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Thanks for the reply, Matthew.
I would like to see the hover feature to be back in some form or another, as it was quite convenient. Perhaps have it show the general currencies only. It would save me plenty of clicking just to fast check the laurels or the spirit shards I have.
I agree, having just the basic currencies like the ones we had before would work quite nicely without needing to fret about potential expansion of the list.
I tested it. It sucks. Nice troll build, at least.
Why don’t you back up your bold claims with bold evidence?
Why should anyone have to disprove what you have not proven?
Why should I have to prove anything to anyone? I found my info, I shared it. Do what you will.
Because you bravely posted it on the forums as the new “meta.” At the moment I’m assuming you’re a troll.
The new meta? Where did I say that? Meta-Battle is the name of the website I posted the gear on.
Posting an allegedly high damage build that outdps’es everything before it is posting a meta build, whether you think so or not.
I tested it. It sucks. Nice troll build, at least.
Why don’t you back up your bold claims with bold evidence?
Why should anyone have to disprove what you have not proven?
Why should I have to prove anything to anyone? I found my info, I shared it. Do what you will.
Because you bravely posted it on the forums as the new “meta.” At the moment I’m assuming you’re a troll.
I tested it. It sucks. Nice troll build, at least.
Why don’t you back up your bold claims with bold evidence?
Why should anyone have to disprove what you have not proven?
With the coming advent of multi-guild chat, we no longer have to forego repping actual guilds in favor of using a dungeon guild as an LFG. Most dungeon guilds like to think of themselves as an actual guild, though it could be due to necessity. Are there any dungeon guilds created for LFG purposes only? It’s obviously a bit early to make one of these without the functionality being there yet, but it would be nice to have multi-guild chat launched with a guild already prepared for it.
If you steal again without using the stolen item, it will be replaced/overwritten by the new one.
If the item gets overwritten, then having an F2 slot won’t make that much of a difference.
In most cases, Thieves are going to end up still using their stolen item prematurely to get the most out of their skills since it will be replaced otherwise.I feel like allowing thieves to hold on to their stolen item and not having steal replace it would create more play. That way stolen skills can be saved on the F2 slot for the perfect time, and steal can be used freely, since the skill (especially with traits) is highly multipurposed aside from the stolen items it currently provides.
The point is that sometimes you want to steal again instead of using your item, and without this new f2 change you’d need to use the item before you could steal again. For example when running thrill of the crime you’re primarily using steal to proc fury. With the new change you can keep spamming steal to stack fury instead of needing to use whatever dumb item you just stole (sometimes you steal things that strip defiance, so it forces you to either stop stealing, possibly mess up defiance stacking, or get away from the boss to use the item).
Hero Points & old characters: breach of trust
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Vakrir.4829
Alright, so I’ve tried to just deal with this change without complaining, and I’ve done 65 skill challenges on 4 of my alts so far (of 12 characters minus my two 100%‘s), but if I still need 60 more skill points to get the new elite specialization on those 4 and 125 skill points on my other 6 characters, I think I’m going to be sick.
Do you really think you will need the same hero points to get the new elite specialization? That would be lame as kitten.
IIRC they said you’d need level 80 + ~65 skill points to get the main specializations, and since the main specializations are 60 points each I’m assuming that the elite will be as well.
Hero Points & old characters: breach of trust
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Vakrir.4829
Alright, so I’ve tried to just deal with this change without complaining, and I’ve done 65 skill challenges on 4 of my alts so far (of 12 characters minus my two 100%‘s), but if I still need 60 more skill points to get the new elite specialization on those 4 and 125 skill points on my other 6 characters, I think I’m going to be sick.
So far I’ve done 260 skill points out of 1250 needed to be back to where I was, and I’m completely exhausted. I’ve been doing this for about 5-6 hours, and the thought of putting 20-25 more hours (especially with classes I don’t like as much) of raw map completion grinding just to be back to where I started before this makes me shudder, not only for me but for everyone else who hasn’t even attempted this yet and especially for newer players who hardly know the maps, much less can map complete 10-15 of the areas without traits.
This should definitely be redone or removed. I’d even prefer the “go read a book” method that’s currently in place to having to continue this mind-melting work, and would further prefer the original system. My condolences to WvW’ers, this is much worse for you.
Hero Points & old characters: breach of trust
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Vakrir.4829
They’re not going to let people keep trait points, because Arenanet never adjusts their plans. They said they’re going to make you do skill challenges, and so they are. They’re completely severed from their playerbase, no matter how loud you yell.
If you can’t fix part of it, break all of it. Seems to be a trend recently.
My guard sword 2 skill has about a 50% success rate now, I don’t even try to use it anymore.
Confirming this.
I’m on the opposite side of this; thank you!
I have played many game online GW 2 being only 2 years old and you think the game is Dying??? I am new to the game but really I don’t see the need for Doom here at all…. Look at some other games I will not list them here but many are 4-8 years old and people still play them maybe not in the Big numbers that did when the game started…. Every game goes through several growth issues… I may play one for awhile then swap to another one…. But I don’t ever really just fully quit…. I just feel that looking at the negative is not helping any thing at all….
I think you misunderstand what we are talking about, From someone who says he has played many “online games” I thought would understand where this is coming from. For a mmo business to ignore the input of what the majority of the gaming community wants to see is a bad sign, that is why in my post i said 1 year from now. The game is almost 3 years i believe and we have not seen much. Other mmos I have played evolve much quicker and try out new things whether they fail or not they try. I have played since gw1 so that is why i am voicing my concern for the future not really the present atm. You talk about how every game goes through growth issue which is true, but not sure if you noticed that only the die hard fans are still playing those games that did not evolve, not only that but those game that do not evolve have no new content being shown or rarely. So where did the rest of the population go? They move on from game to game hoping to find a MMO that is truly evolving and different. Look at wow, why do millions still pay to play the same mmo? There are many reasons but one major factor is that they keep pumping out new expansions and things to do and explore, and of course you still have those die hard fans.
No I read and understand Fully.. I think what you are missing is the fact it takes time to develop content.. Also if they did every thing players wanted they would never get any thing done at all…. No game company does thing in any fast manner at all.. I have worked in soft ware development and I can say it takes time… Does a car manufacture make every improvement some one says they want??? I think not…. But I am done here have fun with the Doom and complaining… Maybe some other game can cater to how you want it…. I don’t think any really will please every one…
I can’t hear you over all this content.
All hostilities aside, I do still play the game, but I haven’t paid anything since I purchased on release day. I have never bought gems, only converted gold for them.
However, I would likely very quickly pay $50-$60 for a full expansion. Is that profitable? Or is it more reasonable to support the game through micro-transactions fueled by convenience tools (e.g. bag slots, infinite gathering tools) and aesthetics (outfits, weapon skins)?
I almost feel bad getting a continually-updated mmo that’s pretty good quality compared to other mmo’s (though some aspects certainly need improvement), which I’ve been playing for 2+ years now for only a one-time payment of $60.
I do agree with OP though. I don’t finding Living Story to be very exciting and eventually, without significant new content, I will also leave. I have tried several games over the past year to replace GW2 since it does seem to be getting stale. In the end, none of the games I’ve tried have been good enough, but eventually something will be. But I would definitely pay money right now for a big lump of new content.
Same here, I’ve played 1.7k hours and used to buy $10 of gems per month before this train wreck of a dev team showed its incompetency. This has to be intentionally bad, there’s no other way that they would just release the same halloween content (and dialogue) and it’s more broken than it was last year, and on top of that they haven’t fixed the main attraction (phase 2 of Prince Thorn story) in 2 days. The fix can’t be that hard that it would take a team or even one person (or a monkey) 2 days.
Maybe they’re killing the game intentionally to get people to switch to subscription-based Wildstar?
Not worrying about a Legendary weapon. Just another time, money sink is all.
They fix something and you guys STILL complain.
Skipping is not intended. If they were going to fix anything, it would be the skips themselves.
It actually is, especially in Arah. The most obvious case is the spider room in p2. There’s a suit out there, waiting for people to jump into it to push the spiders out of the way. It’s a whole mini-event that people can do, but those with skill don’t need to do it.
There are other examples, but I don’t feel like listing them.
As for the “rewards only for killing everything”, I’d only like to see it add to the rewards that are there.
1 place that’s sort of like skipping and suddenly skipping is intended?
I like to run my giver’s guardian at world boss events just for fun. Boon dispensing, healing, making things run more smoothly for others. It’s not like you need full DPS at world bosses.
i think because people follow the blue taco around and a hard to die taco is a good taco.
As a warrior main, I agree that warrior is by far the most versatile profession. I’d rather that warriors are nerfed a tiny bit, and that other classes are brought up to the amount of all-around usefulness of a warrior. I mostly only use other classes when I’m doing dungeons.
Gems aren’t directly equal to money for Anet. Gem sales go to NCSoft first. Given that Anet has stopped being community friendly and has rather just taken a back seat with their public face, there’s really no reason to support them. The odds that your money is being put to good use is worse than a precursor drop.
I’m not against map completion being hard, I’m against WvW colors never switching. There’s really no reason for them not to switch. Here on JQ we’ve been green forever, I think we may have gotten a blue every 7-8 weeks. I’m on my third map completion and it’s just not going to happen. My last 2 POI’s are at the red keep in EB. When is that going to happen? I don’t like legendaries, I just like to have the star.
Why don’t they just rotate every week? What’s the big deal? What reason is there for this new system?
Skipping is not intended. If they were going to fix anything, it would be the skips themselves.
A nit to be picked. Would be nice to have 8 slots on the character select screen.
Why, then, would you want to bring more than one warrior, when you could instead bring 1 (covering both banners and EA) and fill the rest of your slots with higher dps professions?
So you can balance banners and ps/ea so you don’t have a useless 5th member that hits like a tissue paper. By all means, kick warriors and replace them with necros, you heard it here first.
If your team is halfway decent you will have might stacking covered, and PS would only lower dps. It’s also not hard to find someone to carry your second banner. Not even guang thinks necromancers are good in dungeons, but you may be interested in seeing DnT’s fully buffed necro vs war dps comparison.
I’ve found might stacking in groups to be difficult without PS because most people can’t kill the target in less than whatever the might blast duration is, and then you end up with 0 might. PS guarantees you’re always at 25 stacks for the whole party, and is especially useful against trash when you’re not going to bother to might stack anyway. Also the second banner problem is bigger than you might think. Most people just don’t notice banners and forget, even if they plan on taking the other banner.
Necros are just plain not recommended, there are many better classes you ckittene. I would take literally any other class gladly over a necro.
S/d ele with strength runes can open a fight with like 6 blast finishers, use LH until they run out of conjure charges then restack it again and take out their second LH. With persisting flames you would be giving fury as well and there would be no need to run a low DPS phalanx strength build, you could just have a regular dps warrior spamming FGJ off cooldown and dropping both banners in the fire field. Just because you play with bad groups doesn’t mean more than one warrior is suddenly good, it just makes a group a bit more idiot proof.
Idiot proof is fine. My usual groups don’t go for top times or anything, but we try to get through the content as quickly as possible while not making it a chore. If that means less work for an ele in exchange for killing a boss 1-2 seconds slower, I’m completely fine with that.
>Anet here’s a great new original fresh idea! DUELING!
your sarcasm makes you look dumb. i put “dueling” at the beginning….aside. the MAIN idea was mainly nice architectural structures in the world…..howtoreadingcomprehension?
99% of your post was about dueling. There are already nice structures in the world.
Oh look it’s this thread.
>Anet here’s a great new original fresh idea! DUELING!
The problem is, people try to get to events. And it frustrates people to get to them late and miss out after spending the silver to teleport to them.
Waypoints only encourage zerg mentality because it takes less than ten seconds to reach every imaginable part of the map. They are one of the reasons why every single world boss event is overrun by 50+ player zergs which transform those events into highly boring auto-attack spam festival fireworks. World events should not be done with every person which managed to double click a waypoint on the map ten seconds ago. The importance of location is absolutely meaningless with the current waypoint system.
I will repeat a proposal I made a couple of months ago – remove all the waypoints and replace them with one Asuran gate per map which would be used to reach other maps (Asuran gates). These Asuran gates could also be used as resurrection shrines for those who got defeated during events etc. Yes this kind of change would probably be seen as inconvenience by people which got used to the current system but a) it would make the game experience more believable, b) encourage exploration instead of simple waypointing, c) reduce number of players which form wold event zergs (hence make the events way more enjoyable).
This isn’t going to happen. Point A is fluff. Point B isn’t true because you have to get to the waypoints first. Point C is your own opinion, and would also mean less people get to play the content. I wish you luck on convincing anet to change the game so dramatically for your own selfish reasons, which will undoubtedly make a large percentage of the player base straight up quit.
The problem is these people post on the forums more than they play the game. If waypoints were gone I would quit immediately. It’s a good thing Anet isn’t stupid.
This is supposed to be implemented eventually, but hasn’t yet. It’s on their to-do list, has been since april.
AP is a very good indication of how much you’ve played the game. This doesn’t translate directly into skill, but 9 times out of 10 someone with 6-8k AP knows what they’re doing, whereas I often see 1-3999 AP players struggling, getting downed, not knowing certain things, etc. etc.
Of course everyone will say the opposite and probably flame this post and go on and on about how I’m satan incarnate. Such is this forum.
Well within 2 weeks, you’ll log into T1 sandstorms by default.
“Megaservers”
Yes, even with megaservers!
Would you care to make a bet?
I know firsthand how much of a pain this is going to be to clean up. Good luck, anet.
Why, then, would you want to bring more than one warrior, when you could instead bring 1 (covering both banners and EA) and fill the rest of your slots with higher dps professions?
So you can balance banners and ps/ea so you don’t have a useless 5th member that hits like a tissue paper. By all means, kick warriors and replace them with necros, you heard it here first.
If your team is halfway decent you will have might stacking covered, and PS would only lower dps. It’s also not hard to find someone to carry your second banner. Not even guang thinks necromancers are good in dungeons, but you may be interested in seeing DnT’s fully buffed necro vs war dps comparison.
I’ve found might stacking in groups to be difficult without PS because most people can’t kill the target in less than whatever the might blast duration is, and then you end up with 0 might. PS guarantees you’re always at 25 stacks for the whole party, and is especially useful against trash when you’re not going to bother to might stack anyway. Also the second banner problem is bigger than you might think. Most people just don’t notice banners and forget, even if they plan on taking the other banner.
Necros are just plain not recommended, there are many better classes you can use. I would take literally any other class gladly over a necro.
Why, then, would you want to bring more than one warrior, when you could instead bring 1 (covering both banners and EA) and fill the rest of your slots with higher dps professions?
So you can balance banners and ps/ea so you don’t have a useless 5th member that hits like a tissue paper. By all means, kick warriors and replace them with necros, you heard it here first.
I’m sure you can deal with every class if you really wanted to. I’m just saying that with claims like “There is not much point in bringing more than 1 warrior” and “Anyone who puts restrictions based on AP or armor type are looking to be carried” and “Most pugs don’t understand WHY they even stack” and “Rangers, Necros, Engineers all have this horrible stigma, but they’re all very viable creating a smooth run.”, this person definitely does not know what they’re talking about.
I bet you still think warriors have the best dps, don’t you?
I think he honestly does.
They definitely do not. Why are we pinning speculations on me?
Anyone who puts restrictions based on AP or armor type are looking to be carried, I would avoid those groups.
It just so happens all classes can compete in dungeons/fractals. Most pugs don’t understand WHY they even stack, or what the use of any class beside the ‘elite’ 4 are. (warrior, guardian, ele and thief)
Rangers, Necros, Engineers all have this horrible stigma, but they’re all very viable creating a smooth run. If you don’t care about speed runs, make your own group. If you’re going to play a class with a stigma, play it very well.
There is not much point in bringing more than 1 warrior, and 2 guardians is only useful if you seriously need THAT much reflection. If someone wants heavy-only then they’re looking for crutches.
You obviously do not know what you’re talking about.
Have you read much in the dungeon forum? (This thread really belongs there.) I’d say his argument is much more coherent than yours. I don’t think Engineer or Necro is ever optimal for dungeons (and Mesmer is somewhat limited) — but all these classes can work if you have an appropriate build and know how to use it.
A single Ranger is often part of speed clear teams (spotter and frost spirit); if you trait appropriately and use melee rather than ranged (and you can deal with 1h-sword’s quirks) then Ranger is a great class (and fun).
I have 80s of all classes; I mostly play Elementalist and Guard (AP over 16k) because I enjoy their gameplay, but I agree that PUGs imposing hard class or AP restrictions are generally looking for crutches — you’re better off with another PUG or a group you know.
I’m sure you can deal with every class if you really wanted to. I’m just saying that with claims like “There is not much point in bringing more than 1 warrior” and “Anyone who puts restrictions based on AP or armor type are looking to be carried” and “Most pugs don’t understand WHY they even stack” and “Rangers, Necros, Engineers all have this horrible stigma, but they’re all very viable creating a smooth run.”, this person definitely does not know what they’re talking about.
Well within 2 weeks, you’ll log into T1 sandstorms by default.
“Megaservers”
Anyone who puts restrictions based on AP or armor type are looking to be carried, I would avoid those groups.
It just so happens all classes can compete in dungeons/fractals. Most pugs don’t understand WHY they even stack, or what the use of any class beside the ‘elite’ 4 are. (warrior, guardian, ele and thief)
Rangers, Necros, Engineers all have this horrible stigma, but they’re all very viable creating a smooth run. If you don’t care about speed runs, make your own group. If you’re going to play a class with a stigma, play it very well.
There is not much point in bringing more than 1 warrior, and 2 guardians is only useful if you seriously need THAT much reflection. If someone wants heavy-only then they’re looking for crutches.
You obviously do not know what you’re talking about.
I average 1 every 2 days.
Everyone on this forum is entitled and selfish. Just stop with these threads. It’s no wonder Anet doesn’t respond when all you want is free stuff. What a headache.
>I refuse to craft to get X!
Too bad.
>WvW/PvP’ers shouldn’t have to do PvE stuff to get X!
Too bad.
>I want X to drop for me!
Too bad.
>I want to play how I want to get X!
Too bad.
>I don’t want to be FORCED to do content for X!
Too bad.
Anet will not respond to this thread, nor will they respond to any of your other petty “I want a precursor NOW!” or “Give me free unlimited tools!” or “I crafted 13 legendaries and want 25 AP!” or “Give us bikinis (insert awkwardly fake reason why here)!”
Don’t worry guys, I’m sure we’ll get a reply on this one.
;_;
This definitely needs to be added. Maybe not pantsless though, but it wouldn’t be so bad. A chest armor toggle is very much needed, getting sick of having a kitten Norn with a chestpiece to cover his tattoos.