Guild Wars 2

DistantStatic.6098:

I feel like you have complained about group content before and I said the same thing and recommended you find yourself another game.

. . .

So here it is again. MMORPG. MMO = Massive Online Multiplayer. The concept still seems to glaze over people.
You CLEARLY do not want an MMORPG, PLEASE go find another game.

MMO simply means more than one person playing in the same world. I doesn’t mean or even imply that they must coordinate in order to advance.

Most MMO’s, including previous GW2 content, allow players to choose between solo and group activity. HoT forces all players into group content, and for obvious reasons, didn’t bother telling anyone before they spent their money.

So glad I read this before splashing out AU$70 (SEVENTY!) for a solo-unfriendly exp.

I actually also came to ask what the HoT exp has added to the base game for non-exp owners. Anyone know? Or did we get everything a couple months ago with the skill system butchering…?

As a side-note, I had to download a massive patch for HoT overnight a couple nights ago, and now I see another sizeable patch of around 1500 files preventing me from playing the base game. Whatever happened to the wonderful content streaming method they used in GW1…? sigh

zapv.8051:

Most of the events and champ skill points are soloable, it is just much much more difficult then it used to be. I’ve done several of them solo, but it is much easier to type into say or map chat for a few people. Also, this content diverges from the content in the rest of tyria intentionally. They don’t want people soloing the hardest content, that is fine.

RAIDS are the hardest content .. they made that specially for you people that
cried for harder content.
Open world is NOT the hardest content, and nobody wanted to have open world
as hardest content.

Heck even Everquest 2 learned 1 year after release that nearly nobody played all
those group-content mobs in the open world and removed most of them to make
most of the open world soloable. Can’t understand why ANet now tries to copy
one oft the failures why EQ2 had so much less players than WoW.

Dawdler.8521:

OneKlicKill.4285:

My issue is when you spen 20 minutes navigating to a hero point and then its a 5 man minimum group challenge which when attempted you lose and cant get back for another 30 minutes of climbing agian.

If they just simply made the Hero challenges soloable the game would be fine as is. I shouldn’t have to have 4 people minimum to play the game.

… Unless of course, its by design.

GW2 is an MMO after all. Not a singleplayer adventure game. Is it really that odd that you cant complete some challenges alone? You should easily be able to take 80% of brink alone for example. What if the other 20% is meant to be a little harder group content? Like, I dont know… a challenge of some sort?

The majority of the Open World content should be soloable.

I mean I 100% map completed in vanilla solo, I’ve never even asked people for help in this game because its not hard.

The thing is is its not a skill based challenge, its simply scaled so you can not complete it without 5 people. And the fact it is in a extremely hard to reach place means no one is wondering around there.

If it was skill based id be all for it but when it has a break bar and you cant deal damage unless breaking it or it spawns 3+ veterans that can all nearly 1 shot you (and this is on rev with decent toughness, not a glass) You realize it wasn’t designed for solo play, and thats my only option because my guild does fractas and raids, not WvW or PvE (that and WvW is even less fun than dying in pve for me…. And I’m only grinding these HPs because I need herald to play the parts of the game I actually want to play… Just make the hard to reach points soloable thats all im asking. because even wehn i get help from people on the map they end up not being able to get to me half the time and give up or it takes 45 minutes for them to get there or an event is blocking the only waypoints etc etc.. its just a waist of kittening time.

Dawdler.8521:

OneKlicKill.4285:

My issue is when you spen 20 minutes navigating to a hero point and then its a 5 man minimum group challenge which when attempted you lose and cant get back for another 30 minutes of climbing agian.

If they just simply made the Hero challenges soloable the game would be fine as is. I shouldn’t have to have 4 people minimum to play the game.

… Unless of course, its by design.

GW2 is an MMO after all. Not a singleplayer adventure game. Is it really that odd that you cant complete some challenges alone? You should easily be able to take 80% of brink alone for example. What if the other 20% is meant to be a little harder group content? Like, I dont know… a challenge of some sort?

Yeah. They could call this group content…I dunno…Basements…no…no…oooo…how about Dungeons? Then they could also have things where lots of people get together to do an even bigger Dungeon…let’s call them…um…Raids. Yeah. That works. Then Anet could also devise a unique sort of Dungeon called “fractals”. /sarcasm

Uhm. I second the person who says they offer help instead of saying get good. My player tag is my name, or Twisey.2081 add me, I’ll look at my followers every time I log in. If I’m message me, I love doing content. I’m playing every moment I’m not at work or college. Looking forward to seeing you in the jungle!

HipposWild.7185:

Seriously in order to get access to your elite spec you better just run around with a group of 10 people or close the game… It’s not skill just because it requires lots of people to stand there and press 1

Your’re correct and I closed the game, if and when they ever make some adjustments I will open it again. I love SOLO play , played the entire GW2 SOLO and enjoyed it. Wish I could get a refund but I bought my HOT at a Retailer and its been over 30 days.

DistantStatic.6098:

I feel like you have complained about group content before and I said the same thing and recommended you find yourself another game.

So here it is again. MMORPG. MMO = Massive Online Multiplayer. The concept still seems to glaze over people.

I REALLY don’t want another Orr where mobs are mowed down and there is no challenge whatsoever and that’s what people got when they complained about having to cooperate with others. Content that was easily solo-able therefore making any sort of grouping USELESS.

You CLEARLY do not want an MMORPG, PLEASE go find another game.

You still have not learned what Multi Player Online means.

Its like in the real world .. you don’t invite every hobo you see on the street
or in the train into your home all day to have a party. Even if tthey live in
the same world.

Seriously in order to get access to your elite spec you better just run around with a group of 10 people or close the game… It’s not skill just because it requires lots of people to stand there and press 1

This expansion plays like one big sloppy raid. There is no way to avoid group content, there is way too much conflict crammed into too small a space, and the 3D mapping implementation is awful.

Repetitive dying and spawning is for Raids. There needs to be a way to opt out, or at least walk around, all that ridiculous group content that is constantly spammed into the face of every player that enters.

It’s ridiculous not to name those points w/ unique names as they need team effort to do mostly. Communicating which Hero Point to do in team is somewhat of a challenge before the real challenge.

Very poor, ill thought out design.

Everytime i click this chest i earned on the ui it crashes my game everytime and i can’t receive rewards..!!

Here is the photo of the chest on the bottom right. That is the chest that keeps crashing my game..!!

Exactly same here, still not fixed after latest patch!

I have the same bug as well.

I also have the same bug

I have crashed about 5 times today, over about 3 hours. But every single time I have crashed, it is at the end of an event. The first was at Mad King says, when the chest popped I dropped, but was able to come back to a chest (but no achievement). The other 4 were in Verdant Brink. Pretty irritating to say the least, but I was able to open all my chests when I came back.

I’ve got the same problem…
Tried to open a blue reward chest from the Verdant Brink world event – game crashes every time.

I just stumbled upon this problem with the Exalted 4 headed Vine boss chest. A green one that keeps crashing the game

Still having this problem on my main. Alt can open the chests with no problem.
But on my main there is still a chest which crashes me everytime I try to click it. Got the chest yesterday.

Same here, brown rewardchest from auric basin crashes my game.

I just had the same problem, I got a chest for the Defend Tarir and clicked it before I was able to get access to the chests and goodies the game crashed. Im kinda salty since the defend event was pretty difficult

These two chests are baiting me into crashing to the desktop. First one I got from Verdant Brink, latest one in Auric Basin.

._. they just wont leave me alone.

brown auric ones for me too

Me too, Already got 3 chest or even more. ANET please fix it. It’s annoying. The chests are flashing and shaking

When i see these numbers i know some people with deep pockets would actually prefer to pay that amount than grind the 400 points.

Anet plan is working perfectly…

Elite specializations tallgated behind massive amounts of hero points

Pre-purchase is just a hustle.

It’s that simple for me, I won’t pre-purchase any game.It’s a kitten concept that embraces the release of inferior product. As far as gaming goes…no…I won’t pay to beta test your product regardless of the shinies you offer me.

Outside that I was concerned about the gear grind and by most accounts it sounds like HoT raids will be full ascended gear…with a side of “lf druid then go”.

I’ve played since day one, Prophecies. This was never meant to be a game mechanic.

Now I hear we have to grind out access to skills….SKILLS.

No thx.