Guild Wars 2

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F/U was not ‘tedious’, but heavily bugged towards the end.

Was never bugged, it was just tedious. You had to do annoying things to finish it, like have 3 guardians and kite and all kinds of lame crap.

It’s the same thing either way, tedious content is tedious content. I personally don’t want to fight annoyingly lame bosses that are just tedious.

I don’t get what the point is of the electric floor puzzle and the ooze puzzle part, those things just make people leave the dungeon after they get frustrated by tedious mechanics that shouldn’t be there.

Frustrating content is not fun content. I enjoy difficult content. I guess there’s a fine line between hard content and tedious content, either that or ANET doesn’t know the difference between them.

Well said sir!
Just logged in and came here in hope of a “heads-up” about TA.
I don’t get this game design any more. Lately, most things ANET does is just annoying crap disguised as hard content.
I don’t think that line is so thin, but I do think pushing out content at this rate forces lazy design that is more often on that more frustrating then hard side.

After few tries I think its to much…
Now I don’t think dragon HP or the armor buff, or the number of cannons are wrong, its adds that take forever to kill and there is just to much stuff you need to kill around the dragon that takes away to much DPS.
All you defending AN, I understand your point of view and believe me I would like for it to stay really hard and rewarded properly, but next time you give it a go just take time to notice how much of DPS is “wasted” to ressing/killing fingers, mobs and how long it takes to kill each of those.
So the only thing IMO that needs nerf in that fight is adds…

There is no viable way to get them, if there was people would be already all over it and supply wouldn’t be so low.

It’s not just names, any item that had anything skull like or similar had to go or be replaced.

Yeah it sucks! I finished mine 2 weeks ago and had to pay 70s/doubloon.
Pebbles also suck since you need 500 of them to get few doubloons and it sometimes went more expensive then buying them from TP.
Parking alt was also slow and it’s faster to just farm gold and buy from TP.
Tried bags and those worked for a while but prices went up on those also and after few 100 of them seemed that it pays off only if you get really lucky opening them.
AN really needs to change the drop rate or the recipe ’coze atm it costs you 325 g to buy them.

Well I’ll assume since you have been away from the game for a long time, you don’t have a clue how easy/free that transfer can be, so here is what you can do: log in, meet your friends by guesting in their server and ask them to train-farm champions with you in Frostgorge Sound/Orr map.
You guys should make enough gold in day or two for you to hop on their server and play together.

Why can’t you “with a bit wit” in your head understand that Ascended gear is what exotics were meant to be. The only reason you didn’t have to work towards exotics is AN screwed up at the start underestimating farmers, so by the time you got your char to 80 they were cheap.
You are not suppose to have it right away!
Also, it happens that I like the skins on most Asc weapons so guess what, people have different tastes…
I’m glad they did it this way and I hope they do a lot more content similar way.
And as for those cash cows, well they are the reason you and me are still able to play this game so show some kitten respect.

Yeah, but I will always have the satisfaction of grinding for my Juggernout…
^??°6#&/$(!& YOU RNG!!111

I agree with you Hamartia. That also allows enough time for 1-2-1, 2-2-1 LSs that have “wind up” like Halloween had.
I also understand that players like new permanent content and that GW2 maps have a lot of teasers. But if they kept adding maps like Southsun every now and then we would be spread, maps would be empty (like starting maps), content on maps undone (like temples in Orr). That becomes nightmare for long time players and even more so for new comers.
So at the moment I think AN is on the right track, but I would also like permanent things to be added and I think we have big enough maps and wouldn’t mind some things changing from time to time. Ideal end game here could be for maps that get low number or visits to have DEs change (bad guys start winning since there are no heroes to keep them away), rewards get boosted and Living Story on that map gets mixed in, changing permanent stuff on the map and creating a bit different events. I have no idea how game engine works or how complicated it is to change DEs but if every 6th Living Story is a map changing one that would mean we get 2 maps updated/redone in a year. New maps and instances? Well I would like to leave that one for AN to figure out how often is enough to keep players happy and world crowded since they have far better insight into numbers.

Exactly! I don’t like the look, sound or even smell of it and I still feel forced into it just ’coze AN stuffed it with so much achievement points.

So I had random DC and now after I wasted 2 hours in a zone I need to start all over again???

After soooo much time such a refreshing post here.
This game is a beast, but a bit strange one…I had to take few month off and just came back 2 weeks ago and I’m amazed that apart from achievement points, I’m not far behind like I would be in any other MMO I played till GW2.
I started in beta and one thing I regret doing back then is rushing levels. I missed so much fun and things to find and explore ‘coze of that, but did it right with my alt next time around…
Even tho I used to count every stat, beating myself over every armor piece just to squeeze more out of it; this game taught me it’s more fun to stay away from elitist crap and counting stacks on bosses and just enjoy playing it your own way, your own pace, with your own build and soak up all the beauty it has to offer…

Signed ’coze that thing screamed “EPIC” from my monitor!

This post after so much time got me really kitten
I really wonder what kind of numbers you guys are looking at…? But I’ll stop here ‘coze if I continue I’ll get my self infraction or ban.
So here are some screenshots before drops got nerfed. I made them ’coze some of my guildys were having trouble getting exotic armors while I already had 2 sets.
Every screenshot represents drops from single wave of mobs (10-15 mobs), last one is money after selling greens and blues from single wave. 2 are from Grenth DE and 1 is Shelter DE.
I farmed this with my ranger using shortbow and that is far from what better AOE classes can tag in events so take that also into consideration. Also you will notice that coze of delay while taking SS in 2 screenshots loot table already started disappearing.
If I got them in time that would be >10 drops from each wave of mobs.

I would fill 4 15 slot bags in 1 or 2 events with blue/green/yellow drops while salvaging all whites. Today if I go were to do same events it would take me more then 3h of farming to maybe fill all my bags and that is only if I don’t get hit by DR, salvage whites and if I don’t store my mats to bank.

I was buying scales yesterday for less then 5 silver and current price is 9s.
I think that same goes for vicious claws since bots farmed a lot of those, while farming corrupted LS.

Done twice and its to easy!

How often do you get doubloon from pebbles/nuggets?

Ah trust me you are not first today…
I knocked down prices 4 times today, but this is first time it went over 50s for longer time.
Its complete crap that tier 2 item (lvl 20) currently costs 80s, while gold one that is tier 3 and made from silver one still hangs around 5s.
But guess that wont last long since number of orders for gold doubloons is going up also.

I would say there is a slight increase in champ drops but it’s barely noticeable.
On the other hand that small increase is so insignificant when you compare it to the board wide nerf to drops they did in the rest of the game.
Anet just seems lost when it comes to loot tables and in game economy ‘coze if you look at it from a bit further away you can see crafting is almost dead, 90% of events don’t get done ’coze there is no reward for it, same goes for champs, instances are the only thing where it seems just a bit better atm and money sinks are outrageous in all this (WvW, WP, 15%TP, death).

Yeah about that luck… anothr 80 x10 and I got 10 clovers out of it.
I know someone will say that it was dumb way to try it but to be honest I’m tired of that toilett and just wanna be done with it so I can move on to next step.
I don’t find it fun or player friendly that half of the game and 90% of money that I made comes from throwing stuff in MF and if you know what to do regular Joe will never grind or play enough to earn that much money.
Same goes for playing TP as it seems only way to be rich in this game is to do either or both since devs are effectively shuting down grinding/farming.
/goes to buy more stuff from TP and throw in MF to get stuff to manipulate TP. l0l

I agree with Travis here and why should I run from event to event if I like farming 1 or 2 events in Orr, or why should I play this game the way some casual looks at it.
If you don’t have time or if you hate farming don’t farm and that doesn’t mean it’s not fun for other ppl.
What most of antifarmers here say is I hate farming and I will not play this game that way but I also don’t want those that do farm and spend time doing that stuff that bores me to earn more money then me.
Why should I be forced to run around LA 1 h looking for group that chances are will be bad pug and make me loose gold in instance(‘cose you think that’s the way this game should be played)?
I spent 5 hours yesterday finishing scale 13 fractals ‘coze 5 pople gave up befor we found 5th, then 3 of then quit coze someone made mistake and got us wiped and 2 got DC and couldn’t go back to instance so we barely finished last fractal (and I don’t even wanna talk about elitist crap coze that alone will make me quit this game).
Is that what should be fun for me, or the way this game must be played?
Fk NO! I will rather put some music, relax and farm 20 waves of mobs till some event pops out that I find fun, then I’ll go do that and go back to farming till another boss or DE or whatever pops out that I like to do.

So after ~120 shards I have total of 16 clovers…:(
Whatever site I found about it says chances are I’ll get 1/3 but my rates are not even close to that.
Any of you guys currently crafting your legendary had similar experience or I’m being trolled hard by MF?

You got it yesterday and 4 of us made it work.
Northern aproach was bugged but NPCs were to far from giant.
We managed to pull veteran and enough trash mobs to kill them all.
Im telling this in hope more ppl will try it since now you know you can reset the chain no matter where it got stuck.
We advertised we will try it right after shatterer (a lot off ppl came to kill dragon) and also went to LA and cured shore to ask for more ppl to help and no one came.
Ppl joined us only when they saw prequest status changed on the map.

So I missed all exploits and my luck gave me 2g worth exotics from Ancient Karka.
Still I have precursor I saved up for and I’m half way towards my legendary.
You know if you took half time you guys spend moaning here on forums reading about ways to make/farm money in this game you would be maybe few steps behind me in legendary proces.
So it’s not cheap, it’s not easy and few things could be changed to make it more legendary proces but it’s acieveable

Ok can this be please looked at coze I just lost 8 rares in a row getting nothing back and this is 4th time it happened to me.

What gear grind do you see coming?
This month trinkets, next month armor, then weapons. That’s 3 months for you to get that gear if you really want it…
Took me few weeks to get best gear on my main and that includes leveling to 80. At the moment I have 2 chars lvl 80 and both have 3 sets of best gear there is in game. All my weapons have skins I want.
Time spent grinding = 0!
Only thing I have to grind for is Legendary and I’m half way to precursor.
So you see I have all skins I like on end game gear with exception of Legendary and achievements I have nothing to do in this game. So this new stuff coming is what will get half of my guild back to game and give them stuff to do. Yes I’m glad Anet saw it and got the content ready before most ppl I like to play with forgot about this game.

+1 loved it, would be nice to have option to get it back…

Are you all jelly at people going for Legendary?
This is awesome idea and since you could change stats only out of combat it would make it still equal, but a bit more practical.
I hate idea of getting healing/toughness/vitality and being forced to transmute Legendary.
That would really make those weapons more legendary without tempering with stats/skills of the weapon.
And if this is to much I would at least like to have stats option when creating weapons.

Nightmare, Sanctuary, Forge, Orrian, Monk and maybe some more I can’t remember at the moment are soulbound and to make it worse all tiers are soulbound. Good thing is all can be reforged in MF except Superior… Funny and not sure if intended…xD

Just to add another one…happened to me also with rare hammer (think I “flushed” in 4 Rampager’s Hammer of Ice)

I did MK runs with 2 chars:
Ranger lvl 80 120%+ magic find on him→ 0 drops
Guardian lvl 40-50 NO magic find→ 4 or 5 exotics, no skins
I don’t think MF is a junk stat, mob drops seem better while in MF gear, so could be that it doesn’t work on chests…

You can do it without speed buff and still have time to get on top.

It’s exactly same since you get your lvl of drops if you go with low lvl alt. Best I got was lvl 26 green from mid boss while on lvl 4 char. So no, you can’t go in and go all crazy with lvl 2 toons. And if you have 8 lvl 80 chars well GZ, your effort to level that many just got rewarded and I have nothing against it since there aren’t that many ppl with that many high lvl chars.
I am all for keeping drop rates at a % that wont upset TP, but getting more coins from drops while running across Queensdale with lvl 80 (same time span) is just to extreme.

+1 did it with all my chars multiple times

Why is there always a fan boy coming out to tell ppl on this forum that they are expecting to be given something when they most times just try to discuss things that could be broken/made better in game? And my logic tells me event map should have drops at least as regular map. So when I go to Orr and zerg Grenth with 50+ ppl and get my bags full of golds/greens/blues in 10 minutes ‘coze event failed and on the other hand spend 2h just before that in MK relm and have 29 porous bones and 15 candy drops to show for it yes I will come to game forum and talk to rest of the community about it? I don’t understand what is not logical to you about it?

I went to Cursed Shore just to see if it was me and guess what drops are just fine there but as soon as I go back to MK realm it all goes to hell…:(

Do you guys feel Anet overdid it with drop nerf? I’m in MK’s realm most of the day and I get only bones for it and some candy stuff but no more greens, blues or any drop that would actually keep me here…
I’m not talking only about chests, regular mobs drops also…

Mine is named Ugly (seems most rangers noticed it) and it’s best PvE pet I have. To be hones only thing that would make more kitten then SB nerf would be if they changed anything about this pet (I guess dmg buff I could live with:)).