Guild Wars 2

Rasimir.6239:

Harper.4173:

And it’s a shame too – I feel like this would have had the best story so far – just that I can’t seem to play it in one go.

How about front-loading those masteries if you’re so intent on doing the story in one go? I’ve done a bunch of exploration, gathering, events that I came across etc., and have not met much in the way of mastery gates yet (except for the latest one when I actually had to level a whole level of a tree I hadn’t touched before).

Explore the map, check out the event chains and adventures, pick up some hero and mastery points, unlock a level or two in the masteries available to you. Then do the story, until it leads you into the next map, take a break to explore this new map, rinse and repeat. Or even explore all the maps (and unlock all of the level 1+2 masteries to be on the safe side) before you start the story.

If you can’t get what you want right away, check out other stuff that keeps you occupied and amused until you can get to your original goal .

I got it, you like to pre-grind the xp needed to advance and you like to explore, but not everyone enjoys that, especially when has been doing it for years before the expansion came out, i myself only came back to the game for the story, mainly.

It’s cool that the devs came up with the mastery system, i guess, but man if you want me to discover and enjoy something, appreciate the work you put in it, don’t force me to discover it, allow me to do it a my own wit. But no, i have to grind from tier 1 to tier 4 in one mastery, just to be able to proceed with the story, problem wouldn’t be if i could get that xp somewhere else or with other means but nope…

Oh, and please don’t tell me you don’t grind, exploration is done with one character once, do something with several characters to get the xp needed to unlock mastery becomes grinding.

Anyway, just because you enjoy the game one way, while the others enjoy it the other way, just because the system as it is, works for your tastes and doesn’t work for other people’s tastes, that doesn’t mean the other must be wrong.

As far as i am in the game right now, i didn’t enjoy the expansion at all, it reminds me of guild wars factions, which was another grinding fest…

warbignime.4610:

The thing is you don’t HAVE to farm same events over and over, hell it’s not even faster. Just explore the jungle, you don’t have to max mastery in a week. Play the game regularly and leveling while enjoying, don’t let level be your goal.

I can’t allow level not to be my goal, because the developers don’t allow me the luxury of not allowing the level to be my goal. I.e: For 2,5 years i’ve been doing nothing but grinding in gw2, to get this, to get that and that stuff, problem is i want to enjoy the story, actually that’s what made me buy Hot, yet i cannot enjoy the story because i am forced to grind, and trust me i tried exploring i tried everything, the fastest way to get xp are the events and even so i a kick in the balls. I mean it’s like you want to go out to play with your friends but your grounded, and you won’t be allowed out until you do what you have to do, does that feel funny to you?

Geneaux.9547:

I’ve got to get this off my chest.

-How can some of you look people in the eye and claim Arenanet is not giving you a whole lot of content(HoT specifically) when you haven’t played or experienced everything(and I mean EVERYTHING) that is this expansion offers, hmm? Do any of you have access to some leaked version of the full expansion or w/e? Enough with assumptions and back seat game development. You don’t work for Anet.
-The base expansion is $50. Ok, cool. Historically, most MMO expansions have been about $40-60. So how is this a problem? It’s because people keep equating whatever “value” the game has with games that aren’t even in the same genre: ie every game that doesn’t require an internet connection. They just don’t say it(probably because they dot understand the meaning of their words). Those games(usually) don’t ask for this level of pricing because they don’t have to continue developing content for it. People can continue to play those games well after the publisher and devs have moved on to other projects. MMOs(and MOBAs) don’t get this luxury.
-Yet naive individuals here will procrastinate on the “value” of the prices. There is no “value”. That’s a subjective emotion you make up for yourself to justify your purchase. And there’s nothing wrong with that. However, it holds not one kitten ounce of meaning as far as the quality of the expansion goes. We have reviews/reviewers for that.

The price of reason is steep.

/rant

At least we can still all agree that the real only valid argument here is that the standard edition does not come with a free character slot. As it should, at the minimum for people who bought the game very recently.

Wow’s expansion from 35$ basic version and brings you all the previous versions of the game, don’t tell me that 50$ it’s a good price for something half shown in a game that was left aside by devs since the expansion’s announcement.

Soo, 2 weeks and no response, that a real kick for technical support.

Speaking out of my own experience and i don’t wait for everyone to agree with me: I left the game because of the Living Story, i’ve run about 50-70% of it, but it ended up being boring for me and left the game, came back around the end, and a week ago ended up leaving the game again because the game crashes every 10-15 mins, i’ve took all the mesures up to fix the problem and yet my problem persisted, and after months of submiting crashes reports and getting no improvment i’ve decided the best for me was to stop playing it, the fact that i’am now in the forums is because i was checking my tech support post and yet after a week no answer.

So, speaking planly, i don’t know if it’s only the living story that kills the game. But to that sum all the other technical problems, among others: errors trying to leave overflow, travel from overflow to end up in another overflow, and crashes

Since about 4-6 months ago my game crashes for any other reason it happens,using wp, fighting against bosses (especialy when the boss’s health gets under 10%), initialy the crashes would be every 10-15 mins without failing to crash. I constantly submited crashes reports, since then there were several patches and still i got no relief…

I have reinstalled the game yesterday, well now it doesn’t crash every 15-20 mins, but it’s still crashing when using wp and fighting against bosses, i can get a crash now and then, and i can get 2 in a row, but still not as often as before.

My drivers are up to date, scanned the hard drive for errors, reinstalled the game, looked for a repair tool in instalation folder (didn’t found one…)

Edit: - To add insult to injury now after the last crash when i restarted the game , after i hit the play button on the launcher it starts the game directly minimized, in a window 4cm x 0,5 cm, and i can’t maximize the window, since i can’t click on the blasted restore window button because the game just won’t come up with Alt+Tab , Shift+Tab , Win Key + Tab…

Bah, i think that in the end i would be better off starting to play something else…

I don’t really care about the weapons discovery’s reset, but the sigils discovery, well that was just a huge kick in the balls for me…many of those sigils needed lodestones and ectoplasm, we could have been given back the lodestones at least,or you could’ve have left the sigils alone.

Hello, first of all i would like to apologize in case this was already suggested, so with this said i would like to go on with my suggestions.

1.Usable chairs , is unrealistic that in all taverns there are chairs and stuff yet the character has to sit on the ground…

2. Character’s home, example, when you’re entering the salma district it appears flagged as “Salma district (home)” yet you enter and even the homeless have homes, everybody but the character, it would be nice for the character to own it’s own lot, where he / she could find some peace and tranquility, with the ability to invite one or more friends / party members.