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Loved the fight, going to do it again.
It can be done without food and other buffs for the jump right in kind of people but the rest do help.
Season 2 is a great way to see if ANet ironed out the bugs and will have a rewarding experience in the living story and as others have stated I think the ending months of LS1 was very enjoyable.
The new World bosses have been exciting and could be viewed as your raid content. A lot of stuff is not in game forever but I don’t mind that we get new stuff more frequently then having to kill the Lich king for 2 years over before any new content came out. GW2 would need to add additional gear tiers if there was to be raid content. Speaking for myself but doing the same raid for X amount of months..I stopped the moment my brother and I got our last pieces of gear. The raiding wasn’t being done for fun more out of necessity for progression.
I had a key drop off a mob and last night got a key for completing my daily. Rare, but still there.
… I think Anet is working towards a healing/protection support build to be valid in WvW/PvP. PvE dungeons need a revamp before we can have that conversation.
I see exactly this happening as well. I guess the next balance patch will reduce damage everywhere or increase defenses like toughness. Maybe implement a defense stat against condi damage than simply just curing.
But it has be made sure that it is not ending in 5 bunker against 5 bunker stalemate.
Agreed. It seems they have found what the public views as the extremes of burst/bunker. Now just need to find that middle ground that give you the ability in the middle but also still alone for a bit of customization with runes/traits.
For the requests I agree with the OP. I don’t follow his means of progression but if it keeps a healthy population in Spvp then by all means throw some titles out there for r80 and beyond with mini-achievements on their way.
I don’t think it keeps a healthy population it only keeps to the extreme fringe. If you are currently r80 you are probably part of a very small and subset.
With that said, some people want meaningless ranks others want ladders if Anet wants to cater to both good for them, but for the overrall game ladders is better than rank.
Valid point. I too rather be judged my ladder than rank but if it is possible to make everyone happy (only in discussion of ladders + ranks ) then I think Anet should add it to the list of things to add.
For the requests I agree with the OP. I don’t follow his means of progression but if it keeps a healthy population in Spvp then by all means throw some titles out there for r80 and beyond with mini-achievements on their way.
99% of WvW use conditions. Guardians one of the most played classes in World vs World. Guardian Condi sucks as only burn won’t cut it and they have no cover condition.
Head going to explode!!!11!!1 my body is surpassing the 25 stacks of blood limit.
Remember if they get a clever line in then you really didn’t kill them.
Some ghay thief did damage to me and flipp’ chased me until he killed me. So ghay.
If they say that to their friends in Mumble/Teamspeak then it is an ok death and his ego is not deflated.
Only a few fights so not enough data to support a full conclusion.
My brother and I run roaming in World vs World. D/P thief and a support Guardian. With the changes and him focusing on support we actually got ambused by a thief & warrior and were able to recover due to his buffs and healing. It didn’t erase the opening dmg but I was able to play more aggressively knowing I was getting some outside heals.
Not saying we are amazing roamers or the other two were anything to write home about but as others have stated I think Anet is working towards a healing/protection support build to be valid in WvW/PvP. PvE dungeons need a revamp before we can have that conversation.
go go entitlement. 2000 of playing a game. You play games for fun, seeing you put in 2000 hours and you paid $60 for the game…screw it you threw in $140 in the gem store.
10 cents an hour for entertainment, that is a pretty sweet deal.
Paintball, hookers are a lot more expensive per hour.
Until the legendary becomes a requirement to progress, just enjoy the game.
So a certain necro build struggles against a certain ele build.
…wait I can’t beat everything in the game with one build. This game is horrible. It would be a lot better if I only played people I can stomp in pvp and have a 100% win record.
I get into dungeons, 1-3 a day. I’m not using full zerk(nor have I run into a group that whines about ) I have around 300 gold that gets all my needs minus a precursor but I am slowly getting there seeing I have not been lucky with random loot drops.
I am in an active guild, who alerts me of temple events and other activities in Pve.
We have a set time we run guild missions so I get to participate on those.
If PvE was champ train then I think it was broken and now on the road to recovery.
…and if you want change stop having a fit on the forums, throw some suggestions out on how you believe it can improve. People complain about stuff not getting done, yeah a lot of it won’t be addressed but you have a hell of a better shot if you act like an adult.
Sorry you left but there were additional traits added. The knowledge you had of the old traits is still valuable. A change does not mean start from scratch. If you had a firm grasp of traits and the general of structure of GW2, it wouldn’t take you long to land back on your feet.
As other people have posted, sooner or later a game will go down and you will stop playing. If you feel when you quit that it was time wasted you are doing the right thing to stop now as you were not having fun with it.
We all saw this coming miles away. I loved PvP, but there’s nothing in it for me now. Us PvP’ers chose to discard PvE in the hopes of being special in our own isolated world locked away from the legendaries etc of PvE. We thought it was a good deal because PvE’ers could never bring their stuff into the mists. We were betrayed. Now we have nothing, everyone is dragon and random people are bringing in their stuff from PvE.
I get nothing except a tiny bunch of rank up chests with champ loot bags that I could have farmed in Frostgorge in two hours. All our hard work is down the drain.
Can’t bring myself to play after this betrayal.
Moral of the story: Don’t play an MMO that tries to be “different” (aka no grind) because they just hand out stuff for free and don’t value the hard work that others have put in before.
That is every single MMO “different” or not. Ask the hardcore WoW raiders who stood out and now Blizzard has made it that everyone and their mother can get the skins/run the dungeons with minimal effort.
Video games as a whole have become easier and more rewarding to the masses, it makes the money.
Not saying I agree with it but making it seem like GW2 is the only one doing it is wrong.
Patch got cancelled
Not sure why but I read that in a Forest Gump Seats taken style.
If you are called a noob they are just trying to protect their online ego and don’t count it as a loss due to some imaginary technicality in their head.
Kind of when sport teams lose and all you see * the refs handed them the game, that was a BS call* anything to keep them perfect in their own little world.
All this complaining about looks in an MMO. I think it is time I take my MMO Barbie game from private Alpha to the public.
I guess serah F got the and then answered.
Rabbit Rank
edit: took out finisher so it was not a repeat letter.
Daily. Do about 10 matches of pvp, do both dailies, a little map exploration and than World vs World.
Dungeons when guidlies need extras.
Getting married to your mother.
Wat?
The game of life or a really bad joke…….probably the 2nd.
Getting married to your mother.
Finding high end nodes and either have the crappy gathering tools (levleing an alt) or not checking how many charges are left on my main and get one mine before i got told * i need a pickaxe equipped*
It has been stated. This is just a feature patch and no content would be part of it. They wanted to separate it so when it is time for content it will be strictly content.
Hard to say, I have not used the feature patch. I would say wait until May 15th. Let the patch settle in with the player base.
The megaserver system means you won’t encounter overflow maps anymore.
And how we will make organised raids for Wurms? No overflow means no taxi to same map?
What about World Bosses, Guilds, and WvW?
Later this week, we’ll be discussing how our transition to the megaserver system will affect the timing of world bosses and some changes we’re making to support this. We’ll also be discussing the long-term plan for guilds and WvW in relation to our megaserver system, so check back each day this week for more information!
The joke is on Anet. If they created a more intelligent prank. There would be 50 threads about how they are wasting their time and should be working on permanent features.
April Fools you can’t win no matter what you do.
Really? Intelligent? Then why is Jack kitten movies so funny to people? Or Punked?
Pranks are supposed to dumb and silly and this one is very silly indeed.
Easy there, I had it in bold as a lot of people are getting on their high horses.
The joke is on Anet. If they created a more intelligent prank. There would be 50 threads about how they are wasting their time and should be working on permanent features.
April Fools you can’t win no matter what you do.
I enjoy the “you changed the game for 24 hours I will never play again.”
Must be kitten addicted to this game that being unable to play for 1 day has destroyed your world. Hate to be your electric company during a hurricane.
If it makes you sick, I’m sorry but just take a day off.
I think you will need to wait until the end of April. I have no Anet quote to back this but i thought I heard that the team is entirely focused on the feature patch so following the 15th they can focus their efforts on a pure content patch.
—I don’t like this joke, it is just for kids & immature adults—
This joke is great, it just is not for people who are simple minded. <—look I can do generic attacks too.
Immature adults? lol
Someone is srs.
Sorry I did not add the sarcasm at the end. Was a mockery of people stating they don’t enjoy the april 1st joke and then adding that it is for kids, etc etc as if to justify their displeasure or bring everyone down a peg.
—I don’t like this joke, it is just for kids & immature adults—
This joke is great, it just is not for people who are simple minded. <—look I can do generic attacks too.
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Amazing update, good blog to take into the weekend.
I’m hoping this draws a much better crowd into the Spvp part of the game. I’m glad we were wrong and solid foundations was not a glorified tutorial for people.
I love static discharge builds but with no stunbreaks means you have to play perfectly.
Agreed. I know it is not ideal but it is really fun. Using the rocket belt on a capture point is hilarious if people don’t see it coming.
Wish we could get more details on the mystic forge. The armor repair fee being waved is very minor. Yet to run into individuals who were poor due to repair costs.
Indeed, great update. I have so many ascvended rings between characters. Woot.
Not in the current meta but I have a lot of fun with this build. You are squishy but once you get a good hang of your cool downs you’ll be in good shape.
Wish they lumped it with another day. I know there is a lot more but this is pretty underwhelming by itself.
Actually, it’s pretty major. The Last Logged In feature is something we’ve been literally BEGGING for since release. Hopefully there will be a few more details about the “reducing griefing” issues to come.
Now, if they would only separate “Invite” and “Kick” so we can better edit permissions.
That part is great, i was stating that with some days having two blogs you think one day that only had one would have more substance as if it was a major topic that will cause a large discussion. Great fix but not much to say about it. We wanted it yeaaah, thanks. /end
Wish they lumped it with another day. I know there is a lot more but this is pretty underwhelming by itself.
Constructive feedback is what needed. Negative feedback is just as useless as praising.
This is great – ok why so we can steer the game towards what makes you happy.
This patch blows – Ok, why so we can make changes in the future.
What would be productive is for Anet to make 2 forum topics for the negative and positives of each Devblog. Someone people have great ideas on why it is bad and how it should be improved but most of the time it is drown in really negative posts that post no facts and the people that rally to Anet to beat that one person down.
Can’t trust society as a whole to make their own topics as they all get corrupted even if the OP has the best of intentions.
There is nothing they can do. The people that have the free time during the devblog will always have an advantage over you. If they closed the TP and opened it in..8 hours. There would still be an advantage of people who log on before others do. There is no possible way to have every active GW2 player in existence log in at the same so its fair.
Even then..advantage to the smaller servers who don’t lag out. No matter what would be done…it will be unfair in some way or another.
if they refunded the duplicate Dyes opposed to Unidentified Dyes it wouldn’t be as much of a problem.
There’s far more people who bought cheap dyes to profit from, opposed to people who would have Abyss (for example) refunded.
The reason the likes of Abyss and Celestial etc are among the priciest dyes is because of their rarity and good looks. That isn’t going to change with the update, and so will still remain the priciest dyes on the TP. I can’t imagine they’d have changed too much if they deed indeed refund dyes.If not that, then they could atleast award these new transmutation points (or whatever they are called) for each dye we would be refunded. Obviously getting more points depending on rarity of dye.
I wasn’t debating the reward for duplicate dyes in that post but I would agree that is about all they could do for users who purchases multiples.
I like the idea of sharings my dyes across all my toons I think it’s a good idea. At least we’ll all get something back for having a duplicate.
BUT…..
What no one has mentioned yet we’re all going to be charged to change colours on armour. At the moment I could change as often as I liked and it didn’t cost me anything (not including costs of any bought dye) now there’s going to be a fee every time I want a new look, how dear is this going to end up being. I know I wont be changing my colours as often as I do now.
Proof that it will cost to change colors. Sounds like pure speculation.
There is nothing they can do. The people that have the free time during the devblog will always have an advantage over you. If they closed the TP and opened it in..8 hours. There would still be an advantage of people who log on before others do. There is no possible way to have every active GW2 player in existence log in at the same so its fair.
Even then..advantage to the smaller servers who don’t lag out. No matter what would be done…it will be unfair in some way or another.
I think the majority are happy, but like most things. It is new so you post that hey I like this and then you are said and no. There is nothing to discuss you move on.
People who are not happy want to debate and force change so there will be more posts.
Then you just have idiots who read the first sentence or read a negative topic and without any research of their own take a side and whine and drown legitimate complaints.
I see this as an improvement from the current system so I welcome the change. If I really need to look different and I run out of charges I just throw a few bucks at Anet. Give them a cash flow so they can keep improving the game.
I think it is safe to say most people who play are easily over 60 hours. So at most $1 per entertainment, not the end of the world if a few extra dollars fall their way. (would of spent that cash if they never touched stones and left them as is.)
Now that I get all the dyes from my main. Might be time to retire the vegetable thief and create a human one.
I hope the date your species restriction is getting lifted. I rather date Buzz’s girlfriend (woof!) than the fine ladies of black citadel.
For the people fighting over what game is better. Just copy and paste this line to each other until personal attacks are used or someone uses a clever one liner and blocks the other person before they can reply.
“You are wrong, my opinion of the game is right and you are not allow to view it any other way but mine.”
I’ve survived quite well on the elementalist over open world Pve, dungeons, Living story events.
Dodges, blasting water fields, utilities, blind on 3rd hit of LH. Plenty of tools. A bit more tricky than other classes I played doable.
I rather see a fix to the kill 30/40 critters daily achievement. I don’t sleep anymore all I remember is the face of the rabbit as the dragon’s tooth quickly descended on it.
30 rabbits for one achievement point…..I’ll never get the blood off my hands.