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So either Arenanet was:
-totally and completely inept and incompetent in their design.
-lying to maximize sales right from the beginning.
-bullied by corporate bottom lines into abandoning their morals.I can’t figure out which answer is the worst possibility.
Or in his own Ex WoW developer mind he is only doing what he knows and cannot see it as a lie.
Guild Wars 2 is still very much like Guild Wars as far as gear goes.
You’re kidding right? Almost everything about Guild Wars 2 is different from Guild Wars.
No, let the man speaks, we are obvious undoctrinated GW1 scrubs in comparison to his mighty words.
I agree with this reply….
Think the answer to those three questions are painfully obvious with this current patch..
Don’t worry its gonna get a lot worse with the new gear grind..
Yes you put the song from Star Trek of Kirk fighting Spock during boss fights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHAOkDamRzU
I do not understand why Anet is increasing stats on another tier of gear. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have Exotic stat type of gear with a infusion slot for the people who want to run those type of dungeons? I mean if the gear had cool skin jobs and the dungeons are fun I don’t see a problem with them, I would even run them myself even though i prefer the PVP and making Money Grind.
Ive seen this before in SWG when they released the JEDI grind, I’m not saying it will be as long or as bad as that, but I am saying that all the other stuff could be ignored as people bottleneck themselves running these dungeons over and over for the BIS items while the rest of the world just starts seeming more and more dead as people are only taking part in the gear runs.
Its like MMO design 101 you put a more powerful shiny and the majority of people will go leaving everyone else who is not at that level to take part in it way behind the curve as now you have to do Orr solo.. (I feel for you), And basically leaving DE to run their coarse killing Orr all together as most of it is group content.
I seen this happen in Rift as well and slightly in low level areas in GW2 as i play and alt here and there. I just don’t see a positive effect on this game going 1-80 in blue and greens broke and way behind a gear curve once a new player hits 80.
I understand new content will always attract the player base, but in zones and other open types new 80s can take part in it. This way one better hope to find a large guild that is willing to help a new 80 along the way.
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I went from Sword Main Axe Offhand from 10 to 80, plus an exotic set based on condition damage and other related stats,even chef for food buffs on condition damage and that was all just too stupid as i just went to Greatsword now i explode everything wearing yellows..
After reading so many posts in this thread the thing that is starting to bother me the most is the fact that there have been so few games we have all played with so many like minded people that in this game despite its flaws the community made up for it.
Its sad to see such a laid back community get turned into gear score, gated content gear grinders.
Once you start down this path and dividing the community on core issues the poison begins.
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The thing that upsets me the most is that GW2 with its uninspiring combat, boring grind to level cap and so many other things imo that are really sub par compared to other MMOs the one thing that made it all good was competitive nature of max gear is easy to obtain so its skill vs skill not gear vs gear.
Having a gear treadmill and power creep just literally destroys the very few good things this game had going for it, and imo this is a one of the core aspects of the game getting discarded..
So really why would I play this game over a game that has gear progression and does it way better and other aspects of the game are better overall?
Its not that no sub even had an impact for me about the game as I spend around $20 a month on gems as if I was paying a sub because i wanted the game to make money and succeed.
Now that this has gone live there is no reason to play this game over any of the other games, in fact I think I’m going back to EVE which i never fully stopped playing anyway and SWTOR to finish the class stories and tool around till something else like EQ next (sandbox) or ESO comes out.. I mean i can get forum modded, ignored by devs and watch them make a mockery of a great franchise over there, but I get a lightsaber which is way cooler than anything weapon here.. :P
Sorry A-net everything you had going for you died in this patch.. better luck next time!
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“That was fun!”
Good lord.
Thats gonna be a rather large gear gap between legendary and exotic if thats the middle.. LOL
So today is the day the game starts it downward spiral then..
I wish I would have known that A-net was gonna go down this road, I would have never bought the game or spent money in cash shop.
Nice bait and switch A-net, Well played! now have fun spoon feeding the WoW kiddie types while getting thrown into the same junk pile as all the WoW clones out there….
I’m out…. Peace!
What hurts the most now are videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYsueOW4ixk
I always defended and was one of the fanboys because of the no gear treadmill philosophy .But now I just look like a fool as anet caved in to minor wow population that didnt read what was buying.
And please dont tell me that I didnt read well into the info.I read every word anet posted many times.
Even the thing that they are only releasing few items at a time which would supposed to make us get the gear easier, is very disappointing.If they would release all the ascended gear in one patch at least I would be able to go and grind all the gear and be done once and for all and start enjoying the content and not worry about it anymore.But now I will always have on my mind that with each new patch I will have to chase new 3 pieces of armor.Not my type of game and not why I bought it and not what you promised.
Very very disappointed anet.
Yup that video sums it up pretty well imo…
Right but why would you be repeating it to begin with if your not a progression player? Its no more difficult skill wise then the first other then you taking more damage from a dot. If you are sitting there repeating it to the point where you need the new mitigation, why is there a complaint about your exotic gear being obsolete? When its really not.
They are trying to give progressive players something to do. If you are a casual player your exotic gear is still top of the line well besides legendary gear which most people wont even attempt to get because its so time consuming.
I really don’t understand why it’s so difficult.
Right now I’ve got full exotic gear. I can do whatever I want knowing my gear is not limiting me.That’s exactly why I invested time and gold in having a full exotic set of armor and weapons. Because we were led to believe this way our gear wouldn’t have been a limiting factor ever again.
Now it’s a limiting factor again. For now, just in the difficulty levels of the Fractals that go above a certain numer. After a few patches who knows.
You are fine that a company lies to you and makes your time investments less and less relevant. I don’t, especially since they advertised they wouldn’t. Simple as that.
Great post!
Lock gear stats in WvW to Worn Exotic Levels just like sPvP and I won’t care what other PvE gear treadmills they add into the game ever. Let the PvE players grind out the monster gear if that is what they wish to do. Keep all forms of PvP away from that type of gear progression (or regression as some of us see it).
Well there is always the magic PVP stat which is such a great idea(sigh).. Since every other bad idea seems to be on A-nets table atm just thought id throw that in.
Well not a repeat poster here. In fact my first post.
This is a game killer for me tbh, I have kinda been on the fence with this game as there are some things I really like while a few other things not so much.
One of the things keeping me here is the grind to exotics is not so bad so grinding up alts and doing WvW pvp and dungeons has been rather enjoyable as with the limited skills I get really bored playing one character.
No matter how you look at it, its a treadmill/power creep so if this is the case why would I play a game that has a sub par leveling experience and now the typical MMO end game gear grind and tbh GW2 is not that good in that genera of MMO’s, they had their own thing going on and I supported it and bought gems ect because A-net was doing ok with the game in my book, while the game is not perfect at least its not typical gear grind, but now it seems as its going down that path so id rather spend my money on other games like EVE, or TOR as I have already done my endgame gear grind in TOR, while I wait for ESO, EQ next.
A-net I say to you I supported your original vision of what you released as i bought the game and so far bought around 60 bucks in gems and planned on buying more, but I will not support this typical gear grind nonsense from you. In fact you needed to give crafting more of a purpose not less.
Looks like somebody is reading the metric data wrong…Oh well not the first time and yet again I get watch another one die I guess.
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