Guild Wars 2

So I finally got a group for Arah explorable tonight, it was advertised as a farm run. I figured we would run through the easiest path of the dungeon a few times to get shards fairly quickly. Turns out they choose the third path, kill the first boss legit, then jump over a wall with swiftness completely bypassing a bunch of the dungeon taking you directly to the second boss. Kill him legit then reset the dungeon and repeat, all of which takes about 10-15 minutes if even for 8 shards.

This needs to be fixed ASAP.

Agreed. Stop forcing players to seek exploits to avoid tedious game design in a game advertised up and down as an end to this sort of repetitive grind mmo.

Just make the gear drop, or cut the cost of the gear by 1/10th of what it is now. It should take 4-10 full runs for a full set. Not 50-60 of one wing. Or both! lots of tokens and a random set piece that you don’t already have.

Is this why dungeons were kept from the general public until the last moment?

I actually like the difficulty, makes it a lot more fun trying to figure fights out and not just being handed loot. But this does need to be fixed, don’t know why there isn’t sky high collision on every wall that isn’t meant to be passable in the first place.

Science.4207:

Agreed. Stop forcing players to seek exploits to avoid tedious game design in a game advertised up and down as an end to this sort of repetitive grind mmo.

Just make the gear drop, or cut the cost of the gear by 1/10th of what it is now. It should take 4-10 full runs for a full set. Not 50-60 of one wing. Or both! lots of tokens and a random set piece that you don’t already have.

Is this why dungeons were kept from the general public until the last moment?

Wow. Pretty sure you completely missed the entire point of OP’s post. It’s obvious that you are one of said exploiters.

How dare you, sir?

I have done arah maybe 3 times. and those times, to my dismay the party leader led us to the first boss, we beat it and then he disbanded. I haven’t done them since because i do not find the experience enjoyable enough to warrant the tedium and repetition.

Is this all that is to be gained on these forums? Needless antagonism for expressing our views?

Nobody, nobody, is FORCED to grind any dungeon to get the dungeon gear.

Apathy indeed.

Could you take your antagonistic rhetoric elsewhere? We’re trying to discuss things like adults here.

Point they are trying to make is that you don’t have to go for the dungeon gear. You can get the same stats elsewhere.

But back on topic, I will take a screenshot of this wall and report it if I get into another run. A reply from ANet just to confirm if they already know about this or not would be welcome.

@Apathy (quote function seems to have disappeared for whatever reason), yeah, they are. If I want a dungeon armor set/weapon, then I HAVE to grind that dungeon, whether I want to or not. My only options are to either grind tediously and practically fall asleep as I play, or to just say “as badkitten as this armor is, it is sadly not worth the effort”.

I don’t mind that dungeon grinding is the only way to get dungeon stuff, that’s explicitly what they’re made for, but I don’t want to grind dungeons when the only way to do it without being bored to hell/wasting time on potential bugs or massively boring damage sponges is to abuse exploits or quit part-way through and go back in.

Vash.1852:

Point they are trying to make is that you don’t have to go for the dungeon gear. You can get the same stats elsewhere.

If you wanted to be really pedantic about it, you could reply to any grievance of the game with “Nobody is forcing you to play”

That’s not really a constructive line of dialogue in my book.

If you wanted to be really pedantic about it, you could reply to any grievance of the game with “Nobody is forcing you to play”
That’s not really a constructive line of dialogue in my book.

So you should just get free access to everything in the off chance that you don’t enjoy doing what it requires to get said thing?

Todays gamers man…

Apathy, are you seriously going to continue flamebaiting this discussion? Where exactly did I state that it should be free? Are you unable to argue against my words so you invent your own to argue against?

Please bring a little civility to your posts.