Guild Wars 2

Donari.5237:

While I wouldn’t say AA players should not be invited to GW2, I do think that anyone who stuck with AA this long since launch would really not fit in to GW2’s community. That game and its forums were an utter cesspit in the time before and after launch. Anyone who thrives on ganking, scamming, griefing, trash talking, and bigotry just isn’t suited to GW2.

mm I played GW2 since the betas until April 2014 , when I quit and started playing ArcheAge.
I still play AA and just came back to take a look at GW2 in the last week.

Your statement is not really fair- why would AA players not fit into the GW2 community?
There are enough GW2 players playing AA after all.

You need to understand that GW2 and AA are not compatible at all- they are completely different type of games.

AA is all about direct competition and conflict.
GW2 is all about co-op.

The whole culture is different.

To address the OP- it is not relevant to GW2 what is happening or not happening in AA.
You are also exaggerating – are you on a merge server and salty about your land?
People play these games for different reasons

It would be kind of cool if Sylvari had the option to tag up- being potential minions it makes kind of sense :P

Anet broke the game and they don’t care
I dont play anymore but while my other game is loading I look here

The fact that this thread dropped to page 6 and was not stickied like the other feedback posts, should tell you everything.

“Shut up or put up”

This is their stance, what are you going to do?

I play another game.

so long and thanks for all the fish

Beldin.5498:

Wrain.6792:

Dont even waste your time arguing with “Beldin”.

Seriously once again he proves he knows NOTHING about Archeage..

He fails to even understand how long Alpha has been out, and that a second server was already released.

Yes you can play AA and stay out of pvp just fine..but hes never gonna grasp it….Hes just another fanboi scared the shiny wrapping around his present holds nothing inside. GW2.

So all those people on Reddit are wrong ? Or all other sources that i googled where i always read you are only save in zones <lvl30 ?

If you have better infos about that you can flag yourself to not be attackable in lvl 30+ zones or whatever .. please give me a link instead of just insulting me.

I have constantly googled again and again if we maybe will get PvE Server since .. but always found the same infos.

So give me links to your infos that i don’t have .. if you know sooo much more.

the fact that you are talking about a PVE server means you don’t get what AA is about at all.
The entire game/ story/ alliances/resources etc is based around conflict- there can never be a PvE server- it is like asking for your dog to be a parakeet because you want him to chirp

Firstly- yes post level 30 zones are PvP- but there are war times and peace times- a red cannot attack you first- he can do nothing to you unless you attack him- so you are fine.
See a red on your own continent- ignore him.
Unless of course you want to kill him

You get crime points if you kill your own faction- being in jail is boring
PK is generally not looked on kindly by many people and guilds have gotten bad reputations for it.

North Continent and sea is always at war- don’t want to make war – don’t go there

Secondly- what you seem to not understand is that post level 30 AA is largely a sandbox- you do what you want- you cannot run out of “things” to do because it is not about doing x however many times to get y.

GW2 is stale because players are dependent on Anet to provide new content or “rides”

AA is about player interaction and player content

I know this from playing the game not from Google or Reddit

I had to chime in here because I haven’t played GW2 much since April and I haven’t played at all in a month.
Hell I haven’t even updated my game- or logged in for season 2 freebee
frankly I won’t

I have been playing ArcheAge
Yes I am in alpha
(btw we are playing 1.2 right now)

This is what I have come to realize

GW2 is all beautiful smoke and mirrors
You have no agency, no relevancy, you mean nothing, you scramble for resources to buy stuff off the cash shop and your game is incredibly linear and limited by how Anet wants you to play.

This is not my experience in AA at all
I’ll tell you about my experience:

for you who say AA is a gankfest- I have died to another player once in more than a month :P

Crafting matters a lot- actually the best gear in game comes from crafting and you have to pick what you max so the good crafters are very much in demand and make a fortune

Farming land owner ship and all that is an amazing part of the game and is needed to supply resources to other parts of the game

Mounts in AA are essential because unlike GW2- it is an actual open world and the maps are not instanced- distances are vast.
gliders are really amazing

Guilds really really matter as does your reputation

you have an astonishing variety of stuff to do

Politics and alliances are a thing

private trade does not make the game blow up

Sailing and fishing is really fun and addictive

taming world bosses are a thing

the game gives you what you need- no need to scramble for stuff

I can go on…..

to those saying that AA is a bad game
all I can say is LOL

I played GW2 from beta for 2 years and I loved it- I can never come back though because it is just so….
irrelevant

GuzziHero.2467:

Seraphina.6859:

Honestly, this thread should have been stickied already along with the feedback thread about the new trait system.

They won’t do that because Anet wants the criticism to die, they don’t want to know what we think. I think that by this stage they want all the critics to give up and slink away from the forums (maybe the game, too).

For me, the most telling part was when the deleted the Facebook post about the Megaservers. FB is far FAR more public than the forum, and more likely to be the first impression of the game for new players.

I logged into the forums just to agree with this

I don’t play anymore and I am glad

I have played the game for more than 2 years now actually and on the one hand I agree with you and on the othet hand I do not

It is clear that Anet has a vision, however, the vision they have now vs the vision they had 2 years ago does not add up.

Up until April 15 , I could put up with thier changing visions because it was fine, you try something, it sucks you try something else

works for me.

April 16 marks the spot where I get off the bus because I do not care what thier vision is.

Azrael.4960:

Kartel.2561:

Morrigan.2809:

Kartel.2561:

Morrigan.2809:

what you want is great
- but the this is a Themepark MMO- what you are describing is a Sandbox or in the case of AA a Sandpark.

Those two things are very different- you cannot have persistent player driven content in a Themepark game- at least I have never seen it.

I have also not seen any sign that Anet has any interest in adding such content- or even sandbox lite content like fishing- housing or whatever

which is why I play AA- it feels very much more alive when the world around you is player driven

What would this have to do with GW2 being a theme park? It would be just as “off to the side” as WvW and spvp. Put it in the Mists for all I care (though I do favor something I can look at on the normal map). It doesn’t need to have any more story involvement than those other things.

then I misunderstood your OP- from what you were describing it sounded like a persistent environment in the world- you said large map or island- I was thinking a place like South Sun from that.

still it is sandbox content- wvwvw is as boring as it is because it is still a themepark.

if you attack another guild you want to burn their castle and burn their fields- if you could claim it permanently and charge the peasants taxes, so much the better.
that is Sandbox

I cannot see Anet doing content like that- it would be awesome, just don’t think they would do it.
In the mists or where ever.
All their content is designed to funnel you a long a path- which is fine for a themepark game because you want to keep the players together

Maybe they could sell add-ons for the buildings like furniture, paintings, etc on the gem store. Isn’t that where all roads lead? Come up with new cool content for us so they can sell us overpriced toys to go with it.

And you were right as far as the island like southsun, except I was thinking much bigger and private to your guild. You go there and it takes you to your guild’s version of the zone. Maybe there could be a browser option to be able to check out other guild kingdoms that they’ve made public. Maybe a voting /rating feature too. Remember this doesn’t have to just be for GvG matches.

Have 5-10 areas on the map where your guild can make a claim, and build from there. Castle, houses, etc, however and wherever you like within the claimed area. But no other kingdom claims would be on the map until you queue for GvG and it takes you to an instance where the enemy guild has one of the different claim locations and a matching number of players.

Maybe with an alliance system, the zone can automatically merge yours and your ally’s map so you can be together when not in GvG.

Which is basically what Archeage online is all about.

except he is talking of instances/ private maps- North Continent is not instanced, nor is anything else apart from a couple of dungeons.
as for furniture and paintings and all that you craft it or buy it from someone else who did

No idea what AA sells in the store either since it is not up in the alpha..
but yes – he sounds like he wants to play AA

@Xerion.8014- yes I prefer GW2 combat- but then I am still trying to wrap my head around combat in AA- no dodge takes getting used to.

Kartel.2561:

Morrigan.2809:

what you want is great
- but the this is a Themepark MMO- what you are describing is a Sandbox or in the case of AA a Sandpark.

Those two things are very different- you cannot have persistent player driven content in a Themepark game- at least I have never seen it.

I have also not seen any sign that Anet has any interest in adding such content- or even sandbox lite content like fishing- housing or whatever

which is why I play AA- it feels very much more alive when the world around you is player driven

What would this have to do with GW2 being a theme park? It would be just as “off to the side” as WvW and spvp. Put it in the Mists for all I care (though I do favor something I can look at on the normal map). It doesn’t need to have any more story involvement than those other things.

then I misunderstood your OP- from what you were describing it sounded like a persistent environment in the world- you said large map or island- I was thinking a place like South Sun from that.

still it is sandbox content- wvwvw is as boring as it is because it is still a themepark.

if you attack another guild you want to burn their castle and burn their fields- if you could claim it permanently and charge the peasants taxes, so much the better.
that is Sandbox

I cannot see Anet doing content like that- it would be awesome, just don’t think they would do it.
In the mists or where ever.
All their content is designed to funnel you a long a path- which is fine for a themepark game because you want to keep the players together

what you want is great
- but the this is a Themepark MMO- what you are describing is a Sandbox or in the case of AA a Sandpark.

Those two things are very different- you cannot have persistent player driven content in a Themepark game- at least I have never seen it.

I have also not seen any sign that Anet has any interest in adding such content- or even sandbox lite content like fishing- housing or whatever

which is why I play AA- it feels very much more alive when the world around you is player driven

you are describing ArcheAge essentially- Northern Continent

If I remember- I log on to see if I still can.
Then I log out,
most days I forget to even do that

I log into my AA account and play for a couple of hours

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Morrigan.2809:

nolij.4327:

i have “quit” the game twice now, am i’m now back for the third time for just over a month now, and every time i come back, i love the game more than ever before!

my first main was a necro. she was my first character, and this was before i knew that gw2 endgame is a cute dress up collection game, so i made her a really wretched nasty looking sylvari…. so she is now deleted (LOL)

second main was an engi, and i still farm/pvp on that character a liiiiittle bit. still quite a bit of fun since engi is such an awesome class

but my new main, my mesmer, is where all my time and effort goes and all my enjoyment comes from! favorite class yet, and i’ve played them all enough to say, favorite class in the game!

so honestly, i would say if you’re getting even a little bit tired of the game, and don’t really feel like making a new character, quit now! then you can start getting excited about how much more you’ll like teh game when you come back!

^_^

So what if you have 6 lvl80’s.
two of which are mesmers?

So what if you have 8 lvl80’s.
One of each class?

Oh wait, I havent quit nor planning too :P
But everyone likes different things, Nolij’s thing worked for him/her and will maby work for others, maby they should try it if they havent. (If they realy wanna play GW2 anyway)

fair enough
tbh I love all my characters- I didn’t quit because I was bored

nolij.4327:

i have “quit” the game twice now, am i’m now back for the third time for just over a month now, and every time i come back, i love the game more than ever before!

my first main was a necro. she was my first character, and this was before i knew that gw2 endgame is a cute dress up collection game, so i made her a really wretched nasty looking sylvari…. so she is now deleted (LOL)

second main was an engi, and i still farm/pvp on that character a liiiiittle bit. still quite a bit of fun since engi is such an awesome class

but my new main, my mesmer, is where all my time and effort goes and all my enjoyment comes from! favorite class yet, and i’ve played them all enough to say, favorite class in the game!

so honestly, i would say if you’re getting even a little bit tired of the game, and don’t really feel like making a new character, quit now! then you can start getting excited about how much more you’ll like teh game when you come back!

^_^

So what if you have 6 lvl80’s.
two of which are mesmers?

people on dead servers asked for underflow system.
no one asked for megaservers much less demanded it- people certainly didn’t ask for their servers to be removed
and yes I have been here since the beginning

lordkrall.7241:

Yeah, and then we will have just as many people going back to the good old: “EVERY ZONE IS DEAD!!! PLZ FIX!!!” mantra, and nothing will have changed.

They had the option to guest it was free.
We have no option to get out of megaserver, except to stop playing.
Not the same thing at all really

Phoenixlin.8624:

If they say “We understood that megaservers are the worst idea ever thought. It fixed nothing and broke lots of thing. We are returning to the old system”, it will satisfy me.

this

So the new LS season 2 is announced- can we have some official feedback from the devs on Megasever, please?

Ok I Did It.2854:

This game will be taken in the direction that is best for China, every update from now until the game is done with will be done with China in mind, if it does not work there, it will never be put into the game, you can be the most hardcore fan of GW2 or hate it to the core, but its fact now, the Chinese have to pay to play this game, we get it for free, any update that will come to the game will have to be in the best interest of the Chinese market, NA/EU are not the primary audience anymore, not when they can make x10 as much money from the Chinese market.

There are still some game breaking bugs and bugged events/hearts that have been there since the game launched, that are still not fixed, they go ignored, there are events that spawn no enemies, no loot, no xp, that are ignored/not fixed, so either they are fixed on the Chinese game, or because they have never seen an event before hand they don’t know any different.

What I wonder is, ( im guessing ) there is a Chinese forum for this game too, do the devs ignore the playerbase over there as much as we get ignored, we seem to have a CC that doesn’t interact with the community at all, or if they do I aint seeing it.

This game has amazing art work, and still is right at the top for GFX/visuals for any game out there, but the content and other things that ruin it, they seem to determined to milk as much from that gem store as possible, yet if the players where happy they would probably be willing to spend money on gems for stuff, but all we get at the moment is, gem store, gem store, buy gems and trade for gold, gem store, sad but true.

You make me very sad but I think I have come to the same conclusion, which is why I have moved onto another game.

I check the forums to see how the wind is blowing, from what I see not in a direction I am interested in going in.
thanks GW2 for an amazing 2 years- it was fun while it lasted.

I was really happy and I bought a lot of gems- oh well……

thank you it was a nice post- unfortunately I agree.
Not only does GW2 seriously lack content but the MS makes the introduction of any content a complete moot point.
Until issues are addressed and Anet gets their act together new content is just a distraction imo

DeWolfe.2174:

timmyf.1490:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Types of prestige
There are several types of prestige,

-“I was there prestige”: These are attendance rewards usually with some also having to be earned, they show you played back then or that you participated in a limited time event. Most living story skins used to fall into this category. Is destroyed by re-releasing the item by any means as the statement is no longer valid.

-“Skill prestige”: These would be items such as the tribulation mode weapons and Liadri they not only require you to play a certain activity but to do it to a high level of skill. Care has to be taken with these as power creep or an exploit can wipe out all their value in an instant.

- “Investment prestige”: These are items that take a large amount of resources be it time or money to complete and make a general statement about your playtime and choice of activity. Is wrecked by deflation/inflation or awarding of a previously high investment item for a low investment activity.

Requoted because relevant. All three types of these should exist to allow players with different goals and styles of play to acquire items with prestige.

Pointing out it was the “Special Snowflakes” whom complained about the Champ trains to begin with. Snowflakes are against any content where others can obtain items or have fun in general. Prestige is just a form of selfishness from our ego’s. That attitude really isn’t good for an MMO. You want to know what really gives you any form of Prestige, your actions in game. You consistently do well, treat others well, and people will start to remember you.

yes this was entirely true back when we had servers- in mega server not only do you not have your server rep— your" I was there and can tell you some cool war stories" are complete nonsense as well.

O.O
Holy kitten
mmm they don’t advertise free stuff in the gem store.
it is not like we are unaware that the gemstore exists
-.-

CuRtoKy.8576:

timmyf.1490:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Types of prestige
There are several types of prestige,

-“I was there prestige”: These are attendance rewards usually with some also having to be earned, they show you played back then or that you participated in a limited time event. Most living story skins used to fall into this category. Is destroyed by re-releasing the item by any means as the statement is no longer valid.

-“Skill prestige”: These would be items such as the tribulation mode weapons and Liadri they not only require you to play a certain activity but to do it to a high level of skill. Care has to be taken with these as power creep or an exploit can wipe out all their value in an instant.

- “Investment prestige”: These are items that take a large amount of resources be it time or money to complete and make a general statement about your playtime and choice of activity. Is wrecked by deflation/inflation or awarding of a previously high investment item for a low investment activity.

Requoted because relevant. All three types of these should exist to allow players with different goals and styles of play to acquire items with prestige.

Couldn’t the last two be combined together. Skill based is also an investment. You invest time and money (since you aren’t doing something else like farming) to practice and increase your skill level to get something.

The value of certain things should differ but I don’t think sole investment based items should exist because it isn’t good for the game over the long term. The other two are perfectly fine

mmm if you look at" investment prestige"- I crated some skins in the Mystic Forge because I wanted them.
To me they are prestige- I worked really hard for them- they were also rare because frankly they were painful- I made them simply because they suited my characters perfectly.

Enter wardrobe- now I see the skins I worked for on level 5 characters- sure the original is still there, otherwise they would not have the skin….

but still- I sweated blood and tears for those skins-I do not use it on my alts

Actually now that I think about it the wardrobe- apart from the charges thing that is just stupid- isn’t all that great and I would go back to trans -stones in a second- certainly it cost me less, and I still had what I worked for

CuRtoKy.8576:

Easy solution is to make prestige items skill based and then have them only for permanent content instead of temporary content. That way if someone gets it then it has value since you needed skill to do something to get it. On top of that it isn’t impossible for others to get it eventually over time or it isn’t gated through RNG (look at new back piece as an example). So people can attempt to get this through practice rather than just simply being on GW2 at the right time and getting something (living story) or just being plain lucky (recipe: chaos of lyssa).

Problem with that is, barring Liadri mini- all skill based rewards are RNG

Lostyus.4250:

Morrigan.2809:

I would love to post more feedback but since the treads I have been giving feedback in have been deleted, I cannot recover my posts to be reposted here, as suggested

I have given my feedback in this thread already.

In a nutshell- I have tried for more than a month to live with what mega server has done to a game I love- I cannot.

No this is not something that I will “get over”

Essentially megaserver ruined a game that I was meaning to play for years to come.
With megaserver I can no longer enjoy the game.

Then, no offence, stop playing the game.

I really enjoyed this game and like you would have spent a long time (and a lot of money) on it, but with this megaserver crap (and also now hearing about them touting MS on their FB page) I feel I’ve been crapped on from a great height. So why give them your time and money, when its obvious that they are not listening to their customers. They don’t deserve your loyalty, or you (and as a whole all who are affected by these changes). If a friend kept pizzing in your cornflakes, would you still want to hang around with them?

I’ve missed the game, and I really didn’t want to stop playing, but MS have taken all the skill and fun out of the game now by having so many people crammed into each map. I keep checking the forums in the small hope that they will put it back into its former state.

No offense taken what so ever and I pretty much have stopped playing.

Currently I am having fun playing some single player indie games, and looking forward to/ deciding if -I want to spring for it MMO that is still in alpha, I won’t mention it since that is frowned upon

The entire point of MMO’s are to be a special snowflake- more so in a game that is basically cosmetic based,

Now I had no problem whatsoever with this- even when I missed out, because the things I did get, showed that I was there.

This goes for stuff I would have loved to have but didn’t get at the time, too- like the gas mask skin

This also goes for “limited offer” stuff on the store btw.

Sooo.

Now I have a mini white kitten I bought originally as well as a witch’s outfit…
I also have, let’s see- a Fervid Censer, Zypherite helm, a Zephyr back pack, Cthulhu backpack ……
and what ever else I have..

I was proud to have them.

I missed the Clockwork combat tonic last time- and really regretted it- guess what?
I have no desire to buy it because I missed it.

I want aalllll the things is a disease.

In MMO’s you need to honor your long term players.
Being there matters

Edit: if the GW2 cap didn’t make me bald I might actually wear it :P

I would love to post more feedback but since the treads I have been giving feedback in have been deleted, I cannot recover my posts to be reposted here, as suggested

I have given my feedback in this thread already.

In a nutshell- I have tried for more than a month to live with what mega server has done to a game I love- I cannot.

No this is not something that I will “get over”

Essentially megaserver ruined a game that I was meaning to play for years to come.
With megaserver I can no longer enjoy the game.

oh kitty no, not another feature patch please please for love of the six!

I type it- I also use it IRL and on other forums- have gotten some funny looks I must admit

hedix.1986:

Tyops.5894:

Would pay gems for a devpost about the megaserver.

I’d only pay gems to see it removed.

Amen brother hallelujah!!

lordkrall.7241:

Yesterday I had my first real MegaServer experience (I mainly PvP and WvW) in the Pavilion.

And for some reason more or less every single guild or commander in that map were from my server, Aurora Glade.
So clearly the system DOES take server and such into account, despite what people in this thread seems to claim.

You were very very lucky.
I am from GH and I see people from AG , Deso, Gendarra etc etc.
yesterday a friend of mine whispered me and we joined up- we didn’t even land in the same megaserver.
I had to join him twice before we got to the same spot, of course when I switched characters for the gauntlet the musical chairs started agian -.-

Evans.6347:

I find it ironic so many people complain that the game keeps taking more and more away from them. If you played this at launch and look at yourself now, you’re all drowning in loot and cash.

I could barely afford the 2G to buy a grandmaster trait book on my first character. World bosses had no extra chest, dungeons didn’t give bonus gold, champions didn’t have loot bags. You had COF with omnomberry cuisine and that was it, pretty much.

They have given a lot more loot and gold over time, but if they take away the slightest bit people scream and shout as if it’s the end of the world. Tsss.
Maybe a part of the problem lies in the fact that some want to have much more, much faster, all of the time.

mmm I was here at pre- release and the betas.
my first 80 had 57 silver when I hit 80 and that was a fortune.

What you seem to forget is just how cheap things were back then.
Even gems were dirt cheap

2 years later…. we have a totally different story.
People need more money now just to get basic stuff- forget about crafting and luxuries.
TP flippers are in game moguls- the rest of us not so much- I have under 10g in my account, I don’t think that makes me exactly greedy do you?

yes I got a chest since the patch and it is definitely not just the PvP skins that are missing.
There was so little in the chest that I had to make sure I opened it- the average champ bag gives more.
kind of resembles a BL chest now- without the sometimes lucky scrap

Brother Grimm.5176:

Yes, because the point of this game is to farm gold…..good luck to you.

So just curious
what is your goal in game?
( and don’t answer fun unless you want to be very specific about what you consider fun)
do you need the TP for that?
mmmm

Dusty Moon.4382:

Have you ever done crossword puzzles or any games like that and they are games? The reward is actually finishing the puzzle. I guess people need to feel that they have to be given a shiney every time they do something – Pavlov’s Dog syndrome…..

This is the ‘Entitled’ Syndrome – feeling that everything HAS to have a reward. It doesn’t – finishing something is reward on it’s own merit.

If you play chess or do cross words- every time you play a game or do a puzzle is a challenge of your skill.
that is your reward
How rewarding would that be if you do exactly the same puzzle for 2 years or play the same chess game very day?
All people like to be rewarded for their efforts
(and you are using Pavlov out of context)

Dusty Moon.4382:

It is a game, do they HAVE to give you a reward every time? I think it is ludicrous to think that way. In RL, you don’t get rewarded every time you do something. You are starting to sound like this…

Thing is this is a game not RL

in RL I have to wash dishes every day of my life – do I get rewarded?
NO- in fact I detest washing dishes because they breed ..

lots of things in RL are like this and because it is we play games for fun.

And as video games go- it certainly doesn’t have to give me a reward every time but it should still reward my time, either by being fun, progressing a story or by improving your character or skill

Face it many of us have been here since betas- we have been there and done that several times over x 1000

fun is also subjective- being punished for something that was
a) fun for some and
b) rewarding
c) social in an MMO

is not a way to make your long term players happy

Lazuli.2098:

Until they do something about the shadow behemoth the zerg mentality is still present in Queensdale. Downscale it, reduce rewards and put it on a random timer. Then scourge of the zerg will be purged from Queensdale.

good grief!
one of my favorite memories in the game is the first time I saw Shadow behemoth spawn back at launch
Leave my favorite boss alone
It is bad enough that SB is already so weak- just before the mega server I killed it with 3 other people- and you want it reduced?

BTW Shadow Behemoth was camped long long before the champs even had loot. Remember the Final Rest hunt? when no one knew he dropped it? i and a bunch of people killed him every day.

oh and while you are “purging”- you realize that new players are not some pure as driven snow special little flowers that they need to be protected form the rest of the game at all costs?
There are zergs in the game you know?

we are already so kitten limited in what we can do when and where-
way to go at this rate we will all be standing in LA TP flipping because we can do that as much as we want with no consequences

And frankly I am tired of hearing Queensdale this and Queensdale that- it is not a sacred space- it is one starter zone.
Guess what because of people crying about Queensdale as if it is the lost continent- all starter zone champs are gone.

A new player will never again see a champ in any of the other zones and think ooooo and even get to try their luck- die and bring some friends next time- or come back for revenge at a higher level and kick that champ’s behind.

It was fun, it was how I learned when the game just came out, back then we could play how we wanted

Hermes.7014:

Wait… all starter zones champions were nerfed or just Queensdale’s?

All starter zone champs- say goodbye to the Transformed Krait witch too.
I loved beating on her simply because she horri-murdered me back in the day

Faerun.3091:

@Lishtenbird.2814

I think we need more of these difficult encounter, because what I saw is that general player skill is pretty low. You need to have hard content in order to get better at it. Sure people will continue to zerg, BUT if they continue to add this kind of mehanics, people will slowly learn that zerging is not the best option.
This game needs harder open world content, and I agree Anet may need to revisit the rewards for Crown Pavilion.
Hope this clears the missunderstanding After all my OP wasn’t about rewards but about breaking zerging mentality.

First off, you do not improve player skill by breaking up a zerg- if you are interested in player skill- go fight in the Gauntlet and ask for Anet to increase rewards so that more people are temped to try it.

Some players are also not interested in improving their skill, and just want to hang out and have fun, some are not able to increase their skill for various reasons

Second- it is not up to you or anyone else to “break the zerg mentality” – it was taught to players by the game.

See the Living Story up and until marionette and the world bosses, temple runs etc.

They have been adding interesting mechanics sure and that is great – but if the content is not fun/ and or frustrating and doesn’t reward the player for his time and effort- it can be as interesting as bacon plated chocolate and no one will do it.

Trahearne is the first of the Pale Tree’s children- she tells you that in the level 4ish personal story, when you meet him.
He is literally the first of the Firstborn

chronometria.3708:

Anet made decent loot appear so rarely that players became akin to starving people, desperately gorging on champion boxes in the faint hope that something appeared in them. The champ train was a symptom of player “reward starvation” and a large amount of learned helplessness. Why do complex events like tequatl and 3 headed wurm when those give next to nothing in return. Far better to simply run round in a boring circle while watching tv and to collect a hundred champ boxes in the hope of something by raw force of numbers.

GW2 is built around giving nothing and taking all our time and the culmination of this is events like the new queens gauntlet, which are the perfection of this punishing philosophy.

We learned that the mystic forge hates us. We learned that RNG hates us, but now we don’t event get drops in our events for the rng to happen in.

The game hates us – that’s how I feel at the moment and I don’t understand how it can have come to this. I want to play, but its as if I am being told to go play something else – why is this?

Quoted for truth
GW2 was never really about loot at launch and this was fine by me
However it has become quite ridiculous in a game where everything is based on gold and looks.
I have never actually played a game that makes you go through such lengths just to be able to afford stuff
That Anet then talk about such things as reward loops is quite baffling to me

Ravenmoon.5318:

Morrigan.2809:

Megaserver
Lack of freedom in game to do what you want and be rewarded for it
Megaserver

Ohh, poor soul, now you are not the only server bugging events for linen scrap, tsk tsk. It must be terrible for you

What?
I have no idea what you are on about

I agree with everything you said
I just want to say one thing:

Before Megaserver on my own server we had a wonderful train- it was never very very big but it was so much fun.

I swear half the people hanged out in the train because they liked to just chat, goof off and help random new people with vistas and skill points and general advice.
We even ran a bounty chest circuit and patiently waited as most got lost in Demon Grubb pits

It was a great time and I made many good friends both old and new
Many of the regulars were PvP players or WvW players that just came to Queens to hang out and chill a bit

We were never rude and I don’t really recall any arguments either
If anything, if someone blew his top people generally just asked if the person was having a bad day

That was the old train.
I will miss my dance partner – but hey, I haven’t seen her since the April 15th patch

Megaserver
Lack of freedom in game to do what you want and be rewarded for it
Megaserver

Sartharina.3542:

April 14th, I would have agreed with you. But, since the update to traits… well, it’s still one of the best, but only because WoW also managed to shoot itself in the foot too many times.

I’m trying to find other MMOs that work for me.

Me too
I have been happily loving this game since Beta

The Megaserver broke me- today is patch day and what am I doing?
Installing some single player games I have been meaning to play and checking ArcheAge forums trying to make up my mind if I want to spring for $150 or $100.
Me, who don’t like PvP much and detest mounts

Take note Anet- before April 15th that money would have gone to gems, today I am not even sure I’ll bother downloading the patch.
(and yes Bazaar and gauntlet was my favorite 2 Living Story releases)

GuzziHero.2467:

Asmodeus.5782:

The last facebook post about the megaserver has been quickly filled with heavy bashing of it. And then some swift moderation occurred. ;>

My post is still at the top, so the moderators aren’t overzealous at least.

I saw your post and it was really not bashing so why would they delete it?

yes, I spend more time on FB than in game these days

Ceridwen.6703:

Morrigan.2809:

43, I have a 7 year old and I feel your pain- we are raising her as a gamer so in a couple of years we are golden

In the same boat here, but I’m 35.

I relented last Christmas and acquired a GW2 account for my 7 year old, although she’s only allowed to play under supervision (and often directly with me – our guild tag is OHAI because she loves Lolcats).

Being honest, her father and I realised a while back that raising a child gamer was the only option we had: we discovered her farming resource nodes in Age of Conan when her dad had taken a bathroom break. She had, IIRC, just turned 4. :/

hahaha
fortunately my husband is in IT
he was forced to build our daughter her own pc when she was 2 since she was no longer happy sitting on his lap.

She does have her own GW2 account but mostly uses it to make characters and run around the cities.
She loves the Sims, Viva Pinata and hidden object games mostly.

We took her for a run on original Dungeon Siege the other day

Just saw you in DR

Wanderer.3248:

Morrigan.2809:

Lankybrit.4598:

I wasn’t around for it the first time round. Is it worth doing? Can anyone give me a link to info about it, or tell me what it was called last year so I can google it?

Thanks.

If you like jumping puzzles that are gorgeous with completely different movement skills- Bazaar is for you.
If you like farming- Queens Pavilion is for you
If you like one on one challenge Gauntlet is for you

check it out- those were the most popular LS releases.

Without Scarlet there won’t necessarily be the endless farming on the lower levels of the pavilion that occurred last time. I hope they do something meaningful with those lower levels.

Never bothered with the lower levels myself- I was stuck in the rafters rage quitting and screaming my kid awake every time I won

mmmm
I skinned the Zephyr back pack ( the one with the Toucan) over my Sclerite back and I got both back in the wardrobe

I crafted Eye of Rodgort from scratch and didn’t get Lidless Eye.

one is a straight transmute- one is a skin progression – go figure