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Personally, I would rather have the second option of the correct leveling based on the minimum level required and just let people farm to their hearts content. Eventually they will either have enough money to buy the world, and so what? Or they will get what they want and leave. Yes people will still complain about it being easy, but the ones complaining are not the ones that should be focused on. Make a few dungeons easy so that low level characters have something to break away from the monotony of level grinding with. A chance at fun while they are still “young” .
If we can not have this happen, then yes please go with the first option so that then at least the guidelines are clear and maybe there will be less raging after each new patch update.
This is only my personal opinion.
I reside on Maguuma and generally play around Mid-day(eastern time zone).
I would love to find a guild that has other people who are on around the same time, I miss the social aspect of gaming that I had when I played on the more hardcore raiding side of mmo’s. I enjoy Dungeons and leveling as well as event hunting. I am not a huge PvP or WvW player though I did just upgrade my computer so it could be more fun now.
Anyway, I prefer things like Ventrillo as opposed to other clients but am open overall.
I would really prefer a nice mature group of people who are friendly and with any luck a good sense of humor.
This feels like a dating ad…and a bad one at that. I’m sorry!
In case you are curious I currently have a lvl 80 guardian, a 37 ranger, and an 18 thief. I also just created an ele for fun.
I hope I am not looking for too much.
This is a very good point, every pug that I have done that failed miserably was at the spider queen. Very rarely at Kholer, but most people running pugs just skipped him anyway.
I have to say I agree with this entirely. I play casually, during the daytime before most people even get on to play. Pugs have been made even harder to play through with? Well I guess I go shell out my money to play WoW again? Or well, I suppose I could just level more toons…but why bother when I can’t do the dungeons?
So a little back story for everyone reading first:
I am a stay at home wife, when my husband comes home at the normal time of 5 I like to get off the computer and spend time with him or maybe cook dinner because I enjoy it. Admittedly it is not like this every night and some nights I do stay up into the night playing. Now because of this I encounter a few problems:
No guilds in the US servers seem to be on much at this time, which means it is not often I get guild runs.
Fewer people are on, so parties are tough enough to come by.
So what am I left with? Pugs of course! Though I personally am not complaining about that, meeting new people? Yes please!
On to my point however, dungeons were already relatively difficult for someone doing pugs(even on their lvl 80’s) there were never guarantees of good players, experienced players, or polite players. Nobody has a problem ditching a bad group after only one shot at a boss(I mean really? That is silly)
With the new changes, mostly to AC, I feel a little like my game play is only to be consisted of general leveling and jumping puzzles. I like leveling and exploring and all that jazz but a nice midday dungeon is just fantastic. I didn’t care that it was a terrible pug because at least it was fun most of the time. But with all of these new changes no one will want to do this anymore. So what am I supposed to do? I feel I deserve to play just as much as everyone else does even if my schedule isn’t the ideal gaming time of day.
Why A-net? Why did you make the changes harder on the people who enjoyed a casual dungeon experience? Why not make a big raid…or make the higher level dungeons harder if people want it so much? Couldn’t we just leave one easy thing easy and let those who wanted it changed for the harder upset just this once?
Oh well, guess I’ll see how it goes in a week or two when things settle in.
I’m having a reading comprehension problem today.
Did you say that you are only having problems on your thief and never had problems on your Guardian?
I have do have a lvl 80 Norn Guardian, however I am also stuck with that character somewhere along the personal story path as well as my Thief. I say this only to give an example that it is not purely one character I am having troubles with this on. Albeit, my Guardian is much further along in the personal story then my Thief, troubles none the less.
This is not my first toon on GW2, and I can say it still won’t be my last. However, what I can say is that I’m tired of trying to do “personal story” lines when they just aren’t do-able without a severe amount of frustration on my part. I won’t say I’m a casual gamer, elitist, or any other term every other person has come up with. What I will say is this:
I am in a guild that I enjoy playing with.
I enjoy doing the dailies in hopes of better gear.
I love to do events, dungeons, and leveling.
Crafting? So much fun!
The only thing I don’t like the way it is right now is the Personal Stories. I am currently playing through on a human thief, but my last character is a lvl 80 norn guardian. I am stuck in both of them only at personal stories. Before you get upset with me I am not saying they are impossible.
They are entirely possible in two ways: I can bug people to come help me constantly to get through the story or I can die, a lot, and keep rezzing inside my personal story infinitely and pray it wears the mobs down enough to make it okay. I don’t want to do either of these things. Oh, and from my reading a lot of people suggest just leveling up and coming back when I’m 80 or something? No. The suggested level is the level I should be able to do it at, not to mention the de-leveling makes that a worthless suggestion in of itself. I should be able to do a quest at the level it says I should, and if it claims to be my story-line I should be able to do it with just me.
Some other people have talked about how it should be easy when they almost always give you NPCs. I have a few minor things to say in regards to that: Are you kidding me? I have sat in downed states watching as I try to survive by the skin of my teeth as my NPCs stare at the mobs and maybe, just maybe, will swing a sword every once in a while.
Now after all of my complaining I only really wanted to share a few things that I think will make it better for the average person. Please don’t take offense by that term or take anything I say and run off with it saying how I need to learn to play. I can play, very well, except for this one thing.
What I would like to see happen:
Tone down the difficulty
Make the NPCs do what they are supposed to(act like a party member rather than a random towns person who picked up a stick)
Change the way personal story de-leveling works(not my ideal option, I want to do it as it was meant to be done)
Three things, really only two…and I don’t feel like any of it is too much to ask. If we could maybe just address the issues at all that have been brought up I would be happy. I know that there are a lot of people who are not having problems with the system how it is. Kudos and more to those players, I envy you. However, I just can not do it anymore. I don’t want to be so angry at a game that I can’t play it. So, I am sad to say that unless something changes with the Personal Stories, I can not play this feature in the game any longer. It is too frustrating, and I like the overall game too much to let this one problem drive me away from the whole game.
Sorry for the overkill on the text. Sorry if I come across as whiny or offensive to any. This was not my attention, I only wished to get my feelings known in the proper channels. If this is not in fact the place to pot this, I will be more than happily to move or remove it. Thank you for reading.
Sierra.