Actually “no res” rule removed a lot of skill from certain matches. For example team afking at entrance would have beat rT. Would you call that team skillful?
Based on this particular match – probably not. But as i said – recovering is much more harder and skill-requiring, so we should promote this approach, don’t we ? Teams should have a back-up plans in case something goes wrong in addition to the general smooth speedrun tactics. At least, it is what i would like to see as a viewer and what i’m going to train with my team as a competitor.
And i’m afraid that if ressing was allowed, this tournamed would just reduced to the speedrunning “brute force”. There is no fun in it, imo.
The real reason I participated and felt I could participate as a pug group was because of the wipe rule. It is an equalizer, because everyone makes mistakes, and part of the excitement was seeing if you could recover from it. The risk also makes it really edge-of-your-seat, which is one of the most important things about esports… Those moments of intensity.
I’m totally agree. In my opinion, wipe rule + fixed teams is what saved this competition from the 4 ele pure speedrunning teams so popular at gwscr.com
And yeah, i think that adapting and recovering when something goes off the rail requires much more skill than just running everything smooth. So there is no need to push the balance toward the last.
Still wondering what would happen if rTs mesmer noticed the blinking stealth icon on the warrior and supported him with veil / mass invi )
It is common knowledge within the computer industry that removing an existing feature will cause customer dissatisfaction and undermine trust and future business. There is over 40 years of data to back this up.
Joy for the vast majority of players, who waited for this change so long vs. “dissatisfaction” of the couple of kittens, who just dont want to adapt?
Have you done this? Because if it’s true, then wow, you’d end up making a lot of ’chievo hunters really happy.
It’s how i did it.
Necro for warhorn, ranger for torch, ele for focus and guardian for shield.
Idea Incubation Lab in Rata Sum with 6 ambient bugs spawn every 25 sec and mentioned above LA sewers Vigil story instance are the best places to do it.
For people who only have a main and their main can’t get a weapon’s kill achieve because the skill has essentially no killing ability, then that’s a major pain. When you only have the one, it sort of feels like a cheat to make another profession just for that weapon.
Is making alt for weapons that your main character just cant equip “feels like a cheat” too?
Warhorn. Ranger is the only class that does any damage with it, so the only class that can even complete that weapon master, and it’s one attack every 25 seconds.
False.
Necro’s Locust Swarm does aoe damage enough to kill a pack of white critters.
So, necro with warhorn 5 autoattacking + idea incubation lab = epic win
Every time i read “I don’t like JPs, so Anet has to remove ’em from the game”
I want to answer “I don’t like You, so Anet should remove you from the game first”.
And I’ve got mine with 916 toughness, same with every member of the team. Getting hit for 25k+, once even for 48k by vets is not something you can tank or heal reliably. Not to mention that vets are much more durable than elites from standard dungeons (legendary dredge resonator).
Looks like you had a constant party for high level fractals. Of course, it allow much more diversity in builds and tactics. But its really not a general case.
And i dont understand, why you mention only one-hit-ko attacks. There are a plenty of mobs in 70+ lvl fractals that hit for 4-5k, but do it often. I.E. kraits in oceanic fractal, non-vet dredges, some ascalon adds, etc. AH+PVT allows to withstand this income dps pressure while continue buffing/controlling/ressing, in contrast with other specs that have to focus only on evading/blocking without any useful contribution.
If anet unlocked levels 50+ fotm, a lot of people would change opinion on AH.
I dont understand what you are talking about.
I got my personal fractal lvl 80 in pugs month ago, and didnt really noticed any troubles with AH gs/staff build. Of course, mobs on lvl 70+ hit like a truck. But AH+PVT gear provides enough survivability, allowing you to care about your party more than about yourself.
Killing one of the golems (Mr. Mittens, IIRC) buffs other with protection, whereas killing other one (Professor Mew?) – with regeneration. So its better to kill them in the end.
As i remember golems have passive buff icons that give a hint about their mechanics.
This is very old screenshot that illustrates a results of so-called “Godskull exploit” that existed in first months after release. The exploit was fixed but afaik the exploiters weren’t banned and exploited precursors weren’t remove from the game.
IMO it was the biggest mistake Anet ever did with GW2. But whatever happened, happened.
Ascended rings will also be available for laurels as well. Back slot items will be made more widely available in the future and will likely tie into a different reward system.
Can you explain, will new ascended amulets be avalaible only as a rewars for laurels? Or there will be alternative ways of obtaining?
You can make a party with player from another region (EU/NA) via gw2lfg.com and then use “Join in LA” feature. It will automatically create an overflow for you.
Thank you for your kind offer. But please don’t take this the wrong way; I don’t know you. I would need to give you my friends email address and that is simply not something that I am comfortable with. Perhaps if I knew you IRL, but not as a (very kind) offer on a forum.
Create a new e-mail for your friends. It’s not a problem.
Radiance all but killed LotRO at the time… I watched people leave in droves… before radiance pretty much anyone could enjoy the end game dungeon… after radiance only a selected few ever got to see the end game content… this sounds very similar to me… ANet…. look to what has happened to other MMOs and learn…
oh… after Radiance decimated the LotRO community it was pulled from the game…
The trouble with the radiance was the lack of endgame content in the LotRO. This is not the case of GW2.
In LotRO after SoM release for entire 2010 year we had only non-stop farm of SG for symbols, and radiance-gated BG. PvP was obsolete, and there wasnt anything else in this game, except drinking beer in Prancing Pony.
In GW2 even if Fractals dungeon is gated, we have whole tyria map full of interesting, permanently actual dungeons, legendary grind and live massive and arena-based pvp. Plus updates every month.
Oh please no. I hope this isn’t another knee jerk reaction. GW1 survived for a long kitten time with mostly RNG for the rare drops (Crystalline swords anyone?). We don’t need to make legendaries easier to get unless you want EVERYONE to have one. I don’t want to see everyone with a legendary 2 months from now.
I agree that acquiring legendary weapons should require ‘legendary’ efforts. The problem is the bad design.
We already have Gift of Fortune, which require a lot of gold and luck. And using the same conception for obtaining precursors or special gifts (== lodestones) is just boring.
I think there are a lot of different challenges/achievements in GW2 that could be tied to the legendary weapons task without lowering the difficulty plank. And limiting all this diversity to only “farm gold/ get luck” is disappointing.
I think it’s very inconvenient update. Tying nodes respawn rate to the characters, not servers, is fine. But the individual respawn count for every node is awful. Am i supposed to watch the clock each time i gather the ori?..
