Guild Wars 2

Kiel is Kormir’s great grand-daughter!

#TeamGnashblade

Who cares about explosions and Asura problems, stuff explodes one after the other, it’s nothing new in the Asura society, just wait and a new one will occur soon enough again.

Many centuries have passed since Abaddon was defeated. We must go back to the past to see what truly happend, there might be clues about the gods disappearing as well! And if it is the very first fall of Abaddon, we might be able to ask the other gods themselves about the Elder Dragons!

#VoteEvonGnashblade

we do not

Evon’s eccentric character is much more entertaining for a PIRATE election.

Honestly, do we need another cliche goodie-two-shoes hero? Evon Gnashblade is at least entertaining, and that makes him more likeable in the same way as Tybalt Leftpaw.

When we get right down to it, what matters most is an entertaining character. We’ve seen the mary-sue archetype before. There for, it’s time to make way for Grey-and-Gray morality with Evon Gnashblade!

The Evon/Kiel icon that floats over my shoulder is quite annoying. While I get the whole “show your support” idea, I thought doing the activities and turning in tokens would account for showing my support. I don’t mind having the buff on me to complete achievements, but that little floating icon is like an ever-present angel (or devil) whispering in my ear.

Even worse is that there’s no way to turn it off for an hour after using the token. (If there is a way to turn off buffs, please tell me how!)

You need to get away from that roommate. No telling what else he or she will do. That’s pretty rotten.

The dungeon is a joke! Hard mode has officially arrived. I don’t mind the dungeon being that difficult, but I’m one achievement away from earning the mini and I can’t even beat Frizz let alone the dungeon! It’s frustrating to get so close to earning a reward for the living story only to run into a buzzsaw of a dungeon.

I’m not saying don’t create hard content for pro players, I’m just asking please don’t abandon us casuals in the process.

Now before anyone says i’m just a whiner, I have beat every single achievement of these living stories.
First, 2 weeks was not long enough to master that dungeon I pulled many long nights to manage to get the achievements, if it was a month like dragon bakittenhink it would have been better.
Second, you had to be in a group to beat the achievements and most gw2 players aren’t that good… It would have been better with single player hard achievement.
Finally, isn’t the point of living story to beat everything in it? I thought the achievements that you needed to work for was everything other then living story.
Any other comments on this event?

I agree. Beat it with a PUG after 8 hours of game play and multiple people quitting. It really took forever to find people good enough to get this thing done.

If this were permanent content, I’d have no problem with it. But making this a major part of the story arc and putting a time limit on it, combined with ultra-hard achievements is a bit much.

I like challenging content but I can tell there are going to be a lot of people who can’t complete this due to lack of skill or simple lack of patience/time to get good at it.

And the fact that it’s so hard is leading to people not wanting to do it again after beating it or getting the achievements. Personally, I’d rather light myself on fire than spend 8 hours on a single dungeon again.

If it helps, it was working on Gates of Madness yesterday and the day before

My condoleances. Make the time you have left enjoyable and make it count, for you and those near you.

Obvious troll.

I find the best place to demonstrate how easy it is to break shadowstep is in Divinity’s Reach, from the hallway just north of the bank (minister’s waypoint?) into the garden area. There is a cracked tile that can be walked over just fine, but always breaks shadowstep.

I hope enough people vote. I’d like the rewards but I hate Facebook with a burning passion.

@Omg A Hotpocket, Thankyou for the civil and well-directed (even if long) response. I appreciate it very much. I still think GW2 is the game of the decade, play it off and on, and do most of the temp content. At the same time, I really think Anet has been missing some golden opportunities, and am just letting my concerns be heard before they become a trend.

@Justin, I think this is really what needs to happen, IMHO. An easy-mode shouldnt be that hard, right? They already have scaling on events across the world; why not give is a scaled down mode?

You know, the thing about the casual crowd of today is that some are just bad at games. Sometimes it’s because they can’t play much, sometimes it’s because they lack the coordination and/or mindset to be a ‘good gamer’, and sometimes it’s because they simply don’t want to ‘work’ at the game. They like messing around, doing whatever, and following the story. And you know what? There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a game based on masses of people; it’s meant to be fun for as many players as possible. Should there be challenging content? ABSOLUTELY! And we really could use more of it. But I don’t really think we have a right to impose our opinion of ‘hard dungeons are fine for story content’ on those who don’t play for the numbers, or honing of millisecond reaction times, or throwing themselves against the impossible puzzle till we figure it out. It’s like saying ‘if you don’t work hard at the game and get better then you deserve to miss out on story because harder dungeons are more important than your idea of fun.’

It seems obvious that ANet wants the portals to be used this way…and since they are the creators of this universe they get to decide what is right and what is wrong.

If you don’t like portals that’s fine, but don’t try and convince people that they are somehow doing something wrong by helping other people skip some content to get the reward. They are, in fact, playing the game how it was designed to be played. ANet says it’s okay, so it’s okay. End of story.

Bri.8354:

“OMG this jump puzzle is hard, where is a portal” and “ooh a portal, I can just skip the entire thing and get the reward anyways” is bad from a game design standpoint. It allows players to completely bypass the obstacles and mechanics, devaluing the content. This offers less satisfaction for completing the content, both for those who use the portal and those who completed it without portals.

Crap. I don’t feel less satisfied when I complete a jumping puzzle while others bypass it, because having completed the puzzle is the reward that makes me feel good, not some achievement or chest at the top. If they don’t want to do the jumps, I don’t force them to. If they ask me kindly, I’ll offer them the service of porting them up, and everybody’s happy. Except you, because others don’t do what you’d like them to do. And that’s unsocial.

most puzzles has almost no reward :|
what the issue with having mesmer help friends?

Is this really a crusade against casuals?

Its not enough you have everything, other should n t also have nothing!

that is how it sounds.
Portal has no impact on economy if mistakes are not made…..
Portal is really important as it is for guild puzzles.
Portal is good for playing JP with friends

Stop taking away freedom from players please.

Stop and listen to yourself, I and many other players like Portal, and enjoy the tactics it allows, but because this isn’t the autocracy you would seem to want we should all agree with you? I understand you don’t like them, but I fail to see why you posted they in the Mesmer forum and besides the few trolls who constantly view this sub forum constantly crying for nerfs to Mesmer, you won’t get much agreement from the majority if players who main Mesmer. You can sit all high and mighty on your “I’m a developer” chair all you want, I lessen myself by arguing about it, you have your opinion and obviously are not here to have your mind changed, just push your agenda. Good luck to you, I hope Portal doesn’t change, I guess we will see what the future brings.

I play mesmer main, and you know how many times I get portaled for a JP compared to how many times I portal someone else?

i often stand and wait for someone that wants a portal up for several minutes. Don’t hate on the mesmer cause they being nice…

Arena Net designed a game and placed Portal in it, end of story, it’s already been nerfed, take your whining elsewhere, some people enjoy a game with diversity and the tactics skills like Portal offer in organised WvW, and SPvP.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

CryxTryx.9208:

So I guess my question is, why does it anger you to see other people trivialize their own game playing expirience?

It angers me because a legit alternative to making money instead of CoF farming doing something I like (JP’s) was nerfed because of this skill.

It angers me because I can work with a small team for 20 minutes to take a keep in WvW just to have to flooded with an enemy zerg because of this skill.

So it has nothing to do with players trivializing their own experience, they are actively making my experience worse.

I have to respond here to your comment regarding WvW. If you guys take a tower/keep and do NOT sweep for mesmers, it is entirely your fault if it gets recapped via portal. It is not the skill being at fault. Do not call for a skill to be nerfed/banned because of laziness.

havoc.6814:

I think that you know that portals are breaking the game and trivializing content. I think you know that you are wrong. I think that is why you are so aggressive. I think you just want to have your liscence to steal at any cost.

You think a lot, obviously.

havoc.6814:

People are being ported to the end chest of the new jumping puzzle from the waypoint outside of the puzzle. They never even have to enter the puzzle. They need not make a single jump. They don’t even have to find the jumping puzzle entrance.

So they get the reward easly – what is the problem with it?

havoc.6814:

The devs spent alot of time developing that content. Portal, as it is, is just a slap in the face to their efforts. That’s just not right.

The devs also created portal, so every use of it is a tribute to their creativity.

havoc.6814:

I’ve nothing against seeing people helping others, but this has gone way beyond just helping someone. Porting someone up a jump, or even a small series of jumps, that they can’t seem to make is great and desired. At least with that they are seeing the content and trying to do it. Bypassing all the content, the entire jumping puzzle is not.

From what I seen bypassing most of the JP using portal was desired by many.

havoc.6814:

Bypassing walls in WvW, and using the skill to skip content in dungeons is not justifiable either.

This is a valid tactic. In WvW it can be countered with mesmer sweep, in PvE using portals only benefits the team, no one is hurt that way.

havoc.6814:

I don’t think people should be rewarded for skipping content.

Why not? Skipping is approved by the devs. Also skipping can require more skill than actually killing the mobs, if it weren’t that way you wouldn’t have threads about skipping being awful thing because people can’t skip properly and just die.

havoc.6814:

Those of you who can claim this is right are just dishonest.

I think they just have a different opinion than you. Nothing dishonest in that.

I think your primary problem is that you like some way of playing the game that not many people care about. Just play as you like and let others play as they like and we’ll all be happy.

havoc.6814:

The devs spent alot of time developing that content. Portal, as it is, is just a slap in the face to their efforts. That’s just not right.

Seriously, HOW is that the fault of the Portal ability?
Jumping Puzzles are a very noticeable type of content, and their fun is directly derived from their difficulty. Much like people want complex combat to feel immersed in it, a jumping challenge which cannot kill me or at least mock me in a number of ways isn’t immersive.

But, if someone wants to skip the content, then isn’t that their loss? They lose out on the JP, well, apparently they want to.

Ofc, the issue you probably want to mention is how they still get the chest at the end? While indeed a certain market-problem (but too minor compared to CoF to even register), it’s not a pressing issue, and it is not a Portal-issue. People are.

havoc.6814:

Wow, every post argueing in favor of portals in this thread is being posted by mesmers. Those mesmers are immediately and vociferously attacking anyone who posts in support of my OP. I think this is very telling. I think that you know that portals are breaking the game and trivializing content. I think you know that you are wrong. I think that is why you are so aggressive. I think you just want to have your liscence to steal at any cost.

I main a guardian, support portals 100% and now I am convinced you are trolling

OP never beat portal, he thought the mechanic was broken and uninstalled.

I’ll mail you some cake =b

hi guys, i made a video on how to perform the goggle jump if you need guidance

http://youtu.be/aHn8NobZToQ

Anything but trench coats for medium.

GuzziHero that’s an extremely rude comment full of condescension. You must think you’re entitled to reprimand whoever you like. It’s not up to you to judge other people.

First of all the OP obviously tried many times. It’s not like they failed once and came here to rage. Second, the OP clearly states that they just had to get that out of their system. Lastly, the camera angles are a real issue in this puzzle that make it harder to gauge jumps in some spots.

Best advice I can give is that if someone is feeling too frustrated it’s best to take a break. Then go back and give it another go. I find that usually helps a lot.