Wow what an insane level of arrogance you’ve got there kid…
When people cant even do their dailies (they should be easy to do Im not alttabbing to find where the region is I havent discovered yet) then obviously there is something wrong.
Right now only 1 out of 4 dailies is one I can do by myself without looking stuff up and that’s not how they advertised GW2, its becoming way too much like WoW; a grindfest for elitists.
If you are struggling, and you are in a guild. Have them help you out. Because if you are struggling to find a lot of the areas, and they aren’t helping. Then you might want to reconsider that guild. If you aren’t, then you should consider joining one that is similar minded to you.
If this is what you think, then you didn’t read the original post in this thread. Or any of my replies.
I have indeed read your original post. And your replies. One word keeps cropping up in my head: conflicted. As some one who does PvE, I get that you want more variety in your dailies. But as some one who also dabbles in WvW. I understand that there wasn’t enough variety in WvW dailies. This attempt was to address something, the game has gotten wrong over the last 2 years. Balance. Everyone should enjoy their game mode equally. And not have it so loop-sided.
I understand from a certain point of view as to were most PvEr’ are coming from. However I keep seeing the word ‘choice’ branded about. Well I can’t speak for PvP and WvW players, but they didn’t have much choice in their dailies hunt. Most of the dailies were in fact in PvE. So why should they be left out. And be forced to leave their prefered game mode. Has any of the PvEr’ ever thought of actually seeing it from their perspective?. I don’t think they have. What Anet tried to do here is: balance the whole thing out. And not to be harsh, but if anyone says they were ‘forced’ to go somewhere to get their daily. Really?. I remember that in the old system if I wanted to get the daily magguma killer achivememnt – I had to go there. I’m sorry but isn’t THAT forcing me to go to a map?. And people have the temerity to say they are being forced now?.
Sorry to say this to the OP, but after the gaming community was up in arms about how MS ‘bought’ out the new Tomb raider game and complaining about how it isn’t right about a multi-plat game going exclusive to one console. But then make excuses for Sony helping out Capcom for making a game that was multi-plat for years, suddenly become ‘exclusive’ to one console. Were they up in arms?. The answer is a resounding no.
Tl;DR: In esscence, what I find is that those that complain always have a level of hypocricy in their arguments.
Walk around the world and feel like a free hero. Do what you want when you want.
Now:
After the NPE improvement, follow the arrows (and press [F] to win). No need to make decisions.
Still do, can do. Walk around freely. If the arrow was intended for you, then yay?. If you feel cheated, well that is a problem you will have to deal with.
So if you are either A a new character or B someone who hate spvp/wvw ..no daily for you.
At the risk of starting a riot, the dark knights really should try and reading the patch note.
NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT
New Daily Achievement System
Achievements have been divided into 3 categories: PvE, WvW, and PvP.
The number of available achievements per day is based on the highest-level character on an account: Levels 1 – 10: 1 achievement per category Levels 11 – 30: 3 achievements per category Levels 31 – 80: 4 achievements per category
Completing daily achievements now awards players with items and/or experience based on their corresponding content type, such as WvW daily achievements rewarding world experience.
Completing daily achievements no longer awards players with achievement points.
A new Daily Completionist achievement has been added and is earned by completing any combination of daily achievements from the three categories.
Completing the Daily Completionist achievement rewards players with 10 achievement points.
December will be the final month to include monthly achievements.
Existing daily and monthly achievement rewards have been rolled into the new log-in reward system.
For those that haven’t bothered to read the patch note on the dailies:
NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT
New Daily Achievement System
Achievements have been divided into 3 categories: PvE, WvW, and PvP.
The number of available achievements per day is based on the highest-level character on an account:
Levels 1 – 10: 1 achievement per category
Levels 11 – 30: 3 achievements per category
Levels 31 – 80: 4 achievements per category
Completing daily achievements now awards players with items and/or experience based on their corresponding content type, such as WvW daily achievements rewarding world experience.
Completing daily achievements no longer awards players with achievement points.
A new Daily Completionist achievement has been added and is earned by completing any combination of daily achievements from the three categories.
Completing the Daily Completionist achievement rewards players with 10 achievement points.
December will be the final month to include monthly achievements.
Existing daily and monthly achievement rewards have been rolled into the new log-in reward system.
I wish they would do some serious polling and actually ask us what we want, determine what the most popular things are, and DO them in order of popularity. Stop the silence and help us help you. Let’s turn this into something we’re eager to sell our friends on again.
It’s understandable as to what you said. Yes there are certain things that are lacking in GW2. And I agree the competition is catching up. By offering the things that GW2 is not offering. To point something out though. It is not advisable to have a poll on what players want. Many people wanted raids. Chris Whiteside started a CDI thread on it. It broke down after a few pages – ruining it for everyone else. The exact opposite to the CDI on guild halls. Where constructive posts were written through out.
Well which server are you on EU or NA?. With the megaserver, you can pretty much play on which ever server you are on with other guild mates. Can’t cross play NA to EU or vice versa.
You can check out the guild I’m with, you can read the post here. The page is slightly out dated, but if you’re interested contact Darkmoore. And we do have some members from the UK.
The highest armour and weapons tier, ascended and legendary. New living story, exploring the new maps. You make what will be your end game. There is no “set end game”.
One thing that could be a useful feature on the LFG tool. Is to remove inactive players from your friend list that have not removed you. They take up space. And an eye sore when you count how many of them you blocked. But that’s just me.
They castrated the game long ago. And now they are skinning it alive. Leveling is kittening slow now because they are artifically slowing down your progression to enhance the playtime without adding new major content. And you cant even properly level your character up with crafting because they nerfed the experience you can get from it. Pre NPE it was possible to level up your character only with crafting. Now you wont be even close to max level even if you finished all crafting professions.
I stopped recommending the game after LS season 1. Now Im warning people to play this game. This is actually one of the biggest fraud on the internet. Everything they promised at the release of the game seems to be forgotten.
Er, no level 1-15 is much faster under the NPE. 20+ becomes normal from what I’ve read, if anything it was much slower under the old system. You got a point about crafting though. The issue this game had, was in fact retention – they’ve “addressed” this under the NPE. And you call adding 2 new maps not major content??. Isn’t that what people want?. We all know development can change at any time. Whilst quite a few things were omitted or not added. I highly doubt you can call it fraud.
Er, Rabid is one of those recipes that CAN’T be learned. Rabid inscriptions/insignia can only be salvaged from existing Rabid gear. Are you clicking on the inscriptions/insignia themselves?
Yes Zax, I’m aware that Rabid falls under the more “unusual” recipes, just like Dire, Shaman etc. As you have to salvage the item to get the insig/inscrip. However this is the mistake I made. Is that I was under the impression, once you’ve have the insig / inscrip you can learn it. As “most” things are able to be learned in this game.
I’ve got both rabid: gossermar intricate and orichalcum imbued inscription / insignia (for armour and weapon). However whenever I double click to learn them, they just stay in my inventory. But yet, every other recipes seem to work just fine when I double click to learn it.
Perhaps she wanted that… Caithe is supposed to have a secret, one that Scarlet (who was hearing Mordremoth in her head) knew about. Maybe she wanted to give away our position? Who knows.
I know the secret!. Caithe was secretly in love with Rytlock. But Logan was secretly in love with her. Caithe decided to break the racial taboo and try it on with Rytlock. Only for Rytlock to knock her back. Caithe cried her plant eyes out on Logan shoulders, who then made his move. Rytlock realised his mistake and found he did have feelings for her, went over to Caithe. Only to see Caithe and Logan getting all lovey-dovey. Rytlock temper got the best of him, threatened Logan. Who went all chicken and went running to Jenna (who he was two timing with). Rytlock then went to Caithe, only to find out that Caithe is pregnant with Mordemoths baby. Rytlock went suicidal and jumped in to the mists.
Just wondering what server you are on. If you are on any EU servers. Then you can check out the guild I’m with. You can read the recruitment post here.
You can check out the guild I’m with. It’s fairly small with just over 40 members. It does have a age restriction. You can read the recrutiment post here.
I’m neither for or against mounts. We know the world of Tyria is huge. Just because there isn’t any room for mounts -currently-. However, the games lore is yet to be explored fully, along with the rest of the world. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they do turn up in another part of the game’ lore and world. That’s all I’m saying.
As a casual PvE adventurer, who plays general PvE for engaging combat and adventure, mostly solo, farm only once per day or 2 days, rarely enter Hard PvE content or PvP unless it’s organized.
That makes no sense. And contradictory at best. You don’t want hard PvE content [unless it’s organized] with engaging combat. But you are a casual PvE adventurer. Who wants engaging combat. And yes, the new map has added two elements of game mode. WvW and PvE. Since the races of Tyria are going to war against a dragon. That map is essentially the front line against him.
Welcome aboard . I’d start off with warrior or ranger. They are far more straight forward, and the learning curve isn’t too difficult. Guardian, thief, mesmer & necromancer sit in the middle. Fair bit to learn about them. Engineer along with the elementalist have a much stepper learning curve. But much rewarding in terms of play style. Which ever one you choose to play. Just enjoy the game.
Queensdale is active, other areas are less active. It’s pretty much a single player game to play PvE. There’s a new leveling system that gimps your progression. For example you won’t unlock your traits until 30th level and have to do certain tasks to assign them. Elementalists and Necromancers are fine. Play how you like.
I find it quite contradictory. People are up in arms about the leveling system in GW2 for being “kitten” out. But yet move on to games like AA – which has a similar system in place. And say nothing about that being “kitten” out.
All the content in the world doesn’t matter if you don’t like the content. WoW has entire expansions that for all I want to play them might as well not exist. I can’t talk about FF, specifically, but from what I know, it’s more or less a traditional MMO. I’m here, as a lot of people are, because they don’t like traditional MMOs.
I’d rather play this for 100 years with no new content than a new WoW expansion.
And yet it is funny that a “traditional” MMO, is making waves and is actually attracting players that initially wanted to get away from them in the first place. You’re missing the point here Vayne, content is what keeps MMOs alive. Having less of them is a fast way of killing the game. You might want to read this quote:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
The fact that XIV is pushing out content, by the bucket load (not to mention the level of variety) and having an expansion coming out in 2015. And this is from a game that had to re-do everything from scratch. Compare the two Vayne. GW2 is 2 years old. It had a clear head start and should be pushing content out now. People are disenchanted because there is a lack of content (and the level of variety of it). The main question is this: why is there a massive slow down in content being pushed. Why is only one type of content being pushed, at the expense of things that can prolong the life of this game.
To flip it, at the same time I can see what you’re saying. Why should a game that tried to be different from every other MMO, be pushed in to becoming the very thing it tried to get away from. And you are valiantly trying to convince others that it shouldn’t be pushed in to that direction.
I’m reminded of my favorite anime, where at the end of a long confrontation, the hero chooses to destroy the prize rather than implement it.. the villain calls him foolish , but the hero explains it simply as the benefits in no way outshine the negative..
Do watch unlimited blade works. The second route to fate stay night. Not a remake, as many mistake it for. Same studio that did F/Z.
If you check out the link in my signature, it gives out some helpful tips and ideas on new and start up guilds. It will be a tough slug to get new members in. But keep at it. And you’ll see new members coming in.
As currently implemented you can earn 100 achievement points per month from the monthly and 12 per day from the daily.
It takes a minimum of 50 months to cap out the 5000 monthly achievement points.
The 5k AP is doable with constant play time – you just need to manage the ones you can do, along with dailies. One of my ex-guildie managed to reach the 5k ap in a few months (4-5). At one point whilst this member was in the guild, had less ap than me.
The impression I’m getting is that after 5k, a steep curve starts to emerge. As peeps have pointed out, not many players have got over 18k.
I’m like you op, although I love the game I feel that it has stagnated and due to the lack of any formal announcement of a major content update it is somewhat disheartening. That being said, I have found a couple of interesting things as of late, firstly the list of positions from the NCSoft for the ArenaNet, Bellevue, WA site;
•ArenaNet Programming Internship 2014
•Cinematic Animator (Contract)
•Data Analyst
•Economic Systems Designer
•Gameplay Programmer
•General Programmer
•German Linguistic QA Tester
•Head of Customer Support
•Marketing Production Manager
•Motion Graphics Artist
•Physics Programmer
•Public Relations Manager
•QA – Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test
•Quality Assurance Tester (Compatibility Lab)
•Senior Animator
•Spanish Linguistic QA
•Tools Programmer
•UI/UX Designer
•Web Programmer
Three of which are temporary, 1 year with the most interesting being the PR Manager role. This seems to coincide with a temporary major project such as an expansion. That being said I also saw some less than favorable reviews from former employees about NCSoft specifically pointing out the disconnect with the West which could be a sign that this unpopular policy is not Anet driven. It would be great to know because at least then we could rail against the right people lol!
Of course all of this is speculation but at this point it’s all we have left.
A new narrative lead (Leah Hoyer) joined the team recently. She worked on some Disney stuff.
…Really???. This video is a month old. When this video hit the forums, the forums pretty much exploded – with everyone (vets mostly) venting their frustration at Anet for lack of content.
Sorry OP, but this post looked more like a shameless plugin in for your YT channel :/.
But I’ve checked the stats on both “berserker’s” and “berserker’s and valkyrie” and they have the exact same:
32 power
18 precision
18 ferocity
So if there’s no apparent difference, what is the point?
One has ferocity (Berserker) – the other has vitality (Valkyrie). Whilst both have similar stats. They are interchangeable and used as a mix and match set. In other words you get some benefits from using both sets of stats.
Re point 1, the old way of unlocking weapons was grindy and boring to me and I greatly prefer this new way. For slot 4 and 5, it felt like it could take a long time to get those unlocked and with certain weapons, it certainly was slow.
Was it eight levels of slow? I still think it’s insane having to wait until level 10 just to get my fifth weapon ability. Once you got past level three or four (I don’t know the exact point, maybe it was a little closer to ten), then every single kill would unlock the next weapon skill. It was weighted in such a way so that if you picked up a new weapon later in the game, it would unlock much quicker for you.
I understand grabbing all weapons for your profession at level 1 and unlocking them all would feel like it’s taking a long time, but really, there’s no reason to do that. If you have one or two preferred weapons, yeah, stick to those, but you really don’t need every single one for your class unlocked ASAP.
I pretty much do that: unlock all weapons skills, less work to do later on. And I have a plethora of skills at my finger tips – equip weapon, off I go. No need to go around killing mobs to get weapon skills later on. It’s kind of ironic that you mention pick one or two, because thats what the new system does. Makes you pick a weapon and stick with it.
I think it is very constructive to tell the developer that we really hate it, and hope they just stop with have all this gated level unlock.
The thing is some people just think it is a hate thread and nonconstructive.
Hyperbole and rage isn’t constructive. Take a look at the guy posts from where I quoted from. And he is right. He gave a constructive and logical argument. With solutions. Most are just demanding that they get it their way. Some have actually tried the new system. They’ve invested their time in to it – to give an insightful opinion, to refute all the hyperbole and misconception. What everyone else wants…is the old system back. So hypothetically the game reverts back to the old system. Good, back to the other rage…releasing new, permanent content.
If we’re actually going to have a thread discussing the NPE, can it actually be full of constructive criticism and suggestions instead of just rage and hyperbole? This thread looks like it’s already going south, so I hope this won’t be the place to talk about it.
. I’d start off with warrior or ranger. They are far more straight forward, and the learning curve isn’t too difficult. Guardian, thief, mesmer & necromancer sit in the middle. Fair bit to learn about them. Engineer along with the elementalist have a much stepper learning curve. But much rewarding in terms of play style. Which ever one you choose to play. Just enjoy the game.
. The top pic looks good : D.