Guild Wars 2

I see the chests as a way to speed up/complement the process. Unless you have tons of gold, it will take you weeks to craft the time-gated materials for the ascended items, all the while you run fractals and stack the rewards to buy chests (and drop chests depending on your luck)

This works better for gearing alts since a single/main non-geared character will be missing T4 rewards

Why is it annoying? People want to buy the item for the least amount of gold possible. I can’t see why anyone would pay an extra gold if they can be ahead with just one copper

Talyn.3295:

HELLruler.4820:

This game failed to beat the trinity, now we suffer the consequences

The people who failed to let go of the old trinity are suffering, the rest of us are having quite alot of fun with the new one.

I can see how much fun you’re having when zerging around pressing 1

Not that the trinity is perfect, but battles seemed more strategic. This game is just a dumbed down version with only one role to play (on PvE, that is)

This game failed to beat the trinity, now we suffer the consequences

The game is almost perfect. The only flaw it has is the Living Story

The whole team has been working on it for a year, creating meh-ish stuff, while the rest of the game suffers from lack of updates

Raids are going to be a “private world boss”: you and your zerg spamming every skill until the monster die

Jeremlloyd.6837:

Pretty much every class can carry pugs when played correctly (for dungeons at least, might not be the case for FotM).

Mesmer
Guardian
Thief
Warrior
Elementalist

I can see how Eng, Ranger and Necro are terrible for PUG carrying lol

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

If you have read the feature pack page about the new Trading Post (which is looking a lot better), you probably saw in the first picture a interesting button “GET MORE GOLD”

Straight to the point: this game depends a lot on luck (RNG if you want to call it so), and if you’re not lucky, you will probably buy what you want from the Trading Post. But another thing this game has a lot is terrible rewards

So combining the terrible rewards with your probable inability (aka lack of luck, virtually non-existent drop rates), they just want to make easy money instead of making improving our experience (better rewards/less RNG)

Think of the cool items you can make using the Mystic Forge, the materials we need, or the gold to buy them if you don’t want to grind. Now think how you’ll spend your time getting 100+ T6 materials. Without an incentive to play, people will just quit

Too bad most of those stuff I paid for should’ve been included in the game before I got tired of it

But what really bothers me is the lack of rewards. There’s a difference why I play Diablo until I get tired, take a break and come back, and GW2, that I played until I got tired and I don’t want to install this game anymore

If you haven’t figured out, it’s because WvW has terrible rewards, dungeons have terrible rewards. What I enjoy doing does not make me want to play more and more, while a bunch of people mindlessly kill bosses somewhere and get more than I do

The game was getting better and better, but problems were appearing and some stuff has not been fixed, and the ones that were are now blocked by a RNG wall, and no one likes that
Makes me feel that I wasted $60 now

The game is getting awesome for people who are starting now, but veteran players got only some QoL changes that should’ve been added last feature patch

What is making the game lose players is the bad rewards and RNG dependency. I don’t feel appropriately rewarded for the time I invest doing content that requires experience and teamplay (dungeons, world bosses)

Would you do the same irl? I mean, making everyone move because you didn’t want to get out of the way for a few secs

Well-deserved DC

I bet the dungeon community will die before 2016, and ANet won’t even care about it

And one day, a random guy will come to this section of the forums and ask where are all those amazing runners who spent their times teaching players, improving their runs, and playing what they liked even though dungeons had hardly changed over the years (and for worst)

I agree some stuff should’ve been fixed before, but most things aren’t as easy as you guys think

Depending on the way things were coded, a simple thing like adding colors to commander tags can take weeks of work, maybe be remade

So I can just suggest them to look at rewards and change most of the game so the time we invest doesn’t go wasted

Right now, you can use Flanking Strike to get Larcenous up without a target. Then just steal/shadowstep and boonstrip (it’s even better if Steal is traited)

So now they are ruining everything again

Aahja.8572:

Ty for quick response, I still can’t believe that dungeon selling is legal.

Well, people want to get paid for the hard work you didn’t have to do. Or you really thought that they would give you free tokens/gold?

It’s not as random as a human, it uses a complex algorithm to “random” stuff. But the numbers get changed so much that it’s pretty random lol

So yeah, RNG is totally random, and that’s why it sucks

Forget it, the rewards have been terrible for a long time.

• Dungeon rewards are not correct (easier stuff gives you more gold than kittenes)
• PvE is all about farming champions if you want money (no incentive to do other events, just farm champion bags)
• Fractals got awesome updates, but there’s no real reason to do high level ones since the most desired rewards are RNG gated (skins, rings, ascended boxes)
• WvW rewards are terrible. You don’t get much from killing invaders, and taking objectives (which takes time, gold, and a group of people) gives you nothing more than a champion box

PvP is a different story, I don’t think it should be profitable, so it’s OK right now

What bothers me is that you have 2 options if you want something: be lucky or buy it for a lot of gold. That’s because this game is B2P, so they have to make money somehow, but we are indirectly being forced to buy gold with gems because getting what we want is virtually impossible with such low chances/bad rewards.

I say this because I care about the game, I want to keep playing it, but I don’t feel like spending money to buy a shining weapon/stronger armor, I’d rather play another hundred of hours doing challenging tasks to prove my worth

I hate to say this, but play a heavy class and you won’t have problems with dungeons. They are just superior since they can do anything (good dps, good party-wide utility)

I dislike exploring the map, but the only thing that make legendary weapons legendary is map exploration

The rest is RNG, and gold if you’re not lucky (achiev chests give you badges of honor, no need to play WvW)

A few friends that still play the game

Since early 2014, I’ve hardly played GW2 because I wanted. Most of times I logged in was because someone asked me to join a dungeon run

Which goes back to the point: if it wasn’t for dungeons, I’d have uninstalled the game long ago; and there’s no love for dungeons in this game :/

sorenrye.7238:

What can we do about this? Will Anet help those of us that wants to create parties of like minded people? Can we report? May we report? Will anet take action if we report?

If we can’t or mustn’t report or if Anet doesn’t care about the reporting; maybe an idea could be to list the total number of times a path or dungeon have been been completed on the account AND let you filter on it (prevent joins) with people that doesn’t meet the requisite.

We can do nothing if people ignore what’s written

And actually, if I were someone from ANet, I’d ban you for wasting my time with this kind of report lol

The filter system is a good idea. At least would make lfg texts smaller (no need to type “80’s only” or “no class x”)

Removing Arah story mode and replacing it with a world event like Shatterer/Tequatl/Jormag

So we’d have to do a pre-event to unblock the way to Arah upon entering the dungeon, get teleported to the area to fight Zhaitan (inside the Arah map, or a similar themed area)

There’s a lot of people complaining about RNG, how they can’t get precursor, or exotics, or materials; or how dungeon rewards are bad

Let’s just thank ANet for letting us have a fixed amount of gold when we run dungeons (at least for the first run)

Danikat.8537:

I don’t understand this fixation on precursors. Sure it would be nice to have (especially since I’m working on a legendary) but posts like this make me think for some people the only reason to play is to get a precursor.

Well, there are things to consider:

• After hitting lvl 80, you can do some fractals, run dungeons with PUGs and finish your personal story. But you get tired of those some time, and with the terrible rewards, “some time” is way faster than you expect
• WvW is awesome, really, but depending on your server and when you play, you will find 4 empty maps
• PvP is also awesome, but it’s so limited. We only have one game mode, and people tend to flame others when mistakes are made, or for poor performance

So ok, we have a lot to do, there’s Living Story being released every two weeks, but after you play a lot, you just want a new challenge. The legendary weapon was supposed to be that challenge, but it’s completely RNG based, and that’s why people complain

Hopes: some bug fixes and more condition removal for thieves, or venoms rework

Fears: no changes to thieves and more Living Story, ninja changes to dungeons

PvE is all about DPS until ANet changes it. And bosses have Defiant, so all the precious CC from Hammer is ignored like 80% of the time

In the end, Hammer has less damage and utility than GS (since the latter can apply vulnerability – party wide damage boost)

Since the servers went down some days ago, I’m having terrible lag spikes. Every 7-10 secs, the game just freezes (everyone stops attacking, or keep running – like when you are about to get disconnected), and then everything happens together

Running dungeons and playing PvP is just a no for now

Maybe some big guilds could create an academy or something like that to teach potential main-guild members how to do some stuff and test their skills

Of course they wouldn’t accept anyone: you need some game knowledge, at least 2 different classes (for situational stuff), and other requirements
At least you wouldn’t need to PUG to learn (which may result in terrible experiences)

Sera.6250:

ability to choose an instability in order to increase rewards and additional achievements a la liadri imo

I totally agree with you. This system sounds enjoyable for me, and makes sense as well

I was half done with AC story last night, and the everybody in the party got disconnected. Tried logging in back, and nothing worked (I enjoyed my moments of never-ending stamina xD)

Saw today on reddit that both GW2 and Widlstar were having problems btw

Curunen.8729:

Just thinking about it – anything more than around 800 hours in 9 months is around 3 hours a day, every single day.

I don’t understand how people can have more than 1000 hours. Maybe I’m just too casual.

Because they probably play more than 3 hours/day :P

Last year, I had afternoons and nights free, so I’d play like 5-6 hours a day, hit 1k hours with 7 months

But this time, I got a job haha. But I still play at night, but something like 2 hours, a bit less sometimes
I have to admit that I overplayed and that made me stop playing a lot, especially after the 5th month. I feel that I’m enjoying the game a lot more now that I don’t play a lot

Rifle is a bit stronger than Longbow, but it can’t match the latter’s utility. So, in the end, longbow is a better ranged option

Keep leveling. Hit max lvl and get your exotic gear. Come back afterwards and tell us what happened

Cmon, I came here to know which class is the best so I can get TVH gear, let it using #1 and alt+tab until monsters are dead and I’m still alive and shining

dutchiez.7502:

HELLruler.4820:

You should start asking around how many times people got kicked and didn’t get kicked while running with guilds, then make a graph or anything like that to show us if we should or not avoid running with guilds

People only come to the forum to complain about being kicked. You would get a 100% kick rate.

Meh, couldn’t agree more on that

You can also reroll Guardian, which is as awesome as Warrior

You should start asking around how many times people got kicked and didn’t get kicked while running with guilds, then make a graph or anything like that to show us if we should or not avoid running with guilds

You should try to make your text more presentable:

• Avoid repeating the same idea: we got it that Mai Trin is the new Liadri, you don’t have to say it every line
• Bold is here to help you show the others where the important stuff is. Use it wisely though
• Topics, organize ideas and suggestions
• Curses are good to emphasize that you hate a mob, or the damage is too kitten high, but reading kitten every 10 words makes you sound like a little ranting kid (bolding the important stuff)

Have a good day

Back then, hard content required awesome gear, and awesome gear required countless hours of grind
Playing casually, you would take forever to gear up and do the hard stuff, so casual players mostly stuck with easy stuff because they couldn’t get good gear for hard stuff

So nowdays, “casual” is mistakenly associated to “easy”

Close to 1k hours with Pavillion MF buff during the LS. Got Dusk and gave it to a friend that stopped playing some weeks later. Gave a lot of gold and mats so he could finish it, and he got tired of completing the map

Yep, but you would have to do the math to find the exact number. What’s your idea, btw?

In the end, just drop some AoE heals and go back to fire

It’s probably lag, human lag

This game has failed to defeat the trinity

/thread

Tomes of Knowledge instantly level you up, and they are account bound – that means you can save them up and get a new character from lvl 1 to X without spending hours fighting hardly for glory and titles, or just exp

I’ve seen people complaining about the “only 80” stuff on LFG (zerker only as well, but that’s another case), and the question is:

• How Tomes of Knowledge impact dungeon groups in your opinion, and how to minimize its effect?

EDIT: While typing the title, I pressed enter and it’s wrong. Don’t mind it, please

For over a month, every time the news say there are awesome items/sales in the black lion, there’s a “Get More Gold” in bold, pretty big

So, that’s odd. There’s so much to be bought in the TP (agony resist, materials, equips, and even legendaries), and the game is barely rewarding that I feel they are trying to get some extra money instead of fixing the rewards – or, at least, while they do it

Any thoughts?

PS: I’m not saying this is wrong, but it doesn’t seem like what the game was when it launched

D/D is pretty strong, but I think it’s too much focused on solo playing than teamplaying. That can be good, of course, depending on the situation.
So, for a D/D build, the plan is keeping your damage high: power and ferocity. Precision is important too, but Hidden Killer can give you a bit more of flexibility if needed

S/D is also strong, and I like to pick traits that help me and my team, especially Thrill of the Crime and Bountiful Theft. Since Sword #1 chain deals a lot of damage, this build can be a bit less focused on damage (since it doesn’t have a good burst) and allows you to get more survivability

Well, maybe some more experienced thieves can give you more opinions, but I’d like to leave mine here so you can think about the builds. Have fun ^^

Meh, a lot of what I have to say has already been said, but I’ll say it anyways

I’d like to start with the bad rewards. Since killing champions has become more rewarding with the loot bags, people started to avoid harder and more time-taking stuff, like running dungeons for example
Hell, CoE takes 20-30 minutes, it is a hard dungeon, and gives you only 1 gold. Killing facepalming champions in starter areas is much easier and faster and gives a lot more money
I’m not saying that the first champions should be hard, but they are too rewarding for the difficulty.

The other thing I’d like to talk about is the poorly designed battle system. It has too things about it that I hate:

• Every enemy is highly predictable. Some enemies even have only one attack/skill, and the animation is so obvious that you just can’t get hit. Others follow an order: skill X, skill Y, skill Z; if HP = %, use skill A every n seconds (aka Lupicus/Spider Queen)

• The other problem is that healing and tank gear are useless in PvE. There are few party healing skills, and they are terrible. Tank gear is even more useless, since enemies can deal so much damage independently of your toughness. I know there shouldn’t be healers and tankers (no trinity), but there’s no versatility.

Let me explain it better down here: the trinity is important, but what makes other MMOs bad is that they can’t use it in their favour. Some games are already using a system where you can “choose your class whenever you want”.
Need a healer? Just change some skills and gear.
Oh no, the tank left! No problem, let me chance this and that so we can keep going

GW2 could use this, the trait system could be better used for achieving it. Tanks and healers are fine.

China is like GW2: people work like slaves and earn terrible salaries