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Your exp was added toward another exp track. Usually, it would be the highest tier mastery track.
Hello,
I am looking for a more consistent raid group/guild for weekly shard cap runs. I have 4 fully ascended classes: Tempest, Herald, Engineer (Viper), Necro (Viper)
Raid Experience: I have cleared both raid wings. 45 Legendary Insights.
If you need more infos, just leave me a mail for Alveda.8409. I will answer your questions in timely manner.
One word:
Elitism.
And this is why the game, which prospered so much at launch, didn’t feature any kind of “elite” or arbitrarily “difficult” content. And also part of why, HoT, an expansion featured as pleasing the “hardcore” crowd has failed in the eyes of a bulk majority of players when looking at sheer numbers.
Strictly speaking, not many people care. And those that do are likely too exclusive to not care about anyone not involved in their personal affairs.
This. Give this poster a prize.
No, he doesn’t deserve any prize. The expansion is meant for the end game crowd, where you continued your journey. Would you add more content where you can pretty much faceroll everything with by spamming 1? The reality is GW2 playerbase is so used to faceroll everything. Anything,that is remotely challenging, is demanded to nerf so the playerbase can faceroll. Just because you can’t faceroll the content, it doesnt mean the expansion is a failure.
honestly i think what kills people’s interest from raids is the vale guardian , that boss relies alot on luck it seems, and everyone whos beaten it claims the other raid bosses are a piece of cake compared to it
The difficulty of raid boss from easiest to hardest:
Bandit Trio (2nd Wing 2nd Raid Boss)
Vale Guardian
Gorseval
Sloth
Sabetha
Matthias
People probably thinks raid boss is easy because they have done it enough time or got carried by experienced player. For example, I can dodge Gorseval’s slam attack/egg so easily. I can pretty know when Sabetha’s cannon order and her flamewall gonna go up.
Raid Leader: Guys, this raid boss is Rock. We gonna need to bring Paper. Food check! Let go.
After 30 mins of wiping
Raid Leader: Okay, this is not working. Everyone pinged weapon and chest piece so I can make sure we all have Paper.
Casual 1: [Scissors Weapon][Scissors Armor]
Raid Leader: Hey Casual 1, you are bring scissor. Do you have Paper armors/weapons or a Paper set up.
Casual 1: Well, this is how I want to play my class.
Raid Leader: It is fine if this is how you want to play your class. But we need Paper. So we gonna kick you for a actual Paper set up.Casual 1 got kicked. Raid Leader went to LFG for a Paper set up and then proceeded to kill raid boss in 1-2 tries.
Meanwhile, Casual 1 logged on his GuildWars 2 forums and complained how toxic the raiding community is. To him, raid community is a bunch of elitist jerks, that does not appreciate his marvelous build.
A fabulous example of elitism: Using “casual” as an insult. Thank you for affirming many of the opinions in this thread.
Why is it an insult? If you are fat, I call you fat. If you are casual, I call you casual. How is that even elitism?
I don’t cry about PVP backpack locking behind PVP content.
The fact that this keeps getting brought up, is really is starting to sound like ya’ll are whining about it.
You also ignored the fact there is no thread about it, while there is 19 pages of you crying for raid easy mode.
Raid Leader: Guys, this raid boss is Rock. We gonna need to bring Paper. Food check! Let go.
After 30 mins of wiping
Raid Leader: Okay, this is not working. Everyone pinged weapon and chest piece so I can make sure we all have Paper.
Casual 1: [Scissors Weapon][Scissors Armor]
Raid Leader: Hey Casual 1, you are bring scissor. Do you have Paper armors/weapons or a Paper set up.
Casual 1: Well, this is how I want to play my class.
Raid Leader: It is fine if this is how you want to play your class. But we need Paper. So we gonna kick you for a actual Paper set up.
Casual 1 got kicked. Raid Leader went to LFG for a Paper set up and then proceeded to kill raid boss in 1-2 tries.
Meanwhile, Casual 1 logged on his GuildWars 2 forums and complained how toxic the raiding community is. To him, raid community is a bunch of elitist jerks, that does not appreciate his marvelous build.
you won’t have it because you refuse to adapt and put some effort in raid, that’s all. And since it’s Anet decision, i guess they were thinking that legendary armors were a proper reward for challenging pve content, aka raid, and that people who mastered raid would deserve legendary armor. How is it unfair? we play the same game after all. The difference is that some people don’t mind putting effort in raiding, with countless wipes, changing stuff, buying expensive foods etc, while others want to do nothing and have the reward. Who do you think deserve the reward? the lazy one or the worker? I have the answer for you, if you want…
Here you really lost me.
GW2 is a game. Not a exercise, not a job, not a sports club. A game. I said it when the fractal backpiece was introduced for Fractals only, I said it when the backpiece for PvP was announced, I said it for legendary armor:
Gating content behind game modes is plain and simple wrong and bad for the game. It breeds exactly the discussions we are having here right now.I know that many people think that people are looking up with envy and want on your efforts, but I stand on the firm believe that nobody remembers the name of your toon after he has passed them in Lions arch with your Eternal title and your grinded Astralaria. So the number of people that maybe care for that is in your closest group, aka your raiding team and your guild, and a few people that write you PMs about how that looks on you.
Regarding the question who deserves content X more, I would be with you if this was one of the activities I mentioned above, aka work, sport, exercise. I believe that first and foremost effort and dedication by playing the game should be rewarded in a game, not skill or reflexes and effort for builds which is a non-game activity anyway in my mind. Skills and reflexes should net you more, but a less skilled person should not be forced to go out emptyhanded off anything.
tl:dr Gating is wrong, and nobody cares if you have the Eternal title or Astralaria.
OK I will try to write it in a simplier manner, since you have some understanding difficulties.
Raid is a challenging content, that was what anet was saying before they implement it. Anet said it would not be à content for everyone then.
They put à nice reward behind them, because, you know, doing raid is a little more harder than spamming 1 in open world, and also to motivate people to try harder content, to challenge themselves. Yes, even in a game, some people like challenge.
But, some other people don’t like challenge in a game. They see the shinny, and they are: oh, shinny, I want it. Oh wait, I have to do something à little difficult to have it! No way, it’s à game. I’m supposing to have everything I want, in a easy way. I don’t care if people put à lot of effort for the reward, I want it for no effort…And so we are in this topic. You’re saying that no one care about reward or title, but after you’re saying that Gating reward is wrong…you lost me.
But we will never agree between people who don’t mind challenge and a little work for a reward, and people who want all in an easy way.
As you were so kind to write it up in a more primitive form for, me, let me return the favor:
*The idea that there should be content for an elite part of players both alienates and angers me for the sake of finding it both distateful and misplaced in a game. I would probably be at least good enough equiped for it and could also spare the time if I really wanted, but I don´t want to support this kind of thinking in any way.*They put a nice reward behind raids to push them and not look like fools in implementing something only a minority of players will play. And it is not even working very well because most raiders could not care less for the armor because they can´t swap runes, just look around in the forum to check the validity of this statement. It is a grinders item for casual players who do not really care for their runes as long as they are halfway fitting, so it does not belong into a skill challenge like a raid. Besides, Anet does not care in the slightest if I am the best player in the world or the greatest scrub that can barely walk straight in game, not even remotely as long as I invest money and time. This is plain marketing chatter.
I had a chuckle when someone pulled Monopoly as reference game.
I love Monopoly! Especial Spongebob Monopoly which I play at work with kids.
So when I play Monopoly with kids, they all start the same as we do with raids.
Their skill level of dice slinging? Irrelevant for the sake of the game, relevant for my assessment of the physical abilities.
Their skill in counting? Irrelevant for the game as long as someone is there to help them.
Their tactical skill? Irrelevant for kids and thier enjoyment of the game, they like to have the crusty crab because it nets the most gain.
I have a blast when I play Monopoly with children because they get the spirit of the game. I am longtime motivated to play the game because I like the premise of it, not if I am the best and shiniest Monopoly player ever.
Monopoly is as RNG as it can get, discriminates nearly no one and has only very, very loose gates like 3 cards of a color. Even if oyu own only the street, you always get rewarded a little. Where is the reward in a raid if you fail at the first boss?So, where are my Monopoly legendary medals I can present to a 7 year old that played with me?
Frankly, you just needed to accept that raid is not the content for you. I don’t cry about PVP backpack locking behind PVP content. I don’t cry about Engineer’s rotation is micro-intensive. I don’t cry about Hivemind title locking behind the Tangled Depth’s weapon collection.
Answer. Legendaries were never meant to be casual. The trade off is they’re not required either. Early on, when people asked Eric Flannum if there would be stuff to grind for, he said, yes, but there wouldn’t be required grind.
This is where your legendaries fall, and to a lesser degree ascended weapons.
Not really. Raids require at least full-ascended gear. The GAME doesn’t require them, but there are virtually no teams who will accept less. And, the game doesn’t punish people for being exclusive.
However, you’re missing the point. Flannum said no required grind. But HoT is essentially nothing BUT grind.
Except casual guilds attempting to do them which accept less. If you insist on pugging you play by pug rules. If you run with a casual guild the rules change.
A lot of people start with ascended jewelry which is easy to get, and maybe ascended weapons. People in guilds. If you want to pug, you can always make your own pug group and say all welcome, no ascended required. I bet it fills.
Lots of casual guilds can’t pass Gorseval DPS check. Of course, an all welcome pug raid group would fill, but they probably can’t even phase Vale Guardian and repeatedly wipe on Green Circle. That was my experience of pugging raid for the first two weeks. Raid is not for casual. If you can’t bother to invest in full ascended character, no serious raid group will consider you. Casual raid group may, but you can enjoy your Gorseval wipe.
http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/
Right about 5 mins before DS start. You go to LFG and searched for taxiing for DS. Personally, I avoided Dragon Stand on the weekend. The amount of failed Dragon Stand is amazing. Everyone seems to do their own things instead of following the commander tag.
LF Competent Raid Group:
Mastery:
http://i.imgur.com/9PXOV9y.jpg
Elementalist/Tempest:
https://gw2efficiency.com/account/character/Akalashnikov
Revenant/Herald:
https://gw2efficiency.com/account/character/The%20R%C3%A9v%C3%AAnant
Raid Progress:
- Killed First Boss
-Have a strong mechanic on 2nd boss. However, I am not familiar playing Tempest on Gorseval. I may need a few attempts to getting down the timing.
I can raid daily and pretty much anytime on weekend ( However, my wife may want to go out; I will notice ahead of time if that happen )
Thanks! But I am not looking for anyone currently.
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Time: 3 hours after daily reset. ( 7 p.m PST )
Raid duration: 2-3 hours.
Our group will raid during weekend. However, the raid content is new. We will raid daily until we got the content down. Once, we can smoothly kill the bosses. We will raid on weekend basis.
Communication: Teamspeak 3
What I am looking for:
3 Condition DPS ( Engineer or Ranger )
2 Beserker Power DPS
1 Tank build Guard
1 Druid
If the time is convenient and you would like to join our group. Please leave your name here and your class. I strongly suggest you have full ascended so we can have more leeway to deal with the bosses and later raid.
(edited by Alveda.8409)
Timezone: Pacific Time Zone.
Elementalist: https://gw2efficiency.com/account/character/Akalashnikov
Herald: https://gw2efficiency.com/account/character/The%20R%C3%A9v%C3%AAnant
I would like to raid during the weekend but I have no problem raiding on weekdays as long as there is a notification at least a few days ahead.
I am fairly decent at my classes. My playstyle is far more defensive than aggressive ( It means I tend to spec defensively especially condition cleanse spec for my character). I have TS3 but I don’t talk much during raids since it is more important for raid leaders giving instructions.