Guild Wars 2

Aha! I noticed that my projectiles only have a 20% chance of creating a combo. Could by why it feels all random.

Sidi.6970:

Please, remove the combo killer, that stuff is just…. it does not even make sense. Why would you put something like this as a daily requirement? Its annoying, time wasting blob of utter and complete nonsense.

To give people cause to play together? Seems fair if you want the daily in an MMO for crying out loud.

“Guild Wars 2 will be a game you play the way you want to play”.

Not right.

It seems Arenanet is trying to force people to like every little aspect of the game, not understanding that some people may just NOT like to craft, not like to party and hate underwater combat (me, for instance, in the latter).

I absolutely hated this requirement to grouping to complete MY daily. Maybe I don’t like grouping, could this be respected? Underwater kills is also completely grindy, since the normal daily variety you would complete just by playing the game normally.

That’s what I want: a daily achievement that I can complete without even knowing how much kills I had, without having to TRACK every single thing, every kill I make underwater or having to kill things with a combo. I had all of this up until some hours ago. Now I simply don’t want to do the dailies anymore.

And it doesn’t matter if the dailies are gonna change or rotate, this is a daily lost for me, am I supposed to enjoy that?

Please, get back to thinking strait developers.

I have to laugh. All the complaints about GW2 being a solo game and now all the complaints about having to work with others. Anet just can’t win.

Sounds like another in a long list of reasons why they need a PTR. I haven’t got into the game yet but if this is the case WOW just WOW seriously? It’s amazing to me they thought this is what people were asking for. I agree with the guy who said they must be on their own private servers without DR turned on because there’s really no way they are playing the standard game and not seeing what we’re experiencing without being on an entirely different style server then we are on. I’ll be checking when i login particularly the daily system and to see if the loot issues in the open world are now gone. here’s to hoping.

Not much to add to the above about the combo kills. They simply dont seem to register for me. After killing quite a few monsters underwater in bloodtide coast (which oddly is very populated now… i guess its one thing the daily changed for the better, now lets see how long it lasts) I have gotten exactly 1 combo kill.

Now why dont i get any rewards for, for examply laying down fields to let others get the combo kills? That would likely help getting the dailies done more easily and allow random players to team up without partying at a map event boss or something.

Something i do would like to throw out there, in regard to the party system: why have random events where people meet for a short period of time to achieve a common goal, and still have a gameplay-pausing party system where you gotta click and type to form a group limited to so few players? Five is a really small number compared to most other mmo’s ive played… Instead i would propose some sort of target(event) based auto-formed group or something.

aelfric.8536:

Don’t see the problem. Lay down any field and a friend shoots through it. Done.

If I understand how it’s been implemented, it requires you to be grouped with someone — which is pretty stupid.

This game’s strength lies in the fact that you can cooperate with other players without the formality of grouping. It’s also also the foundation of it’s open-world PvE gameplay. Basically, ANet is taking a dump on one of their core design philosophies, by incorporating this kind of stipulation. People should be puzzled and angry by it.

I swear, this game seems to be becoming more pedestrian and conventional all the time. Just waiting now, for the day they start stealing ideas from Blizzard.

Dailies were a fun edition to the game, and getting a little chest at the end of the day was always a pleasant moment… But why oh why had they been changed?
I would not complain about crafting if there would be at least 5 crafting camps in each zone… but now, in order to make my daily, I must go somewhere across the continent… couldn’t you find any more entertaining ways to make me spend my time and money?

And combo kills… why not simple combos? why not simple kills?
If that’s the way to make the game more social – it is a failure.
Give us a global chat, and we will be finding guilds, making parties and doing stuff together. Now we are restricted by this small area chat and if we are guildless – the chat window is always empty… Forcing us to make dailies together is not a solution.

My only answer to this change – it has really made the game less enjoyable, and if I do not enjoy it – why would I play it…
Soo… what changes are coming next?

What sucks about dailies needing a group is what do the people that play at the end of the day do? After completing their daily, how apt is a person going to be to go back out and re-do the requirements again and again to help others out?

ANet I am kinda disapointed, I really liked the old dailies, and for someone like me who is a solo-er, and since no one is in my lvl areas how will I be able to do these dailies.
I don’t know how to combo with a guardian, and crafting is not even in the list, never all mats are to the BLTP not to the crafting table… But oh well, cya temple armor.

I am still downloading, but forcing me to team up to finish dailies is, well, annoying to say the least. Except for dungeons, WvW, guild events, and some world events I am a solo player. Friends hardly play GW2 any more … how am I meant to get dailies done if I am not social enough?

I also find the dailies update completely disappointing. I was looking forward to playing like I want to, avoiding the tasks I find less interesting and what do we have now…? we are FORCED to craft, FORCED to group, FORCED to go underwater which I absolutely hate….. not to mention the finishing kill in combos.

I really don’t feel like bothering to do the dailies anymore. This is getting less and less fun.
I game where I can play like I want? What a joke…

Skream.4613:

“Guild Wars 2 will be a game you play the way you want to play”.

Not right.

It seems Arenanet is trying to force people to like every little aspect of the game, not understanding that some people may just NOT like to craft, not like to party and hate underwater combat (me, for instance, in the latter).

Yeah, they’ve been trying to force me into playing their dumb WvW since launch, by dangling the monthly achievement carrot off of it. They succeeded the first month, and got me to try it — and I loathed it with a passion.Then they succeeded for the next two months in driving me away from the game, along with my liberal gem spending, by making it clear that if I didn’t want to PvP, I could take a flying leap.

Now maybe that others are also being told to take a flying leap, enough people might complain that ANet start listening, (and I can finally get my damnable monthly achievements again).

Is there a way to atleast hide the dailies ?

I hate the new daily. Forcing people into groups for the combo finisher that doesn’t even work most of the time is bad enough. On top of that the underwater kills are complete bs, underwater combat is the most screwed up aspect of this game. Finally forcing us to craft is just another way to make us throw money away (even using the mists to get to Lion’s Arch I still have to spend over 3 silver to get back to where I was). I sure hope tomorrow is better.

You don’t have to be in an actual group. I was on my ranger in Queensdale, and only had two after roaming around, so I got on my 80 warr, equipped a longbow, and went to pent/shelt.

I just spammed F1 in the crowds of mobs to create a fire field whenever I could, after two rounds of pent/shelt, I got the last 8 I needed.

I still think it’s slightly annoying, but doable. /shrug.

I am very concerned about this needing an ally to complete the combo part of the Daily. I am a clutz and therefore I avoid “Teaming” but love doing the DEs where I can jump in with a bunch of people, and very happily do damage to the evildoers of Tyria…I guess I feel that if I am not on a “Team” I can’t be jeered at…

ANET, you have soloers amongst your ranks, who, if they are anything like me, spend freely in your Gem shop, and thus contribute to the financial health of the game Don’t spit at us…please…

Lambent..I did all the DEs and only ended up with 1 combo win.

I play Warrior and Guardian….Hmm ..Longbow you say???

Spam it and hope for the best???

I can do that and will try it.

Thanks.

Oooh anet wants me to buy LESS gems. Okay.

Seems that you get them a LOT faster if you create the field, as opposed to trying to combo finisher it.

Where do we petition to get the person who came up with this stupid revamp of the dailes fired? Because this new system is just STUPID.

And, for the first time since open-beta one, I don’t want to the play the game. And you’re talking to someone with SIX level 80s and has no problem logging on and farming dailes, as boring as they were.

The biggest problem are the combo kills with allies? That’s utter crap. I have no desire to group with strangers. And if my grenade wielding engineer, who’s tagging 5-to-10 mobs per rush in Orr can’t get a single ‘combo’ kill with grenades (poison finisher), pistols or a rifle… You need to rethink this stupidity.

Just as bad as my peeve, my daughter can’t do her dailies without jumping into the tedium pool because she doesn’t craft, isn’t interested in crafting, has no crafting skills and sold all her mats so she has no mats. Forcing her to drudge it out in noob areas to meet this silly “10 crafting” thing is bunk.

I mean, seriously, WTH happened to the ‘fun manifesto?’ Being jerked through hoops on crap you don’t want to do IS NOT FRACKING, FLIPPING FUN. It’s TEDIUM.

You know, TEDIUM. The crap I left the other MMOs for this one.

Has been already said everything that could be said about this new daily system … I just wanna add and highlight the fact that this new system is ridiculous..

Suffice it to say, I’m not thrilled with the new dailies, and I’m certainly not amused at the addition of more clutter on the upper right corner.

Personally I’d rather do every single Quaggan mission ever than to go through that insufferable story line ever again, and yet there on every new character I make, there’s a story mission, whining for completion.

And now joining right into Trahearne’s dull autobiography (with a minor inclusion of some player character who’s only good for pulling levers when commanded), ANet decided what we need is a constant reminder that there’s a daily system. Well, have you done your dailies yet? Since we have more dailies now!

There seems to be a bug with guardians combing with other guardians. I was laying down Hallowed Ground and Purging Flames (fire fields) and another guarding was using Mighty Smash (blast finisher) in the fields to 1-shot level 2 skale in Greensdale. We could see the Area Might heart pop up, but no progress was being made to the count. No progress was made with Whirling Wrath or Leap of Faith either (whirl and leap finishers, respectively).

The other guardian switched to ranger and we were able to make things work, but not consistently. I’m aware of the difference between small (20%) and large (100%) projectile finishers, but neither were counting as they should.

An important note about this daily: You get credit both ways if you are in a party (credit if you are the one that laid the field and credit if you performed the finisher), but you only get credit for making the kill if you are not in a party. At least that’s how it seemed to us. It could be that you have to lay the field and get tagging credit on the mob if you’re not in a party.

And no, self combos don’t work, at least not for Guardians.

One benefit of this daily is that now all the noob a scruff players are learning what combo fields are and how they work

Isn’t there that old saying… “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Yeah. That’s the one.

Sadface that the dailies are not soloable anymore. What happened to “play your way”?

Completely ruined the dailies… great job!

these dailies are designed around the player that plays 3-4 hours a day… apperently when i got dc’d and relogged i had a new set of dailies and one of them was “revive 10 allies” unless running a few dungeons back to back ive played the game 5 hours straight and prob revived 4 ppl max (meaning 4 ppl only went down near me that many times)…. why the kitten do u turn every lil thing into a grind… its not big enough to be a game breaker but so unnecessary and annoying.

philip.1897:

I like the variety, but this seems much harder to complete now.

What if I don’t have any friends around to get 10 kills with an ally?

Please think of the people that may want to just play on their own.

That is really going to suck, because I rarely team up.

Andiana.6381:

Completely ruined the dailies… great job!

Agreed!

Andiana.6381:

Completely ruined the dailies… great job!

+1

Woow, this was an unexpected response.

I haven’t done the new dailies yet, however I tend to get fair few combo finishers – why? Because quite frequently I tag along, or some tags along with me to fight few mobs.

As for the crafting…seriously how hard is it to craft few tier 1 items and sell them?Am I missing something here?

If it were possible, I’d do someone’s crafting dailies for a month if they would do my 50 PvP kills for that same month. Oh well. Can’t say I’m that upset that my misery now has company.

Managed to get the 10 combo kills by laying down a ring of fire while a ranger shot through it. It seems that it didn’t matter what part of the fight this occurred, as long as it occurred before the foe was dead.

wildcode.5403:

Managed to get the 10 combo kills by laying down a ring of fire while a ranger shot through it. It seems that it didn’t matter what part of the fight this occurred, as long as it occurred before the foe was dead.

hmm, I’ve been laying down fields for the past hour but I have yet to get any credit for a combo kill.

Will the ele solo combo fields count?

90 minutes of laying down combo fields with a mesmer while others ran finishers. Tried it on ground and underwater, in PvE and WvW. Got to 30%.

Lambent.6375:

You don’t have to be in an actual group. I was on my ranger in Queensdale, and only had two after roaming around, so I got on my 80 warr, equipped a longbow, and went to pent/shelt.

I just spammed F1 in the crowds of mobs to create a fire field whenever I could, after two rounds of pent/shelt, I got the last 8 I needed.

I still think it’s slightly annoying, but doable. /shrug.

That’s actually a good idea ^__^ Thanks man, you made this players life a bit easier…

This game is supposed to be fun, not annoying.

Please bring the fun back to dailys, remove the daily combo one – nobody likes it.

Just reset..no combo or crafting you are safe

Combo Kills is beyond kitten You need:
- Any combo finisher from YOU.
- A combo field from someone else THAT CREATES AN OFFENSIVE COMBO (eg: Burning, Poison, not Regeneration or Condition Removal).
- The killing blow FROM THE ABILITY THAT PERFORMED THE FINISHER.

All of my what? Please tell me this is a glitch. Of the myriad combinations in the game, only so many of them are offensive. Of the myriad combo finishers in the game, only so many can reliably last-hit a target. And speaking of last hits…do we really want to encourage people to “KS” from each other?

This lone daily is downright painful. The first 4 weren’t too bad (Events, Underwater, Gather, Craft) because I could reliably gain credit, regardless as to Underwater and Craft being annoying. Combo? I spent a good 1.5 hrs running around zergs to get 50% credit. And then the dailies reset under my nose.

Why Anet, why.

Combo Daily would be fine if credit was actually awarded. Stuck to a roaming group that was clearly trying to complete this task – combo fields everywhere and finishers going off all over the place. Credit seemed to be awarded randomly, despite seeing all the combo animations and messages as we killed stuff.

Stuck on 4/10 for ages before all the DCs and then logged in again to discover a new set of dailies for which I have no completion at all. Hmmph.

Who thought up this “new” daily crap? You cant do some of them solo. We’re being FORCED to craft if you want to complete it! (I hate crafting, in ANY MMO) How is this suppossed to make doing dailies fun? You turned it from something that was FUN to do into a PITA.

This is male bovine excrement.

I remember reading about multiple choices, so if you didn’t want to do some, you could do others.

Was that scrapped?

Crafting is not too bad – even for a non-crafter : just get your a char a token crafting skill, and then refine 10 basic raw materials, it takes about 10 seconds. Got mine just making 10 copper ingots with level 0 jewelling.

Tested the combo kill field – works best in a low level area with one player shooting the mob and friend puts down a field over the player when the mob is about to die. Best for the friend not to shoot the mob at all. We used two asuras, a thief and an engineer, both with radiation field. We took turns to shoot icebrood in Wayfarers Foothills, shortbow 1 and pistol 1 skills worked fine through radiation field and we got the 10 kills in about 5 minutes once we got the knack. I did notice several times where we thought we had the kill shot through the field, but the achievement did not increment – maybe a glitch or some sort of RNG, not sure. Certainly best for the field layer not to attack the mob at all, leave it to the other player.

Was one event from completing the ‘old’ daily earlier tonight…..then the patch came…

Heart sank when I’d lost all my current numbers and I saw the ‘combo’ achievement in the ‘new and improved version’…

…. but I gave it a chance and spent an hour in WvW trying to complete it (had completed all the other sections)…with no success.

…..and now, it’s been reset to the old daily!!??

What a waste of time!!

Serious Anet, you need to really think your design decisions through…<shakes head>…

Gandolfi.1507:

Tested the combo kill field – works best in a low level area with one player shooting the mob and friend puts down a field over the player when the mob is about to die. Best for the friend not to shoot the mob at all. We used two asuras, a thief and an engineer, both with radiation field. We took turns to shoot icebrood in Wayfarers Foothills, shortbow 1 and pistol 1 skills worked fine through radiation field and we got the 10 kills in about 5 minutes once we got the knack. I did notice several times where we thought we had the kill shot through the field, but the achievement did not increment – maybe a glitch or some sort of RNG, not sure. Certainly best for the field layer not to attack the mob at all, leave it to the other player.

Except there’s just one massive issue: that’s incredibly unintuitive. The rest of the dailies aren’t too bad: making random stuff is varied by nature, killing stuff underwater is just overall kill credit, etc.

Daily Combo Kill? The killing hit must be an ability that’s loaded with a combo, and any other source of killing damage (eg: the Burning from…uhhh…Burning) negates the credit. This daily is so incredibly stupid I’ll probably get another forum infraction from complaining about it so much.

If ONLY we had a test environment where players could see if the new dailies were accurately counting and report bugs before release.

If ONLY we could have seen the selection of dailies ahead of time and let our opinions on percieved “forcing” of unenjoyable things like crafting and underwater combat… and bring up valid points about unsoloable daily requirements.

If ONLY GW2 were developed by someone other than Anet.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I remember reading about multiple choices, so if you didn’t want to do some, you could do others.

Was that scrapped?

That will be rolled out during a LATER update.

For those upset about the Combo Killer Daily:

ColinJohanson.2394:

The combo killer has been removed from the weekly rotation, clearly not working as intended.

Definition of “daily”.

1. Of or occurring during the day.
2. Happening or done every day: the physician’s daily rounds.
3. Computed or assessed for each day: a daily record.
4. Everyday: casual clothes only for daily use.

Notice how it dos’nt say “takes all day” like this new system does.

The dailies seem to have 5 tiers.
Each tier has 5 different tasks to choose from.
Only 60% of each tier has to be completed.