Guild Wars 2

Instead of constantly deleting posts and infracting people who are concerned with the direction this game is heading in, how about someone over at Anet finds his/her kittens and give us some real answers.

The replies we had from them so far would even make most politicians ashamed.

So come on, Anet show some brass kittens and explain why you’re abandoning the gear ceiling, and saying it’s to bridge the imaginary gap between exotic and legendary doesn’t qualify as an answer

You’re not concerned about the direction the game is heading, you just want some attention like the rest of you whiners.

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Gabi.5264:

You’re not concerned about the direction the game is heading, you just want some attention like the rest of you whiners.

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Not if I have to grind more gear to experience new content. We have a game like that already, its called WOW

The gap between exotic and legendary aquisition is by no means imaginary. I for one dident miss all the posts about legendarys and the RNG system.

Xipher we already have gated content in this game from release. You cannot aquire legendarys until you have explored 100% of the map including wvwvw areas even if your a pve player. You cannot do explore mode on a dungeon until you have done the story mode. Alot of players wont let you in there explore group unless you have done explore mode at least once before or in the case of arah also have decent gear like exotics.. Ok the last one isent really gated content but you catch my drift for sure.

Xpiher.5209:

Gabi.5264:

You’re not concerned about the direction the game is heading, you just want some attention like the rest of you whiners.

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Not if I have to grind more gear to experience new content. We have a game like that already, its called WOW

Looks to me like you have problems with just playing the game mate, noone is forcing you to play

@ Jezath, you are talking about a gap in acquisition, not quite the same as a gap in stats, which they plan to add as soon as they role out ascended weapons

Jezath.7395:

The gap between exotic and legendary aquisition is by no means imaginary. I for one dident miss all the posts about legendarys and the RNG system.

Xipher we already have gated content in this game from release. You cannot aquire legendarys until you have explored 100% of the map including wvwvw areas even if your a pve player. You cannot do explore mode on a dungeon until you have done the story mode. Alot of players wont let you in there explore group unless you have done explore mode at least once before or in the case of arah also have decent gear like exotics.. Ok the last one isent really gated content but you catch my drift for sure.

Except Legendaries had the same stats as Exotics so there was no need to have a Legendary to be better/stronger. Thus it was an optional grind.

And you can do explorable mode before story mode. Just get into any group that is doing explorable mode and let them enter first. I did it before on my Engineer who has never done CM story but has done explorable already.

Gabi.5264:

Looks to me like you have problems with just playing the game mate, noone is forcing you to play

Gabi.5264:

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Don’t be a hypocrite.

I’ll answer your question the same way you guys spread your own information. I’ll take a single sentence and quote it not only out of context but without any supporting arguments. If you do not accept what I have to say at face value, then how, applying the same method, can I accept what you and everyone else says at face value?

Our Studio Design Director Chris Whiteside just posted this:
- “Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill.”

Bam, according to your own logic all your worries should now be gone.
Isn’t it a wonderful world : D

Gabi.5264:

Xpiher.5209:

Gabi.5264:

You’re not concerned about the direction the game is heading, you just want some attention like the rest of you whiners.

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Not if I have to grind more gear to experience new content. We have a game like that already, its called WOW

Looks to me like you have problems with just playing the game mate, noone is forcing you to play

No, I bought GW2 with the impression that all future content wouldn’t require me chasing after gear to participate in it. If I wanted that type of game play I would have bought one of the other 1000s of MMOs on the market. ANET advertised GW2 as not having that type of game play.

Jezath.7395:

The gap between exotic and legendary aquisition is by no means imaginary. I for one dident miss all the posts about legendarys and the RNG system.

Xipher we already have gated content in this game from release. You cannot aquire legendarys until you have explored 100% of the map including wvwvw areas even if your a pve player. You cannot do explore mode on a dungeon until you have done the story mode. Alot of players wont let you in there explore group unless you have done explore mode at least once before or in the case of arah also have decent gear like exotics.. Ok the last one isent really gated content but you catch my drift for sure.

1) Spell my name right
2) Gated content caused by the players is different.
3) Gated content isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if its tied to story progression or something else that easy to get around. Gated content becomes a problem when YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SET OF GEAR to even have a chance of completing the new content and when that set of gear COMES FROM PREVIOUS CONTENT couple with RNG (random drops). If its random, you will inevitably have grind.

Sco.9615:

I’ll answer your question the same way you guys spread your own information. I’ll take a single sentence and quote it not only out of context but without any supporting arguments. If you do not accept what I have to say at face value, then how, applying the same method, can I accept what you and everyone else says at face value?

Our Studio Design Director Chris Whiteside just posted this:
- “Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill.”

Bam, according to your own logic all your worries should now be gone.
Isn’t it a wonderful world : D

The issue with their answer is that ITS VAGUE.

Considering the amount of “kittens” in your posts, are you really wondering why they are constantly deleted?

Guys, before this completely derails and some "mod"has the brilliant insight of closing this thread, let’s just remember why I made this thread, it’s for a real answer from Anet, so in case u wish the same, say that, +1 it or say you don’t think we deserve an answer, but lets keep it at that.
If only part of the player base thinks they are wiping their kittens with the manifesto, the least they could do is answer us in a way that doesn’t make you sound like you are doing damage control for some politician, giving no clear answers in the process

@Iruwen, I actually write the word kitten, like in small cat, somehow that’s funnier to me than calling them names

Gabi.5264:

You’re not concerned about the direction the game is heading, you just want some attention like the rest of you whiners.

Stop making these kind of posts and play for Christ’s sake, I’m pretty sure you and everyone else will enjoy new content.

Truth be told, we indeed need to attract Anet attention. But not about new content, or stuff that’s not even released.

Yeah I’m talking about the current state of the game. With events still bugged, 2 months and a half after release. Next patch note is supposedly five pages long ? That’s cool. Because just by gathering all bugs from the profession subsection, I bet we can reach 10 pages, easy.

So you’re right. Maybe new content will be awesome. But I don’t give a poop about that, because I don’t need new content to enjoy the game. I – NEED – BUGS – CORRECTION. Is that too much to ask ? Being able to play necromancer without giving health to enemies when I use the traits for leech ? Having a real 5 sec cooldown on weapon swap with warrior ? I can go on all day long, but my goal is not to make the list by myself.

So, yeah. Less ranting about upcoming patch, more whining about current bugs.

Jezath.7395:

The gap between exotic and legendary aquisition is by no means imaginary. I for one dident miss all the posts about legendarys and the RNG system.

Xipher we already have gated content in this game from release. You cannot aquire legendarys until you have explored 100% of the map including wvwvw areas even if your a pve player. You cannot do explore mode on a dungeon until you have done the story mode. Alot of players wont let you in there explore group unless you have done explore mode at least once before or in the case of arah also have decent gear like exotics.. Ok the last one isent really gated content but you catch my drift for sure.

Everyone acknowledges the gap in the difficulty of obtaining the sets. That’s not the problem.

The problem that people have is the gap in the stats. There was no difference in stats between exotic and legendary…so the difficulty in acquiring legendaries was totally acceptable because it was totally optional. No keeping up with the Joneses, just something you could work towards if you wanted to. You weren’t at a power disadvantage if you chose not to grind.

What ArenaNet is doing is creating a gap in the stats in order to fill it with ascended gear. They are implementing a problem and then using that problem to justify their solution. This is a complete change in their design philosophy going forward. Now you must upgrade to stay current and do the new content, and the increased difficulty (likely significant grind) in obtaining ascended gear over exotics becomes required difficulty (required grind), instead of optional like it would have been had the stats stayed the same.

They’ve also introduced all the problems of power creep and mudflation and the undesirable gear treadmill and gated content…all in one fell swoop. They are claiming it’s due to player feedback…so I would think it’s totally fair that players now provide additional feedback to ensure ArenaNet realizes this is NOT what their dedicated core fan base wanted. Maybe they don’t care…but they should know.

I doubt we will get any further explanations or answers from ArenaNet. People should get used to the idea. If you like the game enough to keep playing, you are going to be grinding out new tiers of gear as often as ArenaNet wants you to.

@johnson, I completely agree with you, I play a ranger, so u bet your kittens I do, but this is a thread asking for a REAL answer to the removal of gear ceiling and the general direction they are taking because of that