(who’d have thunk that one can post to a 5-day-old thread and already be necro-posting?)
I, too, hate dungeons.
Not because they’re inherently bad, but because they were implemented badly.
Case 1: they CANNOT be done with less than 5 people (at least the reasonably hard ones)
Which is not that bad, in itself – but it means that if out of the 5, one is incompetent, you still have no chance.
Just got back from a 3-hour run of the Weapons Facilities, where a single ranger with the HP of a European coconut-laden swallow kept 4 other people from being able to finish – dozens of runs on the bosses, with different strategies and varying amounts of success, until she left and we replaced her with someone competent.
Case 2: they cannot be stopped and resumed later.
I don’t have 3 hours to waste in one sitting, but because it’s a “multiplayer dungeon”, it doesn’t have meaningful checkpoints I can come back to later, so it must be done in one sitting.
Case 3: this particular dungeon is time-limited.
And because the event is expiring this Sunday, if I don’t do it today then I won’t have time to do it before it ends. So my options are: not get enough sleep tonight and go to work like a zombie tomorrow, OR never get to see the end of the event and never get the final rewards. Whee.
Case 1: Many dungeons have been soloed. Here is a solo video of MWF.
Decided I would do 2 runs a day, enjoyed most of the runs and got the mini and jetpack after 20 runs. Would have been happy even if I didn’t get anything because I’m not a baby.
I would love a slot for Minipets, they get unequipped too easily. You hardly ever see anyone with a minipet because they get deposited to collectibles and are a hassle to turn on.
I think GvG in sPVP would make sPVP in general much more interesting, I don’t think the Capture Point meta is that interesting. In my opinion having large scale battles in GW2 is much more interesting than 5v5.
If you have hotjoin and 5 v 5 tournaments as way of practicing for GvG matches they would seem less pointless. Perhaps there could be monthly tournaments for GvG. I think this would really stimulate the e-sports aspect because GvG isn’t a common e-sport aspect.
I can see why people are opposed to a DPS meter, especially in dungeons but I think for major events it would be really fun to try and do as much damage as possible, support as much as possible etc.
I think it would be quite cool to have a scoreboard pop up after the event is over, this scoreboard could show who did the most damage, who revived the most, who supported the most etc. The scoreboard would give a goal other than just the reward.
I also think dragon events should be able to fail, perhaps after a certain time limit the dragon hits an enrage timer and if the dragon wins then the entire map gets taken over and we have to complete events to retake the map so the timer window will open again.
All modern games should have a FOV slider. This issue was bought up during beta and although the FOV has been improved, I’m disappointed that there is no FOV slider.
I’ve heard this from several different people. Needless to say, I never wanted my work to make people sick! I honestly don’t know why this is happening specifically in SAB. But I have to assume it has something to do with the angular geometrical environment and bright colors. I wonder if someone who gets sick tries it in black and white if that would help them.
I wouldn’t worry about it, some people are just affected by these things. It must be the graphics and the flashing because GW2 itself doesn’t make me sick.
Is there a way to play GW2 in black and white? Because if there is I’d love to play more Super Adventure Box.
The SAB makes me motion sick, at first I wasn’t sure if it was SAB or something I ate but I soon figured it out. I don’t feel sick until I stop and luckily I’ve completed it 3 times. Its too bad I really enjoy the SAB,
I don’t know if it is the graphics or FOV. Half-Life 2 and Borderlands also does this to a lot of people, Borderlands because of the FOV.
The FOV has been improved in GW2 but I’d still like a FOV slider. When new content is released I might just have to suck it up, it will put me in bed for the rest of the day but it may be worth it.
I wasn’t going to post anything because I thought it was only me but then I saw a comment on a Guildcast video.
Awesome work, funny and well sung. The trick to Subject Alpha is to interpret what the red circles actually mean, the red circles don’t actually tell you whether the danger is from inside the circle or the outside but most have been conditioned to think the danger is inside the circle when some of his attacks the danger is outside the circle.
Maybe Giganticus Lupicus can inspire you to write another song.
I have an issue where certain maps in the game don’t show all the terrain. The most problematic areas are Orr and Fractals. In Orr entire walls can be missing, its not really that bad since I don’t need to see them.
The main problem is fractals, the swamp fractal that spawns trees that block you aren’t shown to me correctly.
The Jade Maw is the most problematic one, half the terrain is missing so I can’t see where I’m supposed to jump to.
This problem was ok at one point but after a few patches its a major issue for me.
I have attached my specs below, graphics card is a Radeon 7750 HD 1 GB.
Will they agree that the “No Holy Trinity” combat system is a failure or at least needs some improvement?
Without group roles the classes become generic everyman, great at nothing, so so at everything. Fights are a zerg fest and stale. Without class roles the fights cannot have phases or any sort of depth.
Since traits really lock you down to weapon sets, perhaps open up weapon swapping to also include simultaneous trait swap.
Something needs to be done.
The trinity is a terrible system, ‘let me just stand here and push buttons in a sequence’ the GW2 system is far better.
My question is will we see harder meta events that require group co-ordination and communication to complete in the open world?
After playing GW2 its hard to go back to any other game. I just realised this a few weeks ago, why should I play a game that developers haven’t put the same amount of effort into as GW2.
My personal experience was last night i joined 4 PUG groups in a row 3 off of gw2lfg.com and 1 off my realms mapchat, and they all failed at the first boss, the spider! lol
Now im pretty sure i know the fights by now as ive farmed 2,000 to 3,000 tokens out of AC in the past month so i doubt its my ability. Sure, theres a chance ive just had an incredibly unlucky run with pug players… but hey, its more likely that the fight itself is alot tougher.
Do we really want to be making AC more difficult?
Afterall, if a team of well-geared lev80s cant do it what chance has a team of lev35s?
I thought it should be possible for levelling characters to enter these dungeons… if dungeons r nowe being tuned to lev80s then please make the anouncement and change the entry level to lev80 so low levels dont waste their time even trying…
~Ende~
If you are having trouble then you need more practice, the paths are not that hard.
Will the guesting work with any region of the world? (guest in EU someone in NA and the opposite)
This is what I need to know. I’ve been dying for Guesting since they first mentioned it and I thought it was a great idea. It was a perfect solution for my friend and I, but I’m getting nervous that we won’t be able to play together via guesting because I’m on an NA server and she’s on an EU server.
I don’t want to have to transfer over to her EU world, because I have other friends on mine, but she can’t transfer to my NA world because she lags like hell (not ANet’s fault, she has pretty terrible internet connection).
I’m psyched for the rewards though, if it means I can have some control over what I actually earn (as opposed to getting gear I can’t even use XD).
I don’t have a link but I read before launch that Guesting would work cross region if they were on your friends list.
You can’t enter dungeons cross region so I’m not sure.
Sounds great, can’t wait to find out more about the achievement/tokens system, hopefully new skins include new armours too. Guesting means I can finally start doing dungeons regularly.
If I had to make one complaint it is no talk of PvE/PvP skill split to stop the PvP whiners from ruining the fun in thee rest of the game but everything else sounds great.
You can already group up and do dungeons cross server.
I think it would be cool if champions in the game had a chance to drop a rare unique skin, this would add to the diversity of armour and weapon skins while giving an incentive for players to kill champions.
The combat gets really fun when you get a handle on it, what at first seems quite simple has a lot of depth. The ranger has a lot of tricks it can do with its skill and its pets.
I don’t understand why you would stick around and troll the forums if you don’t like the game. There must be something seriously wrong with you, I wish ArenaNet would just ban all the trolls around here.
If you have something constructive to say here then good if not provide facts like I have, otherwise its nothing but hating.
There is a lot of negativity in this forum. People forget that the people that develop this game are real people. The people that read these forums are real people that work hard to develop this game and it can’t be easy to process all the negativity that is just not needed.
There’s a difference between constructive criticism and just trying to be insulting. I think people need to calm down and think about what they post. I think Arenanet is very lenient with what goes on in these forums.
Have you ever had a job where you receive a boatload of abuse from a customer? Well the internet gives a way for people to do this in spades.
2013, be less negative and more useful posts? Please, that would be nice.
