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Every person has their favorite class and when your’s get nerfed you think it is unfair. As an older gamer, I would be considered a noob when it comes to all the many different set ups possible.
I use a sword and board and a long bow, other weapons may be better but I choose to use those. Every piece of my gear is set for conditional damage, and before every piece was set for magic find so I am stressing thinking I need to change gear yet again, only this time my gear cost things like laurels and vast amounts of materials therefore much more expensive.
The post said two thing I was mainly concerned with, the longbow is losing 15% of its damage, and most classes are getting the ability to remove conditional damage. The last one worries me since PvE foes soon follow suit making my set up again almost useless.
I wrote a long winded reply to clarify my position but I think Raven.9603 said it best, not that I was complaining about my PC’s game play, but that most complaints are about warriors being too overpowering NOW! And after seeing it for 7 years in GW1, the complaint will be heard and I soon expect to be hopeless against rangers, mesmers and everyone else. And in this game I only have maybe 40 skills over the 500 in GW1. I like to think of it like this…
If you are a guy (ranger) wearing jeans and a t-shirt holding a bow and see me (fighter) wearing metal armor from 100 yards and I charge you, you will at some point will hit me a few times and I will die, but if I find you 3 feet from me you will die almost instantly. Changing this balance because it is somehow unfair to the weaker guy doesn’t seem right to me, maybe make you faster due to less weight would be more fair.
The two skills do in fact work at times, good example would be Harpies in FotM but often they don’t work. I get held knocked down often losing the speed burst while running from foes and they wont save you at all in WvW. The trait may work however it only triggers after you are knocked down defeating it’s purpose. (The harpies always knock you off)
Yes I bought many PC’s in my life my first being a Commodore 64, but after 30+ years of replacing $1000’s of dollar worth of software to fill Bill Gates pockets I am done. Until they make a “Victim” title in PvP you won’t see me there. I have 100’s of MAME burns which are priceless to me, and it all works for me now. (my PC was bought in a lot of 47 identical systems for $12, I have lots of replacement parts) I don’t often play newer games, software companies now days shoot for graphics over content. I’m sad for all the younger gamers out there that can’t play games that have huge replay value because the titles are out of print and their systems aren’t backwards compatible.
Ok, this is long winded… but that’s why it’s a rant! Thanks to all who commented!!!! Soon this post will fade into obscurity.
I’m sorry about this but after reading the new update discussion I just had to say something. But first a little about me…
I am 50+ years old and have an older PC using Windows XP or just barely good enough to support this game. I have no desire to play PvP at any point. I sometimes enter WvW due to the living story but it is not something my PC can handle or is it very enjoyable for me to run around in a Zerg. (I won’t be replacing my PC ever, I have close to $5000 dollars worth of gaming / office software some dating from the early 90’s)
I played Guild Wars 1 from almost the 1st day it was out and it makes my top 10 list of games ever! But for 7 years every patch made my warrior weaker. Ele’s and Mesmers complaining that if I finally catch them and hit them with my sword they die too easily. Yes, I really miss Jade Quarry, which was PvP but rather than just killing it was more of a game and was possible not to kill any players and still help out your team. (Keg Toss is not so bad, but few play with any teamwork) One thing that still upsets me to this day was the removing of the “easy ecto farm” area. (Put in on my b-day btw)
Needless to say I pre-ordered GW2 but it has been a disappointment to me. But hey I paid for it so I play. I have 10 characters at the moment, one of each class plus 2 extra warriors (which I used “past tense” for editing the wiki, a personal protest, I was one of the top 1% contributors) My main is a warrior and I took two months finishing the game and getting 100% map completion. (Getting the map and skills in GW1 took over a year, and I was proud to have those titles.)
First after much research I decided on the full set of pirate runes, and dealt with never leaving combat due to the parrot and never saying “Yarr”. Just waiting and hoping something cool would happen on “Talk like a Pirate Day”… Again much research an experimenting and I switched to long bow and a conditional build and have since crafted an ascended sword and bow, not to mention the 120 laurels on trinkets and 300 ecto’s on the back piece, and 1000’s of venom sacs to put malign infusions. So I’m sorry, just letting me change things for free again just doesn’t cut it. I could have bought every one of my toons a legendary for what I spent on materials.
Let me give just one example of something better to work on… knockdown. I carry both Dolyak Signet and Balanced Stance. You’d think I could walk in the Nightmare Tower without feeling like a pinball? Neither of these skills will remove a stun. And some-one please explain the Defense VIII Trait last stand? Shouldn’t this also block a knockdown once every 90 seconds?
The game has gone down hill since Scarlett invaded. You moved the WvW zergs into my PvE world destroying my frame rate and added tons of gold for the grinders, destrying the economy, and placing all the better high end mini’s and weapons firmly out of my reach. 95% of the new orange drops are account bound, my Necro would love a full set of Armageddon gear, I’ve found 45 mantels but were are the pants?
I think it may be time to re-discover Farmville…
Thank you very much Xystus for this hint… I forgot to mention I was running XP so this command is not supported but, it gave me enough info to find what I needed. For XP the correct link is :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768 which will download a program called Junction v1.06 which did work!
Thanks again for your help, mark this as problem solved!
I also have played from the start, but for some reason mine was in the Guildwars II directory under screens. I surely didn’t move it or make it, it installed that way. Now they are saving in a virtual location, and my memory will hold maybe two shots without crashing me, so I am back to verifying things by hand using pen and paper rather than just hitting the screenshot button. Very hard to document faster things like events and stay alive. The screens I do take are only area shots now and then I must rename save and re-find my save directory. It’s just really odd that this would just up and move on me.
I guess this is not to pressing of an issue for most users but for me it REALLY sucks!
This small change means each and every time I save a screenshot I must back up 7 steps then go forward 3 more to get to where my screens are kept. ( I run windows on a virtual drive so if I don’t save my work it is lost) That directory is currently 6.7g worth of images, 100% uploaded to the official wiki for the betterment of the community. Changing the default directory for my photo editor doesn’t work. So as I said this is not a big issue for most but for me it is just one more reason not to contribute or even continue playing since wiki editing is 99% of why I am still playing.
I hope I’m not running the beta, saddy for my the game is not on my “c” drive and now the screens is and it is causing me issues
With a recent update my screenshot folder has been moved from the guildwars 2 folder to my documents. Is there a way to move it back?