This is what the game has become.
I found this quite boring. If I wanted to play a who done it type game I wouldn’t be playing this game. There is way too much reading and dialog anymore for what is supposed to be a game. Its hard enough trying to remember all the locations in the game, let alone many character names for a story.
The jumping puzzles are also annoying and just make you not want to play. A PC is not designed like a console is for doing tons of jumping. Thats why you don’t see it in other PC games.
What’s so hard about it? Kill the menders and dps the statue when RYTLOCK TELLS YOU…
I don’t recall him ever telling me when to.
I agree with the first post. Something like this doesn’t belong in the storyline as it is. But then again that doesn’t surprise me with this game.
Not counting the bug, these events are all taking WAY too long to do. Then you end up getting nothing from it. But then again the game never rewards you anymore unless you buy the reward.
If they insist on it taking that long, then remove the stupid timer.
The people playing this game IS going to ruin it. This has become one of those games that so many brag how great they are on the forums, and how “easy” a game is. It makes me want to quit this game, because I can’t stand anyone with that personality.
They made the Cursed Shore area so hard that no one ever goes there anymore for boss fights. Thats exactly what will happen with this dragon as time goes by. The ONLY reason anyone is even attempting it is because they are baiting them in with higher level rewards. Its not because they enjoy it. Its like Bing.com paying people to use their search engine, then bragging about how popular they are.
Yes the dragon needed to be harder, but they went totally overboard with it, like everything they do. Whenever they nerf something, they do the same thing. Take it to the extreme.
Actually that probably is a good name for it now.
Its Arenanets idea of “difficulty” either one shot kill you, or flood the area with area effect spells to one shot kill you.
Its a joke.
Their in game emails, there is too much thinking and reading going on, for a GAME that is supposed to be about fun.
Its like most of the events anymore. Which is bad news due to the fact that they don’t plan on putting out expansions, just this type of stuff.
Their whole event system is so confusing. I went to their latest event, only to realize there is some timer ticking away that I wasn’t even aware of, apparently I’m supposed to collect something, but its already expired now. What a joke.
It was fun until they nerfed the area. Its so ridiculously hard now its impossible without a large group. No one seems to go there anymore either because of it.
I don’t know either, but its sure is BORING standing around. Its like they don’t want you to have any fun in the game. They nerf everything that is fun.
There is no reason they can’t announce the times when the fireworks are on.
I see a lot of posts about this. And no posts from the developers, so I assume they don’t care.
Being killed in one or two shots is not fun. Basically its the game cheating to beat you.
I would bet the loot would be bad also.
I agree, its poorly executed. You don’t stand a chance against the other mobs, and don’t even get a chance to fight the queen.
Then non of the waypoints are open except one a zillion miles away. You then run all the way back only to not be able to get into the camp because of a zillion mobs standing around guarding it.
That is NOT fun.
Another lame event. Most people don’t even get the chance to fight it because of the ton of other mobs that one shot kill you.
So they nerfed the events that were happening there, that were actually fun, and replaced it with this.
More than likely they have less players playing, which allowed them to “increase” the server capacity. Otherwise they would have set the maximum size earlier.
But I’m sure I’ll get infracted again for stating that. Its a biased forum run here, that distorts the truth.
No. I also don’t feel any more powerful than any other class.
Making a thread like this is just asking for yet another guardian nerf. The guardians were heavily nerfed more than other classes in the past. I never even use the great sword anymore sine they nerfed that. There are also plenty of other problems the guardian has with other weapons that never get improved on.
Our ranged skill is bad, and we only have one choice to choose from for it.
I haven’t ever paid to buy chest keys, but I don’t see how anyone can defend them doing that. The whole purpose of having an online store is to make money there. They lose nothing by putting the item in the store to buy.
The customer is the one that loses when they have to literally gamble real money for it hoping they might get something. That’s how you make unhappy customers when they get nothing in return for their money.
If they want something not everyone is able to have, then it needs to be something rare that drops for free.
Well how else are they suppose to make money as it has no monthly charge not that i bought any but just saying
They made money from the game itself, and make plenty of money from the store. There really is no excuse to add a ridiculous lottery to the game just to rob people of their money. I’m sure some states even have laws against online gambling.
The only thing that bothers me with the banners is that a lot of times I end up picking them up by mistake during a fight, and I have to figure out how to drop it.
Especially the Jormag fight where you are reviving people non stop.
It’s also like most of the stupid puzzles in the game, your forced to have to hunt down some website to figure it out. That is another thing I can’t Stan’s in games, is riddles/puzzles. If I wanted that I would be playing some other game. It doesn’t belong in the personal storyline.
It’s been a long time since I did that part of the story. I had forgotten about it, but definitely remember not liking it, and also thinking it didn’t belong in the personal story. It made me angry doing it. So your not the only one. I was able to eventually finish that one.
I am also not a alcoholic drinker in real life, and really dislike drinking games within games.
Its most likely this sound bug that so many others have had, that never gets fixed. Its been this way for many months. You will hear this odd sound then the game will crash.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Sound-Bug/page/17
The Dragons are the only place it happens for me (in PvE).
Funny how so many here claim its so great. It has stopped very little whenever I have used it. In fact I literally am embarrassed to use it, due to it being so ineffective.
People will run in the bubble only to die.
This is just another skill that is a joke in my opinion. It stops/prevents very little damage, and it also lasts way too short a time.
There are way too many mobs that cast that ground attack spell that the sanctuary does nothing against.
I do NOT want a randomized timer. That would be incredibly lame. Then no one would ever get to fight a dragon… What are you going to do, stand around all day in a boring zone waiting for one? That would remove a huge part of this game, and might even kill the game.
Some of these recommendations are just ridiculous anymore, if you don’t like the people in the events, then don’t play the event. Don’t ruin it for everyone else.
" see what they’re trying to do with this living story, but ANet has a bad habit of being so vague that it only real viable solution is to ask someone in map chat and hope for the best."
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I totally agree with you. In fact I was about to reply the same thing until I read the rest of your post to see you already state it. To me the events seem confusing. Even the in game event mail seems cryptic for all the events. I usually have to find some website to find out.
End of the year for pve culling to be removed? That is too long. I would think it would be easier to remove it from pve than wvw.
It’s very annoying, and the game ran just as we’ll or better when it didn’t have it in pve.
I sure hope Arenanet doesn’t remove the loot like this thread suggests. They will lose many customers if they do.
The lag for me was MUCH better when I played yesterday. I had no lag at all in any of the events. There were just as many people playing in them also.
Getting rid of loot for boss events would be incredibly stupid and most people would agree with that. Either they changed something with their servers to cause this lag, or its due to guaranteeing a rare item for each fight, that has caused it.
If they got rid of good rewards for events, I would never do them again, and probably would stop playing totally. There are always new games coming out.
They definitely are insanely overpriced, and that is an understatement. Then I see people posting here it isn’t high enough??? I can guarantee you those people already have the armor and want it raised so no one else has their look. Logic tells you so.
All these high prices do is numb me for the desire to buy anything in the game anymore.
So in reality, it may backfire on them. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I’m not impressed at all with this Living Story. The events are just so lame. The mobs die literally in less than a second, you don’t even have time to try to kill one. It also feels like a HUGE grindfest.
I don’t know if this is a one time thing or is supposed to be a daily? If its a daily, I will never do it again.
There is no overpowered, just some classes might be underpowered.
If its as easy as a few people claim here (which its not), then the poor loot IS fine.
You can’t make your argument both ways.
Whoever was posting here claiming the area effect spells are not bad, has definitely not played it. Because it covers such a large area its literally impossible to avoid.
Then the game decides to drop you where ever it feels like, and insta kills you. There is NO skill in most of this fight. Its just like the Fire Elemental used to be, they just moved it to this mob.
This is happening in Lions Arch also, every time I logged on tonight I got disconnected with a minute or two. (Sanctum of Rall).
Let me guess, you can’t replicate it.
I don’t see any reason why they can’t add mounts, as long as they can’t be used during combat.
If they ever did add it, I would bet they would save that for an expansion pack.
The game does not need more nerfs. Unless of course you want to drive everyone away from this game. I have about had it already with all the nerfs. Your latest “knee jerk reaction” nerf to the guardians spirit weapons was uncalled for. You totally destroyed it, literally. Now you want to do this to the AOE skills.
I get the impression that the person doing this nerfing is getting beat in PvP and is angry.
These new “dailies” are actually a hidden/disguised nerf to the dailies in my opinion. They made them harder to complete because they don’t want anyone getting any karma.
Crafting 10 items daily? That is ridiculous.
Its definitely still doing it. It stopped doing it for a week for me recently, now its back to doing it again.
I agree with the first post also. I also disagree with anyone who says the complaints are not as big as people make them out to be. They definitely are that big. There is no excuse for literally destroying the spirit weapons.
I should also add, I have also not even used the 2 handed sword again since they nerfed that.
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It’s like I said in a thread before, these nerfs will never stop because there are always the people who will defend Arenanet no matter what they do.
Anyone claiming these spirit weapons were overpowered has never played a guardian using them. They have such a very short duration, and on top of that, rarely swung to attack in that short time, that no one can honestly defend this nerf that totally destroyed them.
A lot of the Guardian skills I haven’t even chosen to learn the skill even though I have the points, because so many of them seem worthless. Now they destroy what few I even liked/used.
Maybe the guy who nerfed them was getting beat by them in pvp player or something.
They most likely get nerfed as long as people keep accepting the nerfs as ok. You always have people defending the nerfs.
There was no need for the spirit weapon nerf. Its bad enough we have to use up two slots for them, and they last such a short time, and swing/attack so little.
This definitely did not need nerfing. They already nerfed them in the past. Now they most likely are totally worthless. They last such a measly short time as it is. I’m betting the guy nerfing them doesn’t play a guardian.
“make classes that are good at single target damage stand out a bit more”
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Huh? They already stand out. Just go to the mists and practice damage with a single target class, like a Thief, and compare how fast it takes to kill the same single mob compared to a Guardian. A Thief can kill a single target very quickly. They don’t need to nerf other aoe classes which are much slower at single targets.
They better not nerf the Guardian AOE. That would make me very angry. Our single target attack is so pathetically weak as it is, the ONLY thing a guardian has going for them is an AOE attack.
Doing this has a high chance of me giving up on the Guardian completely.
I wasted 100g in the forge trying to get The Legend. It’s a process I won’t soon forget and one that I’ve told all my friends about.
Legendary
I was not aware of the cost of all this until reading the forums. Guess I will stop all crafting as it obviously is a total waste of time and money. I have also lost hope in getting any armor that I liked.