Guild Wars 2

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Are you going to address how you forced characters to train into builds using their hero points without their consent? :o

Why not. Basically there were two options, both with a large number of edge cases.

1) We wipe your stuff and let you respec as you see fit. Because so much had changed this was our initial plan. Here are problems it ran into.

• People return from a long hiatus and don’t remember what they were running
• People log in and the first thing they have to do before they can play is learn both the new unlocking system and the new build system.

2) We look at what you had equipped and unlock the necessary skills and traits to re-equip you. Here were some discussions points around that:

• We might give you stuff you don’t want
• at least this won’t matter for lvl 80s if we make all the unlocks possible by just reaching lvl 80.

There is a third option which I’m sure you will bring up.
3) let players choose
Here are some reasons we did not go with that:

• Its twice the work
• Its actually more than twice the work because it would have required temporarily saving both options until you choose which is more complex technical work.
• People who were unlikely to understand or want to explore the new system were going to be potentially more confused by the choice.

At the end of the day we wanted to ship this build so we had to decide. Based on instinct we erred on the side of helping people we thought would be more overwhelmed by the opposite choice, and I would make that choice again because it has less edge cases, impacts more expert users, and leans towards over unlocking for free to benefit most of the edge cases anyway.

Hope this info helps you understand our process a bit more.

Thanks,

Jon

I have 2 characters that are mid 20’s (an elementalist, and a guardian). I have not played either in a while and just signed onto them… they are both totally hosed! Y’all really should have just refunded our points and let us set them correctly. At least give us a one shot reset. At this point it may be best just to delete them and start over – at least I would get another key ha ha… Unbelievable setup guys.

I just signed onto my level 23 elementalist. I had his traits all set for fire… somehow they put all my points into earth. He has 0 points available to spend. From what I am reading there is no way I can reset him correctly? I think it would be best just to delete him and start over – at least I would get another key ha ha. what f’ed up “upgrade”…..

I was running around all evening on my shortbow ranger… what got nerfed? Seems just as good as always.

I was running around all evening on my Ranger with shortbow and crow. I did not notice any particular nerf. Still great. But why the crow so freaking good? Scrawny little bird…

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I main a Necromancer as a diremancer, I switch between corruptions and wells depending on the situation; wells are better served in WvW and EotM and I use corruption in Dungeons/fotM.

People whom are saying that Necromancers bring nothing to the table have probably never played one, or played one very poorly. I’d advise every person to try the class effectively before passing judgment on them.

:)

Anyone who has spent over 1 hour on necro, or looked at the necro forum for 30 mins could realize how many problems we have. Unless they’re seriously delusional. You have very rare instances where condi builds can be useful for things like husks, or dark fields to lifesteal through the Jade Maw, etc..but that’s like less than 1% of PvE content. And in PvP even people who hate terrormancers and lich cheese builds can see what sustain issues we have. I also hope by using wells in WvW/EotM you don’t mean you’re using dire gear! Because that’s silly!

But I probably don’t know, I might’ve played necro badly for over 5k hours.

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I use Dire gear all round, and I don’t pvP with my necro.

If you have active speed clear teams in your guild and you know how to run with them, Necromancers are probably the most useful class you can have. If you’re pugging kitten as a Necro that just shouts all kinds of badness towards my ears (or rather eyes).

Necromancers have to constantly adapt their builds to be useful in all situations in some way; most won’t make the effort to do that, hence our bad reputation.

Also you can’t really adapt your build to be useful if you’re running dire.

I saw this and didn’t bother reading the rest. It’s a typical response I see all the time – ironically, those are the people that spend half the time dead in FOTM 30+ or TA/Arah/CoE.

Because not everyone is good enough to run zerker? Or some people aren’t using zerker builds therefore inflating the difficulty for them as the fights take longer than they should?

You cannot like it all you want, but you cannot argue with years of experience the dungeon forum community has and has shown in videos.

If what you do works for you then that’s great, but you can’t really claim necros are amazing when you don’t use the most optimal standards that dungeons are run by. You’ll never see a necro in a fastest path record at this point in time. Claiming other people lack knowledge when you’re the one dismissing what basically everyone who has mained the class and run dungeons every day is just not going to help the class get what it needs, or help our Necros are bad reputation.

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My points were emphasising that necromancers aren’t AS BAD as everyone makes out to be. I didn’t say they were amazing at anything. I’m well aware of how speed runs work as I do them myself on my necro and have done ever since I started playing one.

Most people think ‘speed runs’ mean joining a group that has ‘speed clear’ in the title, it’s really a lot more than that.

What’s the difference? A fast run is supposed to be a fast run. Why do something in 15-20 mins when you can do it in 5-10?

Because I simply think that expecting ‘speed/fast’ runs from pug lfgers is absolutely silly.

I have never understood what the hurry is. It is a game. Relax, play the game, and have fun. If it takes 10 minutes or an hour – who cares – as long as it is fun. Is it a race?

My favorite classes are Necro (minion master) and Ranger. Both are great. I let my pets do most of my killing in both classes. My Ranger dies way less than my Necro. But both are great fun to play.

Never could warm up to Guardian. My son says it is good – maybe it is just not for me.

PvM and PvP should have always had different reward systems. This is a great move – and about time!

I don’t know anything about Druids but I play a Ranger and love the pets! I use the black bird (crow?) and can stand back and just let him do most of my killing. Some of the cooler looking pets needs some buffs….

On my older characters it has not been a problem. I just re-spent my points and have the same trait setup I had before. But I just started my first new character since the trait changes – it is horrid! This is the worst thing for new players I have seen. But after so many months I doubt they would change it back ha ha…

This thread shows a lot of customer dissatisfaction though.

Trading Post … makes sense. thanks

I never saw it before today. The first 2 times it was OK, I guess cause it was new… then it quickly became annoying. What is the point? certainly hope it is temporary or at least isolated to the tower.

TP? Who is that? I am unfamiliar with the initials. If I have to rely on the RNG I will never get it ha ha! My random… is never very good…

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Or the lotro costume system which was completely fantastic! And they made money by allowing people to buy more costume slots for them to swap around. It allowed you to have your set of armor, and then around 3 different “outfits” you could change to.

That would be great for us and a money maker for them! And I would prefer the items are account bound, not soul bound. Arena Net would still get the money – but I would be more inclined to work for the items/buy some. Actually I will not buy anything that is not useable by all my alts.

I was totally bored with the Halloween zone, and stopped very quickly. The GW1 holidays had more content. But… so far the nightmare tower is better than the Halloween.

I found a great bone helm (don’t remember the name) and transmute it any time I get better headgear. It was the only thing I found that looked good on him.

I have a question about Monthly Achievements. Shouldn’t the “Monthly WvW Player Kills” be on the monthly PvP achievement instead of the standard monthly achievement? Not a big deal but it makes no sense.