Guild Wars 2

I think my original intent has been somewhat misinterpreted so let me clarify:

I do not think that I MUST farm. I just think that there isn’t a whole lot else to do.

I’ve done quite a bit WvW. It’s fun. But can I do it all day? No, it just doesn’t entertain me that much.

Fractals are quite a challenge at times but running the same set of small instances over and over often for random garbage loot: no thanks. At least grinders like WoW had set loot tables and eventually you would see the item you wanted.

GW2’s excessively random loot system ensures that my odds of finding an amazing item are the same whether it’s the first boar in Metrica or the last zombie in Orr: slim to none.

There are a lot of things to do in the game. And I’ve done most of them quite enough. I would like a shiny legendary cuz it seems like a GOAL to work toward but it isn’t really a test of skill or effort but rather an exercise in farming and grind.

When I really think about it my ill will towards the game of late is related to gems, the gem store, and the blatant efforts by ArenaNet or whomever to force the use of it. It seems that more and more the game is telling players to buy gold or learn to live without it.

Got a cool new skin for your armor? Guess what? You’re gonna need a special 80 only item to wear it and that costs gems or gold. Want a shiny weapon skin? Gems or gold.

I respect that someone has to make money on this game. But telling me its free to play then trying to sneak in as much pay to win as possible really chaps my backside.

So I guess you guys are right, I don’t have to have stuff. I CAN just play for the fun of playing. But if aimless, mindless, pointless wandering is the game, and this is game of the year: well…. you get my point

Seriously…there is no way to farm as every farm in the game gets removed. (except CoF) and every item takes an enormously long time to get. This game is so slow and grind driven that I’ve begun to miss gear treadmilling. At least something (even if it’s not great) drops in raids. I can’t understand why 50% of the mobs in the game drop NO loot. What a stupid stupid stupid system.

I’ve heard all this chatter about GW2 being best MMO of the year and such. If THIS is the best game then it’s really more of a commentary on the sad state of MMORPGs in the current market.

I’m all for putting the time and playing the game for rewards but at this point, the carrots (ascended gear, legendary weapon) are so far away that I don’t even find them motivating.

Hopefully ArenaNet can do something to fun up this game a little. Would it really be so hard to make playing a little less grindy and a little more rewarding??

It took me a long time and I have run so many dungeons and wvw and fractals I feel like throwing up but I did it in the end and it was all worth seeing peoples reactions as I fired my first unicorns

Good luck to everyone else and dont give up.

They’re too busy adding in temporary events that nobody cares about or particularly likes. Don’t expect them to devote time and resources to add these mini games any time soon, they are opposed to doing what their customers like.

Really, infusions are so costly for the additional +4 or +5 stat that they really are not worth having. For example: It takes +21 points of precision at level 80 to gain a 1% increase in critical chance.

Just purchase a versatile simple infusion for the +5 AR and move on would be my suggestion. Save your gold/materials.

To add to the group feeling.
To give guilds more options.

+) When you quit the game it can be many reasons, one is that your bored of what your doing. So instead of quitting you could go to the guild hall (which people would do instead of quitting) because its like a home/a main area.

List some other reasons please.

Guild Halls would be amazing for GW2.

what are these “precursors” you speak of?
I have heard tales spoken of these “precursors”, but since the long ago beta times, have seen no proof of their existence other then vague rumors and whispers spoken on the wind.

I really don’t recommend selling karma. Karma is actually pretty hard to get. It just doesn’t seem that way because you often don’t spend it and it accumulates rather slowly.

Imagine you spend 1.5 million karma and then Arenanet releases a bunch of new karma items that are valuable? It’s gonna be hard to get that karma in a reasonable time frame (especially since Plinx farm was nerfed a long time ago)

On a side note, it’s very efficient to save the karma from the jugs. Karma itself is not transferrable between characters but the jugs are. They are pretty cheap solutions for armor if you decide to craft-level a new character to 80 and want lvl 80 exotic gear.

Before the patch 12-18 of us would hop in vent and have a great time. I don’t think we lost a t1 or t2

After patch the fights seem harder, are harder to find since they cant be stopped, Scotts is now impossible, 2-MULT is always a massive failure even while trying to do the mechanic and their are more targets to find making even tougher then that.

Now we have lost 6+ bounties at all levels and haven’t gotten a merit since the patch. Instead we settle to do a t3 to have better chances of picking who to fight to get our personal reward after continued failure.

Our small guild has 8 Dungeon Masters and cant do a t1 bounty . . . . . Something is very very wrong here.

I’m hoping this can be rebalanced back the way it was or give a buff or less possible targets to smaller guilds.

yeh minipets / endless tonics would be awesome … but i guess Whitey is right… a cake that you have to buy for your characters birthday is more realistic if Anet continues with what they did so far^^

I finally leveled my main through to 80 and through the story and…well, Trahearne is freaking awesome. I never felt overshadowed by him, more like partners. Throughout the plot it was obvious that we saw our development alongside Trahearne’s own growth.

I dunno, not ranting or anything, I just don’t get all the hate. Is it envy for that wicked greatsword he’s got or something? He’s pretty cool, IMO (but yeah, dat sword).

Since this thread got some attention, I’d like to bring in my own opinion on what they really NEED to pay attention when designing the scavenger hunt:

make it really, really, really, really, really hard to get all those things.
I don’t want to see every casual player obtaining his precursor in a day.
This need to be challenging so people have to work hard for it.
In my opinion, this is one of the most important things to pay attention while designing the hunt

Colin: If I could make a suggestion: Let not this “quest” be to gather more materials than we already need to(fear it turning into a..grind), but a legendary, epic, long, DIFFICULT quest/story chain.

One where the last mission is some mechanically challenging fight that you must solo(no grouping)..not a tank and spank, don’t throw 100 adds at us. A fight that can take 10-15 minutes to solo, one that will cause many wipes and deaths. One that not everybody can do.

I garuntee, it’ll feel epic and legendary then.

Wow. Anet actually responded to this? Heh. There might be a panic to starting hoarding T6 mats…

I just want footsteps on my meteorlogicus. :-/

This also seems like a great time to bring up that the precursor math is mind-bogglingly horrid. Some of the legendaries are barely more than twice the price of their respective precursors at this point. That’s ridiculous. Defined path, please. kthxbai.

I would also like to know what kind of progress as been made toward the scavenger hunt. I have held off on making a legendary because of the precursor issue.

wow it actually looks good here

so you didn’t even have a suspect that there would be a reason for having multiple items with the same stats in an equipment slots that doesn’t show any skins?