From the moment I read about the update on the dungeon, I had the same fear as Kelly.5293. In GW 1, although playing it for about 7 year, I rarely did dungeons because of the instant need to be pro (teamspeak, timings, …) … or feel the guilt of failing/wasting the time of the team. Thus without a very active and big guild, with understanding people, it can become for the less pro a stressing instead of fun event.
In GW2 this system was great, even if you “suck” a little… as I on occasion still do… you are not that hard a burden to an other great team … you only have to pay more money to get your armor repaired. Even now it was sometimes hard to get all to cooperate on the braziers near the end of COF p1.
With the proposed resurrectsystem I can see a lot of last man standing people having to suicide because getting “out of combat” takes to long and thus leaving skillful people relucted to play with the less-skillful.
To discourage farming dungeons to excess it was already more than enough to have reduced rewards for within 24 hours repeats. And to make it more challenging and give new experiences, one does not have to totally end the old ways.
I myself don’t have all that much time to play, like many of the GW1 vets who now have jobs,…, but with the original GW2 dungeonsystem I can easily find parties and earn enough money to see even the longest goals, like a legendary weapon or cultural armor, within reach … be it a multiple year plan nonetheless…
With this new system however I can see dungeons progress again to be requiring certain team compositioning and more strategy … thus no longer “I have 1 hour … lets find a quick random team and do a run” but more “I got multiple hours … lets start a time consuming search to get a good teamcompo with members who can prove that they know what they’re doing”.
MY SUGGESTION:
Similar to Fractals, let the team decide for which level of difficulty they want to go. Time limited & less skilled people can, at the expense of less, but NOT to little, reward, still do the FUN low-threshold level “CLASSIC” way and for that long weekend one can do a high reward&risk version with a dreamteam of e.g. guildies.
That way you can have your cake, still eat it and no one gets left in the cold.
I will give this new system a try but I fear my, and many others, money & equipment source will have run dry.
My guildies laughed … in a friendly way
… at me for doing many dungeons in the time I played GW2 … guess I’d be laughing now … If I was not worried about my own situation. At least I got the chance to buy dyes, mini’s, upgrades,… and save up for 2 sets of exotic dungeon armor… before the golden age ended.
