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To clarify I only tried the new elite specializations for 10 min because I didn’t want to spoil myself to much and I only wanted to know how I felt about the specializations.
Let’s start with the heavy elite specializations;
Spellbreaker
- Uhmmm yeah, I don’t like the daggers, they are so weak. I like the skills but due to the fact they feel so weak I didn’t like using them. I’d rather use any other weapon that the Spellbreaker can use then these weak daggers.
- I like the utility skills especially the elite one. “Imminent threat” is the only skill that gave me a “meh” feeling.
- I’m not sure how I feel about losing boons when using my heal skill. Would be great if that would make the enemy lose boons as well.
- I play in open world and WvW. I don’t see any reason to play this specialization in open world nor WvW because of how weak the daggers are and another reason in open world because as far as I know enemies don’t use boons so what can I actually strip from them…..
Firebrand
- The axe is ok. I don’t feel disappointed nor excited about it.
- I love the mantra’s. I do agree with people that cone should have more range but personally I don’t really care because I’m a selfish player (XD) so as long as I can buff myself I’m happy.
- Woohooo tomes are back. A shame they have such a huge cooldown though.
- If this proofs to be a better condi specialization then Guardian and Dragonhunter I’ll definitely be using this specialization.
Renegade
- I love the skills on the shortbow.
- I love the summons but they cost way to much energy.
- Uhmm the healing can get interrupted, not really happy about that.
- Renegade skill don’t work underwater which means I’m half a Revenant underwater. It baffles me that after nearly 2 years you still haven’t added Ventari, Glint nor Jalis and now Kalla joins that club. It also baffles me that no matter how many topics there have been asking when you’ll implement these missing legends that all of them have been ignored leaving us speculating as to why they aren’t available. If it’s because of ground targeted skills then for example with Kalla you could just let us simply summon without having to target. Please finish this class. It’s ridiculous that it’s still unfinished after nearly 2 years.
- I will be using this specialization (even though it’s unfinished >_>) as long as you add build swap cuz I have no intention of giving up my Herald. Swapping weapons, armors, trinkets and traits every time is annoying.
Now let’s go to the medium elite specializations;
Deadeye
- Out of the 9 specialization weapons (well actually 6 but you know what I mean) introduced in this new xpac this weapon, the rifle, is my favourite. It’s as if I have a “Trapper Ranger” in my rifle but then better. I want stealth without using specific runes (Runes of the Trapper) and utility skills (traps), well this rifle has it. I want to quickly create a gap between me and the enemy without having to swap weapons, well this rifle has it. I really wish ranger had gotten this weapon……oh well.
- I’ve got nothing particular to say about the utility skills. I’m satisfied with them.
- I like that you can gain more health and remove conditions with your heal skill depending on how much malice you have.
- I will definitely be using this specialization just for pure fun. I never liked Thief nor Daredevil so I’m very happy to be using this specialization.
Holosmith
- I like the sword. I wish we could dual wield seeing as how we can’t swap weapons and because of the lack of weapons this class has but at least I have the option to use a shield.
- I love every single utility skill, especially the elite. OMG the elite is amazing. I love the tool belt skills as well
- The heal skill is ok. I’m not sure what to think of its tool belt skill though. I’d rather not set myself on fire.
- Thank you for giving this a transform ability (Photon forge mode). I love transforming (except for the celestial avatar >_>). And skills and heat mechanic are amazing. Thank you so much for this.
- Without a doubt my favourite PoF elite specialization. This was so much fun to play with. Scrapper was my favourite HoT elite specialization and now the engineer scores again. If I’m not mistaken Irenio developed both of these specializations. You did a really good job with the Scrapper but the Holosmith beats the Scrapper easily in every way for me. Thank you for making this elite specialization.
Soulbeast
- Daggers feel “meh”.
- Utility skills feel “meh”.
- Heal skill feels “meh”.
- Beastmode and Beastmode skills feel “meh”.
- I love all new 5 pets.
- As you’ve highly likely guessed this specialization feels “meh” in others words plain. There is nothing that makes me excited about this specialization. It felt like I was playing Ranger with some extra skills added to it. I’m disappointed that the Beast mode was made so you shouldn’t stay in it even though you can permanently stay in it of you want to. If I’m not mistaken your pets deals 30% of your damage so when you fuse with them dependent on your choice of pet you lose 20-30% of that damage…. but I will still be playing as a Soulbeast because even though it’s plain and doesn’t add much in WvW when you’re in a zerg fight your pet is useless because it dies so fast so fusing with it helps. “Well why not play Druid instead” you may ask. Well I’ll make this clear, yeah Druid is better but I love using a longbow and I didn’t like using the staff and longbow together and recharging “Celestial Avatar” relies too much on the staff so Soulbeast is a better option for me.
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- you lose beastmode when entering water.
kitten Anet stop giving underwater skills the middle finger….. >_>
Underwater Legendary Dwarf stance (Jalis), Centaur stance (Ventari) and Dragon stance (Glint) is still unavailable. And now the Legendary Renegade stance (Kalla) has joined that list.
I’m dissapointed, I was really hoping to see that these stances would be available but alas they are not…..
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ANET response:
Thanks for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team regarding the recent changes of the World vs World Skirmish Tickets received from chests. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Sadly, WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets are not able to given out. This is true for many time-gated currencies in the game. I assure you the goal was not to retract from anyone’s abilities to earn tickets, while it may affect the current week it will be a good change for the long run. Sadly, since patch days fall on Tuesday while WvW reset is on Friday, issues like this are inevitable.Once again, I would like to express our deepest apologies for the current weeks difference in tickets you may experience.
All of my hate, ALL OF MY HATE ANET!!!!
SMH….
-They buff the total going forward to 365
-They buff decay so you know what and when you lose participation
-They buff pips per tick so you get tickets faster
-They spread tickets out in each chest so if you don’t complete a tier you still get ticketsAnd most of this thread is people QQ’ing about a portion of one week?
For a population that doesn’t care about rewards?
It’s really funny… SMH
Oh.. full disclosure? I was on the first chest in diamond when the patch hit, so I ‘lost out’ on over 100 tickets.
Please don’t lump us all together. I care about rewards. Every day I do the Auric Basin event cuz I get 6 gold out of it. Do you know what I did yesterday, I did extra events to get the gold back that I missed due to not being able to play on Tuesday. I might be a WvW player but I care about rewards, not all of us don’t care about rewards.
And as for the “QQ’ing” I feel the right to do so. For the first time I try to get Diamond (I always get Platinum) and instead of getting 175 tickets I got 155 tickets. I don’t give a crap about the other 190 tickets what I want is my missing 20 tickets. They made a mistake and not me. They fixed the missing ticket cap that hardly anyone wanted to get fixed because it was “unintended” but giving us our missing tickets heeeeeelllllll nooooo. Why? Because losing tickets is “intended”? So yeah I’ll QQ all I want. They need to fix that cuz I’m pretty sure it was “unintended” just like the missing ticket cap which they did fix as fast as possible.
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no more Ticket cap , i just got 14 tickets on the first Diamond Chest after finishing diamond tier.
This is unintended. There is supposed to be a weekly ticket cap and we will be fixing this.
Ok great you fixed something people didn’t want to be fixed. Now will you give me my missing 20 tickets seeing as how I was at reward 6 of 6 Diamond or are you trying to tell me that losing tickets was “intended” which I’m pretty sure no one would be happy about…. >_<
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So wait, I’m at the last chest (reward 6 of 6) and instead of 40 tickets I’m going to get 20 tickets instead? A warning would have been nice or even better you should have implemented this on reset. Anyone know if I can contact support to give me the missing 20 tickets cuz it sucks that I finally had time to reach Diamond due to vacation instead of Platinum and instead of getting 175 tickets I’m getting 155 tickets…. And please spare me “It’s only 20 tickets”, they are the ones that made a mistake and I would like for that to be corrected……
Hey Grant and McKenna, that’s great news.
Just one quick question: If you bought the Exotic version of the WvW Triumphant Hero’s Armor and transmuted another piece of regular Ascended armor with the skins, are you able to convert it to legendary armor?
Because the cost of tickets to get the Exotic version is the same of the Ascended and a lot of people (myself included) already bought the Exotic version just to unlock the skins and transmuted other Ascended pieces to it.
You cannot upgrade the exotic into ascended or legendary. You will need to purchase the ascended gear.
What if you transmuted the ascended armor, will that work?
Yes! Transmuted will work.
What about transmuted reforged armor?
So I have question for Anet. I just made a ascended armor for my Reaper, 4 of the 6 pieces of armor are of the “Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor set” and the other 2 are from the “Illustrious armor set” that I got from the Asnded armor box that I got from playing WvW. Now this means I can only upgrade 4 of the 6 pieces which obviously sucks.
So here’s my question; “Can I get the exotic version of the skin, apply it to my 2 ascended pieces of armor and then upgrade it to Legendary?” Cuz if so this would be great cuz aside from this ascended armor I have 3 other armors I would like to be able to upgrade seeing as how I made them specifically for WvW but made them through crafting.
Seeing as how we are getting “Skirmish Claim Tickets” what will happen to the “WvW Tournament Claim Tickets”?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/WvW_Tournament_Claim_Ticket
I dont understand why people are going on and on about wvw.
Wvw doesn’t have a vendor at this point so nothing is taken from you. Instead they talked about this adding the option to add a asc vendor to other game modes in the future. That means wvw MAY actually get one due to these changes at some poiint.Maybe im missing something obvious? If so, please explain.
The WvW players want some way of getting ascended armour in WvW too. They’ve been asking for one for ages.
It’s important to note that these changes are not actually required before an ascended vendor could be added to WvW. They added ascended vendors to fractals, raids and sPvP without making these changes – you can argue whether that that was good or bad but the fact remains that they have been added to those modes already – they just have not added one to WvW yet.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mistforged_Hero's_weapons
They’d be a great set of skins for Ascended weapons.
I totally understand why a ascended Vendor for WVW is wanted but i see literally no chance for Anet adding one for just Badges of Honor or BoH and gold – everyone and their mothers has plenty of those.
The changes they are making now make chances for an ascended vendor in wvw more realistic imo. That or they would need to use a other wvw related currency alltogether.
Well they could use Proofs of Heroics instead of Badges of Honor as a currency.
I know that these won’t be implemented and I’m purely mentioning them for selfish reasons but i’ll still mention them anyway;
Boosters (cuz I got +15 of these)
Ascendend rings (cuz I got +20 of these)
Black Lion salvage kits (cuz I got +20 of these)
I at least wish you would make salvage kits stackable. Not going to happen but hey…. I can dream right. XD
How long till HoT goes on sale for like $15?
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Yesterday I saw HoT for 10 euro in a store called Media Markt. So for anyone in Holland go and buy it if you haven’t already.
Can you give us the ability to disable our own glider?
Sometimes when I do Jumping Puzzles, I accidentally glide and it causes me to mess up..
It annoys me so much. =(Solution:
Maybe let us unequipped our gliders in the glider menu so it would prevent us from gliding accidentally?Thanks! =)
Just get a Guild Wars 2 streamer, like for example AuroraPeachy, to complain about it and then they’ll definitely do something about it. XD
All I want is a WvW reward track. I too would like to get dungeons skins without having to go to (dying) dungeons just like the PvP players.
Hey!
So far I’ve found that the Itzal npcs will give you the Bladed boots, headpiece, shoulders, bottoms & gloves— but where is the Coat? Has anyone had any luck finding it?
If you finish the daily and/or night meta you have a chance to a Bladed gear chest so I presume that’s how you get it.
Thank you Anet btw for adding RNG to this Bladed set grind. >_>
I’ll grind for it but to also rely on luck to get the chestpiece is ridiculous.
Hey sorry I can’t answer your question but I was hoping you could answer mine! Whats the currency to buy the bladed boxes?
1 box is 500 airship scraps + 1 gold
And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse I find out that I would need about 1600 HP to unlock the 5 elite specializations that I want. That’s 1600 ranks. I’m at 1005 now and that took me about 18 months. So it would probably take me over 2 years to get it playing WvW.
I really don’t want to but I guess I have no choice but to farm HP in PvE maps. I’ll probably do something like a map every day so I don’t bore myself to death to much….
I earn about 3 ranks a day from the time I play in WvW so that’s 3 HP a day. I estimate that for the 5 specializations that I want to play I definitely need over 600 HP. So that means it would take me about 7 months at the very least to get all the specializations that I want……
Well I guess I’m going to have to farm HP in PvE cuz there is no way in hell that I’m going to wait over 7 months untill I can get all the specializations that I want especially cuz the number 1 reason I bought the xpac was to get these elite specializations and I ain’t settling down for reason 2, 3, 4, etc. TY Anet >_>
This is the cheapest one I’ve found:
https://www.g2a.com/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-cd-key-preorder-eu-na.html
Alas I had already bought the xpac for 39 euro at a other site.
As for it being trustworthy I’ve never had problems with g2a.com but I haven’t bought anything there in over a year (I prefer physical copies).
Ah but that’s the pre-order, not the pre-purchase. No free character slot for vets with a pre-order.
Well for those that want the pre-purchase version:
https://www.g2a.com/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-cd-key-prepurchase-eu-na.html
This is the cheapest one I’ve found:
https://www.g2a.com/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-cd-key-preorder-eu-na.html
Alas I had already bought the xpac for 39 euro at a other site.
As for it being trustworthy I’ve never had problems with g2a.com but I haven’t bought anything there in over a year (I prefer physical copies).
No giveaways that I know of but G2A.com is selling the xpac right now for 29,49 euro. So for anyone that didn’t want to pay over 30 euro’s for it this is your chance.
Specializations
Were they fun?
1. Druid;
- I really like the glyphs. I like them so much I replaced all of my slot skills with these new skills. Because they are so good it encourages me also to play the Druid cuz when I change into my celestial form I can use the “special form” of these glyphs which is a good thing.
-The staff on the other hand I don’t like. The Ranger lacks a good melee weapon but has a good ranged weapon, the longbow. I’m not going to use two ranged weapons so that means I’m going to have to switch out my longbow in certain situations because the celestial form recharges fast with the staff but very slow with any other weapon. I would have liked the staff if it was a melee weapon.
- The skills on the staff (dps wise) suck. Skill 1 does little damage. Skill 2 throws a wisp out which looks similar to a Guardian skill and also lacks dps. Skill 3 I’ll hardly be using unless it is to try to run away. Skill 4 is good accept it’s a shame the attack doesn’t hit a person if he/she is on a wall (WvW), I’d like to see those vines crawl up a wall and hit my opponent. Skill 5 is only usefull if someone uses projectiles and most people (and npc’s) use melee weapons so that skill is not going to be used a lot.
- The staff is mostly good for A BIT of support. I hardly feel usefull using it healing and dps wise. It is however good for recharging your celestial form which is great seeing as how using that form is very usefull.
2. Reaper;
- It’s nice to see the Necro finally being able to do some good dps damage.
- The shouts are good and usefull. Nothing to add here.
- Greatsword skills and Reaper Shroud skills are good too. I really like that there’s finally a reason to use a shroud to attack instead of using to tank like the Death Shroud which I and others hardly ever used skills of.
-Recharging Reaper Shroud is good on a greatsword but pathetic using other weapons. When I noticed how slow my dual daggers and staff were recharging it I hardly if ever switched my weapons. This needs to change. I really want my other weapons to be able to contribute in recharging my Shroud or else why switch if my greatsword and Reaper Shroud are more usefull then my other weapons.
3. Daredevil;
- I felt very limited in traits (the Thief traits, not the Daredevil trait line) when using this. I want to use it’s new slot skills and a signet. However the traits are based a lot on using venoms, tricks, stealth, etc. It took me a lot of reading and testing out to come to the conclusion that for my play style I needed to use the Acrobatics and Trickery trait line cuz I want to have a dodge class that can attack a lot.
- Aside from that I really like the class. Finally I can use my “Thief” (Daredevil) without having to use stealth and burst damage, which seems to be the only good thing about Thiefs, in order to be usefull. I want to fight my opponent face to face which I can now do with the Daredevil instead of hiding in the shadows and stabbing people in the back like a coward.
4. Scrapper;
- I like the Hammer. The engineer really needed a melee and it’s a lot of fun to use.
- The gyro’s are very usefull and the toolbelt skills you get from them are amazing.
-My only problem is the Blast Gyro. Why do I have to throw a dart for it to go and explode on someone? That’s so lame. Why can’t I just first summon the Blast Gyro (so it stays next to me), secondly choose a target (as in how you normally target someone in game) third command it to go towards my target and explode and fourth have the choice to explode it early. This gives me more control of it, is more fun to use and doesn’t look stupid compared to his gyro brothers and sisters seeing as how they don’t need to rely on a dart to do something.
5. Dragonhunter;
- The traps are so satisfying!!! Nothing to add there
- The bow is good. It’s not really significant but it is good. My only problem with it is the skill “Deflecting Shot”. That it can blind enemies is fine but it’s ability to block projectiles is hardly usefull. I’d rather see that get taken out and an increase in the time that enemies are blinded. If I want to block projectiles I can just use “Wall of Reflection”. At least that reflects and stays longer then a arrow that just passes by…
- “Wings of Resolve”. Please increase the distance to 1200. 800 as a distance is simply pathectic.
- Give it a trait that gives it a 25% speed boost. Running slowly around is painfull and Guardian/Dragonhunter loses to many skills in order to have swiftness. It’s why I stopped using my Guardian. I had to use 7 skills (5 of those skills because of switch in weapon (staff)) in order to have a satistfying speed on my Guardian. THAT is really bad.
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Did they change how you play your profession in a meaningful way?
Short answer; YES!!!
And they were all (the 5 that I wanted to try out) a lot of fun!!!
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Mastery System
I had to check the internet (GW2 wiki) to find out how to get mastery points. That’s ridiculous. To have no idea how to get it and then when you get it there is no explanation of what it does and how to use it. I said to myself I guess I’ll try and figure it all out when the expansion gets released cuz this is not something I want to spend time on.
Definitely going to try out;
1. Scrapper
2. Reaper
3. Druid
4. Daredevil
Might try it out;
5. Dragonhunter
Hell no!;
6. Herald
7. Berserker
8. Tempest
9. Chronomancer
I fail to see how ‘Chronomancer’ fits in this ‘Jungle Theme’.
“We also want to better preserve the prestige associated with crafting a legendary weapon, so the new legendary weapons, and their precursors, will not be tradable.”
Finally something prestigious in this game I can work on without it being devalued through gold and real money.
Yes, it’s true. I have experienced this as well, at least with zooming in and out. To elaborate my settings appear changed but the camera returns to it’s normal state after logging in even though it still shows that I changed my camera settings. To fix this I just change it to something else and then back to what I want it to be.
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I love how it looks like I’m looking through my chest instead of my characters eyes when I use the first person camera. >_>
I also love how I see the string of my bow when I use the first person camera. >_>
But hey like Paradox said “It’s in Beta”. Guess I’ll have to be patient and see what kind of improvements they’ll make.
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Define, don’t know game
They don’t know their skills, they don’t know small details about the game? Can’t PvP without dying? What?
Behave like first time in dungeon.
*Rolls eyes. I have 14804 AP and never did a dungeon in this game. Don’t be so surprised.
Knowing a dungeon path != knowing the game.
Dungeons is major part of the game knowledge.
*Rolls eyes again and laughs. Depends on what you want to do in a game. I play very lil PvE and mostly WvW in GW2. If I want to do dungeons I log into FFXIV. I don’t do dungeons for many reasons in GW2.
Ugh, did not see that…
I’ve seen the pics so may times and have been asking myself if it would ever appear in the game. But That Shaman datamined this outfit yesterday so I presume one day we will be able to get it. I am however dissappointed that it’s an outfit and not an armor set.
But they did say in a topic (I don’t have a link, sorry) that they are okay with people paying gold to jump to the end of a dungeon and yet here they say they are not okay with people not playing a thing they spent a lot of time on…….. to quote my lil sister; “All them lies they tell”.
I doubt it’s a case of them being ok with it.
More of a case of them TOLERATING it and choosing not to invoke some rules lawyering to try to define one person’s skill as an exploit.
Hmmm, never thought about that. I presumed they were okay with it cuz real money = gems = gold. In other words they could get a lil bit of money from the ppl who don’t like to do dungeons but like to throw away their money.
not play a thing we spent a lot of time building.
But they did say in a topic (I don’t have a link, sorry) that they are okay with people paying gold to jump to the end of a dungeon and yet here they say they are not okay with people not playing a thing they spent a lot of time on…….. to quote my lil sister; “All them lies they tell”.
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I guess we won’t be getting this mini. I’m not gonna lie I’m pretty kittened of now, that’s how much I wanted it.
You know Anet, even a simple yes or no would suffice. That’s better then ignoring this thread.
I doubt they’ll do this but if they do it it will probably be through the PvP reward track just like they did with the living story.
If they do do this they better release a WvW reward track cuz I too would like to get dungeon skins, LS stuff, a unique backpiece, new masteries, etc. without ever having to leave WvW.
But like I said I doubt they’ll make it accessible outside of PvE.
AP awards for that set are currently where they should be.
I disagree. I don’t think it’s right that we should take so long getting a full set just because Anet was slacking of making the full set.
It’s an exclusive set and making it easier would remove that.
I don’t see how making it “easier” or how I would like to say it “how it should be” would make it non-exclusive.
I agree with Yutaka’s suggestion. Why should I get pieces of armor I don’t want (radiant set) just because Anet was to lazy to make the full set at the beginning and took their sweet time finishing it (over a year). I don’t want to take ages to get the hellfire set just because they couldn’t be bothered making a full set immediatly.
It’s clear that this whole “first get one then the other so you can take a long time to get a full set” wasn’t intended, look at how many times they’ve released a headgear, shoulder and gloves combo instead of a full set.
If they change it to what Yutaka suggested I’d actually do some AP hunting just to speed up my chance to walk around in a full Hellfire set. Do I think this going to happen? Nope! Unless there’s going to be about 500 posts complaining about how they should do the right thing it’s not going to happen.
So our “veteran content”, which was last updated 1 month ago, is going to appear over 2 months. And it’s going to appear during a time a lot of new and well known pc games are going to get released. It’s like they are telling veterans to go away and new players to come and play cuz by then they’ll already have lvl 80 characters. I’m so glad I got FFXIV to do dungeons alas I can’t speak the same for WvW though…… Meh, maybe one day I’ll find a good WvW MMO.
I would love to see this one; http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Warrior_Elite_Luxon_armor_m.jpg
How much gems did these armor cost?
I think none of them cost gems. I clicked on a lot of them and it seems they can all be crafted by certain NPC’s.
This has probably been brought up 30 times but I didn’t see it.
It’s simple. Green side almost always wins in EotM. And it’s not even close.
Why is this? Has Anet ever acknowledged the problem? And is there a fix in the works?
As a WvW player I don’t have a problem with this. But if I was a karma/gold farmer I would have a problem.
Woohooo, just bought the only mini I liked Tequatl. I thought it was still above 100 gold but no when I looked it was at 45 gold. But because I expected the price of it to drop I waited and just bought it for 25 gold. There were first only 32 of this mini and now there are over 90. I’m very happy, I don’t even care if the price drops below 10 gold.
Wasn’t it confirmed somewhere in living story 1 that they are brother and sister? Same mother but different fathers.
I guess I got it from rumors and other stuff, oh well.
Wasn’t it confirmed somewhere in living story 1 that they are brother and sister? Same mother but different fathers.
What I find funny about this thread is, going by what the original OP said… they were frustrated at the drop rates of a Fossilized Insect… An account-bound item that you can’t buy no matter how much gold you have.
So farming for gold… is pointless here.
Yeah I did go off-topic there. Sorry about that OP.
1) Random number generator generates numbers randomly. Welcome to video games.
What you should have told him was;
GW2 random number generator generates numbers abysmaly.Don’t get me wrong I like GW2 but the RNG in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s as if they want you to buy gold with money (<—highly likely this) or farm gold instead of beating monsters to get the items that you want like any other video game (at least like any other video game I’ve played).
Welcome to every mmorpg every made in fact every rpg ever made.
I agree somewhat with the “every mmorpg” part but the “rpg” part I disagree. For example when I play Monster Hunter I go and beat a specific boss to get the items I need to craft stuff. You also need gold in that game but not once have I ever had to farm gold. I always had way more then enough.
Same thing for God Eater, Ragnarok Oddysey, Pokemon, Tales of series, etc. Never in any of these games have I had to farm gold cuz it was a better option, mostly because you can’t buy better or rare stuff with gold and you’d earn enough anyway just from playing the game.But in most of the game (i not played them all) there is an RNG system for there type of “gold” or highly wanted items its just in GW2 gold is very useful and very open to what you can do with it. Mind you at the end of the day gems to gold is bad very bad exchanged rates if your buying gems with real money only to get gold your waiting a lot of money.
True. It just seems to me that GW2’s rng is just bad compared to any other game.
I mean if I need Rathalos ruby’s (Monster Hunter) I need 2 of these to make make the final upgrade to a weapon and the drop rate is bad but i’m ok with it cuz I only need 2. In GW2 if I need 250 lodestones I need to beat certain monsters that drop a bag that’s rng or guaranteed andt when I open them give me a chance (rng again) to get it and the drop rate is bad and I hate this cuz I need 250 of this.
That’s why I’ve never bothered getting a mystic forge weapon or legendary weapon cuz I might as well play a other game cuz I’m not going to farm gold just because I need 250 of something that has a bad drop rate, that’s just new and ridiculous to me.
Luckily there is more to this game then getting a nice cosmetic item (even though that’s the reason I got this game >_>)
Don’t get me wrong I like GW2 but the RNG in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen.
How many video games have you played? Have you spent years farming for your epic in EQ1? Having gotten 40 people together for the sole purpose of one drop for one individual, wasting hours of everyone’s night, because your item wouldn’t drop in the raid? The drop rates in this game are breezy. I’m not vouching for any sort of time-extended content due to low drop rates alone, but this statement right here is too gimme-it-now to let slide. I understand you’re frustrated, but if this is the worst you’ve seen, you might’ve been playing video games for 84 minutes maximum.
Holy crap I pushed the wrong buttons on you. BTW I’ve clocked 1000+ hours (some over 3000 hours) on games like Monster Hunter, God Eater, Ragnarok oddysey, GW2, FFXIV (I think there were more but can’t recall the names now). I’d rather farm an insanely hard boss for a 100 hour cuz I keep losing then farm gold for 10 hours just because the alternative seems to be made purposely bad. At least option 1 doesn’t make me feel like I wasted my time, makes me feel I got better and victorious while option 2 makes me feel like killing myself thus I spent 2 to 0 hours doing it or I avoid it completely.
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1) Random number generator generates numbers randomly. Welcome to video games.
What you should have told him was;
GW2 random number generator generates numbers abysmaly.Don’t get me wrong I like GW2 but the RNG in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s as if they want you to buy gold with money (<—highly likely this) or farm gold instead of beating monsters to get the items that you want like any other video game (at least like any other video game I’ve played).
Welcome to every mmorpg every made in fact every rpg ever made.
I agree somewhat with the “every mmorpg” part but the “rpg” part I disagree. For example when I play Monster Hunter I go and beat a specific boss to get the items I need to craft stuff. You also need gold in that game but not once have I ever had to farm gold. I always had way more then enough.
Same thing for God Eater, Ragnarok Oddysey, Pokemon, Tales of series, etc. Never in any of these games have I had to farm gold cuz it was a better option, mostly because you can’t buy better or rare stuff with gold and you’d earn enough anyway just from playing the game.
1) Random number generator generates numbers randomly. Welcome to video games.
What you should have told him was;
GW2 random number generator generates numbers abysmaly.
Don’t get me wrong I like GW2 but the RNG in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s as if they want you to buy gold with money (<—highly likely this) or farm gold instead of beating monsters to get the items that you want like any other video game (at least like any other video game I’ve played).
What if we want to be special snowflakes that get to show off an ultra rare item?
I’m not sure why you’d take pride in an item gained through RNG or gold farming to tell you the truth. A legendary in this game means absolutely nothing as it’s just a heap of gold. I’ve been here since the start and as such do have a lot of the rarer skins but I feel no attachment to any of them due to the way I acquired them and that’s the issue with this game as a whole for me at least.
Progressing towards these rarities should be a great adventure in itself. It should be about more than just sitting in the hub and flipping on the trading post or opening lockboxes hoping to eventually luck out. Is it too much to hope for a bit of adventure here?
You took the words right out of my mouth. It’s nice to see that I’m not the only peron who thinks this way. +1
I will not let this topic die. Make it drop guaranteed by exchanging 10000 festival tokens for it or something.