Guild Wars 2

I just started doing dungeons myself at around level 55 and I noticed a few things. The first was how clueless people were to the game mechanics and how poor a job the PvE environment did to help them in a dungeon. Honestly you wanna be prepared for the skills you need in dungeons go do some PvP. Dodging the right things, quick reactions for resses, correct positioning and things of that nature are all things that are common place in any PvP match. You find these elements no where in the PvE leveling process and it shows when you get into dungeons.

The second thing I noticed is when I ran my first explorable dungeon. It was TA and I was kinda shocked at how much easier it was then the SM especially the last boss, you could afk that thing if you wanted to. I thought maybe it was just the players because the SM group was a bun ch of players in the 50s and the exp group was my silly level 56 and 4 80s.

Went back and did TA SM again which lead me to the third thing, which is the main element of the discussion in this topic, I got one pull into the dungeon, people had no idea what was going on and we wiped to the flowers of poisony death. I almost quit the group right there because there was no incentive to stay, I didnt, I nice guyed it up and finished the run. Essentially soloing the third boss (guy that summons the spiders) because everyone kept dying to a boss that involves either to much coordination for pugs (stacking a burning down the spiders before they reach you) or to much skill to kite everything for 5 min. You dont have to do anything like that on TA exp. Think I made some silver and I pretty much never plan on going back.

Also there is no real reason to not have a dungeon finder system, everything else in this game is cross server so why not dungeons?

It had alot to do with the silly things you could do with it at the start of an sPvP match. Could have your whole team get a 15 stack of might/regen/swiftness etc at the start then swap from mines to something else before the fighting actually started.

Garenthal.1480:

What’s wrong with it? I find it to be pretty enjoyable and underwater combat is a pretty large portion of the game itself, so pretending it doesn’t exist seems…silly in my eyes, to say the least!

As for the sharks? They’re a nice touch. If you’re playing strategically they’re easy enough to avoid, anyway. I also can’t help but notice that most people haven’t even brought up solid points to back up their concerns. This is a board for discussion, not whining.

Its quite simple. Water combat isnt even close to balanced, some classes are just better then others. Also alot of the water weapons dont sync up with builds you run, maybe you are a condition spammer and your underwater weapons dont have bleeds, or the opposite, a power build but your weapons are bleed, kinda screwed then. Shark stack bleeds on you that just devastate you. You go to attack ruins once the other team has it, you have to deal with 3 or so sharks attacking you + whatever defence they have. So if you dont cap ruins at the start you then have to try and control your near point and the enemies near point or bring enough people with you to deal with the sharks. That point just dominates the map completely and influences all strategy.

Also there is no underwater finisher, so people can just swim up to the top them then go immune for 2 seconds then go under again back up top go immune and repeat for a while. Really dumb. Same thing happens when people get low on land they just run and jump into the water, you cant finish them, and they just sirface somewhere else and revive. If they control the ruins you cant even follow for the kills because the sharks once again will destroy you.

Its pretty terrible. Its the biggest reason to ending any play session I’m doing. Ill just be doing spvp and then i’ll hit capricorn and then suddenly I don’t want to play anymore.

Hey just wondering what everyone’s least favorite sPvP map is? Linking to a poll site because I couldn’t find an easy way to do it on gw2 forums.

Least Favorite sPvP map?