Guild Wars 2

Not sure I’d call it a failure, though I must say that I do agree with some of this. Rewards need buffed. A few fractals need reworked big time (look at you dredge fractal!).

- Swamp: hey let’s make Mossman spawn 100000 of wolves so they body block any non cleave attacks…. YEAH GREAT IDEA… right?
- Cliffside: still long, STILL no reward
- Dredge: i think there was more than enough said about this one already: BAD DESIGN.
- WHAT IS THE POINT OF RED CIRCLES ON THE FLOOR WHEN YOU GET HIT BY kitten ANYWAY REGARDLESS STANDING OUTSIDE OF IT?
- Molten: bring guard/war or don’t play.. srsly do you even tests this kitten on anything but warriors?
- Instabilities: why…. why?
- kittened camera at jade maw
- bugs…. so many bugs
Yes, content got harder but reward is still GARBAGE. Few greens for 2 hours run. GREAT IDEA YO.

Honestly, why touch what is not broken? (not talking about exploits) I actually semi enjoyed fractals… now I HATE THEM.

Please, don’t touch existing content anymore. This is biggest failure so far. I don’t have enough words (and probably would get banned) to express what i think about dev team and their ideas for this LS.

/tableflipp

What the hell is that from?

+1 to the OP, definitely agree with. 2 (fractal + boss) would be plenty.

One other solution I just thought of would be this, split each Fractal in half.

For Uncategorized, split it after the poison boss.
For Cliffside split it after the torso seal.
For Underground, split it after the clown car.
For Volcano, split it after the first Shaman fight.
For Snowblind split it after the Blizzard fight.
Urban, Underwater, and Swamp they can probably leave alone.

So each of them is made into two Fractals, then, the order of Fractals would be :
1. One of the “first half” Fractals, ending with a mini-boss or mini-challenge.
2. One of the “second half” Fractals, essentially a “mid boss.”
3. Another of the “first half” fractals.
4. A final boss Fractal.

That would be a nice balance, I think, it would take roughly half as long as the current model, would still have the element of change and force you into the less popular Fractals, still have the “survival mode” element, etc.

I enjoy Fractals well enough, I do, but asking players to run four Fractals in a row, even the very shortest, is too much time investment. ONE fractal is plenty. If you want players playing more fractals, that’s how you do it, drop the “four in a row” business entirely.

If you want to force players to complete the fractals that they don’t enjoy, like the Dredge fractals, in order to get the final rewards, then just use some sort of lock-out system. Let players pick the fractals they want to do, and each fractal completed offers a key, and three keys are needed to unlock the boss battles, but you can’t get a key from a fractal you’ve already done until you clear each of them once, meaning you can do them in any order you want, and take as long as you want to do them, all at once, once per day, even one per week, but you’ll need to do each at least once before you can start over again.

Similar mechanics are already used in the Nightmare Tower.

Please stop spoonfeeding us Scarlet Briar! For the love of all that is holy, we’re sick of her! She’s not a fun character, she’s not a “love to hate” type of villain. She’s bad and terrible and we want to fight Dragons again! Why is that so hard to write about? You left us hanging with Zhaitan after Arah? Why is it so hard to go back and continue that storyline?

I play a sylvari. I’m even a roleplayer. I appreciate the idea of a sylvari villain, but Scarlet is not a good character. She’s just annoying, so why did you inject her into Thaumanova’s story? The story of the Living Story is just not fun anymore. Please stop with Scarlet – lets kill her and fight the dragons (or even the White Mantle again), please.

When I saw her I just felt like logging out, which I ended up doing anyway since they forgot to add a waypoint…

Yeah, there were no words. When I saw Scarlet, I couldn’t actually believe Anet shoved her into ANOTHER plot that had nothing to do with her. Oh wait, now it does…because the Inquest couldn’t be a stand alone villain all their own.

The worst possible choice, that’s who.

Come on guys. Enough of Scarlet. Enough of destroying asuran lore with this ridiculous sue character. Please. Please.

I could list the reasons why this was a bad idea. But other threads have done this already. My only thing to say is, as an asura player that loves their society and lore and history?

You are killing them for me.

No leaderboards wouldn’t stop this from happening anyway. Elitist people are elitist regardless of whether they have a way to prove it or not.

Such a joke that your pet will no longer share AR with it’s owner.
That pet is a part of you, a part of your class.
Also brings it down with spirit weapons for guardian.
If a boss gets an unlucky shot of AR off on a weapon the weapon is gone prematurely.
Anet’s dev team need a serious wakeup call.
Bring back GW1’s crew.
They had a vision and made a very happy fanbase.

Rouven.7409:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

They’re not late. They said the update will occur on 11/26/2013 in Pacific Standard Time. Right now, more than an hour after this thread began, it’s 11:12 AM in PST. They still have almost 13 more hours before they’re late.

You are most certainly correct in a technical way. However since the majority of previous updates happened on average about … three hours ago, this update is later than anticipated.

:)

Let’s agree on later?

Later than the user base anticipated is not equivalent to LATE though.
Late would imply that a deadline had been set that had subsequently been missed. They never told us a time and therefore, unless they don’t manage to release it until the 27th, they cannot be late…

Late? Yes.
Worried? No.

Not interested in fractals and convinced it will contain 103*885 bugs anyways but worried about it being late? Priceless.

I live in NZ and yes it’s also the 27th here. But I KNOW that it’s the 26th in America for quite a while longer…
From my own experience updates usually aren’t for another hour but they have been later in the day. Seriously though, it doesn’t matter what time it drops because the only thing we have actually been told is the DATE.

Astralporing.1957:

Have you ever heard of anyone that got a fractal skin at level 10? No? I thought so. If there really was a chance, it was so low to make precursor drops seem like an everyday occurence.

So, because you haven’t heard anybody in game or on the forums exclaiming that they got their skin at level 10, it never happens?

A low chance is still a chance.

I really don’t understand what happened to the ‘collect tokens toward a guaranteed reward’ premise for dungeons in relation to Fractal skins. I despise RNG.

Just a small thing, but something that has been bugging me for a while now.
Why are there unskippable cinematics in this game?
Just watched the livestream and the molten boss cinematics cant be skipped.

I dont understand the reasoning behind this.
It actually was one of the things i really hated in SAB aswell.

PLS PLS PLS remove unskippable stuff altogether, or better yet, let us choose if we want cinematics at all in dungeons/fractals.
It destroys the flow and is, at least in my opinion, completely unnecessary.

THX

You people really want to complain about everything, huh?

Maybe there are not-yet-fixed bugs, and I’d rather wait than play a corrupted version of the game.

Durzlla.6295:

Reverse Ninja Law, if you have an ally(must be a player) within 300 yards of you you deal 5% less damage and take 1% of your healthbar as damage per second, stacks.

StormTrooper Effect – Despite being an elite heroic marksman that saved the world from an elder dragon, all your attacks miss.

Yeah, in my experience it’s been between 1 and 2 EST. It just turned 1. So hold your horses. Yeesh.

While watching the TwitchTV preview at:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/3299578

at around 7:14, the developer gets hit by a trap and the game teleports him to the start downed. He then continues to get hit by the traps he’s no longer in until he is defeated.

This pretty much confirms that the current releases are too rushed. Please take more care with stuff like this Anet, because if there’s anything that’s frustrating and making people quit the game, it’s being punished for (getting repair bills from) game bugs.

I despise zerg content with a passion, so I hope dragonite ore can drop from the fractals, at least the bosses.

Maybe the mindless aoe spam entertains you, but it doesn’t in my case.