Last year, before I took a long break from GW2, I brought the Wintersday Town Clothing for my Charr. Now it’s just gone. I looked for this new outfit tab, but it says I’d have to buy it. I also checked my bags for it. Nothing.
Did ANet just deleted the stuff I brought or how do I get it back?
“Playing GUild wars 2” now basically goes like this:
start mission,
move to NPC#1,
alt-tab to firefox, browse forums/etc., while NPC#1 finishes her kittentalking
alt-tab to guild wars 2, move to NPC#2
go afk, get a coffee
back to the game, kittening NPC#2 is finally done.
i now can finally actually play the mission.
it really shouldnt be like that. im drinking way too much coffee cuase of that aswell.
unskippable dialogue/cutscenes are some of the worst sins you can commit when making a game and should be illegal. pairing that up with achievements that can be failed and require you to restart the mission is even worse.
That’s my way of playing GW2. I don’t care for the characters and their talk. This forced story makes me care even less for it, so I don’t even want to know about it in the next quests. Skip, skip, skip! Let me have fun and stop wasting my time, ANet!
Play it now or never. This is GW2. It’s not a game, it’s a job. It’s not about fun, it’s about getting stuff done in time. If you don’t like that, play your fancy other MMOs where you can play what you want, when you want.
I still play WvW, but only because I’m on a well populated server. We got most buffs all the time and blob the maps. Sometimes our Zerg doesn’t even need to stack might anymore.
Spam #1, get credit. Leave the rest to the people who care. I didn’t even know there was something besides attacking Teq directly. And I play since beta.
The Zerg doesn’t care for fancy tactics and stuff. There is the mob you have to kill, so press #1 until you get your loot. If it fails, the next zerg event starts soon.
It was fun having a finished character. I got all exotic gear and could play what I want. Well, after I did my chores that are Dailies. I could even experiment with new builds, because gear wasn’t a time consuming factor. I leveled Crafting just for Guildies to make them stuff if they needed it. Now I log in and the list of chores grew bigger. Beside of dailies there is the gathering farm, dungeon farm and champion farm. And after that, I farm living story. And after all the stuff, I didn’t have fun doing, I already played to long. I’d rather pay a subscription fee and play what I want when I want, than being pushed in the daily grind that is Guild Wars 2. Most of my friends logged in just for the dailies until they left the game completely.
But everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80, CAN have the best statistical loot in the game with Ascended. IT IS an equal footing!
That means it’s just like in wow, right?
That’s right. In WoW, nobody is forced to grind, just like in GW2. If you don’t want that stuff, you don’t have to grind for.
And the quote says “should”. That means that would be nice, but it isn’t a must. Best statistical loot; if you don’t have it in GW2 with level 80, you’re not even a casual gamer.
It was fun while it lasted. One year. Now we have our grind-for-stats-til’-you-get-to-the-fun-part style of MMO. Everybody could get a full equipment of exotics in a decent amount of time. Now we got Karma Nerf and crafting grind. The daily checklist isn’t fun. I guess I follow the people of the six guilds I was in.
What did we learn? Everything a ANet Dev says is proably not the full truth. Leaving the grind to other MMOs. Sure thing. Grindy games are fun, this is work.
I crafed stuff. Oh, i crafted stuff again. Mmh, I crafted stuff again. That’s supposed to be fun, I guess. I want to swing my sword again!
In other MMOs special events are special. You could play the way and at the speed you want until the special shows up. You do it, you have fun and then go back to the stuff you like to do. Here it is special after special. If I play what I want, I miss out stuff. It’s not fun.
It’s funny. “This is not fun” is a phrase I use very often in GW2. I guess that’s why I play less and less.
Will Ascended Weapons be only available through crafting? Are we really forced to do crafting for that stuff or can we buy it? Crafting only sounds pretty annoying.
I wonder why ANet even bothers with a “story” or the designs. Remove all but one map, keep frequent spanws of champions and most of the playerbase will be happy.
You have no impact on the world. Your actions don’t change anything. If you let the invasion happen, nothing happens. There is no difference in killing some idling monsters in other MMOs to this. “Living Story” is just a fancy word for Grind-Event.
I was sitting on an non-event Overflow. Waiting. Then I went to the forum. Read a bit. Then, all of the sudden, I realized I wanted to play. So I closed GW2, wrote this post and started Steam.
Must run around, tag mobs for loot. Why wasn’t that in the manifesto? Everyone with a computer would play it right now. Scrap the rest of the game. This is what we want. And don’t you dare expanding the story or the game. Running around to tag mobs is the best. Sure, it’s boring, but the loot is good. Hold W, Attack Button and Loot Button until your inventory is full, sell and repeat.
When does the Clockwork King and Penelope Yin show up?
What a Twist. Again.
It’s not a story twist, if you use it every time. Let’s grind the new stuff. Next event and next “shocking” twist are coming soon.
Guild is dead. Why be in a dungeon guild, when there is no reason to run a dungeon more than once a day? Another social killer. Run with PuGs or play something else.
It’s already extremely annoying to run dungeons. The dungeon opener (still) can kick everybody by just leaving. It takes way to many runs for a full set of armor. And now you can’t even do this in a few days, but must do this on a daily routine. I guess it is Anets plan. Do it daily, not to fast. You are forced to play inefficient or in a long run. Guild Wars daily grind gets really annoying.
Pre-Patch-conversation
Guildie A; Hey, want to run Dungeon xyz?
Guildie B; I did it today, but I’ll switch to a twink.
Everyone; Yay
Post-Patch-Conversation
Guildie A; Hey, want to run Dungeon xyz?
Guildie B; No, I’ve run that one already. Isn’t worth it to do it more than once a day.
Everyone; This sucks!
I know it was a good idea to farm the kitty cat out of some dungeons before the patch (nerf) “fixed” the dungeons. It takes ages to get a full set of dungeon armor and weapons now. Good thing I play WvW too.
I want to play what I want, when I want. ANet already said “No” to that kind of player behavior. You can choose of some stuff of what they want you to play. You are “encouraged” to play that kind of stuff. ANets way or waste of time. At least we have a choice.
She will be about to thank everybody and than gets interrupted by [insert Living Story enemy] which we have to stop then.
No experiments, ANet. The Living Story default plot is (party grind followed by interrupted party grind).
- new jumping puzzle/s
- new minigame/s
- some new points across all maps that spawn enemies and or items that we have to kill/collect
- some new stuff that drops from enemies we have to collect to buy some fancy (minipet/s, weaponskin/s and/or title/s)
- new nice-to-look-at-stuff for the gem store
- stuff that was already in the game at one point, but now bigger and better.
I don’t care for the minigame. It’s just something I have to do for the stupid quartz node. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t even play this minigame at all.
There is this minigame from the start. Can’t remember the name. Something with a keg. I don’t play it, because I don’t want to. I would if I get something of value, but only for the achievment it’s not worth it for me.
With the quartz node I feel forced to do stuff I don’t want to do. But hey, it’s ANet. They tell you what’s fun.
Why do I have to do stuff I don’t want to do for the personal quartz node? I don’t like the minigames and JPs are just annoying. It’s tedious and boring!
If you can farm tokens for skins, like in dungeons, it would be much more rewarding. You know you worked for it. It’s much more fun than get a lucky drop. Playing GW2 feels like making no progress at all at a certain point. You can’t farm for something, you just need luck. That’s why people farm gold, not the stuff they want. Just to buy the stuff they want. That’s not fun.
Because RNG is the only thing that balances out people with tons of time to play and people that get almost no time to play. Thanks to RNG – both have equal chances – take note of the word “chances” – to get the item.
Why do you need to balance aesthetics? Do you need to balance achievement points too? I’d understand if it’s about equipment points, but it’s just skins. By this logic, they should remove the dungeon tokens and laurel merchants.
What I expect from PuGs? People who have no clue where their own nose is. Guys who pull everything and wipe the group as often as they can. 1-4 people running full MF gear and expect to be carried. Don’t forget the watch-every-video-and-don’t-vote-people. Or people who started the dungeon and try to relog to their lvl. 20 twink at 2% final boss hp. If you don’t care for your time, armor and fun, play with pugs.
I don’t like spending my money on rng chests, so I bought some TF2 hats. And because the grind for those skins frustrates me, I play something else until this event is over.
I feel pretty bad every time a guildie says he got a ticket. Okay, from our 60+ people guild it was 3 times, but it still makes me feel bad. How is this better, or different, than running a WoW dungeon thousands of times for that one drop you want?
If you asked if its fun, I’d say “No, that’s not fun”.
It’s RNG, so I don’t expect a single good item from these events for me. I don’t like farming, so the low chances are even lower. Halloween, Southsun and the other events I don’t remember right now are just limited time grinding fests for me. It doesn’t feel good seeing what GW2 is all about the last time. One month to farm for rng this, one month to farm rng for that. It’s not fun.
You just have to be faster than other players/enemies. I don’t like fighting over mobs too. ANet wanted it this way, so we have to live with it. Maybe it gets better. The chances of good loot are low anyway.
My last PuG needed 32 minutes for Lupi. And that was just the one fight they didn’t wipe. My guild is made of friends who are casuals, so I pug. I’m not going to leave my friends for an other guild because I want dungeon tokens. I have no idea were you get your “good” pugs. Mine are always quite exhausting. I just want to hop on any PuG and have fun. This isn’t working. And I do not want to solo Lupi!
There are already enough “noob-barriers”. You don’t encourage people to get better, you drive them off. My guildies don’t want to do the Crucible of Eternity again because of Subject Alpha. Tedious one-mistake-fail encounters are not fun, they are frustrating. I’d like to see our content designers do those dungeons with pugs and without chat for a month.
A few minutes ago I joined a CoF dungeon group. There was a thief who could “outrun” you without speedbuff. No boons, no Signet, nothing. He was warping all over the place. It looked like rubberbanding. He could also jump/fly. I wanted to report him, but there was no option for that, so I went for “botting”.
My question is. How do I report someone who is obviously hacking?
I’ve been through a few dungeons now and I see the pattern that dps is usually better than anything. Subject Alpha for instance. Do you want to go through this fight for 15 minutes? It’s exhausting, not fun and a mistake ruins your progress. A ‘zerker group brings him down in no time, but a bunch of supporting, tanky characters will need an eternity. The longer the fight, the more likely you will make a mistake. Now that you can’t waypoint back into the battle, you now when your group isn’t going to make it.
I’m quite certain there won’t be a change, but I want to bring up my resentment on this. Why should I skill for healing power and support? There is a little argument about this in my guild.
If you’re playing Mesmer or Warrior it seems everyone is EXPECTING you to play Speedrun. I’ve joined a group once with a plain lfg. Nothing about Zerker, Speendrun ‘n stuff; just “Mesmer, lfg, p1”. Warrior tried to kick Ele and Necro, who instantly said they would log onto their Zerks. Blocked that group, left it and going lfg again. Those groups don’t even say “hello” anymore. I’ve even been kicked out of my own group once. I wanted to run p1 with my Necromancer with a “normal run, lfg”.
Without the lfg-site I would have quit a while ago. The chances to find a group via mapchat are probably zero percent for some dungeons. If that site goes off, there would be a huge impact on the game. It seems kind of careless not to bring an own lfg-tool into the game as fast as possible.
