Guild Wars 2

You can hate on Blizzard all you want but you can not deny that they masterfully design amazing encounters, something ANet has not come remotely close to

actually, yeah I can deny it, and I do. They were innovative, to be sure….but masterful is a bit much.

BTW might I note something here. Comparing current WoW to GW2 is like comparing a newly squeezed wine to one aging in the barrel for a decade. Its folly.

WoW has had almost a decade to fix stuff…Anet has had 4 months. WoW in its first year was hilariously bad, if you compare it to GW2 at the same time interval, and with what ANet has accomplished.

PP

No, you’ve never done any REAL raiding. The challenge in WoW is that the boss mechanics are punishing of any mistake. So whenever one little detail goes wrong, it’s up to how the rest of the group can react to fix it. Then you know all those abilities you have that you were like “I’m never going to need these” and you didn’t put them on your bar, well part of your challenge is actually using those skills because they DO matter

Gotta disagree here. WoW, and others of their ilk is an exercise of selective button mashing for useful skills and never using trash skills ever. Every class in WoW (and others, Im looking at you LOTRO) have a plethora of completely useless skills that are rarely, if ever used. I left WoW because of the unimaginitve style of play. WoW and its brain children are the definition of mindless grinding and pigeonholing characters into roles they can never escape from.

Not every fight is just an issue of being choreographed, most of them require a decent amount of personal skill on top of it, some require absolute perfection

Sorry, I never saw that except maybe on 1 instance.

An the other guy with the military idea and everyone doing damage. Where the military differs from this game is that synergy between everyone. There’s true teamwork. They’re all doing killing, but they have specific jobs. You don’t send snipers to try to sneak into somewhere to rescue someone, and you don’t send a medic to hide in a mountain and try to kill someone important. GW2 lacks that

this i do agree with. I believe that if I spec my ELE for water, in a dungeon, he should be able to do an ok job at keeping the party alive. Same if Im speccing a tank warrior for survivability. I dont really see this yet on GW.

Throw more numbers in until it dies

Its going to be that way when anyone can map shout about The Shatterer or Jormag’s claw. It would be exactly the same if the Lich King or Ragnaros was just wandering about for anyone on the entire server to jump on. I dont see alot of folks saying this about Her Royal Vileness, High Priestess of Dwayna.

Hello,
The question I am posing, I would love to have a dev or some other “official” person answer.

When joining an instance with folks from multiple servers, could there be a major lag issue when one (namely, me) joins when in an overflow server? I have seen this issue come up before and the terrible lag I have suffered has only happened when I came from an overflow server. My wife plays not 10 feet from me and she does not lag at all when I do, and mostly it comes from me joining an instance from an overflow.

I appreciate your response.

Sincerely,
PP

I like the idea personally. It rewards folks for doing an entire event. I do think though, its far too easy to get a gold medal and it should be very difficult to get one, but also increase the reward for it.

Just my two cents.

PP

Sorry Bone. Nobody will take your complaint seriously if you don’t present it in a concise way.

PP

I love the fact that there is no trinity and I can make a character any way I want. However, I do agree that mobs tend to go after one person, even if they are not attacking. However, this game is VERY young. AI adjustments WILL happen at some point.

PP

When you find yourself accidentally humming the world music.

PP

I have heard pretty much every class be blamed for some imbalance (except engineers) now. The reason thieves are to escape and hit from stealth, is because thats what they do. They are not to stand toe-to-toe. They’ll get smashed. Every class, when played the way they were designed, can be awesome. If all it takes to discourage you from playing an MMO is a perceived class imbalance, you’ll be playing a new game every 2 months for the rest of your life.

PP

Maybe its just me, but rewards for heavy hitting monsters seem to be a bit low in some situations. The ringing one in my head is the giant attacking Nageling. Upon victory, I have yet to see any kind of reward.

Please admins, understand Im not belly-aching. I love this game and it has been an absolute pleasure to play. I just find this a bit trying.