Guild Wars 2

Just hold up. Look around. Literally every game mode of gw2 is broken since expansion launch. Dungeons abandoned. Fractals were supposed to be better than before, yet it turned out much worse. Rewards are horrendously bad EVERYWHERE.

Masteries are gated behind levels, which we either have to grind or do meta events for. But oh, sorry, you need masteries to even do some meta events. Does that even make sense to you? Ascended eq drop rates are the worst we have ever seen yet, and what does that lead to? That’s right, more grinding. Whatever happened to the philosophy behind gw2?

Pvp balance was somewhat adjusted following release, but nowhere near enough attention is being paid to it. Certain classes are still brokenly strong, others are so tragically bad they are practically being shelved (hint hint: berserker). Do the devs even listen to the community? It’s like anet doesnt even know how to play their own game but insists on balancing games on their skewed perspective of balance.

Wvw was supposed to be the most polished game mode but look where we are now.. the new desert borderlands are practically empty and devoid of life.

So please, anet, i implore you. Have a seat, take a break. Stop dishing out unpolished new content and focus on repairing existing problems first. The game is barely holding on at the seams currently. Was so hyped for the expansion, and now all i feel is disappointment.

I could honestly wait for Raids to be released in January 2016 if it means these major issues were to be looked into and corrected first. Fractals being where most of my salt lies.

“Whatever happened to the philosophy behind gw2?” = was a sales ploy.
“Do the devs even listen to the community?” only when it hits the major MMO news sites
“borderlands are practically empty and devoid of life.” – Because WvW WAS the endgame. No one is ready for the endgame right now, since we are all “That’s right, more grinding.”
“Have a seat, take a break” – I don’t think anyone wants that. Keep working!

I am sure they are working on things and listening to feedback to incorporate in said things. But what some people have to understand is that they cant just say, “oh hey, thats a good idea, lets roll out a patch in the next 10 minutes.” I am pretty sure it takes a weeee bit longer than that.

I do not have a problem with how we have to get masteries and that we have to get certain ones to do certain things. I just go to another map, get the mastery and then come back to the event I cant do. But I am also one of the few that thought lowering the amount of HPs to get the elites was ridiculous and was fine the way it was.

As for grindy, I can see it in the Tyrian mastery track. I think something should be done about that, but everything else is pretty easy and not very grindy to me. Ive played some grindy games in my time… and this is definitely not as grindy as it could be.

My opinions of course. Hopefully I didnt offend anyone.

Element.4319:

I could honestly wait for Raids to be released in January 2016 if it means these major issues were to be looked into and corrected first. Fractals being where most of my salt lies.

Ummmmm raids will be released within a week ….. They said mid-November this year so that’s either this week or by next week.

LS3 should be starting up soon and if you don’t have HoT then you can’t play those episodes.

to do events you need 2 masteries
1. Glider
2. Mushroom
Those are mandatory to play HOT rest are a CHOICE which is not really needed.

Would much rather have bug fixes than raids. Like the map completion reward for 100% WC bug and the individual story bugs and the HC non-complete bugs, etc, etc…

PyrateSilly.4710:

Element.4319:

I could honestly wait for Raids to be released in January 2016 if it means these major issues were to be looked into and corrected first. Fractals being where most of my salt lies.

Ummmmm raids will be released within a week ….. They said mid-November this year so that’s either this week or by next week.

LS3 should be starting up soon and if you don’t have HoT then you can’t play those episodes.

Huh? Think you may have missed my point. I know raids will be released soon – my point was that I’d sacrifice them releasing raids and working more on it if they put their focus towards OP’s said issues first, THEN focusing on raids.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Would much rather have bug fixes than raids. Like the map completion reward for 100% WC bug and the individual story bugs and the HC non-complete bugs, etc, etc…

Just like what Celtic said here. The point is that we should be addressing the current endless list of issues, before introducing Raids which will more than likely, stockpile more bugs/issues into that list.

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

When I learnt they totally nerfed ascended boxes from Fractals I felt very cheated… all the people who farmed up fractals before HoT now own 3+ full ascended sets without crafting, and me, who is playing just from time to time can’t even get one set for me… I got 2 boxes from fractals before HoT, now there is no reason to expect looting this anymore….so as OP put it> I have to grind grind grind…. thanks.

Chuo.4238:

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

At this point, the current motto is:

Quantity over Quality, right?

Element.4319:

Chuo.4238:

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

At this point, the current motto is:

Quantity over Quality, right?

Seen so many potentially great mmos descend into ruin because they adopted this bs. Sincerely hope that isnt the case for gw2. I honestly have no motivation whatsoever to play gw2 atm though. BDO or BNS seem much more appealing.

Yes, go play the game if you are so content with it, ignore all the issues and don’t post on the forum. If the majority was so happy with the game, players wouldn’t complain this much and those topics wouldn’t get that much attention.

The game got dumbed down, not the other way around, unless you mean that Candy Crush is more difficult than Gw2, which I might agree on!

And you give strawman arguments, as in saying stuff nobody in the topic even mentioned.

Now go play your perfect game

Rewards aren’t that bad. If you run Silverwaste 10 times you’ll acquire enough gold for a bolt of Damask. That’s just from vendoring non-cloth greens. The ectos from salvaging rares and sand would add a good deal more gold.

Bruce Lee once said I fear the man who has practiced a single kick 10,000 far more than the man who practiced 10,000 kicks once. The path to mastery is repetition, for this way we establish habit.

I absolutely agree, OP. I thought the HoT rollout was a brilliant technical success but it is becoming increasingly clear that the design is over-ambitious, inherently buggy, and confused. The radical redesign that Anet was reaching for has been achieved at considerable cost to the core game. We should not be surprised though; Anet has always put implementing change ahead of repair and maintenance.

hard to get airship oil, auric dust, leyline spark, crystalline ore.

Taxidriver.2043:

hard to get airship oil, auric dust, leyline spark, crystalline ore.

Airship oil is hard to get? Thats news to me.

Element.4319:

Chuo.4238:

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

At this point, the current motto is:

Quantity over Quality, right?

Not really. Even if you are going for quantity it has to at least work for them to count. Lets say we measure quantity on a scale from 1 to 100. If 90% of your stuff is broken then your quantity would still be at 10. I don’t think the actual amount of broken things is this high but it sure feels like it partly because many them have been broken for a very very long time so you run into them over and over again making it feel like there are more broken things.

Khisanth.2948:

Element.4319:

Chuo.4238:

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

At this point, the current motto is:

Quantity over Quality, right?

Not really. Even if you are going for quantity it has to at least work for them to count. Lets say we measure quantity on a scale from 1 to 100. If 90% of your stuff is broken then your quantity would still be at 10. I don’t think the actual amount of broken things is this high but it sure feels like it partly because many them have been broken for a very very long time so you run into them over and over again making it feel like there are more broken things.

I listed 6 things (basically, the top 6 things that interest me) to do in this game, and why they’re broken.

Which leaves me with a very incomplete, frustrated feeling. Everything I want to do is broken. So that’s 100%, in my book.

And guess what? Because I can’t do these other six things, I devolved into something I’m normally not interested in at all: crafting.

And wouldn’t you know it, the gear I want to make (Trailblazer’s) can’t be made because the Trailblazer’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia, a required component, does not exist in game.

So were up to what, 115% of broken stuff I want to do?

Ridiculous, frustrating. Unbelieveable.

While there have been some vocal complaints about the expansion look at the positives for a moment:

1. T5 leather has been given a reasonable value.

2. Challenging and fair (but sometimes unfair but it’s still early) content.

3. Elite specs have brought previously overpowered specs in line…in the right way! Instead of nerfing the OP class they brought others up. In the forums you’ll see people complaining about druid, herald, scrapper, dragonhunter, chronomancer, and reaper being overpowered. If there are six classes out of nine that are “overpowered” then that’s good progress towards better balance. It’s better to have six overpowered specs than one. We know the “one” and I daresay that dagger/dagger elementalist can still hold its own and I even made top healer a couple of times in the past week as celestial. I say give thief/daredevil a slight buff but nerf some of its PvE only skills to compensate. Berserker/warrior is in desperate need of a buff however.

I can find ways to deal with the gold nerfs, fine whatever.

But the Fractal nerfs are just unspeakably bad. Are the Raid drops supposed to make up for this? Maybe, we’ll see.

The most galling thing about the fractal nerfs is how completely unnecessary they were.

They said they wanted to encourage fractal play but their decisions do not reflect this.

This sort of thread.. just no.

The problem everyone is having is that the things you want to do might be bugged. And that sucks but there are plenty of things that.. aren’t bugged and are actually working.

I can’t get my Mesmer’s Shield because VB map completion doesn’t work for me. Oh well I do have an ascended shield so that’s not the top of my priorities.

I can’t get good rewards from doing Fractals.. and that sucks but I still had a lot of fun clearing 1-100 with my guild mates.

My Story bugged out a few times at multiple steps. That was to be expected at launch of HoT. But you know what; I restarted it a couple of times and got it to work.

Please stop complaining because a few things in the game aren’t working when the majority of things are working.

It’s not going to get fixed overnight. It takes time to replicate the bugs, find fixes, test the fixes, check those fixes don’t screw other things up.. then actually implement the fixes.

Arietta The Broken.1875:

This sort of thread.. just no.

The problem everyone is having is that the things you want to do might be bugged. And that sucks but there are plenty of things that.. aren’t bugged and are actually working.

I can’t get my Mesmer’s Shield because VB map completion doesn’t work for me. Oh well I do have an ascended shield so that’s not the top of my priorities.

I can’t get good rewards from doing Fractals.. and that sucks but I still had a lot of fun clearing 1-100 with my guild mates.

My Story bugged out a few times at multiple steps. That was to be expected at launch of HoT. But you know what; I restarted it a couple of times and got it to work.

Please stop complaining because a few things in the game aren’t working when the majority of things are working.

It’s not going to get fixed overnight. It takes time to replicate the bugs, find fixes, test the fixes, check those fixes don’t screw other things up.. then actually implement the fixes.

What? I cant even.. Your argument is so bad im appalled. Here’s an analogy of how it goes. A salesman sells me a new coffee machine right? He promises that the coffee machine will make coffee better than the previous model. However, the coffee made becomes worse than before. Watered down and bitter. However, that’s okay right? Because it still makes coffee!

That’s basically your argument in a nutshell. To quote you.. This sort of argument, no.. just no.