Guild Wars 2

Doubled the badge rewards for an honest to goodness completion. Gonna make getting the gear quicker for me I agree. And no more token farming I like too, can’t tell you how often I get in groups that I’m thinking it’s a full run and it turns into a token farm cause it’s “easier”

Well they actually promote doing different routes now so that’s a good thing…

But this whole update won’t be any good until they fix a bug that kicks the whole party out of the dungeon at (seemingly) random times.

It’s nice. Now people will be stuck on the colossus path in AC. Then they will complain that it’s too hard.

Is colossus the hard path? I’ve only done that and the howler king thus far I thought those 2 were pretty even in their difficulty.

I find the changes pretty legit really. It has its pros and cons really but they do seem to be in the right place. I did find it silly personally the doing just 2 bosses over and over and not the whole run. Also the added incentive of doing all paths rather than constantly doing one is a boon aswell.

Swagman.9013:

Is colossus the hard path? I’ve only done that and the howler king thus far I thought those 2 were pretty even in their difficulty.

It’s the one where you have to defend the 2 extractors until they reach 100%

Yea I didn’t think that was that much harder than the howler king path with the protect the researcher guy, just strafe and smack.

I’m happy with the changes, I may now actually be able to get a ghastly shield eventually. If I can find a team that doesn’t complain about there being no tanks and healers and quit.

Swagman.9013:

Yea I didn’t think that was that much harder than the howler king path with the protect the researcher guy, just strafe and smack.

The howler king path when you have to defend the researcher is actually really easy, you just have to do it in the right order. It still took us at least an hour to work out though.

They still gotta FIX the dungeons.

They mentioned tokens becoming a rare drop in the future, since this patch places all of the tokens at the very end, so people who can’t finish the dungeon can still get some. I’m worried about that drop rate when the “future” comes around.

i still can’t find that button that once pressed you kill everything in the dungeon and get 200 tokens instantly. Dat button….

Untouch.2541:

They still gotta FIX the dungeons.

what do you mean?

ref.8196:

Untouch.2541:

They still gotta FIX the dungeons.

what do you mean?

The reward change was nice and well needed, but some dungeons are still broken.

ref.8196:

Swagman.9013:

Yea I didn’t think that was that much harder than the howler king path with the protect the researcher guy, just strafe and smack.

The howler king path when you have to defend the researcher is actually really easy, you just have to do it in the right order. It still took us at least an hour to work out though.

Yea that is easy once know the order, and that 100% charge thing isn’t that bad after you get down where the burrows spawn so you can be on them ASAP, plus having humans helps a lot. Grenth’s blessing ftw.

Untouch.2541:

ref.8196:

Untouch.2541:

They still gotta FIX the dungeons.

what do you mean?

The reward change was nice and well needed, but some dungeons are still broken.

Which ones?

This seems like a fair fix to me. And should reduce “grinding” quite a bit.

Funny how last week half of the threads in this forum were people complaining about rewards/nerfed ability to speedfarm etc. and now a lot of that has been fixed, or at least improved somewhat, this is the only thread about it. Just goes to show how the vast majority of forum use is to point out negatives and it’s not really representative of the playerbase.

Also, a lot of the complainers are currently residing in Pandaville.

Swagman.9013:

ref.8196:

Swagman.9013:

Yea I didn’t think that was that much harder than the howler king path with the protect the researcher guy, just strafe and smack.

The howler king path when you have to defend the researcher is actually really easy, you just have to do it in the right order. It still took us at least an hour to work out though.

Yea that is easy once know the order, and that 100% charge thing isn’t that bad after you get down where the burrows spawn so you can be on them ASAP, plus having humans helps a lot. Grenth’s blessing ftw.

You only need to defend one of the extractors btw, it just slows down the event if one of them goes down.

What is this sissy girly men wars 2? Keep both up for iron man mode like a boss!

So am i right or did i read the patch note’s wrong. You have to complete the dungeon now to get any of the tokens ? So if you make it to the end boss and he’s totally kicking yourkitten and your group disbands you basically spent all that time for nothing but a big repair bill ? please tell me im wrong.

Yea that is correct, and that situation should never happen, I mean you managed to get that far tough it out, and if someone leaves just have someone stay in the instance and find another.

Garrix.7036:

Swagman.9013:

ref.8196:

Swagman.9013:

Yea I didn’t think that was that much harder than the howler king path with the protect the researcher guy, just strafe and smack.

The howler king path when you have to defend the researcher is actually really easy, you just have to do it in the right order. It still took us at least an hour to work out though.

Yea that is easy once know the order, and that 100% charge thing isn’t that bad after you get down where the burrows spawn so you can be on them ASAP, plus having humans helps a lot. Grenth’s blessing ftw.

You only need to defend one of the extractors btw, it just slows down the event if one of them goes down.

Yup when we finally did it we finished on one, but I think if you only have 1 going it gathers twice as slow, so there is an advantage to keeping both, that you don’t have to defend it for so long.

TheBeetRootKing.2659:

So am i right or did i read the patch note’s wrong. You have to complete the dungeon now to get any of the tokens ? So if you make it to the end boss and he’s totally kicking yourkitten and your group disbands you basically spent all that time for nothing but a big repair bill ? please tell me im wrong.

If you are afraid of this happening don’t join PUGs, there is a lot more accountability if you’re grouped with friends of guild members.

Undecided mostly. I actually had no problems with loot in dungeons personally since I never planned to “farm” a dungeon set anyway, but the change could be good for people who wanted it. I will say I hope to never see anything like “Arah shard group. Must know the jump” again. I went along once to see what “the jump” was all about.

Felt like cheating to me, so I didn’t bother again.

I’m just waiting for the dungeons to settle in a bit. Maybe a round of tuning here and there as some of the encounters are just… painful at the moment. Not really challenging, just a grind to get through.

So… we’ll see.

And as for PUGs… yeah, they mostly suck. But something should be done to allow these groups to complete the dungeons. Create difficulty modes or something. Because REQUIRING you to be on at the same time as friends/guildies, and then them wanting to do the same dungeon as you, and then them not being just as bad as a pug can be asking too much of the player base.

My guildies and I got spanked in CM the other night and haven’t been back. We’re not bad players. We were on voice chat. The encounters are just overtuned right now. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so bloody expensive to try out new tactics, but each of us ended up losing something like 20s before we just gave up in frustration. And we still have no idea what we were doing “wrong”.

So… yeah. Undecided.