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I think the story is the biggest let down to me as a GW1 player. Just shocked how little I enjoyed it.
In fact, kill MY character too, because the words put in his mouth for me make him a complete kitten
I agree completely. I only found about 5 characters in the whole game I actually liked and they killed 3 of them. Kill the entire of Destiny’s Edge apart from Caithe and Trahearne next time.
Most of the cultural weapon skins are available as drops in many zones, makes them a bit of a massive ripoff.
hard mode VQing wasn’t hard except for a couple of areas tbh.
When using this combo, no other profession can revive as fast as the Ranger.
Apart from Guardians and Warriors..
I only wvw for the monthly and I hate every second of it. Boring and badly designed, offering nothing that DAoC or even WH:O didn’t do a millions times better and more fun.
here is an example of something a thief does that no other class can do:
i do not understand how a class who can do that feels they can legitimately complain about another class. I read posts in this thread such as a warrior can travel the field faster than a thief… i suggest you watch that video and retract your statement.
Its not mean to traverse terrain like that anymore, I can only asssume bugged map geometry or something. Or maybe to do with not having target circle targeting turned on.
If you want to play a ranged class play a warrior, their longbow and rifle skills are really great.
Nope and tbh most of the DE champs aren’t worth the time either.
if you don’t have a button bound to putting weapon away.. do that and use it to stop autoattacking.
I’d like it if all future thief damage nerfs are split for pvp/pve.
It’s not funny to joke about this. If you had read the books you’d know that this lady: http://www.guildmag.com/wp-content/uploads/FreakyoldladyGW2.jpg
comes for anyone older then 30.
:(
Argh, its the Gran Reaper!
The scenery and the jumping puzzles, especially the HUGE cave/orb one, thats just awesome design.
Its not tough though, its just annoying. Thankfully I usually go tere on my theif so can stealth past large groups to avoid pingpong on my way past (which never, ever kills me on my ranger, just means it takes a bit longer to get places and means I’m pretty angry by the time I do get to them).
I don’t even mind the kds, cripples, lifesteal etc, its just the kittening pulls.
Yeah, but most MMOs high value aesthetic items are usually an accomplishment rather than luck based.
The legendary weapon post made me think a bit more about this and it bothers me: why is it that the vast majority of cool weapons in the game are basically relegated to the mystic forge rather than spread out in the world to aqquire from event chains or dungeons or whatever? Or is it just that the drop rates are so utterly terrible that mystic forge recipies are the best way to get them?
Either way, the whole way loot works in this game seems off to me, the fact you’ll get better loot killing random trash than taking on tough champion encounters, which take so long as to not really be worth the effort just doesn’t make any sense to me at all – not to mention it basically encourages farming generic mobs over anything else, whether its for crafting mats to make stuff to dump in the forge, or just for the occasional exotic.
What I’m saying is, the risk vs reward seems messed up completely and its rather unsatisfying.
I agree with that, its not really a challenge or a legendary epic accomplishment when its almost entirely just gather/buy stupidly rare drops.
Seriously though, where are all the old people? I think I’ve seen one human NPC that looks over about 30 tops. The most amusing thing related is the lady beekeeper in queensdale with the old woman voice and the face of an 18 year old girl.
What gives? I’m not expecting players to be able to create old looking people, but the world seems devoid of them.
IMO they mostly so ugly as to not be worth the incredibly dull timesinks required.
Rather get me a whisperblade.
if/as long as they can spam cluster bomb at close range, otherwise no.
Best voice acting in the game.. actually delivers lines with correct intonation and emphasis and everything. Unlike 99% of the others.
Hahaha.. I didn’t even realise thats who Crusader Deborah was and it was one of MY story choices…
I think themed skins are the answer for the big event boss fights, personally.
I will add that it is rather stupid that the best loot from dragon events comes from killing the adds and not the dragon itself.
I thought the way Kormir was handled was fine, she was an important element at times, but it was you pushing things forward, rescuing her etc.
It also makes no sense that the guy in charge of the entire Pact is also going on all these missions with you. In fact the Pact as a whole is incredibly poorly run as a supposed military force, I’m surprised the war wasn’t a complete failure with the level of tactical nous and logistics on display.
Thats decidedly impersonal and again, to paraphrase, “Its really all about you” care to address that or just ignoring evidence that doesn’t fit with your interpretation of what its “meant” to be like?
I enjoed the early parts of the various human/sylvari stories much more than everything else, I agree.
Basic story of Destiny’s Edge: bunch of annoying angsty teenagers.
Really Ditton, then why is it called “Personal” story? and why does the tagline of this very forum say ‘it really is all about you’?
And judging by the competency of every single NPC you were fighting with, you very much did it alone.
Right, cause expecing a suitable reward for finishing the story is being handed something on a silver platter.
Oh well, I’ll just go and craft 4 or 5 exotic weapons instead, because that takes real effort.
To the people saying exotics aren’t meant to be handed to you easily or whatever, kindly compare the time investment with completeing the whole story to that of crafting an exotic.
Because I can easily get the mats for an exotic in the time it takes to do about two missions from the story, and easily hit max crafting level in the time it took to get about 3/4 of the way through the story at most. Its also a non repeatable reward, so would acount for a whole one exotic weapon.
There is literally no reason for it being merely rare and no reason to whine about people expecting it to be an exotic, this isn’t WoW where top stat loot is super hard to come by so stop acting like it, especially acting like its asking for something for nothing, its the reward for FINISHING THE kitten STORY.
I think it would have done better with less branching and more cohesion. And no Trahearne ¬_¬
After a bit of consideration, I think if a death has to happen in a cutscene, it should be done in a way that had the player had control there still wouldn’t have been anything they could do. That at least takes the whole “but I was RIGHT THERE!” element out of it. So no more boss we just kicked the kitten of running over and one hitting someone whilst we stare on aghast. A last, dying curse, a wilding swing mid combat, anything butkittende kitten I walk over and kill you now even though your friends easily beat me.
I guess the “arrow” one, from the hidden sniper for example, is the sort of style in which it should be handled in all cases. If it must be done.
Right, cause the Rurik thing is totally analogous to the constant deaths of your companion every few missions. He was more of a Trahearne character in the early stages. Same goes for Togo or Kormir, they actually had an impact on the story and stuck around long enough for it to mean something when they died, even the few you encounter in your racial story don’t really stick around long enough for you to develope any sort of connection that might mean you are even mildly perturbed when they die.
It basically feels like you are Dirty Harry (or the Simpons parody thereof) or something, every partner you get is almost certain to die.
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Why is it I can easily make with crafting exotic items, but to actually earn one takes so much effort and random luck that its not really worth it? Risk/reward is so up the left in the game. I thought they were going to go the GW1 route of highest level stuff being about skins not stats, with max damage/stat stuff being available fairly easily but the cool looking stuff took some effort, or the exact stat combo took some doing, but no, its some kittenized hybrid of rare loot systems and oh hell, I can just craft whatever the hell I want and not bother with actual effort, because its not worth it.
There is no worthwile reward for anything unless you get extremely lucky, so whats the point?
I don’t think anything conveyed the sense of war in the game at all, because of engine/gameplay limitations no doubt. But really, why even try and tell a story about a great war when the game just makes it look stupid (oh ho, our great tank coloum of THREE TANKS will surely stop the horde, just as a random example), I honestly the story should have been written from the outset with a focus on very small scale heroic encounters at all times, with tales from the front being overheard if the whole war thing needed to go on. And the less said about the focus on non player characters as the real heroes the better.
I’d rather you just stop killing NPCs in the most contrived ways imaginable, that can be seen a mile away and happen so often later in the story that it became a running joke with my friends when we were playing. Very poor attempts and garnering emotional response from the player that just felt borderline insulting, especially as “your” character apparantly gives a kitten about these people when the player has usually at most been in about two missions with them, hasn’t visibly developed any connection whatsoever and yet is best buds with them.
The worst part of all is the only characters I actually want to die don’t.. and they are the only ones that have garnered any emotional reaction at all, throughout the whole game. Albeit an unintend reaction of disgust and hatred (or, indeed, boredom) for these so called heroes.
I really, REALLY miss the stories of GW1 and its chapters.
the cutscene after the first team is rescued just placed me aand all NPCs in a wall forcing me to quit.
The exotics all went to Trahearne and Destiny’s Edge, it was really all about them afterall.
I despise this character with every fiber of my being. Seriously may as well rename “personal story” to “Trahearne’s extremely boring story” about halfway through.
Let’s see: Why give a scholar with zero experience supreme command of all military action? He should be an advisor at most. Seondly, why does the supreme commander go on all these missions that endanger him greatly? I mean, its not exactly smart to have the supposed most important person constantly at risk is it?
Hate him, hate every single member of Destiny’s Edge (who needs them? Whiney stupid unlikeable prats the lot) really hate how downhill the story goes from Battle For Lion’s Arch (terrible, terrible mission in every way) onwards.
Very upset with the story overall, after being a big fan of all the GW1 storylines. Where were the heroes with personality like Koss or Vekk? All the attempts at tiggering emotional response due to (almost constant to the point of being predicatable and laughable) partner death fell so flat because I didn’t give a kitten about anyone in the story bar a few characters.