Guild Wars 2

I’m one of those that really fell into the whole “the world is your playground concept” yet the downscale in the game still isn’t enough, even after the recent tweak i still 3 shot everything in lower zones.
I hate the feeling of trying to do stuff in lower level areas and still bursting down every enemy with minimal effort.

What i want is challenging gameplay throughout the areas i come back to explore and for the first time ever, this game is giving me a wish to become a completionist and even more so because of the fact i haven’t gone much into jumping puzzles (only stumbled upon a couple).

So i came up with something to really downscale myself: gear. I care very little about cosmetics and it doesn’t bother me having gone through most content and not feeling very powerful.

The problem is that my pet still feels way too overpowered. I know i can simply toggle it to avoid all combat, but even not choosing ranger for the pet, i grew fond of micro-managing the pet, i’m even one of those that run dungeons with squishy pets for the challenge of keeping it alive.

Any other tricks besides equipping the crappiest gear around (i use some mats i have lying around to craft low-end gear, or even go up to armor/weapon vendors, anything goes to gimp myself), specially to make my pet weaker (i run 15 points in BM)?

Any thoughts from people with this same taste will be welcomed.

I don’t think the new downscaling system has been implemented has it? If so, i gotta say they REALLY need to work on how the pets downscale because those things still hit like freights at lower lvs (i have 30pts in BM), one thing my friend suggested for me to do (because i complain about the same thing as you xD) is to take a really poor damage pet, like a bear, or spider.

So you want them to gimp an already gimped class even further? ….
Try taking your ranger into 50-75 zones, you’ll see how bad the new downscaling setup is.

Durzlla.6295:

I don’t think the new downscaling system has been implemented has it? If so, i gotta say they REALLY need to work on how the pets downscale because those things still hit like freights at lower lvs (i have 30pts in BM), one thing my friend suggested for me to do (because i complain about the same thing as you xD) is to take a really poor damage pet, like a bear, or spider.

….that is a horrible idea, how about not putting 30 points in BM if you’re so concerned? your idea would make pets even worse without forcing points into BM. It’s bad enough that pets die so easily without wasting points in BM, you want to make that worse?

er… i feel too powerfull in Orr Arsenic… let alone 50-75…

and please this isn’t a discussion on cross profession balance, overpower/underpower. It’s about the Downscaling feature.

Ariete.6509:

I’m one of those that really fell into the whole “the world is your playground concept” yet the downscale in the game still isn’t enough, even after the recent tweak i still 3 shot everything in lower zones.
I hate the feeling of trying to do stuff in lower level areas and still bursting down every enemy with minimal effort.

What i want is challenging gameplay throughout the areas i come back to explore and for the first time ever, this game is giving me a wish to become a completionist and even more so because of the fact i haven’t gone much into jumping puzzles (only stumbled upon a couple).

So i came up with something to really downscale myself: gear. I care very little about cosmetics and it doesn’t bother me having gone through most content and not feeling very powerful.

The problem is that my pet still feels way too overpowered. I know i can simply toggle it to avoid all combat, but even not choosing ranger for the pet, i grew fond of micro-managing the pet, i’m even one of those that run dungeons with squishy pets for the challenge of keeping it alive.

Any other tricks besides equipping the crappiest gear around (i use some mats i have lying around to craft low-end gear, or even go up to armor/weapon vendors, anything goes to gimp myself), specially to make my pet weaker (i run 15 points in BM)?

Any thoughts from people with this same taste will be welcomed.

Don’t put all 70 points into your trait lines then. Definitely avoid 15 in Beastmastery. Depending on what you see as overpowered on the pet, either use a low damage pet or a low survivability one. If you really want a challenge from those low level zones again, you need to forgo all your advantages as a level 80.

Or just make an alt.

Arsenic Touch.7960:

So you want them to gimp an already gimped class even further? ….
Try taking your ranger into 50-75 zones, you’ll see how bad the new downscaling setup is.

Durzlla.6295:

I don’t think the new downscaling system has been implemented has it? If so, i gotta say they REALLY need to work on how the pets downscale because those things still hit like freights at lower lvs (i have 30pts in BM), one thing my friend suggested for me to do (because i complain about the same thing as you xD) is to take a really poor damage pet, like a bear, or spider.

….that is a horrible idea, how about not putting 30 points in BM if you’re so concerned? your idea would make pets even worse without forcing points into BM. It’s bad enough that pets die so easily without wasting points in BM, you want to make that worse?

Are we playing the same prof?