Guild Wars 2

I much rather see some of the beast races make it into the game as playable. Tengu being a big favorite..

We already got plenty of human-types around :P

My biggest beef with HoT zones is.. as many others have said before me.. SO. Many. Mobs… you can’t STOP and rest, you afk to use the toilet, you die.. It royally sucks when most of the way points cycle through contested events, so even pausing at one of those can pretty much guarantee death.

You CAN design a map and give the aura of danger and challenge without going overkill on the cheese. One shot mechanics aren’t skill testers, it’s lazy design.

That said, the only zone I really saw as pure chaos was Verdant Brink, my first time through there with two others friends had the anxiety of being new back to the game after 2 years being away, having to relearn what I was doing, the paranoia of being overpowered as most people tore through mobs because they had/have ascended and I just hit 80 in blue and green junk without the gold to at least grab some exotics..

All I’m saying is, the difficulty/complexity of open world design has tripled from the other Tyria maps.

You’ll have people come in here and if they could downvote, they likely would because I’ve noticed something on the forums.. There’s quite a number of very LOUD ‘get gud’ personalities and I’m sorry but MOST people enjoyed this game most because there was no sub fee, there was no ‘login daily or you’re ten miles behind! There was no ‘you must play 1 single way… but instead we present you MANY different ways/things to play and do.. go nuts!’

I really enjoy map completion, but prefer it flying solo, why? Friends can’t tell what you have or have not done… Trying to get them to help you if they have got it done and trying to translate what you need done is pretty rough… and 30 minutes surfing LFG to get into a decent map that’s able to complete a zone meta is NOT easy/fun nor engaging. If this is a byproduct of what the ‘get gud’ kids want.. I just shake my head.

All said and done, I still enjoy the game, I just don’t hang in the HoT areas much or for long as I often end up playing by myself when friends aren’t on and having to be forced into a gigantic time gate/cycle and praying to the gods crashes don’t happen before I get credit is not relaxing at all.

Apologies for my wall of text, for the people with the inability to read more then a sentence? Move along please, I’m not going to summarize.

This is something I been somewhat anxious about… I only been in a fractal once upon a time, years ago… Then RL happened and I only recently came back.

Looking at the LFG thing, I know I’d probably be auto rejected because I don’t have ‘gear’..

I’d love a way to solo dungeons/fractals. So what if it takes twice a long or longer to complete by yourself, that should be the price for soloing. My biggest anxiety in group activities is 1. I’m super shy, 2. I’m new to most of the game’s instanced features and from many posts.. I don’t think anyone would be really compassionate or patient of someone new..

This is a reason why I have like.. 60 black lion chests just sitting in my bank.. lol

@Trino, ahh I see! No worries then and yeah, I don’t mind it taking longer.. but I still feel tuning could be better adjusted for sizes 5+ at very least. As currently the guild hall clearing objective doesn’t shrink or increase until you have more then 9 people in there doing it.

If they treated it a bit more like a dungeon being 5 people and up, I’d be totally at ease with this.

I do like some other ideas and I been working at networking since others just don’t have the time, and time is something I have a lot of lately… I always do when winter starts to settle in hehe. I may seek out some larger guilds on the US who have members willing to Ally somehow and maybe just help us out doing a few missions etc, and in return I’d do what I could to help them out as well, even if it’s farming a few events, champs etc.

@VaaCrow- ahh I knew someone would say just what you did. Okay, then I suppose Anet advertised falsely hmm? You shouldn’t have to get full ascended or full exotics to do the new expansion. Assuming EVERYONE does is kitten poor design actually and quite ignorant when it comes to observation.

Getting GOLD isn’t that easy either unless you’re a math whiz with great foresight in economics who doesn’t do much aside from buying low and selling for triple flips on the TP. I confess I’m NOT that type of person who can do that very well.

So this leaves a person to buying gold with gems for real money.. or risking their account with third party sites for better bang for their buck. If you’re playing anything that doesn’t require berserker’s, soldier’s or knight’s armor in Heavy armor type, you’d be correct! However if you are unlucky and roll a heavy wearing class then you get to pay 5-6 gold per piece of exotic gear from the TP because karma isn’t that lucrative of a currency to obtain anymore.

Nowhere in my post did I insinuate anyone should just ‘faceroll’ it. I simply stated my experience as a player who’s returned from a VERY long absence to agree with the sentiment small guilds DO get shafted here and the only solution IS to amalgamate with a larger guild. There IS no care for small guilds, it’s ‘get big, get good or get lost’ with many people who comment on the forums here. Seriously mature. I’m not going to spell out simple logic and I do not need to explain why this makes sense in a connect the dot fashion.

Now I apologize, I am starting to be rude now, but I get tired of the haughty snotty attitudes very easily and am quite sick of the ‘great divide’ in gaming communities, people fail to realize that they’re the ones poopin in their own pool then wonder why it sucks to go for a swim.

trino.4832:

I’m going to first say guild halls do take a lot of resources and time. That is what being part of a guild is. Time and dedication to grow something from nothing while coming closer as a community with a common cause.

My little guild of three dedicated players don’t seem to have to much trouble with the guild hall system. We capture our guild hall after a few tries and we have been managing our atherium production pretty tightly, to the point where we have only wasted about 60 minutes. We use the time while production is happening to farm the needed supplies while looking head at the time gated resources. Prior to HOT we are hoarders like a lot of people in MMOs so are stockpile each while dewindling have served their purpose.

As for favor we obtained the extra mission slots first to give us a higher chance to obtain the “easier” missions such as treks (the hard one we completed with all three players), races (we can do the easy ones on our own while using the reset to perform the hard ones with other groups), WvW has been pretty easy so far, and PvP is the only one that i have a complaint about (i wish the timer didn’t count down in the lobby while waiting for matches). Puzzles are out of our reach due to the six person requirement, but you can’t get everything you want. Currently my guild is at level 18 and going to be 19 in three days due to the atherium production (we didn’t take mining increase speed cause it didn’t fit into our math as of yet). Yes we did start a few levels higher because we already had upgrades before HOT. At some point will we, as a small guild, feel the crunch from the needed resources; of course we will but we hope to minimize it by preparing for future upgrades now.

tldr: Anedotal story from a small guild saying it isn’t so bad with some planning and a few dedicated people.

You know, that was a nice read.. until the last sentence. I see the rudeness and attitude. Not everyone may be good at math.. or be super elite, as nicely geared etc. Don’t agree, so you insult it as ‘anecdotal’.. I think that’s what you meant, because Anedotal isn’t a word.

The event to clear the hall scales UP from 9 people from where it is, not DOWN from where it is.

Sounds like so many people aren’t doing the Exalted one, why is that? Are the others easier?

@clarkcd- I tried it with my friends, one being a dragonhunter, the other a druid and my reaper.. it didn’t work so good. If we had 5 it might’ve been do-able.

@DoctorDing- That’s what I heard as well :/ It doesn’t scale -down- from it’s current amount, only up and it was too much for 3.

Kulvar.1239:

Fengzhou.9853:

the problem is the quest you clear out the Exalted area guild hall for example is far over-tuned for small groups.. It’s impossible to do with 3-4 people in the time limit they impose.

My guild did it with a group of 5 people.
The event scale with the amount of people participating.
More event pop, more foes.

Very possible, if people know how to PvE and are properly geared for this.
Train yourself in Magus Falls.

Maybe 5 is the magic number, depends on group composition and gear as well.

For mine it was me and 2 other people, 3 isn’t enough for the Exalted area guild hall is my guess. I also wasn’t in ascended or exotic gear.. which can certainly play another factor in it.

My personal skill isn’t a factor in the issue with this either.

Kendra Nightwind.8734:

Fengzhou.9853:

My friends and I are in a similar position sadly.

We managed to enough enough favor to start the quest.. but now the problem is the quest you clear out the Exalted area guild hall for example is far over-tuned for small groups.. It’s impossible to do with 3-4 people in the time limit they impose.

Granted I know they are all about big everythings when it comes to guilds/pvp, but there are many many MANY small guilds of friends/family only sort and to be shafted like that really is insulting.

We’re to the point that unless we get more people we can trust on a friends/family level.. that we’re never going to achieve the guild hall we REALLY wanted and with that goes those guild hall only vendors and gear things too.. It royally sucks since most of the people I knew before hand have quit playing gw2 even the expansion didn’t bring them back.

Not sure what else to do aside from join someone else’s guild, but that doesn’t solve this problem for smaller guilds at all and I would really hope that Anet could do something to help smaller guilds out somehow.. Please? :<

Congrats on being able to get as far as you have. If you want an extra ranger and are located or playing on NA servers send me a note in game. I would be happy to assist.

I do in fact play on NA servers actually I’m always looking for friends! I just happen to be rather shy.

carythanis.7940:

Thanks!
The same!
We want to gain points of favor like we won points of influence.
The first word of the name of this game is “guild” and before HoT it was possible to play with your guild on many activities and rewarded for that.

Since HoT there is only ONE way: doing missions guild. That’s all.

That’s not fun and fair for small guilds.
Why this limit?

That’s just it… Small guilds had zero advantage, they where already gated on earning influence at a much slower pace compared to larger guilds.

My guild was only able to get the quest to clear the guild hall -because- we had leftover influence and we converted it and had to do one guild mission. We got lucky with that because people showed up and helped us do it..

Excited as we were, our hopes got crushed after trying as hard as we could with the three of us to clear the hall, only tuned for large groups it seemed. We could kill things, but not before the time limit of the mobs themselves so exposing the Mordrem things that kept barfing out more mobs was so small because we couldn’t dps fast enough/hard enough and endure all the damage long enough.

It’s more then a challenge, it’s punishing. Already I don’t see why it’s got such a high player expectation. It’s not like making the clearing of the hall easier for smaller guilds would be horrible. Opening up vendors and other things would automatically be slower for smaller guilds compared to larger ones, so I don’t understand why it is the way it is currently.

As a returning player.. I gotta say I was in for a super rude awakening entering HoT maps.

I had a mish mash of gear, in some cases it was zerker, others had hybrid setups. I still got owned despite doding because of the spammed cc’s and long waits of mob immunities/evades and just general swarming.

I play with a pair of friends but often find myself running alone…

The issues I see people post about in this thread made sense to me, I understand why they’re frustrated. Now, for my gear.. I’m in questing junk, I don’t have full exotics. I don’t have a mass of gold and cannot buy ascended. 8 gold doesn’t go very far and this game seems really difficult to make gold, without using your wallet and I’m alright with this. Just means more effort for me to make money to buy gear.

My biggest grievance was, my two friends had a bunch of masteries.. I had nothing. I couldn’t do half of what they did, or go where they went and often lagged behind unable to take a second to breathe because I was constantly being mauled by mobs. Yep, I’m one of those people who don’t really like the mastery thing much at ALL. That said, you only need to farm them once.. I guess, but it’s still really crude and takes away from just jumping into the game and joining your friends like you used to be able to do.

I find that as I get more masteries.. the gameplay is starting to improve, albeit painfully slow. I don’t know HOW on earth some people have over 100+ so bloody fast. Perhaps massive guilds grouping up in raid formation and just smashing content, I can understand that. Good for them I suppose but sucks for me.. again I can live with that, while I curse and cuss under my breath at feeling blocked from all sorts of things my friends can explore but I am stuck waiting.

I feel that as someone else pointed out, much of the gear has 4 stat types on it compared to the old 3 stat choices we’ve had prior to expansion. Their post was one of the rare non-braggy aggressive posts that was actually mature and nice to read. So that puts my mind at ease, I play a guardian most of the time and I love him, but my hp pool is pathetically low and I just explode, guess I gotta get some Knight’s or Soldier’s to mix in my gear lists.

It’s painful as heck if you also did not have 100% map prior as you can’t expand your elite spec, which I can deal with , but the play change from having it filled out is VERY noticeable (which I think is the point, right? )

I been fairly afraid to comment or post on the forums seeing so much hostility and I don’t doubt people will tear me to shreds.. but I may as well be brand new to the game again with what all has changed since I joined years ago. If I feel frustrated and somewhat put off as a ’what’s the point in exploring the new content if I don’t have people to do it with or can’t follow where they go?’ then you can bet your butt that others are feeling the same and just don’t comment.

I’ve seen what happened to games that went ‘hardcore only’ they became deader then dead REAL quick.

Open world is where many casual players spent most of their time and now I see that coming to a close for many.. and I’m stubborn, I’ll keep trudging through it because I’d really like to complete it. I just worry most about maps emptying out and population just not being there and my being behind other people.. just how much of my game experience will this ruin as others just won’t want to be bothered helping with the challenges or metas anymore?

I apologize for my windy, rambling post. I have a massive headache and have been feeling under the weather. If I made sense? Awesome! If I didn’t make much, please accept my deepest apologies ><;

My friends and I are in a similar position sadly.

We managed to enough enough favor to start the quest.. but now the problem is the quest you clear out the Exalted area guild hall for example is far over-tuned for small groups.. It’s impossible to do with 3-4 people in the time limit they impose.

Granted I know they are all about big everythings when it comes to guilds/pvp, but there are many many MANY small guilds of friends/family only sort and to be shafted like that really is insulting.

We’re to the point that unless we get more people we can trust on a friends/family level.. that we’re never going to achieve the guild hall we REALLY wanted and with that goes those guild hall only vendors and gear things too.. It royally sucks since most of the people I knew before hand have quit playing gw2 even the expansion didn’t bring them back.

Not sure what else to do aside from join someone else’s guild, but that doesn’t solve this problem for smaller guilds at all and I would really hope that Anet could do something to help smaller guilds out somehow.. Please? :<

I’ve been running the game just fine on the 32bit client until today.

Every time an event starts in the first HoT zone and I happen to be at the camp it starts on, it crashes my client every time and locks me out with continual crashes until the event ends.

So, I did some searching and people suggested the beta client for 64 bit, it seemed to run fine at first then I noticed graphic destruction on my character portrait in the hero tab. I thought that was pretty strange, then I noticed the destruction spread to player characters.. but not all of them. Very strange.

Then that event started and spam crashed me until I got irritated enough I just logged out and quit trying.

I did send reports from both clients, I really hope this is fixed. I had ZERO issues all week and now this just ruined the experience.