You have to stop doing dungeons all together is my advice.
You mean “playing the game as ArenaNet intended”?
Wish these ‘dungeon’ (lol what are dungeons) players would just go away. They’ve been ruining immersion for everybody from day one. The only reason they even get a subforum is because Arena Net has a humorous side and now a bunch of people have taken them actually waaaay too seriously and now we’re stuck with people who think there are dungeons in this game. Hah. Ridiculous. kitten off.
Thou shalt drop Shadow Refuge during fights at random.
Thou shalt not understand what blast fields and blasts are. While this may be a tenet for all classes when pugging, this is especially important on thief. Do NOT place smoke fields and/or blast them at any cost.
If for whichever reason, somebody places a smokefield or firefield, proceed to glare at it and act confused as to what it is.
If one wishes to range (as is endorsed by the holy scriptures of arena net game play), pistol/pistol is the weapon of choice as the great gods of ArenaNet have demonstrated its effectiveness.
Thou shalt run at least 1 venom on the utility bar at ALL times, the more useless the better. If one wishes to live even more faithfully, proceed to equip more venoms.
Thou shalt ALWAYS have the run speed signet equipped. It is crucial that you can run extremely fast at all times, especially when attacking and kiting around at range with your p/p.
Thou shalt run double fire sigils on weapons at all times as this maximises damage, especially on pistol/pistol.
People arguing with each other about how is a worse human being.
People threatening to quit if Anet does/doesn’t make changes to berserker
People are throwing insults back and forth
People complaining about how GW2 should/shouldn’t be like GW1
People having no idea what the issue is.
All these things- will probably happen in this thread too.
I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. This toxic stacking environment is ruining my immersion. I go into a dungeon and I expect to be able to play my class as it was intended. Why should I, as a RANGER be forced to stand in melee range with my LONGbow? It’s called *long*bow for a reason, it’s because it’s meant to be used at long range. I can understand that my bear pet needs to melee, but that doesn’t mean I have to. Seriously sick of the elitism that is rife in dungeon parties these days, the community has really gone downhill.
Back at release I never had trouble getting into groups but now it’s just stupid. They don’t care about me at all, and I’ve had enough. When they’re all on the ground complaining about not enough dps, I’m the last one standing and I alone am ressing them. I have been standing outside of the stack every time and playing as the game was intended and what thanks do I get? A swift kick. Now I understand that there’s a ‘meta’ now, so yes, I have adapted.
I now use a whiptail devourer for the pet because everybody dislikes bears so much. I have really gone the distance to satisfy people here while still staying true to what my class is supposed to be. I even used Search and rescue to res people when their stack dies. I have done nothing but play for the sake of other people since day 1 but nobody care, they are all incredibly selfish. Enough is enough, Arena Net has to make the changes because I’m done making changes to my game play for the sake of other people.
The decision to ignore defensive stats and load up on offensive stats SHOULD mean you deal a lot of damage and die easily.
That is exactly what zerker gear does. You have low hp, no mitigation, and massive dps.
The gear is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. It’s the content which isn’t providing the threat to your life.
In any other PvE game, once content becomes less threatening to your life… you begin swapping healers for dpsers.
I absolutely agree with this and the solution is to make new, better dungeons.
I played the beta and got bored for the same reason tbh. Leveling and quests etc. However, now I’m facing yet another year of this game going nowhere or trying something new and putting in a bit of effort for the promise of actual endgame. So I’m gonna give it a go, especially since I can afford a sub fee now. XD
The thing was, I started out as zerk but then everyone was poo pooing it and telling me it’s bad even though I had like 0 problem with it.. so I was like meh ok. So I thought about it (bad idea) and I like.. came to the conclusion all by myself.. I looked at the traits and was like OMG there’s traits here that HEAL you for DOING things for PEOPLE. I BET NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THIS. And I had that empowering might kitten going and full shouts and all that cancer and I was like kitten I carry ppl so hard wtf is up. Then one day I was like.. You know what could make this build even better?!?! CLERICS GEAR!! That lasted about idk.. one dungeon run and then I realised that everything I had ever known was a lie. And I put zerker gear on and removed all my honor and valor traits and that was that.
Dakota if you are after a build for dungeons, then it’s gonna be Sw/wh + GS or Sw/Ax with frost/spotter + zerk. The issue with running a build so heavily reliant on survival is that for the other 4 people in your team it is like playing a 4/5 party dps wise. Things take longer to kill and so there is a higher likelihood of things going wrong.
Why? will you post another Giff to strengthen you argument
Here is exhibit one. He has yet to say anything to support his game changing opinions. So it is with great pleasure that everyone has had a ball with him tonight.
Look the picture that I have joined, my warrior full zerker/scholar. Im using it not because of skill but because it is easy and requires me to not dodge when I do PvE. Dead mobs deal no damage if you didint realise that yet, I dont know what to say.
Why are you ignoring the truth? You know that the majority of the boss is either stacking in the corner and pressing 1 or just stacking on the boss and pressing 1. I know what I’m talking about I made 1,5k gold in 1 month from dungeon running but I cant do it actively like I was doing before now, I get bored and there’s no challenge.
Note that I dont hate PvE, in gw1 thats what I was doing for most of the time because there was a risk to die at least. But not here sorry.
1.5k is pitiful and means nothing. I’ve seen cleric’s AH guards with more money than that, simply from leeching off others.
Also speaking of ignoring, you ignored my reply. Please provide a video where your whole team stacks on lupi and auto attacks him with no dodges or any other actions.
If you spent a whole month simply walking up to bosses and pressing 1 then I feel sorry for all the teams that carried you. Vulnerability, weapon swapping, dodging, might/fury up keep and banner uptime is so over rated.
Here is a tip though, pressing the 1 button doesn’t take a screenshot for you, that’s why you had to whisper a friend.
Wait so because these PHIW’ers are constantly griefing my parties, does this mean I in turn can go grief their parties? I mean that’s what you’re saying is motivating them right? Hate begets hate?
Personally I’m not motivated by some randoms hurling abuse at me due to my lfg to then in turn go hurl abuse at some other non-related randoms and thier lfg. And somehow I think most people are rational enough to be the same, unless of course what you are saying is they are incredibly irrational.
Maybe you should reflect on how that makes you feel and think about how the first guy in GW2 that was kicked for using the wrong build or gear felt as well … and the message that sent him on how to behave ingame.
You’ve lost me again. Is this like some kind of inception thing wats up.
If you have the option to do both but insist on a change that would make everyone do things the way you want, then I still think it is.
It’s not the same.
The problem here is clearly bad dungeon design. It stands to reason that when you design a dungeon, you logically design it so that players can fight some (if not most) of the enemies in it. Avoiding some patrols is an accepted strategy, as it has been since GW1. But skipping everything can’t be, and should not be intended design.
The cry here is for better design that gives meaning to fighting the mobs in the dungeons. Give them better loot (and better drop rates), and players will be encouraged to fight them, but not forced to. Add some gating to parts of the dungeon, so not everything will be trivialized by running past all the mobs.
Perhaps in your eyes it is bad game design, but not to everyone. I honestly think that time gating is bad game design. People already actively avoid time gated paths.
I agree, mobs to need to give the incentive to kill them. But I do not agree that we should force people to kill them.
You still don’t get it… killing monsters “IS” the game… Would you play a game without monsters ? How about without bosses… how about we skip everything and just stand around in shiny armor…
Some of you are really convinced in gaming you should skip as much as possible, basically in an MMORPG which is designed for combat (unlike sims or train simulators) we should combat less…
It’s like… we want to fight without violence… we want to play the game without playing the game…
Nemesis this has been said before – Play how you want, you are welcome to, but stop jabbering on about how horrible other people are for not doing things your way.
And for the record.. ( I really should not have to say this because it’s obvious) Nobody is asking for a game where we don’t kill anything. That sort of slippery slope argument has no bearing on reality.
I won’t ever join to LFGs which’s requirements i do not fit. But i’m quite sad when they ask for a 3rd warrior, or a guardian while they already have a thief and a mesmer. As if there was nothing else viable.
Let me tell you something about parties that want a 3rd warrior or some such. People like that are usually about a year or so behind not only in their thought processes but with their traits and utilities as well. You are not missing out on anything so don’t feel sad. It’s their party, let them continue thinking it’s good. Not your problem.
Oh I know people still run the dungeon, but dungeon sellers are far far more common than they used to be, and the vast majority of LFGs want experienced members that will melee lupicus. It is much harder to find a group willing to take a beginner.
I’ve heard that it’s possible to list your own LFG asking for a teacher. I think it only costs like 200 gems or something. Or maybe it was an exploit.
Not sure.
Yeh pretty sure it’s 200 Gems to buy the ’I’m being oppressed!’ megaphone in the gemstore that enables you to make one lfg listing per hour. Some people have been exploiting it by double clicking it in quick succession to make multiple lfg posts within the designated hour. Smh at this toxic community sometimes, just takes a few bad apples.
When I was new I didn’t expect to be carried. I busted out the wikipedia, the google, the youtubes. I crafted myself some rares, then I farmed myself some exotic gear doing faceroll easy CoF and CoE with a bunch of other scrubs which I added through using the lfg by myself. The shocking revelation that I could make my own party hit me like a guardian actually running a proper dps build.
I just did a pug zerk only CM. Ranger started kittening because I was using black power + blast for stealthing party instead of SR. Immediately the pugs explained why and then told him to shutup and start running frost/spotter. Faith in pugs restored.
Forget about the base game inclusion, it’s 50 bucks regardless
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What you should really be considering is if the expansion itself is worth your money.
Given the information so far I am of the mind that it is not worth 50 dollars.
I am happy to wait and see what is actually in this expansion before spending the money as it is my personal impression that this is more of a giant feature patch with some maps thrown in than a large content inclusive expansion that I would feel happy with.
However, as a friend put it, I’ve been playing this game since beta pretty hardcore, it’s not whether I will buy the expansion but when. It’ll happen. I’m comfortable with missing out on a character slot from pre-order to see where this goes, are you?
I want to up and personal with him, digging the snot out of his nostrels with my greatsword and then flinging it up into his eyes with my longbow. Make it happen O_O
I have reported and sent videos of quite a few myself. Result? They finally got patched nearly 1 whole kitten year later.
Yeah, they have to look. I checked video history and the submitted videos were always viewed either the same or the following day. After that? Not a single view.
They’re sitting in stately leather chairs by a crackling fireplace. Smoking plump cigars, they laugh as they close the video and get back to working on the living story.
3.) Skill less players who don’t understand how the game works, despite my own lack of understanding of the game that has lead to this issue in the first place.
I feel like there should be some kind of infomercial about this vicious cycle, with sad and overly emotional music in the background.
For the small sum of 99g a month you too can help a PHIW learn simple game mechanics. Your donation will ensure that they learn to dodge, and never resort to creating a nerf thread/fix ever again. Every month, once we teach your PHIW to read, you will receive a small package from them with a hand written letter telling you about all the fun they have now that they are better players.
Act now and we will throw in this beautiful set of steak knives.
Nothing says excellent dungeon design like npc reliant content and unskippable cutscenes, I hope we get more of this as it is riveting and engaging. I also have high hopes that they will integrate the living story into the dungeons so that I can fully experience the immersion and story that my casual counterparts are so delighted by.
