I think that your being “One shot” everywhere is a bit exaggerated.And if so,then i honestly think ( as a guardian especially,being one shot ? come on…)You’re playing the class wrong.Or either need to get used to learning how to use your guardian properly.It’s kinda easing blaming it all on anet,i doubt it’s so in this case.And for the low lvl populated areas being pretty empty,as other suggested,just hop to a high pop server for a while,its free after all.Also,join a guild..Play together.
One shot in pve is not such an issue, if some fights were shorter, but keeping up dodging for a 15min fight is a bit much.
As for pvp, no its not all the time, I had a couple of decent skirmishes, but then something (I think a ranger, possibly a thief), pasted me in a single shot from range, it was silly. So much for health scaling. no form of pvp should allow that kind of thing to happen. I dont mind losing, i mind not having a chance to do anything.
also, pvp….just lol. Jumped into WvWvW, getting one shot. Seriously, so much for scaling, and I used to really enjoy WvWvW.
Sorry, I used to love this game, though it briliant in beta, played it at lauch and got my mesmer up to 80, then had to stop playing.
Tried to get back into it over the last few days….and its an awful experience.
I know some of you dont like to hear it, and i know you get defensive, thats understandable.
But telling me to go do other things like Wauwi has is not helpful at all. its basically saying that yes there is a massive issue, but just stick your head in the sand and ignore it.
Anyway, my feedback was for Anet really.
I left GW2 a while back for various reasons, but wanted to get back into it. So I jumped back onto my mid-30’s guardian…..
And it was awful.
Zones are dead, events are impossible with just one person, the minute you hit a stage with more than one vet mob, you get pasted.
Things like elite devourers just one shot you, which is ok in that you can dodge, but as it take 15mins to kill teh kitten thing, and one mistake ends it, thats just not good.
The leveling experience is quite frankly boring, grindy, unengaging and its almost impossible to take part in the major draw of this game, which is the dynamic events. Which leaves you grinding out heart tasks and gathering, which is somewhat less than exciting.
What I used to do:
Enjoy events in many zones
Enjoy WvWvW on reasonably balanced server
Enjoy running round a well populated world.
Notice that less and less events were happening in low level zones
Notice less and less players in the world
Spend ages trying to get groups for instances
wonder why WvWvW maps had all gone to one colour instead of the previous 3
realise that to obtain anything I had to grind specific event hubs in orr
What I do now:
Play Storm Legion.
I always felt GW2’s events did not live up to expectations. Sure they are great as an alternative to the normal questing model, however, they lack epicness of the Rift style zone invasions. And also you have to be lucky to be in an area when an event takes place, Rifts world notifications are brillant as is IA to just jump into content, add in things like conquest where its player triggered base defense events and well, I just find Rift so much easier to find stuff to do. I dont really care for “progression”, I just enjoy playing. GW2 I found I was not actually doing stuff I enjoyed for most of the time.
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LFG, event finder, stuff like that.
And no gear progression.
But to be honest, I found GW2, whilst a very good game, to just be too inaccessible. Too much grinding, too much looking for content, too much chat spam to try to find groups.
that price is insane given how slow gold income is unless you metagame and play the TP…which you cant expect “normal” players to do.
over an hour in Queensdale, not seen any active events todday (1 bugged on does not count imo).
Gave up looking in teh end and jumped in WvWvW to complete my daily.
Its a bit worrying as DEs are the main PvE content, and whilst I love them, I’m not going to log in to run round for an hour or so hoping to find an event…..
Event finder please, and preferably an Instant Adventure system like in Rift.
Totally agree, Had to jump into WvWvW to do my daily achv today. Gave up looking for events, did the rest of it (kills, variety, gathering) no problem in queensdale, and did 3 hearts and a few vistas, and a few PoI for my 100% and no events.
no actually there was 1, it was the bettlerun farm with the spinklers, still appeared to be bugged where it bugged out yesterday.
Its becomming increasingly hard to find events.
I think the word grind is not useful as it means different things to everybody, but I do think the cost of stuff is totally disproportionate to the rewards you get. 90g for a cultural armour set, when a de at 80 gives a couple of silver at most….
Yep, compare the rewards for des, to the cost of say, t3 cultural armour…….and work out how many events to get a set…then cry.
Dragons are a disappointment in this game. Not only are they laggy as hell and don’t reward contribution properly, they are boring and impossible to fail.
It’s sad when the fire elemental in the asura zone is a better boss than the signature events like the shattered or tequatl.
I don’t want the events to be too easy but there are situations in this fight where I personally don’t think it matters how good of a player you are. You are going to have multiple lava wells open up in a row underneath you and you are going to run out of dodges or abilities that will protect you.
I think the boss is actually easier with fewer than 10 people because he spams his OP abilities a bit less.
Have you read this thread?
Kill the adds. The aoe is from the adds, kill them, it’s not hard if a few people do it, and you completely negate the hard hitting aoe, and all the boss does is easily avoidable and not very deadly fire lines.
If you want to be there for the dragon, join the event chain. That’s what they’re for. You will get no support from ArenaNet to bypass this so you can arrive only for the most profitable section of the event.
Hardly anyone does the event chain, they all wait at the dragon spawn location and expect other people to do it for them.
The mechanics of this fight are horrible. Anyone saying it is easy is a dirty rotten liar! I’ve done the event about a dozen times in the hopes that I would improve and I can’t really say that I have that much. I’ve tried “getting off the bridge” as people have said and while I do agree that the bridge is a death trap the problem with going in the room is that eventually you are going to get major ember aggro. One or two I can handle but this evening I had 5 of them all ganging up on me.
Pretty much the only chance I had of not dying was if my dodge and heals were down (I was playing on a guardian and took a lot of support skills) I ran out of the room and waited for them to come back up.
I wouldn’t mind the chaos of the fight if the lava eruptions on the ground didn’t stun then one shot you. Half the time you dodge and end up on a new eruption.
Even though we eventually got it down every time just by zerging our way back after dying it is way too frustrating a fight. Horrible for a starter zone as there was tons of complaining. You won’t want new players thinking that the entire game is like this.
Thanks for calling my a liar, I’ll just respond by calling you a noob who needs to learn to play and we’ll call it quits shall we? :P
But no, its not meant to be able for you to solo it! you need a few people killing adds, but well, it is group content after all.
I can usually do it without dying now, unless I mess up, in which case I should die. So thats ok.
lol its a thief, what do you expect, they are lol one button i win class…..
they are on a timer…….on my server people broadcast to the minute how long until next dragon spawn……and its accurate. yes there are event chains, but they seam to be on a timer.
I have 3428 kills and 616 badges of honor in WvW. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Guardian and its a monster in WvW. It can win in 1v1 against any class in the game and it can still be very useful during sieges. I’ve come out on top in a few 2v1 situations and even in a 3v1 situation (screenshot). How many other classes can boast that?
I’m not an awesome player by any stretch so that means anyone else can do the same things I have done.
<3 the Guardian.
how many other classes….mesmer, easily can take 2v1 and even 3v1 quite reliably. Warriors can do 2v1 due to high burst dmg, thiefs can also do it aswell due to burst.
1. no real ranged option
2. no real aoe other than our elite skills, which are short duration long CD
3. support is limited, yes we have a couple of abilities, but using a support skill every 20+ seconds is not my idea of engaging gameplay/.
4. Really slow, watching the zerg disappear ahead of you with their passive movement speed increases or watching that enemy you did almost kill run away laughing as we shuffle after them is frustrating
5. Low health and low survival in aoe heavy melee combat.
Those are just some of the reasons Guardians are not fun in WvWvW.
butter I am drowning in still
Chocolate bars I cant find any….
no. Tomes are pretty lame tbh, they are sort of ok but dont really fit the rest of the way the class plays.
Most cant be used underwater leaving us 1 elite thats…meh.
dynamic scaling is a fundamental part of the game., it needs to be made harsher as you can still faceroll lower level zones.
But if you do not like it….tough, should have learnt about game before you bought it.
You know, in a game with only team based PvP, if a thief or whatever other profession is wasting his efforts on you and needs to run from you in the end. That is you having done your job. You wasted his time and did not get killed, sure you did not get a kill either, but in a team scenario driving/keeping a player off a point or wasting their time is a win in its own right.
You can’t catch anyone, passive speed boost proc from utility skills, meaning they are using up an utility slot for mobility instead of something offensive and for the record, afaik only elementalists and thiefs have passive speed bonus in signets. Neither are exactly in the same level of durability as your guardian I am afraid.
and engineers, ok its kit switching, but its 100% uptime.
So you want the game to tell you exactly where to go and what to do?
Come one, what’s make this game so fun is just walking around exploring, mining some nodes just to suddenly find an awesome event.
If you’d see where every event is, then they would just be like normal quest and there would be no point of having them in the game.
Its not fun wwalking round and have nothing happening.
Thats just grinding mobs, and thats taking 5steps back in MMO development to pre-wow mob grinding.
DEs are great, but they need to happen more often, be broadcast wideer, and last longer so people can get to them.
@Cameirus.8407
Okay maybe its a valid issue if I can outrun your project lol, but I tell you what I want to be done with the Guardian, that thing you have when you are downed, skill 2, needs to not a bomb. Even engies get that at sill 3 XP
ok, so its balanced that I cant catch anyone but skill2 when downed is annoying to you…btw its only a knockback, its not like other profs dont have a defensice skill2 when downed…oh wait they all do.
I dont mind losing fights, I dont mind you playing better and being able to outdistance me…I mind that a passive ability is so powerful and only available to some professions.
Its like some profs get a passive “mount” whilst others have to foot slog!
not quitting, but starting to feel a bit annoyed at some stuff.
1. no real ranged option on a guardian
2. some profes having 33% passive move speed so are stupidly hard to catch and kill
3. insane WvWvW queues…..mainly a result of Anet increaseing server capacity but no WvWvW hardcaps.
4. Lack of events. Spent 2 hours in fields of ruin…..1 event worked and another one bugged…..
5. No LFG. for a game to lauch without this is astounding nowadays and its a sorely missing feature.
6. no balance, 13k hits are not balanced, its a nukefest rather than skill at times.
Still playing, and will continue, the good outweights the bad, but am starting to get a bit annoyed that all the bad things spotted in beta appear to still be in game.
learn to snare more :|
I dont mean to be rude, but thats why as a guardian have a “rush to target” skill and snares and such also range skill.
This game much like its predecessor isn’t a, COME HERE AND LET ME SMITE YOU WITH MY BIG SCARY WEAPON…
Its a… catch me if you wanna hit me with that big scary weapon mister tee hee run away kind of thing.
Try it sometime, even using GS5, S3, stun and with GS4, and saveyourself for speed, its impossible to catch classes with 33% speed increases.
May not be so bad if scepter was not lame as kitten as a ranged weapon, wheere a 33% increase in speed means you are faster than my projectiles…….
How is it bad game design?
Sure this professions have a speed advantage, but ur guardian have another advantage (for instance Heavy armor and high passive armor)
Um what? you know armour makes very little differnce in this game right?
And boons are short not 100% uptime like a passive…..
Wrong!!!!!!!!
Thats part of what prof you choose in the first place. As i play thief thats my main objective to run in run out hit hard and dont get caught. LOL so now in your world im unable to break distance from chasers. Rubbish bring on better threads this ones had a grilling and is done! “Medium Rare”
its not skillful to run in nuke one buttonthen bugger off if you fail to get a kill.
And I dont care if you use abilities and so on to outpace me, but a passive 33% move increase is just too powerful
And you have no gap closers? Or means to grant swiftness to yourself?
yes I do, but not 100% uptime on them, and people can avoid them by dodging, using CDs and skills and so on.
If its a case of they outplayed me, fine. But its not, its a case of they get owned, then they get to run away at a stupidly fast speed.
Getting REALLLYkitten off with not being able to catch certain professions because they have insane passive run speed increases that other professions dont have.
They can just literally run away.
On my guardian, I can stun them, chain them and use GS5, but still, they can make it away, not through beign more skilled, just because they can run faster…..
I am sick of seeing people at 10-15% health disappearing into the distance because I lack a passive run speed increase and lack a decent ranged weapon.
Giving one prof a 33% passive movement speed incease and another prof no increase is shockingly bad game design.
This game needs an event tracker, it also could do with an instant adventure system like in Rift.
2 hours in Fields of Ruin, 2 events. 1 of them bugged.
This is quite ridiculous, as DEs are supposed to be the main content of the game.
2hours in Fields of Ruin….2 events, 1 of them bugged.
This game needs an event tracker, and it could do with an “instant adventure” system like in Rift
Rok – no. You are comming off as a bit of a nutter to be honest, probably not intended, but thats the way it seams.
Its a word, its not offensive to use it the way its used. Also, I dont have to look hard to show you evidence of my beliefs, take a trip to your local univerity and read some papers in their library, its all scientifically tested and verified. I dont care what you believe, but dont force your beliefs on me, I’ll use the word God in whatever context I like and quite frankly dont care that you get offended by it, I wont go out of my way to offend people, but I’ll not be overly cautious about it either.
your beliefs do not grant you ownership of a word. There were gods before the one you believe in, there are other gods now, and there will be new gods after. Thats the nature of belief. To me none are real. But even if they were, I dont see how using a decsriptive term can possibly cause offence to any rational person.
and as for:
“And no, I don’t want to look at fossils, on which you base your imagined conclusions; I don’t want to look at anything other than the actual so-called scientific process happening in front of me in a lab, just like any real scientist can show you some physics or chemistry in the lab.”
Words escape me. Other than the statment “there are none so blind, as those who will not see” seams apt for this occasion.
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Not sure if serious, unfortunately due to the length its either a very dedicated troll or it is actually serious.
I find it more offensive that you would think the use of a word needs to be censored so as not to cause immaginary offense. As a rational person I find your post nigh on unbelieveable.
“God” is a description, and its a name for an entity (a fictional one at that), you could name it “toothfairysword” and it would be equally “offensive” to people who believe in that fictional character….where does it stop.
No, stop looking for reasons to be offended, its a word in common usage in teh language its not like its actually using a name of any particular god, though I doubt you’d have posted if it was “thorsword” or similar. think about that for a min.
OP – tell you what, you talk to my boss and explain why I am asleep at my desk all day and I’ll start playing all night…..
Not complaining about nightcapping, just saying your post is pretty naive.
thief is all about whether you can survive the lol-onebuttonspam burst. If you can *use blocks, invuls etc) then they die….or rather they stealth and run away stupidly fast so you cant catch them…..
Mesmers, kill phantasms, ignore clones (random aoe them), keep moving so shatters dont hit you. Try to keep dmg on teh mesmer, at least cleave/incidental dmg when taking out phatasms. Clear conditions if ou can, and watch out for confusion. If you get Moa’s either run(you can dodge) or attack the mesmer! Dont get all pannicy and do nothing.
Clones do not have offhands, clones either do not move or move predictably (ie into melee range) clones attack slower than the mesmer. But its pretty easy to spot a mesmer really.
Its hard to be specific as you’ll require different tactics if its a shatter build or a condition build or a phantasm tank.
Yes I can say overpowered, but I normally put the words warrior or thief in the sentance too.
“Warriors are OP” is just stupid, warriors feel really strong only in early PVE with GS signet build. Thieves feel “OP” only when standing still and taking their backstabs, then once dead wondering why he dealt so much damage. Enough with this OP.
yeah, tell that to the back to back 13k, 8k, 7k hit chains I often see from warriors, it may be a one trick pony, but with that kind of trick do you need another?
I think it would make more sense if any of the dynamic events actually had an impact.
If we take an area of the map from the undead, it should be ours, at least temporarily. Grass should start growing, rabbits should show up, the coral should start dying and shrinking. And I don’t mean every 10 minutes as currently. That’s what keeps people clumped up in the “good” spots for events.
Then, late at night, a new WAVE of the risen should rush out, destroy everything and retake the area, and only during this wave, we should fight back by doing important small and large raids on key locations to bottle them up and hold the land we’ve taken, but if we haven’t the resources, they should win.
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So the first group of players in a day should get to see the attack and come prime time, all the other players only get to see “finished” events…..yeah great idea….
I like orr. Ok thematically its a tadge depressing, however it is the dead hordes stronghold so I was not expecting puppies…
It really feels like you are invading enemy territory, its a fight in and to move around, its great.
WoW gates content as its a sub based game, you feel you have to log on every day, and so build up a habit to play the game.
GW2 is not sub based, right now people are carrying over sub based mentalities to the game, in time people will realise there is no rush, there is not compulsion to churn through content as fast as possible. There is no requirement to run all content you can as fast as you can.
So no, gating is not needed. People can farm 24/7 if they want. so what? if thats what they want to do.
um, probably 90% of the game is great. A few issues with regard to scaling and complexity (needs harsher scaling and more complexity) and a LFG.
But the combat, the classes and such are great. The zones are absolutely amazing, the puzzels fun, the world feels alive in a way no other MMO has managed to capture.
WvWvW is mostly great, and the issues will be sorted or settledown in time.
PvP is fun and skill rather than gear based.
The good far outweighs the bad, massively so. But remember, alot of “negativity” in the forums is people loving the game wanting a few things tweaked, its only a very small minority who are just all negative.
No.
Its a central point to the game and a brilliant feature.
However, it needs being made harsher so its not so faceroll when you out level a zone.
There are advantages in levelling, its called abilities and traits, not to mention access to realllly nice looking gear!, levelling acts more as gating than arbitrary power in this game, which is good.
It was a central point of the game, so you knew it when you bought it, if you dont like it, leave.
This happens depressingly often, I’ve come to accept it as a tax on my Mesmer for being so awesome that he never dies and gets repair costs
Phara Miu.2816so yes WvW isnt fair it was never intended to be fair.
Mog.1589Hey OP ya know an attitude like that is why your server is probably losing. People who “Just give up” because they are losing so much are a big cause of your servers troubles.
Veltoss.9135And no one said WvW was fair, since when is open war ever fair? If you’re the underdog, find a way to beat them, don’t mope and whine on the forums about unfairness.
albi.9518On the other hand, WvW requires organization, guilds, map-awareness, strategy, group-skill
Chronologist.9782War is not fair
Thrashbarg.9820An aside to all you ship-jumpers and bandwaggoners either not playing cause your team is losing or moving to a dominant server: you’re making your own beds.
runeblade.7514Since when did Arena Net said that WvW was balanced?
Cameirus.8407“You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
All you people talking about how WvW isn’t “supposed to be fair” are missing the point entirely. You’re just boasting about having joined a server that has a night crew. Yes, yes. Hooray for you.
The silly part is that your great “accomplishments in strategy” (as you make them sound, and someone even had the gall to quote Miyamoto Musashi) could be countered by your opponents if they decided to employ some chinese gold farmers to just sit there holding the territory during the night. That is how DERPey it is.
But please, don’t mind me. Go ahead and enjoy boasting about winning a game when the other team isn’t even playing. You are big winnars. Herpkitten
actually we get pwned every night, but thats just the way it works, more fun taking it back than holding it, i dont really care who “wins” so long as its fun.
There is no way that someone can honestly, and I mean honestly say that event is “easy” and kittenit is no big deal." The damage is massive for that area and level and it is ridiculous. It is doable, yes, but very frustrating when you compare it to other world bosses that are not that hard and they are in higher level areas! I mean a group of 30+, that I was in, 95% of us died in less than a second over and over again, most of us were spread out, and NO not all of us were on the dreaded bridge!
Two people got lucky and got in and managed, after dying a lot, to run in circles around the thing and I and a few others managed to find spots to do some DPS, but about the 5th time I died there was no chance as I had no where to dodge and no where to go as I burned up in less than a second. So that is massive damage and something I would never expect in an area that is that low of level. It needs to be taken down a peg or two, I’m not saying make it easy though, but come on!
I dont find it hard, but then my definition of hard is not “well I died once…” its “i got so frustrated at random RNG kills that I gave up after and hour”.
This fight is simple:
move into room
spread out
kill adds
avoid fire
kill boss
in that order.
Dmg has been toned back from beta, it no longer one shots you, and the knockback from the fire now does not cause instant death as you get time to move bfore it its you.
Its fairly simple, (maybe easy was not the right word). but its not faceroll. And thats good thing. All end of zone (which this effectively is) bosses should be a challenge. Shadow behemoth or the sylvari worm are a joke compared to this.
This is the boss Anet should model all the other zonebosses on, it rewards folllowing tacitcs and punishes zergs.
no, do not add.
there is no reason to add, and the way the game works, dps is a meaningless number.
no need for mounts, they cant increase speed for game dynamic reasons so they would be purely aesthetic, I’d rather devs spend time on content rather than pointless mounts.
The “problem” is that some servers (FS) moan because they think their tactics are superior to their opponents (VS), whilst ignoring that their strategy is deficient.
“You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
yeah, the last couple of days there are frequent connection issues, disconnects, log on problems and massive fps drops for no apparant reason.
Not sure what Anet did, but undo it pls.