Guild Wars 2

Nightwish.4013:

DotDotWin.4357:

With all the good content that Guild Wars 2 has brought out, you would think a LFG tool would have been something they could have put in.

You can always try this: http://gw2lfg.com/

Yes, tabbing in and out of the game to check for forum posts… because this is 1980?
Just install a freaking LFG tool like a real game. Time to put on your big-boy pants Guild Wars.

ilr.9675:

DotDotWin.4357:

Everyone wants players who have already done it

Wait… wut?? I don’t …. it wasn’t even working a few hours ago so it’s not like there was a long list of ppl who even fit under that category. Is this for real?

Yes, because the mechanics are so bad there is a steep learning curve and some types of characters are just down right useless against some of the bosses. Especially pet classes. The pets die every ten seconds and are completely useless so half or more of many classes DPS is just gone for most of the fight. This is why WoW made pets immune to AOE and area effects. If you are going to calculate a pet into the damage threshold of a class it’s helpful that it doesn’t get instant killed by the unavoidable AOE.

I found a group after two hours. We got in, made it to Champion Frizz and then wiped over and over and over and over until we said kitten it, it just isn’t worth doing and now no one in our party is ever going to finish the content. If you are going to make your content really difficult to get into you could at least make it PLAYABLE once you are in it.

I would love to try this sky pirate dungeon but I’ve been standing around Lion’s arch looking for group for hours and yeah, there are no groups forming. Everyone wants players who have already done it and are over geared for it. So people like me who have not done it never even have a chance to see the content.

With all the good content that Guild Wars 2 has brought out, you would think a LFG tool would have been something they could have put in.

I’ll trade a month of not having a celebration for being able to actually DO the content, please.

I got in after the fifth try. Just keep trying and once you are in don’t DC.

That helped a lot learning that swap trick. What are two good tanking pets for leveling? I have the red lizard that the charr start with as my main pet. He’s pretty beast until 12 mobs run up the hill at us.

And the fact there is no revive pet spell bugs the hell out of me already. If my pet dies and I’m in the middle of an event that means no more pet for the entire length of the event.. gee.. that’s just great.. so once more I’m back to being over run by swarms of mobs..

I never cared about titles or map completion or jumping puzzles. I just want the game to be fun to play. Being an elementalist is not fun for me. You have to play your keyboard like a piano just to survive two mobs and if you pull a third you might as well kiss your butt good by.

There is no control over situations. There are mobs everywhere spawning around you at all times and you just get overwhelmed a lot as a elementalist. I was killed countless times while in the pirate area by cannon ball fire until I just happen to look around when the cannon fired and see the puff of smoke. When your a ele those cannon balls take a third of your life and if you are already fighting a mob you might as well give up.

I started a hunter. At least with a pet class I’ll have something to distract mobs with. Ele’s are just not fun at all.

What would be the point of mounts with no run speed increase? They made a huge, beautiful map that I am sick and tired of looking at. I want to get where I am going.

There is something missing from this game and I can’t place my finger on it.. the jumping puzzles are annoying and the classes are either face rolling PVE or dieing every five minutes and I could live with all these things and be happy if the game was fun but there is something more, some fundamental element missing.

WoW was fun and it’s a horrible game compared to this. I think it was more fun because you actually knew what to do and where to go. You felt like there was progression. On this game leveling up is.. nothing.. it’s.. yeah, whooptie do.. you’re one of 79 steps closer to the game actually starting. I’ve never made it to level cap but everyone tells me that is when the fun part is, which makes me wonder, why are the designers OK with the first quarter of the game being a chore you have to do before you can actually enjoy the game?

There is no LFG tool that I can find, you can go on forums and join groups but really? What are we living in 1990? Forums? Really?

Maybe it’s because I leveled an elementalist first that I feel the game is just horrible but really, it is horrible to me. It’s not engaging at all. It just feels like non-stop grinding interrupted by something interesting happening once or twice a day when you level up enough to do your story quests.

Finding gear is random at best when you are leveling. I tried to create a healing set for my 35 ele.. yeah, not going to happen. I would have to run, on foot because there are no mounts, across three different zones, to collect the healing items from the Karma vendors at the hearts which deal out healing gear.

Over all, this game seems to have the potential to be a great game, but maybe because I’ve been playing games for a long time, to me, it feels like it falls flat.
It’s very pretty, but very shallow.

So what do you think they should do to the game to make it more engaging?

I have played MMO since the birth of MMOs waaay back in the days of MUX and EQ. I played WoW, I played Warhammer, even tried Conan. Never in all my years have I found a class so completely unable to stay alive as the Elementalist.

I have watched videos, I have read theories, I have reset to earth/water, or air/water which is what I am now and no matter what I do, if I pull more than one mob I go down like a cheerleader on prom night.

I think I have died more times on this character getting to level 32 than I have died on every character on every game I have ever played combined. I like the game play mechanics of elementalists but they SUCK at survival.

So what am I missing? What is the secret combination of skills/abilities that makes this class worth playing because honestly, I’m thinking of just selling off everything she owns. This is not in any way, a fun class to play. I stopped playing GW2 for months after just getting fed up with this class. I had hoped things would have improved in the months I was gone but we still seem to be paper cannons instead of glass cannons.

10Air/10 Water D/D build.

Is there such a thing? I own no cellphone. I’m old and set in my ways. I don’t think everyone on earth needs to be able to contact me any second of the day, anywhere I go.

I do have one of these new fangle kindle fires though. It’s a good reader and I can listen to audiobooks with it. Since I can’t use it to download apps from Google Play, is there a authenticator made for the fire?

Is it the same 15-30 minutes each time? Like around 3pm or a some other specific time? Is it just 15-30 minutes after you start playing at any time of the day on that computer? Are there multiple computers at that location and do they all perform the same way?

People in my guild tell me that I have to do map completion to get the money to afford supplies to level my proficiencies and craft gear and yadda yadda yadda. I just want to enjoy the freaking story. It’s a wonderful, beautiful, well crafted game and I would like to see it some day if I can stop having to go on hundreds of side missions and exploring quests and jump puzzles just to have the gear to keep my pansy kitten elementalist from almost dying every single fight.

“but those weapons are very high end and are only for allround players.”

Glad to know having a job and a lack of 50 hours a week to spend on the game makes me “Not a real player.” Thanks for clearing that up.

I stopped playing for a while because the game, while interesting, wasn’t fun
The elementalist mechanics are clunky, the class design is horrible, it’s needlessly complicated, the jumping puzzles and “Challenges” you have to run around the map doing just to unlock your basic character skills seems like a total kitten move on the part of the developers.

So, here is my question, how much of the overwhelming amount of crap you have to do in GW2 do you actually NEED to do? I have got to the point in the first month where I didn’t want to play any more because there was so much stuff I needed to do it felt like more work than my actual paying job.

I played an elementalist to 30 and I think they are possibly the worst class ever made. They are horribad. They do crap damage and die so fast it’s pathetic in any spec other than earth. It’s just not worth the time to play them. Maybe when I get a programable mouse to teach to play the musical of key presses needed to make them not suck, I’ll play her again.

I’m starting to think there are no fun builds. Elementalists are just too squishy. I die at least three times a day because I pull multiple mobs or things just spawn around me because someone walks into the area. Elementalists kinda suck. I made it to level 30 thinking I would give it the college try but, eh, they are just bad.