Guild Wars 2

All I know is that anet will never be able to please everyone. I was bored out of my mind during molten facility and aetherized living story updates, and finally am enjoying a difficult and fulfilling update for once.

Anet should just continue making diverse content above all else, to cater to all types of players. I wouldn’t mind all their boring updates as long as they put out some amazing content as well (fractals, gauntlet, halloween update, etc)

Yeah still surprised it doesn’t have its own title =\

colesy.8490:

I haven’t had a chance to log in yet, but if Liadri is as hard as this forum claims she is, then yes I want more of it, this game has too much faceroll content.

But that’s the thing, every day that goes by so many more people complete it. Yes at first it seemed ultra challenging, but after learning the fight it isn’t all that tough. By the end of the 4th week, I feel a good portion of the playerbase will be done with it.

I do wish they had more content like this. Is it really challenging? Yeah. Is it unfair and impossible? Not at all.

It’s like wanting to become a doctor and complaining that med school is just too hard, and should be made easier because somehow feeling entitled means everything should come easy to you regardless of your own inadequacies or abilities.

Just a reality check my friend, some things just aren’t for everyone. Simply wanting something isn’t good enough reason to always be able to have it.

You just come across as very selfish, wanting content to cater to your ability to get your latest shiny, as opposed to looking at the bigger picture of having a diverse variety of content for all types of players to enjoy.

bhagwad.4281:

That’s the difference. I play for shinies. Fun may be a factor but only when I get shinies as a reward. Fun is a by product. A side effect. It’s never the prime motivation. At least for me.

I’m like a donkey. I need a carrot in front of me to make me do anything.

Seems extremely selfish to want 100% of the content to be easy or somewhat challenging, and not even have 0.1% of it be extremely difficult for the people who enjoy that sort of thing.

There’s a million things in the game that you can do and achieve that won’t be ‘frustrating’, why make the 1 challenging content cater specifically to you also?

Just plain selfish.

I don’t understand your logic. If it wasn’t fun for you, why did you continue to do it? It seems like your own fault for putting yourself in such stress.

I play the game to do things I enjoy. I don’t enjoy grinding dungeons, nor JP’s. So I don’t do them.

Simple.

99.9% of the current endgame content is completely faceroll =/

It was refreshing to have gauntlet and fight liadri, if anything I hope anet implements alot more content on par with her difficulty

+1

Btw, how come there are no unique titles for getting the 8 orb achievement? I mean, when there’re titles like sanctum sprinter around, I would’ve assumed one of the toughest achievements in the game would’ve also warranted it’s own achievement.

JQ is open

15char

I think the general vibe isn’t exactly literally about ‘fear’, I think more-so about which classes you don’t exactly prefer fighting as much and which classes you are more than happy to fight.

Me: Mesmer defending point
Most feared: trap ranger or a skilled d/d ele
Least feared: another mesmer

Why hasn’t this issue been fixed yet? For ages thieves have been pre-casting+steal and still no word from devs.

To hush the outcry/awareness of this, the thieves on these forums instead try to deflect all criticism/nerf-talk by spamming the forum with threads complaining about mesmer instead.

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Mufa.1326:

possante.8310:

Mufa.1326:

possante.8310:

im gonna say what happen : you play bad because you try atack on melee a mesmer with already 2 clones up, if you are a canon glass thief you cant do that you will die in seconds.

this wasnt a OP mesmer issue, was just a very bad move by the thief.

i dont know the lvl of the thief in video but this mistake is common on low lvl thief. rwally nothing important see here, you play bad period.

Really? So melee should not approach mesmer who has two clones up? Wow, what a great game design you have in mind. Do you understand how easy it is for mesmer to get two clones up? And then it is game over for melee?

No it is not ‘bad move by the thief’ it is ‘severely OP mesmer class’ if it is true (and currently it is) that melee player should not approach mesmer who has 2-3 clones up already and sitting among them because mesmer can just instantly ‘blow him up’.

yes and i will say again. use your shortbow, that weapon isnt just for run away when you are almost dead.

mesmer can create clones easy, you with your shortbow can kill all with just one shot.

please explain me how easy is to have 2 clones always up, he will spend all dodge? he need have mirror images? ( and that mean or he dont have blink or null field wich will make him a easy kill) ne need have a target to create phantasm?

if he is using staff is a easy kill for a thief just use your shortbow, shatter mesmer with staff do almost 0 damage with staff

if you are a thief use trick shot and cluster bomb to destroy clones , if you dont use it to destroy clones you are basically a rookie thief

And I will tell you again: If mesmer with two clones is a ‘no-go-zone’ for melee then the class is broken.

Players should not be forced to carry ranged option just to deal with mesmer class. Mesmer class needs fixing. And fix is incoming (devs have spoken).

Mate, your bias is causing you to argue yourself into a hole.

How long has every other player been saying that we are forced to carry multiple stun breaks because of the thieves and warriors burst, and that they are the only class that you really need to do that for? Well the thief community said deal with it. How long have players been complaining about getting hit for insane damage by thieves and others? The thief community said “Don’t run glass cannon spec” so everyone else said, oh right thieves are the only ones allowed to run GC spec. How long have players been complaining about be insta-gibbed by thieves without a chance to fight back? Thieves said just dodge, stun break, immunity, blind, cc, all of these are hard counters to thieves burst. So guess what? The rest of the community, (besides a few) adapted we were forced to change our playstyles to deal with thieves and other burst, so guess what? Now it’s your turn. Blind, daze, DODGE, stun, knockback, STEALTH, line of sight, pull out your shortbow and use kittening auto attack, cluster bomb, Shadow step, blinding powder, ALL of these are hard counters to Mesmer. God forbid you have to change your playstyle from C&D, mug, backstab, heart seeker spam. You guys have been telling everyone for he last 4 months to stop QQ’ing and L2P, and now all of a sudden someone has found a way to counter the thief like you have told us? Now you guys are raging because your tactics might have to change!? All you have to do is just dodge to negate the whole burst, isn’t that right? Isn’t it?

Adapt your playstyle, god forbid you have to do what thieves told us, change your build learn the class, learn the obvious animations. I’m not going to say what thieves have told everyone else and stop qq’ing and l2p.

Disclaimer: I have no problem with thieves burst, or warriors, I don’t think it’s ridiculously op, I don’t care about needing thieves or warriors or any other classes, I am just pointing out what I have seen happen the last 4 months.

/threadwin

Jjaja.7218:

Top players will always present the full potential of a profession (it’s what makes them top players) and balance should be based off that. I don’t care if a half-decent Mesmer is able to beat a similarly half-decent Necromancer every single time; it’s a totally different scenario at the top.

Quoted for absolute truth.

Zaroua.2714:

Have you even stepped in a 40+ fractal? Warriors get one shot all the time unless they’re wearing toughness and/or vitality gear. But if you’re wearing toughness/vit gear, as a Warrior, your damage is going to be pretty bad.

I’m at scale 50.
- Axe/Mace for the number 2 and 4 invuln stacks for group overall damage as well as fast autoattack and eviscerate.
- GS 2nd set for the occasional 100blades + mobility + number 3 basically being a 3rd dodge. (Or possibly equipping rifle instead depending on the situation.)
- Heal shout spec, giving the whole party 3 shouts that heal, as well as might/fury and 10 stacks of invuln on target.
- I wear knight’s gear. You’ll rarely see anyone in high level fractals wear full berserkers, so I’m not sure what you’re comparing to when you say warrior damage is going to be pretty bad. And yes, the trading crit dmg from berserkers for toughness from knight’s is worth it if it prevents you from getting 1shotted and you can continue doing sustained damage and healing your party as well as stacking up invuln stacks on bosses.

Everyone keeps going back to talk about damage, or comparing damage. The only point that was made was that currently certain classes are indeed more useful to the party at high level PVE content.

No, my point is they’re more useful to party with at higher level fractals. And no, they don’t get 1 shot until the fractal scale 50 tier.

Edit: Thieves at high level fractals won’t be doing any melee, trust me on that and ask ones in the 40 or 50 tier scale yourself.

This is such a silly comparison. A warrior infinitely times more useful than a thief in fractals 40+. Even 30+. Warriors can melee and not get 1 shot even at the highest difficulties with proper dodging and still be traited to do incredible DPS. A heal shout specc’ed warrior can still provide group heals, as well as group might/fury shouts and still stay alive in melee range through even the hardest content. I know there are exceptions to some immensely skilled thieves at those difficulties, but the average thief dies and needs to be rez’d every 2 min.

Just to add to the fun, thieves are the only ones who can solo lord while completely ignoring all the other adds around him (y helo unicorn)

Lol, OP is funny. All I know is that in high end competition I know I would rather face a mesmer with blurred frenzy than without. Reasoning? Because it gives mesmers the pseudo confidence to even get into melee range even though their BF is really not a huge deal. I would prefer getting them in semi decent range to counter their combos and then getting them down (or bothering them off point). Without their pseudo BF confidence, they would never bother getting in melee range and would be pigeon-holed into being a super annoying ranged/kiting cloth class with immense amount of utilities for escape. Trust me, the latest nerfs put mesmers in a manageable place and there’s far greater issues to worry about than a mesmer’s BF.

Seriously. How hard is it to just have ascended tokens drop from daily chests instead? And have some sort of vendor where you can exchange 2 tokens for 1 non infused ring of your choice or 5 tokens for an infused ring of your choice. Atleast something along those lines, because the current system just plain sucks. I’m rank 43 and have had 25 resist ever since I was like rank 25. The last time I’ve gotten an infused ring was 18 dailies ago. I know there are people with much worse luck and haven’t even seen 1 infused ring, but seriously it doesn’t make any sense why they’d even have the current system in place. Can’t equip duplicates, can’t upgrade/sell/craft. I certainly do hate RNG, but why not atleast have an RNG token system so its atleast not as frustrating?

/endrant

Bump. It’s still bugged/unfinished.

Gotten one at level 19

For people who are in tier 3 or above (20-29, or 30-39), can you share loot experiences? I know the daily chest has a chance to give you an infused ring, but what about the random ascended craft item? Tier 1 had essence, tier 2 has glob, what about tier 3 (or 4 for anyone who’s in it)?

Also, have you noticed any increase in rares/exotics at that level? Or is it the same as tier 1? Thanks!

A: You lose the infusion and it becomes an empty slot.

This happened to me, I created the swift base quiver and added a precise infusion to it. Recently I upgraded the quiver to infused version. After the upgrade, the infusion slot became empty again and my precise infusion gone. So yeah, definitely make the infused version first before using the infusion slots.

I’m in the same boat, I’ll add you guys to my friends list.

Congrats, I think alot of us are holding out until they actually fix Eternity.. I still don’t understand how they could have messed up the 1 legendary that requires the most work (combining two different ones) by not having the footsteps and missing the animation on a few weapon skills.

Meh, I really hope there’s going to be some more info on this..

Would lover a moderator reply on this also. Where’s the incentive to craft and create Eternity if it looks worse than Sunrise/Twilight individually? And how come no footprints? I hope this gets fixed soon or modified because many of us are looking forward to Eternity but the way it is right now is quite discouraging.

Is there any word from devs in regards to whether this is going to be modified in the future? Because it seems completely unfinished and there seems no incentive to craft it if it’s worse than the other individual ones..

It is now uncontested on Tarnished Coast !

Any place with it currently open?

Never mind, just received it. I was in an instance area when I finished the last POI on rata, and didn’t receive the chest for that, so went back to the main area and got the the chest automatically. Basically, make sure you’ve gotten the chests for completion for every map individually, and then you’ll automatically get the one for world completion.

Same just happened to me, I finished the completion a few minutes ago and done with everything on the map, zoned in and out of chantry of secrets multiple times, and still no gift of exploration or star. PLEASE fix this urgently.

Any current uncontested balthazar? It’s bugged here on tarnished coast

Is it still uncontested by chance?