Guild Wars 2

mulzi.8273:

The problem is, the entire HoT experience is behind group content. In base GW2, as a casual you had open world for solo stuff. You could do map completion, quests, even some events in Orr, all of which went towards a progression for your character, like getting a legendary weapon. You could accept, as a solo/casual player, that the group content was in fractals/dungeons, but you could still work towards the same goals/items/etc, just in a different manner (eg. open world stuff).

Now comes along HoT. fractals and dungeons no longer are enough for the group oriented folks, they need to now take over open world. As a solo/casual person, what progress is there now? First off, open world is not solo able, more or less. Some aspects, but not all. Even if you get ‘help’ with some open world group content, what progress was made? You cannot even work towards a legendary anymore, as they gated it behind fractals/group quests (talking about pre cursor crafting) which are account bound. Even map completion is completely useless as a casual/solo person now.

Bash me if you want, I no longer care. All I know is, that I log in, and there is nothing for me to work towards. There are some days where I cannot spend 2+ hours on a meta event. I just want to kill stuff and have fun. I just do not understand the design decision to move group content fully into open world. Isnt that what fractals/dungeons were for? Or more importantly, why they took away player options. It use to be, that we had many different options to obtain the same goal: you could farm in open world to get materials for legendary, you could run dungeons/fractals for gear/money/material for same legendary. You could buy the bloody thing off the TP. Now its all gated/account bound, group content protected.

And why does everyone think that harder=group content? My hacking away solo at a well designed mob takes no less skill than being in a group of 5-20+ people, using the same skills/rotation (probably less so, as people can ‘hide’ and get lazy in groups and just use ‘1’ all the time). This game went for the time>skill in HoT..

Thats why all your hard core basement dwellers are coming out bashing the casual folks now.. they are in heaven, as their egos are stroked that the time they put into the game is being rewarded and others are being punished for not putting in the same time. They can walk around with new shinys that casual folks cannot hope to get and brag how great they are…

All my thoughts about HoT in one place. Glad I’m not alone

2, I did map completion and all I wanted in hot maps and tbh don’t want to go back there

Trajan.4953:

Why does everything have to be available to everyone?

Because that’s what this game was about! If you want some challanging content why you have played GW 2 it never had one.

I wonder, why there’s so many hardcore players in the most casual game ever? Where were you all this time? You came from another game?

silverek.2984:

I get it that people could have a choice to do raiding and stuff but making that the only and best choice to do in game destroy everything else. And it’s kittening me off. What if i don’t want to do them? Am i gonna be punished for this?

Most likely, yes. Problem with raids is that it gives to elitists (which is a lot in gw community) one more thing to discriminate people and they already had enough of those. You made raids? Ok, give something equal for casual players who is your main playerbase. But all I get is silence from anet and eletists who says that game is fine and I just playing it wrong. Also making raids takes a lot of resources, so most likely this is their main focus for near future.

So far the only “new” content they’ve announced that isn’t the raids is Wintersday fluff. They haven’t even hinted at continuing the content for non-raiders yet, which means we won’t see anything new until at least early next year.

And then, you’ll see new raid wing. That’s how it’ll work from now on. Get used to it.

Purple Miku.7032:

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Rising Dusk.2408:

Halvorn.9831:

Now count 2 and 2 together, will you? The game is greatly intended for “casual” players and it is doing well. Could it be that it is doing well BECAUSE it is intended for “casual” players?

Sure, it’s doing well in major part because it caters to casual players. Does that mean it should never in its entire lifetime do anything for any other kind of player? Of course not.

The game is littered with content that was supposed to be “challenging”. Dungeons, fractals, Tequatl, the Triple Wurms. The content locust crowd devoured each in turn and then came crying to Anet for more when they got bored with them. What happens when you get bored with this, too? Anet’s resources aren’t infinite, if they start focusing on raids to the exclusion of actually accessible content, people are going to get angry (and rightfully so).

People are going to get angry regardless, what even is your point?

I don’t understand why it’s an impossible notion to accept that literally ONE TIME in the history of this game they decide to release something that actually requires effort exerted to succeed, it does NOT mean that they have suddenly decided to cater to hardcore players rather than casuals.

It is also frustrating seeing other players making excuses for the company’s resources. It’s not just you that does this, it’s all over the forums and reddit too and it’s just ridiculous to shut down suggestions/content requests from other players because “it’s too much work,” when they have nothing to do with the company that works on it to begin with.

Sure thing. I tnink the problem is that there’s legendary armor which gives you some really good benefits. Which you can obtain only if you do AND finish raids. So, I think most of casuals don’t mind adding new hardcore content for you guys, but without rewards that gives you something that can’t be obtained in other aspects of the game and gives benefits at the same time. You can have some exclusive minis and skins. After all, you’re doing challenge content for challenge, not to get stuff to discriminate people, right?

Yunielesca.2850:

What I see is that the raid is already deserted, few people at the entrance, and there’s not so much lfg announcements for it.

This. Problem with so called “hardcore players” is that they’re harcore only until they get harcore content. After that, they do it and quit or they can’t do it and also quit. That is why all those games with challenging content failed. And look at GW 2, the most casual game ever. For 3 years there was no expansion, people were doing all the same content and it still lives. Why? Because casual players are more profitable then progamers. They buy wings, minipets, gold etc. I, as casual player, don’t feel my self comfortable in this game anymore. I can’t do what I want whenever I want, because there’s timers for events. And it will be even worse with raids, because there’s so much elitists in this community and now they really have something to discriminate people that is why they’re so exited with raids and all the stuff it gives.

Looks like raids and raiders came to ruin another game.

Got same here, but with “Sanctum scrumble: silver” chest. I got achievement and chest, but it’s not in a collection.

Sephalo.5407:

Still no reply from ArenaNet?

kitten you ArenaNet.

Atleast have the kitten*ng balls to reply about this kitten*d up state of the game right now.

Well, they answered on reddit, that they know about problem. Still, they didn’t say if they’r looking for solution or eta.

I’ve been playing gw2 foe year now. And never had such problem. But after HoT release every meta event ends with crash to desktop, usually just before boss’s death. So it’s very frustrating. Hope they’ll fix this soon.

It crashes not only on WvW. I’ve managed to finish 2 or three meta events on new maps for this week. Most of the times I get crash report window instead of reward.

Getting crushed game every meta event that is near completion. Mordromoth at 3% hp? All vines almost dead in Tarir? Get a disconnect! This is very sad, guys.

The sound in HoT is awesome in general, and the “growling” when swapping legends is just as great as all other music/sound (just yesterday noticed very very nice melody when turning on auras in Glint stance). Also all those guys, whos power you are using ARE DEAD and talking to you from the mists. Ghosts shouldn’t talk like normal people, and that effect they added is fitting just great. So, yes, for those, who don’t like the effect they could add an option to turn it off, but no way they should remove it.

Same here. From 109ms to 900+ms every few seconds.

Linc.6834:

Why does my duster go flowing up like Marilyn Monroe’s dress every time I take a shot?

God, this is killing me. Looks really stupid. I’ve got feeling, that every time my charr engi shoots rifle he looks surprised. Like “WTF? This thing shoots?!”. That’s why I’m using pistols, these one animated really good.

There’s always a lot of people on this event on Seafarer’s Rest.

I’vw done it today. But I won’t get back there ever.