nice things about your opponent) and you see it here among MMO players.

…………..Whats the point on focusing positive aspects on the game,shouldnt we be focusing on the negatives so we can improve it.I don’t get your fanboy logic.

Of course we should be. But kittening and complaining about being ‘disappointed’ about not fixing the negatives is pretty short-sighted.

You expect the world out of Anet and a 100% bug-free game (go find me a bug-free game, I dare you) and fail to see that they have done a lot in QOL improvements.

I expect them to continue to fix bugs. Some take longer than others.

So what?People cant complain about stuff they are not happy about?Is that it?If I had a dead kittenroach on my plate of food and i complained about it im short-sighted.People are not allowed to complain/criticize the game?So you would want have the whole forum dedicated omg thank you Anet.Good job anet.Wow nicely done anet.Focus on the positives all they long huh.

I bet you’re one of those people who would troll on and criticize a player in sports despite him being well above average.

“Our star baseball player is getting a hit 3 times out of 10? 70% failure?! TERRIBLE PLAYER!”

There are always time for improvement, but what we have is good now. I don’t expect Anet to stop fixing bugs. If the QOL improvements started to disappear, yeah I’d get PO’d. But we have it good and I give Anet leeway. I’m not going to pick on them because they have done a good job so far.

And there is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism. All I’m seeing is pretty generic and outlandish statements (only mesmer classis good at utility? da kitten?) on how Anet is screwing up this game. That’s not constructive.

In your eyes yeah Anet does kitten well 10/10 most of the time.If they do they wouldnt have complaint threads on their forum.Only in your eyes they have done a good job so far.

I’m far from a fanboy. You may have missed my long post on the farming nerfs awhile back, where I kittened at Anet, but also provided constructive criticism, which OP has failed to do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Very-Disappointed/first

I’m more of a ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’ player. If this game deserves to be criticized, then I will agree with it. But if you’re biased, unreasonable or down right clueless then I will do my best to point out what’s wrong with what you wrote.

Sure what you post is considered constructive criticism,what other people post are considered unreasonable

I’m sure he’ll gladly take back that statement if you would kindly point out where the OP provides any constructive Feedback…

All I see in the OP is that 1. The OP sucks at the game. and 2. WAAA WAAA WAA fix it now because you are stupid Anet.

Vol already pointed out that the LS teams are not responsible for balance or bugs. Which pretty much nullifies everything else the OP said.

I’d post the list of bug fixes that they’ve done over the last year but since it runs into the 1000’s it would take 5 or 6 posts just to fit in the post size limit and would take hours to format…

Ive edited the post for constructive feedback, because apparently peoples cant see the obvious. As for your “i dont like what the op says about the game” = “OP is bad at the game” logic im just gonna leave, speaks for itself.

And then more flawed logic. So because A-Net has fixed bugs in the past, this means its acceptable to release constant buggy content instead of fixing bugs that are still there after their product has be out for almost a year? Would you use that same logic at work to your boss and say that you don’t need to come into work for a week because you came in for the last 70?

And ive already said the LS teams should be assigned to fixing bugs until the major ones are fixed, you make it out like the LS teams are completely incapable of fixing issues with the game as if its a different skill set or something lol.

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

@ the OP:

Content creation is actually a different skill set from fixing bugs. That is to say, some people are very good at creating stuff, but not editing it, and some people are very good at editing stuff, and not creating it. That’s why there are both authors and editors. That’s why there are game designers and coders. That’s why there are programmers who are trouble shooters.

And sometimes, often even, throwing more bodies at a problem increases the time it takes to fix something. You may not see how that can be, but it doesn’t make it less true.

Ever hear the expression two many chefs spoil the broth? It’s not completely untrue.

Then there’s the other side of the story you’re not considering. Your’e one person but you’re not all people. And a lot of people run out of content, get bored, and leave. It happens all the time. A lot of people are just looking for stuff to do. Which means that if those people left because there was no content, who would the programming team be fixing the bugs for?

I’m thinking that Anet probably has a pretty good idea on how to run a business, and I think they’re doing pretty well. I think if they stopped creating content to fix all the bugs, and put more people on it (which wouldn’t necessarily decrease the time involved), they’d have less people playing the game, and less income, and therefore less content moving on. Then more people would leave the game and they’d have gone and fixed all the bugs for nothing.

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

OP fixed his post with reasonable constructive criticism. If it started out like that I wouldn’t have posted here

Toodles!

Vayne.8563:

@ the OP:

Content creation is actually a different skill set from fixing bugs. That is to say, some people are very good at creating stuff, but not editing it, and some people are very good at editing stuff, and not creating it. That’s why there are both authors and editors. That’s why there are game designers and coders. That’s why there are programmers who are trouble shooters.

And sometimes, often even, throwing more bodies at a problem increases the time it takes to fix something. You may not see how that can be, but it doesn’t make it less true.

Ever hear the expression two many chefs spoil the broth? It’s not completely untrue.

Then there’s the other side of the story you’re not considering. Your’e one person but you’re not all people. And a lot of people run out of content, get bored, and leave. It happens all the time. A lot of people are just looking for stuff to do. Which means that if those people left because there was no content, who would the programming team be fixing the bugs for?

I’m thinking that Anet probably has a pretty good idea on how to run a business, and I think they’re doing pretty well. I think if they stopped creating content to fix all the bugs, and put more people on it (which wouldn’t necessarily decrease the time involved), they’d have less people playing the game, and less income, and therefore less content moving on. Then more people would leave the game and they’d have gone and fixed all the bugs for nothing.

The kind of content creation they are doing must require programmers, and also the creative minds behind these new events could be put to task on the solutions to the issues within the profession design.

I really don’t see how having more people working on a problem makes it harder, this is nonsense.

As for the content vs bugs. Yes i guess in a very cynical way it could make A-Net more money by making more content, but i do know people who will not play guild wars because of at least two of the reasons i stated, but i am yet to meet anyone in real life or my guild that is really that happy about the new content other than “oh meh, lets check it out”. So there are people who refuse to play because of the issues, i say issues because its not just bugs, like the odd item not working, its much bigger issues that are not just programming ones, design issues as well.

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

oh c’mon now with this invading thing… its more mindless zerging with reskined enemies, same crap we’ve got since day one. Do you seriously log in and go experience this ‘new’ mindless zerging when its exactly the same crap everyone been complaining since day one? This is not new content for people to enjoy, this is same crap we had since August 28th that received tones of complains because there’s nothing challenging or rewarding, just mindless aoe/auto attack spam. Where’s the creativity in this team? Every patch is the same~ talk to npc, watch a crappy cutsceen and go spam some aoe on a ‘new’ mob they’ve added… wth is this. GW2 is turning into a huge Horde Mode title in which you buy skins with gems and go kill mindlessly with zero goal.

^ Sounds like every MMO to be honest :P Not defending the game, just saying. Minus the gem part, but some form of currency.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

oh c’mon now with this invading thing… its more mindless zerging with reskined enemies, same crap we’ve got since day one. Do you seriously log in and go experience this ‘new’ mindless zerging when its exactly the same crap everyone been complaining since day one? This is not new content for people to enjoy, this is same crap we had since August 28th that received tones of complains because there’s nothing challenging or rewarding, just mindless aoe/auto attack spam. Where’s the creativity in this team? Every patch is the same~ talk to npc, watch a crappy cutsceen and go spam some aoe on a ‘new’ mob they’ve added… wth is this. GW2 is turning into a huge Horde Mode title in which you buy skins with gems and go kill mindlessly with zero goal.

it is still content
it is also not a festival
Which is what you were raving about

Nuka Cola.8520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

oh c’mon now with this invading thing… its more mindless zerging with reskined enemies, same crap we’ve got since day one. Do you seriously log in and go experience this ‘new’ mindless zerging when its exactly the same crap everyone been complaining since day one? This is not new content for people to enjoy, this is same crap we had since August 28th that received tones of complains because there’s nothing challenging or rewarding, just mindless aoe/auto attack spam. Where’s the creativity in this team? Every patch is the same~ talk to npc, watch a crappy cutsceen and go spam some aoe on a ‘new’ mob they’ve added… wth is this. GW2 is turning into a huge Horde Mode title in which you buy skins with gems and go kill mindlessly with zero goal.

So true

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

oh c’mon now with this invading thing… its more mindless zerging with reskined enemies, same crap we’ve got since day one. Do you seriously log in and go experience this ‘new’ mindless zerging when its exactly the same crap everyone been complaining since day one? This is not new content for people to enjoy, this is same crap we had since August 28th that received tones of complains because there’s nothing challenging or rewarding, just mindless aoe/auto attack spam. Where’s the creativity in this team? Every patch is the same~ talk to npc, watch a crappy cutsceen and go spam some aoe on a ‘new’ mob they’ve added… wth is this. GW2 is turning into a huge Horde Mode title in which you buy skins with gems and go kill mindlessly with zero goal.

it is still content
it is also not a festival
Which is what you were raving about

I dunno about that, everywhere i go in pve i see stupid balloons n stuff. You just wait for next patch, gotta be a huge celebration because that living story bs its all it got, celebration after celebration instead of content for people to enjoy in a group.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I won’t even consider this an update, its like nothing happened, but the addition of new ripoff boxes. No content was added to be experienced, no bugs been fixed, no new weapons/skills been added to every profession (as been said for some time now). Nothing. Is your gameplay plans for 2015 and we’re stuck on this festival bull**** from last year, this whole year and next year? Stop with these stupid festivals/joyful events as if it was a party every single update and nothing else but “important new gem store item been added for purchase” and talk to brainless npcs as patches content… wtkittend of content is that? Getting really annoying because i can already see what’s next update will be like and the one after AND THE ONE AFTER without even needing a crystal ball…

How on earth do you manage to apply the term party or festival to an invading army targeting most of the world?
how is that not content?
You make no sense

oh c’mon now with this invading thing… its more mindless zerging with reskined enemies, same crap we’ve got since day one. Do you seriously log in and go experience this ‘new’ mindless zerging when its exactly the same crap everyone been complaining since day one? This is not new content for people to enjoy, this is same crap we had since August 28th that received tones of complains because there’s nothing challenging or rewarding, just mindless aoe/auto attack spam. Where’s the creativity in this team? Every patch is the same~ talk to npc, watch a crappy cutsceen and go spam some aoe on a ‘new’ mob they’ve added… wth is this. GW2 is turning into a huge Horde Mode title in which you buy skins with gems and go kill mindlessly with zero goal.

it is still content
it is also not a festival
Which is what you were raving about

I dunno about that, everywhere i go in pve i see stupid balloons n stuff. You just wait for next patch, gotta be a huge celebration because that living story bs its all it got, celebration after celebration instead of content for people to enjoy in a group.

then you are in luck next update is SAB

Nuka Cola.8520:

I dunno about that, everywhere i go in pve i see stupid balloons n stuff. You just wait for next patch, gotta be a huge celebration because that living story bs its all it got, celebration after celebration instead of content for people to enjoy in a group.

Last event was the celebration, this event is the evil plot against said celebration. Next patch looks to be the return of Super Adventure Box which is definitely group content and is not a celebration.

What do you want another temporary dungeon? They had them and when they got a ton of complaints because not enough people could accomplish them in groups they scaled it back to allow singles. If I’m not mistaken this LS segment even has a dungeon with it.

What do you want out of the content? They all provide story, filler story to the main campaign perhaps but it is still story. They have a dungeon about once a month, they add special rewards that are purely aesthetic so you are not forced into them unless you “must” have the skin. You can even do story segments with other players if you want, they don’t have to be done alone.

UdderChaos.9743:

1) Warriors have a monopoly on self stacking might builds that also don’t deviate from their highest damaging tree. With for great justice and their banners too it makes for a deadly combo, where damage wise they can provide everything.

Excuse me, but Eles get more self-Might much quicker if they build for it. Warriors have two skills for long-lasting Might and both of those are on pretty heavy cooldowns.

2) reflect is kind of Op coupled with aoe quickness. Help other glasses gives these effects and maybe bring in builds that can use the protection boon better for classes other than war/mes/gaurd.

Guardians have Wall of Reflection. And Time Warp is on a 3.5 minute cooldown.

3) Condition damage doesn’t scale as well. This is for two reasons. One is the damage doesn’t scale as well from items giving condition damage clearly. Second is that pure power builds are assisted by both critical strike chance and critical damage, making 3 stats on items all synergise. There needs to be another Condition damage stat that is useful, such as condition speed (making it tick faster and last shorter perhaps?) or perhaps allow conditions to crit with a different name, but not do 100% extra damage, maybe less. Call it condition potency perhaps? or Condition aggression? I don’t know.

The second issue is that condition damage doesn’t seem to scale in a party situation, ie there is only 25 bleeds, 1 burn, 1 poison ect allowed. So more condition damage members are only refreshing the timer, making it last longer but not do more damage.

You talk like condition builds cannot benefit from crits at all. Well trust me, plenty of condi builds use on crit traits to give them more condis.

The thing with condis stacking is a design choice. Poison and Chill have very useful secondary effects and Burning has very high base damage and high scaling. The reason why Bleeding is limited to 25 is a bandwidth issue, as each stack has their own damage and timer, which need to be updated and sent to all the players present. And making bleeding not stack intensity would mean either having its maximum damage bumped, which would make Burning moot, or remaking it into something entirely new.

I think you’re fairly exaggerating your post. “If you could do it better then you do it.”

While I don’t disagree about some of this being re-skinned content it is still plenty fun. Opinion of course but I do enjoy running with the zerg and I like the new champion chests.

Do I want dungeons reworked? Of course. I’d also like a complete new zone. Not southsun but a real new zone to explore. I imagine those are coming or at least I hope so.

Seriously… what did you expect from August patch???? I am not surprised at all it’s full of emptiness. But I feel like it’s just great opportunity to break out more often from playing game and do some other things until they really bring up serious content by the end of the year. Don’t expect anything in the next two months either. Sorry but you have to be realistic… Anet is in no way going to release anything really great before few months, what they bring atm is to keep everyone’s waiting and playing…