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Not playing yes.
I feel that even though Anet is trying to downplay the scope of changes to their design philosophy, the feeling that they said one thing and are doing something different sticks in a lot of people’s minds as a breach of trust. Even if they did not explicitly say that they would never introduce gated content, tiered gear progression or level hikes, many people had just that perception due to years of marketing hype surrounding the game. Unfortunately, I think that for many it is hard to say “oh well if it’s just a little bit of those things, then I don’t feel lied to.” Those things are still there now and are not going away.
The perception of total 180 degree change felt by some players and the new content negating previous in game goals leads to a degree of uncertainty which can result in a stagnating lack of motivation. Honestly, I think they would have done better for themselves going all gear progression, adding all ascended items and fully adopting the WoW clone stance. Of course, I still would not play, but there are obviously those who would. Half-measures and the creation of a world without a clear sense of goals or direction will only further alienate people.
One thing I don’t get is why not introduce less controversial grinds like reputation, epic quest chains, player character titles, timed dungeon leaderboards, or server firsts before jumping to gear progression?
I don’t log in any more to the game, but I’ll keep following this issue because it is one of the things that really turned me off trusting Anet and put a bad taste in my mouth. If this situation is eventually admitted to and somehow fixed, I will consider playing again.
Either way, I will probably log in to check out Wintersday at some point. I sort of feel bad for Anet; their game must be doing much worse since making open world at 80 and all other dungeons obsolete with FotM. I think they lost more people than they retained by adding a new grindy gear tier without warning the player base of the design philosophy change. Feels like they are constantly backpedaling and trying to fix mistakes, but what they need to realize is that once you take a steaming “kitten” all over somebody’s trust, it takes a big change to bring them back.
I figure if big changes happen, I’ll see them on the forums. If not I can safely stay away.
I also hate invisible walls. I am an explorer, and I run into them in this game all the time just looking for alternate routes. It just screams “lazy” to me… is it that hard to put up a real wall there?
Well if it is a bug it’s the only thing keeping me alive when I get kill shot for 12,000 dmg in one move with 1560 toughness in full exotics.
Short answer… nothing to see here.
Here is some constructive feedback post-patch.
With the new instance being in LA, this means people never leave LA; a concept which has been addressed in other posts. Long and short is the new instance, in the minds of many players, makes all previous dungeons and even world event farming obsolete (higher stat gear/shards available through dungeon). The end result is a minimum 5-10 minutes spent in overflow every time I log in game.
Part of the problem is that I dislike overflow based on a feeling of not being “at home” on my chosen server. The community of a server acts differently when there is a permanence to the interactions than overflows do. The fact that I can’t get into WvW in overflow isn’t great either even though I could go to a different zone to do so.
I’m not sure how many others have experienced this, and I realize we are in a holiday time so maybe I should bite my tongue and wait and see?
As an aside I’ve noticed that Lion’s Arch chat which could be fun or interesting has disintegrated in the face of the endless wall of LFG lvl # FotM posts which quickly drown out any funny or creative posts.
Flavor rocks…sounds delicious
Nice post. Of course you will garner more support with this type of thread title, making people indignant and then totally making them relieved that you’re not a kitten
So I would like to ask:
1. Who here, still come to forums but play the game much less?
Me
2. When did you start playing less?
When I realized that ArenaNet changed their game philosophy to include a new gear progression grind. If they thought they were losing people to boredom, I think they will find that they just tried to put out that fire with gasoline by alienating their most loyal fanbase.
3. Why / What caused the decline in time spent?
Yeah when I get on the game all I see is LFG lvl # FotM; I might even like that dungeon if I didn’t have to think about running it endless amount of times to grind for loot. Recently just almost finished gearing my first alt in exotics, and now I do not really see the point of finishing that process or doing dungeons for exotics regardless of their pretty skins when ArenaNet tells me they will all be obsolete eventually.
Certainly a powerful approach to voicing your concerns. ArenaNet did not ask for our input prior to this 180 degree change, so it makes sense to treat them with the same courtesy and post our gut reactions to their fair-weather game philosophy.
I have seen only inconsistencies and apparent deception from ArenaNet in following their treatment of ranger-specific balance concerns. However, I was willing to switch professions and ignore my initial misgivings.
The addition of a new gear tier really goes against everything Anet marketed themselves to be during development. It begs the question “Is Anet as independent of the influence of their corporate overlords at NCsoft as they have led us to believe?”
This is such bad planning Anet. Was this tested at all? Not fun to get most of the way through a dungeon only to be unable to return to it if kicked randomly.
This seems like a great place to please the ranger community; fixing the 1h sword would be really nice. Kinda was one of the things I expected would be addressed in this profession patch.
Replying for ranger solidarity; I think we all get the gist of this thread. I will keep my 80 ranger with exotics because it took so long to level him.
My engineer is now lvl 80 and honestly is outperforming my ranger with rares, a few exotics, masterwork trinkets and no back slot. Kits are a really fun mechanic with great versatility. There are multiple viable builds for this profession. So if you enjoy medium armor and ranged capability with more heals, group buffs and utility, survivability and damage output come on over to the tinkering side.
I think Anet are probably very concerned and surprised at all of the negative feedback they’re receiving from players here on the forums. Locking and deleting the threads that threaten their view of themselves and GW2 shows a worrying sense of corporate insecurity. An inability to laugh at themselves, or to let others to laugh at them, suggests to me that they’re on the defensive and feeling very threatened by some of the opinions so ably expressed on the forums.
I’ve been an Anet customer for more than five years. I bought Guild Wars, Factions, Nightfall, Eye of the North, character slots, storage panes and other upgrades from the in game store.
Anet has done more to damage their own reputation in these forums since Oct. 7th than they managed in the previous five years. And their attitude has done more to take the fun out of GW2 for me, than any of the bugs and poor design ever could.
Consumers inevitably vote with their wallets and on that basis I am unlikely to be giving them any more of my money.
As barruktp says in the first post here, “Nevermind, I’m sure this thread will be locked as well…”
You’ve got to laugh!
Don’t expect a post this good to last very long. And I bet you spent a lot of time writing it up too.
Well technically the joke didn’t make much sense because he said “you right” instead of “your right” for which your reply would have been funny. Of course given his context it should be spelled “you’re right.” But it would have been more funny the other way; then your joke would have co-opted his grammatical error for its own correct usage.
I also highly doubt that you were trying to make a play on something to his right because that would also not be humorous for his intended usage. If he had said “your right” and you said “your right what?” then right would have a possessive connotation e.g. your right hand. The referent object of “what” would refer to something possessed rather than something other “to his right.” Semantics.
BTW I like coming to Necro forums from the Ranger forums because it makes me feel like Anet isn’t really singling one profession out to ignore.
When they jump it sounds like teh sechs.
Good news? Well . . . . Halloween is coming.
Right on nic, I’ve been thinking the same thing.
I think there are about 3 account names that I find consistently on here coming out in support of rangers creating threads like this and diverting conversations away from the realistic negatives.
Arenanet plants anyone?
Looks like the thread you linked to has been moved/deleted.
See <Sarcasm> above
Maybe they found that rangers were the least likely class to spend money in the cash shop because of the flower and unicorn legendary bows. Seriously how much of the playerbase is girls really?
Or maybe it’s a plan to eliminate ranger bots by getting all real players to quit playing them making bots easier to find. In that case we could just ride it out . . .
My warrior is now lvl 22 and rolling things with GS/Rifle. I can rush into a group of 5 mobs with a veteran in the middle and kill all the adds with 100 blades, then switch to rifle and kite to finish the veteran barely taking any dmg.
Gotta say it’s fun destroying things, and I love the look of greatswords. It really makes me hope that the Ranger greatsword gets a buff to be on par with the warrior at some point.
It’s a bit strange to say that we should all only talk about what 40 milliseconds is when the math itself seems pretty well hashed out by this point.
Initially, something was taken away from players in what appears to be a dishonest way; in my opinion no explanation would be better than a half-truth. Following that more information was supplied by a developer giving a different reason for the nerf. This makes it seem even more likely that “animation glitch” was a half-truth.
The bugged nature of quickness and the true impact of the nerf on condition builds have never been acknowledged. People will continue to vent their frustration without a clear statement by Anet about the direction of development or fix for the ranger Crossfire skill including responses to the important points which may or may not be hidden between a number of understandably emotionally laden posts in this thread.
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First time being able to log onto the forums due to some authentication bug, but I have been following this thread since the hour of the nerf.
Just thought I’d add a post for show of solidarity; I think the status of the ranger class has been well elucidated by many eloquent posters above.
Please provide valid alternatives if nerfing shortbow. (preferably would have been before nerfing, but I can tolerate waiting). Thank you Anet.