You should get this thread moved to the game bugs section. Apparently your game doesn’t have an option to create your own party and invite like-minded people.
Vayne will be here soon to help by explaining why his personal experience has shown him that these changes are well suited to new players and veteran players. Just wait.
You guys, downed state is overwhelming. It scares new players away. Also, people get lost, they need more directions. This feature pack is absolutely vital and the slow release of announcing these changes (even though all this stuff already came out in China) was totally necessary. Anet pls.
“My question is: how will you react, if this second Feature Patch will be as lacking of real change as the first one?”
hurr durr
If questions like this are anything to go by, I’m sure your review will totally be informative and an absolutely fair assessment!
Putting the incredibly obvious attempt to seek confirmation bias from the OP aside, even if you don’t intend to show bias in your actual review you still have no idea what you’re talking about. You don’t understand what a “feature patch” is. I highly suggest you inform yourself before you attempt to write a “review” on it. lol
You can rant, pout and insult all you like. But most dungeons do take less time and skill than about any other aspect in the game , yet pay out considerably more. That hardly seems a good thing.
But I am sorry if that upsets your tinfoil hats, or “I hate this game/company yet continue to play!” sensibilities.
You don’t even understand what you’re saying. Please, just think about it for a few minutes. Just try.
This patch has been a very eye opening experience. It’s actually amazing the dev’s sat around in talks and decided it would be a great idea to have players walk in with money, and leave the event with less than what they came in with. These devs are absolutely amazing. Please keep it up, the end result is something I am slowly starting to look forward to.
I approve of these changes as we will eventually have an end to the brain dead and “press 1 to get loot”/“only wear Zerker” players we see plaguing the game. I have enough lv 20 scrolls to bypass most of the tutorial stuff now added to the game for three brand new characters.
I just hope it gets even better for new players and the game teaches them how to dodge properly use conditions/condition removal/healing skills and combo finishers and fields.
As I will be willing to teach them myself if they weren’t so clueless and can’t listen. I’m sure many vets feel the same way I do too.
I don’t approve of these changes because simple logic dictates that we definitely won’t have an end to the brain dead and “press 1 to get loot”/“only wear Zerker” players we see plaguing the game. I’m equally as sure that many vets don’t feel the same way as you do either. Don’t take this the wrong way but, you’re quite naive in your way of thinking. There will always be players that will spam 1 and there will always be players that try to improve themselves. It will always be the responsibility of the player to undertake that challenge. Anet cannot and will not ever be able to teach a player on how to dodge properly or learn other game mechanics if the player does not want to. “Tutorials” can only help so much, as in, it’s helpful for players that are already motivated to improve and learn. It does absolutely nothing to solve the issues that you are bringing up (hence your flawed thinking). If it was possible to do this, many other games would have already found a solution, and I feel like it almost certainly wouldn’t resemble anything like what I see in this feature pack.
With these latest changes, the only thing that is certain is the high risk of alienating a portion of the veteran player base. You don’t need metrics to know that a veteran player who decides to create new characters without using boosts will eventually feel frustration from having to deal with these changes. Using boosts is avoiding the problem entirely and that isn’t something Anet should really be proposing as an alternative. Bearing this in mind, I’m convinced Anet has made a grave misstep and I feel like they really need to revert most of these changes or simply make it an option (of course, without using boosts to skip it). Sometimes, companies make dumb mistakes with good intentions. It happens all the time. I’m thinking this is one of those times.
Holy crap this will save WvW! To be honest, I’m not bothered by this announcement (would’ve expected WvW to receive nothing and just be completely forgotten about) but I still have ~30k badges I can’t be bothered to spend. I wish there was a way to use these badges to buy a WvW dev team. Pls.
Whatever, I guess this is just a nice small improvement overall.
Please, just stop. It’s clear you don’t have a grasp of even the basics in WvW if you don’t know why these would be incredibly broken. Either learn how to read the map and navigate the terrain to avoid enemy zergs and/or equip skills which will allow you to escape from them, or just sit and wait at the waypoint or until the group gets closer.
Having reinforcements cut off from the group or facing the prospect of a long run across the map to support their team is an important element to the game mode.
This thread is awesome. Anet should revert things back to please the OP and others with the same mindset. This would work out for everyone. They get to miss out on the content completely but don’t need to pay gems either. Win/Win.
I’m not even sure why anyone is humoring the OP at this point. His/her oldest post on the forum is from 2 months ago and an overwhelming majority of the posts revolve around the same issues of burst and risk builds.
The best suggestion for the OP is to either learn to play/counter or move on and find another game. You can’t have the same problems for roughly 2 months and continue to think that it’s the game that needs to change and not you yourself.
GW2 is my first MMO. I’m still fresh. I would have absolutely quit and uninstalled this game if it started out the way it is right now thanks to the latest feature patch. Dat sense of progression from getting my fifth weapon skill tho amirite? Downed state is too overwhelming amirite? Elite skill at level 30 is too soon amirite? All new players are dumb amirite?
“I swung a sword. I swung a sword again. Hey, I swung it again! That’s great!”
This thread is quite offensive to me and is adding to the hostile environment. Why are you calling me an immature dork? Is OP perhaps one of the bullies??
This whole situation is so hilarious. Their entire youtube existence and fanbase is based on guild wars 2. Like, at what point do you sit there and decide you should risk everything you’ve worked hard to build up on, by cheating (in the jumping puzzle i’m assuming)? Perhaps they needed material for their upcoming song about sucking at cheating but they forgot it was against the rules? I just don’t get people like this. RIP
Oh boy, what a well thought out thread. I bet you think you are perhaps the first person to come up with this “idea” too. Since all vets have played PvP long enough to get many tomes, I am positive your video will come in very handy in showing them how to use it to level up instead of complaining about the recent changes. Tnx.
The past two announcements have left me in a sour mood so I’m just going to rant (and it will probably get lost in this thread anyway). I’ve pretty much hated all of these recently announced changes. I personally don’t believe these changes will make players want to stick around if they already weren’t invested into the game. That said, all of my characters and classes are maxed out at level 80 so I won’t ever see a bunch of these changes meant for “new players”. I feel like I’ve been shoved to the side yet again (I’m used to it already considering that I play WvW more than PvE). Leveling was already easy, maybe I’m missing something? Wow, I had no idea so many players got lost and confused that they needed their hands held. “Downed state is overwhelming”. What are you even babbling about lol?
Anyway, even though these changes never affected me, now indirectly I might be affected due to potentially losing the key farm. I regularly spend an insane amount of cash in the gem store but I’m not going to pay for a chance at getting a measly ticket scrap. Not every gem store item needs to be behind a pay wall. Good 2 years indeed. Going from Dress Wars 2 to China Wars 2 will be a sad day.
P.S. I realize I am overreacting, coming off as selfish, and that I’m making many assumptions. I still don’t care. This feature pack has been a good joke to me that I will laugh about when I’m standing around in LA wondering what color to use on my vanity tag.
I got The Hunter a few days ago from playing WvW. My brother got The Bard (LOL) like 2 months ago from playing WvW. Basically, go play WvW and tag everyone you see, you will probably have a better chance of getting a drop.
Lets be honest here: Do people here actually think that ANYONE would apply for the role after they saw what happened to the last one?
Uh, yes? How is that even a question? The reactions to Marmatt’s introduction were extremely tame compared to other game forums. There has not been a single person to exist that was loved by all. If you are passionate and confident about what you do, you don’t care about other people judging you. Yes, this applies even if you’re just a forum specialist that collects feedback to give to developers. Along with this, I know that when the announcement was made, there were several posts alluding to the fact that the WvW forum specialist would need to have thick skin if he/she wanted to help. It’s very much common knowledge what this place is like. Several forum members claimed that they absolutely would’ve applied if they had been aware of the announcement. Others say that they are locked out due to region requirements or not having a clean enough posting history. I actually think that Marmatt’s actions (or lack of) will compel more passionate WvW players who normally wouldn’t have applied to reconsider. We’ll just have to see.
Assuming Marmatt’s absence is due to some “mean” posts, I would say he was completely unprepared for the position (even though he was qualified from Anet’s standards) since it takes about 1 minute to view this sub forum to become aware of the bitterness here. Why would he apply for the position if he doesn’t even read this forum or understand the posters mindset? Putting all of that aside, I would wager that Marmatt; not being invested in WvW, lead him to simply give up as he probably felt he did not have enough WvW experience to judge what was good feedback or bad feedback.
At the very least, if the next applicant has a hefty amount of WvW in-game history or a general WvW forum presence, I am certain the reactions from posters will be vastly different from what Marmatt experienced.
I guess tomorrow’s “Fresh Start” will also feature the leveling system of chinese client. And bunch of other stuff dragged from their client to ours.
Oh please no. If the leveling system is as dreadful as the chinese version (at least from what I’ve heard about it), I’ll be uninstalling the game in a heart beat. Nope.jpg.
what we have here from many of the comments is a l2p issue. you have no idea how limited engineers are until you play them. going from playing warrior to playing engineer is like going from one end of a spectrum to another. one has all the weapons in the universe, one has 3.
some of us don’t like kits, myself included. i mainly use toolkit, when i do use it, for the block and pull. the prybar skill i could perform effectively without. flamethrower is a joke, elixir gun is boring, bomb kit is …weird. and in order to get full use of grenade kit you need to spec a little more glassy than i’m comfortable with.
I don’t disagree with the idea of preference but it’s weird you don’t associate a l2p issue here.
Actually, many “vets” should probably make new character and go through new tutorials (from my ingame experience).
So yeah, theres that.
You should scroll up and read my previous post on why your kind of thinking is flawed. That said, there are plenty of ways Anet could implement an optional tutorial for motivated vets without making it part of the new player experience. It could even be something as simple as a mini game (sort of like the shooting range contest that doesn’t work in Divinity’s Reach) where the player is tasked to perform certain objectives that would translate well with advanced group work (ie: positioning, blasting fields, dodging, managing cool downs, positives/negatives of certain types of builds, gear, and traits, etc).
Going to pass on any new personal story unless the design is vastly different. If it remains similar even slightly to the current style of the personal story I won’t bother doing it. I’ve already done Trahearne’s personal story for him, so I suppose I’ll just let him do it himself in any continuation.
Just an FYI but the taxi trend has been around since the beginning of the game. From WvW queues to PvE events (wurm and tequatl for instance). Even if they implement your idea, gear is only one factor for getting maximum rewards. There are a vast amount of players that don’t have any clue on how to properly do events or follow basic instructions. On top of that, there are more people that adamantly refuse to coordinate properly. It’s like this in every single MMO, it’s not really something Anet can fix.
Good luck Marmatt. I don’t agree with the rude attitude people (especially the PPT heroes LOL) are giving you here but I can understand their mindset given your WvW stats and posting history. People want to see how passionate you actually are about WvW to ensure you can help give the developers the proper feedback to get this game mode the attention it desperately needs.
While I am still doubtful of any significant changes resulting from this specialist program, at least this might be better than the stellar communication the WvW devs (or rather, dev) have been treating us to. There are a ton of threads here with good feedback (maybe look for almost unanimous agreement in threads if you don’t feel that you’re experienced on the subject matter) in them, you should probably start off from there if you want people warm up to your presence here sooner than later.
This thread needs to be locked or at least moved to the profession subforum if the OP changes his/her tune. OP isn’t interested in a discussion and is instead repeating the same complaint over and over. 11k damage on eviscerate is supposed to be high damage? Everyone that replies in a way you don’t like is a warrior? You sound pretty insane right now. If only you could spend as much time learning to play your class and learn simple counters like dodging the unique eviscerate animation as you do attacking other posters here on the forum who are just trying to help you.
