Guild Wars 2

@Vayne

re #3: I’m not saying we should be able to knock them off cliffs, I’m saying that if we can’t, they shouldn’t either. One or the other.

As for #5, you can call the skills whatever you want and I don’t care if they’re exclusive, what I care about is that mobs can do things players can’t counter. Damage is damage and CC is CC, but if they do something we can’t we need to be able to respond appropriately.

Also, to add another: GW2 needs to take the time to scale instances to the class and number of players entering them, even if that means you can’t have a new player join the group without restarting the instance. I’m getting sick of having a storyline encounter that is easy for one class but kicks the spit out of another, as well as instances that are on level and still next to impossible to do. When an encounter is nothing but an endless string of deaths to whittle down one mob, it’s time to scale the difficulty.

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Greetings!

In the spirit of ‘top 5’ lists that seem to be all the rage today, here’s my list of things that I think GW2 needs to stop doing. I preface this by saying that I don’t expect everyone or even anyone to agree with me; this is not an ultimatum, it’s an opinion.

1) Stop changing my targets. I’m not talking about losing sight of a mob during a tumble or roll, or even if a mob tunnels; that’s understandable if also silly. I mean that in the middle of a battle, with a continuous attack and an unmoving target, the game will often drop my target or even switch it to a completely different mob for no reason at all. This needs to stop.

2) Stop moving my character. If I’m facing a particular way when I stop to mine or gather than that’s the way I want to be facing when I’m done. Annoying as it is when a game won’t let you do something unless you you’re at the proper distance and facing the proper direction, I would rather have that happen than to press a directional button only to have my character spin around and run a different way because the game for some bizarre takes control and forces it.

Likewise, if I hit dodge backwards than that’s the way I want to go, and I honestly don’t care which way the character is facing at the time. In the middle of a mass melee when you’re lucky to be able to see the ground in front of you and have enemies knocking you around like a golf ball, moving a character in the direction it’s facing regardless of what direction key is use is stupid.

3) Stop letting mobs do things players can’t do. There are too many examples of this to list, so I’ll just use my top choice: if I can’t kick a mob off of a cliff and watch it fall to its death, then there is no way that a mob should be able to do that to me. If they have invisible guardrails, then the players should have them too.

4) Stop giving mobs permanent buffs. Sure, if you have something that’s the size of an elephant it’s logical that it has a ton of stability bonuses, but don’t but a 5 foot Sylvari in front of me who weighs maybe 150 soaking wet and tell me that he is absolutely immune to crowd control. If the mobs can get a 10 hour stability buff, the players should have one too. Saying that the mobs need this sort of thing to compensate for their limited AI demonstrates nothing but poor design, just as giving boss mobs a truckload of health does nothing but make the fight more tedious. In just about every game I’ve ever played the devs all assume that more health = more challenge when in fact it means nothing but useless boredom.

5) Stop giving mobs abilities that players don’t have. If a boss mob can teleport at will and spam AE attacks with almost no cooldown between them players should be able to do it too. In that same vein, there should never be a mob ability that players have no remedy for, and that includes being able to spam knockdown attacks so rapidly that no ability lineup can handle it. Saying, ‘that class is tanky’ when it can be knocked down, stunned, dazed, rooted, and basically kicked around like a soccer ball is silly; more health does not equal tanky. When a class has the ability to ignore knockdowns and stuns, then it’s a tank. At the very least stability needs to be a percentage for some classes that can be trained up to or very near 100% and not a 2 second ability with a 90 second cooldown trying to cope with spam that happens every 5 seconds for minutes on end.

Also, there needs to be an immunity timer for every knockdown, stun, daze, blind, or what-the-heck-ever so that debuffs can’t be chained or stacked. It is absolutely not acceptable under any circumstances to have a player stand around with his or her thumb up their butt as their characters are killed without being able to respond because of CC lockdowns by multiple mobs.

I could go on but this is probably sufficient flame fodder for now; I want to reiterate that these are opinions, not demands. Your mileage may obviously vary.

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Greetings!

Ya, I bless the hint sites, one and all. I just don’t think they should be be necessary for something that’s essentially supposed o be a couple of minutes worth of side tripping. =)

Oh, and as for the puzzle jumping—that’s supposed to be difficult, that’s its reason for being. This isn’t, as I understand it, supposed to be that hard, which is why I commented. =)

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Greetings!

On the one hand, I agree that being sensitive to flames/trolls in an MMO is counterproductive, but on the other hand I disagree that the problem is the OP. He may have an overly shy reaction TO a problem, but that doesn’t means he IS the problem.

Telling him that he’s the problem is blaming the victim, pure and simple.

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Greetings!

Thanks for the responses, I found the answer. The problem turned out to be two things: first, the way up wasn’t obvious (which I admit isn’t a requirement) and second, there appears to be a way up that is complicated but doable to a point—after which it becomes impossible because it isn’t really the way up.

Personally, I consider point 2 to be a tease; if a path doesn’t actually lead anywhere, then there’s no reason for it to be there—especially if it SEEMS to lead somewhere but doesn’t.

As a 3rd option for this sort of problem, offer a ‘suggestion’ button the points out the next spot to leap to once you’re on the string—because if it doesn’t show you where to go next, you know you’re in the wrong spot to begin with.

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Greetings!

I like these for the most part, as they are an interesting thing to do in passing and, as I assume they are meant to, often lead to new areas ad things to do.

However…

Having a Vista that is so difficult to get to that it takes more than half an hour of experimenting and frustrating failure adds nothing to the game and instead detracts from the ‘brief enjoyment’ feeling. While I am aware that difficulty is relative, and one man’s impossible jump is another’s ‘yawn—that was easy’ the point is that impossible to the individual is still impossible—to that individual.

Therefore, a suggestion:

1) Have a ‘one free vista a day’ option, where a player can pick a single vista, highlight it, and get it from within a designated range. If there is any worry about accumulating ‘free’ xps, have the option cancel the xp bonus.

2) If the above is too comprehensive, has a ‘one free jump a day’ option, where you can skip one part of the chain of jumps necessary to get to t vista. If xps are still a worry, have them reduced by half or something.

I post this because, at this moment, I have found the vista above Twitchok in the Skrit cavern to be impossible to complete, and am at the point of turning the whole game off due to frustration. IMHO, of course, but that’s not a feeling you want players to get from a feature that is, in essence, candy.

That’s all for now, and otherwise I have to say I’m enjoying the game.

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