Guild Wars 2

I haven’t explored half of the new content yet and I’m seriously thinking about just uninstalling.

-New maps are a nightmare for solo players. Veterans mobs everywhere, champions for skill points, not to mention how poorly designed they are, half of the time I was running in circle trying to get to a point that was either above or below me. I had to google a guide to find skillpoints…

-You’re forced into an extremmely grindy mastery system right in the middle of the story. Great design.
I can’t comment on the story, I keep getting stoped by the mastery system.
This morning I had to stop my story progression just so I can jump on 2 mushrooms at the start of the mission.
IS THAT REALLY NECESSARY ?
I get it, you created a new system, let me enjoy the story, put a ramp there instead of 2 mushrooms, i’ll grind your kitten later.

-Ascended craft is still limited by daily cooldowns. It’s been out for so long and it hasn’t changed.
I’d like to reroll and enjoy some WvW in between the event grind but I don’t want to pvp with weaker items for weeks. I thought we were supposed to all be equal in PVP.

At least sPVP feels better now, they seem to have removed most of siege damage and water maps. Good job !

I’m just gonna stop with the new content for now and stick to sPVP as it’s the only thing that seems enjoyable =/

I’d like to know if anything later on is worth the struggle that you have to go through in this new expansion.

Thanks for reading

I find GW2 spvp too WoW-arena-fied. I don’t mean this in a bad way, WoW arenas are fine, but GW1 was the best spvp ever.

No. Don’t even try to compare Gw2 pvp to WoW .. Gw2 pvp is a huge fail, there is no skill involved, no focus targetting, close to no CC, a stupid downed system, siege engines in sPVP, sharks … etc etc etc
I have to agree tho, Gw1 pvp >>>>> Gw2 pvp.

Keep in mind that this is a game without a subscription fee so you’ll have to wait 1 or 2 months between every patch.

Dariya.9380:

Why the hell is this even stickied? facepalm

Why ? because thieves are OP, and they have absolutly no clue on how to balance PVP, so they sticky a random post and wait for good ideas. They’ll do the same with guardian and mesmer next.

keroksi.3076:

80% just is some nonsense that could be left unfixed forever.
Im sure that the game will soon be flawless bug wise, but only 3% of the players are here left to enjoy it.

this so much, i sense Age of conan type of fail incomming, slow fixing, no update about the stuff that matters, ppl leave the game before it’s done.

frenzy debuff from quickness elixir. Medium glass canon ranger here never took more than 9k damage, go troll somewhere else.

@ bestia, i’m running a glass canon ranger, and I’ve never ever took a single hit above 9k from a player, (medium armor, berserker’s amulet), you are hiding us something.

( iam not a warrior on frienzy)

Oh, here it is, you said you play engineer .. you had frenzy on you, from the quickness elixir … there is no other explanation.
As I said, i play ranger, same thougness as you, and i’ve never even been hit for more than 9k (100b warrior)

Useless thread.

Rangers : -Quickening zephyr (4 sec)
-Zephyr’s speed ( 2 sec every 16 seconds)
-Sigil of rage stacking

<3

LiuliRenai.3928:

Memser, Thief, and Guardian are 40% of the professions in this game.

Neah .. 100% of the VIABLE professions in this game.

Titus, playing guardian / mesmer / thief, saying that the game is fine and ppl need to learn to play. 1/10, bad troll.
Nothing to see here.

Yeah dude, Bruning Crusade was better ! Wrath of the lich king totally ruined the game !

Just like Thieves can kill you while stealthed … There is nothing you can do against an enemie you can not see.

Vexus stop trolling you are clueless.

Yay, but you forget the fact that ArenaNet doesn’t want you to make money off of youtube with its products, as stated by Gaile Gray few days ago :

You cannot use the monetization system for YouTube or other services. In order words, you cannot make money from our products.

YouTube will often note that someone has monetized copyright content, and they will summarily (and properly) close the videos or close the accounts of those involved. You don’t mention if you were using the monetization system, but if you were, you should close the video and re-upload without monetization, or you should disable monetization through the YouTube interface.

So, you’re basically doing all this for free ? Recording videos / editing / commentating ? Good luck sir

Sharks ! yay ! Also, yey for 12k trebuchet hits

They can counter almost every other class without gimmicky glass cannon builds, but in all honesty, all classes should be able to.

But they don’t, so… what you are saying is that mesmer is the only profession to counter everyone, so it’s fine ?

We’re also trying to make sure we’ve given enough time for the base strategies to develop, and for any skills/builds that are out of balance are identified.

:D

Brewbeer.8239:

I will assume you are speaking about Giganticus, since he’s the most common cause of oneshot attacks. To begin with, none of his attacks will oneshot a properly specced and geared character, you know, one of the things stated by Arenanet as needed for completing explorables.

Asking PUG to buy specific gear and going to respec for a single boss in a single instance. Way to go.

You cannot use the monetization system for YouTube or other services. In order words, you cannot make money from our products.

YouTube will often note that someone has monetized copyright content, and they will summarily (and properly) close the videos or close the accounts of those involved. You don’t mention if you were using the monetization system, but if you were, you should close the video and re-upload without monetization, or you should disable monetization through the YouTube interface.

Now, I should say that this policy may be adjusted in some ways, in the future. We will be sure to let people know if the policies change. But at the current time, that is what is stated in the Guild Wars 2 Content Terms of Use and that is what should be observed.

From Gaile Gray few days ago.

No E-sport videos from fans, like ppl casting sPVP games and stuff, ArenaNet removes any video on youtube from ppl trying to make money off of youtube.
I highly doubt anyone would spend time editing videos, casting games, creating any E-sport event for free.

Hix.8925:

It’s funny that they wasted all that money on golems to take a practically undefended tower

Dude, 7 golems ? 7 gold ? that’s NOTHING, you can get 3gold an hour alone just collecting mthril/ori and killing random mobs.

On vizunah we have a commander everyday in WvW, that’s 100gold a day, now go ahead and speak about wasted gold xD

E-sport ? in the current state of the game ? Nop, not gonna happen. sPVP needs alot of work.

Braxxus.2904:

No, no no no no.

“Going for the steal” is a completely awesome tactic in that map and is rewarded as such when you pull it off.

This ^
This map is the only good map in sPVP atm.
You can steal baron buff blue / red golem in league of legends, and it only makes the game more interesting.

Don’t change anything.

LED Head.2439:

Well maybe if the content offered was rewarding for taking the time to do the entire thing

This, and the fact that it takes literally 2 hours just to go through the trash mobs in Arah, and that some of the bosses need some tweaks, because getting one shot by something you cannot avoid is not hard or challenging, it’s just stupid.

Madness.5810:

So imo that there is all the info we all need, its ment to be difficult no walk in the park play mates it actualy needs teamplay and work.

If something is too difficult or frustrating for casual gamers to do, they just don’t do it.
Do you honestly think that someone coming home from work has 4 hours of time to waste wiping in Arah ? Alt + F4, move on.

Just go to Arah entrance and have a look at the chat, “Arah rush 1/2 boss” .. ppl don’t like dungeons that are too hard, they don’t even try, they just kill the 2 first easy one and reset …

Trash talk gets you banned in league of legend
Seeing how butthurt this community is, I bet you there will soon be a report button for “harassement” or something. 24hours suspension incoming everytime you say noob or l2p è_é

So ? Any news ? This game is dying already…

I like the water map, for the record, and I’m sure other people do too.

No, nop, no one.

OP is abviously playing a warrior, putting himself in the “underpowered” classes. Didn’t read the rest …
sPVP is terrible and needs a complete rework ! Is that what you wanted to hear ? IF so, you’re welcome, I’m out.

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the question about PuG’s for explorable dungeons, we’ve said all along that explorable dungeons are intended for highly organized/skilled groups of players. That is absolutely the case

So, having to buy specific gear, consumables, or having to use special builds is intended ? I have no problem with that, whatsoever, I just want to know if I have to look for a “hardcore” PVE guild, to find ppl willing to spend alot of time and money in dungeons.

(I’ve been raiding in hardmore for almost 2 years on World Of Warcraft, I have no problem with having to find a guild dedicated to PVE, I’m just a little bit worried about those guilds existing in the first place, as the only rewards for investing so much time and efforts and money is a skin for your armor / weapon)

Sorry for my english.

Agent Noun.7350:

You make it sound completely impossible when it clearly isn’t. Players have been defeating Giganticus Lupicus without having to run back from graveyards by managing his aggro and using defensive boons.

Did I say it is impossible ? No. I said that if I want to kill that specific boss, my team and I need to have a specific gear set with vitality and toughness.
You can’t ask that from pick up groups.

Agent Noun.7350:

Protection lowers all damage you take by 33%. Aegis entirely nullifies the damage from one hit. If your team is good they’ll know how to time the use of buffs like these.

So yes: if you get better at the game, you will be able to survive them.

No. Have you tried giganticus ?
You’re getting one shot RANDOMLY, I have protection in my traits (ranger trait – after a dodge roll i have protection for few seconds) It is no help at all. You can NOT predict when he will one shot you, it is RANDOM, you’re there, dodge roll an AOE, and BAM dead, missile coming from nowhere.

Random one shots from Giganticus lupicus, what you’re saying Colin is that, if I get better at this game I’ll be able to survive them ? (I’m not talking about the AoE on the ground or his charge, I’m talking about the random missiles hitting for 13k+)
My only option is to buy/craft special gear with vitality / toughness for 1 boss only. (as I can clear the rest of the instance with my normal gear.)

… A couple months from now, many of you will likely be posting saying most of the dungeons are too easy and you need better challenges.

Doubt it!
Endless whines on the forum will make you tweak some numbers to make everything really easy and please the casual gamer masse.

sami.3801:

What’s the point of being chain stunned over and over? Is there some kind of dismishing return that I’m not aware of?

Stun isn’t the problem, we have stability and most of the stuns are very short anyway …
Roots on the other hand ….

Terkov.4138:

With this logic we all should play 100b warrior.

Exactly the oposit … Longbow is the 100b warrior, you have 1 skill that does damage (2) and then your auto attacks don’t do any kind of damage.

Actually many ppl are whinning about longbows on the forums .. Just stating the obvious here and i’m getting called uneducated. Anyway, I’m out of this thread.

In your narrow, uneducated opinion, sure. We believe you. /s

It boils down to personal preference, so to say that a shortbow will always be superior to a longbow without irrefutable proof will only make you look stupid, brah.

Woah, just wooaah :|

What level are you ? level 80 longbow does less than half shortbow damage output. There is no match. The only way longbow may come close to shortbow, is when you stand still hitting a non-moving target from 1200 range, when does that happen ? never.

I’m lvl 80, fully exotic geared, I have both short and long bows, exotic craft. And I did some serious testing before I came here to tell you that longbow sucks … It does suck, period.

One of the many tests I did, pull 3 mobs, try to kill them with shortbow, then do the same with a longbow, try this yourself you’ll throw that longbow to the recycle bin pretty fast.

“Narrow uneducated opinion, lol.”

MrBeeEU.5203:

Yea i get this, but not just in WvW it doesn’t happen that often so it doesnt bother me that much i just move till i can hit it i know ANet will fix it soon.

You wish

Kapoun.1702:

Hello, i noticed there are some posts about down state in spvp, and how people are unhappy about that mechanic . Well the more people complain, the more chances there is that down state will be removed. I wana share my thought’s about it, in a different perspective. Down state works fine in pve and wvw, but in sPvP it is just a disaster.

You could have stoped right there.

Sharks, Sharks everywhere !

Ramhard.7896:

I stopped doing any form of pvp in GW2 because of downed state. Sadly pvp has always been my favorite aspect of any mmo. But i refuse to pvp in this game untill its fixed and if that never happens ill probly be playing mop.

Exactly my thought … Well, i won’t be playing MoP, maybe HoTS tho

Either give everyone the same spells while downed, or just remove the freaking thing and give everyone a one time ressurection sigil like in guild wars 1 … This is just stupid, some ppl gets to teleport or stealth … or even AOE knockback ..

Staking mesmer is freaking OP
More Moa birds
More confusion stacks
More clones everywhere

Not to mention, 1v1 against a mesmer who has his elit up is a no match, you can not win. (yeah i know teamgame bla bla bla)

I feel your pain, I tried 2 of the different options in Arah explo … Made me want to kill myself.

Trash mobs, trash mobs everywhere taking litteraly HOURS to kill. x.x And they are freaking hard too ! God, the illusionist / mage groups, you’re getting one shot, you don’t even have the time to move, geyser+chaos stom, BOOM one shot (and I’m fully exotic geared)

I rage quited sPVP after few hours of trying, Sharks + Siege engines + Downed State = No PVP for me.

VincentCross.6954:

/signed!

I hate downed in PvP. In PvE its great but in PvP it just really kills the flow of the game.

^

TL;DR
Downed stat is horrible, 1 thread for it .. 10 against ..

Navok.4537:

Admittedly I have only been inside the first two dungeons as my friends are too low for anything else, but from what I have seen I’m inclined to agree with you. Dungeons feel like a chaotic zergfest designed to include running back into battle from a waypoint, and I am very disappointed thus far.

And you’ve only been in story mode

I’m sure you can’t wait to enter those lvl 80 exploration mode dungeons, where you spend 4hours clearing trash mobs to finaly reach a boss that drops 2 blue items an 50 copper.

I agree, remove it, it’s just ridiculous.

I hated it after 3 matches, in fact it made me rage quit sPVP after an hour or so, I’m not going into sPVP until they fix it, if that means I’ll never pvp again, well fine, i’ll play something else.

I totally DISAGREE, GW2 has the best pvp ever.
Best game of all time.
I mean, siege engines hitting for 10k ? totally fine in 8v8 !
Neutral monsters in battleground that hit as hard as players ?
Ppl jumping into the water when they are about to die so you cannot finish them off ?
Having to kill someone twice, running after his corspe while he teleports away, stuns and damages you ? or even stealths, if you are lucky ?
Broken spammable abilities that requiere 0 brain power to kill someone in few seconds ?

Dude, I cannot see why you are complaining, really :|

This post is useless, i can take a screenshot of anyone killing a monster and accuse him of hacking too …

Fugly.5287:

Well said. Needs fixed right away. Unplayable with this bug.

Thank god the PvE gameplay is top notch!

I sense sarcasm !

You’ve seen nothing dude, not a thing.
I’m fully geared, i mean, all my parts are exotic crafts, with the best gems, i have 3 sets of exotic weapons too, and i still get one shot

I was in arah exploration mode this afternoun, juts like you, and we were trying the 3rd boss when you pick pick Illyria, that bigkitten frankenstein’s monster thingy, just after the labyrinth.
And boy, was it disapoiting, even if the boss eats just 1 add, just 1, the most ridiculous things one shots you, melee hits, poison, random AOEs that cover half the map, charge (you can survive this one, but you get stunned for 4 seconds and die by the next aoe <.<) etc etc …

I had pretty much the same experience in every dungeon I did in exploration mode, the bosses are really basic, i mean you have to kill 1 add before it reaches the boss and don’t stand in the AOE, how hard can it be ? We’ve seen that in every single game, BUT, arenanet decided to remove tanks and healers, and punish the slightest mistakes by an instand death, everytime.

I’m personnaly done with PVE :
1) there is no fun involved in getting one shot by everything and running back from res pad 1 at a time to zerg the boss.
2) there is no REWARD, you are basicaly wiping in instances for nothing, exept some coins to buy skins .. well if you manage to collect 1200+ of them.

/whine off