Fights like Wurm should be instanced. If it were easier to get a single group of people together for the fight, WITHOUT PUGS, then Wurm would have been killed day 1, and would be killed often since.
Many of us are not even trying to fight the Wurm anymore, because we can’t get a competent group together to do it, without being overran by useless pugs that won’t get on TS or use proper gear.
Hey, thanks everyone! We spent a lot of time tweaking the balance on this, and I’m glad that so many people appreciate our efforts. We REALLY like hearing that people are making memories and cheering each other on. Those are the kinds of experiences we make MMOs for.
I’m not surprised that the Wurm is not liked by as many people. We were making that specifically for the hard core groups that are all about the organization and figuring out the strategy and tactics. It’s really cool watching the community grapple with this puzzle and innovate as they get closer and closer to finding a winning strategy.
The current design for the wurm boss is intolerable. You’re forcing people to wait around for hours just to attempt to fight a boss in a game. Do you NOT see the problem with this? Seriously?
There are no reasons these fights shouldn’t be instanced. Making people wait around for hours is absurd. We all have real lives.
Making changes like this because of “technical limitations” is a cop-out. Its bad enough we have such small limitations on the number of people in map. Upgrade your servers or something.
I mean, the thing about Fire Eles, is they don’t last long at all. There is hardly any point to them with a 30m cooldown. And why jump from ZERO cooldown to 30 MINUTES? Thats ridiculous. If the servers was really what you’re worried about, a 1 minute cooldown would already cut the fire ele use down by thousands per an event like teq. Its not like using them before was crashing the servers, so any cooldown should have been enough to have an effect.
Removing stat combinations with critical damage would be a big change and would probably make things more interesting by not allowing extreme speedkills (with enemies not having almost time to react) and nerfing reflect in a quite strong way.
How would that make the game better? Getting rid of speed kills and making fights last longer? That is the idea of a person with brain damage, and it would ruin the game. Those are the kind of changes I’m talking about, that would cause large numbers of people to quit. And rightfully so.
They don’t need to make boss fights slower.
“If they bother doing the dungeon at all, the only dungeons in the game that offer any challenge are often ignored for the easy “Zerk-friendly” ones.”
Wrong. There are no dungeons that cannot be done better in zerk gear. I’ve done them all. CM, TA, Arah, HotW, any of them can be done better by a zerk party, even fotm 50.
So after people have gone out and bought ascended armor and weapons for their characters best possible builds, Anet now wants to change the meta completely? That’s completely unfair.
I smell a NGE level catastrophe coming our way !
be careful what you do here a.net, it might be the beginning of the end for the game
- after going through all the time gates and all the laurels.
- after spending considerable time figuring out what works and what works best.
- I’ve been playing since beta and if suddenly all my gear for all my 8 characters is made obsolete.
I’D QUIT
and so would a lot of people ! GW2 NGE No thank you, we don’t need that mistake coming our way ever !
/seconded
ANET: If you mess up the zerker meta, and my zerker ascended gear, I’ll just quit this game. I own 50+ games on Steam I could be playing.
This is a terrible idea. First of all, everyone’s been spending hundreds of gold making new Zerker Ascended armor. Changing the balance now is a giant screw you to the player base.
Second, people don’t want long and boring fights.
>Seriously, we’re all mostly DPS proponents here, but I don’t think any one of us really thinks that being able to massacre a boss like Lupicus in 30 seconds by just stacking on him and popping a reflect is good design.
Oh. BTW, What’s with Non-Infused Rings Dropping at high 40’s? Wasn’t there pretty much a 100% chance that anything above ‘x’ level would by infused? I mean… if you cant break rings down in the forge or by kits…. you really shouldn’t need a non-infused ring at lvl 48…
Yes, at fotm 26 and above, you used to only get infused rings. You can check Dulfy or Wiki to confirm that.
I’d also like to know why non-infused rings are dropping in 31+
The Fractal Skin Box is not dropping for the Fractal levels currently available (up to level 50).
It’s not accessible to anyone at this time.
Can you get a bit more specific here? Is it not available just because they haven’t been added yet, like Ascended armor drops, or is fractal weapon boxes not available because they will be a higher than 50 fotm level drop?
In my party, we got 4 normal ascended rings, non infused, and we had level 30 as personal reward. So it seems that they now can drop at level 30… on the other hand, I’ve never seen 4 ring drops at the same time, so they may be more common now.
“WE” don’t have a “personal reward” “YOU” do. If your PR level is not 30, you don’t get 30 rewards just by being there.
And yes, 26+ was only infused rings before. AFAIK, this has not changed.
The only way to get to 80 is very simple to never do maul. So even at 80 you never got to see great rewards that he gives. So what are you really loosing an log farm area. and it has been stated rewards for fotm are increasing on order of the dungeon update with champ update it isn’t even as good of a farm spot. Only thing you are losing is the prestige of saying im 80 and that is it.
No, people are losing literally, hundreds of hours of work. This is an insult to one of GW2’s most dedicated playerbases.
If anything, they should be giving people something for each FOTM PR level they are STEALING from everyone.
Not only does JQ get more easier weeks, they get more purely easy weeks. SoR’s only easy week, we still go up against TC.
JQ has weeks where they only have to play against SoS and Mag. No offense to those servers, but that is a total bye week, where they will get first place both weeks, with no effort.
This entire season is tainted. If JQ ends up winning (and they are likely too) It won’t be because of any skill on their part, but because whoever did WvW schedules don’t understand anything about WvW and gave JQ 10+ free points.
We’ve temporarily disabled the pack-up skills on all of the deployable siege weapons to stop the siege duping exploit. A real fix to this will be coming with the release on Tuesday.
So glad you guys found the exploit.
I think it’s safe to assume the dupers will be permanently banned, but what will you do about the duped Omega Golem Blueprints that have been distributed through the trading post? The sheer number of them is enough to devastate the upcoming WvW Season 1.
I doubt anything can be done. There have been over 10,000 sold already, in the hands of hundreds/thousands of people. There are another 10,000+ on the TP, and probably hundreds of thousands sitting on numerous accounts.
Even if many of those are destroyed by banning the offending accounts, there will still be tens of thousands that exists, that were legitimately paid for.
I think those of us in WvW are just going to have to get used to dealing with large numbers of golems.
How about fixing the drop rate for precursors. I’ve played over 2,000 hours and haven’t seen one, and frankly I’m tired of the statistical aberrations that have gotten 4 or more, with no effort, just handed too them by the forge. Its the worst drop system ever.
One in 1,000,000,000 or whatever it is, is ridiculous.
People that are actually on that server should take priority over guests. Guests should get kicked off server if its full, to make room for people on that server.
Waiting between events doesn’t work. I sat on map for hours and never got back to BG after all the crashes started.
Don’t say “use join party in map” either, its not working. Most people get some sort of “network error”.
I only have two problems with fractals in their current state.
1. The Reward vs. Time is far too low for high level fotm. Fractals 30+ rewards better than just champ farming for an hour would give.
2. Leveling alts in FOTM takes too long. Once you have one guy at 30+ if you ever want to do another, its back to doing one level at a time, forever, until you get them to a decent level.
I’d like to see a system where you gain more than one level, for completing fractals that are X levels above your PR.
Example, Have a PR of 1 and complete FOTM Level 20, you should gain a few levels, not one.
I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.
Boxes dropped from Queen’s Gauntlet no longer contain coin. However, the first time you kill each boss each day will grant more coin than it did before.
Killing each boss once per day will be more profitable than it was previously.
And now no one will farm gambits anymore. Thanks a lot /s. Players want to farm gold, that is what we want. Stop taking away all the good farms.
Whatever you guys do, you need to fix the system of loot tagging. Getting drops in these large events is ridiculously difficult, even in a five guardian party.
Every time people find a good way to make gold, it gets removed. Based on what stays, and what gets fixed, Anet seems to think an acceptable “income” is no more than 5g an hour, or so.
I find this ridiculous. How about you just let us have some fun?
You keep using that word, I do not think it means, what you think it means.
A griefer is a player in a multiplayer video game who deliberately irritates and harasses other players within the game, using aspects of the game in unintended ways.
