Guild Wars 2

Mahou.3924:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

IndigoSundown.5419:

xarallei.4279:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Harper.4173:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’d like the see those claiming HoT is not challenging link videos of themselves soloing stuff like, say, some of the Hero Challenges, maybe the one in VB with the Vet Teragriff, pack of wolves and mender. We might learn something.

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but isn’t that one the easiest one to solo?

Forum warriors can claim anything. If HoT really offers no challenge to the OP, surely posting such a video should be trivial for him.

But posting that doesn’t prove anything. That is literally one of the easiest HPs to get in VB. Now if he had a video of him soloing it back when it was a champion then that would be an entirely different story. Or pick any one of the other champion HPs.

I disbelieve his claims, and I’m inviting him to prove me wrong. I’d accept a solo of that point as a modest declaration that he possesses some skill. If he believes that a greater challenge would be more informative, then he can have at it.

Look, I can solo that point, but I’m not going to go out of my way to make a video to show disbelieving players that I can solo it.

I think you are mistaking your position here. He doesn’t need to prove to himself that HoT is too easy. He experiences it. To him, making a video of himself soloing a Hero Point is akin to making a video explaining why the sky is blue. If anything, you should make videos of yourselves failing that HP, so then the OP can understand why it is so hard for others.

Just to get ridiculded by the god-skilled forum warriors in return where maybe 2-3 people actually would offer any helpful advice (other than in the specific profession sub-forum)? That would be the same as the forum warriors posting their OPness and in turn being labled as show-offs/braggers or so.

So you see how ridiculous the whole thing is? Posting a video to prove something isn’t hard is as equally silly as posting a video showing something is too hard. You’re doing it for indignant players, so why do it in the first place? The terms are ill-defined, so there are limitless ways to move the goal posts. In the end it accomplishes nothing.

rchu.8945:

Tommyknocker.6089:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’d like the see those claiming HoT is not challenging link videos of themselves soloing stuff like, say, some of the Hero Challenges, maybe the one in VB with the Vet Teragriff, pack of wolves and mender. We might learn something.

Even if we do get a poster or two that can do such a thing, it means next to nothing (or should).

Those 1%ers will continue to speed run arah naked while watching youtube and eating dinner only to show that everyone else should GIT GUD & L2P. If only means that a very small portion of the community can do it, it doesn’t mean that they need to make all future content suit them, nor should ANet do so.

As has been said, challenge is subjective but building around only the best of the best will make for a very empty game full of only the elitists IMO.

And that’s the sad part, Anet seems to lean towards these 1%ers that tell others to GIT GUD & L2P.

i would disagree, Anet has not built the game around the 1%, in fact only the new raid is at a high end – and eventually that will be become accessable to all once the tactcs are well known and people stop being anal about builds.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Harper.4173:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’d like the see those claiming HoT is not challenging link videos of themselves soloing stuff like, say, some of the Hero Challenges, maybe the one in VB with the Vet Teragriff, pack of wolves and mender. We might learn something.

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but isn’t that one the easiest one to solo?

Forum warriors can claim anything. If HoT really offers no challenge to the OP, surely posting such a video should be trivial for him.

I can for example solo that HP with no problems whatsoever but honestly I won’t go to all the trouble of getting software in order to capture it then upload it.
If someone doubts me and wants to see it you’re welcome to hit me up in game and I’ll go do it live for you.

raubvogel.5071:

I agree. Its not challening its just annoying. Why? Many reasons have already been posted.

- Too complex maps. Where do i have to go? Contested waypoints!
- Boring (CC rider thing) and annoying enemies (disappearing frogs).
- Too complex masterie system
- From end game is play what you want too you have to grind masteries
- You always need at least some one else for too much content
- If a map has a few people. People are rather taxiing out.

1) Map complex? I agree and that’s the good thing…don’t know how to reach a place? Learn the map. Even TD once you know the 4/5 entrances the subareas besides Confluence, Lanes and Outposts is really straightforward

2) Ok, tell me how you’d make a combat more difficult, becauser more damage/defence apprently is booring (see fractals) and a smartar UI that can dodge, stealth and CC is booring too. Enlight me pls. I like how the mobs are in HoT maps, at least you have to activate a couple of neuron more than usual….

3) Complex…mastery…system? Are you serious. I mean..is linear arguably the simpliest thing possible..what’s complex aobut masteries?

4) You don’t have to grind them, you actually need just gliding, updraft, mushroom jumping and those are unlock casually in maybe the first 2 hour of gameplay? DOn’t tell me 2h is grind. Others are optional to unlock “special” stuff around (finish collections, more mastery points, exploration, etc etc) but to enjoy the map and the metas are not actually required. You have other higher, longer, goals? Well that’s progression and can come naturally as you play. Seriously I only “grinded” the Tyria Mastery Tree for autoloot and the Itziel mastery bar for poison immunity. I wanted that unlock right away and i worked for that, i was not forced, it doesnt felt a grind. I choose what to do.

5) yes you sometimes need someone else for some content but I can reliably say that more of the 70% of the maps is soloable. Now Champ HP and meta events are developed as group content and I see nothign wrong there.

6) Now this is something i can agree too. But is not an issue with hot but the megaserver/map instance system in general. The system as flaws that have to be fixed, but i have to say people are incredibly lazy and even if i enjoy organize meta, aspecially TD, sometimes is tiresome because people don’t listen and won’t to put a little work in there to succed. Bummer.

I’m honestly growing tired of those posts. I think I won’t reply that precicely as I’ve done now anymore. I mean, try to be honest with you and try to figure out if the stuff is really a grind and is hard or if is the people that is actually lazy and want everything day one with no work attached. That last thing seems more a social issue in too, and I see it often IRL too…meh..

Cheers

IndigoSundown.5419:

xarallei.4279:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Harper.4173:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’d like the see those claiming HoT is not challenging link videos of themselves soloing stuff like, say, some of the Hero Challenges, maybe the one in VB with the Vet Teragriff, pack of wolves and mender. We might learn something.

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but isn’t that one the easiest one to solo?

Forum warriors can claim anything. If HoT really offers no challenge to the OP, surely posting such a video should be trivial for him.

But posting that doesn’t prove anything. That is literally one of the easiest HPs to get in VB. Now if he had a video of him soloing it back when it was a champion then that would be an entirely different story. Or pick any one of the other champion HPs.

I disbelieve his claims, and I’m inviting him to prove me wrong. I’d accept a solo of that point as a modest declaration that he possesses some skill. If he believes that a greater challenge would be more informative, then he can have at it.

Look, I can solo that point, but I’m not going to go out of my way to make a video to show disbelieving players that I can solo it.

I think you are mistaking your position here. He doesn’t need to prove to himself that HoT is too easy. He experiences it. To him, making a video of himself soloing a Hero Point is akin to making a video explaining why the sky is blue. If anything, you should make videos of yourselves failing that HP, so then the OP can understand why it is so hard for others.

What Atharian said below: latency can take a relatively simple task and make it challenging.

Atharian.7092:

Well, you obviously don’t play with 300 latency. How difficult the content is also depends a great deal on your class. I’m having an easy time on Reaper for example, but my squishy classes get eaten alive. But hey, this thread is obviously a subtle brag, so whatever.

Nobody said it was hard. They said it was hardER than vanilla GW2’s open world. And it is. You have to do stuff that isn’t autoattacking.

legendary crafting is for people who are happy to play the long game and build up materials as they play – it adds value to their gameplay. IT IS NOT designed for people that want to pay to win to a legendary – thats what purchasable legendaries are for. If you are daft enough to pay your way into a legendary designed for long term play then you are going to pay through the nose for it big time, doesnt take a genious to work that out.

Worse are people that are constantly looking backwards and saying omg i paid x, now its only woth y – you fundementally miss the point of rpg’s if you are doing that.

I was already expecting this to contain stuff from a whiny idiot, like:

“I spent money on goId seIIer site and they screwed me, reset my account plz!”

Especially with a thread name like that. But it isn’t, thank goodness.
Well, technically the OP did whine abit though…

I’m not sure that spending a certain amount of Gems, say 600, for only a month’s worth of use will go over well with the community. Should other items offered only be usable for 30 days? I mean, if the Gem Store can just change the time something is viable, and say, ‘Who cares? The community cries about every little thing…’, what will be changed next?

Be careful what you ask for…

If they bought the bag slots a week before the change, did they get their money’s worth? Three days before the change? One day?

What’s the time period that makes it worthwhile? Assuming you choose a cut-off, do you think those that purchased the day before that arbitrary cut-off won’t feel cheated? Those that purchased a week before?

It would cause a furor no matter what was decided as policy, I believe.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

rager.4963:

BaconofPigs.1683:

Anet would have to refund over 16,000 gems to my accounts if this ever happens. so yeah.

No they would not. You got to enjoy that extra space for that price. Things change, and you would just accept it with a smile.

Do you really think that ANet would want to go through another round of hostile feedback? They might not be required to refund the gems; they would be under pressure to do something for folks that had bought more than a few extra slots.

Accordingly, it’s not as simple as the OP suggests.

This, it’s FAR too late to change it.

rager.4963:

BaconofPigs.1683:

Anet would have to refund over 16,000 gems to my accounts if this ever happens. so yeah.

No they would not. You got to enjoy that extra space for that price. Things change, and you would just accept it with a smile.

Do you really think that ANet would want to go through another round of hostile feedback? They might not be required to refund the gems; they would be under pressure to do something for folks that had bought more than a few extra slots.

Accordingly, it’s not as simple as the OP suggests.

Burtnik.5218:

And people already talking about gw3.. is gw2 a success or total failure?

Draknar.5748:

Ah yes, people talking about hypothetical things. The true metric for a game’s success.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Burtnik.5218:

And people already talking about gw3.. is gw2 a success or total failure?

People started talking about GW2 after the success of the original GW1 release and then after each successful new campaign and after its single (successful) expansion. People started talking about GW3 within months after GW2 launched.

The thing is: people start talking about additional sequels if they loved and if they hated (parts of) the most recent release.

Hell, people started bringing up a supposed GW3 before GW2 Was Even In Closed Beta.

Burtnik.5218:

And people already talking about gw3.. is gw2 a success or total failure?

People started talking about GW2 after the success of the original GW1 release and then after each successful new campaign and after its single (successful) expansion. People started talking about GW3 within months after GW2 launched.

The thing is: people start talking about additional sequels if they loved and if they hated (parts of) the most recent release.

Ah yes, people talking about hypothetical things. The true metric for a game’s success.

Tumblr is leaking again.

I wouldn’t call it an endorsement at all. If anything, the achievement is biting criticism of alcoholism. The time it takes away, the money it costs, the relationships lost… quite clever, really.

Flesh, I think you read that as the 1800’s, not the 1980’s

While I agree things aren’t as much worse as people think (and in fact feel that US culture has gotten far too risk averse to be able to innovate and explore any longer, and that it swaddles and cossets youth to the point the youth tend not to have any independence, patience, or willingness to work), I do believe that there are more risks out there. I was a kid in the 70’s and it was normal for 8 to 10 year olds to go out trick or treating without adults along. In a suburban environment, even (I was in San Diego, then the DC area). It was expected we kids would go outside and play and leave the parents alone to have some peace in their day. Nowadays parents can go to jail for letting their kids do that ><

Yet silly pixel drinking simply isn’t going to convince anyone with half a brain cell that it’s ok to overdo it for real. In fact I feel it’s a useful diversion of interest. Watching Bond movies doesn’t make me want to go out having high speed car chases and firing off PPK’s (and didn’t when I was a teenager either). It gives a cathartic vent to any such impulses, diverting them into enjoying an action story instead of looking for the real thing.

If you try to hide all the bad things in the world from children, they won’t know there are bad things and will have no mental defenses against them when, inevitably, something bad happens.

Snow.2048:

Lanfear, you know people don’t teach kids anymore. They dump um at the nearest daycare so mommy &daddy (or mommy&mommy, or daddy&daddy, or Idon’tidentifywithagender&genderstereotypesaresoooopasse) can continue their own lives. Also TV.

Besides, the real problem is obviously the extreme racial bias against skritt. It teaches kids that immediately resorting to violence and physically abusing people different than you is ok if its in the holiday spirit. (Note: While rewarding you for doing exactly what the skritt are trying to do)

This made me laugh til I cried. Ty Snow.

Also, ANet don’t like people sharing accounts. Its been in the EULA since GW1.

Derigar.7810:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I suggest you start a brand new character and level up by playing the game, just like you would if you had bought the game and started playing. Jumping into a game at the end means you don’t know what’s going on or what to do or any of the lore of the game.

Yes because this game does so well at explaining anything lore wise…

This game does great at what it was intended to do. Not serve you everything on a silver platter. You want the lore, it’s out there, go find it.

See, some of us grew up on adventure games where we had to do more than follow a star to get to a wall of text to figure stuff out. In that way, Guild Wars 2 is a bit more old school. It doesn’t give you that bread crumb trail.

That’s one of the reasons I like it.

Derigar.7810:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I suggest you start a brand new character and level up by playing the game, just like you would if you had bought the game and started playing. Jumping into a game at the end means you don’t know what’s going on or what to do or any of the lore of the game.

Yes because this game does so well at explaining anything lore wise…

If you pay attention to what the NPCs tell you and take the time to read the small things, like gravestones you’ll get a good part of the lore and what’s currently going on. However if you want to know what happened 250 years ago, you’ll need to look it up.

Sort of like real life, no? Unless you’re able to know what happened in real life hundreds of years ago without any research or reading.

If you are not the original owner of the game, i.e. ‘your brother gave you his account’, you are in violation of the ToS/EULA.

I would suggest purchasing the game for yourself and starting from scratch.

Good luck.

I agree with everyone, make a new character, and make friends as you level up and learn about what the heck is going on.

I also strongly disagree with just going straight to guides on the web. That’s a terrible idea for any game. The people telling you to do that thought you had actually played the game to where you where at.

I suggest you start a brand new character and level up by playing the game, just like you would if you had bought the game and started playing. Jumping into a game at the end means you don’t know what’s going on or what to do or any of the lore of the game.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Cyninja.2954:

Lord Kuru.3685:

PopeUrban.2578:

Technically that’s not a treadmill as all new stat sets are sidegrades, not upgrades. They’re preventing you from losing a specific amount of one stat to gain a specific amount of another stat, but they’re not actually giving a raw stat increase.

Just like the elite specializations were sidegrades also?

But you’re right, not a treadmill, but rather p2w.

Elite specialisations are not sidegrades. Also this thread is not about elite specialisations.

Pope’s argument still stands, yours on the other hand makes literally no sense.

Also a small hint, stop using p2w as an argument for anything you dislike. It might make people think you have no clue what you are talking about, just as in this case.

LOL. Lack of reasoning/reading comprehension skills FTL.

Let me rephrase that since you seem to be a bit slow:

Yes, you are correct, elite specialisations are not sidegrades. This has nothing to do with this topic though, stop derailing.

PopeUrbans comment was dealing with the exchange of stats and how the introduction of new stat combinations could be seen as sidegrades instead of upgrades. The new stat combos do allow for a higher total of stats (which is meaningless if they do not outperform old stat combinations or are achievable in different setups, see my post further up). So his point remains valid, while you lack to show how your elite specialisation comment relates.

Finally I was recommending you stop using pay- to-win in your argumentation since you clearly lack the understanding of what this term means. People who have played or know pay-to-win games will instantly know your arguments are bogus if brought up in this manner.

There, this should clear things up.

A laptop is never good for gaming, buy a tower – cheaper and better components, upgradable. To play GW2 with max details on you don’t need a good pc anyways.

Keep the laptop you have now for everything outside of gaming, and build yourself a nice desktop/buy monitor with that 1500 =)

Never need to buy another computer for gaming again, just upgrade individual components as you see fit.

I’d agree with wetpaw, if you want the best gaming experience, go desktop