Guild Wars 2

If explorable modes are meant to be super hardcore “endgame” type content, it would be nice if the game actually SAID THIS anywhere. It would also be nice if it made any effort to teach players what skills are required to succeed in dungeons in general, since they are clearly very different from playing out in the world.

Not all of us have been following this game for 5 years. My friends and I tried AC explorable because we were the right level for it, and had no idea that it required “perfect coordination, perfect combination of classes, and consumable buffs.” It took 4 hours and it was not fun at all. If you made it clear in the game that this is your version of raiding (and a very punishing and, IMO not fun version of raiding for that matter) then we would not have bothered trying it when we don’t yet know the game very well and have to pug people whose skill level we don’t know.

Furthermore, if you make a game where the mechanics are so unlike every other MMO, it would be really nice if the game tried to teach you the concepts necessary to beat it. As it stands, even the story mode dungeons can be hard for first time players because half the time we have no idea what is going on or what we should be doing to not get destroyed.

You can have hard dungeons if everyone already knows what they should be doing, for instance the dungeons in Cataclysm were pretty hard before they were nerfed, but doing them was always fun and challenging for me because when you failed it was pretty obvious what you did wrong and how to fix it. This was only true because everyone playing already understood the basic ideas needed to succeed from years of playing WoW and other similar MMOs. If your mechanics are so unlike every other game, it would be nice to have the game put in some effort to teach you what those basic ideas needed to succeed are for your game.

Hello, I’m still pretty new to the game, and I don’t really understand how aggro is supposed to work (if it even exists) so I wanted to share my experience today running the CM story mode about 4 times, and maybe someone can tell me what was going on and how to fix it.

Basically, in all 4 runs, every time there was a “sniper” mob with a rifle like the Sergeants or Lietenants they would all target me as soon as they saw me, and would continue to focus only on me until I was dead. They would even focus me when I was downed, and if someone managed to rez me, they would just focus me again and knock me down within seconds.

This kept happening, in every run, regardless of whether I attacked them first, or if I was the first one they saw. A few times I waited a good 10-15 seconds for the rest of the group to engage the enemies before joining in, and still the snipers would focus on me as soon as I joined in (no matter what I was attacking).

This was pretty frustrating, and made the latter half of the dungeon that had the snipers not fun. The part with the bandit tower in particular, since there are about 3 snipers there and I literally could not stay alive for more than 5 seconds at a time during that part.

I am a thief, and I was playing ranged, either dual pistols or short bow. I am not built as a glass cannon, about half of my traits are in Vit/Toughness and most of my Trinkets are also Vit/Toughness. I had my Smoke Screen utility, which worked well, but since I can only have it up for 7 seconds out of every 30, it just meant that I could survive 7 seconds before they all ganged up on me and killed me.

I’m wondering what was going on here and how, if at all, I could have fixed it or dealt with it. I can only roll so often, and even their standard auto attacks took off a good chunk of my health, and like I say, they would all target me at once and never stop even if the rest of my party was in their faces beating on them. If I stealthed with one of my abilities, they would resume focusing me as soon as I came out of stealth.

Thanks in advance!