NO BS, but I know of 10 people who quit GW2 because of being bored at 80 in the last 2-3 weeks. They have been watching info about The Lost Island patch and when they found out that there was going to be some kind of gear progression and a new dungeon, they will be coming back to check it out on the 15th.
There where plenty of enough content left to explorer and the decide to ignore this all and come back only, because of the hope of a neverending gear progression.
Sorry, but why did they play a game that has no gear progression in the first place?
Well that don`t seem so bad. You would have your infused armor set in your bags for when you do these dungeons then. Sounds pretty cool to me actually. This is something they could take in a bunch of interesting different directions if they really wanted to. I can`t wait to see how it works out.
Yeah. That will be so cool. Just think about it: One full armor set with weapons (10 pieces) for the Agony condition of the Fraktal Dungeon. For the next dungeon a second armor set and for the third another one and after the forth your full backback is full and you need to use bank slots.
So after around 10 sets you wouldn’t have any space left (keep in mind that everything is souldbond.)
That sounds so cool, not being able to play a game, because you don’t have any space to pick up items. Coolest idea ever!
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Please forgive me rage. But this didn’t sounds like a good idea for me.
Stop complaining. They had this Spectral Agony ability which will kill you. With infused armor you stood a chance fighting them. It is the same ability as Agony is. So get over it. The ability was in GW1 and in the lore and now it is part of GW2’s history and it’s coming back. Nothing new for me…Ungrateful cry babies..
You are kidding, aren’t you? You can’t infuse your old armor and the new armor will be better – and still you don’t see any different between the way it had been handled in GW1 and GW2?
Please tell me what do you think about the end game pve, guys? Does it really satisfy you to grind Plinx and other dynamic events all the time? Is running dungeons for the same gear, what you can buy or craft, is the answer? Oh yeah you can do it for the looks, but come on…
As I read the news about the patch, I became really excited, because a minor gear progression will be available – an incentive to do dungeons. The end game will become interesting, as you have to beat mobs, bosses, the whole dungeon to get better gear, therefore making progression and create a stronger character, which, in my opinion, is what end game should be about. An MMO is about making your character better and better to beat the upcoming content.
No, THIS MMO used to get better. Use your skill effectively, make combos. share your CC. Playing for 200 hours to get one stat better so that you can do the next dungeon for another 200 hours so that you can do the next dungon was never the goal of this MMO. It was to train your skills and have fun.
I did played 500 hours and have seen around 5% of the content. Please don’t tell me, there there are already people out there, that claim that they have seen it all. That would be around 10.000 hours playing (without repeating anything) – that is over one year being online 24/7. If someone mange this within the 3 months that the game is online, please give us your time machine.
There has to be a carrot or a reason for folks to keep playing.
Let the carrot be fun, instead of more stats. Why can’t they just release the new dungeon with the new mechanic but NOT make the gear any better than exotics? They are blatantly trying to appeal to the WoW crowd that only plays to constantly upgrade their gear.
Oh boy, that would be so much fun. Each few months more content, more skins that we can buy (even for real world cash), but you can take a break and come back six months later and still have items that are as good as the others.
Well, the dream is over. You need to play this daily to have the items that you need for the next dungeon.
I think it is time to go back to WoW. At least this is the original.
I dont understand this statement. So your saying the ONLY reason to play GW2 is the no gear progression? What if someone loves the combat of gw2 over WoW but also wants gear progression? For the record I am not infavor of one way or the other I just dont care for this statement.
He should buy a different game. We did buy the game, because we want a game without grindfest. If we would like grind, than we could buy one of the other thousends MMOs.
“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”
What happened?
Hey, that sounds like a nice game. Where can I get this? At the moment I’m playing a MMO, but they just got changed to a grindy game.
No, I hate it, that I would have to play for hours something that I maybe didn’t like so that I’m strong enough to play the next thing that I maybe also don’t like.
We don’t want any gear progression. We just want to play.
again??? while you are running across any PVE map, you will have hard time EVADING 5 DEs. Do not mistake that as a personal attack, but are we actually playing different games? I am really flabbergasted.
It deepends on the map you are on. E.g. take Queensdale as an example. Start in the Southeast and Go to the Northeast. There is a maximum of 2 DE that may spam (and one used to be buggy). If you are at the Northeast, you’ll have around 40 kills, 8 types of enemies, 20 resources and 1 event. You soon will get the remaning kills, but it will take much longer till you are getting your 15 types of enemeis (most map seems to have only 20 types at all) and if you are unlucky you have a hard time getting your DE.
I also rember that other maps where full of brocken events, making it impossible to find 5 working ones.
That is very strange, since I’m always seeing people runing around. I play 3 different chars – one in the starting map, one in a level 35 map and one in a level 60 map. Of course you don’t see that much people as in the high-end map, but I’m always meeting someone. Often we are doing some group events together and than we are parting our ways.
Of course you are not seeing someone at every corner, but you can always meet someone.
I don’t understand. There’s the same instanced dungeons with story mode as there ever was. You have the same opportunities.
I think he/she meant getting into groups for the story mode of dungeons.
That is just the way it is. Many people will run story mode once and at least each explorer path once. That leaves 3 times more people doing explorer than story. However many will also play explorer for the weapon/armour set. Therefore there are many more people doing explorer than story.
But you shouldn’t have a hard time finding someone for a dungeon, especially in explorer. If all else fails join a group that is doing an other path than you want. If you do a quick and good dungeon run, than many may stay for other paths, too.
But rewarding the people that don’t want to bother with team play and making use of the different classes playing together and give them an easier dungeon would be just strange.
Been there since the head start on the Aurora Glade (EU) server and did never get one bonus from WvWvW. I even didn’t know that there will be a tooltip displayed, because there is never one.
Yeah, 8 hours for a patch is really laughable. My pipe is fast enough to download the whole game in the meantime, but I’m always stuck at 0.00 KB/sec. If someone can tell me how to change this, I would appreciate it a lot.
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. " (J.F. Kennedy)
Replace Moon with clock tower and you got the picture.
But: “I did finish the jumping tower puzzle and all I got was this lousy shoes.”
" I don’t have a lot of time to play but I knew it was going away so I put aside 30 min to an hour to sit down and do the dungeon. "
Well, that is the point. We didn’t know that it did go away while the rest remains till the end of Halloween.
Mostly all of us did spare the Dungeon and want to do it at the end of the event. Sure we could spare some time and do the parts of act I or II later. But shouldn’t we finish act I+II first, before we do act III?
“The dungeon takes all of 7-15 minutes to complete. If you don’t have that amount of time in your life to hop on and do it then you really shouldn’t be playing an online game. Either that or expect to miss certain things.”
Most of us where busy with other parts of the event. When act IV came I did just finish the content of act II (Jumping Tower, Halloween Events in the Labyrint). That leaves me with 15 hours of playing that I could do on the day. That should be enough time for the remaing content of act III (15 minutes) and IV (5 minutes), right? If the content of act III wasn’t closed already.
I did it all, 150 pumpkins, the type in Queensdale even admit that I’m a better pumpkin craver than he is, the bar is full, however I can’t choose the title.
“In order to get the hat, you need to play the event and get at least one “Mad King Says” emote right.”
That don’t sounds correct for me, because when log into L.A., I just see the chest and did open it. Than I already got the witch hat and the achievements. (without any emote nor even that I did make)
But I did try it later with an other char. You will get also a Witch Hat the first time you are looting the chest (this time I did the event first). Since it is account bound you can get them easy as much as you want.
Tried it 10 hours in overflow and did always have at least 5 big (charr/norn) char by me. It did cost a lot of time. Than I could move to my server and ended being SOLO there. I still needed 1 hour, till I got it right. 30 minutes in it a charr did join me and 45 in it a human. But than I finally did understand the trick how to jump into the tower (jump as soon as you see the clock the second time).
Than it was easy. I’m wondering if Arenanet will post how man % of the player really reach the top, because if I can do this, than everybody can do it – I’m a bad jumper.
It’s not Arenanet’s fault that you didn’t update until the last minute, circumstances or not.
I really doubt that starting the update process 6 hours before the event is the last minute. That was more than enough time to download the whole game TWICE. But instead I could only download the patches of around 100 MB in 8 hours – and did came two hours to late and miss my whole Sunday playingtime.
It did now finish updating, after 8 hours. Now I could play. Next time I don’t bother and wait till the video is at Youtube. Not a very motivating event.
Great. Updating since 6 hours and 20 minutes. I did miss the “one time event that you shouldn’t miss”, couldn’t do anything for my Halloween Achievements and I’m really asking what I should think of a game that you couldn’t play at all at Sunday (the day I can play the most in the week.)
What can I do when it is all your fault, that I’m missing all the fun?
Since the internet is doing fine outside of Guild Wars (just checked and downloaded a few GB from steam within a few minutes – yes, my pipe is fast.)
I’m asking how I can take place in the “you don’t want to miss event” in LA, if the game don’t allow me to go into the game at all. I know that I have to download Halloween Patch 2 and 3, but this speed is just a joke. Most of the time it stands for half a hour at 0.00 KB/seconds and than it suddenly sky rocks to 0.06 KB/seconds and just fails flat again after 3 seconds.
I couldn’t get back earlier from my vacation and I’m now sitting for hours in front of the PC and see how long does it take to download a few MBs.
What will Arenanet do to support us with the events that we missed on circumstances that are not our fault. GW2.exe is on all the time and my Main is standing in Lions Arch. But the downloading of the Patch will be finish in round about 18 hours if this speeds stays the same.
