Guild Wars 2

So today I have managed to do the entire Eastwatch chain from start to finish, a total of 4 times. I need Vinetooth Prime for one of my parts of Glint’s shield. Not only have I failed to complete this task, ALL four times. I have yet to see a group break a single bar in any of the fights.

I have gone so far as to start coaching for the final battle before the event chain even begins. Asking people if they know how to break the bar, instructing those that do not. Giving links to the wiki page so they can all determine what skills they need.

Then during the battle. I call out every single defiance bar. “Break Bar – Use CC Now”. Still…. not a single bar has been broken. Large group, small group. Doesn’t matter. The general masses just can’t do this event.

At this point. I would be willing to just hire a guild or a group of players to get this done.

Anet. You need to do a better job of explaining these mechanics to all of yours players. They simply think they can 1,1,1,1 their way through most content and obviously that is not the case.

I found this previous thread and it doesn’t look like anyone “concerns” were ever addressed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lwd/Caudecus-Not-everyone-is-a-Guardian/first

First off. I am a casual player. I do not and will never raid.

I came back to this game after the recent HOTS sale. I have leveled both a Ranger and a Revenant through the newer content. Getting past this boss with the Ranger was extremely hard and I was downed several times, but the Revenant was a completely different and miserable story. By the time I limped out of there I had been smashed into the ground more time than I care to count.

A combination of poor design and me not playing the perfect meta build made this a nightmare. I am echoing what other players said in the previous thread, but since you apparently did not listen I think it needs to be repeated.

1. This room is entirely to small. I am playing a Norn who is at the maximum height. If I can not see what is going on, then how can I possibly react to it? Your camera is tight spaces is TERRIBLE.

2. The small space also gives a double wammy to my particular skill selection. Which includes Vengeful Hammers. Anytime I was forced against the walls or had to move against them to avoid the countless AOE attacks, the ability was automatically deactivated.

3. The CC feels entirely to strong. One mistake can easily result in 10+ seconds of being pinged all over the room. The Jade Bow round adds even more CC to the mix and its spawn time is horrible. You get both of these kittens at the same time.

General observations and complaints.

1. All the “heroic” story NPCs in this game are idiots. If I am going to be traveling with them for countless hours, grow them a brain and design some better AI. The only thing they have been good for is picking me up off the ground. Mind you not while I am downed, but only after I am dead.

2. I had MUCH more fun with the final bosses of HOTS and your most recent chapter. Both had interesting mechanics and plenty of room to fight. I felt like I was on my toes, but not completely overwhelmed.

Grimwolf.7163:

Amaimon.7823:

While the lore is pretty good, I find the design of the Norn severely disappointing and lacking in any imagination. Especially when you consider that the Charr and Asura are pretty unique races, the Norn lack any kind of uniqueness. They are quite literally just larger humans. It could’ve been fine if they had a shared ancestor, but anet insisted on making sure they’re two completely unrelated races. How can Norn and Humans look 99.999% EXACTLY alike while not being related in ANY WAY.
I think they should’ve had some unique traits, you know. I think it would’ve been cool if the Norn looked like a splice between Jotun and the current Norn. At least then you could tell they’re not humans with a growth-hormone abuse

I completely agree. I feel like the koda are what norns should have been.
I don’t even like the lore, they are literally just nomadic humans with an animist religion. Worst of all, their very existence means that human characters can’t have any tattoos, because it’s the sole defining characteristic of norn.
The hilarious part of the whole thing is, they had around three whole years between the end of GW1 and the start of GW2 to realize how terrible this was.
They could’ve easily just said that at some point in time between the two games they adapted to be in bear form all the time, and that’s just what they look like now.
They even set the precedent for it with Svanir. They could have just said that Jormag cursed them or something.

To be brutally honest I already dislike half of the races in this game. Turning Norn into Bear Charr would certainly shoehorn me into humans and humans only. Which is something this game already suffers from. HUMAN FEMALES EVERYWHERE!

The race selection in general is certainly not the strongest aspect of this game.

Discord is all I need.

What the title says. Bought the expansion today. I have no shared inventory and no level 80 boost. Help?

I wouldn’t call anyone “good” at healing in this game.

A month or two after release I demoted GW2 to a dabble game. While it was not the only reason, not having more defined roles was certainly on the list. To me the dungeons have never played well and they have always lacked structure and control because of the lack of roles.

PVP (wvw) has also worked the same way. Everything resolves around the big dps zerg train. Heals are underwhelming and always have been. Tanking kinda works in pve but, has no place in WvW.

At the end of the day. I just enjoy having a real purpose in my groups. Thankfully, pretty much every game coming down the pipe and every game that came before caters to roles. So while I might not love GW2, I don’t see any reason to force the trinity back into this game. I’ll just play WOW or ESO or whatever else.

The class has been a failed concept from the “getgo” if you ask me. It is to different from the rest of the field and thus to hard for the developers to work with, so they ignore it.

I would trade my max lvl Elementalist for ANY other class in this game right now. I hate her that much.

This is one area GW2 is getting spanked on.

Go take a look at the beta version of the Rift shop. It has tons of items and it has lots of different currency models. Not everything in the shop uses currency that involves rl money. They also have a ton of purely cosmetic items that do not have silly out of combat requirements (one of the dumbest things GW2 ever did).

Hell even Neverwinter lets me run around in my cosmetic gear if I want to and kill stuff.

I experienced the 3rd event for the Lost Shores. I was kicked off and missed my reward. I read up on the fractals and how pvp/wvw playere were not going to be offered the same rewards yet.

The original appeal with this game was the ability to be on equal footing. I could acquire my gear several ways. Now, I have to farm dungeons. I am not going to do that.

Steam sales kicked in today, lots of other stuff to play. Dabbling in a couple other F2P games.

Yes, you get nothing.

Yes, 3 hour one time events are terrible.

The event lag, the disconnects the fact that it was one time only (during a small window) all suck.

However, I doubt half of your guild got precursors. Also the value of all precursors has dropped dramatically due to the influx.

I 100% agree that the event left a lot of people high and dry, but lets not exaggerate to this degree.

I call BS.. I’ve logged out and in a dozen times to get into different overflows. It is defeated on all.

Ok I am going to short hand this one… since forums threads keep getting locked or lost.

I did the event for two hours.

Then we got tons and tons of lag.

We struggle on with the lag and start getting disconnected.

I get kicked from the game and I can’t get back on.

I keep fighting with the login server and finally get back on.

I get back in game and I am in an overflow where the event is over.

I log out and in many times trying to find an overflow where it is not over.

I can not find one.

I miss out on the end of the event and the loot.

STOP DOING ONE TIME EVENTS IF YOUR SERVER TECH CAN NOT HANDLE THE LOAD

Thanks…

All this event did was further drive wedges between players and Anet. It worked for some.. those few will hardly create any buzz at all. However, people that feel like they were wronged will shout from the highest building till they lose their voice.

The event was not well done. People got kicked out and couldn’t get back on. People spent 2 hours on the event and then, never got to see the end of it.

It was flawed to the core.

They need to retire from one time events.. Until they have working server tech for it. The amount of disconnections and the massive amounts of lag.. Clearly showed that they are not ready.

The ones of us that participated for 2+ hours only to get kicked out.. Are not gonna sit around like a little kittening kids and be quiet while you pat us on the head.

Playing the game is still supporting them even if you don’t buy gems. I’m ready to join the ones leaving.. Just BS after BS lately.

They have been skating on thin ice with many of us for the past few weeks. I know my in game time has diminished greatly.. Now we have another half baked event, that their servers can not handle. People put in 2-3 hours of time and then either get kicked or get squat. While others get precursors (on trial accounts at that).

The entire kittening thing stinks like kitten. kittening EA over on SWTOR treats people better than Anet does.

What a kittening joke.

I spent about 2 hours in one overflow, ended up getting kicked out.. around where we had it pushed back to that geyer wall. Before that cast time was upwards of 10+ seconds. So basically I spent 2 hours pushing hard and then got squat for it. Didn’t even get to see the kitten thing die.

Huge let down.. and its not the first let down in this game. I’m seriously starting to regret this purchase at this point.

Yeah.. wipe wipe wipe.. Mobs that giant mobs that materialize on top of the group. Ranged mobs firing at us (you can see their acid but not them). etc etc etc.

Yeah.. wipe wipe wipe.. Mobs that giant mobs that materialize on top of the group. Ranged mobs firing at us (you can see their acid but not them). etc etc etc.Zerg zerg zerg.. die to culling
Zerg zerg zerg.. die to culling

These chests are here to take money from people with gambling compulsions. They are nothing more than legalized gambling. If you fall for them and you get crap, you were warned… If you come here crying about it after, we will point and laugh at you.

So everyone knows how to get this stuff.. but no one can tell us what it is for.

Sounds like you people are getting scammed all over again, just like Halloween.

Obviously you failed math class. Nice try though.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Hmm 2.5 million people bought the game….

~7000 posts complaining about the new system.

~3000 are people defending the new system

~2 posts per user in the thread

= ~2000 people actually complaining about the new system

= ~0.1% of the players

Yeah i’m gunna go ahead and say that is a minority. When you get 500,000 posts from individual users that this is a bad system then you might have something credible. Most people just don’t care enough to come to the forums because it isn’t a big deal to them, they are having fun in the game or they already left.

You need to take a statistics class.

They changed things during the Halloween event with much less push back. The thread was not half the size of the current one. The forum population represents a fraction of the playing population, but its also typically accurate to what people want.

I don’t think they will stop with the next patch, but I do believe they will rethink what they are doing down the road in relation to this type of progression.

Generally people do not like to be lied to. I don’t see why this is so shocking.

We can have our gold back then right?

“We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.” – Colin Johanson

“Is it Fun? Colin Johanson on How ArenaNet Measures Success”

“We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.”

http://www.arena.net/blog/is-it-fun-colin-johanson-on-how-arenanet-measures-success

Phoenix.7928:

Thank god the gear-treadmill comes back. After a thousend years of WoWDAoCEQRIFTWhatever there is absolutely no other way for me to have fun in a game, but grinding points.
Tough luck for everyone else.
Ultima Online doesn’t count. Only old people talk about Ultima Online.

Thanks Anet, for saving me from just playing the game.

Now watch as the rest of us vaporize into steam. Just like WAR, SWTOR and every other fail for the past several years. More of the same doesn’t keep people around. They will bail to the next thing that comes along.

So now in effect.. I need to dungeon crawl (lots) in order to stay on par with other WvW players?

Teva.2807:

Okay. Wtf. Everyone wants gear treadmill, they get gear treadmill, and now everyone is QQing. Im sorry but thats not arenanet’s fault, its yours for “Forcing them” to implement it.

No we gd didnt want a gd treadmill

If I want a gear treadmill I’ll play every other kittening gd mmo for the past decade.

If we go with a tiered system… why would I play this game? I already have characters and accounts on a dozen (yea I been at this since 1999) MMO games that have the same kind of system. This game was suppose to be relaxed, casual and fun. No way to slip behind in gear.. drop in and play anytime.

If you become like everyone else.. You offer me nothing.

Turtlemilk.1064:

I don’t understand why so many people are upset. All players are balanced out in structured PvP anyway… what’s the problem?

Many more factors here. Players take breaks and end up behind. Players want to do WvW and not be FORCED into doing PVE content.

The other big reason, cause Anet said they would not. If they turn out to be liars, many will walk.

If this a new tier of gear that is only available through dungeons.. Then I am out. I had my gear and I was enjoying my WvW. I refuse to be placed onto another treadmill like all the other EQ/WOW clones. There are to many other game options out there that already offer this kinda progression.

Don’t kitten up something good Anet.

There isn’t any way to tell. /thread

Simple.. Just like every other MMO game. Most of them have lvled up.

This has been tried before. You think WvW has issues now. You make the clients and the server crunch the math for collision and the game will be unplayable.

Guesting will help some issues. The problem is like all MMO games, higher lvl areas will have the largest concentration of players. So get used to low lvl zones thinning out, they can’t completely fix that. Deal with it.

SausageStorm.4293:

That is no pig

Its a space station…..

Sytherek.7689:

Jnaathra.6549:

The short answer to the original question is.. They can’t stop it completely. They can get rid of the obvious things like most bots and spammers. However, as long as these 3rd party sellers are making money and beating Anet price wise, people are going to buy from them. -shrug-

ANet can, however, start perma-banning those who buy gold. As long as the buyers face no risk, they will continue to buy gold on the black market.

Bots, spammers and sellers are far easier to pinpoint. Push to hardly on a witch hunt for buyers and a lot of innocent people get swept up. It is harder to detect… Not long ago there were a few people that got flagged and temp banned from GW2 cause they were pushing lots of gold back and forth.. Only to find out it was for an achievement.

John Smith.4610:

I really want a new Koenigsegg. At the moment I cannot get one. I am an upstanding citizen and will not steal a Koenigsegg. I will hire someone to steal one from someone else and give it to me. If they weren’t so hard to get I wouldn’t NEED to have someone steal one. Oh, but would I want one if they were easy to get?

What a valid and accurate comparison to your digital items. -sage nod-

Lawl…

The short answer to the original question is.. They can’t stop it completely. They can get rid of the obvious things like most bots and spammers. However, as long as these 3rd party sellers are making money and beating Anet price wise, people are going to buy from them. -shrug-

Short answer is… They don’t.

They just have to scare you all into thinking twice about it.

There are a ton of mismatches and issues with down stated.

Thief and Mesmer are the slippery ones. However, in downed vs downed one class will do far more damage than the other.

I have tested a few odd things out like the trait for thief that gives you 50% more downed damage. If I sit and trade licks with some I get totally annihilated even with a toughness build. The entire system needs reworking/rethinking.

Its not just content for me… Its balance. I havent seen so many cheese moves and builds for awhile now. Even the laughable SWTOR didn’t have me nuked to pieces 1-2 seconds like GW2 does.

A few times tonight I was just shaking my head at things.

Immortal staff mezmer who is twice as slipper as a thief and vanishes the moment hes in trouble -shakes head-

Bursted down in 2 secs by more thieves that I care to count. -shakes head-.

Turned into a stupid moa bird, immobilized and beat to death. -shakes head-

I know they were looking for fast paced and actiony, but I’d like a big heaping spoonfull of some tactics to go with my pvp and less of this fotm, burst junk and cheesey non-sense.

-rant-

I can do well.. I can have a good match. I can hold a point the entire game.

I end up dead last… Why can I not be rewarded for doing a good job outside of just playing DPS and killing?

Here is my reasoning.

Male Human – Boring
Male Norn – To big/bulky Huge pvp target. Size makes it feel slow.
Female Norn – Attractive. Tall pvp target. Size makes it feel slow.
Asura – Cute and funny. Size makes armor and equipment nearly unidentifiable.
Sylvari – Plant people. Likely my second choice.
Charr – Ugly. Large pvp target.

Human female – Relatively small pvp target. Attractive. Attractive armor/equipment.

Well thief is getting a nerf soon for the stuff you talk about. Burst damage/backstab isn’t going to be a lazy kill switch. So I expect warriors to have similiar treatment soon. They have similar easy mode combos. There are way to many combos floating around that let people eat through someone with 2200+ toughness in a few seconds. Its absurd and its not very fun in the long run.

I’m a thief player, but I have refused to be part of these no skill.. Flavor of the month specs. Anyone can hit steal, cloak and dagger and backstab. Its is the guild wars definition of no talent and thankfully.. it is going to leave us.

EDIT -

No class should be bursting down people with massive health or massive toughness in a few moments. So the same garbage and unfun gameplay applies to Warriors as well. They do the SAME crap that thief players do and they do it just as well. Don’t let them BS you other wise.