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Why are adventures needed to get masteries? Aren’t there enough mastery points outside of adventures?
(I ask this as a genuine question. I really don’t know about this)
There are but some suck even more than adventure gold. The living story ones are locked behind EXTREMELY buggy content. Others are locked behind horrible meta achievement grinds for collections.
I just gave up trying to max out masteries and have been exp capped and short on points for months. Overall just another horribly designed system that maybe they’ll fix in three years if the game is still around.
It’s the most grindy game I’ ever played.
Then you haven’t played many games at ALL!!! In other games farming gear is ALL you do and you never, ever finish.
Here is why GW2 is the LEAST grindy game I’ve ever played.
1. Top gear doesn’t change, once you have top tier, it will ALWAYS be top tier.
2. You can play 99% of the highest level content very competently with the THIRD highest tier of gear.
3. Ascended gear is actually pretty easy to get but is designed that it CANNOT just be bought. You have to play the game to earn it and it takes a little time BUT while you are farming it you can still play with 99% effectiveness in exotic gear.
You can absolutely buy ascended gear. Buy gems, convert to gold, buy mats, level crafting, craft ascended.
Because
1. you don’t need ascended to do content, it’s not gated by armor, you can do quite nicely with exotics and
2. there’s no new tier of gear next week, or next month, or next year. Sure it might take you 2 months to get your gear. But that’s it.
You may find that grindy…but I don’t.
Legendary is cosmetic and convenience but ascended is absolutely necessary for fractal content.
Also there have been gear grinds if you play condi. First rampagers/dire to sinister from season 2 achievements now to viper from hot maps/raids/ and hot story.
This is in addition to new runes and sigils that have power creeped as well.
Guys they have said there is no market manipulation, insider info, or trading post bots in this game so it must be true. Don’t worry about things like numbers, trends, or videos the market is definitely not rigged….
On Rewards
…Any plans on adding all the ascended trinkets to the vendor? Right now those are the only rings/amulets with stats like assassin, viper, etc
Yes, I’ve got a number of improvements/fixes for Spirit Vale that will be coming out with the next raid wing, and this is one of them. You’ll also be able to infuse the rings and backpack, and extra raid miniatures will no longer clutter up your bags.
Are there any plans on making these best in slot viper ascended accessories available outside of raids?
For condi players who enjoy fractals and wvw it doesn’t seem right to force them into raids which have been stated to not be for everyone to get their best in slot gear.
You can fix your mistake by earning more mastery points.
Easier said than done as many of central tyria points are locked behind ridiculous 100+ hr achievements.
To OP hopefully they add the option at some point. Personally I’m not using mastery points even with maxed out xp lines as I want to save them incase a more useful line comes along.
I did dragon stand for 7 days and found my own route for getting crystalline ore. I open about 30 pods per each run. In 7 days, I managed to get 6 runes of leadership. It was a lot of work but I felt really good after earning the runes. It was easier to get than the precursor collection or making ascended armor, imo. It was tough and challenging but DragonStand is suppose to be the hardest map of HoT, so I’m fine with that.
So you did around 20 runs of Dragonstand which is about 40 hours for 6 runes. The previous most expensive runes are 10g a piece with some as cheap as vendor cost which would be at worst 6 hours of farming SW which is less then 1/6th of the time you took to get 6 runes.
This isn’t a precursor, legendary journey, or even ascended equipment. You can farm the gold to craft an ascended weapon in about 10 hours which is a quarter of the time you took to get 6 runes.
The most challenging part of Dragonstand is taxing onto a map that is actually going to do it. It’s a 2 hour zerg where you have to hope the other 90 people aren’t idiots and can follow simple instructions.
I can’t believe people are arguing this is a reasonable grind. You’re talking a two hour meta gathering 40 ores if you’re lucky. For a full set of 7 that’s about 18 runs.
You think 36 hours of a timed event that isn’t always available is ok for one rune set that isn’t realisticaly recoverable?
That’s literally worse than Korean mmo gear grinds.
This set is a perfect example of what’s wrong with HOT and the gold/time sinks that are plaguing the game.
Last boss in HOT story by a mile. Super long/boring fight with an hp sponge, buggy as hell, three chances of insta death, requires multiple runs and is the only way to get the best condi amulet.
Seriously still hate that fight after getting bugged up drafts three times before I was able to get a clean run. Immediately exited the game and read/added to all the complaint threads about it I could find.
I like mastery points.
There are 17 more tyria mastery points than required to max them all. So there are plenty of options
For HoT there are 22 more mastery points than required. Good luck.
I like the luminesct full set as a mastery point. That’s what a 100 hour acheviement for 1 mastery point? That seems fair and reasonable.
It doesn’t have to take time to bot if somebody managed to hack into TP website. Everything can be done through commands, no graphical representation of TP is neccessary. It would be nice to know if ArenaNet is investigating the issue.
This bot behavior and the insider knowledge market swings before a patch has even started downloading has been around for a LONG time. I doubt it will ever be addressed just realize the TP is rigged.
This was by far the worst it took me 2+ hours over several sessions. I actually did a lot of searches trying to find if there was some secret and found similar reports that it is just a really low chance and takes a lot of farming.
My guess is it’s drop rate is incorrectly coded since most of the others I got within the first 5 kills but I’d assume it will never be fixed so keep chopping those trees.
Considering we are likely going to be waiting 3 months for them to fix the “bug” where they removed the multiple fractal key purchase option I would count on them getting to this sometime in 2116.
Seriously though there are tons of stuff like this, celestial armor saying it’s stats to “all” which is no longer true. They obviously didn’t want to take the development resources to fix these issues when they were introduced so I would assume that won’t change in the future.
Am I missing something, or am I just unlucky?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Alone.1784
I think some of these are coded wrong. A few I got the item on the first mob type killed and others like the druid one took a couple hours of oakhearts. It sucks.
I’m assuming it’s more insider knowledge of something upcoming. Maybe a re-release of the skins through SAB?
They acknowledged it as a bug but said they wouldn’t do a hot fix for it. I seriously think it may be three months until it’s fixed in the next patch. Enjoy your extra 75 clicks everyday.
Very lazy pve balance with it now being a detriment to playing with others if you’re a burnzerker or revenant attacking in the same 1/2 second.
Removed many bulk buying options like for fractal keys and lucky envelopes. Why do I have to click thing so many times?
Kind of crushed chronos, they should have the full effects of alacrity since their cd’s were based around it.
Only fixed the literally impossible adventure. You still have pve progression locked behind stupid mini games that we were told were optional and are only available for minutes every few hours. That’s some horrible design and add in the fact that many are still way too tightly timed and rely on rng and you have kittened off players.
I was excited when it was announced you were looking to fix some of the more useless skills. I mainly play engineer and med kit is absolute trash. I’d love the devs run a report to see how many players currently have that equipped at any given moment. Our trait lines are still terrible and need to be rearranged.
I don’t know who thought the thief update was ready to go but maybe spamming literally 1 and not using the classes skills or unique mechanics and doing way more damage then my 52 button rotation isn’t the best idea.
Many HOT annoyances are still around, i’d like a dev response if the LFG meta is what they wanted. I have to play with LFG constantly open hoping to get into a good map that isn’t full.
I don’t wvw much but i’ve read some numbers on the upgrade changes and it seems pretty bad.
Overall outside of flying in the core game which is nice but nothing special since there aren’t enough mushrooms/jumps/updrafts to really take advantage of it the patch left me greatly unimpressed and I feel like the development resources aren’t being allocated to fix the game to make it good again.
Just needed to shed another tear for them removing the super fun elixer infused bombs.
I actually tried using that pos known as med kit and what an absolute joke.
Personally I think other proffesions fill the support role much better than us.
As a pve player mainly, Scrapper no longer has an elite spec for me. Yes, playing with the hammer was fun for a while, but it’s suboptimal DPS, so I stick with condi pistols. And all gyros are terrible now. I love it when Guardians complain about their 4 Spirit weapons, and here I am, with all these turrets and gyros.
But when I was roaming, or playing with more laid-back groups, I did tend to switch to Scrapper and slot Sneak Gyro. Stealth rezzing, dropping aggro, gathering resources without pesky mobs annoying me, I knew it was up for use. But not anymore. Pvp dictates the balance once more, taking small steps is not a concept in Anet’s heads, and now engineer doesn’t get to play along with the cool kids in the expansion.
We are the jack of no trades, a condi dps dealer with no utility that’s being outshined by the soon-to-be-buffed Berserker.
Completely agree with you and I too used sneak gyro to bypass the horrible open world pve mobs to do my gathering. Might end up changing scrapper for alchemy line since all the gyros will be useless now.
AR is the worst gating mechanic I can think of from any MMORPG. It’s incredibly confusing and counter intuitive with infusions and infused versions of items. Worst of all it’s not useful in any other part of the game. I crafted a set of ascended armor for 600g now I have to choose between some nice advantages in wvw that come with the added bonus of stats that are useful EVERYWHERE or AR which is a PVE gimmick they added for who the hell knows why?
I think they are too far entrenched in the AR system but they should seriously scrap it if they want to make a better game and get more people playing fractals.
I agree with most of what he said although personally I hate the adventures. With them being locked behind meta events I literally had a period of 20 minutes to do shooting gallery before nightfall yesterday. On top of that many are RNG with too tight timing requirements. On top of that many require masteries like speed mushrooms which they don’t tell you anywhere in game. On top of that the worst thing is them locking masteries behind this optional content which makes it not optional.
Also I thought the elite specs were pretty fun for the most part although definitely agree they are straight upgrades which I’m assuming was to force pvpers to buy HOT to stay relevant.
I do consider HOT a failure as I finish most sessions of playing annoyed and didn’t have fun. Also I have lost my faith in ANET and don’t plan on buying any of their future products unless it’s proven complete and without significant bugs.
Lol how long could you possibly have to wait? You can easily get most every adventure mastery over the course of a couple weeks. And don’t act like you don’t have anything else you can do when they’re not available.
Well this is my second chance to play today and once again i’m not able to work on the adventure because the meta is happening. When you have a kid or things going on in your life it’s very difficult to schedule a game around your free time. It’s especially frustrating when the content availability is just a gimmick that could easily be changed to always be available.
It’s idiotic that I have to look up a website to see if i’m even going to be able to attempt these stupid adventures which are supposed to be optional but have masteries locked behind them.
Play how you want as long as it’s exactly within the hours that we allow. Seriously horrible game design.
If you’re trying to get mastery points through adventures check here first if ANET has deemed it possible to attempt the content at the time you want to play. http://gw2timer.com/
Finally did the HOT story today and it is still definitely a buggy mess to put it politely. Took me three times all failed attempts were due to air currents that didn’t launch. Super fun to do my skill rotation against the biggest HP sponge in the game for 60 minutes because a gimmick mechanic in the middle is totally bugged. Was going to do achievements since it’s the ONLY way to get a viper amulet but i’m not touching that steaming pile again until it actually works reliably. Also after the bugs get fixed if ever how about check points in the different stages of the fight, or how about reduce the length of the kill as it’s incredibly boring.
I agree HOT is absolutely terrible. I have to force myself to play and it never ends in a rewarding experience.
I was doing the adventures that I hate and was told were optional to get mastery points when getting very close to gold night time hits. Oh here’s a 40 minute break before you can even do the content you don’t want to do so you can get something you basically need. Screw around for a bit until patri pops and go to fight her. Not nearly enough people and unlike GW2 since the content doesn’t scale at all in HOT GG. We have her at about 3% after the 20 minute fight and nope you lose no rewards. Then I get to go back to my “optional” adventures until the meta decides I can’t even work on that anymore.
Honestly I’ve never seen an expansion screw up so many great things from the original game. It’s like it was designed by a completely different company. The vast majority of my days since HOT came out are logging in to get my daily reward and flax grinding. I guess I still bother doing that in the hopes that they will fix it but i’m not holding my breath.
I think they should be updated for the new stats or change the “to all stats” text they use on several items.
These count for the 10k drinks needed for the achievement but there is no consume all option and they have a 3 second delay before you can use the next. This needs to be fixed.
I played for the first time after flax farming after a month as that was all I could stand. My experience bars are almost full and needed more mastery points so was looking to do some adventures. Get one attempt into the gliding one and “it’s too dangerous to do this at night come back later”.
So these things we were told would be optional really aren’t for a large amount of stuff, are heavily influenced by server side interactions which ping destroys, and are only available at certain times.
Super fun design, bravo. New motto should be play our way, on our schedule, and force down whatever lack luster rewards we decide to throw at you for your effort.
I’d argue there are actually only three maps as the last one is basically a meta event that resets on a 2 hour timer.
Also I don’t see how you could possibly consider the maps we got to compare to 20 maps (70+) from the original game. Although HOT map are larger it’s often for seemingly no reason as their size doesn’t equate to more content just more running around.
I can verify I’ve experienced the same exact thing for maybe the last week.
Oh I’m sorry, I guess these forums are not for constructive discussions. Good job on derailing the already useless thread. Let’s keep the content here on this level.
Your posts have come off as childish retorts and you have by far added the least to this discussion. I assumed you were starved for attention and was going to ignore your post but then I read the follow up and wanted to make sure you didn’t mistakingly think you had said anything insightful or added to value to the thread.
I agree the new area’s are way too difficult and it’s more than a learn to play issue.
The mobs take much longer to kill and are much more dangerous but have worse rewards then ever.
The mobs difficulty feels artificial as the majority have gotten extremely strong attacks, cc, and evade frames/stealth they just use in order.
They often have tied afro tables so while it looks like you’ll just pull one you’ll also get his 6 other friends that aren’t anywhere close.
You might be able to see cues and dodge intelligently vs 1 or 2 mobs but how about a group of 7? You just aoe and pray.
If you do die the way points are extremely few and far between and often contested making it an even longer run back and the vertical nature of the maps make it even worse.
It seems like they realized how barren the maps would feel and put in mobs to the brim basically making it impossible to enjoy the view or stop to take a breather.
On top of all this they’ve reduced the respawn times to minutes so I’ve often been trying to go through I’m assuming as intended killing mobs in my way only to have a group I just killed respawn nearly on top of me.
Lastly we only got 3 maps as Dragons stand is just a two hour reseting meta event.
Overall I’m very dissatisfied by the expansion as a whole and the new direction ANET has taken the game. I think they are going to lose the “hardcore” players as they’ve never been able to produce content at a reasonable pace and they have basically excluded casual players with their design choices for the expansion.
Its funny how people keep claiming this, yet they fail to give any evidence that this is the case. The gem->gold ratio has been incredibly stable since hot launch, hovering around 20g for 100 gems, with 10% variation, depending on the time of day.
If so much more players are forced to buy gold now and gold in general is so hard to come by, I wonder why the ratio isnt going down.
Not sure what proof you’re looking for. The reward nerfs have been highly detailed by both ANET and community members.
For the gems to gold ratio no one but them really know what that algorithm looks like but I would think anyone with some critical thinking skills could figure out how them being the only authorized gold seller then creating massive gold sinks would serve to benefit them.
It’s not unlike Comcast charging for going over a set amount of data in a month but then allowing thier on demand video not to count against that cap. They are encouraging you to use their service.
For some players they are going to refuse to buy gold so they just know certain items they will never own so they don’t even try. I’m in that camp, saw nightfury looked cool so was prepared to “work hard” over Halloween for it until it was discovered to just be a 3200g sink and wrote off ever having it.
At the moment gold is mainly flowing into the economy by huge guilds that are actually leveling scribing and building out their guild halls. When that ends and mat prices dry up I think it will be even worse for normal players as rewards will be even further out of reach.
Honestly I feel like we’ve already lost a ton of players from the first few weeks of the expansion and I think that will only get worse until they do something about their grindy reward structure.
Mastery requirements for elite collections...
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Alone.1784
This is just way too much. You really expect me to grind out all of the pvp ranks just to get the dragon finisher? What kind of bull kitten is this?
I’m a pve player but I care about finisher skins skins. I want the dragon finisher. I’m giving up precious time learning the new metagame for pve to grind pvp ranks for a skin. It’s frustrating because there’s just too much
Pve player that collects finishers… that makes sense.
Every reward nerf and gold grind they’ve introduced in this expansion was put in place to guide players to buy MORE gold with gems. The chance of them disabling it at this point is probably less then zero.
Although I do agree it’s a problem and is the reason we have such unreasonable grinds for almost anything in the game.
Healing power is a near worthless stat, you don’t want to waste points on it. Check out the scaling of your skills, it’s just horrible. Now factor in that much of your healing will be wasted on targets at full health.
If you can provide protection boon duration is much better, if you can supply weakness condition duration is much better and in both cases your mitigating more damage then any amount of healing power would provide.
This is coming from someone who loves healing and owns a full celestial ascended set.
They should have rolled healing power in with boon duration but it looks like they will just continue to have it sit on the backburner so i’d avoid if at all possible.
On the 64 bit game client just crashed AGAIN after the 30 minute meta event in AB. Hours of time wasted with absolute no rewards, i’m done with meta events until you either fix the client crashes or fix the reward system.
I agree it should, they should update the other “all stats” like traveler’s runes as well. When you’re at it combine the two boon and condition stats to remove confusion.
So i’m writing this while sitting at Nightthistle Bloom HP waiting about 20 minutes for anyone else to show up with my mentor tag on and spamming map and thinking about how this is the absolute worst expansion I’ve ever played in my life. Just thought i’d check in to all those people who claimed to come help people with HPs because they sure aren’t on my map.
Also adding evade frames and stupid amounts of damage isn’t how you make challenging AI.
Instead of making cloth more in line for ascended armor crafting they went the other way and actually increased the costs by requiring additional materials for the same item. On top of that salvaging, dungeons, and Silvereastes have been nerfed.
To recap less items to salvage, less items recieved when salvaging, increased items needed to craft ascended.
I’m honestly surprised the costs aren’t up more then they are. It could be they rise over time as people’s pre HOT supplies run down.
As far as I’ve seen there are ZERO in HOT. I’ve actually stopped doing my daily ingestions as I’m now running low.
I have every proffesion to 80 and 7/9 elite specializations unlocked and for me the thief/daredevil is the very bottom of the barrel with survivability, damage, and fun. The only thing I’ve ever found the proffesion to excel at is movement and stealth.
You get it on whatever character you open the chest with the item on it’s a very bad design with the item being account bound and the recipe(which it doesn’t even mention in the chest) being soulbound.
TD is not only the worst map in GW2 it’s the worst I can think of in any game I’ve played.
It feels like a child had 10 different ideas for areas and then just stuck them on in random places. It’s horrible to navigate and the insane enemy density and respawn rates basically ensures you’ll never actually get to explore it.
It’s especially impressive how awful it turned out considering how fluid many of the original games maps are.
The new system is terrible. I no longer way point if full dead or help people rally outside of the circle. In addition while I used to help out even if I was just running through I now just run by if I can’t stay the full length of the event. In fact a lot of the meta events I can now just jump in with 3 minutes left on the 20+ minute event to get full credit as the only thing that counts is making sure you’re there at the end.
It never needed fixing and if you wanted to it should have been requiring more participation for higher medals not punishing people for going outside a circle.
Before you considering going with a healing power set i’d suggest you check out the coefficients on your healing skills/traits. I’ve found healing power to be the absolute worst scaling stat in the game. I actually run celestial and I struggle with if the extra stats are worth it because healing scales so poorly.
I’m still seeing people running HPs all the time. I rarely have to wait at a HP for long before a few others show up. All of them can be done with a standard group of 5 and some of the champs are even pretty easy with just 2. The way I think of it is…these hero points are worth 10 points! They should be 10 times more difficult than their Central Tyria counterparts. So having champs at many of them is appropriate. Too many aspects of the game (and games in general nowadays) are getting dumbed down and made easy for the instant gratification generation.
With that logic your elite spec should be 4 times as powerful as the regular lines since they cost so much more.
You think adjusting these to vets would be dumbing down the game? If I had a group of 5 people I could do all of these with ease. By myself I flat out can’t do some. That’s not challenging content that’s a numbers check.
I want a one time numbers check that is already taking 20+ minutes to accomplish brought down to solo-able. Ideally they would implement scaling, which is something I loved about the base game, to make it challenging for whatever number of people were there.
Doesn’t seem like any of them are asking for help. All i see is the straight out refusal to participate as a group and the demand that Anet change content so they can solo it.
Maybe if they’d ask people would help. Just sayin’
Maybe you’re out there rushing to help people asking for it but if you read my original post my experience has been putting on my mentor tag and spamming map for 20 minutes before I get anyone else to show up and help.
I’ve actually seen a number of people run by totally ignoring me waiting by the HP and I don’t blame them at all because the reward for redoing them after you’ve gotten your point is pathetic.
I really don’t get how people consider these challenging content, this is a numbers test plan and simple. I will fully admit I am not good enough to solo the Balthazar HP but I have done it 3 times with relative ease with a group of 5+ players though. I didn’t feel accomplished after getting the HP on my characters I felt relieved I was able to be there with enough others to never worry about it again.
the droprate is way higher than last year on the ToT bags, ive opened about 80k bags and got 5 Tonics, and enough of other stuff to break even after keeping 3 tonics.
Also just dont get the kitten shoulders if u cant afford it, there is plenty of other cool stuff that cost next to nothing…
Someone opened over 100k Trick or Treat bags.
They found a drop rate of 0.0039% drop rate for the endless batwing brew which doesn’t seem that impressive.
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