Guild Wars 2

First of all, I believe the meaning of the word ‘exploit’ when referring to dungeons, game environment, or combat is to use an unfair advantage, or ‘mistake’ in the programming of the game to ‘cheat’ and make the event easier than intended.

In my opinion, these items were put in the game to add variety and cool/fun things, to get others to go, “hey, that’s really cool, how’d you do that and where do I get one?” Prowlinger is right. You’ve got to go find these items, purchase them (sometimes doing an event to make them available), then figure out how to utilize these unique items. You can’t sit there and spam them to make everything easier. If anything, it adds to the complication of different mechanics during encounters. (Concerning Jump Puzzles, I consider them just that, ‘puzzles’… If there is more than one way to solve them, all the more fun!)

If the idea is to boil down all encounters, so there is only one way to do them, we’ll get to a point that we’re just pushing “+” and “-” at the right time, or you fail. If we wanted that, we’d go play Tetris…

A-net, please allow variety in the game. Don’t spend time changing stuff that adds to the depth and variety of the game. Fix dumb stuff, like ‘invisible walls’ where they don’t make sense (easy example that comes to mind is Mount Maelstrom, "I’ve been able to go up and down terrain just like this everywhere else on the map, now for some reason, there is an invisible wall?!?!…. If you don’t want us going that way, put up a barrier!), Dragons that just stand there and allow 50 people to whack on them (I think they’d try to turn, make people avoid certain action, etc…), or like fighting a L80 Champion and getting 1 Blue item (or, if 20 people are there and everyone gets 1 thing vs 5 people there and everyone still only gets 1 thing??? If we’re looting his STASH after a kill, wouldn’t less people get more stuff?). I’m sure everyone has their own little quirky concerns, but my point is, several of us LOVE this game because its different. Please don’t boil it down to make it just like every other MMO!