Guild Wars 2

This build is worthless, it doesnt provide any long sustainability and the moment a thief smiles at you, you’re dead. I tried multiple variations and found that this not good for WvW or PVE.

I would like to point out that most builds for the Engineer are completely broken, and GW2 will continue to go the way of the Warrior and Thief.

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

The difference in reviews is one is “experienced” another is “research”, mine is based on what “I experienced in GW2”.

If I eat at a restaurant, and I don’t like the food, and someone says the food is great, it doesn’t change the fact that my food was bad. You cant convince me that my food wasnt bad, you didnt taste it, you werent there.

You can argue it may have been that one particular dish, but my experience says that the food was bad.

Then if everyone else says that the food is actually good you need to go back and take another sample, just to be fair. You didn’t

I did, as of 06/02/13 I have had spoon fulls

So you changed your opinion on that restaurant?

Why would I, nothing has changed about how that restaurant prepares or serves food, let alone reassured me I would get an excellent meal.

Wolfheart.1938:

“Experience based " is your way of saying based on lazyness and bias?

I never said that Wolf, not a single time in this forum

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

The difference in reviews is one is “experienced” another is “research”, mine is based on what “I experienced in GW2”.

If I eat at a restaurant, and I don’t like the food, and someone says the food is great, it doesn’t change the fact that my food was bad. You cant convince me that my food wasnt bad, you didnt taste it, you werent there.

You can argue it may have been that one particular dish, but my experience says that the food was bad.

Then if everyone else says that the food is actually good you need to go back and take another sample, just to be fair. You didn’t

I did, as of 06/02/13 I have had spoon fulls

I never said it “happens on the whole game” you are putting words in my mouth, and Temple of Lyssa is a Dynamic event, it has chain quests that progress.

The difference in reviews is one is “experienced” another is “research”, mine is based on what “I experienced in GW2”.

If I eat at a restaurant, and I don’t like the food, and someone says the food is great, it doesn’t change the fact that my food was bad. You cant convince me that my food wasnt bad, you didnt taste it, you werent there.

You can argue it may have been that one particular dish, but my experience says that the food was bad.

Abercrombe I have not discredited anyones observations, nor their validity.

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

I have not discredited anyones observation

You did.

Its fact doctor, boss fights do not progress, they do not change. Trying to insult me because you refuse to admit I am right and that no matter your view point, this isnt about you.

You mention boss fights in your post to try and make up for the nonsense you posted in your blog:

Living events are Segues to the story line, and they don’t actually affect the world itself. These events and the result of successful completion are temporary, and will eventually reset (i.e. Temple of Lyssa). Currently Southsun Cove is temporary content, where players zerg around attacking an Instigator, while he deals AOE damage. Yet again uneventful and un-dynamic. These events are very similar to World Boss fights, just on a smaller scale, same amount of players, just a smaller target. Be prepared for a light show during combat, and an un-viewable target! The events in Southsun Cove reset about every 5 minutes and provide mediocre loot at best, on occasion fellow players posting their uber awesome Exotic, or better yet precursor weapon.

It is a fact that events don’t reset on a timer, they DO affect the world, and their successful completion is NOT temporary. That’s a fact and the reality, therefore your observation is false.

So Temple Lyssa never becomes uncontested…. I dont understand where your game experience has lead you to believe that, but thats your observation.

Mathiesin.7801:

Wolfheart.1938:

“sPVP – Players are randomly transferred to opposing team, friends and guildmates are forced to fight each other, group integrity is destroyed, hard work is lost by being transferred to losing team.”

Aahahah! You think sPvP is all about hotjoins…please get a clue!

3/10 for reviewing something you know nothing about.

My review is based on user experience, you have no idea what that is, or you wouldnt of posted the above statement^

In an earlier post I clearly state that I have yet to experience tPVP, and therefore have nothing negative or positive to say about it. The fact that “Players are randomly transferred to opposing team, friends and guildmates are forced to fight each other, group integrity is destroyed, hard work is lost by being transferred to losing team.” doesnt take away from the fact that it was a negative experience.

Wolfheart.1938:

“sPVP – Players are randomly transferred to opposing team, friends and guildmates are forced to fight each other, group integrity is destroyed, hard work is lost by being transferred to losing team.”

Aahahah! You think sPvP is all about hotjoins…please get a clue!

3/10 for reviewing something you know nothing about.

My review is based on user experience, you have no idea what that is, or you wouldnt of posted the above statement^

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

Everyone seems to be missing the point of a review, it is an individuals experience on what they encountered, trying to convince me that what I encountered didnt happen or flawed is like saying “picture or it didnt happen”.

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound?

Not really. Good reviewers can take critisism for their work and when needed re-write their reviews. Good reviewers actually do some research so at least they don’t write blatant lies. But most importantly good reviewers take critisism and don’t dismiss everything as “I experienced it THIS way so it can’t be otherwise”. You can’t disprove the facts, your arrogance has no bounds and limits.

And you even accused me above of being wrong and a liar, when I clearly turned your false argument down. Just an apology for your personal attack and slander that wasn’t needed, nor based on anything will be nice.

I have not discredited anyones observation, a lie right there in itself, if anything maddoctor you believe that you are right and are unwilling to accept that my review is correct according to how I experienced the game.

Keep in mind my review is experienced based, not research based.

And again you use strawman tactics in order to obtain dominance by trying to discredit me through disparaging means.

Mathiesin.7801:

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

Ty ricky markham.8173, people dont take constructive criticism over the things they love to well ( Vayne, No Walking, Maddoctor, Inculpatus ) yet they rant about how important it is provide constructive feedback, and when I have, im wrong!? How can i be wrong with my own observation?

Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean I am wrong, it just means we have two opposing points of view.

No. It means you have to reevaluate your view if everyone else is having a different experience. You may say the Earth is flat, based on some of your experience, that won’t change the fact that it is round. You didn’t offer constructive critisism, your “arguments” have been countered again and again yet you dismiss the other opinion as if your is the supreme one.

And you are not taking construcive feedback on your own review very well, in fact you only dismiss any different opinions, stop and think, what you are doing is EXACTLY what you don’t want others to do to you.

So I should conform because I have a different point of view… got it!

“No. It means you have to reevaluate your view if everyone else is having a different experience.”

Maddoctor do not turn the table as though you are some saint being dismissed, you are trying to force me to accept that your experiences should be my experiences, you keep posting about what your game experience has been like, when it is completely irrelevant to my game experience.

Everyone seems to be missing the point of a review, it is an individuals experience on what they encountered, trying to convince me that what I encountered didnt happen or flawed is like saying “picture or it didnt happen”.

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound?

Zelyhn, I have not played tournaments, and therefore have nothing positive or negative to say about them. I find it difficult to believe that tPVP is all you do, but to each their own.

Based on the fact that you are dismissing my post because of one missing factor, I too will be dismissing your observation.

My experiences do trump all experiences, as everyone elses trumps mine. It is called different points of view, and though everyone has them,no one has to accept them.

You are trying to force me to accept your beliefs as my own, and that is wrong.

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

Ty ricky markham.8173, people dont take constructive criticism over the things they love to well ( Vayne, No Walking, Maddoctor, Inculpatus ) yet they rant about how important it is provide constructive feedback, and when I have, im wrong!? How can i be wrong with my own observation?

Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean I am wrong, it just means we have two opposing points of view.

No. It means you have to reevaluate your view if everyone else is having a different experience. You may say the Earth is flat, based on some of your experience, that won’t change the fact that it is round. You didn’t offer constructive critisism, your “arguments” have been countered again and again yet you dismiss the other opinion as if your is the supreme one.

And you are not taking construcive feedback on your own review very well, in fact you only dismiss any different opinions, stop and think, what you are doing is EXACTLY what you don’t want others to do to you.

So I should conform because I have a different point of view… got it!

maddoctor.2738:

Mathiesin.7801:

Magnus, you are clearly ignorant to think that my experience is comparable to yours. Your experience and my experience are two separate things and will remain as such.

You are still forgetting that personal experiences can be flawed and not reflect reality. Rangers weak in WvW, Warriors reign supreme in PVP, actually everything I quoted above in this page is something anyone that gets deeper into the game can understand and see. You are ignoring and dismissing anyone that has a different opinion/experience than yours, instead of going back and ask yourself “what if, what they say is actually true?”

According to Anet experience, the ecto salvage issue wasn’t noticed, until it was brought to light by the community and John Smith investigated further, until then it was a “it’s pure RNG issue”. If they can go back and understand what others are saying and changing their views (as they did) sure a simple reviewer like yourself can do it too.

Lets define what dynamic is:
(of a process or system) Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

“they come and go from the real world they aren’t constantly 100% of the time spawned making it “dynamic” "

Boss fights do not change, they do not progress, World events do not change, they do not progress any further than completion. Then all of them restart back at ground zero.

Boss fights aren’t dynamic, but your argument that dynamic events aren’t dynamic is flawed, I already explained why in my above post, which you ignored/dismissed because it was different than your own experience. Meta events ARE dynamic, they come and go, they have states and they do progress, repeated failures and repeated successes will “move” a meta event and cause changes to the world as a whole. If the centaurs manage to occupy Ascalon Settlement, it won’t miraculously revert back to unoccupied after a few minutes, instead a new event will start to take it back.

You are mentioning boss fights, but there are far far more dynamic events than the boss fight events, that are actually dynamic in nature. You generalise and state “hey boss fights aren’t dynamic, so the whole game isn’t dynamic” which is flawed, that’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.

You are being arrogant and dismissing anything constructive anyone says, if it’s not according to what you believe in. Your future as a reviewer is gloomy if you can’t take critisism.

Its fact doctor, boss fights do not progress, they do not change. Trying to insult me because you refuse to admit I am right and that no matter your view point, this isnt about you.

It is about my experience in playing GW2, and what i experienced playing each class.
This is not a psychology post based on dualities of perception and reality. It clearly says review in the title, does it not?

So that means me: Mathiesin, is reviewing (formal assessment or examination of something.) which is an observation based on experience, am providing a review for other to read.

The only reason maddoctor uses strawman tactics is because im right, and you don’t want to agree with me…

Maddoctor you havent said one constructive thing about my review, so you are being hypocritical at best.

Ty ricky markham.8173, people dont take constructive criticism over the things they love to well ( Vayne, No Walking, Maddoctor, Inculpatus ) yet they rant about how important it is provide constructive feedback, and when I have, im wrong!? How can i be wrong with my own observation?

Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean I am wrong, it just means we have two opposing points of view.

No Walking.6349:

Mathiesin.7801:

No walking if no one cares why are there nearly 1500 hits on my blog? And why are you here responding? You should troll another thread

How many of those 1500 opened the page, said F this, and left? Probably 95% lol. The other 4% probably read a paragraph and then said F this. And spamming the forums all day makes you pathetic. No life buddy?

Yet you’re still here using strawman tactics? I knew you cared!

Magnus, you are clearly ignorant to think that my experience is comparable to yours. Your experience and my experience are two separate things and will remain as such.

Rather than play with two edges of a blade I offered my observation on my experience, and offered Constructive feedback to improve it based on what i would do.

Just because a game is called Guild Wars, does not imply that you will always be dependent on your guild. GW2 is not a guild isolated game, it is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game).

Lets define what dynamic is:
(of a process or system) Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

“they come and go from the real world they aren’t constantly 100% of the time spawned making it “dynamic” "

Boss fights do not change, they do not progress, World events do not change, they do not progress any further than completion. Then all of them restart back at ground zero.

maddoctor it is irrelevant, if you analyze the text it says:

“Guild Wars 2 does accept user feedback and tries to implement that feedback through updates"

next part reads:
“however it seems impossible for them to do so without breaking something. (Globs of Ectoplasm from recycling Rare Items – 5/29/13)”

It has nothing to do with ectoplasm, it has to do with them taking player input, implementing it, and something breaking afterwards.

The Ectoplasm event is only a reference supporting my observation.

Vayne-

I will respond this one time because you are lying and misconstruing information claiming I put a spin on a portion of my post.

“Guild Wars 2 does accept user feedback and tries to implement that feedback through updates, however it seems impossible for them to do so without breaking something. (Globs of Ectoplasm from recycling Rare Items – 5/29/13)”

You are making it seem as though I went into some disparaging rant about how players were screwed, when in fact I said a positive fact, accompanied by an observation.

It is irrelevant that Anet gave out Salvage kits, it was their mistake… If other companies are willing/unwilling to right their wrongs thats on them, but it is no surprise that Anet would appease the masses, besides you cant compare companies, thats apples and oranges.

I offered positive information and you tried to “spin” it by trying to make it seem as though I left out some important fact.

You cannot say an individuals experience is invalid, thats equivalent to telling a person that because they didnt experience life the way you did, their life is bad, or that they didnt live right.

Maddoctor, You are trying to push your experience onto me in hopes that I will accept you and your observation as valid.

This is MY review based on MY experience in GW2, if you dont have anything positive to say there are other forums to troll.

No walking if no one cares why are there nearly 1500 hits on my blog? And why are you here responding? You should troll another thread

maddoctor, This is my personal assessment of each class, if you dont like it thats fine, but you cannot tell me my personal experience with that class is wrong, unless you are somehow in my mind.

I encourage everyone to be constructive and offer their observation, but be it as it may, these are indeed my experiences being brought to light.

Ricky, from the sound of it, you and your band of 10 brother are extremely talented in WvW, so much so that you are not the average player.

The max cap based on player participation is only an idea, one that community member can expand to a more feasible approach. I stated in my review that it was my observation and personal experience of playing warrior.

I would love to see WvW/sPVP separated into individual servers with PVE so that player who want to ONLY PVE or just want to only WvW/PVE can contribute 100% as compared to players who dont like either or.

Based on your point average for my review you gave me a 4/10 because you disagree with my personal assessment of the warrior class, and an “idea” to make WvW fair for outmanned servers? If you said 7/10 I would accept that.

HAHAHA! Oh uh hrm… Its the 18th post down, mixed in with random insults and jarbles of haters… its there… in blue, like you said… because you found it…. but i’ll keep it rolling… If you haven’t found it let me know ROFLMAO!

LOL! Oh you know….. its that uh… link…. its purpely in color…. it takes you away from here, and you go to a different page that is kind of alarming, but then you read the message, clicking the left mouse key with hesitation…. LOL

If you are just visiting, you can read the review at:

http://guildwars2disappointment.blogspot.com/2013/06/arenanet-has-poorly-executed-balancing.html

Inculpatus you continue to badger me, instead of admitting any aspect of what I said is right, you are ignorant and will be overlooked in this thread.

I disagree and here is why:

WvW – Server imbalance, and paired against overly dominant servers

sPVP – Players are randomly transferred to opposing team, friends and guildmates are forced to fight each other, group integrity is destroyed, hard work is lost by being transferred to losing team.

PVE – Dungeons bosses are not dynamic, exploits allow players to skip a majority of content

No LFG panel – Non existent LFG makes finding groups miserable

Auction House- AH is clunky and at best rudimentary, difficult to navigate

World Bosses- Bosses in World Events are not dynamic, and boring, boss stands in one location.

Broken Class Dynamics- each class is experiencing its own set of issues and broken skill sets and builds (primarily Engi and Ranger)

The list goes on, these are not small aspects of the game, they are all major significant issues that must be addressed.

Meglobob why is it “rubbish”?

It doesnt change the fact that a majority of that post is very accurate. tell me something i dont know… and this is my personal experience, not yours ( Vayne, Jordo, Mirta, Geotherma ) so lets keep the facts straight.

Anet broke Recycling for Ectoplasm, it happened, a lot of people got screwed and I have not heard or read anywhere that ALL players were reimbursed.

How about someone with an unbiased response post for once.

Please go to the link to read the review:

http://guildwars2disappointment.blogspot.com/2013/06/arenanet-has-poorly-executed-balancing.html

Dungeons are not Dynamic, and broken! When you can run through Fractals without clearing, there is a problem!

I had no idea!?

If you want to discuss Anets competency, we can all agree that a) their quality assurance is garbage (in-game and out) b.) they obviously don’t care about their players. ( They give out fan service to other classes, and treat us like red headed step children. ) The point of the Engineer is to be Utilitarian, playing any which way we want, and still have a great class, what is the point if you can only do 1 out of 20? They should rename the engineer to “Junkyard” with traits in “Garbage” with skills like “Kicks the Can”

Engineers are pathetic, it goes without saying that we are by far the weakest class. I am excellent at playing the class, I have tried so many different combinations trying to find a semi decent build to no avail. Anet seriously screwed up the class, breaking more and more until and i quote are a “traveling junkyard”.

How long is it going to take the Devs to realize that this class needs some major buffs! I almost think Anet is trying to destroy this class on purpose. How stupid do the Devs have to be, to keep nerfing a severely broken class!?

If this continues im going to quit the game, a couple of my Engi friends have perma quit and it seems im right behind them.