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Chak ARE more powerful than elder dragons

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7) They’ll run around in full knight gear with all defensive specializations because “HoT is hard”.

Wait a sec, what is so bad about using knight gear?

Probably that it’s not Berserker or Assassin, because apparently, that’s the only way to play the game, didn’t you know?

I use Knight’s on my Ele, actually. HoT isn’t hard, but Ele is way too squishy for me to be comfortable in Berserker gear with it.

? What a **** comment.

Maybe because Knights is absolutely not needed in HoT (go celestial on Ele), especially when the main limiting factor is damage.

You can run Knights on any content where you want to spend more time than necessary or you lack the player skill for useful gear. Timegated content is a different story. Learn to play or at least use something that resembles damage gear. As is, there is NO content in game that requires Knights (aside from some WvW bunker builds). Even raid tanks only take as mich toughness as absolutely necessary to hold agro (400-500 over 1,000 base usually for a total of about 1,500).

It’s not the players fault that arenanet balanced the events around everyone running maximum damage. I don’t even want to imagine an entire group running full knights on TD scar lane. Have fun never succeeding. Wearing knights on this map is effectively leeching off of other players contribution.

Translation: “You’re bad because you don’t play the same why I do!!11!1!!!” -foams at the mouth-

Just the kind of comment I was expecting. People like you are toxic to MMO gaming. You think anyone who doesn’t play like you is bad or leeching. It’s rather pathetic. It’s a good thing I don’t care about other people’s opinions. Don’t like the way I play? Tough kitten. I’m not changing for you, or anyone else. Get over it

No, translation is: “you are bad because you do not play the game as it is”. You can bemoan that, you can bemoan someone does not have the meagre skill needed to survive on active defenses, but you cannot come up with that mickey mouse claim of “play how you want”. Or you can even do that, but don´t expect other players being happy about you sabotaging group activities and don´t complain being rejected from groups.

OMG Awesome !!!! Thanks Anet

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then don´t buy. Yes, just like that.

Forced grouping and raid group experience

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Yes, but the elitists will say that PUGs don’t deserve to raid.

complete nonsense, “elitists” say no such thing, raids are pugged in other games all the time. Most of the pre-raid organisation is about roles, which are still mostly missing in GW2 (good thing too), so this should even be easier here. But telling from your agenda, I guess you are a “casual” and hence are talking about things you have no idea about.

Theory about gems to gold from other players

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Side note, it amuses me to see how many people are so stressed and angry in their lives that they have to attack the points of someone else’s claims or opinions. Don’t like it, move on. Stop trying to impose your views on mine. This thread would disappear if people didn’t care or didn’t want to attack someone else. It’s sill really.

marvelous post.

First of all, if you want to pull off cheap rhetorical parlor tricks in the future, you really need to improve on your skills. That must have been the most threadbare and blunt attempt at a self-victimization strategy I have ever seen.

Secondly, this is an open discussion forum. What do you think? All have to praise you for your great insight? If you come up with some claim, of cause people can and will argue against you. Do you think everyone has to let your claim stand for what it is?

Thirdly, you do not even understand the lowest basics of scientific theory. Children learn in middle school what constitutes a hypothesis and a theory. You could at least spend 5 seconds of googling instead of demonstrating your utter lack of basic general scientific education.

What has happened to your manifesto!?

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Those people are just being obtuse for the most part. This argument has been had hundreds of times. Something wasn’t working, they adjusted their approach.

Mike O’Brien brought up the manifesto himself at the HoT announcement. If they had abandoned it as you claim, why then do they continue referencing it? Before you call customers obtuse be sure you’re right.

checking forum in general.. yep. He is right.

Ramblings of an infrequent soloist....

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the “I have a life and a job” thing is really getting old. Newsflash: That is quite normal for adult human beings. Implying everyone being more skilled or more succesful in a game has to be a no-lifer is a boring and worn strategy in 2015, seriously.

:/ I think I'm done

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Reading between the lines:

I am a very skilled player. But other players seem to do better. That is not because they are more skilled, they are really noobs. It is because the game demands not the real deal skillset (aka mine), but skills those noobs have. Please change the game so I am king with my personal skillset. I am unable to acquire any other.

This game used to be so fun..

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Nope. They’re just enjoying a JUSTIFIED sense of superiority.

FIFY. Because in the relevant field, they are superior (lying about their own prowess excluded).

Why HOT has let me down

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Let’s start with the mesmer portals: It might feel a little unfair that people “exploit” this skill to get to mastery gated or otherwise hard to reach places, but honestly this has been happening for ages with jumping puzzles and it is just how it is, let the scrubs who can’t be bothered to actually work for their own success be.

Secondly I realize that CoF farming in central tyria is an idiotic exploit that could be easily fixed, but honestly that isn’t going to happen. The spider farm however was nerfed considerably. Do note however that using these exp farms to gather mastery exp people are missing out on loot for that playtime and getting immensely bored while doing so, generally I think that there is something a little bit off in their heads if they can be bothered to do so. However getting the mastery exp isn’t that hard the regular, more interesting, way. Trust me on this, I’m currently sittin on 98 mastery rank and I have not used either of these farms to get there, I have however become very rich ingame and completed collections via events and such while getting there.

Finally I must say that you should try and adapt to the philosophy of playing for yourself and not for the acceptance, or whatever, of randoms from the internet, you’ll surely feel more accomplished for working hard to earn what you have rather than to cheat your way through.

I am very Glad to see that they nerfed the spider farm exploit but my attitude is fine, i was just trying to be as polite as possible. and Jumping puzzles are not the same as gaining masterys to unlock or reach certain areas of the map in order to progress. jumping puzzles are a nice addition to the game that has nothing to do with really progressing in the game, ok i’m not 100 percent sure on that, but i am pretty sure. i know there is like a bunch of very small jumping puzzles to gain vistas for map completion but other than that i can’t really say that jumping puzzles are pretty much required like masterys are in the new maps. i just think there is a big difference between porting for a jumping puzzle and on the new maps.

you are clearly someone who is overconcerned with other people´s choices and how they prefer to do things. This will cause you a lot of grief and unnecessary suffering here and in real life, trust me on this.

On the value of "luxury" rewards

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Ok, if you’re actually being serious, then I will answer your questions, last first, since I think the latter illuminate the former better.

“Who is best off in gw2?”

Lots of subjectivity here, but for the purposes of what I was saying in reference to the article (it’s a relatively quick read, btw), it refers to those economically best off, those that are able to buy the things that they want fairly casually, relative to those who would really have to scrimp and save to be able to afford these things.

“So whats the point? Anet should try to make the mayority of the player base happy?

Arent they trying to do that?"

I think they should, and I think that if they are trying to do that, and I hope they do, I believe they are doing it wrong, and that this study, at least, would indicate that. The belief is that if a few people are granted significant wealth above their peers, then it makes those people happy, and it makes everyone else strive to match them.

The study seems to indicate that while it may make the recipient happier, it only makes them slightly happier, while each other person becomes less happy by a more significant amount, so the net happiness of the population drops significantly. That would indicate that the solution is not to concentrate prosperity, to make “the good stuff” something quite rare that only a select few can enjoy, but rather to try and spread it as evenly as possible.

Yes, people should have to work towards tangible goals, but progress towards these goals should be through in-game direct effort, not through accumulation of gold via trade. And if you’re going to suggest that gold trading should be considered another legitimate way to play the game, then that’s fine, but in that case it would need to be thoroughly in balance with all other ingame activities, providing no more gold per hour of play than the various other options. It is currently nowhere close to balanced by that standard.

I see, so psychologial factors furthering your agenda: Hey, look at this.
Psychological factors not working for your agenda: BS.

Plz stop spamming the pro gamer crap in game.

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haha, “esports”.

- popular esport devs (LoL, SC): spending insane amount of time on balancing, are never completely satisfied, continue balancing
- GW2: We do don´t balance classes around 1vs1

too bad people actually play single characters, not 5. This will never be a success on a scale they imagine.

Why are Guild Enhancements HoT only?

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to sell the expansion?

ferry, not taxi

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the weirdness of this place know no boundaries.

GW2 Efficiency to screen raiders has begun.

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So people want to plan ahead and succeed. Outrageous.

Getting Guild Halls too Hard

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I believe it’s wrong for small guilds to expect to have access to what larger guilds have achieved through their teamwork and commitment. It is right though to expect some sort of functionality and effort/reward system to be put in place in game that is reasonably able to be acquired for smaller guilds (i.e. 5-10 players). After all, there are a lot more smaller guilds out there than there are larger guilds.

I really want to swear at you for this statement: I payed the EXACT same price (beta player early start whatever) as you did or any other person at start, and you are basically saying I have not the same rights with my 2 person guild as a 500 person guild? So so , so shortsighted of you. I payed FULL price, I want FULL game being able to come to me in what ever shape or form, PLAY HOW YOU WANT, was their sales slogan, clearly now it is PLAY AS ALL OTHER MILLIONS OR LEAVE!

I really DO NOT care if it takes me 6 months or a year to achieve the same goals as a full 500 guild can do within 2 days, but I should BE ABLE to do so, and currently it is NOT possible! Oh wait yeah /insert whiney voice: HURRDURR JOIN A BIG GUILD, USE LFG!
No it should NOT be needed to do so. once again I payed full price, I want FULL access to ALL features, EVEN if it is hard to achieve or very costly, and once again it is NOT possible with the current system!

Swear and get upset all you like, but doing so doesn’t help anything. I agree with some of what you’ve said. But you have to look at it from all points of view, just not our own.

Paying for a game does not automatically entitle any of us to everything within that game. It never ever has been the way nor should it ever be the way. And it certainly has never been the way in MMOs in general. Using that same line of entitled thinking one could also argue that all the access/rewards in the upcoming raids should also be achievable by those that solo/duo/group. No one would ever ask for that, because it simply doesn’t make sense.

What I think there should be in place are a set of rewards/goals specifically designed for smaller/medium-sized guilds too. Right now as we know the focus is almost exclusively on larger guilds. As an example; I’d like to see guild halls available that are more designed for the smaller guild (like I wrote above), and other smaller scale target goals, that would logically become a focus for smaller guilds. It’s all about balance, and – most importantly – variety when it comes to MMOs. Right now Guild Wars 2 lacks this variety with regards to guild functionality.

There should be incentives and rewards for guilds of all sizes in the game. Asking for smaller guilds to have the same options, regardless of the work involved, takes away some of the reward from the larger guilds. I don’t think doing that is the best way forward.

I did not swear nor am i upset, rather frustrated about things I payed for and have no access too because I want to play the game my way, that is not being entitled nor am I demanding anything, it is the way GW1 and GW2 have worked till HoT came out. GW1 I have my own GH, GW2 I have my own guild, HoT made it impossible. Seems that fair?

I never said I want it all NOW and I do need less work for it then any other guild, I just want to be able to have ACCESS to it. to progress I MUST have more then 5 people. But seeing there is only 2 people currently active in my guild (actually it isnt since HoT got tried by us we basically left it behind other then logging in for some dailies so now and then) I am not currently considered a “Guild” and are not ALLOWED for the same features EVERYONE payed for. Seems that fair? I do not care if i need to work a complete year towards a GH as opposed to a huge guild having to do it in a week or less, ALL I ask for is the same ACCESS!

Well, sadly, if you’re going to blatantly contradict yourself, it’s pointless trying to have any constructive conversation about it. Which is disappointing, because I think it’s a worthwhile topic.

I am not contradicting anything: all I want is the same access as anyone else. I payed as much as anyone else, therefore i want to be able to do the same. I never said I want it now and direct or tossed in my lap: I am willing to work for it, just with my own time and gaming ways, nothing wrong with that? GW has always been about being able to play how you want, not being forced into things we rather do not like. but then we get to this discussion about casual vs hardcore Kitten stuff and I rather not go there (and yeah I am a casual player with limited time, hence that I want my own little place and be able to work for that instead of a 500 people guild with unknown others).

the thing is, you “are able to do the same”. You are not excluded. If you played in a big guild and were excluded from achieving your guild aims even though you did the same thing as other players, then the game would exclude you. You, like many others, mistake “fairness” for being able to take decisions without consequences. You want to play in a 2 person guild, that is fine. And these are the consequences. They are the same consequences for everyone else chosing to play in a 2 person guild. Yes, that is fairness and not exclusion.

it is exclusion: simply because before HoT we where able to have ANYTHING that was ingame as a two person guild that a 500 people guild had as well. it took longer yes to gather influence and all, but I had access to everything. THey took that away, it is unfair.

no, it is not. That is simple change. One for the worse in your case, but still. Or is there a 2 people guild that is treated differently?

Fake Difficulty?

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apart from the megaman reference, there is no “fake difficulty” brought up in this thread. “Fake difficulty”, “artificial difficulty”, “it is not hard, it is tedious” etc. usually translate into “hey, I am having a hard time, but I am not a bad player. So there is must be something shady with that difficulty”.

Getting Guild Halls too Hard

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I believe it’s wrong for small guilds to expect to have access to what larger guilds have achieved through their teamwork and commitment. It is right though to expect some sort of functionality and effort/reward system to be put in place in game that is reasonably able to be acquired for smaller guilds (i.e. 5-10 players). After all, there are a lot more smaller guilds out there than there are larger guilds.

I really want to swear at you for this statement: I payed the EXACT same price (beta player early start whatever) as you did or any other person at start, and you are basically saying I have not the same rights with my 2 person guild as a 500 person guild? So so , so shortsighted of you. I payed FULL price, I want FULL game being able to come to me in what ever shape or form, PLAY HOW YOU WANT, was their sales slogan, clearly now it is PLAY AS ALL OTHER MILLIONS OR LEAVE!

I really DO NOT care if it takes me 6 months or a year to achieve the same goals as a full 500 guild can do within 2 days, but I should BE ABLE to do so, and currently it is NOT possible! Oh wait yeah /insert whiney voice: HURRDURR JOIN A BIG GUILD, USE LFG!
No it should NOT be needed to do so. once again I payed full price, I want FULL access to ALL features, EVEN if it is hard to achieve or very costly, and once again it is NOT possible with the current system!

Swear and get upset all you like, but doing so doesn’t help anything. I agree with some of what you’ve said. But you have to look at it from all points of view, just not our own.

Paying for a game does not automatically entitle any of us to everything within that game. It never ever has been the way nor should it ever be the way. And it certainly has never been the way in MMOs in general. Using that same line of entitled thinking one could also argue that all the access/rewards in the upcoming raids should also be achievable by those that solo/duo/group. No one would ever ask for that, because it simply doesn’t make sense.

What I think there should be in place are a set of rewards/goals specifically designed for smaller/medium-sized guilds too. Right now as we know the focus is almost exclusively on larger guilds. As an example; I’d like to see guild halls available that are more designed for the smaller guild (like I wrote above), and other smaller scale target goals, that would logically become a focus for smaller guilds. It’s all about balance, and – most importantly – variety when it comes to MMOs. Right now Guild Wars 2 lacks this variety with regards to guild functionality.

There should be incentives and rewards for guilds of all sizes in the game. Asking for smaller guilds to have the same options, regardless of the work involved, takes away some of the reward from the larger guilds. I don’t think doing that is the best way forward.

I did not swear nor am i upset, rather frustrated about things I payed for and have no access too because I want to play the game my way, that is not being entitled nor am I demanding anything, it is the way GW1 and GW2 have worked till HoT came out. GW1 I have my own GH, GW2 I have my own guild, HoT made it impossible. Seems that fair?

I never said I want it all NOW and I do need less work for it then any other guild, I just want to be able to have ACCESS to it. to progress I MUST have more then 5 people. But seeing there is only 2 people currently active in my guild (actually it isnt since HoT got tried by us we basically left it behind other then logging in for some dailies so now and then) I am not currently considered a “Guild” and are not ALLOWED for the same features EVERYONE payed for. Seems that fair? I do not care if i need to work a complete year towards a GH as opposed to a huge guild having to do it in a week or less, ALL I ask for is the same ACCESS!

Well, sadly, if you’re going to blatantly contradict yourself, it’s pointless trying to have any constructive conversation about it. Which is disappointing, because I think it’s a worthwhile topic.

I am not contradicting anything: all I want is the same access as anyone else. I payed as much as anyone else, therefore i want to be able to do the same. I never said I want it now and direct or tossed in my lap: I am willing to work for it, just with my own time and gaming ways, nothing wrong with that? GW has always been about being able to play how you want, not being forced into things we rather do not like. but then we get to this discussion about casual vs hardcore Kitten stuff and I rather not go there (and yeah I am a casual player with limited time, hence that I want my own little place and be able to work for that instead of a 500 people guild with unknown others).

the thing is, you “are able to do the same”. You are not excluded. If you played in a big guild and were excluded from achieving your guild aims even though you did the same thing as other players, then the game would exclude you. You, like many others, mistake “fairness” for being able to take decisions without consequences. You want to play in a 2 person guild, that is fine. And these are the consequences. They are the same consequences for everyone else chosing to play in a 2 person guild. Yes, that is fairness and not exclusion.

400 gems for a bag slot is ridiculous...

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people have been buying them since launch. So they are not too expensive. Every customer, me included, likes goods and services to be as cheap as possible. Apparently, they sell well enough for the set price to offset some people not buying them at all because they consider them too expensive. It really is as simple as that. There is no moral obligation for low prices.

ArenaNet... personal damage meter ?

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A2 I have never kicked any player until after HOT release, I kicked players who obviously don’t have HOT, because I feel they can not contribute as much damage due to the lack of elite specialization, and I dont like people leeching (when they are playing for free and I have to pay 50 dollars!)

and so the champion of inclusiveness revealed himself. Thanks, that has been tremendously amusing. It´s always the same with a certain type of people.

Request Mob Nerf: Mordrem Sniper

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If you feel miserable when challenged, why do you play computer games? Why not just grind FarmVille 2 or watch TV if all you want is to see stuff move on the screen and not having to worry about getting “killed”?

For reasons that you don’t have to agree with or understand, but are equally valid as any reasons you might have to play games. Done.

then why not play the suggested “game” and similar instead of insisting to change GW2?

dear anet,pls b considerate to casual players

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I know there are somewhat competing definitions of a “casual player”, but with 6 hours every day (mind you, that is almost a work day for most westeners), you are anything but. And when you do WB for that long a time, you are actually farming. Your problem is not “being casual”, your problem is not “the game is not catering to casuals anymore”. Your problem is you must be doing something really, really wrong in acquiring resources for the things you aim at. I suggest you find out what that is instead of Anet trying to change the game around your lacking strategy.

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

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wouldn’t it seem like you’re trying to milk more money out of the people who play the game or already bought it?

yes, it does. That is called running a business. Luckily, as a free willed individual, you can decide for yourself whether the purchase is worth your money or not. Really, it is as simple as that.

Nightfury, for free

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Nightfury; Blessed Shoulderguard of the Swagseeker. It doesn’t cost 3,000 gold. It doesnt even cost 500 gold. They said you’d have to work for it, and they’re right. There’s a LOT of complaining on these forums that the ONLY way to gt this item is behind a massive gold wall, which is just nonsense. You can get every single item required to make this item on your own, without ever touching the Trading Post. Some of you just don’t want to, so you blame Arena Net for doing exactly what they said they were going to do: Make a very cool item that requires a lot of work to get for those who want it. If that level of work makes you not want it; dont get it!

Linseed Oil refines from Flax. You can get, pretty easily, 100 flax a day within about 5 minutes, much more if you actively run around and gather it instead of just porting to farms. That’s 5 linseed a day, for zero effort and zero gold. Is that a long farm? Yup! Did they say it would be? Yup! It’s almost as if the price of materials on the trading post are driven by direct supply and demand of items or something; pretty wild concept, right?

Endless Batwing Brew is the ONLY item hidden behind pure RNG, and even the price of those will drop before long.

Tattered bat wings are easily obtainable by running the Mad Thorn dungeon.

Glacial Lodestones drop in several dungeons, from many mobs, and the Cores drop from many more mobs around the world.

Onyx Lodestones are the same as above. Run Twilight Arbor, seriously.

Pristine Spore Samples are, much like Linseed oil, entirely farmable on a daily basis.

The Gift of Ascalon is – you already know it – a dungeon reward for tokens.

Glass is obtainable by doing Silverwaste trains, like half the game already does. Get silky sand, get course sand, go make glass.

Mystic Coins are timegated – you will get all 250 entirely free over time

I have never heard of someone saying they had too little Bloodstone Dust

Powerful Blood is farmable from high level mobs, and can be promoted to using t5 bloods

Orichalicum has been farmable for ages; anyone who has ever had to make the Gift of Metal can tell you that Ori running through Orr is quite a thing.

Which brings us to the leather; I don’t actually know a good, solid way of reliably farming leather of that level, but its also never been expensive. The good money is that, by the time you actually need this, the rest of these activities have gotten you more than enough gold as a side-effect to buy a stack of leather.

Congrats, you have now obtained the skin Nightfury for the low low costs of… playing the game. It’s probably June, right about now, but you did it! Enjoy being one of the few people in the game to put the effort into what can be considered the first legendary shoulder item in the game.

while I support you in your approach against the “I deserve things in game” crowd, you clearly do not understand economy. Small hint: Items you acquire and use up are not “free”…

CoF Farming

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how is this exactly damaging the game experience of your friends? They must be really fun to be around, like the type constantly telling you how you have to do things according to their convictions I guess.

To people complaining how hard HoT is.

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I mean, why would some elitsts want most of OPEN WORLD CONTENT become unsoloable? It’s just dumb.

learn the meaning of the word elitist. You do not understand it as you label an egalitarian demand as such. Or did anyone claim he wanted an easy map for himself and harder maps for other people? I sincerly doubt that.

ANet might've overreacted?

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I would also like to say that for any person complaining about “bad” players (i.e. people who are not good at this game or at video games), kindly keep your comments to yourself and stop being a tool.

I am hearing a bunch of whining from posters that are belittling other gamers and mad that people are voicing their opinions about something they like. I really don’t care if you’re good or terrible at this game, you shouldn’t have to be criticized for your opinions.

There is nothing wrong with not being good at a game. If you’re having fun, thats all that matters. People being bad at this game do not effect anything that happens (if you honestly think theres nothing you can do to just avoid bad players, you’re lazier than the “bad players” are for not “l2p”). Honestly, your skill level of a game does not qualify or disqualify your opinion.

If some players are struggling with the content and feel they can’t enjoy it, then some skill levels are not going to have enjoyment out of the game.

- and who are you to ban such opinions? People will voice just that, regardless whether you like it or not. In this light, your line “you shouldn’t have to be criticized for your opinions” is actually rather amusing. And BS in general, of cause you can criticize opinions, they are not sacrosanct.

- no people being bad players does not have an effect on people. And noone complains about bad players being bad. The complaint is against adjusting a game that possibly has become a little bit more exciting to the skill level of bad players once again and hence making it more unappealing. And that will have an effect on everyone. So yes, it makes sense to raise their voice against that.

Extreme lack of silver dabloons

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yes! to my knowledge, there is not a single silver dabloon in game.

ANet might've overreacted?

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You are aware that people are asking for refunds and ANet is granting it, right?

Of course, that’s an inevitable consequence of players falling for pre-purchase hype and marketing.

Or…DEATH OF THE GAME!!!

Wildstar….all over again.

And you cherry picking what to quote aint fooling anyone.

I keep seeing Wildstar mentioned, and it’s funny, that’s what I’m playing instead of HoT right now. There are still a heap of issues, like very unbalanced PvP matches, but I’m shocked at how fair or even generous the game has become. The Halloween costume? I unlocked it in a single morning of runs through their fancy little Halloween dungeon which can be solo’d. And all I can think is “Wait I don’t need 3k currency for this? I can just … have it?” They have weapon skins, an entire set for 5 bucks in the store! Dyes that you just buy and get them, no need to gamble (but dyeing gear costs in game currency.) Even as f2p I earned enough store currency to buy that weapon set or dye packs or whatever. I used it to unlock AH slots so I could list more items on the AH and make more moneys. Now I may never end up in the fancy raids, but man if they keep updating the store and giving my lots of little events to putter in for fun little rewards like costumes and decor items for my housing plot, I can see myself being happy in this game. But yeah… pvp is hit or miss, makes me miss sPVP in GW2 a little.

Yup, they “dumbified” Wildstar a lot, and funny, now that hardcores are gone, and the game is “super dumbified” its doing just fine lol

The “hardcore” part was not the major issue of Wildstar at launch (open world and many instances weren´t that difficult anyway), but tedious mechanics (eg. raids having a ridiculous attunement process completely unrelated to the actual raid or the story) and a game that was not really ready for launch yet, many things were not really thought through.

Not to mention taking the risk of going subscription based, I hardly see that working anymore in today´s industry. Whether they will do fine remains to be seen anyway.

I mean, I understand your yearning for casual schadenfreude, it is never fun failing at things other people can do, but I can assure you it is completely unfounded.

Oh, you should have seen the outbreak from “hardcores” when Carbine started changing things and, as far as they are concerend “Carbine totally ruined the game by listening casual whiners”. Instead they could have looked at empty servers.

I have seen it and played it. The hardcore crowd was as annoying as the casuals in their forums, both fighting a shadow war ignoring the actual issues of the game most of the time.

There was NO casual crowd left, youre just making things up. Actual issue of the game was that it had NO casual/solo content in endgame. EVERYTHING was tuned to group/hardcore.

sure, sure… imagine there were so called casual players in beta and later. And the endgame content was not “hardcore”, it was ridiculous. Repeating the same quests every day to progress? Sure, hardcore. I´d say you confuse “hardcore” with things that are not good or you do not like personally.

Taking EXTREME amount of time is hardcore. Couple it with all golds needed, gear and all else AND only group or not need apply.

AND that was all that Wildstar had for endgame. Harcores were so happy game caters only to them and it was same as here, talking down to EVERYONE who tried to tell them that WS will fail. And it did, and Carbine “dumbified” the game, and they left and WS is now doing FINE.

As i said, “Widlstar was ruined” (signed: hardcore)

Taking EXTREME amount of time is hardcore – the most ridiculous definition I ever heard. I´d go with requirements of skill and a real possibility of failure. And noone was being happy. But I guess you missed that in your little crusade.

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You are aware that people are asking for refunds and ANet is granting it, right?

Of course, that’s an inevitable consequence of players falling for pre-purchase hype and marketing.

Or…DEATH OF THE GAME!!!

Wildstar….all over again.

And you cherry picking what to quote aint fooling anyone.

I keep seeing Wildstar mentioned, and it’s funny, that’s what I’m playing instead of HoT right now. There are still a heap of issues, like very unbalanced PvP matches, but I’m shocked at how fair or even generous the game has become. The Halloween costume? I unlocked it in a single morning of runs through their fancy little Halloween dungeon which can be solo’d. And all I can think is “Wait I don’t need 3k currency for this? I can just … have it?” They have weapon skins, an entire set for 5 bucks in the store! Dyes that you just buy and get them, no need to gamble (but dyeing gear costs in game currency.) Even as f2p I earned enough store currency to buy that weapon set or dye packs or whatever. I used it to unlock AH slots so I could list more items on the AH and make more moneys. Now I may never end up in the fancy raids, but man if they keep updating the store and giving my lots of little events to putter in for fun little rewards like costumes and decor items for my housing plot, I can see myself being happy in this game. But yeah… pvp is hit or miss, makes me miss sPVP in GW2 a little.

Yup, they “dumbified” Wildstar a lot, and funny, now that hardcores are gone, and the game is “super dumbified” its doing just fine lol

The “hardcore” part was not the major issue of Wildstar at launch (open world and many instances weren´t that difficult anyway), but tedious mechanics (eg. raids having a ridiculous attunement process completely unrelated to the actual raid or the story) and a game that was not really ready for launch yet, many things were not really thought through.

Not to mention taking the risk of going subscription based, I hardly see that working anymore in today´s industry. Whether they will do fine remains to be seen anyway.

I mean, I understand your yearning for casual schadenfreude, it is never fun failing at things other people can do, but I can assure you it is completely unfounded.

Oh, you should have seen the outbreak from “hardcores” when Carbine started changing things and, as far as they are concerend “Carbine totally ruined the game by listening casual whiners”. Instead they could have looked at empty servers.

I have seen it and played it. The hardcore crowd was as annoying as the casuals in their forums, both fighting a shadow war ignoring the actual issues of the game most of the time.

There was NO casual crowd left, youre just making things up. Actual issue of the game was that it had NO casual/solo content in endgame. EVERYTHING was tuned to group/hardcore.

sure, sure… imagine there were so called casual players in beta and later. And the endgame content was not “hardcore”, it was ridiculous. Repeating the same quests every day to progress? Sure, hardcore. I´d say you confuse “hardcore” with things that are not good or you do not like personally.

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You are aware that people are asking for refunds and ANet is granting it, right?

Of course, that’s an inevitable consequence of players falling for pre-purchase hype and marketing.

Or…DEATH OF THE GAME!!!

Wildstar….all over again.

And you cherry picking what to quote aint fooling anyone.

I keep seeing Wildstar mentioned, and it’s funny, that’s what I’m playing instead of HoT right now. There are still a heap of issues, like very unbalanced PvP matches, but I’m shocked at how fair or even generous the game has become. The Halloween costume? I unlocked it in a single morning of runs through their fancy little Halloween dungeon which can be solo’d. And all I can think is “Wait I don’t need 3k currency for this? I can just … have it?” They have weapon skins, an entire set for 5 bucks in the store! Dyes that you just buy and get them, no need to gamble (but dyeing gear costs in game currency.) Even as f2p I earned enough store currency to buy that weapon set or dye packs or whatever. I used it to unlock AH slots so I could list more items on the AH and make more moneys. Now I may never end up in the fancy raids, but man if they keep updating the store and giving my lots of little events to putter in for fun little rewards like costumes and decor items for my housing plot, I can see myself being happy in this game. But yeah… pvp is hit or miss, makes me miss sPVP in GW2 a little.

Yup, they “dumbified” Wildstar a lot, and funny, now that hardcores are gone, and the game is “super dumbified” its doing just fine lol

The “hardcore” part was not the major issue of Wildstar at launch (open world and many instances weren´t that difficult anyway), but tedious mechanics (eg. raids having a ridiculous attunement process completely unrelated to the actual raid or the story) and a game that was not really ready for launch yet, many things were not really thought through.

Not to mention taking the risk of going subscription based, I hardly see that working anymore in today´s industry. Whether they will do fine remains to be seen anyway.

I mean, I understand your yearning for casual schadenfreude, it is never fun failing at things other people can do, but I can assure you it is completely unfounded.

Oh, you should have seen the outbreak from “hardcores” when Carbine started changing things and, as far as they are concerend “Carbine totally ruined the game by listening casual whiners”. Instead they could have looked at empty servers.

I have seen it and played it. The hardcore crowd was as annoying as the casuals in their forums, both fighting a shadow war ignoring the actual issues of the game most of the time.

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Is casual suddenly a codeword for "bad: or “braindead”?

People often seem to use it that way, but that’s just because they don’t understand what casual actually means. It says more about them than it does about the casual player.

there is unfortunately not a set definition of “casual”. Some cite time, I would bring up investment in a game´s mechanics and the willingness to actually apply your mind to in game problems.

Anyway, in my experience the “casual=bad” formula is furthered more by bad players who draw the casual card to change games to their level of competence more than anything else. Either knowingly or because they really don´t realize they are in the lowest bracket of competence.

Its not always just about a “willingness to actually apply your mind to in game problems”. When you say that, you’re just attacking some players you label “casual” because you’re saying they’re just whining and aren’t trying, which i would thoroughly disagree with considering a majority of people I personally know I would describe as casual gamers and do not at all fit that description.

hence I pointed out there are various definitions.

If you want to see it as an attack, well, do. I am just bringing up the fact that people who want to improve do so by pondering their in game choices and inform themselves. Others choose to do not. Personally, I cannot define that as “work”. For me, casual play is work, no thrill, no extremes of emotion, just like sitting at the office in front of my PC.

ArenaNet please stop nerfing content.

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The problem is the hardcore community in GW2 seems to be hell bent on turning it into another trash “me first” grind fest MMO and you’ve all collectively failed. ArenaNet is holding to the original tenants of their manifesto.

The “hardcore” crowd is trying nothing of that sort. They play the game according to their preferences, abilities and time. Yes, the world is really like that, with individuals and different likes and dislikes, you wouldn´t believe it!

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You are aware that people are asking for refunds and ANet is granting it, right?

Of course, that’s an inevitable consequence of players falling for pre-purchase hype and marketing.

Or…DEATH OF THE GAME!!!

Wildstar….all over again.

And you cherry picking what to quote aint fooling anyone.

I keep seeing Wildstar mentioned, and it’s funny, that’s what I’m playing instead of HoT right now. There are still a heap of issues, like very unbalanced PvP matches, but I’m shocked at how fair or even generous the game has become. The Halloween costume? I unlocked it in a single morning of runs through their fancy little Halloween dungeon which can be solo’d. And all I can think is “Wait I don’t need 3k currency for this? I can just … have it?” They have weapon skins, an entire set for 5 bucks in the store! Dyes that you just buy and get them, no need to gamble (but dyeing gear costs in game currency.) Even as f2p I earned enough store currency to buy that weapon set or dye packs or whatever. I used it to unlock AH slots so I could list more items on the AH and make more moneys. Now I may never end up in the fancy raids, but man if they keep updating the store and giving my lots of little events to putter in for fun little rewards like costumes and decor items for my housing plot, I can see myself being happy in this game. But yeah… pvp is hit or miss, makes me miss sPVP in GW2 a little.

Yup, they “dumbified” Wildstar a lot, and funny, now that hardcores are gone, and the game is “super dumbified” its doing just fine lol

The “hardcore” part was not the major issue of Wildstar at launch (open world and many instances weren´t that difficult anyway), but tedious mechanics (eg. raids having a ridiculous attunement process completely unrelated to the actual raid or the story) and a game that was not really ready for launch yet, many things were not really thought through.

Not to mention taking the risk of going subscription based, I hardly see that working anymore in today´s industry. Whether they will do fine remains to be seen anyway.

I mean, I understand your yearning for casual schadenfreude, it is never fun failing at things other people can do, but I can assure you it is completely unfounded.

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Algreg.3629

Is casual suddenly a codeword for "bad: or “braindead”?

People often seem to use it that way, but that’s just because they don’t understand what casual actually means. It says more about them than it does about the casual player.

there is unfortunately not a set definition of “casual”. Some cite time, I would bring up investment in a game´s mechanics and the willingness to actually apply your mind to in game problems.

Anyway, in my experience the “casual=bad” formula is furthered more by bad players who draw the casual card to change games to their level of competence more than anything else. Either knowingly or because they really don´t realize they are in the lowest bracket of competence.

To those who rushed through.

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cool, some random guy on the internet knows “the right way to play a game”. Inform the High Council of the gaming industry.

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What did you guys want guild wars 2 to be?

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GODS DON’T GO SCUMBAG STEVE AND PEACE OUT FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. Not all gods behave like, say Loki.

interesting, how many deities do you know personally? According to quite a few people, such beings do not even exist in reality, so that should give some artistic license.

Maybe GW2 is not for me...

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the complexity of MMORPG quickly surpasses any reasonable in game explanation, so Wikis and the like are the way to go. That of cause does not excuse not pointing people in the right direction or a distinct lack of explanations regarding core game mechanics.

What did you guys want guild wars 2 to be?

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real action combat (instead of the hybrid mess we got) with the feel of GW1.

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thing is as always with these kinds of issues: Is it really a problem for average players (or whatever “the more casual” signifies) or is it a problem of really bad players who think of themselves as average?

Professionell skill gating behind Event

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if I am still informed correctly, all of them?

Worse than Cursed Shores...

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Oh, it’s hilarious to see the elites throwing their little tantrums.

so how exactly did you arrive at this “conclusion” in regards to OP?

Friendly Wars 2

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So I complained…

there is your problem right in front of you. You think a complaint is valid, implicating other players owe you something. But they don´t owe you anything, not even an act of kindness. People don´t always react kindly when confronted by demands.

Luck Sink past 300%

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Greed knows no bounds.

no, you mean jealousy.

Guild Wars helped me keep fighting irl. TY!

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Some people think that posts like this are silly or pointless, that really sick people should focus on bigger things.

absolutely not. Every source of enjoyment counts, in general and especially in such a situation. I wish you all the best!

Talking to your past friends in Guild Wars 2:

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Well you see, I didn’t do anything to be treated like this, more like it’s in the past. Why did I post this? To raise awareness.

Ok. Tell us exactly what ANet should do.

I think they should address cyberbullying in their game.

I see, cyberbullying…

- apparently, you did something in the past to upset someone
- after months, you contacted that guy
- guy wasn´t too eager to talk to you
- you come here to… I don´t know what.. do not give the backstory, apparently YOU did something wrong. I am not sure you know how forgiveness works. For starters: a transgressor has no claim on people´s forgiveness.

cyberbullying? Preposterous.

This game badly needs server merging

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sooooo, you are the type who doesn´t spend 2 minutes of google searching (or checking standard sources like the game websites or GWwiki) before starting threads about things you do not know about I presume?

Raids & Story

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So we’re asking players to go on youtube instead? Sounds like good game design.

try rereading. I have faith in you!

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if the story is the only important thing in there, you can watch a youtube video that will sooner or later be uploaded by some dude beating the content. But why pay for the expansion then (ignoring the fact that it is not limited to the raid)? That is indeed a good question. If someone is only in the game for the story, it makes no sense to buy or play a game at all, these days you can watch everything on youtube and streams. Actually, if it is only about the story, you can even read it on wikis and sites like Dulfy.

Is this an absurd proposition? OF CAUSE. And why? Because I do not believe your GF or any player is in it only for the story. So this can hardly be an argument for toning down all game difficulty to the bottom level of player skill.

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thing is with people imagining things “only for top 1%”, they often don´t realize they are in the bottom 1% and hence believe there is some content only some magical superhuman elite can beat – while all it needs is a player of average skill.

So dungeon rewards... why?

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Anet of today have a hard time making content appealing. So they have to go the other way when introducing new content – make everything else as unappealing as possible.