Guild Wars 2

I would be delighted to drop my flipping and go out and play the game instead. However, Anet decided that ridiculous drop rates, asinine DR, and exuberant costs of travel and armor repair were all good ideas to implement. As a result, I can’t play their game. I have to waste my time playing the market in order to make money which will eventually allow me to play the game. If you want me to stop this, please feel free to make Anet see the error of their ways.

Ruien.9506:

Just no. No other game in MMO history has given a new person soo many ways to have the exact same quality of gear as the guy who has played for months.

Please leave the dungeons alone. If you cant do them, how about doing the other 4 ways to get the same gear quality?

1. GW1 was way more lenient in regard to getting the best gear.
2. Are you saying MMOs aren’t allowed to do anything for the first time ever? How would new features get introduced to the genre?

And you’ll be better off, OP. Don’t have to worry about one-shot mobs and repair bills. Get your gear the way it was meant to be, buy it cheap on BLTC.

This is most definitely not an exploit. With that said, knowing Anet’s history of banning, I can see them labeling it an exploit. I’d proceed with caution.

Skychok.7854:

That’s quite amusing. You must be new to the internet so let me inform you on a couple of things.

1. ArenaNet does a great job moderating the forums. Personally, I find it refreshing to be able to cycle through the forums and not have to wade through a bunch of trash. That being said, I still see plenty of whining, complaining, and rudeness. They let you speak your mind without it getting out of hand. It keeps things civil and is better for the community.

This right here is rude, insulting and condescending. The very things you posted you don’t like to see. You could have gotten your message across while being polite, you know. As it is though, you’re just a hypocrite.

Back on topic, I don’t get why people see complaints as negative. Complaints are a form of feedback, one that in particular motivates developers to improve the game. Isn’t that a positive thing? I, for one, would like to see the game improved, as I intend to stay here awhile. As far as I’m concerned, keep the ‘whining’ coming, folks. Don’t let the white knights discourage you from posting genuine feedback.

Lifelike.5862:

Whoa whoa whoa…hold the presses. Some people actually think this game is grindy?

Like…seriously?

In this game you can CRAFT from 1 to 80 if you have the materials. It takes less than a week of doing events to get a character to max level through map completion alone.

I’d hate to see what would happen if these people ever played a real grinder, like Ragnarok online.

They’re referring to the grind that sets in once you reach level 80, not while you’re still levelling. Once you get there, the miniscule drop rate coupled with DR makes doing anything take forever.

Or, you could buy gems from Anet. But not any other RMT company, those are forbidden.

+1 to this. It’s not as annoying for me as for the OP, but I wouldn’t mind skill responsiveness getting improved. Also, I’d like for the camera to pan every time I hold down the RMB, not just sometimes.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Ewww, another one of these threads.

This topic has been done to death, just stop trying.

Why would they stop? Raids are still not in the game, therefore, task is not yet done. Keep these threads coming, folks. More content = more goodness.

Chalice.1280:

Usually when randoms complain about a boss being too hard, we shrug it off, because they’re usually bad at the game. But this one is actually hard and takes some actual effort and rediculous coordination to pull off.

Oh, the ironing.

Maybe if they made the trash rewarding instead of annoying, this wouldn’t happen. You placed the entire reward at the end? Well then, I guess we’ll skip to the end. Bad design is bad.

Just realize that some people don’t find the dungeons fun, myself included. I don’t do them at all, but I do get the speed runners. They want the skins, they found a fairly efficient way to get them, good for them.

OP doesn’t like this method being forced onto them, but has no qualms asking for their views to be forced onto others, by changing dungeon design to prevent it. That’s called hypocrisy, my friend.

silencer.5028:

ounkeo.9138:

silencer.5028
Never heard off or encountered this, can you elaborate? I’d see it for myself and get back to you if I haven’t done it already. I have yet to encounter the mystical loot drop DR myself, even in Orr.

The town between craven blight and compass plaza. There is an NPC event just outside the outpost (literally). I forget the name of the event but your goal is to fight the waves of mobs with the NPC. Some of them spawn just out of aggro range so you have to drag them to the npc. most of the waves will spawn right on top of you.

It’s a 30 minute event, but I’m pretty sure it could be longer than that. All you do is wipe out waves of mob until the event completes. It’s completely stationery.

I don’t know the spawn time of this event but the last 4 or 5 times I was there, this event was up. It’s a Norn female NPC.

Hmm, can’t say I remember doing that one. Seems weird for one mass spawn even to last 30 minutes, even dragons don’t last that long. Sounds like an issue with an event and well, if thats the case then both DR and the event itself might be bugged and need fixing. Don’t think I remember any even or event chain part that would last longer then 10-15 minutes nor spawn enough stuff to kick in any DR myself, I’ll take a look at that one if I have the chance.

But yes, this does sound like bug and unintended behavior.

The bug you are referring to is called Diminishing Returns. Like all other bugs, it should be removed from the game.

ecthelion.6794:

This is by design guys.

The MMO revenue model is moving away from fixed subscription costs to the “gemstore” model. This way they can make as much money from you as you are willing to spend.

I don’t really have a problem with this. It’s just how shareholders think. I do have a problem when it severely discourages teamplay and cooperation as it does now.

Eventually it will just lead to people not logging in anymore.

This is quite correct. What I dislike the most is the hypocrisy of it all. ‘RMT is bad. Here, buy some gold from us, instead.’

kaotiktheory.8942:

What do you guys think?

I think everyone’s inadvertently doing you a favor. Why waste your money on enormous repair bills when you can simply buy crafted exotics on BLTC. You get your endgame gear there and you can go do some content that’s actually fun.

OP makes more sense when you replace ‘skinny’ with ‘fit’, and ‘beefier’ with ‘fat’.

I’m sure a dungeon tool is making people not talk to each other. I mean, there couldn’t possibly be any other explanation, right?

I think it was obvious ever since they banned people for selling cooking by-products, that Anet were way to religious about ‘exploits’. And I very much agree that broken code should be hotfixed out of the game until it’s working properly. Even though it would be even better to leave it out of the game altogether, I see no benefit in reducing rewards for your players.

Hex.3867:

How about letting us pay for Waypoints with either money or Karma? That could help

That’s actually an excellent suggestion. Karma is completely worthless right now, I have hundreds of thousands of that kitten with nothing to spend it on. Waypoint costs would be a great start. Heck, can we do this for repair costs, too?

Lasaonar.9132:

I’m amazed you emaciated pixie human women can even lift a greatsword, let alone swing it.

Yeah, cuz 6 pounds is really heavy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy

Also, LOL at the spelling.

AMonkey.2385:

“Sir” is a pretty gender neutral term nowadays. GW2 is hardly based in realism (otherwise there wouldn’t be any women soldiers at all, and if there were you’d see a lot of sexism) so whats the problem?

I dunno where you come from, but where I live, the military accepts plenty of women and it works out just fine.

‘Unnaturally slim looking’. Right. I’ll have to remember that the next time my elementalist throws a fireball from her fingertips. I wonder what kind of message that sends. I bet Smokey Bear would have something to say about that…

People still do dungeons? Okay…

Sephelutis.3480:

Apathy.6430:

Oh, I thought you were making the point that whenever you get within 600 range of enemies you instantly die.

facepalm, if every player give this kind of “constructive critism” then this community is bound to be doomed and so is this wonderful game

Nah, we’ll be alright. Kids like that seem to be quite rare around here. Plus, I heard there’s like a new patch coming out for WoW. Don’t quote me on this, but I think something’s being released for that game pretty soon. I’m betting we’ll ‘lose’ quite a few bad-mannered players to that. What a shame.

I don’t always make generalizations, but when I do, I’m always wrong.

Agree with OP. Because of the way the class plays, a lot of points in Arcane seem mandatory. I feel like that’s a bad design decision.

An elementalist not swapping their attunements is like other classes not swapping their weapon sets. Stick to only one and you will be bad at this game. Remember that your weapon set of choice gives you 20 skills to use, not 5.

I don’t really see what the OP is talking about. What I do see is a whole lot of suggestions for the game. I, for one, think this is one of the best MMOs ever, but I also think there’s room for improvement. People see the flaws, they point them out and suggest changes. I don’t always agree with them, but those threads invariably contain a calm, rational discussion. Sure, sometimes a kid slips in through the cracks that declares anything they don’t agree with ‘whining’, but luckily, those are few and far in between. And the people around these forums seem to be able to ignore them and continue with the discussion.

I’m not sure why you would shy away from controversy, OP. Changes get suggested and discussed. That’s how things get done. Taking into consideration the stellar job the devs already did, I feel confident they will be able to sift through the discussions and make changes that will improve the game further, whether you yourself, OP, like it or not.

Itari.1063:

Dunno why so much QQ. The Game is pretty fine atm. Who said a “Tank” must be able to tank every mob group perfectly? And one hit? hmm the only mob i know who can one hit me is Deadeye when i stand far away which hit me for 70k dmg
Btw i play Elementarist with 13k hp and i rarely die… I would say u do something wrong in most cases.

I see literally noone crying around here. But I do see a rude person who definitely stands out on these forums. We don’t want your kind here. Shoo. Go away.

On topic, great post, OP. Agreed on all points.

It’s a common feature that I’ve seen in many games. I think the entirety of the problem comes from a misconception that greatswords are super heavy. The medieval greatswords weighed between 6-10 pounds. That’s 3-5 kgs. Something a human female can easily hold and wield.

Kromica.2831:

Ok I will go farm for drops I don’t need

Best comeback ever.

Oh look, it’s one of those threads again. I guess some people really think that spending time spamming in /map is preferable to clicking a few buttons, or that that helps improve some imaginary community. Yes, Anet, by all means, please do not add any useful tools to this game, we really do want to be inconvenienced.

Bottom line, why ask for features not to be added. Isn’t more better? If you don’t like something, simply don’t use it. Even if there was an LFG tool, you could still spam for groups all day long.

Tank-heal-DD was replaced by die-rez-run back. I’m not liking it either, but I feel like it’s a necessary evil when you take into consideration how easy it is to die to overtuned mobs.

What I particularly like about this thread is that the amount of kids that have nothing better to say than ‘l2p lol’ or dismiss this as ‘whining’ is very small compared to the amount of people who have something helpful and constructive to say. This fact alone is enough for me to like this MMO more than any other.

And on topic, I agree the damage on some of the mobs is over the top. I, too, would like to see one-shotting without warning removed.

Mister Stranger.3986:

Elementalists are GREAT underwater. It’s not all about dat deeps; the Elementalist’s underwater skills have insanely intricate crowd control. You can warp yourself or send yourself to the surface; you can send foes backwards, up, or down; you can pull yourself to foes; you can create stun fields and cripple foes…the list goes on and on.

The list doesn’t go on. That’s pretty much it. And what if, instead of all that, you want to kill a monster? That’s right, then you wish you weren’t playing an elementalist.

Definitely need a significant buff to damage.

Agreed. Getting rid of the holy trinity is perfectly fine, but not if dungeon mobs do the insane damage as they do in older MMOs.