Guild Wars 2

eduardo.1436:

Vinceman.4572:

Yes, you can solo all dungeon story modes and many of the other paths as well.

Since I literally made a suggestion thread about dungeon story mode making it soloable, im gonna deny everything you just said :P

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guild+wars+2+story+solo

Erebus.7568:

garcialak.9215:

I think those are problems because it’s not my playstyle so nobody has fun doing that and it should be “fixed”

actually it most be a clear design flaw aka problem.
or some one just felt like wasting time and money.

they put a lot of stuff in the dungeons because it was intended for you to tackle that stuff, and when you ignore that stuff you are doing something not intended.

as i describe so nicely if you wanted to think about it:
it is the issue of “maximizing rewards vs playing the way it is fun/intended to do”.
as mmo’ers the vast majority will play the way which gives them the greatest reward, which is why the way to get the greatest rewards need to be the way “it was intended to be done”.
which we must assume “the way it is intended to be done” is designed to be “the way which should created the best/most fun gameplay experience”

when that is said: the exploiters are hurting the gameplay for every one else, because the rewards as i also mentioned gets balanced depending on speed of the fastest.
so them exploiting to do it faster, is lowering the rewards for the players which are playing it as intended…
SO even if that is the way they like it, it is hurting the vast majority (and i would argue they only like it like that because the reward is higher then it would be otherwise; if reward vs time was the same they wouldn’t care, or they would be happy; doubt many if any players think it is fun to run/skip stuff, if they could get the same reward/hour by fighting it and playing as intended)

Hrouda disagrees. A lot of trash mobs are made to be skipped. Your idea idea to make the mobs never lose aggro and full pull to you is one of the worst I read on this forum, and people kitten post often.

If you don’t like to skip, don’t do it. Don’t force people to play how you want.

I think those are problems because it’s not my playstyle so nobody has fun doing that and it should be “fixed”

spoj.9672:

Bare in mind actual tours are usually a little more casual/flexible than what you see in records. And different people do things slightly different. Its more about going as fast as possible without pushing too far into the boundary that would cause you to maybe wipe for attempting a risky strategy. And some compromises are made to get extra champ bags. For example killing TA forward bonus vine + guard and SE p3 double champs before endboss.

That is more or less what i’m looking for. I don’t what to push for record runs, just get people in my guild interested in improving our tours/general strats. Maybe if I get enough attention push for a record or getting close to it just for the trill, but that is a long term goal.

I have a “wierd” request for one of the EU speedclears guilds. I’m in a pretty small PvX guild so most of the time I end up pugging or running with my guild in a casual manner. I’ve proposed to do a meta tour and got some people interested in my guild, but my actual experience is limited in running with an organized meta party (i do enjoy watching record runs and stream tours).
My request is if someone would be interested in taking me to one of their tours to teach me so I can teach my guild. I’m an average player so I expect to get scolded but I promise I will be a good student.

I generally use guardian, ele or warrior. I would be able to join on teamspeak but don’t know if i would be able to talk.

You are just getting into extreme definitions while there is no need.

To the comon folk in games metagaming (or meta) means doing something else than playing the game to achive X goal the best way possible.

That would be teory crafting, copying other people, learning to do something by reflex, counterpicking in case of pvp, etc.

Why should you be rewarded for something you can’t do? Bell choir is one of the activities of wintersday.

You are only missing x amount of AP and 1 mini. No big deal.

Minigrump.4961:

question. how to deal with lupi phase 3 on necro solo

A guildie is triying his necro solo and i think he runs 2 energy sigils + the might on dodge and endurance refill food. Maybe you can get away with 1 enegy sigil and abusing DS for the proc.

Or make a char necro or hope for godlike rng.

Edit: The necro master response is way better than mine.

Windsagio.1340:

@People making more time computations;

I can’t tell you how to have fun.
It’s all optional. Every kittening thing and style in this game is optional.

Which is why it’s a bad meta. It’s enforcing optional style that matches some players sense of fun on the entirety of the playing community.

You said it your own post. It’s not enforcing anything, it’s optional. Make your own groups or don’t join the ones advertised as meta.

Windsagio.1340:

Harper.4173:

Windsagio.1340:

DaveGan.8065:

Windsagio.1340:

It’s not a good case because you’re replying to one problem with a worse problem :P

This “worse problem” (that there has been and always will be meta, elitism, and exclusion in this game) has always been in the game and is not a “reply” to anything or any problem.

It’s simply “baggage” that any solution change to the current “problem” status quo must overcome in a better way than the status quo already does right now.

If anything, it’s just a shift from naivety and idealism back to reality.

Except, the meta in this case is silly. There’s so little gain in most cases that it’s at best flat.

So then, it ends up being exclusion for exclusion, which you’re absolutely embracing.

And therein lies the problem. Maybe we can’t fix human nature, but it’s worth at least trying.

Did I not post a time calculation a few pages ago pointing out that it’s not the case of " so little to gain" ? I’m sure 15 minutes per day are nothing to you but they’re a lot to me.

Also excluding players that aren’t like me from runs I like to do is not wrong in itself. If they want to run with me or people like me they should make themselves like me. If they don’t want that they can steer clear and run with whomever they want.

I read the calculation I didn’t respond because it’s hard to say this, but if you wanna pin it down. that reasoning is the post-hoc thing I mentioned. The calculation was really clearly made to justifiy the position you already had decided was right.

You’ll never see the great pumpkin at this rate!

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PoigNs87fQ

Now tell me how much time does your daily run take on those paths.

Good group compositon and strategy matters.

Thank you to the [SC]guard that opened arah so i could practice lupi on engi, after 2-3 hours and with tips from a guidie (and SR’s and reses so i could reset faster) I finally got my first solo.
http://i.imgur.com/utiALpr.jpg

If someone from SC sees this thank that guard for me (sorry i forgot the name).