Guild Wars 2

morrolan.9608:

Dawdler.8521:

Sarrs.4831:

Hexinx.1872:

We should be happy about this, pot stirring on anets part. It may result in the exact same thing, that they can put minor changes into make drastic impacts (scarily both good and bad) but I’ll remain optimistic because they are ‘thinking’ about how to do things. And that’s the start people have wanted for many years.

Especially considering we can vote out things that don’t work.

Oh you mean like DBL?

You don’t think we had the chance to vote that out?

It’s always the same… People will never get over the fact that DBL won and is here to stay…

Dawdler.8521:

Sarrs.4831:

Hexinx.1872:

We should be happy about this, pot stirring on anets part. It may result in the exact same thing, that they can put minor changes into make drastic impacts (scarily both good and bad) but I’ll remain optimistic because they are ‘thinking’ about how to do things. And that’s the start people have wanted for many years.

Especially considering we can vote out things that don’t work.

Oh you mean like DBL?

You don’t think we had the chance to vote that out?

I really like having one desert BL in the mix. Although I love the alpine maps and would choose them if I had to make a choice, it’s really nice to be able to play 1 desert BL map in the mix. I think having one desert BL is the perfect amount. You can play it if you like. I’m sure some people will get annoyed when it’s their turn to have it as their home BL, but they can stick to the other maps for those matches. As long as the desert map is being rotated fairly between teams I think it’s great. Nice job, ArenaNet! (I know you don’t always hear that in the forums)

No way and I do not appreciate the attempted real world link here because it is not the same at all.

Just why ?????? Not needed or correct , would be nothing but a pile of pc claptrap shoved into a game

Anet has said that while interspecies relationships happen and even interspecies intercourse happens, interspecies offspring is not a thing.

The worst part about the dbl is all you whiners who never learned how to navigate or fight on it constantly crying. All your doing is hurting your team and game mode.

Raids are the only thing that’s keeping the difficulty-seeking player base interested and logging into GW2 consistently. It may not be an enormous subset of the playerbase, but it’s a significantly vocal and valuable subset. It also gives average-skill players something to work toward in a PvE sense so that there feels like real end-game content.

I hope for me and other people like me that ANet continues developing raids well into future expansions and beyond.

P.S. Assuming that raids are somehow responsible for low revenue numbers is unfounded and ridiculous.

Amineo.8951:

Because of the exclusion, elitism in EU servers and the fact that people refuse to play anything else than the “meta” for once, the general behaviour of raiders is terrible.

Well Amineo, another bad experience with a group?

May I remind you of the “exp Sloth” run you joined when I have also been in this group? Coconut already posted the thread some posts above.
The comander was polite, explained very long how the run should work and lead very excellent.
You were the one on TS with a muted mic. That was no problem – at the beginning.
You didn’t know how to put down the poison. That was no problem since it was explained on TS again.
You didn’t know how to pull Sloth through the area. That was no problem since it was explained on TS again.
You were the one not running the required/proper utility skills that are needed for a Sloth kill. That was no problem since the group demanded you to change some skills.

The problem was: You refused to communicate, you didn’t even write: “Ok.” or “Understood”, “Right, let’s go.”
You remained silent when the questions were directed at you via TS and squad chat.

Tell me, what possibilties are available for a group to reach you and to communicate with you so that the group can be successful with you?

I don’t have to mention that this run was successful after you have been replaced. Ten people were happy and they were 9 that weren’t before because one guy was toxic in his social behaviour.

One thing to meta:
People still play “meta” in dungeons or fractals, just have a look at the lfg because it is the fastest way. Ofc you can run both with non-meta builds and succeed although you are way slower than needed. This is not working in raids because they were designed as a special 10 men group content. Due to this reason they are far more restrictive.
I give you the advice: Stop pugging them and join a raid guild. You can run special builds there if your group is fine with that, additionally you won’t be kicked or see toxic behaviour although I haven’t seen such that many in my pug r runs and I pug weekly.

Astralporing.1957:

Malediktus.9250:

Raids are the best pve content the game has to offer.

That’s a really pessimistic look on the game.

Only if you are anti raid

I simply cannot wrap my head around this concept that raids (and therefore the rewards that go with them) is restrictive or unavailable to portions of the player base.

Until 3 weeks ago, I had never done a raid. Not even in any other MMO. My guild has only about 7 active members – we couldn’t even fill a squad if we wanted. However, thus content that I hadn’t experienced and I wanted to do it.

So I joined another guild. I didn’t leave my current one, Anet doesn’t make me. Anet allows me to join 5. I still maintain most of my time playing with my original 6 friends.

I practiced. I learned. I joined pug squads. I watched videos. I got better. I currently have 4 of 9 bosses killed.

This is exactly the intended experience, right? I’m enjoying it very much. I’m working towards the envoy armor exactly as intended.

What part of the experience/lore/reward is being denied to any player? How can you possibly debate that Anet is restricting anyone from exactly what I did?

If you want the rewards, go get them. If you want to see the lore, go see it. Nothing is stopping you from doing it. No one is discriminating against you. You’re just upset that the rewards come from content that you don’t enjoy. So dont play it if you don’t enjoy it. There is literally no content in this game that is “locked” behind anything. It’s all available to anyone that wants to do it.

Anyone who has paid for the game should be allowed to vote in the polls, imo. If they’re not a wvw’er, so what? Doesn’t mean they won’t play wvw at some point. They paid for the game just like those that scream about wvw here on the forums, so they should be allowed to vote.

I have to strongly disagree…..

The reason is because elite specizalations are supposed to be a new way to play. This is basically just a necro that got a massive buff

The fact they’ve coined terminology like “hibergate” suggests they need an excuse for losing, as if no other server deals with the same issues. There are just as many tryhards on BG, but when it’s a fairly even match and they lose, we’re all expecting to see that magical word pop up that negates their loss.

I hate it when people say bg is on break, bg never has been on break, good guilds just rise and fall. Ever since the unlink of ET with us, we’ve been lacking on numbers in the NA region.

Nikola.3841:

BG constantly try to take SMC even when we have outnumbered buff on ebg map…

No ones saying they run from fights, its all the BS that comes with it that’s annoying af. Either 110% nerd rage or lukewarm liquid.

There’s already a way to get rewarded in-game for out-of-game activities.
Step 1: Get a Job.
Step 2: Use Job to make money
Step 3: Use money to Buy Gems
Step 4: Spend Gems on rewards.

The ones against hardcore raiders and calling them “elitists” have been the ones that appear the most toxic from my point of view. I don’t see these “elitist” raiders coming into the forums making threads that disparage “casual” players. You saw the same with dungeons long ago as well. Players are entitled to have requirements in their LFG posts on who they want to group with. If others have issues with this requirement then they can simply create their own LFG with no requirements and play with like-minded players. Everyone wins.

Raids are also meant for a small subset of the playerbase that actually enjoy content that is challenging. Just because some people do not like that type of content does not mean that it should be discontinued. It’s a little selfish and seems to be on the same level as some PvE players who get upset when Anet does anything PvP or WvW related as if the entire game should revolve around their specific game mode or style of play.

Personally I would like to see the Bloodlust to stay only on the 2 Alpine maps, so there isn’t 1 for each team. That way perhaps there would be some fight over it, one server is going to be without the bloodlust so perhaps roamers etc might be more interested in fighting to keep it. Want to see how that works.

No real ideas about the Shrines, but I wouldn’t want to remove the way they work just to add bloodlust to them.

Why thieves? Why is your class so special that we should get an entire raid wing centered around it and requiring it?

I can’t believe people actually sit there and come up with these crazy ideas and think they’re good. And want to be taken seriously…

just lol @ vote buying reasoning and ballot box stuffing…..

the reason the poll went the way it did was the # of dbl boycotters/haters was simply just not as many as some people thought…

Raids are casual friendly – they don’t take long.
Raids are not no-skill friendly. Which is fine.

The logic of the GW2 community : " I want to run a bursty power build, with enough sustain to 1vs1 anyone and enough condi clear to fight condi specs…still I want to slot all power trait line"

You want more condi clear?
Let’s buff Salvation Traitline, everybody and his dog runs a dedicated traitline to clear condis..don’t see why you revs think to be special and should be able to fully spec for burst and still be able to clear condis..lol..just lol

MMOs are getting more and more watered down, players these days want all benefits..at no cost

For some reason some wvw missions and pvp ones have a minimum of 3 player as requirement, making impossible for less than 3 man guild to do most of them.
I don’t see the reason to not let 1 or 2 players to do a mission that require to capture a camp, or complete dollyaks events. Its not like one person can’t solo a camp, right?
There is already hard for small guilds to upgrade guild hall because there is no scale for material requirement, its even harder to wait for a week and hope to get a wvw rank mission with 10k wxp just to do one guild hall upgrade.