Guild Wars 2

HoD went down the tube when the guilds leaders (not members) decided they beat the game and left their people who still wanted to play high-and-dry. 24/7 coverage is non existent and on some maps we don’t even have more than 20 people on it.

Jade Quarry will suffer the same faith as HoD when their guilds get bored of roflstomping their competition because people are transferring / stacking on JQ now because it’s the only server consistently full.

HoD lost a lot of their top guilds because they packed up and left because they got the “we beat the game” mentality.

Queue’s have been instant all week + weekend when usually it’s an hour++ queue which is a pretty significant drop on players.

The secret is to never put yourself in a position where you can die.

It’s like this in every game with wvw.

It really feels like they put more effort in the PvE leveling content than the actual endgame.

Leveling was more fun.

SWTOR’s Ilum was fun, but the game engine couldn’t handle it. The other problem was people would just leave once their daily was finished so it was a constant seesaw. Take the hill, half your group leaves, its taken back, repeat.

SWTOR’s PvP scheme collapsed because they too long to add Ranked Warzones and then after a week it came down to only two groups playing and then you never get queues.

WvW was supposed to be the pinnacle of open world PvP, but after a month it feels more like an endless grind.

• WvW not having a set time makes your hard work seem pointless. Yes, the night people should have something to do, but they shouldn’t erase the hard work of the people from the day. During the day on my server you have to sit for an hour 1/2 just to get in, but at night it’s instant.

• Entire enemy raids not loading until they’re right on top of you.

• Badges of Honor and Karma bonuses only reward damage dealing. I play a support Guardian (which has crap range anyway) and 80% of the time I’m sitting in the group healing, putting up reflect barriers, or blocking off choke points with walls of lining. I hardly get any badges of honor.

• Siege vehicles not being mobile and putting Catapults behind doors is stupid lame. Catapults completely stop pushes on bases in their tracks and forces the enemy to have to back away and use catapults which puts the defenders at a better advantage.

• Spawn points right up the roads. I mean really. You wipe out the enemy team and they’re back 5 minutes later.

• Once we go to two week maps than the battles are going to be won in the first week and there will be no point to even try if you’re losing after.

• WvW guilds on Henge of Denravi are packing up and leaving because they effectively beat the game.

• Did I say grind? Log on every night, run around and capture some objectives. Go to bed and everything you’ve taken is gone and you rinse and repeat again.

The problem with this game is the fact that there is carrot on the stick.

1. Exotic gear is too easy to get leading to people getting all the items they want in a month.

2. Too much time was spent on leveling content and not the endgame. You have 80 levels and it was much more fun leveling than hitting endgame.

3. WvW resetting every week and not giving your realm rewards for winning.

4. Structured PvP gear being separate from your main character. I mean, really?

5. Structured PvP ranks is the only true grind in this game.

6. Running dungeons gets repetitive. They aren’t challenging and don’t require a huge effort.

So you go from lvling 1 to 80 going through events, doing dungeons, and basically constantly working your gear to keep yourself occupied.

You hit 80, hit the dungeons for a week and get a full exotic set. All you have after that is WvW, more dungeons, or sPvP.

I’m sorry, but this game didn’t live up to what they were claiming. They didn’t WoW clone, but they left the endgame so high and dry. I’ve never played a MMO where you can effectively beat the starting content and be completely geared out in a full month.

Leveling was the best part of this game, but the endgame is sorely lacking. Even the WvW guilds on Henge of Denravi are packing up and leaving now.

Factor in +heal stacking sigil = +250 healing power
Food = +80 healing power
All +healing Exotics = +900 Healing Power
Traits = +300 Healing Power

It’s easy to get over 1,400 healing power. Healing power is a form of vitality because of constant health return. Pick the right runes and you can have near constant up time.

You give up damage, but you become a quasi-tank / healer, one of the best support classes in PvP, and can take a beating that makes other classes keel over.

Sweet, thanks. Def changing up my runes tonight.

I’m at work and I can’t test this.

Does boon duration % increase the amount of healing done from regeneration abilities?

If I get two runes for 30% extra boon duration, will it make my Regen abilities heal 30% more?

The thing I don’t like about Heavy Armor is you can’t customize your “theme” as much as light armor.

It only happens when you use your own Symbol of Swiftness.

If you run over other Guardians Symbol of Swiftness it’ll refresh to 12s, but if you run over your own it always goes 4s.

Never liked it. Half the time I end up teleporting to myself.

My PvE build is different from my WvW one.

PvE: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#cVccMV9cmvLRomClbo0aGxaMVRcabo8kii7kiU70z7070z7kIM70V7ofF70m

Main abilities Hold The Line, Purging Flames, and Signet of Judgement. 20% off Signet cooldowns is good for shorter cooldown self-heal. Signet of Judgement is passive 10% reduction with short cooldown aoe debuff/reflection. Purging flames to cleanse debuffs. My build is a cross between a Tank and a Support Healer.

WvW: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#cVccMV9cmClbomClbo9MGxGVRcaboc8kii7kiU70z7070z7kIM70V7ofF70m

This is entirely support build. Always upfront using consecration skills. Sanctuary + line of warding for area denial. Swap out Purging Flames with Hallowed ground depending on what you’re doing. Constantly switching between staff + mace to heal group. You aren’t going to get a lot medals, but you contribute.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#cVccMV9cmClbomClbo9MGxGVRcaboc8kii7kiU70z7070z7kIM70V7ofF70m

I’m playing around with this support build right now and I like it.

You honestly should be immune to further knockbacks until your character has stood back up after a knockback.

Dogs: Stand in the waterfall. Have a Guardian or another class do AOE stability.
Husk: Basically use Stability, kill them quick.

The lack of a DR system is my main complaint.

3 people jump on you chain knock downs, dazes, and stuns and you’ll drop 100% to 0% without having any opportunity to fight back. SWTOR had CC spam, but this game is ten times worse in that department.

It’s like that in PvE as well with getting chain knock backed without a chance to do anything but pray.

Also, having completely separate gear ruins it for me. I worked hard to get my “look” in the “PvE” world and I can walk into WvW with the same equipment.

I’m using Toughness/Healing/Power armor ATM and Vitality/Precision/Healing Jewels.

I use DPS Mace + Heal Shield and Heal Staff.

Listen, play WvW and use wall of lining on choke holds and see if the entire enemy team rolls over it. I even use it to block the enemies retreat and you’ll watch them bunch up and bounce into it helplessly.

In WvW in my guild me + 3 other guardains Guardians + 10 defenders managed to hold off 40 attackers on a Keep for over 50 minutes by constantly dropping barriers and sanctuaries at the entrance.

The reason it got “nerfed” was because the tooltip said 5, but it really lasted 8, but considering how game changing it is in WvW I don’t even care. Take 4-5 coordinated Guardian’s and you aren’t getting through.

As Gandalf said; " YOU SHALL NOT PASS ! "

In WvW multiple Guardian’s can basically prevent an entire enemy raid from crossing choke points by rotating Walls and Sanctuaries. It’s incredibly powerful and this patch doesn’t change that.

Thanks Robert. I like your approach to giving patch notes updates. You sound more like a player than a developer.

Can you comment on the difficult on defending Magg’s? Basically every group I’ve been in that has done it legitimately just runs around until the timer runs out and we usually die 2-3 times.

The problem IMHO with CoE exploreable mode is you first try doing it at 35 and it gives you a bad impression on the games dungeons.

In regards to SWTOR if you got hit by two consecutive stuns than you would become DR’d for about 20 seconds where you couldn’t be hit again.

In this game there is NO DR SYSTEM so in PvP/PvE you can be completely locked out from doing anything from full HP to 0%. There are still counters to it like Stability, but once you’re out it’s a FFA. Also some builds can literally spam snares on you.

Honestly because of the lack of a DR system I find this games PvP a lot less fun than SWTOR.

Gordunk.7289:

That video shows that lol. A not entirely geared or hardcore group, but one who was organized and played very well, did the event using MOSTLY a kill strategy except for the very last bit.

This is what the developers have been talking about. Explorable modes are HARD. You need to be organized. You need to communicate. You can’t be going in in crappy leveling blues/greens that aren’t even level 80. Sometimes, you might need to switch a few skills around for a given fight(as was shown in the video).

We have not had access to the dungeons for long enough to know every trick, every strategy, etc. What you need is more time to study and come up with effective strategies, rather than giving up right away and complaining about it.

Really it comes down to VOIP, but who wants to voice chat with pugs?

I hit 80 and farmed my butt off and didn’t even go into a dungeon without 6 piece exotic armor set.

Crystal respawn rate normalized.

Path 3 is by far the most annoying path to choose because of the torch part. Once you get past that and the rolling balls (easy once you figure it out) it’s easier than Magg’s.

Those Imp’s are really what hold you back. They constantly evade, are ranged, and hit hard.

There’s no real feasible to do this encounter “by its design.”

You basically just have to run around as long as you can and hope somebody runs back by the time the last person is dead.

I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it, but CC spam is also out of control since there’s no DR system. Too many times I’ve been 100% → 0% by a magnitude of knock backs, dazes, and stuns and if you don’t have stability there’s nothing you can do about it. Hell, on my Guardian I can put somebody against a wall and drop Sanctuary and make it so they can’t do anything for 8 seconds straight.

SWTOR had knock back spam, but this game is worse.

You must of never played Vanilla WoW’s PvP system. Also, that rogue is wearing top tier PvE gear and owning noobs. Real skill.

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Ragnar Dragonfyre.1806:

Vzur.7123:

DAOC was the only MMO that really had a good endgame, IMHO. I don’t feel like typing up a lengthy elaboration, but I think anyone who played it knows what I mean… WoW and its gear-grinding clones don’t even come close.

I played it at launch.

It had one of the worst grinds to cap I’ve experienced in any MMO ever and I’ve been playing them for 15 years now. I made it to around level 40ish before I burnt out entirely. Considering how much of a grind it was just to get to cap, I can’t imagine what sort of a grind would have been awaiting me at cap.

Nostalgia is a powerful force.

Did you play other MMOs before it, like EQ or AC? I think that sort of levelgrind was just the norm back then.

I support this.

All the MMOs I played before WoW (ragnarok online, priston tale, lineage2, etc.) were all Korean style grind fests. It was just the norm back then like a quest system is the norm today for modern MMOs.

Ragnar Dragonfyre.1806:

I challenge anyone who’s hit 80, has gotten full exotics and now has “nothing left to do” to stop looking up guides online for MMO’s they play in the future. The content will last a lot longer when you’re not explicitly informed of every single step you need to take beforehand.

I honestly did not know that exotics all had the same stats.

I was stuck in the old WoW mentality where you need a starter set before you can hop into the big boy content.

The perfect end game is where you literally can’t win.

In most MMO’s getting the “best” of everything or all the achievements is like beating the game basically until the next set of content comes out.

Imagine if there was so many tiers of gear that it was impossible to get the best gear before the next one is out.

Listen, gear is easy to get.

I hit 80, went around and farmed + bought all the stuff off the AH and I crafted the full 6 piece exotic Heavy armor set, plopped it full of runes, and bought green/yellow jewels+weapons+etc. and still had some cash left over in a WEEKEND.

The only reason I’m even doing dungeons is because I want to get Exotic weapons (which I already got the mace and just need a staff + shield) and then dump out more doe + farm some more and get a full jewel set.

There’s no carrot on the stick. WoW and SWTOR knew how to drag out content long enough to keep you going for two-three months until the next set came out.

Structured PvP isn’t even as fun as SWTOR IMHO. There’s no DR system so PvP usually ends up with you being chain stunned + dazed + thrown around from 100% to 0%.

WvW is really this games saving grace, but I wish they would limit it to a specific time period.

There’s no “carrot on a stick” in this game.

Exotics are too easy to get. I hit 80 and I crafted a full 6 armor piece set within a weekend and bought green/yellow grade jewels.

sPvP having separate gear makes your gear on your main character irrelevant. Also, it takes 400++ hours of grinding to get the higher ranks.

WvW runs 24/7 which makes individual contribution seem pointless.

I had more fun while leveling. The events were fun. The story was good. There was a carrot on the stick to always level and get the next best gear.

So once I get the “look” I want and exotic jewels + weapons, what else is there to do?

I don’t see them banning anyone for this, but hopefully it’ll be a wake-up call for them to adjust the amount of time it takes to finish the other dungeons.

GW2 has a VERY VERY VERY respectable launch amount of content, as well as the bugs being minor (with the exception of skill point bugs in the recent days, and the dungeon party bugs a few weeks ago).

Compare this with (I don’t want to do this) WoW, and it’s already going better than the most played and best known MMO ever.

GW2 had an ample opportunity to learn from the mistakes of other MMOs that were launched during its development cycle. Notice how the game came out with character transfer right off the bat while SWTOR servers became ghost lands and lost tons of subscribers because of it. They had a golden opportunity that not many games have gotten before.

IMHO, they added too much leveling content. 80 levels off the bat really dragged out the leveling process and then once you hit the end there is literally no endgame. I mean, once everyone has their full exotic sets you’re going to see a bleed off.

The no subscription is really its saving grace which allows them to get away with a non-traditional endgame.

You guys have to realize this game is designed for casuals.

Dungeons don’t emphasis group composition where you NEED specific classes/specs. Yeah, certain traits or abilities make it a hell of a lot easier, but it’s not needed in most of the dungeons.

There’s also so many dungeons available that people will naturally gravitate to the one that gives them the most bang for the buck in the least amount of time. I mean, why spend 1 1/2 hours in 1 dungeon when you can do one in 20-30 minutes?

Since exotics are the end-game gear, they can’t add a “nightmare” mode.

I mean, in Aion Online when the game came out you could literally skip 99% of the trash in every instance and run to the last boss. SWTOR’s dungeons difficulty was based on stupid enrage timers.

CM Story was a faceroll easy dungeon when I did it at 40.

I don’t understand why the dungeons don’t have any complex mechanics. Most of them are just generic tank and spank, remove conditions, or avoiding the move that one shots you.

The giant eye at the end of your class quest is the most complex boss I’ve seen ingame and it’s not even in a dungeon. Zhaitan, the Primordial dragon God, just sits on a pillar as you mash the 2 button until your fingers go numb.

I hosted a Lineage 2 private server (L2J with mix of C# and Java) for 3 months and the #1 thing you have to realize is that your players will always try and actively cheat and exploit every possible opportunity. You may forget to change one setting that allows people to do stupid amounts of damage or get too much money and people will milk it as long as possible and never tell you.

I play a support "heal / tanky " Guardian and I don’t think we’re overpowered. We can put out a lot of healing and have a lot of defensive cooldowns to outlast most people 1v1, but in mass PvP I always flop over against coordinated CC’s back to back.

Guardians have the lowest HP (I only have 13.5k hp in PvP gear) which means they’re more susceptible to burst damage and CC’s if they aren’t able to use their defensive cooldowns.

If Guardians had like 18k hp with their defensiveness than hell yeah they would be overpowered!

I always end up finding myself the person defending points, but then I don’t get anything from it.

It’s always the people running around farming kills that get double my points. IMHO, you should get 5 or 10 points every 15s for defending a point or something.

Basically if I’m not being CC spammed I can make people really have to work to kill me.

Tome of Courage is very powerful for PvP/PvE. It can easily turn the tide of battle around.

You have to look at the whole package.

Yes, we have less hp, but we have more defensive / heal abilities than other classes.

I’m full support “heal” — “tankish” build and the amount of healing I can put is incredible. I plop my hammer symbol on the ground and I easily heal myself for almost 600-800 health a second.

I mean, look at Save Yourself. :P Every boon with 12s duration.

I honestly can see why Trahearne would be so annoying for the other races because he isn’t built up at all for them.

On the Sylvari side you meet him in the first Chapter and he is more of the guy on the side who helps you out and provides advice. He is a scholar and has great knowledge of Orr, but eventually gains the courage to become a general. You get a personal connection to him early on.

So early on part of the story line options as a Sylvari is you go through an ancient mirror that takes you to Orr where you have to rescue Tegwen with the help of Carys. I actually liked this story because Carys was the bumbling stupid blonde that you couldn’t help but smile at.

Fast forward to lvl 70 and you actually run into them again, but magically they don’t even know who you are and they actually sit there and tell their story about how they want to Orr. Well, DUH.

Seems like a big hole in the story and it really killed it for me.