Guild Wars 2

I love gw1 and gw2 very much. I have played 7000hrs and about 1000hrs respectively. Lately however I have only been logging on a couple days a week, doing the daily in WvW to get some of the karma+badges I need. I’ve actually gone back and been playing D3 lately (sad, right? i know). I realized three things really irk me.

1) LFG for dungeons – really needs to be fixed. With so many people on so many different fractal levels and no one wanting to do a lvl lower than theirs, I waste hours trying to find a group, often just giving up in the end.

2) Precursors – For those not lucky enough to get a drop from the ancient karka or to have enough gold to buy their precursor at the time, it seems like they have to choose: do you want to get your legendary? or do you want to get your ascended gear? Because most people can’t get both. This wouldn’t be a problem if they implemented the ‘scavenger hunt’ to obtain precursors like they promised, instead of handing out precursors to 10% of the community during the ancient karka event, and stiffing the other 90% of the community with lvl 78 exotics.

3) Drop rates – During the lost shores event weekend, fractals was raining rares on me. Which was great, especially since they don’t have a gold reward at the end like other dungeons. After the event was over, they OBVIOUSLY nerfed the drop rates into the ground. When you design a game that requires an epic amount of grinding at the end-game, then nerf drop rates and introduce diminishing returns on everything, you’re going to piss a lot of people off.

I will continue to play the game semi-regularly, but until these things are fixed I don’t really feel like I’m getting anywhere when I log in.

Post if you agree/disagree

TL;DR: If they fixed LFG system, made precursors reasonable to achieve, and stopped nerfing every method of making gold, I would play A LOT more.

I’m finding that I can do large-scale wvwvw combat without culling or performance issues in Planetside 2. It’s free to play, and works pretty well.

I think for me, precursors and gold doesn’t very much matter to me. I’ve been really frustrated w/ fotm and the bugs, and not feeling like I really have much to do except finish my 3rd 80.

Use this for LFG tool until they get it implemented in game: http://gw2lfg.com/

Quick Mouse.7635, I can agree with everything that you have stated here. The things you have indicated need fixed ASAP.

It was absolutely insane to implement the tiered levels in Fractals. That just separates an already spread out community. I just got my Guardian to level 80. I spent at least a few hours in LA and did not see “LFG FotM lvl 1” pop up once.

I pity anyone buying the game now as they will be locked out of content as soon as they start. Add that to the ridiculously low precursor drop rate and there are huge problems with retaining people. I don’t know if ArenaNet has ever thought about something. If LOTS of people have precursors then a huge percentage of them would stick around to farm the needed items to upgrade them.

Nothing sad about playing D3. It’s a quality game. Just because you own guild wars 2 doesn’t mean you have to play it and only it. It’s ok to have more than one game that you play.

Arisal.9740:

Use this for LFG tool until they get it implemented in game: http://gw2lfg.com/

Haven’t used that yet. I’ll check it out. It’s sad that we need to use third party websites to form groups

Quick Mouse.7635:

I love gw1 and gw2 very much. I have played 7000hrs and about 1000hrs respectively. Lately however I have only been logging on a couple days a week, doing the daily in WvW to get some of the karma+badges I need. I’ve actually gone back and been playing D3 lately (sad, right? i know). I realized three things really irk me.

1) LFG for dungeons – really needs to be fixed. With so many people on so many different fractal levels and no one wanting to do a lvl lower than theirs, I waste hours trying to find a group, often just giving up in the end.

2) Precursors – For those not lucky enough to get a drop from the ancient karka or to have enough gold to buy their precursor at the time, it seems like they have to choose: do you want to get your legendary? or do you want to get your ascended gear? Because most people can’t get both. This wouldn’t be a problem if they implemented the ‘scavenger hunt’ to obtain precursors like they promised, instead of handing out precursors to 10% of the community during the ancient karka event, and stiffing the other 90% of the community with lvl 78 exotics.

3) Drop rates – During the lost shores event weekend, fractals was raining rares on me. Which was great, especially since they don’t have a gold reward at the end like other dungeons. After the event was over, they OBVIOUSLY nerfed the drop rates into the ground. When you design a game that requires an epic amount of grinding at the end-game, then nerf drop rates and introduce diminishing returns on everything, you’re going to piss a lot of people off.

I will continue to play the game semi-regularly, but until these things are fixed I don’t really feel like I’m getting anywhere when I log in.

Post if you agree/disagree

TL;DR: If they fixed LFG system, made precursors reasonable to achieve, and stopped nerfing every method of making gold, I would play A LOT more.

Do anyone force you to play? Why do you need to create another topic like this, players like you did already created them, post there.

I dont have problem with finding the dungeon group and I ve done 250+ explorable modes. But ye LFG tool wont hurt.

For your second problem about precursors, legendary, ascended. Legendary weapons are ment to be crafted by 5% of players .Yes 5% … So why do you think that Areanet should help everyone everyone to craft one? Why do you think that everyone should have Legendary? Either you gor Legendary, collect material and gold for months, years or just go Ascended if you dont care and btw are you at 30+ Fractals already? Because what is the reason you to want ascended back pack or 30+ Agony resistance

Last your problem is about the drops. Dont see any problem here … FRACTALS are not to be some dungeon that you run for rares, exotics. They were created for players who to progress something, those who wants to go the highest difficulty possible. I dont think they should give you 10 rares for one dungoen here. Anyways my friend dropped 7 rares and 1 exotic from fractal daily 30.

If you dont want to play just keep it to yourself man, dont need to create another topic for this one.

Agreed an in game LFG tool is a must . The website supplied above though does work really well. Thankfully the community took it upon themselves to implement something that should be a requirement for MMOs now a days.

Someone preferring D3 to GW2 can’t really complain about GW2 drop rates (or quality of the drops). Know what I mean, nudge, nudge, say no more.

Patience is a virtue, a new mechanism for obtaining precursors is in the works.

1) LFG for dungeons <- Why do we even need dungeon at all?

2) Precursors <- Yes, they are too expansive to be on random drop. I don’t mind random, random 1 to 6 are fine, but random 12 to 3000000 sucks. But no, they should be expansive, so expansive that most can’t afford it. If not, there are no points to have legendary at all.

3) Drop rates <- No, they just nerf Orr. Dungeon now have the best drop rate and even better gold reward. It is so good that it floods the market with gold and we are having gold inflation. We never make gold so easy before.

Dogblaster.6713:

Quick Mouse.7635:

I love gw1 and gw2 very much. I have played 7000hrs and about 1000hrs respectively. Lately however I have only been logging on a couple days a week, doing the daily in WvW to get some of the karma+badges I need. I’ve actually gone back and been playing D3 lately (sad, right? i know). I realized three things really irk me.

1) LFG for dungeons – really needs to be fixed. With so many people on so many different fractal levels and no one wanting to do a lvl lower than theirs, I waste hours trying to find a group, often just giving up in the end.

2) Precursors – For those not lucky enough to get a drop from the ancient karka or to have enough gold to buy their precursor at the time, it seems like they have to choose: do you want to get your legendary? or do you want to get your ascended gear? Because most people can’t get both. This wouldn’t be a problem if they implemented the ‘scavenger hunt’ to obtain precursors like they promised, instead of handing out precursors to 10% of the community during the ancient karka event, and stiffing the other 90% of the community with lvl 78 exotics.

3) Drop rates – During the lost shores event weekend, fractals was raining rares on me. Which was great, especially since they don’t have a gold reward at the end like other dungeons. After the event was over, they OBVIOUSLY nerfed the drop rates into the ground. When you design a game that requires an epic amount of grinding at the end-game, then nerf drop rates and introduce diminishing returns on everything, you’re going to piss a lot of people off.

I will continue to play the game semi-regularly, but until these things are fixed I don’t really feel like I’m getting anywhere when I log in.

Post if you agree/disagree

TL;DR: If they fixed LFG system, made precursors reasonable to achieve, and stopped nerfing every method of making gold, I would play A LOT more.

Do anyone force you to play? Why do you need to create another topic like this, players like you did already created them, post there.

I dont have problem with finding the dungeon group and I ve done 250+ explorable modes. But ye LFG tool wont hurt.

For your second problem about precursors, legendary, ascended. Legendary weapons are ment to be crafted by 5% of players .Yes 5% … So why do you think that Areanet should help everyone everyone to craft one? Why do you think that everyone should have Legendary? Either you gor Legendary, collect material and gold for months, years or just go Ascended if you dont care and btw are you at 30+ Fractals already? Because what is the reason you to want ascended back pack or 30+ Agony resistance

Last your problem is about the drops. Dont see any problem here … FRACTALS are not to be some dungeon that you run for rares, exotics. They were created for players who to progress something, those who wants to go the highest difficulty possible. I dont think they should give you 10 rares for one dungoen here. Anyways my friend dropped 7 rares and 1 exotic from fractal daily 30.

If you dont want to play just keep it to yourself man, dont need to create another topic for this one.

No, you’re right, no one is forcing me to play. I’m sorry if I offended you.
Does a person who has played for 20 hours, logged in to do the ancient karka event and got a precursor deserve that precursor? No.
Should I need to spam for hours in LA for a fractal group, while getting constantly suppressed for ‘excessive message’ when I post twice in 5min? No.
Should they have nerfed drop rates into the ground without saying anything, especially since there are no gold rewards for completing the fractal? No.
Everything I am posting here is a valid concern and things that are highly demotivating to players throughout the game. This was never an ‘Im quitting post’, I will probably never quit the game; I love it too much. This was a ‘these things need to be fixed’ post. That’s what forums are for.

Raine.1394:

Someone preferring D3 to GW2 can’t really complain about GW2 drop rates (or quality of the drops). Know what I mean, nudge, nudge, say no more.

I originally quit D3 for GW2 since I was sick of having to regear every patch (plus I was super excited for it’s release, having played every BWE). Then Gw2 did the same thing and so I went back to D3 to regear since it would be easier lol.

Also, is this the Raine from gw1?