Guild Wars 2

Poplolita.2638:

hmmm… I’m not sure why I have the impression that casual players are acting more and more like a hardcore player but in the reverse side. Aka, hardcore casual players. Players who plays a lot, but ask for easy mode or nerf in pve with AMAZING reward content instead of hardmode content in world pve.

This phenomen seems to only exist in gw2, I have never seen any other mmo where casual players cry to nerf a “hardmode” pve boss, either it’s in a instanced raid or in open world pve. They usually ask for an easier more with a lower reward (You got plenty of them in gw2) but no. It seems you have to have the same exact progression as the player who plays 12hours a day.

I’m a pvper, and rarely pve. But this kind of mentality is really fascinating.
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Want to know why?

These words:

So if you love MMORPGs, you should check out Guild Wars 2. But if you hate traditional MMORPGs, then you should really check out Guild Wars 2. Because, like Guild Wars before it, GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn’t have a monthly fee.

Mike O’Brien, the ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto

Emphasis mine.

Thus far, we’ve seen absolutely the opposite in regards to the new Tequatl fight. People spending 10, 12 hours in overflows to get on their home server, hours of preparation to get a defeat on the part of guilds, etc. for open-world content is madness.

If it were an instanced version of the lower-tier Tequatl boss, that’s one thing, and I’d support it wholeheartedly. But this way? Making it an effective roll of the dice? No kitten way.

(but then again, we already threw out the “no grinding treadmill” with the introduction of Ascended items, didn’t we?)

Drakkon.4782:

Did you hear about the Iron Legion Engineer who was looking for a better energy source? He bolted a piece of buttered toast to the back of his warbandmate and threw him off the side of the Black Citadel. The results were quite effective.

…when the reactor blew…

It’s almost like we don’t already have a thread for this matchup.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/8-23-TC-CD-FA/

Korbaal.6402:

I’ve had so much fun squishing TC like a bug this week.

such pro

redhand.7168:

Granted, the Champion of Balthazar was pretty well up there. My problem with the boss fights is that with a decent player turnout, you could always kill the boss in just a few short minutes.

Content that cannot be beaten the first try is fantastic. Content that requires a little cooperation is more fantastic. Content that can’t simply be DPS’d to hell is even more fantastic than the last.

I don’t care if most of you can’t get him below 90%. This is one boss that you’ll be able to brag about once you finally beat him.

And I can’t wait until we do bring him down.

Thanks A-Net.

As long as they don’t pull a Square Enix and make a Pandemonium Warden or Absolute Virtue scenario, I agree with you. Thus far it doesn’t seem that’s the case. The time limit seems the biggest obstacle, and I am certain that by the end of the day we’ll collectively figure it out.

The fight should be decently difficult enough to keep the players busy but should also be enjoyable. I get that the fight right now is uncomfortable seeing as we’ve effectively been handed everything on a silver platter since launch (the Fire Elemental pre-nerf being a notable exception), it’s going to be good to get this down.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

I believe he’s going to spawn more often during this week.

So, he’ll spawn more often when I’m not online.

No pleasing some people.

Kitten glad to have the old team together. Feels like home.