Just wanted to mention, when I chose the human/noble/“lost sister” route…after going through all the story and finally finding my sister, I never saw her again after that one meeting in the cave. Looked for her in the home district house Lord Faren inhabits (he sits not on the couch but inside the couch by way of a massive graphical fail, if you’ve ever bothered going back there), and nothing, nada, zip. No sister, no mention of sister. What’s with that?
We do not deserve his grace, and all it cost most of us was the best character in the entire game, Tybalt I will never forget you my dearest friend, I weep every day that we are no longer together but since I didn't see you die and I don't give a single butt about what the Sovereign Eye of Zhaitan says it means you're still alive but like, even if you're not then you will always live on in my heart and in the shrine I made to you in my closet.
I rezzed Tybalt through the gate. Whyyyyy do they keep telling me he’s dead
Ppl complain the monthly achievements too stale. Now they change it every month and ppl still complaining. Faceplam
I facepalm for seeing txtspeak and misspelled emotes, while claiming large numbers of people complained about something that nobody has ever posted. Wait there while I add you to my ingame der—plist
@lollie
You’re speaking of people who actually tried dungeons, but didn’t like them.
No I’m not. What’s with you trying to tell people what they really mean?
I’m talking about people who don’t do content, because they don’t want to do that content. People don’t all enjoy the same things. It’s quite simple – if you try really really really hard I bet even you could understand.
Well what they don’t seem to get is we don’t do that content, because we don’t want to do that content.
Wrong
Majority would even like to try out dungeons, but they’re afraid
What do you mean “wrong” – it’s clear you’re not one of the ones that doesn’t do the content, why are you even thinking you can speak for us? Most people don’t do content they’re not interested in, plain and simple. It isn’t “we’re afraid” – it’s “we don’t want to do it”. Jeez, what a kitten.
The design philosophy of the monthly appears to be specifically to encourage you to move outside of your comfort zone by experiencing content that you wouldn’t do normally.
Well what they don’t seem to get is we don’t do that content, because we don’t want to do that content.
On the phantasm, that’s the defender icon (ie NOT a trait boon) and on yourself, that’s NOT FROM THE PHANTASM TRAIT LINES I’M TALKING ABOUT. That’s the defender icon and the trait for yourself, not the trait that affects your phantasm. The phantasm trait lines cancel each other out. Try again and better this time.
Hey, how about you do that ON THE PHANTASM. Your video has none of those. Show me on the little doll where the big bad boon traits (retaliation/regeneration, and the other that your “bare bones” build does not have) touches you, I mean works all at once.
Hello? The traits on the phantasms. You know, the ones that don’t work, the ones your little video vs a dummy don’t show. It’s becoming pretty clear you’ve never left the dummy to actually play a mesmer in real world.
Any mesmer with the barebones of this http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgIQNAW86kwzSq3QPSY+QvPfI6oFA;TgAA1CtosxYjwGrYObk2A will be incredibly tanky. Defender reduces damage done by 50%, duelist grants regen every 3 seconds and because of your trait you will gain protection every time regen reapplies, and with every illusion out, the overall damage you take is reduced by 3% each. Because of persisting image and signet of life, the phantasms can take a few beatings before going down.
Defender dies quickly, signet of life is pretty much a fail and waste of a slot, and the traits don’t actually work.
Once you get to the rock, they drop aggro anyways…Not sure what you think the problem with that is?
The problem there is you’re forced to exploit terrain/AI (reaching a point in area so mobs leash) so you can get to an area you are able to actually play in.
@above guy – no it’s just the mob AI is simplistic. If you got to see the coding on mob AI here and then compared it to another game I think you’d realise.
With the removal of the holy trinity they also removed the more complex calculations that went into mob AI. So now all the mobs do is run at you if you get close enough and/or do some damage on them.
At this point, without redesigning combat entirely, they could at least realise what they’ve done (everyone is forced to be a DD tank): lose the idea of heavy/light/medium armour which frankly has no place in a game like this (where everyone is a DD tank), and give everyone the same heavy armour stats =)
I like the combat system; I’m constantly movin’ in and outa melee with me thief … rollin’, leapin’, dodgin’, hidin’ … keeps it exciting, heck of allot moreso than the fire ’n forget systems most MMOs got.
It’s actually worse. You’re just getting tricked by the idea you’re doing something fresh (you’re not). You can make combat systems with dodge rolling in it that also have the other mechanics (Tabula Rasa being the pinnacle of good combat never seen since), GW2 didn’t do this right at all.
I actually hate all the dodging and poncing around…it’s a cheap mechanic and shows they couldn’t be arsed making more complex systems like aggro, defence, trickier attacks from the mobs than just BAM BAM BAM. Build my chars around being able to take a few hits for this reason :P Rather go play a game with more ways to mitigate damage than cheaply dodging the BAM attacks.
Mesmers also in same boat. Actually all they get is nerfed even though they’re already borderline fail in pve (I know, because I play all classes)…and traits don’t work months after game release.
I got my mesmer to L80 kicking and screaming, and leave it there unplayed.
I would be jubilant to pay, say, $4-6 for the scythe staff skin, but instead, Arenanet seems to think that all of these skins and services should be a lottery found in chests instead of a straight, legitimate purchase.
Agreed. I’d be happy to buy things directly, I’m aware this is a f2p game after all (though I’d prefer to be playing a subscription game, guess I’m just waiting for the next decent sub game to arrive).
It’s how people play these days. Grouping isn’t what people do any more unless it’s accidental (doing boss/objective at same time so people group for it to save hassle) or they want to chat to friend without having to pm them (use party chat to talk across maps). This is partly because people would rather play at their own pace than either rush through areas or be slowed down by strangers, and partly because other people are often annoying.
Yeah the “anti bot” measures are going to drive the normal players away, I know I actually like this game, but all the diminishing returns and that stupid spam message (I’ve had it while talking in pm, saying things that weren’t repeat message, so this is broken) are making me angry.
I feel completely unvalued as a customer (I even buy gems).
Got to a spot and saw – no kidding – 30 bots running about in a procession. Server recently lost a ton of people, guess this is what bots do – they go to quiet servers to train up. Transferred off server to higher pop server, screw competing at DEs with the bots. No bots at this spot in new server.
What this game really is, whether the defenders of GW2 want to admit it or not, is a home for those that dislike other MMO’s because they frankly were bad at them, and never got to see the endgame because of it.
There is no real endgame because it would fracture their tiny ego’s knowing that once again nobody wants to play with them because they are sub par.
You can thank the “trophies for everyone” “no keeping scores” mentality that starts in school these days for the new breed of gamers who hate to see someone get shinies they cannot get because they are bad, and would actually have to work to get better.
So let them feel superior by saying “you don’t get it” and move on, misfit toys need homes too.
^This guy measures his success in life by how many shiny pixel things he has collected in games. Games he now no longer plays. Yeah we’ll listen to you, you obviously know what you’re doing =)
Way to miss the point. He brings it up to contradict the OP. As did every other person to mention it.
Wow sometimes I guess I overestimate the intelligence of the average person…I got that. You missed the point, I’m saying OP is correct and that other guy stating he managed to beat Claw Island on his mesmer is no great accomplishment, as you’d have to be hopeless to screw that one up. Do. you. under.-stand. now? (that was me typing slowly). It isn’t hard to cheese your way through quests early in this game – all you need to do on any class is avoid hits (something dodge allows). Let’s face it if you do quests 7 to 9 levels early on any class you can’t take a hit or so or you’ll be dead. As for OP, he seems like he’s used to letting his clones take the heat off him…mustn’t have got far through the game if he’s expecting that to happen, as we all know illusions die far too easily (they always feel like they’re 10 levels too low for anything the mesmer happens to be fighting, dying in one or two hits only).
Monthly Achievements are account based. There was an issue with Monthly Achievements reseting when reaching 100% for some players in September. You were probably one of them.
No the bugged Lifetime Survivor thing is found under Achievements tab – Hero section (press H then go to Achievements – Hero and scroll down to bottom).
It’s not the monthly thing, it’s the account thing for overall play.
Mine is stuck permanently at 0 as well :/ yet have had no issues with the monthly survivor gaining xp.
Yeah Evo up there brought it up as a mark of respect, making like he was able to magically solo that quest early on his mesmer thereby showing that mesmers aren’t crap at pve…when truth is that quest is easy for all classes, assuming basic things like you know not to stand still and try to tank the hits from multiple mobs…
I soloed claw island at 44 without ever being downed. My engineer did it at 46 but had some issues and was downed a few times. Truth is mesmer is practically immortal in Pve if you play right.
Comes down to one thing – economics. Not enough money in it to justify running the server for you and the 30 other guys left on this server at the end of three months’ worth of beatings from all the open world pvp/gankings.
If you think the dynamic world is a premiere, I suppose you’ve never heard of Rift.
Tabula Rasa actually started the whole dynamic event thing. Wish other games also copied the combat of that game as well. Still waiting.
I didn’t know that about Tabula Rasa and I’m guessing most people never even heard of it. Rift was a more commonly known example, but thanks for pointing that out.
