Guild Wars 2

I just mail them a scrap of cotton and tell them to craft a tissue.

Gaile pls do me a favour. Go to the dev team, throw the words “automated testing” in the room and watch their expression, if it’s either a) fear or b) laughter i may suggest a new dev team. This is really not good advertisement for HoT .. i just imagine the same quality coming with the expansion …

Good question. This is what I think:

You know you’re a good player when you are sincerely confident enough to believe it without peer validation. Confidence, not kitteniness.

You gain confidence from initially getting beaten up a lot and then learning from your mistakes. You gain confidence when you are aware and keep track of your contributions to the team.

What stops you from playing as you want now? All it would take would be for the people who post in these threads to put each other on their kitten friends list. Oh, wait, you want your way to be the default way on PuG’s so you don’t have to lift a bloody finger.

So, you want ANet to return their attention to dungeons — which they’ve not touched in a long time and to completely redesign the game. You want everyone to have to play your way — because in order for dedicated roles to be the accepted way in the stinking PuG meta, Anet would have to make them required. You want to ruin the game for anyone who prefers it the way it is because you cba to make your own groups.

What we have now: Group comps can include any builds, any gear, and profession and succeed. This is the ultimate in build diversity.

What you want: Group comps will be just like in other games, a tank, a healer, and some DPS. Casual groups, guild groups, PuG’s, everyone will have to use the same comps to succeed. The only variations might be on which professions play DPS. Much less diversity.

What the result will be: PuG’s will still exclude, only they’ll be kicking because they need a tank or healer. Or because your tank build is not the accepted tank build. Or because your heal build is not the accepted heal build. Or for whatever other reason they come up with. Exclusion is not a mechanics issue — it’s a people issue.

Sorry, no thanks.

ArenaNet has always had problem with consistency in their definition of functions.

A Block is a hit that deals no damage (GW2 Wiki).

Thus it should satisfy that requirement.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.” Dragons are extremely powerful, and do act from malice. Here I need to defend the very capable employees at ArenaNet, who delivered a masterpiece game 2 years ago and who to my knowledge have never acted with malice. I simply disagree with the allocation of resources/investment which has been chosen since GW2 went live, again without malice, by the ArenaNet executives.

“Any intuitive change to a complex system will inevitably leave [that system] worse off.” from an engineering textbook on complex systems 40 years ago, quoting a textbook on urban studies

IDIOCRACY, now playing in a game near you.

I alone have been anointed to spread my boons for you…
FOR I LOOOVE YOU!
Let me show you the power of stacking!
Embrace the powerful hits!

And there it is, friends! The ugly truth.

Go fight dredge.

Only noobs are offended by the word noob.

Now there’s only “Online” or “Unknown” …