Merged several more topics into this collective feedback thread.
Thanks for posting your thoughts on Wintersday in this thread so that the devs can review everything in one efficient topic.
Why merge the Twelve Days of Wintersday song too? It just makes it scattered across the thread and less noticeable.
I believe that selling a service is completely acceptable.
1. You can get good gear without RNG. Some gear is RNG or grind, but it only has a cosmetic difference from the regular gear.
2. Levels come really easy. You can reach lvl 80 in a few days if you’re dedicated, and 1-2 weeks at a relaxed pace.
3. It’s pretty wow compared to other mmos around.
4. There’s no gear that will put you miles above the other players in terms of stats. Full exotics is where you can safely stop unless you want to run high-level fractals where you need ascended gear. This tier requires a lot of grinding, but aside from the fractals, it’s just about 10% stat upgrade from exotic.
5. There’s no pay2win, everything in the gem store is either convenience items, boosters or cosmetic items. There is no way to gain unfair advantage in PvP through gem store.
6.
- You have to pay gems for any Living Story episodes you missed. Living Story is basically the plot progression. You don’t need Living Story to access the new areas, but some of the achievement rewards are unique.
- There is a rigid meta for PvE.
- A large portion of the playerbase dislikes the trait unlocking system.
7. Yes it does. Reaching lvl 80 is easy, but there are hundreds of achievements to get, gear sets to assemble and titles to claim.
On the seventh day of Wintersday, ArenaNet gave to me
Seven Mystic Clovers
The 6 watching over me (this one does not seem to fit, maybe something like Six Human Gods would be better?)
Five Gold Doubloons
Four Norn spirits
Three easy dailies
Two greatswords glowing
And a precursor for my legendary!
I don’t see CoD guns ever making it in.
There are three primary types of guns in the game:
- Flintlock-like guns – justified because the humans are at this level of tech right now.
- Energy-like guns – justified because asura have the magitech theme with flashy lightning bolts and runes.
- Gritty spiky iron guns – fits the steampunk charr technology.
The modern weaponry fits none of these themes, thus it should not be in the game.
On the fourth day of Wintersday, ArenaNet gave to me
Four Norn spirits
Three easy dailies
Two greatswords glowing
And a precursor for my legendary!
Just try to keep it positive. Even though GW2 has its flaws, it’s still a better game than many.
On the first day of Wintersday, ArenaNet gave to me
A precursor for my legendary
Engineer, ’nuff said. Build him into condition damage with 3 weapon kits for maximum buttons.
Charr – stupid furballs, too not-humanoid, armor does not look cool on them.
I really don’t want GW2 to become like this teacher in school who says you solved a problem wrong because “we do not use this method yet”. Even if the teacher is justified because you arguably have to learn this specific method and not the others, the game is not.
Right: “So far you’ve been defeating enemies by spamming 1, but here’s a guy that hits really hard, so if you have not discovered it yet, you can dodge by double-tapping the movement key.”
Wrong: “You cannot use this game mechanic yet because we feel like another button on top of the 5 you already know is going to overwhelm you. We care about your playing experience.”
There’s a fine line between “not flashing a ton of different tooltips in a player’s face” and “you can’t weapon swap before we let you”
Will the map be stuck with those monsters like Orr is stuck with the undead?
I see it so that each location represents the flow of the story at the different portions of time. Of course, it would be good for the “immersion” and “integrity” that everything stays changed when it’s changed, but it does not work that way primarily because it’s an MMO. For every player who witnessed change, there are ten who did not. It’s either that or they pull an Episode 1, leaving anyone and everyone who didn’t happen to have the game at this particular time in the cold.
It’s basically a cheaper Mawdrey II. I can’t wait to go on a JP train with my guild to get all these ornaments.
Engineer is fun. It’s one of the most diverse classes that can be built into strong buffs from Elixirs, area control with Turrets, or tons of different attack skills with the Weapon Kits. You can build both into physical and into condition damage.
There are even numerous heart quests that require you to use a different skillset and even, Jormag forbid, a different player model! What horror!
I’m currently lvl 33 and I love the Engineer’s gameplay right now. You haven’t specified where to put 4 more trait points though, so I’m thinking it should go into Firearms, with Modified Ammunition and Precise Sights/Coated Bullets. Would that be worth it? Modified Ammunition seems crazy even if it does not count every stack, with that >10% dmg bonus.
I’d give you about 100 rep for this post if there was such a thing.
I want to start a new toon as an Engie and build him into condies to accomodate all the positions where condies are required (TT husks say hi). What would be the optimal way to level a fresh engie, preferably with no EotM (not fuuun)? Are there any good condi builds I could follow? Should I go celestial?
I don’t see how stealth is worse than “kill these enemies” or “interact with these objects”.
Threads like this one really make one wonder about the modern gamers.
Some people get levels from playing the game. It’s unfair. I hate playing the game, but I want levels.
I liked that there was actually the option of letting Taimi man the turret and deal with the mobs yourself.
Yeah, like tying Phlunt up and dragging him to the summit by force would help your cause SO MUCH.
Parental instinct should not impede common sense. I had it against Taimi since she ran into the Omadd Brain Scrambler like a kitten, and now you want me to cater to her tantrums and sacrifice the support of the asura race?
The best thing that could be done is explain to her that we must get a promise to attend from him and assure her that we’ll get her invention back eventually.
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I object to that. Don’t see how that makes sense, really. If I got my RNG recipe, why can’t I profit from it?
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To finish, yes that’s just the point. It needs some more balancing to fit the most of types of players. Not everyone wants or can spend a lot of time finding their way through a fight just to progress the story. Give hard contents for those who really want hard content. Don’t make it a requirement for everyone.
Implying you actually have to complete this episode. If you want lore without challenge, read the wiki, ask those who already did it, watch youtube, etc.
OP l2p please. This was the easiest boss fight in this season by me. No-brained it on my zerk mesmer. Also disagree with your standpoint that pve should be spoonfed.
Even if you get downed, the NPCs are surprisingly less useless in LS and can actually revive you.
I mean, sure, she was a little bit too fascinated by Scarlet’s work, but she’s an Asura child, an especially smart one at that, and she just charges into the machine that drove Scarlet mad and she KNEW it? Did she skip her safety classes? It seems like nothing more that a hook to make the PC enter as well.
Got 3 rares. Maybe it’s because I’m an asura lol.
I really hope this is when Mr Cabbage Head is finally killed off.
Well, a lot of stuff can be done.
- Explore the map
- Participate in dynamic events, including the epic-tiered world bosses
- Complete renown hearts (part of exploring technically)
- Gather materials
- Craft items
- Complete the instanced Personal Story
- Complete dungeons
- Participate in world-vs-world-vs-world combat
- Participate in structured team PvP
- Participate in minigame activities
- Participate in guild missions
- Finish jumping puzzles
- Collect achievements
Most of this stuff gives you XP and gear. Gear is similar stat-wise, but has different looks depending on its source.
Precurs are much rarer and more expensive to get than a your typical ascended weapons. Raising their status to ascended won’t affect the price or their drop rate. Prices are driven by demand and rarity.
Why do it at all? There’s like a 5% difference, and you most likely wouldn’t waste your resources on an ascended weapon if you were going to get a legendary anyway.
Eternity is too mainstream. Craft Juggernaut.
The combat suits would be pretty easy to implement as environmental weapons during big fights. Don’t really think they need to be more complex. People would either farm to use them all the time if they are significantly stronger than a player, or they would be ignored otherwise.
So, I’ve just read over the requirements for unlocking everything. I like the idea behind this change, but the execution is… well… terrible.
You can no longer ‘choose how you play’, as you are given a roadmap of things to accomplish that are so specific that Anet may as well have just set up invisible walls to keep us from going off the path.
Seriously, I was looking forward to seeing how the new system worked (even deleted one of my lowbies to experience the new system), and now I’m unsure if I even want to keep playing anything besides my previous 80’s.
Now, I’m done with complaints. I have one suggestion that I believe could fix most peoples problems with this system.
Make the requirements more general.
I’m okay with asking people to finish a leg of their personal quest. But, how about instead of telling us a specific area to 100% explore… You just tell us to 100% explore ANY area other than the racial cities? Maybe instead of “take specific point in WvW”, just make an adept unlock “take A point in WvW”.
That’s all I got. If something isn’t done to these requirements, I don’t think I’m playing any more alts… more importantly, though… I don’t think I could recommend this game to new players.
Either make the requirements more general, or make it so that you get a choice of events to unlock specific traits. No one really should be forced into WvW to unlock a trait. It’s sort of silly. No one should have to run a dungeon.
For me it doesn’t matter, because I play all content in the game, and I’m happy to do pretty much anything, but I think this will throw a lot of people off who have a narrower comfort zone.
There are 3 ways to unlock traits currently – you can stumble upon the unlock naturally while playing, pursue a specific trait unlock or buy it with gold and skillpoints. I think that’s quite enough. There are some unlock reqs which are really out of the way/frustrating to obtain, though.
If precursors are a piece that leads up to creating a legendary and Im pretty sure other gifts are of legendary quality, why isn’t the precursor an ascended weapon? If you were truly to RP the game, the precursor would be the most powerful weapon (non-stat wise) that is not the Legendary weapon, and you would probably use it until you got your legendary. I know that before ascended gear was introduced, legendaries had exotic stats, but now, with ascended, there would be NO REASON to even use a precursor, it would sit in your bank til you use it or sell it.
First, changing the rarity and stats of the precursors would wreck havoc in the market.
Second, your statement implies that everyone who gets precursors already has the corresponding ascended weapon.
“Vitality restored!”.
Mesmer Adept Dueling minor trait: “You gain vigor on critical hits”.
They worked to find the key and infuse it. They decided to open it. They opened it.
/thread
It’s not a class thing, or a damage thing, but the variance you’re seeing is very real.
As far as I can tell when you roll a toon it is randomly assigned a luck “seed” that makes for its base luck, and then you’re MF piles on top of (or maybe underneath) that seed.
So it is entirely possible to have one toon be extremely unlucky, and another extremely lucky. You hear stories of people getting Dusk twice on the same Arah run, while I do not have first hand experience a friend of mine was on a run with someone who did (could the guy have been lying through his teeth? technically yes there is the possibility).
My own experiments support the possibility however. I put two of my toons at the end of the same JP for just under two months and opened the chest with each every day. The results were pretty drastic.
~90% of the time my warrior got 2 greens, and 2 gemstones/crests
~90% of the time my ele got only 2 greens
The warrior also got 1 exotic and about 6/7 rares
The Ele? Nothin but green
A small sample size to be sure, but added to the experiments of friends of mine (with a lot more money to throw at it) indicate very strongly that different characters have different amounts of luck outside the account bound MF.
It also indicates that whatever anet might say about MF affecting chests/bags/other loot sources, it does affect at least some of them (or at least the luck seed does)As a second example, in the pavilion, comparing my Guardian and Engie.
Opening roughly 100 champ bags each my Engie got 8 exotics and about 12 rares.
My guardian? 1 rare.People can quote anet all they like, but for how long did we tell them MF was broken with them swearing up and down everything was perfectly fine only to find out….oh, no it wasn’t perfectly fine? Honestly I don’t really trust them to know what does and doesn’t work the way they think it does, not anymore.
Oh dear, another unlucky account conspiracy follower.
“Melissa aid you”.
“Feel Grenth, I see embrace!”
I would love them to up the damage from the lasers about 5000% so that this tactic was no longer viable.
Again, good groups will kill the golems before they get touched by the lasers, while bad groups will be stuck there forever.
I’m not entirely sure of how hard those things hit, but increasing their damage as much as you suggested would probably cause them to oneshot anyone and then every casual/bad player would cry about it being too hard. Hue.
Well, that means less bad players in our pugs. I find it much easier to hamsterwheel around. Besides, this way the golem will actually move around and will get hit less.
I believe the changes OP is proposing would make it slightly more awkward than what we have now. Right now, a lvl 80 full exotic player in a starter area is strong, but not a god. I’ve never seen high-level players taking all the credit for the events, to the point that low-levels cannot get rewarded at all.
There are some things that are only affected by your precision/ferocity (such as reflected projectiles), and some enemies are immune to crits. I’d say just go Berserker, can’t get wrong with that.
I’d say Masquerade set looks awesome in general.
What armor weight and level? Something that will salvage into linen is worth more than something that will salvage into mithril, for example.
They are of the same level and material (crafting products, for example).
Obtain rare/exotic gear for yourself, then start a legendary. There will be a lot of stuff to do branching from that, like dungeons for gold, world events for rares to salvage for ecto globs, crafting to level the needed disciplines, karma trains for, well, karma, etc.
I want to sell some greens I have, for example, and see that the coat is ~5s and the pants are ~8s. Is there something I’m missing?
I suggest you find a newbie-friendly guild who will run dungeons with you even if you’re not lvl 80 yet. Each explorable path yields at least 1g per day.
After reading some threads in here I understand why devs don’t bother reading them.
Haha, seriously? How could you even defend this new system Ascimator? Your logic fails. 30 pages of suggestions, sound logic, and reasoning, has come to the conclusion that this new system fails for new alts and new players. You are in the minority, and the majority of players dislike this new system.
You claim that my logic fails, yet you mix up the majority of players who posted here and the majority of players overall? These values do not correlate, you know.
why should we settle for something that is not as good as we had before. Ya ever heard the saying if it isn’t broken then don’t fix it. That was one part of the game that was fine and did not need fixing. So why should we settle for something less than we had before.
Oh, you wouldn’t believe how often things like that happen in every sphere of life. Slightly better than demanding more and more until your natural human greed can’t be satisfied.
As I’ve said, I don’t see how the SP/silver cost for a newbie is so insurmountable, unless they are completely unable of planning ahead and mapping out a general way they want to play their character. And most of the people I see complaining (I really want to use a harsher word because it fits better, but I’ve been warned once already) are on their 2nd-5th chars, have enough gold (do you REALLY need every single trait?), have access to leveling/SP tomes and are generally more experienced, allowing them to plan ahead better and buy only the traits they know are good.
It also would not really be repelling for a newbie to discover they can’t unlock this one major trait yet. Most likely they will either scrounge up 2sp and how much silver again it was or will be patient. Unless, of course, some heartbroken lvl 80 walks up to them and whispers “pssst, quit this game, you don’t deserve the world to be SO CRUEL”. You are only complaining because it’s been easier for you before.
Besides, if you want to test different builds, there’s this shiny mode called sPvP where you can tinker with every trait without any effort and test them out on dummies and NPCs.
tl:dr: the new change does not really harm neither newbies nor veterans, the only reason of 29 pages here is because people have accepted the mentality of “ANET WHY DONT YOU LISTEN TO US!?” instead of adapting.This is what happens when you feed trolls. They keep coming back for more.
No intention of trolling here, though I do see now that debating with you is useless. If I was truly intending to troll, I wouldn’t feel like I wasted my time.