Guild Wars 2

Brisban Wildlands collection for Sunrise I is stuck. Server has only one map and it’s impossible to get enough people to be in new one. Restart or reset would be required. Skritts are in cages, another skritt is asking for help all the time but no event popping. 2nd day right now with same map.

206.127.159.101:0 map ip is stuck just to make it clear

Hume.2876:

Untrue. GW2 was meant to cater to all groups. Casuals are of course they largest groups so they get the most content.

But they have far more hardcore PvP and WvW then WoW has. They have events with money on the line.. Professional gamers are far more hardcore then anything WoW ahs.

Raiding is just meant to give some of the hardcore guilds something to do. It’s important to cater to your hardcore players because they head guilds, write guides etc etc. Arenanet was just throwing their PvE hardcore guys a bone. They already had some hardcore PvP guys.

The guys we had who wanted to raid were stuck with triple wurm and teq – and that become pretty boring for them. Good on arenanet giving them something to do.

Casuals OTOH have endless stuff to do – tons of bosses – tons of meta events – personal story, living story, collections etc etc etc.

GW2 is still pretty casual oriented – but that doesn’t mean EVERY SINGLE BIT of content has to engineered for casuals. Think of GW2 as an amusement park – not everyone has to ride every single ride..

Some guys only go on the water slide.. Some guys really just like the bumper cars etc etc.

I’m glad that there are people able to see this as it should be. In the end, you have not bought an expansion, you have bought a privilege to play on their servers an expansion. I see no problem with raiders having extra rewards, I’m uninterested and if some casual dares to say that they need to have that skin and that they demand access to the raid for them as well, I will gladly point out that as a filthy casual (such as myself) you shouldn’t have any business of collecting a cutting edge content rewards, let alone having an easy access to them.

Kaiser.9873:

@Triglavus none of this would be an issue except there are certain things locked behind raid content. It’s not like how ascended drops at a higher rate in fractals, but you can still get the equivalent items eventually in the other game modes. In this situation you will not get equivalent items at any rate.

I personally got burned out on raiding. It was fun for quite a long time, but it stopped being fun for me. My guild had beaten every raid available by the time I burned out. I prefer to spend my time fighting real opponents over scripted opponents now. However even the crafted ascended is PvE-gated. Where are high-end WvW players/guilds to go to get anything even close to equivalent to what you get in raids/PvE?

I honestly couldn’t care less. They are investing a lot more time than casuals are, I don’t mind having an item for them that I cannot get ever. It’s nothing game breaking so get over it.

I don’t understand why people whine that their super close small group of co-players is not cutting it anymore. You signed up for an MMO, not Team Fortress. Also, WoW is not hard core (PvE speaking) anymore. As soon as I pugged heroic boss on day 1 it was clear to me that casuals have won, game is totally casual and I left.

I find it extremely offensive that people cry that a guild of 3 is not able to get guild halls upgrades and that something is ’’locked’’ or ’’gated’’ behind ’’forced’’ 10 man raid content. It is an absolutely new addition to the game with focus on rewarding big groups of people for teamwork. You crying about ‘’not wanting to do content with people I don’t know’’ is not getting my sympathy and I hope none of the Devs sympathy. I’m sure Anet will nerf stuff if people CANNOT access it or is too difficult to get to.

Ps: The greatest raiding experience ever in game is World of Warcrafts Naxxramas 40 man (arguably, but a lot of people playing different games said this over the years single-mindedly). So the greatest experience in the game was also the most difficult. Less than 1% of entire WoW playerbase at that time killed 1 boss in the raid, let alone final boss. Despite this, it’s still the best raid they ever released. I’m pretty sure this speaks for itself.

GreyWolf.8670:

This attitude is why I left WoW. You’re welcome to return if you liked that.

What attitude? That casuals were getting everything for no effort? We can see exactly how well WoW is doing when the devs started to listen to the casual user base. Stop whining about how entitled you are to have some experience just because you paid something. Raids were not in GW2 before and you didn’t miss them. Now that they are there and you cannot do them, you miss them? Get over yourself. If you feel like the game is forcing you to do something you don’t like, stop playing and stop ruining it for everyone else. If you think you are so good at game design, apply for a game dev job at Anet and “fix” the game that way.

jweez.7214:

Im not sure what you are opposed to here. Would you be fine with two different modes if the reward disparity between two raid modes was very large?

Or under no circumstance would you be fine with two different modes for raids.

I’m just wondering. I have no skin in this fight because I don’t raid.

I’ve raided in WoW on 1 difficulty, 2 difficulties, 3 and ultimately 4 difficulties. Raiding at 1 difficulty was the best experience I had in game, ever. 2 difficulties sort of worked however balance was an issue and exploiting was everywhere. Having 4 difficulties was the worst thing ever. It does not work. Long time hard core raiders are unaffected however items are devalued heavily and makes everything boring and uninteresting. You either raid seriously or you are not interested in raiding at all. If you are raiding seriously, having 4 difficulties is a nightmare if you decide to raid min-expansion. No guild wants you because you lack experience from latest content and you lack gear. Experience you won’t get so you need gear. In wow, it was pain. Could it be better in Gw2? Certainly but it would be so much worse than what there is right now.

Oh wow. I hate all of you. I mean it. You are the exact same people that ruined World of Wacraft. You moaned, you cried and you demanded, DEMANDED, to see everything in the game without any real challenge behind it.

Why the hell does it matter that you paid the same amount of money for the expansion as hard core raider? The fact of the matter is that what you paid for the game is irrelevant when it comes to content. It is not gated, it is not forced. None is forcing you to do it. You want to do it, you are forcing yourself to do it. Stop shifting blame and assume some responsibility. Why should you, a casual gamer who doesn’t put as much effort as hard core raider, have the same game experience? Hard core games obviously puts a lot more effort into the game, he should have extra rewards for it. Do you seriously want to be rewarded for nothing? You paid money to experience some challenges, some difficulties and you don’t want that part, you only want rewards? Get over yourself. I’m not a hard core gamer anymore and I’m perfectly happy with not being able to see raiding in HoT. I don’t have time for it, I don’t find it interesting and I don’t want to be THAT committed to the game. I play, casually, and I like when I am challenged. Legendary will take me a long time to finish and I’m quite upset about it because I, as a casual, shouldn’t have access to it at all! Jesus, if you want to pay-to-win, go play something else and leave this game to people like me, that like challenges.