After running like 6 characters through to get the full elite unlock it goes really quickly for me now plus gives me some nice mastery exp. but that’s just me.
ANet: HoT is great. Be cautious of listening to all the hype here because your player-base is fickle. Hopefully you’re making enough money to continue making great content.
Community: Keep your spirits up. Please be open to new ideas both from ANet and other players. Get out of the house if you’re like me and play obsessively.
That is all,
Eric
At the very least there should be a poem here about rainbow kittens.
The problem is the mechanic missing where it asks you to change maps and has a countdown. Maps fill and empty so quickly and it’s possible a dead map goes on countdown to being closed and then gets filled as the meta event happens. But the timer is still counting down and the maps closes. But apparently sometimes it bugs and you don’t see the timer. Of course a better mechanic would be to stop the timer/closure after the map reaches a certain point again.
I would be happy if they could just better communicate internally. This is how I see things working:
Management/multiple team meeting: Hey we need less visual clutter. Everyone agrees.
Department A: how are we going to make less clutter? Oh I know lets reduce auras and fireball.
Department B: Let’s get some pvp hype by adding icons to player names. If we make them stand out players will be more likely to get back into pvp.
Patch goes live:
-Visual clutter remains on bosses where the real problem is (communication with player base disconnect; players unhappy).
- Visual clutter added to characters with pvp display meanwhile reduced with auras (company communication disconnect).
Whoever thought the visual clutter issue was with the actual players and not the point of impact (boss being lite up like a Christmas tree) was totally off
Meanwhile they are adding even more clutter with the PvP icons next to names which adds even more clutter to a character which is completly ironic as you were doing the opposite with these visual clutter reductions on players.
While in PvE I still struggle to see telegraphed boss animations behind all the white damage numbers for smaller bosses.
Thanks but this visual clutter “fixing” is fixing nothing. Devs please play the game more or ask your player base how to implement these changes.
I can get on board saying we need less visual clutter BUT whoever has been doing these changes is implementing them totally wrong.
~~~~The Root of the Problem *~~~~* You guys at Anet need better communication between the “islands” at Anet. It seems different departments are way too isolated which is most likely where all this disconnect comes from. This fiasco is a prime example of this disconnect. Good intention; terrible implementation. I hope there’s someone coordinating all the work between departments but you Need more of these people or they need to step it up a few notches.
They need to change it so you can only do 3 levels next to each other for daily. Sure people will still pick the same three but at least it’s more variety than swamp three times. And who knows maybe people would opt out of swamp if it was next too the longest shards. Either way it would give more variety and seems like a simple change.
Must have ascended gear to even join? Errr that’s just outrageous elitist meta garbage! Besides, last I checked, it’s skill that makes a difference, not so much the gear quality, as long as it’s the right gear for the situation.
If ascended gives about 10% DPS increase and you have ten people that’s like having 11 people in comparison to a group that has all exotic. Of course damage rotations and being able to follow the mechanics is important but still losing out on “a whole person” is kind of a big deal if your group keeps getting close but not close enough.
Crystals would be sweet. Kind of like that ele earth skill where rocks float around you in a circle but maybe a little bugger. They would also make more sense with glint and it being crystal related.
It’s probably not an Anet thing or you would see more posts on this. Maybe your CC isn’t working because of your location IP address? Idk really. But if there is a problem on Anets end we almost always see a lot of posts about the problem and others reporting they are also having the same issue. The only thing I could think of is perhaps Anet does not let people purchase HoT when they are overseas. You could ask someone you trust back home to buy it with your credit card and give you the info./ have them use your email so it gets emailed to you. That would at least determine if it’s the overseas thing.
Yeah it doesn’t take hundreds of hours to unlock the things you’re describing. It will take literally forever if you’re trying to level those by leveling a character since that not how you gain mastery XP.
First thing you should do is get exotic armor and at least rare trinkets. You will want to do guild missions weekly to get ascended accessories. You might want to work on some fractals to get as ascended rings. Get the ascended neck from laurels. Choosing a build can be hard. I would suggest anything you get ascended I would make berserker. But starting out you will want some gear that has toughness in it as well as gear with power precision and ferocity. You can also work on farming mastery in HoT playing in hose zones can also help you out in learning your class better.
You should also check out some theif builds and how to use them with optimal rotations. Or if things are feeling overwhelming just level another character. You will want to eventually craft ascended if you are into things like raids or simply like having the best gear. So after getting exotic armor I would suggest crafting something to 500 so you can start making the time gated mats. Ascended is partially so expensive because some of the components you can only craft once per day so some people buy those components off the trading post instead of waiting to craft over like a month or so. But that makes it a bit more expensive. Pvp can also be fun. I will just let you know theif/daredevil isn’t so great in PvE right now for things like raids. That could easily change for new wings being added but the current wings don’t really need that class. So if you craft ascended armor/weapons make sure you really really like theif or maybe another medium armor profession.
Personally I would work on running some quick dungeons like CoF p1 to get tokens for exotic gear and level another character at the same time. While also doing guild missions weekly of course.
Just buy new ones that’s what I did. I’m sure I had some that would have worked somewhere on an alt or bank but too much work to go around testing all the rings I had everywhere. If you have more rings any that were obtained post fractured update will work. Before that all infused rings automatically had a +5 resistance then they added the agony resistance crafting which changed things so you could put more than +5 in the slot and new rings came with 2 blank slots instead of one and a +5 resistance already on it. That’s the difference.
It resets every week. How are you behind? Granted there’s probably more VG raids going on toward the beginning of the week or early in the weekend and more Gorseval later in the week. People who win VG earlier in the week won’t want to do it again until after Monday night raid reset.
but other people are just as allowed to avoid you and not play with you if they don’t want to.
It’s kind of amusing that you can’t see the irony in this. ANet built GW2 on the philosophy of “play how you want to play”. But, your statement screams “you can’t play your way, because you must play my way.”
But, regardless, why is my idea wrong? Wouldn’t setting up a separate raiding lobby that requires certain gear completely solve the problem? The elitists get their sandbox, and the casuals get theirs.
NOTE: The idea of setting up a lobby has been put forth in another thread. This idea would create two lobbies instead of just one.
Great idea. Let me ask you this. Have you won a raid? If so, Was gear check required? Was it a group of people you already knew and therefore knew their gear/build?
It’s fine I’d be completly for this but I can tell you the chances of the casuals ever winning a raid boss would be very very low. Nobody has a ton of raid experience yet. But my experience has been winning only after joining a group that required gear check, certain armor, food check and making sure everyone was running the right builds. I tried several times with groups that didn’t require it. Or they required gear check but didn’t mind when a few people were running the wrong trinkets or gear. First group I go with that does require gear check with specific build and stats and I win. Granted skill level and rotations are important so I got lucky to be with competent players. And it could be that the other groups just had bad players. .
But if you really think about this how are two different lobbies different than just advertising on the LFG. Gear check build check food check = “elitists”
Anyone that advertises otherwise = non elitist.
Yeah I agree. Right now I Hoover over people’s name in chat or over their character name to figure out their account Name. Then I Hoover over all the icons on the UI to figure out who is who regarding class. Really annoying.
This is hard content. If you don’t like it then play something else. There’s plenty to do with ignoring raids. These fights are tough. If you have half the group running stats like vit and toughness you are not going to win. It’s just not going to happen so hence the gear checks.
People that put time and effort into getting ascended for raids feel that they want to play with people that also put the time into getting ascended. Sure it’s not super necessary outside of trinkets and weapons. But people put a lot of work into getting ascended and they can choose to party up with others that did too for raids. Overall raid DPS is slightly increased if the whole raid has ascended and you can’t blame people who put the work into getting full ascended for wanting that.
If you don’t want to play that way it’s fine you can make your own raid group. Granted you probably will get a lot of people who are also rejected from raids for running the wrong builds and stats making it impossible to win but that’s just my opinion.
So the solution is quite simple to this. Just make your own group if you have a problem finding one. Just realize it’s going to be very hard to win and most likely impossible. You can blame this on Andt if you want but there are a lot of people that were wanting challenging content. Of course there are people that want casual content too and gw2 has plenty of that so you can always choose to play that content too.
So…. You can play your way. Make your own group. Don’t force people to play your way (no gear ping, no meta or whatever).
Probably because they think karma is too easy to get. It’s supposed to be a time sink to some extent but a lot of people had millions of it sitting around. No real official response on this tho so you can only guess.
If you are medium or light armor wearer it’s easier. For heavy you need to be exact.
Take your total health and multiply it by 25%. Take that number and subtract it from your total health. That exact number will pop up when your health is depleting and that is when you need to start hitting 6. Then keep spamming it.
Check out the cultural armor. Also make sure you like how Norn run. Personally I don’t like how “slow” it feels running as a norn but that’s just me. If there is any tier 3 cultural armor you really like that might also determine your choice.
So for classes. This really comes down to what you want to do. “End game” right now is fractals and raids if you mostly PvE. PvP and WvW can also be viewed as endgame. In pvp and WvW you can pull off any class okay. Ranger actually isn’t a bad class for those game modes as they take a little less skill to play and be decent. Though to get good at pvp/WvW you really need to learn all class mechanics which means playing each class which you will probably end up doing eventually.
Now for PvE. Currently ranger is okay. It’s definitely not on or near the top of most desired classes. 1 Druid is pretty much required for raids from what a majority of the community currently thinks. Granted raids are new and things could change with that but it seems 1 Druid per raid is going to stay. As far as fractals go a Druid isn’t bad but I wouldn’t be so sure people would like both a Druid in combination with another Druid or ranger. You would most likely run into issues with that unless you make your own groups and don’t mind waiting and extra 10-30 minutes.
But really I encourage you to try out a few classes. Game play in gw2 is dramatically different than other games. All the classes have a different feel to them. Some have fast rotations that you have to really focus on managing and other have more laid back rotations. Most classes have a unique mechanic or two that they bring to the table that other classes don’t bring. Some classes have a higher skill level and can contribute a lot more when the player achieves the higher skill level (plus it’s fun when you can do that). Also just want to let you know a lot of PvE requires both range and melee. Melee for the most part does more damage. So even as a ranger you don’t want to range all the time or in stuff like raids you’re going to really lack DPS. Anyway I’m writing too much. Good luck to you guys tho.
I hope they will not do a expansion for every elder dragon in the game. That is gonna take so long.
About what happens if the magic runs wild well obvious answer we are gonna use it or better said drain it ourselves by making magic a common place and be used by every being on Tyria.
Edit:
The solution we are presented with in-game it seems is to make the egg a benevolent Elder Dragon, who can absorb excess magic to make sure magic levels never rise too high. Too what extent that plan will work or not remains to be seen of course.
Basically I agree. We figure this out (hopefully soon) and the egg hatches. As commanders we get to ride the dragon around (finally mounts) wherever we like. We are the first dragon rider. Then it evolves into Eragon from there.
You expect an MMO to NOT change? You haven’t played many MMO’s if you expect it stay the same.
The problem is GW2 changed to become the same as other MMO’s, that’s the point the OP is making and I agree, GW2 used to be very unique as an MMO, not so anymore, other than dodge its now pretty much a standard cookie cutter MMO.
You find stuff like the jungle in other MMOs. Which are those, might I ask. You know a lot of other MMOs that don’t raise the level cap with expansions or come out with new tiers of gear?
Can you list these?
What do you think legendary armor is?, that is basically a new tier of gear, sure the stats are the same, but its more desireable than ascended gear, which is more desirable than exotic gear, you see the tiers yet? This game launched with just exotic armor… clearly they have added new tiers of gear….
Legendary is not a new tier. It’s horizontal progression only. No higher stats. No vertical progression. If you have a problem with ascended over legendary okay but realize that was added within the first year and we are on year 3. So that ship has sailed. Some people have argued in the past that legendary is almost vertical progression because of being able to swap stats. That still doesn’t make it the case, but this is now such a poor argument because it’s so easy to swap stats now. It’s also not that difficult to obtain ascended. Personally I have 9 sets and too many weapons to keep track of. I’m at 3700 hours. Maybe I’m faster or something than the majority but that puts it at 411 on average for a full set with weapons. That’s really not too bad. And that’s from playing before ascended came out (and initially only weapons were out) so really should take about 1000 off. Anyway this isn’t a good arguement for not liking HoT either way. Or if it’s a"game direction" problem, you missed this argument by 2+ years. Just saying…….
Your personal stats are irrelevevant, they mean absolutely nothing to anyone other than you, I have 3 times your playtime, and have achieved far more than you, is this relevant? No so lets leave out personal stats shall we, since you cannot assume averages of anything based on a single player.
In my eyes legendarys armor is a new tier of armor, as I already said tiers do not have to be created by higher stats they can be created by desirability, whichever way you look at it, legendarys armor is the hardest and most prestigious armor to obtain, therefore it holds a higher position in probably the majority of peoples minds, you have a problem calling that a higher tier? well I don’t, legendary armor is effectively the highest tier armor now. Just saying……
It’s not a higher tier. It just isn’t but if you want to rationalize it in your mind that’s okay. At the end of the day legendary does not have +stats over ascended. Night fury is prestigious but it isn’t a higher tier. The motivation for obtaining such armor is purely cosmetic and for prestige. Anyway I’m not going to convince you otherwise but that isn’t what higher tier is. Some people might be motivated to get legendary and feel they have to for the prestige. But having it doesn’t make them any better off than someone in ascended. You seem to have some pretty strong emotions over this so I doubt I’ll be able to convince you to see what I’m saying. But this really isn’t an opinion. And it’s rather trivial so I’m done here. If one person doesn’t know the difference between horizontal and vertical progression that’s fine. Mostly I was pointing this out to diffuse any future arguments over it and giving clarification to anyone else reading.
You expect an MMO to NOT change? You haven’t played many MMO’s if you expect it stay the same.
The problem is GW2 changed to become the same as other MMO’s, that’s the point the OP is making and I agree, GW2 used to be very unique as an MMO, not so anymore, other than dodge its now pretty much a standard cookie cutter MMO.
You find stuff like the jungle in other MMOs. Which are those, might I ask. You know a lot of other MMOs that don’t raise the level cap with expansions or come out with new tiers of gear?
Can you list these?
What do you think legendary armor is?, that is basically a new tier of gear, sure the stats are the same, but its more desireable than ascended gear, which is more desirable than exotic gear, you see the tiers yet? This game launched with just exotic armor… clearly they have added new tiers of gear….
Legendary is not a new tier. It’s horizontal progression only. No higher stats. No vertical progression. If you have a problem with ascended over legendary okay but realize that was added within the first year and we are on year 3. So that ship has sailed. Some people have argued in the past that legendary is almost vertical progression because of being able to swap stats. That still doesn’t make it the case, but this is now such a poor argument because it’s so easy to swap stats now. It’s also not that difficult to obtain ascended. Personally I have 9 sets and too many weapons to keep track of. I’m at 3700 hours. Maybe I’m faster or something than the majority but that puts it at 411 on average for a full set with weapons. That’s really not too bad. And that’s from playing before ascended came out (and initially only weapons were out) so really should take about 1000 off. Anyway this isn’t a good arguement for not liking HoT either way. Or if it’s a"game direction" problem, you missed this argument by 2+ years. Just saying…….
yeah this is over exaggerating. You only need to make one of each type of weapon and armor weight. Then you just throw them in the forge to change the stats. And yes you should only be getting the amulet with laurels. Rings and accessories from FoTM and guild missions.
For the record I have 9 ascended armor sets with all the weapons I use commonly. And more than enough accessories/trinkets (most characters have two so Pena my around 15 sets). And I have 200ish laurels. So…..
You’re better off joining a LFG than making one if you’re like trying to find an active map. People will join your party by accident (the parties move around fast on the LFG tool so misclick happens). I’m not sure how you expect Anet to make sure you’re always in an active server and people don’t join and leave your group. Constructive criticism is welcome but you need to provide suggestions. And being more specific about the problem would help.
I think the biggest issue with some people is how hard the new areas are. Silver wastes was similliar but not quite as bad. Honesty tho it’s a l2p issue. If you’re really having issues then go with a defensive set up until you can learn your class well enough to run around in zerker.
The other issue is the map being too big and confusing. Here’s the thing. We only got 4 new maps BUT they are huge maps. It takes awhile to get used to their weird quirks but really it isn’t much different than say learning 10 new maps on a scale that you would be more used to. In that case it is just frame of reference. If you run them enough you get it figured out.
That’s my take on the issue anyway. I’m enjoying the expansion and haven’t had any issues except when I was learning to play my revnant. I didn’t play it much in beta so didn’t really know how to use it all that well which led to constant death since I thought running around in zerker with a class I didn’t know how to play well…. Was a good idea. I can tell ya it isn’t lol.
Often times we get people coming here complaining about map completion when often it’s on their end. This thread is describing a simillar issue and some regular forum posters assume it’s not a bug.
But this seems to be a trend now and really appears to be a bug relating to the fix they are trying to do for people who already have map completion, and tried to get map completion awards for HoT maps, dry top, silverwastes. People with previous 100% map completion would not get rewards for doing those maps. Now it seems getting the original 100% map completion is giving the incorrect award. So obviously this is a major problem.
You should create a support ticket. Also did you have dry top and south sun already 100% completed before getting world 100% complete? Include that in your support ticket as well.
Black diamonds? Are you trying to make viper? You need to make the viper inscription first. Can’t just throw the diamonds in the forge with the weapon globs and hero thing. I actually just changed my berserker pistol to viper last night and moved it to different characters and it was fine. Check your bank for the diamonds they go in your resources.
You might want to wait. Right now this is really buggy and a lot of people are missing these mastery points even tho when you do it you get the achievement and it says you get the mastery point unlocked. But if you count your points before and after they stay the same. If I had to guess I’m missing around 20 points but I had so many it didn’t matter currently.
Welcome to the forums. This is brought up on a weekly basis and there is a long merged thread about this. Long story short it can’t happen because of the way things are coded. It’s something that could be possible but would require tons and tons of time re doing code so that it isn’t worth the development time.
