Guild Wars 2

Valentine.4286:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Legionnaire.4059

Remember MMO=Massively Multiplayer Online , it wasn’t designed to do things solo . P

This is so demonstrably untrue that I can’t even believe you actually said this in public. I could fill up 10 posts with evidence that huge sections of just about every MMO out there has solo content – and it was designed to be solo.

This statement is blatantly and embarrassingly false.

And HoT got alot of solo content. And it was designed as such. Still ppl get mad because there is some stuff not made for solo. There is both, and that is good.

And since you could fill up 10 posts with evidence AND you felt the need to mention that, I would like to see it. Thx in advance…

Pay me, and I will.

Legionnaire.4059:

*Q: How can i make gold since dungeons got nerfed , why is everything too expensive ?!?!? blah blah blahh i’m lazy again , i don’ want to play …

Doing dungeons just for gold is absolutely sad

And again with the “lazy” meme. Does it not strike you as odd that you’re accusing people that are spending time not working and simply relaxing by playing a game “lazy?” It doesn’t even make any real-world sense. Of course, playing a game is “lazy.” Duh. That’s the whole point of doing it. It’s purely entertainment and we have every right to be “lazy” while doing it.

As for the comment on dungeons, that’s just your opinion and, according to the listings in LFG pre-HoT, was not one espoused by many, many players in this game. And guess what? There was nothing wrong with it if that’s what you enjoyed.

Legionnaire.4059:

*Q: Why are we forced to do Adventures, why do we need silver rank to complete collections/acquire mastery points?
A: Nobody forces you , if you are too lazy

Nice. So people that dislike a type of content that you do are just inherently lazy people. Gotcha.

Why is it so hard for so many people to believe that this type of mini-game content simply doesn’t appeal to everyone? Why does it mean that if I don’t want to grind a given mini-game for hours on end that I’m “lazy?” Why can’t it be possible that I just don’t enjoy grinding mini-games or racing against a clock?

And don’t trot out the useless “You just want to get gold on the first try.” This is not why many of us don’t like this content.

Legionnaire.4059

Remember MMO=Massively Multiplayer Online , it wasn’t designed to do things solo . P

This is so demonstrably untrue that I can’t even believe you actually said this in public. I could fill up 10 posts with evidence that huge sections of just about every MMO out there has solo content – and it was designed to be solo.

This statement is blatantly and embarrassingly false.

Coyote.7031:

I’m still seeing mostly empty maps. I think the most I’ve seen at an event is maybe 20? Normally I see 0-10 people at most events. Could be a culling problem maybe, but I find myself mostly alone in the new maps. It makes me a bit sad.

I experience this a lot in TD especially.

Yeah, I have to admit that I’m getting really tired of a significant portion of my gameplay being dependent on taxiing around the HoT maps.

It gets old really quickly.

Shikigami.4013:

Honest question about this “following” thing: A map is quite a big place. How are people “following you” around, when all they have is the map you are in? You could be at dozens of different locations/camps/events on that map and he has no means to find you. How long does it take until someone actually shows up, if he has to search the whole map?

The whole point is, this is what they do. They WANT to spend their time looking for the object of their obsession, and so they do. Stalkers are not normal people. They vary in how long and how far they’ll go, but they’re all extremely disturbed individuals.

And unless you’ve had a dedicated stalker, you can have no idea how often they actually find you in the game on a map. It’s not that hard and happens more often than people with no experience with this would think.

Aenesthesia.1697:

Wtf really? And i was wondering why so few were raiding for no rewards…..

Yeah, raiding gets you what? An anemic 6 gold per week. lol

XP DR makes little sense in a system where you’re required to repeat events on only 4 maps ad nauseum in order to level masteries so you can accomplish goals impossible to achieve without the aforementioned masteries.

Tommyknocker.6089:

If they gated it behind TD meta failing then this thread would be moot, just sayin.

Yeah, well, that’s one of the only things they could have used for failure where people would have had a decent shot at getting what they need.

But again, you’d think regardless of the department they work in, a game developer in general (even a bad one) would know how ridiculous this kind of gimmick in a game like GW2 would be.

Mostly, I sell scribing mats from the HoT zones. It isn’t much, but it pays for waypoints.

Luckily, I don’t have any majorly expensive projects in mind right now, which of course, helps.

Ugh. Adrenal Mushrooms. Isn’t that really deep in? Wasn’t going to finish that line at all.

I’d support these kinds of control on blocked people. I had a stalker earlier this year, but for me, ignoring him for about a month was all it took for him to get bored, remove me from his friends’ list, and move on.

Clearly, this didn’t work for your niece.

Clearly, I need to be spending time in Cursed Shore this week.

Thanks for the tip.

Neural.1824:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I would think it would be preferable to encourage the success of events.

Not the other way around.

Hey hey! Woah there Celtic Lady. We can’t have people going around and just spouting off logic and common sense here. This is the GW2 forum you know.

Yeah, you’re right. My bad.

danielrjones.8759:

I don’t know if it is the event or lack of player knowledge. One thing for certain, there is something wrong. Have yet to be on a map that has been successful.

I’ve been in way too many of these where the details of each lane is meticulously explained during the hour (and often more than an hour) ahead of time for it to simply be lack of player knowledge.

Tangled Depths with Dragon’s Stand a close second.

It’s not that I don’t like the actual map of Dragon’s Stand. I just don’t like my map completions being at the whim of a successful meta event that can be difficult to find a map for.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Don’t even attempt it. When the maps dry out, they’ll fix their content…or maybe they won’t, but how many times do you bang your head on the wall before you realize the wall wins every time.

Unless they adjust it or a guild runs it constantly and successfully, a la the TT in BC, there’ll prolly be a lot of players that never see this one succeed.

Lysander Freeman.4186:

It’s completely random chance of success though depending on the map. 25-ish times and I’ve killed gherent in my lanes many times only for things to fail elsewhere.

Yeah, this happens to me all the time when I’m doing it. My lane succeeds, but it always seems to fail in another one.

RyuDragnier.9476:

It’s sad too, I remember back when I first started playing in November of the launch year that I could trade 1g for 10 gems. I miss that ratio, it was perfect!

I don’t think we’re ever going to see those prices again.

My best advice is if you’re having trouble with one of the story instance fights, like Hearts & Minds, for instance, to take a friend.

I had a lot of trouble with this instance and had to redo it multiple times.

It definitely will. Just give it some time.

I mean, look at the core game. It used to cost money, now it doesn’t.

HoT will eventually be the same way.

Well, you can still grind out the materials for it. It’ll just feel like it’s taking forever with the higher prices and increased material requirements.

Solid Gold.9310:

Notsoperky.2348:

Keep them the way they are. Just remove the mastery points from them and add the mastery points to some other open world content instead of gated behind this garbage.

Nailed it.

Or they could also add enough Mastery Points to the game so that people that struggle badly with these games or don’t enjoy them could max out their points without having to do Adventures.

Vayne.8563:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

- Modrem Mouth boss event is awesome, but the mechanics of that map is shocking. As if what i’ve already said wasn’t bad enough, to have all the waypoints contested at all times, makes the navigation even more horrible. But wait, there’s more. Every 2 hours (if you’re lucky to get in there at the reset of the map) you’re unceremoniously killed off and sent right back to the beginning of the map. I’ve lost count how often it took me those 2 hours just to get to the bottom of the map and b4 i could get to that HP, or vista i’ve been trying to get for days, only to be killed off and sent back to the beginning. I’ve never seen anything so ludicrous in my life. I eventually got into a habit of just logging out prior to being killed off and when i return, i’m usually in an empty map, at which point i quit the game in frustration.

DS can get really frustrating. I’m trying to get map complete on my 2nd character, but I’ve hit a snag on getting into maps where the event succeeds. It’s annoying if you spend significant time waiting for/checking LFG/map hopping to get into a populated enough map AND one with enough time on the clock to complete it, and then it fails, and you have to start the process all over again.

I’m a bit confused. Why do you need the event to succeed on DS to get map complete?

If you know how to get the vista, 2 POIs, and the HC on the other side of Dragon’s Domain without actually having done the fight, then I’m all ears.

Also, if you know how to get into the Blighting Towers areas so I can get those POIs and HCs without doing any of the events, again, I’m all ears.

I also have 3 other HCs I can’t (any way that I know of) complete unless the meta is done successfully.

Labjax.2465:

You guys say it’s obvious, but it’s unintuitive design to have every profession weapon in the game be something you can equip by default and then throw a new one into the mix that requires you to have a specific specialization equipped to allow you to equip the weapon.

Considering all other weapons can be equipped regardless of traits chosen, I can see where this would be confusing to newer players.

Solid Gold.9310:

It should be possible for all players to experience all of the content, no matter how good or bad they are, that’s why some content, such as raids should have a difficulty level, with reduced rewards.

So everybody who wishes to, can start at a low level and work their way up.

Multiple difficulty levels for the raid would definitely have given the content a wider audience, which is always a good thing in games.

Silvatar.5379:

I have no doubt there are games that manage to avoid bot infestations without the use of DR thanks to 1) its overall design; 2) because there is no rl money to be made from botting; or, 3) its a small game that flies under the radar. But if I sound overly opposed to bots, its because of my own biased experience in my last MMO where massive bot infestations were common with devastating impacts on the economy and the community in general. Glad to hear you had a better experience than I did!!

Yeah, I’ve had some bad experiences, too. Archeage, for instance, was a very bad experience with botting.

However, I don’t personally believe that DR solves everything and in many cases hurts the legit players more than the bots.

Gecko.1962:

I’m shocked by this, and personally outraged. The ArenaNet Team did an amazing job on this expansion.

This is, of course, a matter of opinion. There’s quite a few players who think they did an amazing job with PARTS of the expansion but not necessarily every last thing.

And there’s nothing wrong with these people using the forums to mention things they didn’t think were amazing. Like some of the issues with precursor crafting, scribing, WvW, Fractals, etc.

So many people come to the forums and righteously and stridently post their positive opinions while ridiculing anyone that has concerns. Why is it fair for them to post “everything is amazing and wonderful” posts but it’s wrong for people to talk about concerns with the expansion’s content? They don’t seem to get the inequity of this, but I don’t know why it’s such a difficult concept.

shrugs

simplesimon.2084:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Silvatar.5379:

Boysenberry.1869:

It’s time to completely remove DR from the game.

Not sure what was going on to grief you but if you enjoy playing this game at all, you do not!!! want DR removed unless you prefer playing an MMO where you are the only human player and all the other characters are bots, AND you want the economy to completely crash.

This isn’t true necessarily. I play games that have no bots and no DR.

Can you name this game that has entirely no bots.

Well, if there are any bots, they’re apparently few enough in number that they’re not noticeably annoying and they’re not running the economy. And the game has no DR, so it’s a win-win.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

- Modrem Mouth boss event is awesome, but the mechanics of that map is shocking. As if what i’ve already said wasn’t bad enough, to have all the waypoints contested at all times, makes the navigation even more horrible. But wait, there’s more. Every 2 hours (if you’re lucky to get in there at the reset of the map) you’re unceremoniously killed off and sent right back to the beginning of the map. I’ve lost count how often it took me those 2 hours just to get to the bottom of the map and b4 i could get to that HP, or vista i’ve been trying to get for days, only to be killed off and sent back to the beginning. I’ve never seen anything so ludicrous in my life. I eventually got into a habit of just logging out prior to being killed off and when i return, i’m usually in an empty map, at which point i quit the game in frustration.

DS can get really frustrating. I’m trying to get map complete on my 2nd character, but I’ve hit a snag on getting into maps where the event succeeds. It’s annoying if you spend significant time waiting for/checking LFG/map hopping to get into a populated enough map AND one with enough time on the clock to complete it, and then it fails, and you have to start the process all over again.

I would think it would be preferable to encourage the success of events.

Not the other way around.

So…I don’t know much about esports.

How many millions of people are paying for tickets to watch GW2’s esport?

This is a big thing? ESPN and stations like that televise GW2’s esport?

The music is great.

azizul.8469:

wow.. congrats…. 5000g… gg anet.. gg…

Seems kinda excessive.

But that’s just me.

Vayne.8563:

Celtic Lady.3729:

tluv.5821:

Celtus.8456:

My theory is that most people don’t really enjoy playing the new maps, but they need to do so in order to level the masteries and experience any sense of progression in the game they just paid $50 for.

Your theory is flawed, as most people in my guild enjoy the new maps.

But that’s just one guild.

Two guilds then because most people in my guild, and it’s a casual guild, are enjoying the new maps as well. With one or two notable exceptions we have a guild full of casuals who have fun playing the new maps.

And I promise you we can’t be the only two guilds enjoying it.

Point is, implying that 1 or 2 guilds is representative of the entire game’s population is just as flawed a theory as the one being criticized.

No one’s arguing that only 1 guild likes HoT.

This does seem ridiculous.

Silvatar.5379:

Boysenberry.1869:

It’s time to completely remove DR from the game.

Not sure what was going on to grief you but if you enjoy playing this game at all, you do not!!! want DR removed unless you prefer playing an MMO where you are the only human player and all the other characters are bots, AND you want the economy to completely crash.

This isn’t true necessarily. I play games that have no bots and no DR.

They make money from their currency exchange.

Of course, they control it.

warbignime.4610:

fact proved that there are way more people enjoying HoT than people who are not.

This has never been proven. We don’t have conclusive numbers proving anything either way.

SkyShroud.2865:

As usual, some people suggest scaling but scaling will never happen because it is downright unfair.

It wouldn’t have to be.

tluv.5821:

Celtus.8456:

My theory is that most people don’t really enjoy playing the new maps, but they need to do so in order to level the masteries and experience any sense of progression in the game they just paid $50 for.

Your theory is flawed, as most people in my guild enjoy the new maps.

But that’s just one guild.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Buy the precursor. Zero grind.

You can do this with the old ones but not the new ones.

Dashingsteel.3410:

Well they actually did up the gear grind. Look at the new requirements for ascended crafting. I know it’s not a new tier of armor but the mats to get them got increased.

It was a new tier of armor when it was introduced.

kuritsutian.2987:

GreyWolf.8670:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

TLDR; I want the new end-game stuff NOW and I also don’t wanna work much for them.

Useless and off-topic.

Useless and off-topic… so is this..

And so is this.

Yeah, a feature where we can be inside our story instances and invite someone to join us and help us without completely restarting the instance would be very welcome.

Leamas.5803:

The gem->gold->gem conversion is an artificial fallacy. The gem store is essentially printing new money and I don’t care what anyone says, there is WAY more gold coming in to the economy via the gem store than is going in to the gem store. In game gold is just worth too much for most people to waste it like that. 142g for just 800 gems…OUCH!!!

You really can’t buy much for 800 gems.

I’m beginning to see guild ads in map chat where they say not to reply if you’re F2P.

Of course, they obviously forgot that F2P can’t respond to guild ads in map chat, anyway.

Still. Interesting trend.

Lanaeris.3845:

What economist on the face of the planet would decide NOT to have a sale on Black Friday (the busiest shopping holiday of the year)?

Even Township knows enough to have a Black Friday sale.

Senario.2038:

Mirtis.6847:

ITT: omfg i can’t make gold in the exact same way i could’ve done before. i can’t be doing anything wrong, ever. this game is obviously broken, better post on forums and whine about something that have been a part of gem market EVER SINCE THE FREAKING BETA and call the game p2w.
this is clearly an l2p issue.
btw, made 400g in 2days.

So troll, you said 200 gold then edited it to 400 gold.

The next time he edits it, it’ll be 600 g.