I see alot of confusing in some posts, Hardcore raiding is not the same Challenge Content/Raid.
Most ppl wont play it thats for sure, the same way that only a % of the player base do fractals or Dungeons or stand in LA dancing.
it needs to be something for everyone, players that have +-1h to play a day or couple of hours per week already have dungeons map completion and in the expansion fractals, that ofc doesnt mean they should stop working in content for those players, but for a player that has more than 3h a day to play there is nothing in game to do.
About the rewards you cant expect to get a better reward or same reward if you do “easy” and quick content against someone that does challenge content that takes more time.
Its the same thing that we have on World bosses tequalt and 3head wurm have better rewards because they take more time to kill/organize and becauce they are more challenging.
Such a feature already exists in the game. A small hp bar shows up above the heads of allied players when you hover over them with your cursor. There’s justg no way of permanently showing it. It’s also hard to notice amidst all the skill effects and such due to its small size, but it does exist.
It doesn’t exist in a way it is convenient.
The point of gw2 combat isnt to stare at your allie’s health bar but the actual moment of the fight itself. So I hope they dont turn this game into stare 90% at your allies health game like other mmos…
well yeah play the game not the UI i supose, but after yesterday raid i notice that i was looking more at the squad ui to see my group hp than into the fight and between looking at the UI and looking at the game with some bars in the heads of your allies, the second choice seems better.
The only for me so far was the first trash/mini boss that teleport you didnt understand the mechanic, if is just teleport or if theres other stuff besides that i was good, we even wipe 1m in in the real boss because we fail couple of aoe´s
I have to agree, for someone that wants to end the “zerker meta”, this goes to the opposite side of that, open world pve in the new zones is a joke you can run with zerker gear without given a crap :S
I figure it’ll take my connection the fair part of the day to patch, so I figure I’ll go to work like normal on the 23rd. Maybe even download the patch at work (1meg down is very helpful) and then just transfer the dat from my work laptop to my desktop when I get home.
I do plan on taking Monday the 26th off though so I have a whole day to just play without my husband or my son making depends on my time.
I dont think you will have that problem, i dont think they will make a big download the release date, they probably add the game from time to time until release and when the time comes they just turn the expansion On, basically like they do for betas.
Atleast i hope that is the idea, i dont wanna download 10gb+ on the release
i did find the Tendril Torcher hard to “see” the tendrils, crtl dont work that much on that adventure.
skills should not impact you or others in this type of content, i did try to jump on the Salvage pit adventure and use skills to see if they work on other players and they do, i dont think they should work its a easy way to get on the top of the leaderboards when someone is giving you speed and protection, this should be for all adventures no skills no consumables.
On the Salvage pit, i did it with some ppl around me and i notice that you start right in front of tendril, and that can be frustating after many trys to start with 50% HP and poison, because the tendril attack other player 1 second before you spawn.
The necessary improvements are obvious. For instance, allow us to enable the old gem conversion UI from game options. Or, hell, just level gate it since that’s your thing.
Sadly Anet (or whoever makes these kinds of decisions for them) is in a no win situation. The bad publicity is out and the game’s image is (further) tarnish even if by some miracle they do decide to mend the UI or revert it.
Well this mess is now on Kotaku’s front page now. Anet is going to get publicity for this whether they like it or not.
they attempt to get more new players with that change, and they happend to actually do the inverse, if there was a possible buyer thinging should i buy the game or not, well they find their answer.
All hostilities aside, I do still play the game, but I haven’t paid anything since I purchased on release day. I have never bought gems, only converted gold for them.
However, I would likely very quickly pay $50-$60 for a full expansion. Is that profitable? Or is it more reasonable to support the game through micro-transactions fueled by convenience tools (e.g. bag slots, infinite gathering tools) and aesthetics (outfits, weapon skins)?
I almost feel bad getting a continually-updated mmo that’s pretty good quality compared to other mmo’s (though some aspects certainly need improvement), which I’ve been playing for 2+ years now for only a one-time payment of $60.
I do agree with OP though. I don’t finding Living Story to be very exciting and eventually, without significant new content, I will also leave. I have tried several games over the past year to replace GW2 since it does seem to be getting stale. In the end, none of the games I’ve tried have been good enough, but eventually something will be. But I would definitely pay money right now for a big lump of new content.
Living story aside, look at WoW and FFXIV expansion or Even Rift, most my friends dont play any of those games anymore, but after i told them about new expansion they already pre order WoW expansion (i wont), i also was a player of FF, i dont play the game since 2.1, i think is on 2.4 now, and i am 99.9% sure i will buy the expansion.
Expansion = New Race/Class, New maps and alot of new features, is the perfect way to get lost players back to the game.
I know that Living story and Feature packs also give a fell of expansion for some players and thats what anet want, but cmon a single year of Living story is not the same as an expansion not even close.
So ye im 100% sure that an expansion would bring alot of players back
i know i know this might be the worst idea ever, but what if instead of changing core features like the gem convertor to bring new players to the game, Anet could Release a kitten Expansion, to bring players that dont log in since 2013 to the game!?
I know this is probably a bad idea but hey, trying never hurt.
After the 400-gem minimum, the part I find most irritating is the gold amounts are static, leaving the gem amounts to fluctuate.
Ahem That’s not how we spend our gems, people!
It should be easier to spend gems, not harder or more obnoxious.
They WANT you to have excess gems.
That’s HOW it works. You have these odd number of gems, the OCD kicks in, and you buy MORE gems to try and get something you probably wouldn’t have bought normally because it “fixes” the balance (but not entirely).
And it’s a method that works very, very well.
Also, if you have to buy more gems that means the price of Gems to gold will rise, and that makes the “Buy gems with Real money” alot more attractive for players that equals Anet getting more money.
the way things are going right now, if it gets to confuse for “new” players we may get “rewards”(aKa greens and blues, because you know more than 2 colors may confuse new players) before we kill the bosses.
“The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.”
Let me translate to “normal” language
The team wont listen to your feedback, only when you stop giving us more money, we will change it to the old UI.
Perhaps you should get a time machine and go back to vanilla WoW…. The sad, unfortunate truth is that there are too many people who dedicate a large portion of their life to do that exact thing; beat them day 1. It is a fact of modern mmo development that you locusts will chew through the entire content that took a year to develop in a matter of hours or days, then cry that it was too easy or you want more.
GW2 is the casual person’s mmo. It was promoted and initially designed as such. If done properly, even their Raids will reflect that. Anyone can complete the content, which means that YES, your highly specialized and dedicated team will probably burn it with no problems. Just like the teams who burn through Fractal level 50 as easier than some of us handle level 1. But the whole point of GW2 content that it is inclusive, not exclusive.
What you are really wanting is a way to justify your personal feelings that you are better than the rest of the population. You don’t really want an enjoyable experience that can be had by all, but an experience that can only be completed by the top x% of players. That line of thinking is going the way of the past. Blame us casuals all you want, but blame your own kind as well. Wildstar raids were developed precisely to cater to your mentality, but the community imploded on itself.
Your type had a chance at the hard and challenging content with Wildstar. And you proved that the hardcore community is too toxic, especially when working within your own kind.
If that what the gw2 playbase want why even do raids, that type of raids you already have in-game its called world bosses, or guild missions(challenges).
Look the raids dont need to be Hardcore, they just need to not be press 1 and get loot like world bosses are, besides Anet already did content that not everyone could complete like the tequalt(when was new) and the Evolved Wurm, and im almost 100% sure that not everyone have kill it yet.
Contact support. I had an ascended I had put on a white item to transfer to a storage toon and needed to split it. They sent me a free splitter because they had removed them from the store. They might be willing to do the same for you.
Sometime ago i got an ascended one-hand sword and craft another one(Ebonmane´s blade) to get the skin, and with the next patch(15april) i wont need to “combine” weapons with transmutation crystals to get the skin and the stats that i want in one weapons and thats awesome, however now i want to get my one sword into the two that i had on the start but i cant because for some reason the Transmutation Splitters arent on the gem store anyome.
anyway to fix this? anyone knows or have a similar problem?
Maybe the way that the new feature were announce is the problem they start with good stuff (traits and wardrobe) and they “endeded” with repair costs and account bound ascended, they should have start with the “less important” stuff and them hit with the big things.
QoL mainly, and adjustments, that will only target new players?
The stuff we have seen so far is as game changing as the introduction of pets not all being moved to the bank with the ressources. Sort of nice, sort of totally forgetable.
And removing the cost from repairs? A feature? Did anyone ever complain about that fee ever? It was so tiny, that I always thought the WP fee was the penalty for death.
Probably just a way to nerf champions loot without much hate on the forums.
Just to verify one thing – did you skipped the phase when the bug occurred (It has happened to Deso day after patch as well). I’d suggest to let him attack between 50 and 25, not go straight between defence phases.
basically as of later today glory and all spvp rewards will be gone with the exception of the new vendor and there will be a slight boost to silver earned for completing matches which will be used to purchase rewards when they eventually add a new reward system (who knows when)
all glory boosters are also being removed so hope you didn’t buy any when they were selling them last week
Wow, that’s scary, I won’t be surprised if they add in game power advantages into the vendor. It starting to seem like NCSoft doesn’t care who they tick off, casuals, hard core, P2W players, you name it.
Just trying to inflate those share prices, so they can sell out and jump ship. Then shutdown the servers like they did with CoH.
Don’t think I’ll be wasting any more time with this game. Not even going to bother with Wildstar.
So you dont like gear progression but you would try wildstar!?
I said I’m not going to bother with it. How did you manage to misinterpret that?
ye you said you wouldnt bother with it because “Just trying to inflate those share prices, so they can sell out and jump ship. Then shutdown the servers like they did with CoH.”
basically as of later today glory and all spvp rewards will be gone with the exception of the new vendor and there will be a slight boost to silver earned for completing matches which will be used to purchase rewards when they eventually add a new reward system (who knows when)
all glory boosters are also being removed so hope you didn’t buy any when they were selling them last week
Wow, that’s scary, I won’t be surprised if they add in game power advantages into the vendor. It starting to seem like NCSoft doesn’t care who they tick off, casuals, hard core, P2W players, you name it.
Just trying to inflate those share prices, so they can sell out and jump ship. Then shutdown the servers like they did with CoH.
Don’t think I’ll be wasting any more time with this game. Not even going to bother with Wildstar.
So you dont like gear progression but you would try wildstar!?
Spoilers ahead, dont read if you havent already seen the trailer.
I mentioned this a while back and things seemed to go in the right direction but its gradually gotten worse to the point that I feel a post is needed. I hope this is at least passed on to the team in charge of making the trailers for the up-and-coming content because I think this is a huge sticking point for the game going forward.
So I understand you wish to advertise the new content in the Living Story and this is fine as it attracts old players back and hypes the current players up. This I have no problem with. What I do have a huge problem with is the trailer essentially showing whats going to happen in the next patch, namely Scarlets minions attacking and burning down Lions Arch. I know exactly what the next installment of the living story entails and ive not even logged in.
So here’s an idea of how I would change that trailer- keep the LA part at the start but replace the Aetherblade pirate ships with the sound of one then fade out. Fade back in to screams and to the odd bit of burning rubble, fade out to the title. This tells the watcher roughly whats going to happen but doesnt throw images of a burning Lions Arch at us.
For so long ive wished that GW2 would keep secrets, surprise me for once but nothing has happened and im playing less and less because the game is currently so predictable. Sure I can ‘ignore’ these trailers because maybe im in the minority in not wanting to know whats coming up. The point im making is that you can still make trailers but without showing us exactly whats coming up. How many people are going to see that and say ‘not interested’ and wont log in? Be more cryptic and maybe a lot of those will at least want to try the content (and view the gem store) before saying it doesnt interest them.
tl:dr Im tired of spoilers in GW2 trailers, please try something new like NOT telling us what exactly is going to happen.
You do know that everyone know what would happend right(LA being attacked), if you complete this patch story they tell you alot of times that LA is the target, so id think that is a spoiler.
guess what, if you dont use food buffs and proper gear/traits you cant kill the wurms and i hope the next world boss or raid bosses if they go intansed, are like the wurm where you need to have some knowledge of your class.
Well we(TxS) almost did the wurm with the 2:00 fake minutes and in a overflow(If im not wrong Overflow have a lower player cap than a Main Server) so i think is totally possible but its really frustrating to fail for 10 seconds and have to wait another 2hours.
Anet please just make this type of content instanced(aKa Raids) and take the 2hours CD of the game that is just stupid, and that is killing our world first trys.
For “Summon” the wurm we should be doing an attunement and not waiting 2h on a overflow and pray that you get in the server and dont get dc like most of the times happends, we have over 200members that want to do this and only 80-100 can because the server(overflow) is full of pugs .
