monthlies are optional. If you don’t feel like doing them, don’t do it. Last monthly made me hate it because of WvW kills. I did not complain though, because I wanted the reward. Nobody was forcing me to do it.
Ahh, but being manipulated (and not even recognise you are )to play the way the devs want you too, then pretending that all is well/optional/not forced too and then do it anyway -instead of staying away/voicing an objection to devs, only reinforce that devs can do what ever they want and move away from their original ideas fot the game.
I have AA to help me--is there a similar organisation for fanboys—maybe FBA?
so you feel like the game should be catered to your needs only?
Let’s listen to me now and from mostly a PvP oriented MMO let’’s cut out WvW. Now let’s listen to you and take away the dungeons. Someone else probably hates Spvp, fractals, dynamic events and all the other things. If the game was personally catered for everyone we would have nothing in it left.
Nope, don’t need them to cater to me. However, that appears to be the way it is going-trying to cater all, not changing what needs to be changed, changing what many don’t think needs a change-changing stuff for no reason,nothing left except for the top tier players. Bottom line—they will lose many.
BTW—not changing the story mode so that you can complete it solo—is just an example of how they ignore common sense and opinion. (@ Rifter)
You will really have to log on and give it a go—but just in case, I have been here since day 1 and the game has gone from ok to a so so frustrating boring grind.
That fact that you are forced to play in a way that you don’t want is much too evident in the game from your personal storyline to dungeons and dailies.
monthlies are optional. If you don’t feel like doing them, don’t do it. Last monthly made me hate it because of WvW kills. I did not complain though, because I wanted the reward. Nobody was forcing me to do it.
Ahh, but being manipulated (and not even recognise you are )to play the way the devs want you too, then pretending that all is well/optional/not forced too and then do it anyway. You should be staying away/voicing an objection to devs, but playing anyway only reinforces that devs can do what ever they want and move away from their original ideas for the game. And just for the record, what they did to the dailies was wrong too.
The new dailies are a way for anet to suggest how you should play under some misguided dev idea that it would improve social intereaction or visiting other areas.
The dailies were always boring and the rewards for doing them weren’t worth the effort.
Now it’s even less so.
The only reason I bought the change character thingy—-I reduced my norn size to the minimum!!!! It helped a bit—but the camera still is just poorly designed for jumping puzzles.
I haven’t read this thread’s comments,……. But I’m too lazy to do that. lol
lol-just a helpful suggestion-if one wishes to be taken seriously they should actually read the posts—or at the very least don’t own up to not reading them.
Anyway, Anet must have real time stats of who is playing the game and how—they could share the data..
Just my two cents, I have a few other sites in my bookmarks that I visit—-sure there is lots of good info and player help here—but I have found they are a little too draconian with their moderation, infractions, and overzealous locking ,merging and/or deletion of comments and threads.
Why doesn’t a dev or community manager (someone with power) have the guts to come in and address this issue , admit they were wrong about this design for the completion of the personal story and a give us a timeline for the revamp??? Or just a ‘suck it up we got your $$ the heck with you’ post.
I wished Anet would do an experiment and increase the respawnrate of mobs to 10minutes for a week. Then look at the reaction from the people. In the worst case they could sell it as bug and patch it soon after.
Yep, my reaction would be 10 thumbs up!! and way to go Anet!!!
Just got there with my lvl 80(s)—actually a few weeks ago—as soon as I saw the mobs and the aggro—game over and havn’t bothered with the game since. (I just knew from the way the other maps work that the respwan rates, rewards and drops would like wise be stupid as well).
Making a map “Tedious and frustrating” (add boring) just to get to get from a-b on a map is NOT the way to develop maps and gameplay.
I got my permanent bank access key early from a drop with my 1st character, haven’t seen another since, (lvl 2 toons to 80 and am working on a third). But it is account bound and I can pass it around my characters. A buddy that I play with often has 3 or 4 toons and hasn’t seen one. I once did a search and didn’t see any in the TP. Not that I would buy one anyway.
Got two toons to lvl 80 and got fed up about the mobs (at he higer levels), the quick respawns, grinding, low drops—it was becoming boring/frustrating. And then I got Far Cry 3 for xmas!!!
Not disturbing me. The game has way to many gold sinks, waypoint and repair being one of the ones that are too high, tax on TP sales—anyway I tend to agree with you.
Yes—it is much worse lately. It has even caused me to jump at a target that is down a cliff instead of the closest target in range, it’s a mess. My Guardian jumps all over the place instead of the closest one evn when targeted.
Trust me the strat guide by Brady just isn’t worth a darn. It really only covers the low level maps in detail. I had finished those 1-15 maps before. It has info on skills, ect—It was a superfical,incomplete guide rushed out to coincide with the games release.
As other have mentioned, there is better info all over the net.
On the hill near Guilty Tears in Timberline Falls—continuous respawn—-infact it happens so fast that the bots there barely have to move at all.
That being said, I agree with other posts respawns are too fast. (regardless of what ever formula is used.) If I take my time, drawing out enemies to kill as a move towards a chest, vet,vista,skill point or boss etc.—it’s a reasonable expectation that I should be able to reach and complete that goal without being aggo’d by quick respawns. I don’t care if they repopulate and I may have to fight my way out.
The one I came across in the dredge mines (Timberline Falls/Molodets)was actually vibrating like in an earthquake, I couldn’t click on it’s name while it gathered to submit ingame report because of the movement.
Played all the other cities-but skipped this one after reading about the initial problems, forced groups and limited awards. Couldn’t be bothered, knowing I likely wouldn’t enjoy it (even after they lowered the dolyaks count). And I really enjoyed getting the freebies and cogs (since I was one of those that didn’t recieve them from playing the other cities ,ditto for the other one time event-got nothing). Thanks for stuff, it was very appreciated.
The level of whine from the self-proclaimed “pros” that don’t want anyone “noobish” getting the achievement is tear-tasting delicious.
Get over yourselves.
Right on, agree with you 100%.
I got my stuff from talking toTixx in LA, and I am awaiting the ‘fix’ before doing the last instant, but from reading this thread as well as others, I probablay won’t be bothered.
Like Snowball Mayhem and the Bell Choior, the Toypocalypse is an activity. They are using the same systems, and these systems do not permit joining by party. Unfortunately due to technical limitations and time constraints before the holidays, we cannot change it. We understand that this is not ideal for people who wish to play in the same party and who are finding it difficult in random groups. We will be adjusting the “Toypocalypse Cancelled” achievement so that you will need to keep only one gift dolyak alive. We do not have an ETA on when this change will be live. Thank you for your feedback. We have been listening, and we will take your comments on board for future game updates.
Really was enjoying the winterfest until the ship arrived in LA. Chest/rewards bugged, short of enough cogs to build my 2nd mini , now this. Bottom line is the lead should have nixed this back at design phase and should never have seen the light of day. Not even going to bother with the final today. Hopefully in few days I can complete the final phase when things get ironed out.
I have done all but today, have 3 frames, made one toy and I am short cogs because of the bug, so I appreciated that chance to get enough to complete the 2 guaranteed toy builds.
Thanks for that. I have seen that one before but didn’t bookmark it.
Looks very comprehensive and the toggle on/off works great. The one thing I miss is the ability that cartographers had too zoom right in.
I was just about to go on and play but there doesn’t seem to be a point unless someone can report that situation has been fixed.
Is this affecting everyone who plays or just some?
I was using Guild Wars 2 cartographers exclusively ( http://gw2cartographers.com ) but it seems that the site isn’t being maintained or maps updated. Have sent a few e-mails but they remain unanswered. I really liked being able to toggle what you wanted to see but many many are missing from the maps or just don’t exist. eg. Toggle all the merchants on and they don’t appear on the map. It really was a great resource when it first came out. I have checked a few others out but have found them lacking.
To the op , I bet you didn’t destroy the turrent that was on the same platform as the vista. You can even jump over the locked gate to avoid using the mechanism to unlock and that really get rid of any mobs that are chasing you and them it becomes a cake walk. If vistas (or anything else for that matter) become a chore—visit youtube.
But I agree, I don’t care for the mobs/aggro and ridiculously short respawns. It can become quite boring and frustrating. But that is common throughout the entire game and one of it’s shortcomings.
I got one just to change my characters size, he was a huge Norn and was a pain to use when jumping because of the view. I had some new armour that shows more skin so I changed his tatoos also. He’s just a skinny little guy with new ink now.
You’re all pretty lucky, I never even knew there were other item possibilities until I looked at this thread, I thought we were all just getting a Coin and Karma… kitten I’m unlucky.
Seems to be a lot of “unlucky”. I think it the norm. Anything more than karma and coin seems to be extremely ‘lucky’. So I am on the ‘nerfed’ side of this discussion.
I used to get more, but that has drastically changed.
We just ignored the Toxx message (although we did search for him at first) and continued to play, then the a second Toxx message—we just ignored and played on, then finally a 3rd and Toxx actually showed up—continued on, killed him and got our rewards. It really didn’t seem to affect game play(except for the initial WTF moment), rewards and chests.
Bottom line the I believe the mod mispoke or didn`t understand the original message.
Just because you get an in game email doesn`t mean your account is comprimised.
I open the present, get blown back, run up and grab the gift, then make a run for it. It’s just quicker.
Yep, figured that one too. Open, dodge away, wait, go back and pickup—and just leave.
No point in fighting. BTW, they leave you alone if you run far enough away.
