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Greetings to the GW2 community.
Since the launch of the game, I have been creating and using my own builds for my characters in both PvE and PvP. However, with the imminent release of HoT and its “challenging group content”, I thought I might seek out and implement other people’s ideas to change or perfect my characters’ builds.
Therefore, I am looking for some sites where I can do exactly that. I ’d prefer sites with a variety of builds supported by an enthusiastic and imaginative group of people, who are not into braindead warzerking gameplay.
Seriously? Is there even a single person that thinks a half baked Korean MMO will even touch the production qualities of an American or European MMO title? Grow up, kids. This is the real world.
As for the matter at hand, I ’d say that Guild Wars 2 is by far the best MMO on the market atm. However, there is still some work to be done before it can deserve the perfect 10. Standing at 9 for me now with the rest MMOs being at 7.5 and down.
If the people writing at my forums were like the kittens posting in these forums, I wouldn’t pay any attention either.
When I say PvE, I mean Living World content and World Bosses. For example, my home server hasn’t beaten Tequalt, but 3 or 4 times. I had to guest to Desolation in order to experience the whole fight.
Unfortunately, Gunnar’s Hold and Aurora Glade are 2 servers where the transfer costs 2400 gems, which is an amount I am not prepared to give.
Greetings, with the recent levels of stupidity in my home server rising faster than the temperature in a desert during midday, I am thinking of changing my home server and transfering to another one. I am only interested in PvE.
However, I am not really into servers’ population or the gameplay value they are offering. Therefore, I thought I should talk openly to the community and ask
Which are in your opinion the best servers for PvE in EU?
I am mostly thinking about Gandara, because it is free.
Actually, just do whatever you like and it is guaranteed that you are gonna make some money. Well… that is if you are one of those guys that are actually ok with getting stuff in 2 days’ time instead of one…
If you fail to see the way this game unfolds, better go back to WoW. Carrot on a stick seems to be your way of doing things.
What people are too stupid to realise is that Ascended Items are not there to be obtained in a single day, neither the crafting is supposed to be leveled from 400 to 500 within 2 hours. I believe that these statements answer every question regarding the Ascended issue.
Oh, mr Jatacid, why do you even bother? People are simply stupid whinners and they will always remain that way no matter the number of threads you create or the quality of the product they consume. After many years of social observation I have come to believe that the only thing people do not whine about is what they eat, even if it is hardfened kitten…
Hahahahahaha, that first post was a great laugh after all those months obliterating low level zones with level 80 characters. I was like “oh my God, did I accidentally log into the wrong forum?”. Haha, pretty nice, dude, keep it up.
EDIT: oh, especially the part about the Ascalonian Catacombs and the weaker characters… Hilarious.
-Personal Story – There have been complaints about personal story not being casual enough since many missions are hard by design unless you are X class or unless you bring friends to help you
A single tough mission every 20 personal story missions is a nice change of pace.
-Recent change to Risen: Apparently Anet have fixed a bug to the Risen unit which magically gives risen 100 extra skills that hit for even more and also the morale of escort quests for temples that makes those quests nearly impossible
Nearly impossible? Toughen up, kid.
-Fractals: Fractals are not for everyone since it takes an insane amount of time where you have to deal with supposedly the hardest dungeons in game filled with jumping quests and traps
Hellooo? Fractals have levels?
-queen’s gaunlet: Pretty obvious even though it was plagued with bugs.
Queen’s Gauntlet was easy as hell (as a full exotic warrior). Only Liadri needs a bit (and ONLY A BIT) of actual effort to get her on the ground.
Do not take me wrong, I am a really casual player, balancing my other hobbies with studying at uni and GW and I play an hour a day average. GW2 is the best combination of casual gameplay with tough bits now and then. If you think GW2 is a hardcore game, then Hello Kitty Online must be the game for you.
Toughen up, kids…
“Red Bull gives you WIIIIIIIINGS”
First game in which people say: “We need to try harder next time, team”, instead of “Oh, man, healer, you suck balls, look at your dps and tank, how can you die so quickly? Newb, I pwns and you sucks, gbye now, kittens, hope you ever do this dung and die”
Even if you give the community the most fun game there is out there, they would still find a way to exploit it…
It’s hard to look at the leaderboard as being competitive because it is all time based. Congratulations, you play 16 hours a day. It is not skill based at all, it just shows who has the most time available. Of course, there is a bit of other things involved, like who can optimize their time best, but that can easily be overridden by others with more time.
I know, I know. I can’t take it seriously either.
However, since people are crying over it, let’s humor them with simple solutions to a non-issue.
What’s more laughable than the achievement leaderboard? The people who complain about when they lose their spot on said leaderboard.
My thought was that Anet intended it to be fluff. (Achievement points in any game I’ve played in tend to be fluff, for the most part) It’s more like. “Hey, I got these points! I’m over there on the boards.” It allows for some chatter. Considering the indefinite, disorganized approach and lack of points balance, that seems to be the case.
Unfortunately, it seems like people take things too seriously. Then again, people have complained about meaningless mini games and random commander tags in PvE, and I’m sure if you moved a tree in the middle of a forest in the middle of nowhere someone would go on some rant about how Anet sucks and they’re leaving.
:(
Really now. I can’t even keep my achievement tracking visible due to all the clutter popping up and suddenly the greatest issue of the game is A-net showing some thanks to their long time supporters? What? Deal with it!
I haven’t seen such a decent post in these forums for ages…
Let me get this straight… People are complaining about a month’s woth of dailies and a monthly. Saying that the people who have shed tears and sweat on the developers’ previous game get APs they do not deserve.
Geez, if people knew what it got to max out the HoM, which from the start was created to gain rewards in GW2, they would probably award some GW1 players medals in REAL life…
I’d like to see account bound stuff, but considering it’s for the individual character I do not see this happening imo.
I’m hoping for:
Exotic Gear Box for your character’s profession.
Jugs of Karma.
Bags of Coins.
800 Gems. (enough to get 1 cool thing or multiple smaller things)
and a randomly generated account bound type item (BLK loot table, rare quality or higher)I know I’m dreaming, but this would be really nice. It should be as impressive to a monthly as the monthly reward is to the daily.
Seriously? You would want gear and gold for the 1-year birthday of the game? There is only 1 thing you cannot fix in a game… Its community…
I just want new maps and a new storyline concerning a dragon…
Wear the goggles. Buy a revive orb from the TP. Drop. Die on an obstacle. Use Revive Orb. Win.
I totally trust Colin’s vision.
^
Get in Arah path 3 with 2 support guardians and then without them. Then come here and post the difference.
You, sir, deserve a bravo for writing down all these things, which are absolutely correct. However, as I keep saying, there is only one thing you cannot fix in a game: community. The community is dumb. Even if you give them every tool and let them play all roles with every single one of a group of balanced classes, they will still go for raw power and start writing in the forums how “OP is the war, nerf war” and “zerk is the best way to go”.
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}Dps meter is useless in GW2. If you believe that a dps meter is necessary in GW2, please, stop polluting our forums with your garbage.
As much as I’d love to have a more epic complex fight, with the lag that often happens with Jormag and such it’s quite hard to do anything except autoattack.
You could lower the graphics a bit. And what about the other 2 dragons?
As I see from the popularity of this thread, there is little to no care for the matter… It is sad playing with such a community. I would like to thank all the people that commented.
More than a month after my initial opening of this thread, the issue still remains unresolved. Doomguard talked about “reworking” of the dragons but neither the latest patch nor the next one is going to have something to improve things. I am reopening this thread with all due respect because of the fact that I believe it is a serious issue disvalueing our gaming experience.
I do not know if anyone has actually written this above, however I really have to say:
If you are level 80, the new dailies beg to be done in Frostgorge Sound. Outside the Honor of the Waves instance, there are dozens of dead Kodan underwater with 3 events happening around the area every 10 minutes. That means that you can pretty much get all underwater kills, all events and all resses in a matter of minutes.
Guild Wars 2 is the most beautiful and well designed MMO in the market right now. However, the recent implementation of the ascended tier threatens to dissolve that primacy.
The dragons are already being reworked.
Could you please share a little more insight on that? Do you know what exactly they are reworking?
I did not manage to find a thread like that anywhere so, I am posting my suggestion under a new topic. Here’s the situation in my server:
During the Shatterer and the Claw of Jormag encounters players, instead of properly following the battle’s tactics and the “story” of the event, they choose to pile up on certain “safezones” where the dragons’ attacks would not hit them. Those spots are situated:
1. Near the right front foot of Shatterer and
2. near the left front foot of the Claw
Standing there, they simply spam their ranged attacks and wait until the boss is dead.
Such behavior, however, downgrades the whole feeling of the event and diminishes its epic impact in our character’s story.
Therefore, my suggestion is simple: Make the dragons able to rain death upon those safezones.
Just because someone tries to accomplish something does not mean it happens. Gearing up is a grind. Also, I can only think that the people who “grind” dungeons for skins only are the ones who have played for 700+ hours. Most people are grinding the dungeons for gear because crafting the set they want is not possible.
That’s not exactly right. If you are of the first Guild Wars’ generation, then collecting skins is something we normally do.
Which you are NOT required to get. The minimal increase does very little to make you stronger, and what little increase it DOES make, accounts for NOTHING if you can’t hit the person that’s killing you.
And If I can hit the person? Vertical progression is not optional.
There’s a small difference between ascended and exotic.
A small difference between exotic and rare.
A small difference between rare and masterwork.
A small difference between level 80 gear and 79.
A small difference between level 78 gear and 79.
And this goes on.No one says this is an astronomical impact, but it’s a fact that a difference exists and is there.
Stop using this ‘argument’ to try and debunk a fact. You are not required to get gear, no one is.The difference doesn’t matter. You can beat this game in “greens” with little to NO problem. That ALONE, makes it optional.
Arah path 3 in Greens is not little to NO problem.
There’s no required grind in guild wars 2.
Ascended gear.
Which you are NOT required to get. The minimal increase does very little to make you stronger, and what little increase it DOES make, accounts for NOTHING if you can’t hit the person that’s killing you.
EDIT: Fractals being the exception
I will just repeat what I said above. Wait until the full ascended set comes out and then we will see if the +120 power, +120 precision and +25% crit damage will make any difference.
And, as I said before, unless you can hit the person that’s killing you, it will amount to NOTHING. You can have +800 to everything, and +100% crit, and it will STILL not matter.
You are now obviously reffering to World vs World. I know nothing about WvW, nor am I talking about it. I am only concerned about gaming liberty in PvE.
it doesn’t matter ANYWHERE. Change “person”,"to “mob”…the end
Why wouldn’t I be able to hit a mob that’s killing me? Am I a kitten or something? Your argument makes no sense.
Were people doing dailys before? yes. Were there umpteen billion posts saying dailys were a grind before the introduction of laurels? No. But now that you can actually get something for playing exactly like you did before its a grind?
You don’t play exactly as you did before the new dailies. With the new dailies you play for the new dailies. If you don’t you won’t achieve them. That’s pretty straightforward.
Basically, Anet made dailies give too much good stuff, so that it’s worth a lot more than the past dailies. So when people see it now, their mentality changes from “Oh, it’s just a daily for karma and stuff… no big deal to miss…” to “Oh! It gives Laurels!? I must not miss it! Dang! I don’t want to grind this for those things!”.
I blame Anet for making dailies worth more than the past versions. Obviously people were going to say it’s now a grind :P. (I’m being sarcastic).
But, if you look at dailies from a more nit-picky point of view, dailies actually got less grindy. They gave us more choices and variety for the daily. Of course, not everyone looks at the small details. Just the general picture, and that’s dailies now reward laurels, which can be used for Ascended gear.
New dailies without rewarding laurels. Duh…
All this and STILL no way of crafting exotic back pieces or breathers.
They added ascended before rounding off the previous gear tier; of course they never planned to have ascended in the game. It’s a last minute bodge-job attempt to retain users who’ve already left.Instead of all this ascended crap, they need to really focus on finishing what was initially released.
They need to make all stat-combinations of exotic available through all means.
We need more than a few token exotic back pieces only available through karma vendors or fractals.
Breathers stop with Gavebeorn’s green masterwork one and go no further; you can’t even get an exotic breather through WvW.And then, they can finally concentrate on rolling out ascended properly. I still think it has no place in the game at all, but if they’re going to continue to roll it out, then they should do so with consistency.
When releasing a new type of ascended piece, they need to ensure that all stat combinations are available at the same time, as well as all routes of acquisition: crafting, badges of honour, dungeons, fractals, drops and laurels.The way they’re doing it at the moment stinks of panic and rushing.
Mostly agreed. However, I would prefer to see the ascended items being fully withdrawn from the game.
Were people doing dailys before? yes. Were there umpteen billion posts saying dailys were a grind before the introduction of laurels? No. But now that you can actually get something for playing exactly like you did before its a grind?
You don’t play exactly as you did before the new dailies. With the new dailies you play for the new dailies. If you don’t you won’t achieve them. That’s pretty straightforward.
I play the game exactly as I did before. I did my dailys before everyday for the karma and 5 silver. They want to give me laurels now? Great. It didn’t make the dailys more of a grind, it’s the exact same process (well different process now, which was sorta stupid) takes 15 minutes to half hour. It added no grind, except in your own mind.
To you, it is not grind, since you are doing the same thing. On the other hand though, there are also casuals, like myself, that choose to play 4 days a week due our work or education. With the new laurel system, casual people just can’t keep up with the rewards. Being forced to play each day definitely IS grind.
There’s no required grind in guild wars 2.
Ascended gear.
Which you are NOT required to get. The minimal increase does very little to make you stronger, and what little increase it DOES make, accounts for NOTHING if you can’t hit the person that’s killing you.
EDIT: Fractals being the exception
I will just repeat what I said above. Wait until the full ascended set comes out and then we will see if the +120 power, +120 precision and +25% crit damage will make any difference.
And, as I said before, unless you can hit the person that’s killing you, it will amount to NOTHING. You can have +800 to everything, and +100% crit, and it will STILL not matter.
You are now obviously reffering to World vs World. I know nothing about WvW, nor am I talking about it. I am only concerned about gaming liberty in PvE.
There’s no required grind in guild wars 2.
Ascended gear.
Which you are NOT required to get. The minimal increase does very little to make you stronger, and what little increase it DOES make, accounts for NOTHING if you can’t hit the person that’s killing you.
EDIT: Fractals being the exception
I will just repeat what I said above. Wait until the full ascended set comes out and then we will see if the +120 power, +120 precision and +25% crit damage will make any difference.
There’s no required grind in guild wars 2.
Ascended gear.
I think Anet is doing more experimentation than being greedy.
I had been thinking that the matter could only be resolved by the time an expansion sees an actual release.
Arenanet should stop with the ascended gear crap before it is too late…
Oh, it is too late by now.
I just don’t want to admit it just yet…
Vertical progression is a non-optional gear grind plain and simple. It is counter to the stated philosophy of Anet for the game and, as such, is inexplicable. I don’t know what they were thinking and I no longer trust what they say.
Totally agreed.
Judging from the videos they are just a bunch of kids with little gaming experience making it up as the go. They have shown the propensity to turn on a dime without looking back when it comes to design philosophy. I don’t trust a word they say.
Totally disagreed. ArenaNet has proved to be a great MMO publisher during the last years [Guild Wars 1, City of Heroes, Aion (at first)] and it seemed like GW2 was going to be THE game.
So for me and many players, it is not optional to get this gear tier.
It never was…
As for WvW, I do not really know a lot about that. I am mostly occupied with exploration and playing casually with my guild and friends. The only time I farmed a bit was when I gathered 60 gold by doing events around the world. However, now, I feel that things are just like other MMOs. I believe that this unfortunate change was a result of ArenaNet getting greedier with its plans, as well as because of a number of people whinning about totally irrelevant things in the forums.
Arenanet should stop with the ascended gear crap before it is too late…
Never do I want a raise in the level cap.
QFT, and those grinds you mentioned are by player’s choice, by the way and not entirely game breaking.
Well, once you get the full ascended set out and in order to complete the new dungeon, you are going to need the extra ascended stats, we ’ll see what is and what is not game breaking.
I agree in the most part with what you say. Guild Wars 2 was a game with no grind at all, except the cultural armors and the legendary weapons, which were not mandatory and therefore could not really be considered as “heavy grind”, as you say. However, all this changed since the introduction of the ascended tier. There is only ONE way to acquire each piece of ascended gear, thus making the promises of non-grind and liberty to the player simple marketing tricks. I mean that we are FORCED to log in daily in order to acquire the new amulet as well as perform consecutive runs of the Fractals of the Mists dungeon. I once thanked ArenaNet for making a great game for us, casuals, and right now I regret having done so. Let alone the fact that there are not many stat combinations for the ascended gear. For example there is no power, precision, toughness gear and therefore the liberty of making your character exactly as you want also goes away.
There are also those who defend the ascended and say “what difference are 5 points gonna make?”. Well, it is not just 5 points, it is much more, if you consider the fact of a full ascended set coming soon enough.
Generally, speaking, I could HAVE said that GW2 has no grind 2 months ago, but right now, I am very disappointed and I am just watching how things are going to evolve…
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