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There’s no reason why you can’t do it with a highish ping. Plenty of oceanic players have. Might be a bit tougher, but that goes for the whole game.
This fight is just about learning patterns and knowing what to expect and where you need to be. High ping doesn’t get in the way of that.
I’m fine with most of the mechanics, but one of them really annoys me: the distortion effect that blinds you. Along with the awkward camera near the walls, the blind effect is really annoying, and forces you to simply memorize the fight. It’s artificial difficulty and it’s a time sink, requiring you to repeat the fight dozens of times to memorize it instead of reacting to what happens. It’s a good fight apart from that.
You waypoint for free if you have no money on your character or bank. You can just give it all to an alt.
Thread should have stopped at this post.
If money is a problem for you, send everything to an alt and waypoint for free. Done.
I assume people are running past the holograms and not bothering to kill the dragon bash spawns, only the aetherblades. So then you come along hoping to find aethers, but all you get are the spawns no one wants. Makes it really hard to get the achievements except by camping the caches.
They should have at least made us activate the holograms instead of having aetherblades just appear when we get close.
There is a small threshold that determines whether your tiny movement should actually be a target selection. Lowering this threshold will reduce the chances of this happening, but is one of those numbers where we need to sit on it for a while to see if it ‘feels right’.
That’s good because that’s the real source of the problem. But you have to concede that it feels very, very, very wrong right now. The situation right now is far worse than lowering that threshold too much. You can swing the camera several degrees right now and the game still thinks you’re trying to select something, so the threshold is way too high.
When I played LOTRO, one of the things I really liked were the “shard droppers”: powerful enemies that dropped valuable items and had semi-randomized spawn timers and locations.
I’d love to see something like this in GW2. I think it would add something of the GW1 skill capture appeal, in that you are finding and killing boss creatures and being rewarded for it. It also encourages people to explore the open world. It adds some extra excitement to the open world because you’re never sure if you’ll stumble across one of these bosses. They’d need to have useful drops as well, at least a rare item or maybe something else entirely.
Of course we already have the dynamic events, but those are always in the same place and don’t have any special rewards beyond XP, karma, coin. And we have the skritt burglar, but that’s a very rare find. I think special randomized boss creatures along the same lines as the skritt burglar would fit into the GW2 design easily, and add some extra interest.
Well it makes sense… they have no plans for an expansion
Don’t be naive. Expansions will be a big source of revenue for them. Of course they’re working on expansion content. It’s probably what the bulk of the studio is working on. They downplayed expansions a couple of months ago because they wanted people focusing on the living story content. They want hype about the monthly updates, not an expansion that’s still maybe a year off.
That’s kind of what I was thinking. Didn’t they say that they have a live team and a team that solely works on expansion content?
Not only that, but they said they split their staff 50/50, which is a substantial number. Did the expansion team get laid off, consolidated into the live team, or are they enjoying a year paid vacation?
Interdasting…
PR.
If Colin said “yeah we’re working on an expansion, but we don’t want to talk about it yet”, the headlines become GUILKDL WAR 2 EUXPANDION DCOMING!!!!!!
By leaving it ambiguous, the attention (theoretically anyway) can stay on what they want people talking about: the monthly content releases. Those are the things that will encourage people to keep playing the game right now, rather than something that might tempt players to come back a year from now.
They only exist to make it a lousy farming spot, to drive people to other parts of the game. To further punish people for not moving around.
Good. Hope it works.
It does seem like the way this new content is structured makes it heavily favour large guilds at the expense of small ones…
This thread highlights a big problem with this daily achievement: it makes people play the game in a way ArenaNet does not intend. Obviously ArenaNet didn’t design this daily with the goal of making players kill themselves, but that’s what is happening. And ArenaNet didn’t design the daily so players would deliberately let NPCs die, but that’s what is happening.
This daily needs to be altered so it doesn’t encourage this behaviour. GW2 is supposed to be about players coming together with shared goals; instead we now have players at cross-purposes, some people trying to depend NPCs, others hoping the NPCs will die. This isn’t acceptable.
To the people saying ‘Just play the game’, surely you see the silliness of that argument. People are playing the game, but they aren’t getting this achievement. Maybe if doing dungeons is part of your daily activity, you will get it easily, but guess what: the majority doesn’t do dungeons every day. Maybe you play for hours on end, but the majority does not.
I played for over an hour yesterday, mainly doing WvW, and because our server was dominating there weren’t many fights happening, and when there were it wasn’t always possible to rez people before others did. So I ended up going to Queensdale and letting some NPCs die. Not the intended Guild Wars 2 experience, I’d say.
Colin Today:
Hey guys,
Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.
Linsey Murdock A month ago:
I am definitely working on the precursor scavenger hunt!
Just add it to the list.
Or more accurately:
I am definitely working on the precursor scavenger hunt!
we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature
Linsey could be ‘working on’ the feature without ‘actively building’ it. Design is part of the process. Programming and implementation is another.
They should at least remove the fractal requirement until they’ve implemented the fixes. I have no desire to do any fractals until people can rejoin if disconnected, and until I don’t need to find a group of people on the exact same level as me.
Different difficulty levels is probably the way to go in the future, with different tiers of rewards.
I really like the Clocktower, even though it took over an hour to complete it at first. This new JP is far too easy for my tastes. I re-ran the Clocktower for fun many times, but I don’t think I’ll be doing the same with this one.
Jumping feels really good in this game. Might as well show it off.
Echoing everyone else, this one is FAR easier than the clocktower. The clocktower took me maybe an hour and half of attempts. I finished this one on my second try. Disappointingly easy in my opinion, but still fun.
Yay account restoration!
That said, for a game I’m planning on playing for multiple years, a 1-strike policy on account rollbacks seems restrictive. I’m sure they’ll revisit that in a bit.
As others have said, it’s probably to cover themselves. If you get hacked again four years from now, I daresay ArenaNet will restore the account, no problem. But if someone is getting repeatedly hacked because they’re completely inept at account security, and refuses to take any action to protect themselves, ArenaNet can reasonably say ‘Sorry, we can’t help you any further.’
I really liked the Halloween clocktower and I hope the Wintersday JP is a just as hard. The clocktower took a big effort to learn, but it was very satisfying to complete. Personally I found the Southsun Cove JP easier, but more frustrating. I’m not sure why exactly, but the point is people will respond to content differently.
I don’t like these arguments that because you personally didn’t enjoy the clocktower, no other JPs like that should ever be put in the game. A lot of people really liked it.
This is only the beginning.
Yes, that’s the big concern. It comes down to whether the ‘other means’ by which we’ll be able to acquire ascended gear in the future are as painful as it currently is. Since it’s supposed to fill the gap between exotic and legendary, we can expect these ‘other means’ to take a long time (and/or a lot of resources) too.
And when they raise the level cap … we’ll have to do it all over again.
once again, you want the reward without the work
“without the work”
without the work
Guild Wars 2 wasn’t supposed to be about work, it was supposed to be about fun.
Before release, ArenaNet spoke often about other MMOs that make players do repetitive work before they can get to the fun stuff. This ascended gear is turning Guild Wars 2 into one of those other MMOs.
Agreed. If the loot is applied per person based on their own level, there’s no reason to stop people from playing with higher-leveled players (apart from requiring agony resistance at higher levels).
Hopefully this is an easy solution.
Generally, underwater combat is frustrating because enemies take so long to die, so combat amounts to swimming in circles weakly hitting enemies over and over and over and over again — probably while aggroing more and more stuff because it’s difficult to judge distance.
1. We need to do more damage.
2. Things need to die faster.
3. Many dynamic events underwater need to progress faster (or scale down better). For example, the event “Free the Pact krewe members trapped inside Risen clams” in Straits of Devastation requires you do destroy clams to free Pact members. When you attack a clam, about 4 or 5 Risen spawn and start attacking you. You need to kill them or swim away, then come back and continue killing the clam. More Risen spawn, you need to kill or swim away. Then come back, attack clam again. More Risen spawn. And so on. This event is simply not worth doing unless you have about 5 people.
In short: to make underwater combat less frustrating, speed it up.
Their loss, honestly. I think it’s great that Anet can take a step back and say, “Ahh, yeah, there should be something in between Exotic and Legendary that people can get, yet still feel accomplished about.”
But the tier between exotic and legendary should not have 10% (or more) better stats. Given the cost and difficulty of acquiring it, ArenaNet’s decision is madness. Look at what’s required to get an ascended backpiece. Now imagine doing that for 6 armor pieces, the rest of your jewelry, and all of your weapons. I’m not looking forward to the rollout of ascended gear.
They needed to introduce legendary armor, and maybe make it somewhat easier to get compared to legendary weapons (that would bridge the gap between exotics and legendary weapons), introduce some new jewelry and other items with different combinations of stats — but NOT increase the stats on the gear.
I would be excited about the introduction of legendary armor, because it would have been something I could slowly work towards without feeling the time pressure. But now I’m dreading the introduction of ascended armor, because I know I’m less effective until I get it. It’s a terrible addition to this game.
I think the event went for about an hour too long, but otherwise I really liked it. Thanks for making it difficult too.
The weird thing is, only a few weeks ago they reduced the number of tokens needed to buy the exotic dungeon armor because they didn’t want it to feel like a grind. Why would they make that change but then introduce another gear tier that’s much harder to get? Maybe they knew this was coming and could afford to make the dungeon exotics easier.
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And no response of real value to date. (Nov 17th.)
Now Arenanet ONLY reply to threads and posts relating to Fractual Dungeon and Ascended Gear.
They are not interested in our feedbacks and concerns. It’s either you continue to play and support them or you quit. That simple.
That’s being unfair. I’m sure they are listening very intently right now. Maybe their silence means they’ve been surprised by the fierce backlash and are currently discussing what to do about it. I hope they make the right decision.
I really like it. They said ‘small to medium’ sized, which got turned into ‘THEY PROMISED MEDIUM I DEMAND A REFUND’ by the reactionary scum that live on the internet. Always expect the lower end estimation.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 7am.
When you need to find times, use this converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
ArenaNet, you need to learn from the experience of other MMOs.
LOTRO had a similar system called ‘radiance’ gear, which was required for endgame raids. Every new raid had radiance requirements, and it served as a gating mechanic. Big efforts were required to get radiance gear just so you could attend the raids.
The playerbase almost universally HATED it. Loathed it. It took the developers a couple of years to get rid of it, and it did a lot of damage. It was a big reason why I stopped playing that game.
Don’t make the same mistakes. What GW2 needs is more content that’s fun to play on a daily basis. The new dungeon sounds, in theory, like a good thing in that you can attempt to beat your personal best, etc. That’s good. But it should NOT be gated behind stats. That’s a terrible, terrible idea.
No, I don’t like the sound of it at all.
The main problem with underwater combat is that mobs need to be both more spaced out and have reduced aggro range than on land due to the three dimensional map and reduced visibility of the player. Currently, that doesn’t seem to be the case and it makes underwater exploration/combat more tedious and difficult than it should be.
Agreed, and a couple of other things.
1. Underwater combat needs to be sped up considerably. Some enemies take far too long to die, and it makes combat tedious.
2. Utilities that don’t currently work underwater need to have underwater versions.
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It just means that’s the number of changes made.
This is the least ‘grindy’ themepark MMO I’ve ever seen.
If there wasn’t a big effort required to acquire legendaries, your friends would instead be saying ‘Nah no thanks, I heard there’s nothing to do at level cap.’
The difference between GW2 and other themeparks is that a legendary is just cosmetic, and it’s easy to get other max-stat gear.
That’s not to say ArenaNet couldn’t improve the ‘endgame’ by introducing areas that are more self-sustainable in some ways (I’d love to see some big ongoing back-and-forth battles in PvE, for example, which are simply fun to participate in).
But ‘grindy’ is simply a stupid accusation to level at this game.
If they’d released the reserved names when they said they were going to, you would have had no chance to get them before they were open to everyone. They didn’t have to give us any advance warning considering this is something they said they’d do two months ago. But they did give us extra warning. Sorry, but you have nothing to complain about here. ArenaNet isn’t responsible for your financial situation, and can’t alter their actions to personally suit you.
We run one-time events at the time where we have the highest concurrency.
Elaborate please. Is Friday afternoon really a popular time on the GW2 servers?
I’m starting to think people haven’t read the ‘heads up’ very closely.
The events on Friday and Saturday sound very minor. It’s clearly the Sunday event that’s the major one. It’s a ‘big finale’ and a ‘one time only event’.
So no, Friday afternoon probably isn’t a popular time. Sunday afternoon, however, is.
Now let’s look at this video.
I can tell exactly when the boss misses or hits or when the warrior in video hits or misses.
I don’t know why you’re using this example to prove your point. Look at 1:11-1:13. The axe swings hit the creature on the left of screen, even though the creature is nowhere near the axe.
Not saying GW2 can’t be improved in this regard, but that’s a laughably bad example. It’s far worse than anything you’ve pointed out in GW2.
Not sure if this has been discussed already, but there seems to be something different about the human female character model. I’ve done the clock tower 30+ times on my characters (all males of all races), but I was helping a friend do the clock tower today with her female human thief, and I was having huge problems making the final jump through the clock face. I’d keep falling down and failing, like I wasn’t jumping far enough or something. I did it first try with my friend’s female asura, but failed several times at the clock face with her female human.
Woodenpotatoes was having the exact same problem with his female character as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbnjSo5whJI
I’m not quite sure what it is, but something is different. I finally completed it by jumping really early, before I could even see the clock face coming around (which I never had to on my male characters).
This isn’t a ‘too hard’ complaint at all; it’s certainly do-able. Just something that should probably be looked into.
If they made the puzzle easier, a lot of people would find it a piece of cake. What the ‘too hard’ crowd is asking for is for the clock tower to be challenging, exciting, and rewarding for them but trivially easy for others. It’s just as self-centred as any other opinion.
In the future (i.e. next year I guess), ArenaNet might consider adding two versions — one without the green goo (time limit). The hard version would stay the same and give additional rewards/achievement/title.
It’s happened a few times to me, but I think it’s a bug. Seems to happen right when the event is starting up again.
Looks like he deleted his posts and now the thread’s unreadable. Nothing to see here.
Just to clarify, 12pm is noon.
Anything that makes people angry during a holiday event is a failure of game design. These events should be a celebration of the game and its community. Please don’t turn these into money grabs.
You can’t expect ArenaNet to look after all the player-to-player trades. They implemented an entire trading post system to handle this stuff. That’s why it’s there.
Yes, in my experience Save Yourselves will remove a condition from allies and then clear it from you. There’s no noticeable delay so I don’t know exactly how it’s coded, but I’ve never seen a situation where a condition is transferred and remains on me.
These runes have been really useful for me. I often use 3 shouts (unless I need something else specifically) and especially if you trait for reduced cooldowns you can have a lot of condition removal on yourself and allies.
I’ve seen DR on event rewards, but only in a specific case. In the Grenth event in Cursed Shore, I started getting a lower reward, but for a good reason: We were in a yo-yo of failure. We escorted Jonez but kept failing the event in the crypt, then did the escort again, then failed the crypt again, then did the escort again, etc. DR in that situation looks to be very much intended to stop people from deliberately failing the event and farming karma.
If I waypointed to a camp to sell junk, I’d start getting full rewards when I came back a couple of minutes later.
It will always be prime time for someone.
The story one isn’t visible. I don’t know about the guild one. But yes, both have upgrade slots.
You get a level 80 back item from your personal story, and you can buy more from a guild armorer. It’s a bit weird that there aren’t more options, but they’ll probably add more in the future.
oh god, they stopped sales because of the hacking. they couldnt risk other people buying the game through THEIR database/store with that massive potential of having brand new customers possibly having their accounts compromised.
jesus, you could still buy the game from retailers and online stores. if they were that ‘concerned’ over capacity they would have sent out a request for all retail/online to cease sales till notified.
fanboys will make up any bullkitten to claim like gw2 is some epic game. NO, the game is dying faster than a snowflake in a microwave.
never before have i seen a product especially an mmo in such high demand for refunds. that proves one thing, anet blowing smoke all these years didnt fool anyone once they got their hands on the trash pile game they released.
gw2 has more problems, more north korean implementation in the game than any other ‘gear treadmill’ game out there. and they have the nerve to crack off at other gaming companies.
I remember you as the guy who made those psychopathic YouTube videos criticising every single aspect of the game well before it was released. So I don’t think I’ll be taking your rantings as fact, and neither should anybody else. Sorry.
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