as long as we are not stopping you from enjoin the game the way you want
You were stopping people from opening the Arah dungeon, as proved at the previous page.
And for the records…
And ty for saying that you may have been wrong about it, takes a big man/woman to say I am wrong!
I guess it’s “do as I say, not as I do”, right?
Yes you just have to run up an go in!
much easer then doing the events.
If that’s the case, I have to completely change my point of view. I mean I’m thinking it’s like CoF..the event isn’t done and you can’t enter….period.
If you can enter, I’m not sure what the fuss is about.
I’m pretty sure it is like CoF. There are doors blocking the entrance that don’t open until the wp is uncontested, aka the event chain has finished.
The guy who said you can just run up and go in doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
I’m pretty sure it is like CoF. There are doors blocking the entrance that don’t open until the wp is uncontested, aka the event chain has finished.
The guy who said you can just run up and go in doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
But it has to be true! I read it on the internet.
Then I read this on the internet, so it has to be true too.
Head asplodes.
Before you get all cranked up! doing that event in cursed shore did not stop anyone from getting in arah, so don’t go there
With that event, Arah was accessable. We were not hindering anyone’s progress or anything.
The dungeon waypoint doesn’t get contested at all by the arah event.
And, lastly, so hopefully no one comes again with the excuse of “we were not stopping anyone’s progress” – yes you were – here’s a screenshot of after the Priest has been defeated, with the gate now open and access to the dungeon:
Ok you might want to read things before you go off m8 the gate is only closed when the event is going on right in front of it! I think it was back in Oct. that was changed.
Yes you just have to run up an go in!
much easer then doing the events.
If that’s the case, I have to completely change my point of view. I mean I’m thinking it’s like CoF..the event isn’t done and you can’t enter….period.
If you can enter, I’m not sure what the fuss is about.
I’m pretty sure it is like CoF. There are doors blocking the entrance that don’t open until the wp is uncontested, aka the event chain has finished.
The guy who said you can just run up and go in doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
read the patch note back in Oct. the gate is only closed when the event is right in fount of it….
Ok you might want to read things before you go off m8 the gate is only closed when the event is going on right in front of it! I think it was back in Oct. that was changed.
You didn’t even have the trouble to look a the screenshots, did you? The first screenshot shows the first step of the Arah event – you know, the one with the Champion Giant you exploiters were resetting – locking both the waypoint and the dungeon. In other words, yes, you were preventing people from entering Arah.
When the Pact begins charging Arah, the dungeon locks. It used to be that the dungeon would be locked all the time unless someone had just opened it. That’s what has been changed a few months ago.
I can’t speak to whether the WP/dungeon are contested during the event — no one even gets to Shank Anchorage on FC when I’ve been in the zone. I do know that if the Risen control Arah and the event is not up, the NPC’s are absent, but neither the WP nor the dungeon are contested. Perhaps that is the source of the confusion.
“Anet has stated from the start than this game was not going to be a grinder or pay to win. and it has to turned out to be both for us, ether you grind it or pay anet to get what you need for the best items, unless your luck is just the best in the land.”
The best items are exotic and ascended. They are readily available for a modest time investment. It is up to players whether they want to invest time in cosmetic items that look nice while playing the game. Players seem to want the rarest cosmetic items because they are the most difficult to obtain. Players then complain that the items they want are too difficult to obtain. See how that happens?
And no, you are not entitled to a Legendary item no matter how much you think you are.
The best items are exotic and ascended. They are readily available for a modest time investment.
Exotic, yes. Ascended, well that remains to be seen.
The game isn’t ‘all about grinding’.
Often it appears it is.
Vayne loves saying “I don’t grind”. Which is great. But does he matter to ArenaNet? The designers, when making the game, have to consider what most players want. When there’s a scenario in which a bunch of players want X and a bunch of players want Y, any developer has to priotitize who they will please (unless you know a developer with infinite resources).
So, what do most players want? To play to have fun, or to grind for rewards? I don’t know. No one here knows, other than ArenaNet.
However, looking at the forum, there are a lot more topics asking for rewards than topics asking for more complex dynamic events or better storytelling. In game, I see a lot of people farming the World Bosses, but significantly less people exploring the middle level maps.
And what has ArenaNet been doing? Are they focusing more on content for those who just want to have fun – better dynamic events, improved storytelling – or in rewards for grinders? They have just published a new blog post speaking about their incoming plans. There, they said:
ArenaNetOne of the main areas of focus for our blog at the start of the year was rewards
Uh…
What else have they been doing? We have the latest iteration of Southsun, for example. Did it feature improved dynamic events and a better, more complex way for ArenaNet to tell stories? Not really. Dynamic events were so poor that they basically recycled the same event twice in the same area (the instigator event), storytelling was so poor that the reveal of who was behind all troubles in the area came as a very small dialogue after a random event. Did it feature content for grinders? Sure, a 200% buff to Magic Find, repeteable events giving an infinite amount of chests, and so on.
ArenaNet told us they would rework the World Bosses to make them more fun, hopefully avoiding the “spam auto attacks and Alt+Tab” scenarios. Then they implemented the Karka Queen, a new World Boss. Is she a complex boss, with multiple phases, requiring combat awareness all the time? Not really, you can spam auto-attacks and Alt+Tab. Is she good for grinders? Sure, two rares per kill.
Is it fun to get rewards after playing fun content? Sure it is. So let’s see, what rewards are available to people who play to have fun, as opposed to grinding? I began playing before release, to give an example. Looking at the Golden title track achievement, I have banked less than 100 gold. That’s not enough to buy a set of Cultural armor for a single character, much less for all my 5 characters.
This is when Vayne would come blazing and say, “That’s your problem, I don’t grind and I have money for everything I want!”. Vayne has also said, in the topic asking people their /ages:
3335 Hours over the past 9 months. Mind you, quite a bit of that time I’ve been on the forums at the same time. lol
That’s more than 12 hours. Per day. Each day. 7 days a week. Every week. For each month. For almost an year.
It doesn’t really make the game look any better if the ways to get rewards are grinding, or spending most of your life every day playing a video game.
So is the game all about grinding? It does look like most of the content ArenaNet has been doing is focused on grinders, yes.
Actually, I don’t think you’re right. Anet put that stuff in for people who have done everything and burned through the content to have something to do. Because no one can make enough content for the content locusts. But I think most people can barely keep up with the living story and just pop on casually. I don’t think most people have finished everything and I don’t think most people grind.
And you can’t prove they do. This is your little pet theory. I never claimed most people play like me. In fact, I know for a fact most people don’t play like me….but that’s a long haul from insisting most people grind. Grinders grind. Most people probably log in, kill some stuff and go live their lives.
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