agree, S2 story should come with HOT.
I mean they could lose many potential customers if new players
find out that they need to spend extra money to unlock story contents.
Why only rely regeneration when you can block , reflect , blind , fear..
There are people who soloed orr dungeon with zerker gears , mob hitting too hard is not a problem, it’s a l2p issue. Why do I need a healer when I can pretty much neglect all the incoming attacks.
The defense mechanism in this game is good enough, there is no need to buff it.
Your are 1.5 years late to the anti-ascended party.
People who dislike ascended gears already said w/e you have to say back then, and
Anet didn’t do anything to change it, so what makes you think they are going to change it now?
On the bright side, Ascended gears will be the BIS items forever so it’s much better than other games out there, you only have to grind them once.
LMAO! Really? Now you are arguing for the sake of arguing. GG
Well to be fair we don’t actually know exactly what will be locked behind masteries.
Based on what we have heard it all seems to be optional extra stuff as opposed to the “required” story parts.
And as such, his argument makes complete sense.
It makes sense but doesnt change the fact that its a bad argument. I said we are not forced to do fractals then he comes back at me by saying youre not forced to go in the jungle. If you think about it you are, if you want to progress in the gw2 story. We also know season 3 of the LW will take place in the jungle.
Where does it say that season 3 of the LW needs you to get special masteries to proceed.
Maybe the special masteries are for hidden dungeons or world bosses.
I am pretty sure the new LW will be gate-free like the rest of the LW.
I am not against gating. I would just rather the gating be about cosmetics. Gated glider skins that we earn through the mastery system versus the gem shop because the gliders are a system of the x-pac which we already paid for. Gating armor skins, weapons skins that we earn and for the very same reasons I just mentioned.
Gating certain enemies is not my cup of tea. I want my enemies to be based on my skill as a player, not based on my gear or in GW2’s case how many mastery points I have earned and which places I have placed them. Same goes for exploring.
did you complain at launch that you didn’t have a fully geared character with all skills unlocked because you already paid for arah and those utilities?
We are tlaking end game here not the levelling experience. When I hit lvl 80 I wasnt gated behind anything. I was able to do all exp dungeons and all content available in the game.
except you couldn’t feasibly do any dungeons until you had strong enough gear.
and then you couldn’t do fractals past level 9 without agony resistance.
and then you couldn’t do the tower of nightmares without using the anti-toxin heal.
and so on and so forth.
and it doesn’t change the fact that leveling is gating. “oh it doesn’t count because reasons” isn’t an argument. you couldn’t do it before, you did a thing, you can do it now. it’s the exact same thing.
Who said that? I did exp dungeons with green and rare gear. I didnt have to grind anything. Fractals isnt forced on players. You were not forced to get the heal skill for the tower of nightmares. I did the whole thing without it.
If I want to progress in the jungles I am forced to get Masteries. I dont mind gating things like learning a new language learning a Mastery that lets you burn huge vines. I am against Masteries that will make a mob/boss impossible to fight without it.
I want to do high lv fractals , but I am forced to grind for agony resist.
I want to do orr dungeon at lv 1 , but I am forced to lv up first.
etc …
You are not forced to do fractals. Levelling is not end game, we are talking end game here so please stop comparing the two.
I am not against gating. I would just rather the gating be about cosmetics. Gated glider skins that we earn through the mastery system versus the gem shop because the gliders are a system of the x-pac which we already paid for. Gating armor skins, weapons skins that we earn and for the very same reasons I just mentioned.
Gating certain enemies is not my cup of tea. I want my enemies to be based on my skill as a player, not based on my gear or in GW2’s case how many mastery points I have earned and which places I have placed them. Same goes for exploring.
did you complain at launch that you didn’t have a fully geared character with all skills unlocked because you already paid for arah and those utilities?
We are tlaking end game here not the levelling experience. When I hit lvl 80 I wasnt gated behind anything. I was able to do all exp dungeons and all content available in the game.
except you couldn’t feasibly do any dungeons until you had strong enough gear.
and then you couldn’t do fractals past level 9 without agony resistance.
and then you couldn’t do the tower of nightmares without using the anti-toxin heal.
and so on and so forth.
and it doesn’t change the fact that leveling is gating. “oh it doesn’t count because reasons” isn’t an argument. you couldn’t do it before, you did a thing, you can do it now. it’s the exact same thing.
Who said that? I did exp dungeons with green and rare gear. I didnt have to grind anything. Fractals isnt forced on players. You were not forced to get the heal skill for the tower of nightmares. I did the whole thing without it.
If I want to progress in the jungles I am forced to get Masteries. I dont mind gating things like learning a new language learning a Mastery that lets you burn huge vines. I am against Masteries that will make a mob/boss impossible to fight without it.
I want to do high lv fractals , but I am forced to grind for agony resist.
I want to do orr dungeon at lv 1 , but I am forced to lv up first.
etc …
I like grinding for new skills , and masteries.
I like grinding things that get you new abilities.
The reason why I rarely touch dry top or silver waste is because
all you are doing is grinding for cosmetics which for me is pointless.
PS: I rather grind for new abilities than grind for stats
If you use them correctly , you should’t even get hit.
There are arah solo videos for all the classes, so I really don’t see there is a problem with defensive mechanism for pve.
If people get one shot a lot , they should really stop wearing zerker gears.
PS: I do support the idea of having more traits and utility skills tho.
I like the way they are.
The defense mechanism for each class is already good enough.
You don’t need a healer or a tank when you can use your dodge , reflect , block etc correctly.
Just calm down,
I understand that you feel the game is getting boring, and I feel the same way, but
you need to realize that we are getting all these updates for free.
Best thing to do is to wait for two weeks and come back to play the new contents until
more awesome games come up in the future. cheers
I have this strong belief that ArenaNet is trying to force down our throats an attempt to fix “feeling rewarded” in the game, but point is: it’s not about the amount, but quality and nice-paced rewards. Bioluminescence is a very nice example, but I wish it required more pewpew and less grinding. It’s a starting point nonetheless.
Well If they want to make us feel rewarded, they should come up with new contents that give us new skills and traits. Like Gw1!
I don’t want to say this but this is just another one of your useless changes.
If you have the resource to work on this crap, you should send them to work on something that actually makes the game fun. “CONTENT” heh?
And any other sandbox game. Because sandbox games either will pit you against other players, so the endgame is to kill other players and conquer their open-world territory, or it is to do social engineering and become well-known and well-liked amongst other players, or it is to express yourself by creating the most awesome new constructions and content.
I would love to have sandbox features in Guild Wars 2. I kinda expected it to have that, and was very disappointed to find another grindy themepark game. I’ve been having a lot more fun with Archeage these past few months, but unfortunately that game has many bugs. For me the perfect game would have the combat system of Guild Wars 2, the class and equipment system of Guild Wars 1, the player housing and open world of Archeage and the territorial PVP and player-driven economy of EVE Online.
LOL
AA no grind? BS
Hasla T3 grind? GHA gear grind?
You still need to grind to get the bis gear.
Although I do agree that Gw2 really need something other than skin.
Some meaningful Horizontal progression.
I just wish they add in more Horizontal progression, but they need to be more creative.
No more kitten things like agony resistance or Ascended gear, and getting new skins does not count as progression.
I want real “horizontal” progression.
Would you mind detailing what you consider that to be? Please and Thanks!
well, there are lots of ways to do this.
1) more traits
2) introducing items with special abilities (like armor that grants you aegis every min, or boots that allow you to jump twice in the air etc…) like items that make your play style mechanically different , instead of statically different.
I just wish they add in more Horizontal progression, but they need to be more creative.
No more kitten things like agony resistance or Ascended gear, and getting new skins does not count as progression.
I heard everyone was leaving this game to play Archeage. It must be true. I read it on the forums.
I know both my sons stopped playing already and requested refunds. lol
Black Desert will be even better … and Lineage 3 will beat them all .. at least before
Aion 2 … and of course every other asian game with open PvP, since they always
have been the most successful games in the west ^^
Not sure you are being Ironic or not.
Cause most Open world pvp games do not work well in the west.
There are way too many grievers in the west compare to the east ,
not sure if it’s the cultural thing tho.
Most of open world pvp games end up destroying themselves.
PS: Archeage has like the most toxic community I have ever seen.
The lack of progression is killing this game.
I am not talking about increase level cap or gear grinds crap.
I am talking about the idea of horizontal progression.
In three years , the only progression we get are 3 useless traits per class, and some boring agony resistance. Can’t you guys be more creative? I really hope EQN can do better on the so called horizontal progression
Anet’s idea of horizontal progression is too narrow, and boring.
They should start introducing new traits or gears with different abilities(not stats).
But there is nothing to sandbox about.
The only reason why sandbox games are fun is because they are highly
competitive.
In sandbox games , you need to compete for resources, world bosses ,and pretty much everything.
For a “CASUAL” game like gw2, adding sandbox features is very unlikely.
I really hope this patch has more ""contents"" than those 1 hour long living stories we had back in October, or I will be very disappointed with the 2 months break.
No, GW2 was the best MMO game ever.
Game starts to stale when you don’t add new content for like two years.
Beside, people who said they are “leaving” never said they won’t come back,
they will come back when Anet add new stuff. It’s free anyway.
@Zoso
Only new zones , and new story could count as “content”, and
the only new zone they add in 2 years is one map(nice map tho).
Yes, you are right. All the new stuff they add in this game is fee, so
I actually don’t understand why people complained soo much, but gw2
is definitely not the best mmo ever.
ps : holiday events are the same , they still use the same one.
Weekly
hmm, don’t like the idea of time gate restriction.
Party Friendly
definitely, they should make it more party orientated instead of zerker orientated.
but the raid should also be doable with zerker build though.
Reward
armor skins or weapon skins are fine, but I think this game lacks item varieties. They should have items that have special effects(armor that grants you aegis every 10 seconds or shoes that give you speed buff every 10 seconds etc..), and yes NO MORE RNG.
raids
As long as we have new stuff , I don’t really care.
Me and my friend gonna troll the hell out of all those dungeon sellers.
Rob their dungeons and re-sell them. Dream come true.
Not the smartest post, your forum account is linked to your game account ><
Simply showing what will happen to dungeon sellers if they actually change the dungeon owner thing.
Now people can actually benefit from kicking the dungeon owner.
Not this holy trinity thing again.
No I don’t want to rely on healers to survive, and No I don’t need tanks to tank damage for me, I use my dodge button.
All Anet needs to do is adding more world boss like evolved jungle wurm period.
Fun impacts loot collection.
The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.
The rarest item have unique looks. Stop.
They were taking about legendaies, but now they are on pair with ascended. Stop.
Do you have to repeat again and again a specific content to get them? Yes.
Even if you don’t like that specific content? Yes.
Are some of us interested in this form of gamplay. No.
Will we be less strong than people with an ascended set? Yes.
Is all this invalidating their last sentence that sold us this game? Yes.
In a recent interview Colin Johanson said that they were not happy that people were able to full-equip their character in 1 or 2 weeks with exotics.
So Ascended are here to be carrots.
At least Colin said that he really hopes that this is not the beginning of a treadmill.
Sometimes I wonder what people would have said if they had put ascended also in a dungeon merchant for an amount of tokens that devs consider appropriate.
So I thought: if a max stats exotic GS costs like 2g and its equivalent in dungeon’s tokens is 390 (6,5 runs) an ascended GS, that costs like 58g, should costs something like 11.310 tokens.
Well 188,5 runs, 3 at day for 2 months, just for a single item.
But the limit is set to a specific dungeon, so you can always do more thant 3 paths daily and do your JOB working on other pieces farming other dungeons.
Aaah this would be so cool, because I know for sure that people would still come here, on this forum, with their white armors swearing that there is no grind at all.
Exactly!
Like GW1, I would like to get the best gear “stat wise” in 20 min.
Like GW1, I am ok with spending 1000 hours for gears that have unique look.
You gotta admit that all the changes that Anet did over the year, indeed brought them lots of potential customers. They are making more money right now, so y should they keep their promises?
I don’t like the changes either , but y not relax and enjoy the best of ur 50$?
I’m not going to deny that Anet wants to sell gems. They don’t charge a monthly fee so in order to make a profit, they HAVE to. (And I’m happy to buy them to support a game I love and play).
Perhaps one of the purposes of Ascended gear is to help us in some of the new content they’re developing this year. Some uber-hard dungeon or other content. There’s alot they aren’t telling us.
Just something to consider.
no,no,no
Anet is against power creeping, I dont think they will make stronger mobs.
Excellent question
Why do we need Ascended gears anyway?
We already facerolled all the contents with exotic gears.
With Ascended gears, we could probably play with our feet.
I highly doubt Anet will introduce harder mobs for ascended gears because
they already said that they are against power creeps, RIGHT?
Stop praising .