Guild Wars 2

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Seveleniumus.5973:

To me asuras are pure and innocent creatures, they’re born from the eternal alchemy, much like Sylvari are born from mother tree.

I hate everything about this hippie bookah statement.

There is nothing pure or innocent about my toon’s exploits. Her genius in making the infinity ball clearly shows that she can be led toward evil.

The inquest are also not innocent. They experiment without ethics (which is fine but certainly not pure or innocent!)

Out of character,

No still. Never compare Asura to salad bookahs.

Evil can be pure :p

DeadlySynz.3471:

It sounds like the OP’s argument is coming from the position of someone who spends hours a day playing 7 days a week.

What about the players who only log maybe 2-3hrs a night 3-4 days a week? Alt friendly? Hardly.

Where do you think exactly the vast majority of the player base sits? Those that log 30-40hrs a week, or those that log maybe 5-10? This has nothing to do with entitlement, and everything to do with reality. In reality, this game is not Alt friendly.

I play about 1-2 hours a day in average. I took a break in a middle of the year for two months. I have alt for each prof. 3 of them are lv 80, fully geared, with ascended accessories and I almost have my first legendary.

If you say that this game isn’t alt-friendly then you haven’t seen alt-unfriendly games.

kyubi.3620:

thing is… youl never see that KS coming your way in a 30 man melee XD

Why are using rifle and focusing on a single target on 30 man melee? You can activate endure pain, run into the middle and cleave for 5 times as much damage without being nullified by a single block or dodge.

I never use kill shot when I run with my rifle, because it sucks. It roots you with the most obvious animation ever and person usually just dodges, blocks it, or goes out of range. In a zerg situations I would rather just equip axe or GS and the cleave for 20k+ dps than charge 2 seconds just to possibly hit a single target.

To me asuras are pure and innocent creatures, they’re born from the eternal alchemy, much like Sylvari are born from mother tree.

Shockwave.1230:

@ OP
Some of your points are valid. But they don’t address what makes the game not alt friendly.

• Vertical gear grind (promotes playing char with best build)
• Long grind for gear stats and look (promotes playing 1 char)
• Role locking based on gear (choice between build diversity or playing alts)
• Soul bound (promotes playing char with best soul bound gear)
• Long leveling process (it is long I played Gw1)
• the most interesting gameplay and most fun content is @ max level.
• Content encountered during the level up process does not have replay value, save story mode dungeons and some personal story (which can’t be replayed)
• others things not off the top of my head.

Both sides of this argument have valid points which is why there people that like the current state and people who don’t.

Gear grind? What gear grind? You can easily equip you char with exotics by lv 80. Are you talking about ascended? Have you seen the stat difference? All these people, talking about min-max’ing and then in game they put on something useless like Rune of the Dolyak 6# or run defensive builds in dungeons, just buy cof armor + weapon, put ruby orbs into it and you’re good to go, now if you want to go into WvW there are cheap pvt sets for badges, just put crests of the soldier into them and you’ll have all the items, which you could ever wish for. You obviously haven’t played any vertical progression MMO’s, where f.e. you need to buy a better weapon or you just do 0 damage at higher levels(literally 0).

If you use experience scrolls, some tomes of knowledge, level through dungeons and so on you can get to 80 in a week MAX, playing casually every day it will take you a month MAX. That’s not a lot and if you go into pvp/WvW you don’t need to level at all. Again, in many vertical progression games it takes a week to grind ONE level.

All content has replay value to me, so even that point is up to personal preference.

I’m really tired of reading all these threads of endless complains how gw2 is not alt friendly. All currencies are account bound, you don’t need to level for pvp, you’re up scaled in WvW, we have down scaling system in PvE, we have experience scrolls, we have tomes of knowledge, we have scrolls of knowledge, now we got account bound fractal level and soon – account bound WvW levels, how is that not alt friendly?
In many MMO’s when you create a new character, you start from SCRATCH, sure it can always be more alt friendly and it is definitely getting there, in any case, at least for me, this is one of the most alt friendly games I have ever played.

They’re adding more and more items to the game to help you level up, like experience scrolls and tomes of knowledge and now you’ll be able to level up through pvp. That’s not enough? Even without these crutches it takes only about a month of casual play to get to 80 anyways – perfect amount of time to get to know and get attached to your character.

I came from games where one level would take you a week, so threads like these are nothing but funny to me.

Aten.8046:

Making us paying for something we should rationally have by default for free? It is not only wrong, it is offensive.

Just don’t buy it. Nothing changes for you in that case. It’s a convenience item.

Aeonblade.8709:

Seveleniumus.5973:

It’s a smart decision, most players will be satisfied with one upgrade, so it’s affordable, while those, who need more than 500 stacks, also probably can afford to spend more. Love it or hate it, the pricing is perfect from marketing stand point.

The pricing is hardly perfect, but it could be worse yes.

I feel it’s perfect from “maximizing the profit” view. Don’t you? IMO the only way it could be better is if they added 50 slot upgrades for 200 gems, for those who can’t afford to spend 800 for one item.

I like leveling, I have 1 character for each class and as of now, leveled 3 of them to 80, doing all the personal story on each of them (yes, including Arah). I feel it helps you to get more attached to your character and to feel it’s uniqueness, while leveling you have the opportunity to try out all skills, visit/revisit some obscure areas of the game, participate in some dynamic events and just generally have a pretty nice time – for me it’s very relaxing and in the end rewarding experience.

As for ascended items, you really don’t need them… Difference is really minimal and will only be noticed by min-maxers, I still have some green items on my thief and it doesn’t do that much worse in PvE/WvW than my fully exo/ascended main war.

Just relax and have fun Ascended items are supposed to be grindy and take a long time to get, we’ll get there when we’ll get there, you don’t need to have everything this very moment as it removes sense of progression.

It’s a smart decision, most players will be satisfied with one upgrade, so it’s affordable, while those, who need more than 500 stacks, also probably can afford to spend more. Love it or hate it, the pricing is perfect from marketing stand point.

I don’t understand your question, because 30 in strength is in most meta warrior builds, someone deluded you.

For runes, go with ruby orbs – cheap and efficient.

caiomacos.1694:

rojak.1894:

Sometimes your progress just gets reset.

You can:
1. Populate your blocklist
2. Open the dungeon yourself
3. Play with friends/guildies

But that doesnt help in the cases when host gets disconnected or game crashes.

If host get’s disconnected or crash, instance isn’t killed. Instance is only killed if host leaves/leaves dungeon AND changes the character/leaves dungeon AND changes map. I sometimes crash and my instances are just fine when I come back.

So I should now avoid using the item I have paid gems for?
Some people are ridiculous, this bug is more annoying than it is useful anyways, because I get bombarded with useless sigils and runes, when all I want is to free up some space.

Well, that’s how most of the helms work, it’s not a bug.

Ethics.4519:

Putting the fractals in grouping now makes it so you have 0% chance to get the 3 easy ones in a row. If you got swamp>water/urban>frozen you could easily fly through it. That combination is no longer possible. One of the old worst case scenarios like sawmp>Cliff>Dredge is much more likely to occur.

Also, they added more dredge to dredge. Because they must have read “We want more dredge!” everytime somebody complained about fractals.

Ability to get 3 easy ones in a row made fractals very unbalanced, it’s much better now, though I’m not sure why they put uncategorized into first pool, because it’s long and annoying and will get re-rolled 99 % of the time. Cliffside in second pool is pretty bad too. Dredge needs to be reworked from scratch, just about everything about it, except from final boss.

Good riddance, maybe now people who don’t actually care about WvW will go back to PvE and I won’t have to wait 2 hours to enter eb. Rewards were about the same as I expected, I did the achievements, because I like WvW, not because I wanted some “amazing” rewards.

Can always try Arah set, standard for many necros.

There is that one mini-dungeon, where you need to run with a torch, can get pretty creepy. Don’t really remember where it is.

I believe only ones in 1st place received finisher.

5 rangers attacking with pets only?

As we all know, instance is tied to the person who created it and this will probably not gonna change any time soon, via technicalities, so, should there even be a possibility to kick him? Kicking instance creator results in instance being killed, so the only use of it is if you want to grief someone for whatever reason. Disallowing the kick of instance creator would save many of people a lot of headache.

If they can res through the gate, you can also hit them through the gate, I got many kills that way.

I don’t know what class or build you’re running, but if you think that 5k in PvE is a lot/enough (I do a lot more with my rifle, not even talking about melee weapons) then you have no idea how this game works. They would need to rework the whole core structure of the game.

Sure, it has it’s shortcomings, but gw2 is still the best game I have ever played, give it another year or two of development and it will be perfect.
I’ve been playing from day 1 and still enjoying every aspect of it.

Tokens were always primarily for skins, besides, I f.e. have 7 alts, I’m not going to craft ascended for all of them, heck it probably will take another year before I craft ascended armor for my main, as I’m more interested in legendaries, so tokens are nice way to equip all my chars as soon as they hit 80.

Well, they said that QA guys are pros at fractals, so why don’t they stream them do dredge at 41, so that we all can learn from them.
As you’ve seen in previous stream actual devs are not very good at this and probably wouldn’t even complete dredge <31.

Leamas.5803:

I can see it now…in 6 months…dungeon group…“LF2M – MUST have ascended gear!!” In a year it will be the norm.

Accessories already been there for that long, didn’t see any such posts yet.

It’s done, they not gonna do anything about it, just get over, you had fun doing it (hopefully), it’s time to move on.

The difference in reward was like one gold weapon I found on a trash mob in the initial run. Rushing gives better loot/time spent. It also allows people to find runs easier due to less time spent in the actual path.

I know it gives better loot, but many people, including me, just don’t like the mechanic of being forced to skip hordes of mobs all of the time Not necessarily blaming the mechanic itself, though maybe it should give a better reward for killing everything so skipping wouldn’t be the only option.

Well, it’s not THAT hard, but it’s HARD relative to other dungeons, most of which you can feceroll without even knowing the mechanics. I personally don’t like it because of all the running through trash, that you have to do, not because it’s hard, but it’s just not my thing and it’s impossible to find the group who wouldn’t want to skip, sad though, because Lupi is one of my favorite bosses ever.

Ayrilana.1396:

As I stated before, nerfing the fractal in an effort to lower the bar for players that don’t want to make the effort to work as a team, learn the mechanics, develop strategies, improve upon themselves as a player is absolutely the wrong way to go. I want to make it clear that not everyone falls under this and are often held back by players where it does. I had made another statement previously that this should not be nerfed to hedge against bad groups.

Let’s be realistic – most people pug, in a pug, even if each individual knows what they’re doing, there will be gaps in coordination. If dredge was one of the new fractals then yes, you could say – give it time, people will learn, but it isn’t like that, right? And making fractal shorter doesn’t equal nerfing it. Shaman fractal is arguably harder, but no one is complaining about it, why is that? Because it’s difficulty centers around interesting boss mechanics, people need to adjust to overcome, it’s difficulty doesn’t come from endless waves of trash mobs and cheap mechanics, requiring specific classes to be able to do reliably. All people are asking for is to lower the needless trash count. Clown car doesn’t make encounter harder, it makes it longer, same goes for endless waves of mobs in between. Removing the trash wouldn’t nerf fractals difficulty in any way.

I done like Berserker’s Stance, I use warhorn for condi removal, much rather take shake it off or signet of dolyak.

Ayrilana.1396:

People can finish it in 20-25 minutes. It only takes longer because they don’t know the mechanics and/or there’s poor communication among the team. The console room at the beginning is only a repair bill because the majority if people don’t know how to do it properly and relied on dying on top of the switches.

I don’t care if you can finish it in 20 minutes, it doesn’t matter – some people can solo lupicus in 5 minutes or melee him in 1, it doesn’t mean, everyone should be expected to do the same. You yourself stated that “majority” of people don’t do it optimally, this fractal has been out for a year now, situation ain’t gonna change.
I’ve done it probably a hundred+ of times and it always takes a hour minimum, with bad pugs, it sometimes takes 2 hours+. IT’S NOT RIGHT.

Don’t worry, at least now you get uninfused rings at 30+.

A new wrinkle for the last fight is after being placed in the cage the Archdiviner is invulnerable to your attacks for a while after you escape.

Can confirm this, experienced the same in today’s run.

Just keep practicing, if you’re downing every 20 seconds, add a little bit of toughness or vitality, or look upon taking some defensive skills.
Remember – it’s just a game, the most important thing is to have fun.

It’s fine, just need a little time to get used to it, wiped 5 times during story, only 1 time at lv 30, we’ll get better eventually.
Don’t care much about the lore behind it.

Don’t know about the chest, but ring drops are definitely bugged. I keep getting uninfused rings at 30+, which are beyond worthless to me at this point, gg, they somehow were able to make fractal rewards even worse.

Quaggan plushy = $$

I only can see it as a win-win situation. Giving people the ability to run more builds would mean that people would be more inclined to get more gear, meaning more skin/stone purchases from gem store.
$$ anet ;P

robertul.3679:

There are already guilds dedicated to fractals on both servers. The EU one is kinda bad though..more like lfg than anything else.

Which are those? I’ve been looking for guild/group for doing dungeons/fractals for months now. Many of them say 24/7 dungeon runs or whatever, but when you join, you end up spamming lfm all day and just end up using lfg tool anyways.

Now when core structure is getting some attention with account bound fractal levels and WXP, maybe there’s some news on this issue as well? Multiple trait and gear tabs would greatly improve PvE experience, but also would be a tremendous help for those of us, who like to do both – PvE and WvW on the same character and currently are stuck with mid-way builds.

I would even be willing to pay gems for such feature.

Thank you Anet for this change!
Now to make separate tab for WvW builds and everything will be perfect

Win what? Ability to ego afk at LA? Why does it always have to be a “win” everywhere? What’s wrong with playing for fun?

narrock.6890:

Seveleniumus.5973:

9/10 best update so far. Finally some attention to fractal runners.

yea its great the the fractal runners got their progress reset to 30 and got zero compensation for their hard work /sarcasm

It’s a completely new experience, it doesn’t make any sense to keep levels at 50, you already got rewards from doing those levels, so you lost nothing. Honestly, I wouldn’t complain much even if they reset all levels to 1.

500 badges of honor + 2 g + 3 blues + random blueprint + random banner

ItWasntMe.7102:

I am a ranger NOT a cleric for those dps baddies that wear attack food/mf food over other more useful options. Like you stated it is a GRP effort. Me rolling in from ranged to drop my heals for others leaving myself with ZERO heal as I roll back to my game range (then being looked upon as weak when my hp drops & I am downed & DPS is lost as they run to rez me instead of letting my pet do it lol)~ send pets in & use spirits when needed for the team while I go max range to get best out of my dps values giving up all my slots for others is not ranger at all. It would be different if the content supported rangers as they should be, but the truth is MANY DPS have the elite attitude that they should be catered to & that because the game content allows for melee to be so greedy & selfish that it is the rangers job to take it up the butt & be at their beck & call. How is that fair to expect 100% of the time? Is that “team work?” O.o but it may take 5 extra minutes to kill the boss if we actually allow rangers to play RANGED from time to time LMAO~ yah the selfish players you refer to are those demanding everyone build/play the dungeons to support those who do not want to be responsible in keeping themselves alive, nor do they want to meet rangers or others half way by utilising both an attk/def food. No no~ their mf & desires are more important ^^ I don’t get to use mf food most of the time, I don’t benefit from banners or guards buffs when I am ranged & if I am melee 100% of the time then I am not a ranger at all. Your expectations are bit lopsided ^^ How about everyone go ranged & share their goodies with the rangers? AHAHHAHAHHAHH You want the dungeon runs fast, which is fine, but some of us are here to play the toons we chose, yet no matter how much we rangers sacrifice using junk spirits that do nothing for us & keeping certain pets passive so they can run in & survive drop regen or w.e for squad, we still get judged & told how are dps sucks donkey balls & you all carry us. Well our best DPS & evasion is max range. If I want a melee toon 100% of the time I would have a warrior. Rangers support parties in many ways at a great loss to their own play styles & dps, yet it is NEVER appreciated because it isn’t measure in DPS directly contributed.

So you don’t want to dps and you don’t want to buff, and you don’t want to take advantage of buffs of others, and you don’t want to help res others, and you don’t want others to help res you, and… why should anyone take you into their group again, because you basically admit that your build is useless for everyone but other rangers? Why don’t you just create “rangers only” group and enjoy your awesome ranged buffs.

9/10 best update so far. Finally some attention to fractal runners.