Not any faster than a warrior group from what I saw? I also take down gate as fast as that with frenzy axe. You can say “well, but we are just as good as you can see…”, but most thieves will not be.
Most warriors will not be either. You think just cause you’re a warrior you’re good? You will probably find more bad zerk warriors than you will zerk guardians/thieves. Warrior is a straight forward profession, appealing to the average newbie, that just wants to be able to melee, and bash stuff, without much thought behind their actions.
Players skill always trumps profession of course. I have seen more bad warriors, running blue/green accessories/back pieces, and or running around swinging their swords in Time Warp(without hitting anything), than you would imagine. I agree people need to ditch the mindset that 4 wars + 1 mesmer is the optimum build. People like to follow cookie cutter meta builds tho, cause their imagination can’t surpass what someone has laid out for them.
chances of getting a pug berserker thief dying and being down mid-run is higher than a pug berserker warrior. It’s harder to survive and play as thieves.
Player skill > profession but in CoF p1 there is no skill, it;s a joke to call it a dungeon let alone attribute skill.
What I find sad about this entire thread is how many of you are placing speed over fun. I’d rather run this with a suboptimal pug that’s easy-going than with OCD speedrunners that obsess over every second.
because your definition of fun is what we all should conform to?
How’d it boot all of you? It couldn’t have been because of the new build restart.
I was in fractals yesterday and we were all given a 3 hour notice that the servers would restart, and it reminded us ever 15 minutes or so, so if you all somehow took over 3 hours to do a fractal, that’s not ANets fault.
just started the game and went in fractal, no new build. client didnt exit or download any patch. no notice. so yeah it is definitely ANET’s fault
I think your team has a problem.
Coordination doesn’t really mean careful planning, first time i did it was with 1 friend and 3 pugs and just few clear instructions from experienced members, succeeded with no issues; few downs but not much trouble.
edit: hp nerf is sad…one of the enjoyable boss fights getting dumbed down
let’s say during launch all this ascended gear was presented, i do not think many gw1 players will really be against it.
Yes it makes the exotics useless. Even old items should still have a use.
I think you misunderstood, i was saying what if ascended tier was already present from the beginning.
I do agree that exotic would be useless/disposable, such as rares right now are only for disposable gear, ectos, or maybe forge food. If ascended gear was present at the beginning i would not have bothered to gear up all my characters with exotic accessories with different build specs for each one.
let’s say during launch all this ascended gear was presented, i do not think many gw1 players will really be against it.
In my opinion, i think what arenanet stepped on was more fundamental than “gear treadmill” whatever reasons it may be. They stepped on the trust that guild wars 1 players were expecting.
I personally cannot trust arenanet with any of their words or uphold their principles
Uh oh, the semantics of whether GW1 is or is not an MMO. Does it really matter? Really now?
I’ll go along with GW1 not being an MMO in the sense that a Mac is not a PC (personal computer, irrespsective of OS). Even though by dictionary defintion, both items fit their respective categories, they do not meet the typical defintion per common usage. A better description for GW1 would be a Diablo-like game with horizontal progression and GUIs instead of text menus for the game lobby. Note that Diablo itself is heavily based on gear progression, much more so than your average MMORPG.
Just because no MMO that I know of has used horizontal progression doesn’t mean that GW2 shouldn’t have done it. If we stuck with only doing things that had been done before, we would all still be living in caves huddled over fires. Doing new things is necessary for any kind of evolution to take place.
Seriously suggesting League of Legends though? It has no PvE component and has a very rigid format. It fits into the e-sport theme quite well because of this, and has aspects that ANet should take note of should they truly want to develop the PvP into an e-sport. However, it really doesn’t seem relevant to discussions about the PvE portions of GW2.
It’s about having enough common sense and foresight to see that for most ppl, cosmetic player growth is simply not enough. Long term players want stats. People who don’t are for the most part not long term players, but the flavor of the week, entitled casuals.
You can disagree, but it is, what it is.
So you speak for most long term players accross gaming or only mmo players?
So I name an MMO with no gear grind and DegoLocc continues to tell us we’re looking for casual games in the wrong genre? Looking for an argument much?
imo there seems to be a very different understanding of “hardcore” in mmos. They seem to think grinding and farming a lot means hard core; I dont think this is the case. In gaming, universally – i think hardcore applies to people who strive to improve their skill in a game, time investment comes hand-in-hand with it but improving oneself in the game is what makes a player hardcore
to those who haven’t played gw1 and saw what they have to offer, they really don’t understand unless they have the capacity for critical thinking and analysis as well as comparison in being well experienced in a LOT of video games – not only mmos.
tell me about it.
- all my time grinding fractals it only gave me nothing but glacial cores and destroyer cores. – glacial cores are an insult to recieve, theyre beyond trash
- Grind level 10 fractals, everyone gets ascended rings i get nothing, greens, rares, an more crap.
THANKS ANET, as if it wasnt enough they deprived me of a chance for precursor through ancient karka chest today.
I agree with OP, so many of the game decisions here even before ascended gear – i have “Tolerated” and continued on to play gw2. Comparing to gw1 this game has been dumbed down to fit the button mashing crowd in order to lure in more customers.
Many strategic elements of combat has been removed or forgotten.
With the new ascended gear it’s sort of a shock that tops off all these concerns. I do not like it, ill probably tolerate it, but ill probably not spend a single dime again on this company.
The problem as i see it is the trust from players that arenanet has earned from gw1 has been steadily chipping away, and i think that will be a problem for them in the long run. I personally cannot trust anet anymore so i will be treating them as i will with every other gaming company; not a company that i look up to.
I’ve posted this in another thread, but i also share the same thoughts with female norn voice – it’s terrible. Doesn’t sound like a real person’s voice, rather it sounds like her mouth is full of cotton.
Solution: Switch to french audio, it’s WAY better. text remains english unless you switch it as well
All i have to say here is that female norn voice is terrible,; it sounds forced and unnatural. i turned my game audio into french instead, they sound better.
so, i know this bug is known and theyre doing something about it. i just ran hotw today for the first time in a few days, to add to that, it’s my first time doing path 2. still got 45 tokens.
What i want to know is what are they going to do about it?
– fix it and disregard all loss, or
– reimburse us with what we earned and deserve
