Guild Wars 2

Tragic Positive.9356:

What Rangers offer that other classes don’t?

Entertainment. Whenever RNG is cruel, an event fails or a tower is lost people can crack jokes at this class’ expense to ease the tension. We can also name our pets in accordance to that to elicit a few chuckles. Recommended names: Bait, Useless, ImAlwaysDead, PetSwapIsOnCD and AnetWillNeverFixMe.

viralthefrog.6130:

People make playing the TP seem like such a tremendous feat.
I play 2-3 hours a day, sometimes. Usually less.
I can play that TP like no other. It’s really simple. People just talk it up and make it seem harder than it is.
I have no problem with the loot system, either.
I do participate in the EotM train, though. Easy karma, gold, and leveling. Plus the salvage loot nets a good income from the TP.

Your heard the man, folk.

Time to get skilled at Broker Simulator – Guild Wars Edition. That’s the precise reason we all purchased this product. To game the auction house. Oh sure there are activies like leveling alts, crafting, events, map completions, jumping puzzles or dungeons but that’s DOING IT WRONG!

Either become a TP flipper or be prepared to drain your credit card dry through gem → gold conversion. You also have the choice of remaining dirt poor of course. Alternatively, realise that the game is shallow and content patches are thinly veiled gem shop advertisements then proceed to uninstall.

La Goanna.8142:

They’re testing us to see how many are willing to take out the credit card and exchange our gems for gold.

The game isn’t exactly P2W yet, but it’s pretty much in Korean grinder territory now with instant converted gold becoming the “quick fix.”

This. I can’t even bothered to open the launcher and let it patch. It’s not worth the bandwith. Might as well uninstall. I arrived with such high hopes but now I make sure to deter all my friends from purchasing this garbage.

We might be burned out on WoW but even 10 months of SoO is better than whatever gemstore related snoozefest Anet devs churn out and try to pass off as content just so all the gullible morons log in and purchase the latest pair of bunny slippers or whatever.

I’m sorry to say that I didn’t get my money’s worth. Spending that 40 euros on pizza and beer would have been more satisfying.

mtpelion.4562:

Farming causes inflation by creating more money supply.
Trading REDUCES inflation by deleting money supply from the game.

You got your two main points completely backwards.

Trading in itself doesn’t delete money from the game. It just reallocates it. Gold sinks like waypoint costs and the 15% TP cut delete money from the game.

I’ve played in many MMOs and whenever a server got overrun with bots it caused deflation. Everything became dirt cheap because unlike the legit farmers, bots never get tired or log off so they can saturate the market and constantly undercut everyone.

It seems like a horrible thing because if bots sell orichalcum ores for 20 copper then it’s not worth the time to farm it yourself. However, you can buy it for extremely cheap.

Where do you get money if the TP is oversaturated and everything is cheap, you say? Static gold sources in the game. Not being able to sell my orichalcum for higher than 20 copper would make me sad but oh wait I can just run AC and COF for a set amount of easy gold. Each and every day. Not to mention the other dungeons, the champ trains, the mobs with high value vendor trash drops and the leveled chests.

Those won’t be worth much if the TP prices are inflated because items are scarce and expert flippers are elevating their prices even higher. However, if bots flood the TP then BOOM it’s buyer’s market, baby. The static amount of cash earned through playing the game is suddenly worth more as I can get several stacks of orcihalcum for only one gold which can be earned by running a single dungeon path.

If flippers sense that there’s money to be made through orichalcum, buy it up faster than legit farmers or bots can put up new stacks, then start reselling it for a higher and higher price my single gold will only be worth half a stack of ori eventually. (This is just an example, ori is obviously not a lucrative flipping material.)

Wanze.8410:

Slowpoke.2749:

Why are you suprised by this, OP? The game has a gem – gold exchange. It’s in Anet’s best interest to not reward people for playing the game.

Anet loves the professional TP traders because those people raise the prices of everything, making it so that the only two avenues to desirable items are playing the broker simulator or whipping out the credit card. Few people have the skill, knowledge or patience to flip items and those who don’t will either pay Anet or remain poor.

Professional TP Traders would mean that they sell gold for real money, i dont think Anet has much love for them.

That’s unavoidable. It matters whether the wealth is generated by Chinese farmers or western TP flippers though.

China farmers – as their name suggests – farm gold and materials via bots either on hacked accounts or their own accounts. That means that wealth is generated from and injected back into the game. If the farmer sells this overabundance of wealth gained through botting (that legitimate farmers can’t compete with) to players A / B / C / D / E then that casues deflation.

Experienced flippers on the other hand log into the game, monitor the market and repost stuff for about half an hour then log out. Their method doesn’t generate wealth but reallocates it. The wealth goes from players A / B / C / D / E to player Z the TP tycoon who then hoards this wealth until it can be used to turn a profit. This causes inflation.

Bots can be beneficial to the average player as even though their stuff loses market value due to oversaturation they can also buy things much cheaper. That’s bad for Anet because it doesn’t nudge the player towards purchasing gems. Flippers on the other hand elevate prices and make the gem-gold conversion (or buying gold illegally which is risky) the only viable method of acquiring coveted items since most people suck at flipping and simply playing the game gives jacksh*t.

Why are you suprised by this, OP? The game has a gem – gold exchange. It’s in Anet’s best interest to not reward people for playing the game.

Anet loves the professional TP traders because those people raise the prices of everything, making it so that the only two avenues to desirable items are playing the broker simulator or whipping out the credit card. Few people have the skill, knowledge or patience to flip items and those who don’t will either pay Anet or remain poor.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Slowpoke.2749:

…and Anet taking their sweet time with even the smallest of fixes because the devs are too busy churning out gem store items.

I agree. We should get them modellers and animators onto fixing bugs, stat!

Ah, I love this argument. Maybe, just maybe, they could hire more of those who work on bugs and class balance instead of those who design and model the umpteenth bland outfit for the cash shop on a bi-weekly basis. That won’t happen though because the former not only costs more money but has no direct positive effect on the gem store revenue.

Why would Anet spend money on fixing things or bringing in more permanent content when the kind of players F2P garbages are aimed at don’t really care about anything as long as there’s a new pair of bunny slippers in the store every week so they can log in, do the living story chapter that can be finished in three hours, purchase a limited edition pet that farts rainbows or something and be satisfied?

It’s best among all the free to play trash which isn’t saying much. It could have been a fantastic game, one of the best MMOs even, if it was subscription based but instead we got B2P with almost no permanent content besides the base game and Anet taking their sweet time with even the smallest of fixes because the devs are too busy churning out gem store items.

JNetRocks.3652:

Just feeling really deflated and while I understand it’s my choice to buy these, I think it’s horrible that it spent so much and it’s really made me feel gross about even playing. :C

Walk away while you can, OP. These type of games are designed to rope in gullible and impulsive people who then spend hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars to make up for those who play completely free. It wouldn’t be profitable otherwise.

Find a subscription game, friend. With the cash you spent on those scam chests you could have subscribed to any game for half a year and earned all the skins one can wish for by simply playing.

calavel.6249:

Slowpoke.2749:

English has a lot in common with the Scandinavian languages, yes. Even so, English is generally considered to be easier to learn. Most likely because it’s easier to get into.

I’m sorry, but I really don’t think that’s true.
People have this conception of english in Europe because it’s the default second language for a lot of people, and most people under the age of 40 have grown up with massive impact from American culture.
But english is not a simple language, it’s a clusterkitten of various cultural influences, such as French, German and various nordic languages. English grammar is a mess, boasting an absurd amount of exceptions to general rules.
As an example, German grammar has a reputation for being incredibly complex and hard to master, but it is guided by much more defined rules with fewer exceptions than English and is much more logical when you have the base concepts down.
English is a language that’s very difficult to learn just by reading – you have to speak it with a native in order to learn just how kittened up and unbound by rules it is.
But because a lot of people have heard/spoken english since childhood, they don’t realize this.
Take an adult from any Asian country that has little contact with english-speaking cultures and I promise they will have trouble learning English. Because it’s not simple or easy to get into at all.

Reading comprehension is a good thing. Practice it. As I already wrote, it’s easier to learn the basics of English. I’m a linguist. I speak several languages. English is easier to get into than most European languages. Period. The lack of inflections and gendered nouns in themselves are enough to make the first steps a smooth sailing because you don’t start your journey with a trilogy of grammar rules dropped on your head which you have to know by heart before being able to procceed.

What causes the most problems in the beginnng is pronounciation. Learning the alphabet doesn’t teach you how to pronounce the letters when they’re not standing on their own. The letter “G” will sound one way in “magic” or “genetics” but another way in “gazelle” or “gas” for example.

I wasn’t taught English for quite a while, my parent’s generation had very little opportunity to learn English with public education of the time heavily pushing German and Russian, my grandmother’s generation could only study Russian. English and western culture in general was blocked under the communist regime for a long time around here.

Switching from German or Russian to English proved to be easier for the people than brushing up their existing language skills even though our native tongue shares a lot more similarities with those two than English. Starting out with English was easy as well.

I usually advise people who wish to learn more than one additional language or wish to have their child learn more than one additional language to start out with anything BUT English and then move on to English. Switching from, for example, a Slavic or Romance language to English is far less difficult than the other way around.

English gets difficult later on with the nonsensical amount of tenses and the grammatical rules which have more exceptions to them than not but on a basic level it’s really quite easy, especially in written form.

PS.: I mastered English through reading.

Went back to WoW. I have a lot more to do over there even with no new content being released till the winter. Probably because all additional content GW2 ever had got taken away within a month of implementing it.

/shrug

nGumball.1283:

Psychol.5783:

Shifu.4321:

You must not have played World of Warcraft

You can adjust interface in WoW, it’s much more clear. In GW2 I’m just smashing buttons in zerg because there’s nothing you can do.

WoW’s interface can never be adjusted to the level to could be called clear or even close to it.

Here is a screenshot I took a few months ago. It’s the UI of my hunter that I was raiding with. There’s a pet bar on the right side, above the first row of buttons but it goes invisible when your pet is not out. The two big black boxes are the chat and the performance meter (damage done, healing done, damage taken, etc.) blocked out to prevent names being seen.

Perfectly clean with a clear separation between the UI and the game field while also having space for all abilities and needed macros even though hunters are known for having the biggest button bloat. I only have access to 10 skills at a time in GW2 and yet it doesn’t feel more sleek or less cluttered than my WoW UI.

I wish we could customize the UI in GW2.

Big Tower.5423:

Dusk is a precusor.

Since I have no intention of getting into the legendary waste of time business, I’m not sure about this but didn’t Anet fix the issue of precursors that got another skin transmuted on them becoming unable to be used in the mystic forge?

If I understand this rambling right, you say that you transmuted both your spinal blade back item and Dusk and you noticed that spinal blades can’t be used in the mystic forge once transmuted. That is indeed correct. Once that particular back item is transmuted you can’t upgrade it further.

However, what does that have to do with Dusk? You can’t transmute a weapon on a back item or vica versa.

If you transmuted another weapon as a skin over your Dusk then do not fret because the legendary stats are still there and both the Dusk skin and the transmuted item skin is in your wardrobe now. Everything you equip even once gets unlocked automatically in your wardrobe so you can apply the skin for a fee of one transmutation charge. The skin itself is unlimited. If you have a bazillion charges, you can transmute it a bazillion times.

If you transmuted Dusk as a skin on another weapon then you still have both skins unlocked but you lost the legendary stats. With no transmutation splitters, your best course of action is indeed contacting support. Although I wouldn’t put too much faith into that as the issue is not gem purchase related.

I just wish finishers were featured more often. Since I don’t give a hoot about PvP, I can’t remember the last time I had the chance to use a finishing move. No sense in wasting 800 gems on something I never see.

Lord Kuru.3685:

naia.4601:

If it’s a hardware issue as some may have suggested and the game can’t handle more than one world boss at a time, I think they may have bigger problems. I don’t play other MMO’s but I’m pretty sure every other one out there, F2P or not can handle it

It’s not that they can’t handle it. It’s that Anet is unwilling (or unable) to spend the money on the server time/resources required.

Don’t judge them too hard. They need to invest the revenue into creating even more gem store skins.

Here’s a guide to the masters:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/bazaar/A-Guide-to-Belcher-s-Bluff/first#post2439690

Wait till you get to the norn one. He’s kind of bugged and so winning comes down to sheer blind luck. You used to be able to cheat a bit by eating mango pie and getting health regen or buying a box o’ fun which stunned you and prevented health loss, making the norn drink himself to defeat but those have been fixed.

A fun mini-game ruined by bugs.

It depends on your class and build as well. Soldier runes were always incredibly OP on a shout guardian for example. With a 0 / 0 / 20 / 30 / 20 traiting and those runes, I can achieve a condition free state 24/7 in PvE and come close to it in PvP. Something I wouldn’t give up for some extra might.

Where do people see all these characters running out and about? I took my guardian for some map completion adventure and haven’t spotted more then four players while adventuring in mid-level zones. So I was left soloing events and champions as usual.

Red Queen.7915:

Actually, English is not so vastly different from most Scandinavian languages, and Finnish isn’t a Scandinavian language proper. Even so, the Cthulhu thing is only partially true; once you figure out what to do, Finnish actually the most logical language I’ve ever seen

I know Finnish isn’t a Scandinavian language. It’s an Uralic one. So it’s not Cthulhu speak, it’s in fact a glorious thing! Bloody difficult just like my mother tongue but glorious. One day I’ll learn Finnish properly. Just wish I didn’t have so much to do. Perkele.

English has a lot in common with the Scandinavian languages, yes. Even so, English is generally considered to be easier to learn. Most likely because it’s easier to get into. Learn some common words and throw them after each other in a subject → verb → object order. That’s it. Even if you know nothing else, this is enough to communicate on a basic level.

This is precisely why I rolled on the US side. I’d rather deal with the huge timezone difference than the folk who can’t be bothered to learn English even on a basic level despite the fact that it’s the most widely spoken language worldwide and so the best one to use when communicating it with others who are not familiar with one’s mother tongue.

If it’s possible to transfer between the two server regions then I advise all who wish to play in an English speaking environment to purchase some gems and get off of the EU side.

anzenketh.3759:

I would however argue that English is not the most easy to learn. It is actually one of the most complex languages to speak and write properly.

Ever tried learning one of the Uralic languages? Pure nightmare. English is a walk in the park compared to those or even to Slavic languages. Heck, I’d take English over whatever Cthulhu language Scandinavians are using.

This is the most beautiful own goal I ever saw. Restricting the boss spawns and moving them to impossible times caters to the unemplyed. Too bad that most of them haven’t got the money to spend in their precious cash shop.

Anet has managed to please the one demographic that won’t pay them a cent.

I came online after the update, eager to see the improved customization and test the PvE fixes. What I found was a game even more broken than before and with less customization.

Now content is more restricted, utilizes more grind, costs more and so it’s less fun. The one thing Anet achieved is convincing me to subscribe to WoW again because even with the coming six month content gap, there’s still a lot more to do than here.

Not to mention that I can do all of those things at my leisure, I’m not forced to grind for six hours everyday to be able to afford commodities like bags, gear sets or rune sets and I don’t have to pay more than 13 euros per month to access everything while here 13 euros get me about one outfit that I can’t even use before unlocking it with additional gems.

This would have been a fantastic game if it was built on a subscription model instead of a scam shop.

At this point, the game is for those extremely few people who don’t care about games enough to play them regularly and thus don’t realize that GW2 has very little content but are still willing to spend a boatload of cash when they happen to log in.

Tell me about it! If that girl thinks that I would want to be friends with such an airheaded bookah then she has a thing or two coming.

Not to mention the rest of them. I’m worried that the norn’s level of obtuseness is reaching a point where his mere presence will create a black hole. His fleabag friend could be useful to the cause as live dragon bait but she’s too sentimental. The raven haired human should be preoccupied with sorting out her own issues before taking on any foe.

It’s unsettling that the sole intelligent member is but a child. The virtue of being an asura still elevates her above the rest of course but could these morons not find an adult of our species to help them? Bah! Useless lot.

Anymras.5729:

Reading comments and agreeing are two vastly different things.

The thing is, they believe that they know what’s good for the game so they won’t waste time going through the forum, reading either suggestions or complaints. Even the CDI topics saw little sign of a higher-up reading all comments and those were initated by the company themselves. If this got implemented, that would become apparent and that’s bad PR.

That’s not going to be implemented because then it would come to light that the devs do not read our comments. At all. This is not a jab at Anet though. Go to the forum of any given game and realise that the company and the playerbase has different ideas of what would be good for the game.

You can afford to blow that much cash on a pixel sword but not to upgrade your computer so the game wouldn’t look like absolute sh*t?

It’s soloable. Facetank him until he starts doing the stomping animation at which point dodge backwards and then run back as he tosses a giant rock at people who are are not in melee range. Don’t kite him because he will reset. That’s it.

The health should get reduced though because the fight takes ages without being challenging. Same as most champions, to be honest.

Rata Sum, of course! I’d enroll in the College of Synergetics then spend my life researching genetic manipulation to make the species of Maguuma more… useful.

Excellent. Warrior tears sustain me.

In all seriousness, I can’t believe that warriors come here in here and complain about the nerf while keeping a straight face. I would break down laughing mid-sentence. Your class was incredibly overpowered in PvE (somewhat in PvP as well) and it was only a matter of time till that got changed.

Did it never occur to any of you how odd it is that your character has excellent damage, defense, sustain and speed all at once? While other classes struggle to fill just one of these niches.

There is no Jesus, Mohammed, Vishnu or Amaterasu in Tyria. Those characters are not named after deities in the context of the game. I’m more bothered by meeting Grenth, Kormir or Abaddon in the middle of Lion’s Arch.

Mattargul.9235:

@Slowpoke – This is about crit damage, not chance…?

As far as I know, critical chance will also be lowered. The last news I heard about this implied that at least. Is that no longer true?

(As a sidenote, what is the reasoning behind this change? All critical damage will be lowered so all characters are punished equally but it still leaves berserker as the optimal PvE build. Unless I’m missing something, it seems they just made killing things slower and thus more boring.)

I have a guardian in knight gear coupled with the talent that converts a certain percentage of toughness into precision. Due to the low power stat on this gear I depend on critting often to have a good (not cutting edge but good) damage output. The damage loss in itself would be bearable since all damage gets nerfed, not just mine.

The huge crit chance loss however is unacceptable and makes this build become useless. Which is unfortunate as I have tried my best to not give into the berserker meta but still perform well. Not to mention the amount of gems wasted on transmutation crystals.

Code.8615:

That you seem to be okay with paying over and over and over again to enjoy something you already bought is your problem.

You don’t pay over and over for the same thing. You pay for it to be monitored, fixed, balanced, updated and expanded.

How much permanent content has this game seen in the past two years? What is the amount of new items that were not put into the gem store? How many bug fixes, gameplay features and balance patches got rolled out and with what frequency? How long does it take to contact a representative when you have an account or in-game related issue?

There are no free rides. You’re not forced to pay anything more than the initial box price and that reflects on the quality of the game. Guild Wars 2 has the foundation to be an exceptional product but it lacks solid, constant funding and has to count on the unpredictable gem store revenue that might be sky-high one week and almost non-existent the other.

Still no one is addressing the issues that were brought up. I do not care how much the OP spent, how much the commenters spent or how much their dogs spent. Look, I’m sure we could find people who have spent thousands on the game while being online for a couple of hours each week before quitting or going inactive so their investment would be closer to a couple of dollars per hour. It’s not the point.

- patches and their timeframe
- WvW season bringing no changes
- class (un)balance
- lack of permanent content
- GW1 might have been more engaging

I know I’m asking for a lot here but could someone give their opinion on these instead of calculating the amount the OP spent per the hour?

MRA.4758:

Slowpoke.2749:

What should we tell to those who spent 300 dollars in the gem store?

Actually, I’d politely encourage that person to reconsider priorities in life.

~MRA

Great idea. Let’s discourage people from spending cash then complain when the game shuts down or stops getting updated due to lack of funding.

/high five

chemiclord.3978:

I dunno. If you were putting money into the gem shop… I would HOPE it was because you liked what you were buying. Why would you spend money on something you didn’t like or thought was boring?

Do you make a habit of throwing money at something you hate?

I got to know people who bought this and that from the gem shop. Skins, transmutation stones, finishers and minis most often. Sometimes town clothes or gold via gem converting. Some of them spent 10 – 15 euros per months which is close to the price of a subscription. Some spent more. All of them liked the game. Now two of them log in.

Those who have left have similar complaints. Huge imbalance between classes, uninteresting LS updates, minor tweaks taking multiple months, dungeons feeling stale. No idea about WvW. Neither them or I are invested into PvP. I dabble in it from time to time and know the basics but that’s not enough to formulate a proper opinion.

I love the people commenting “1500 hours for 60 dollars” without stopping to think for even one second. There’s a gem store. Looking at ncsoft’s financial report tells us that Guild Wars 2 made a lot of dough through the shop. A lot. The OP could be one of those who purchased gems using cold hard cash instead of converting gold.

What should we tell to those who spent 300 dollars in the gem store? No, that’s not uncommon. 500 dollars? More than 1000? Are they allowed to complain about the longevity of the game? Or was their investment still a great bang for the buck?

Instead of jumping to conclusions and riding the “it’s only 60 dollars” train, how about you reflect on the issues that were brought up? Is WvW getting stale? Did the living story feel like a success to you? Is it fine that we are expected to wait long months for small fixes and balance patches?

Letting people mod the content is a dangerous idea.
On the other hand, the UI needs to be more customizable.

“Dye unlocks now come only from crafting and from the gem store.”

One pack is two and a half euros. A subscription is around thirteen euros, give or take a few euros depending on the game and possible discount for making a bulk purchase. So for that amount I can choose to obtain five packs (adding up to 25 common and 10 uncommon or rare) in GW2 or get full access to all items in another game for a month.

Uh-huh.

I got into the game and was disappointed to see that none of those fantastic ideas of mine made it into the epilogue. Curses! Foiled again!

Can we least get a cutscene of Heal-O-Tron becoming high overlord of Tyria?

I’m going to assume that since AcidicVision has the achievement, he tries to defend it with all his might. Human nature is like that, aiming to make whatever we have as exclusive as possible to stroke our ego. No hard feelings, mate. It’s just not worth arguing with a broken record who has “people just didn’t work hard enough for it” on repeat.

Several of us told you that it’s not a question of just joining an advertised run and be done with it. Those might have been done at a time when we could not log in or we made it but could not get into the designated overflow or we managed to get on the correct overflow but the event failed because of certain undesirable elements.

As I said, I organized some attempts and three of those failed due to a couple of trolls dragging menders to the blue knight. Several other attempts failed due to entire groups of players going AFK near the bosses, scaling them up but not participating. I can not kick them out of the game. If I could, you would be right about the achievement coming down to putting in effort and coordination.

Ballitar Stryker.2109:

Slowpoke.2749:

Losing to a ranger is a sign that you need to improve. Losing to a ranger’s pet is a sign that you should immediately stop doing PvP. Those things are borderline useless.

lol, re-read the message guys, at no point did I say it killed me. I said it got me down, but the focus was to be on how far away from the ranger it got, and the other on the dead pet rez, I love how everyone goes straight to you must suck as a player. Typical forum chatter.

You do not suck as a player but PvP might not be your forte.

Their defense, offense, pathing and F2 casting time are all subpar which leaves the leash range as the sole good thing about them when used in a PvP environment. I’m massacring pets en masse without noticing due to how insignificant those things become when wandering into AoE. Single target damage wipes them out within a few hits even without berserker gear, leaving the ranger to stare at the pet switch CD while contemplating uninstalling the game.

Whatever class you rolled, just keep moving. The pet stops to cast the attack animation loop but as you run out of its attack range, it has to reposition itself and start over. Over and over.

The pet rezz is unreliable and bugs out on uneven surfaces, making the pet sit on the character’s face and do nothing. Sometimes happens on even surfaces as well. The healing seems to be average.

Compare that to guardians who can place a circle that damages foes and heals allies at the same time. The healing output is great. Or the elementalist vapor form providing a three seconds escape during which you can get behind allied zerg lines or gates, escaping death. I find it odd that no one complains about those.

Let’s hope that one day pets get brought up to par with other classes’ signature mechanic at which point their leash range will inevitably get nerfed.

Carighan.6758:

But, at what point do you go from zerg to not-zerg, then, when any individual player removed doesn’t do it?

At the point where individual skill becomes significant enough to make the event succeed or fail based on the performance of all the participants and not based on the overall damage output of the group. When I can go AFK in the middle of the fight knowing that it doesn’t matter unless I’m one of the top DPS kids, it means that there are enough people to compensate for the loss and so we win the fight through outnumbering instead of outclassing the opponent.

The AI of even the hardest enemies is cheap and relies on one-shot skills as the sole saving grace of the challenge aspect. Without them, people could kill bosses while being alt-tabbed to their Facebook farm.

Zerging eliminates even that danger. When someone goes down there is either a rezz incoming or the person remains on the ground with no one noticing their lack of contribution. As the mechanics are so simple, more than three people against a lone champion already constitutes as a zerg in this game.

Anet tried to eliminate the zerg by putting a hardcap on the knight fight without tuning the fight to be completable with even eight people but then those eight would have to use well thought out, difficult to pull off tactic. Kite it around, transfer aggro back and forth, make it lose a buff or gain a debuff through the use of environmental weapons, etc. What we got is 50 instead of 150 people auto-attacking a knight’s shin.

Losing to a ranger is a sign that you need to improve. Losing to a ranger’s pet is a sign that you should immediately stop doing PvP. Those things are borderline useless.

maddoctor.2738:

Kratos.6293:

There are many top tier MMORPGs coming out this year

1. EverQuest Next
2. Wildstar
3. The Elder Scrolls Online
etc

Does Guild wars 2 even stand a chance ? What do you think Arenanet should do to retaliate ?

Those games have Jumping Puzzles? No.

So Anet will counter with Super Adventure Box!

Speaking of which… I’ve been looking at the archived forum topics and found this gem.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/sab/Does-anyone-else-hate-SAB-1/first#post1883623

“But as far as bang for your development buck, SAB has done very well for GW2 proper, bringing back a lot of players who faded out, and converting a lot of WoW players.”

Seems like Guild Wars 2 was intended to compete with WoW. I wonder if that intention is still there?

Epilogue, you say?

We’ll get treated to a six hour long, unskippable cutscene about Female Columbo and Hiccup Girl having a wedding.

Rox and Braham are going to be the ring bearers, acting awkward throughout the whole thing because we all know that both of them just need to hug it out. Taimi will take care of the decorations, blowing up half the place and setting alight the other half.

Logan and Rytlock engage in generic bromance. Zojja and Eir get drunk then discuss the merits of not wearing underwear. Caithe spends the time sitting in a corner, moping about her dark past that Scarlet never actually revealed. That useless cabbage.

Captain Magnus takes his chances with the female guests at the wedding and succeeds. With all of them. Chicks dig the eyepatch.

Ellen Kiel and Evon Gnashblade realize that the plot needs MOAR romantic relationships and get together. In a future patch we get a retcon about Evon always having had the hots for human brunettes and Ellen having an adopted charr sibling who she kept secret until now. DUM DU DUMMM.

Trahearne ascends, ending up as the seventh human god and becomes best friends forever with Kormir as the similarities are undeniable.

The cutscene ends with an emotional musical piece that matches the tone of the entire Living World arc. Here’s the preview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MC0G-Lbuuk

kokiman.2364:

A.Nets stance on this topic is exactly what you see.

Nothing, they don’t care.

Their stance seems to be split. One one hand none of them comments on it. On the other, some of the staff were seen running around Lion’s Arch during the previous event arch, booting and suspending people who were AFK.

I love the smell of frontier justice in the morning.

hannah mee.7925:

The fact that the OP hasn’t suggested he made an attempt to get into an organized run or organize one himself just reinforces everyone talking down about achievement kitten.

Ever since the achievement fix went live I contacted guilds doing it, guested to different servers, even tried to organize some runs myself. I have put in the maximum amount of time and effort I realistically could and have nothing to show for it. The closest I came was 7 minutes and 46 seconds during an organized attempt that happened on Tarnished Coast main at late night.

Tomorrow the event ends and this is the last achievement I’m missing. I don’t know if there will be other missing achievements since I’m not sure that I want to support a game that is rife with bugs and poorly optimized content more than a year after launch. Almost two years, in fact. I’m just glad that it was given to me as a gift instead of wasting money on it myself.

Defeating Algalon or Professor Putricide wasn’t as frustrating as getting this achi and I remember wiping for a month on the good old professor.

I’m not averse to rewards being earned through challenges and skill tests but I’m most certainly averse to rewards being earned through sheer luck (being at the right place at the right time) because you can not reliably make 150 other people meet the requirements (being able to be there at the given time and knowing what to do, NOT being near the event in the case of heirloom hunters / AFKers / trolls to avoid scaling) and meet them within a one week timeframe.

The fight itself is not challenging. If these knights were WoW raid bosses, they would be a source of laughably easy gear and valor. Not even the achievement requires skill. Just a massive amount of obedient players. Preferably in zerker gear.

I’m not sure if that’s how it supposed to be but I get like 200 karma for a successful event when a full set of temple armour costs more than 250.000 karma. Right now I have around 120.000 with doing all the events I come across and never spending a single point of karma.

It’s hilarious that I managed to get enough gold to purchase a full set of exotic gear (and one of the most expensive ones at that) decked out with runes but I’m not even halfway to getting the same thing with karma. Isn’t gold supposed to be the hardest to obtain currency while karma and dungeon tokens are there to provide a cheaper alternative?