Guild Wars 2

HOT is only a few months old and you are already playing the SAB card? kindda sad.

This will not happen mate
#noprofit

vesica tempestas.1563:

the ‘the game is failing’, Hot is a failure, the game will fail, I’m never playing again, its a scam etc etc etc nonsense is not debate by people who are passionate about the game, its something else, you see it in lots of gaming forums. Years ago if you don’t like a game you just moved on and picked a game you enjoyed, nowadays some feel they need to post on forums and blame the ‘devs’, ‘casuals’, ‘hardcore’ anyone else for why they don’t enjoy a game through bought as if they have no responsibility for their own selections.

Worse than this, they don’t seem to comprehend in mmorpg the genre is all about a shared virtual world – they want the game to magically match everyone’s desires at all times with no compromise – they are entitled to it and can prove it with personal anecdotes that prove the game is bad.

Just skip / ignore threads / posts u find annoying and let people speak their minds. Will make ur life easier. I promise.
Also do not ever think u are capable of judging anyone’s decisions over anything.

Noone should care about company profits. The thing is: are u having fun in there? If not it’s a fail for you.
Hint: Aion is still generating profit and there is hardly an active community in there.

Alicornus.7095:

I don’t remember seeing many of threads with numerous players criticising the work of the art team or the sound design. They got the job done, no doubt about that, but if that would be the deciding factor whether a game is good or not, Destiny would have been game of the year 2014 instead of being one of the biggest disappointments in years and Star Wars: Battlefront would have been a flying success instead of being outperformed by every other AAA shooter on the PC platform despite having one of the most popular licenses of our pop culture.
Of course you can say that people complain about the 1% wrong, but well, let’s look at it, shall we?

• The story is a mess, even for the rather low GW2 standards.
• The content is artificially stretched out by gating and a huge number of collections.
• Numerous mini games have been introduced without proper quality management, leading to an unacceptable range of quality from “good for live server” to “kill it with fire”.
• Taxi Wars 2 has become a popular term for communities trying to organise meta events for their players on the new maps and getting kicked out of Dragon’s Stand in the middle of the fight is an issue that hasn’t been fixed for months, either.
• WvW guilds and small guilds have been screwed over by losing their progress and having to deal with a massive PvE grind to get it back.
• WvW is on life-support and the developers haven’t even tried to stop the bleeding or even talk to their alienated WvW players. They kicked a lot of very dedicated long-term players in the teeth this way and it’s not like a WvW player was spoiled with ANet’s attention in the first place.
• PvP suffers from the elite spezialisation powercreep and other terrible balancing issues and their answer was “balance patches every three months to shake up the meta”. Balancing by hitting the system with a sledge hammer in 2016 isn’t looking all that professional, especially for developers trying to establish their game in the e-sports scene.

If that’s just 1%, well… then I never saw how huge this expansion really is. I just wonder where all this content is hidden, because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen everything but raids. In other words: Yes, it’s not all doom and gloom, but pretending that this expansion is a paragon for the genre is like the proverbial whistling in the dark.

Solid points.

Samnang.1879:

Nexterror.7180:

Daredevil with nevermore is awesome. Just like necro with bifrost. And thief with flying horses. And that disco ball omg. Or that lovely pistol skin. Everyone happy.
Can we have some twilight level legendaries now please?

Twilight was my favourite weapon skin pre-HoT, but it is nothing compared to Nevermore, sorry. Twilight looks really flat and boring to me.

Nevermore is 3-dimensional and exquisite. To everyone who is making one, it is so worth the effort/wait. Good luck on crafting this true legendary.

Truth is it’s not a bad skin. Maybe not great for me but that is just my taste. It is certainly better than the bifrost rainbow joke and most other legendaries. The problem i have with it is that it doesn’t seem to fit any class except druid.
As for twilight, judging by its popularity, i believe that if it came out now most people going after a legendary wouldn’t bother with anything else.

Manasa Devi.7958:

It’s embarrassing to think that’s a GW2 area.

this

Meteorlogicus ftw. They should give thief scepter just for that.

Daredevil with nevermore is awesome. Just like necro with bifrost. And thief with flying horses. And that disco ball omg. Or that lovely pistol skin. Everyone happy.
Can we have some twilight level legendaries now please?

sw is the only actually active map atm in open world content.

“This is working as intended. Get ur pc together.”

2-3 active maps per meta during prime time is dead content to me. That’s just me though.

TD going fine. All lanes looking good. Our lane @40% mid second phase. And we get moved to a new instance. All of us. But..
people are encouraged to report spoilers for star wars. And it ain’t April’s 1st yet.
Some serious mess going on around here.

no staff actually fit the daredevil theme atm. blades on daredevil? srsly? butterflies on necro would seem much more appropriate.

Enjoy Shadow Behemoth in chak outfit. I want a remake of jungle wurm too now.

same problem here

femalehumanmeta.8351:

Chak Gerent is just a dps check meta event. None of the mechanics are “hard”

This is all you need to know about this event. Stop crying.

No its not fine. Thinking it is is delusional.
Pretty much any f2p player i talked to have no intention of buying the game. Numbers alone don’t mean anything.

Best weapon set in a long time (staff sucks though as usual :P).

Took note of soft wood nodes and i thought i should share in case anyone is brave enough to go through this (i am pretty sure i will not though…). Checked them twice and they seem pretty consistent, except for a couple of nodes missing here and there. I am also pretty sure i have missed some nodes but i am too lazy to search more. Feel free to update or ignore or whatever. Snowden Drifts is missing. Maybe i will add at some point later.
http://i.imgur.com/ySuclMC.jpg
http://imgur.com/YfgZybu
http://imgur.com/egAimwC

Bee.7081:

no idea what will we need to gather/buy to progress in the making

I have no idea if it was already known or posted elsewhere. I just found out and i thought i should share: http://db.dulfy.net/recipe/11232
Also the link to the reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3thlg2/someone_managed_to_finish_nevermore_vol_1_let_the/

Still waiting a fix to this obviously flawed design. Thank you.

Just found out that not all legends have underwater skills. Is this working as intended? Is this how revenant was supposed to be played underwater?

SpyderArachnid.5619:

So you can relax knowing that the team responsible for fixing the game is busy at work.

That’s a big relief. Thank you.

Drivrius.6159:

Nexterror.7180:

Drivrius.6159:

Archy.1046:

Drivrius.6159:

This is what I feel as well, its as thou they created a new game rather then continue the old one. From casual solo to hardcore group oriented.

You haven’t seen “hardcore” then. New maps are group oriented casual. If they are too hard for you – get better. Or play older maps, cuz they are easy and designed for solo play. Me, my guild, all my friends – we waited all this time for harder group oriented content. And now we are finally enjoying it!

Compared what the core game prepared me to while doing my personal story? yes, it’s hardcore. I would play older maps if I could get my elite specs from there, but I can’t because of the ridicule amount of HPs needed.

I agree the elitist minority is loving this expansion, the casual players not so much.

Don’t believe me check the HOT Metacritic review, a 3.9 says the majority is not as happy.

Just a correction. Zerging has nothing to do with elitist. They both suck but in a different way. HoT content is zergy. That’s it. No skills required.

I said that because the majority of “tips” being given about people not being able to solo HOT is “Git Gud” and other variations of that.

That’s exactly what i am saying

Drivrius.6159:

Archy.1046:

Drivrius.6159:

This is what I feel as well, its as thou they created a new game rather then continue the old one. From casual solo to hardcore group oriented.

You haven’t seen “hardcore” then. New maps are group oriented casual. If they are too hard for you – get better. Or play older maps, cuz they are easy and designed for solo play. Me, my guild, all my friends – we waited all this time for harder group oriented content. And now we are finally enjoying it!

Compared what the core game prepared me to while doing my personal story? yes, it’s hardcore. I would play older maps if I could get my elite specs from there, but I can’t because of the ridicule amount of HPs needed.

I agree the elitist minority is loving this expansion, the casual players not so much.

Don’t believe me check the HOT Metacritic review, a 3.9 says the majority is not as happy.

Just a correction. Zerging has nothing to do with elitist. They both suck but in a different way. HoT content is zergy. That’s it. No skills required.

Kal Spiro.9745:

After two days of playing much more HoT than I initially intended I can take back my initial disappointment.

I started in this thread advocating for ANet saying that there’s nothing wrong with their design, even though it’s not the one I would have preferred. After getting into HoT on Friday to see the exact design they went with I became disheartened. I did not expect to have so little control about how I leveled through the new content. I was especially upset because of where it put my Revenant who had no chance to build points before release.

It’s been two days now and from just playing the content, and doing some of the story, as well as the prologue on something to the effect of five or six characters, I’ve unlocked teir 1 jumping, teir 2 gliding, and I’m working on exalted language. With just these three teirs I have full access to the maps on all my characters. I know where all of the points in the first map are and can easily get or skip them as I please. So far I’ve only skipped two because they’re too hard to solo. I look forward to finding an expedition to deal with them eventually, or not.

I don’t have a problem with the design. I’m playing a Scrapper, a Daredevil, a Berzerker and a Dragonhunter and they’re perfectly sufficient as is. I’m holding back on Herald for now, but I’ll get around to it.

There are at least 3 points in Verdant Blink -maybe more, not sure- that u need certain masteries to get, and u don’t have them yet.

playing isn’t about bothering. tell them that

Chrono.6928:

Go play other mmo’s then come back and say this game has “grind” lol. You have no idea what grind really is.

Heck you can even play alts and get mastery points b/c its account bound. Real grind would be doing it all over again on all of them rofl.

getting abyss gear in aion was faster than the current implementation of masteries. not that i care about masteries at all. just saying.

Gathslan.1870:

JTGuevara.9018:

I’ll rate it 7/10.

I admit, I like the challenge in the new regions. The Pale Reavers event chain in Verdant Brink was pretty interesting. Exploring & gliding across the jungle is great. The music & art is fantastic. HOWEVER, most complaints about hero points & masteries are correct & I agree. You cannot restrict people like that! ESPECIALLY in the story! To grind like a madman just to learn to jump on a mushroom to advance in your quest is unacceptable! NOT a good idea. It’s telling that devs took action right away on that.

The hero points & masteries requirements need to be cut down some notches.

Grind like a madman? For 30minutes to unlock jumping on mushrooms? Since when is playing the game grinding? <.<

There are hundreds of events, to complete the story you do not even need to do 5% of the events available to you. And you call that grinding like a madman?

Jumping on mushrooms won’t get you anywhere. Trust me.

Nightwin.6423:

There’s currently so many threads and topics just complaining and not many actually showing really cool discovery’s. Sure so of your opinions may be valid however stuff about how content “feels to grindy” which is ludicrous because its only the second day. Truly Anet has done a fabulous job with the release and the actual content so take a step back and appreciate what there is to be appreciated and you’ll have a much more fun time…

Every opinion is valid. Even yours.

Ice.5162:

Nexterror.7180:

Ice.5162:

GuzziHero.2467:

8 / 10.

Would be 9 if Elite wasn’t grindy.

Sums it up for me. People seem all over the place with their ratings tho.

If only people had some sense of exploration left other than the follow-commander-press-1-mass-loot mentality everyone’s been exposed to for the last 2 years, the criticism would look way different I think.

gl getting hp solo

I don’t hope to, it’s not meant to be solo’d.

“follow-commander-press-1-mass-loot mentality " is one major thing people are actually arguing. Most people happy with HoT follow that mentality, since its the only effective way to play the new maps (unless just discovering waypoints etc).

Ice.5162:

GuzziHero.2467:

8 / 10.

Would be 9 if Elite wasn’t grindy.

Sums it up for me. People seem all over the place with their ratings tho.

If only people had some sense of exploration left other than the follow-commander-press-1-mass-loot mentality everyone’s been exposed to for the last 2 years, the criticism would look way different I think.

gl getting hp solo

Just remove the elite gating already. Make it baseline at lvl 80 and get over with obviously fail ideas, before more people progress it.

0/10
I was waiting to play the new areas with the elite specs, not to grind them to get the elite. Simple as that.

I’ve been messing around with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJAWRnc0AV2g10AmbC0bilgBLeIuEjiUXhtwvKKpFAKXA-T5wFwAJeCAPLDA4SAAA
I guess it’s far from optimal in many ways, but even though i am a total nub in pvp, it worked pretty well. Definitely gonna stick to it when HoT launches and see how it goes.
Chilling Darkness vs Plague Sending, not sure yet.

Doesn’t work at all for me too.

I hope this is still active. I would like an invite as a student in EU. I am mostly interested in getting familiar with arah and ta aetherpath. Thank you