Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

Dante.1508:

Open world PvE and Story mode..

Sadly both are no where near what they were at release.

You’re right about that, they’re both better, particularly the story. In case you missed all the people who complained about Trahearne or the battle with Zhaitan (pretty sure you didn’t), you’ll actually find there were plenty of complaint about the original story.

As for the open world, that’s strictly a matter of opinions, but I find the HoT zones far superior to many of the earlier zones. The base game was just too easy.

And since, by your own admission you have terrible skill lag that makes the game almost unplayable for you, not really sure how qualified you are to make the assessment. I’m pretty sure I’d hate hot with 3-4 second skill lag.

Zaitan changed how? its still a team based forced thing last i looked, Open world loot is still horrible (while better not by much), Story mode had all loots removed for some ungodly reason so now its a lot more boring.

I’m 100% opposite to you Tyria maps are far more fun than that hot garbage.

What is a heroes choice chest? Jesus they must be epic rare i’ve never even seen one.

Its on discount at Eb games here in Aus, i believe they are having trouble selling them.

Better question in my mind is why are people so obsessed with raiding..

Mine still has my 80 boost in it…. i have no use for it, but cannot remove it…

Sartharina.3542:

Dante.1508:

Sexy Ranger gear, sick to death of trench coats and ugly gear.

And it needs to be sexy on Charr as well!

How on earth do you have sexy charrs… menacing, scary, and formidable sure but sexy… nope…

I’ve done the tyria story now 14 times.. If they added more classes obviously i’d do it more.

I like following the story chains and seeing bits i’ve missed etc, sadly the loot drops have been removed so now its a lot less fun, so i mostly just wander the open world pve and do map completions..

Sadly the Hot story line i’ve had to shelve as its far too hard to do solo, the maps are a nightmare for me to solo and well i doubt i’ll buy anymore xpacs if this is the direction GW2 is heading.

I dislike all the team/grouped content as it requires far too much timing and hardcore playing i’m not good at, i also don’t find any of it fun at all.

I hate PvP of all types in every game.

Open world PvE and Story mode..

Sadly both are no where near what they were at release.

What the hell is an Adventure anyway?

Try waiting weeks to make celestial gears…. love that one charged crystal a day for absolutely no reason what so ever but to pad out the time to make it..

You know because i feel so rewarded when i make one piece after waiting a week…..

Nope i don’t..

Wait until the next expac and get all of the content, and imo no the hot expansion is not worth it, they focus far too much on grind and the hardcore insane community..

The game is so obsessed with its trading post and cash shop, everything is about grind to stock said trading post, the rest of the content has fallen to the wayside..

They need to focus on actual content and items everyone has access too or yes the game will be even more dead in 3 years time..

Why on earth would i buy anymore expacs after hot if all they add is even more daily grind..

Ascended started this stupidity and its just spiraled out of control since then.. I have a wallet in game full of useless items i’m suppose to farm after daily already.. why would i pay for more..

Time gates are a lazy and artificial way to extend content life. why would i buy more?

Sird.4536:

DoctorDing.5890:

Or they could change the mechanic to be more obvious and intuitive…

The blue bar is pretty obvious.

Yes because a non script blue bar underneath, telling us nothing is so informative…

I use my skills in boss fights, if the blue bar goes down awesome, if it doesn’t go down awesome… I really cannot be asked to google stuff just to play this game…

If they can’t be asked explaining how something works in their game i can’t be asked to work it out..

If the boss doesn’t go down oh well tough luck there is next time, i missed out on more trash greens and blue weapons, tough on me.

Mousing over bars is almost impossible as a million players and effects all smash into it, while im so busy dodging to survive the insanity..

All of the above is pointless as i crash to the desktop in every large boss battle anyway..

No.

Exclusive items breed a two tier community, which is bad all round for the game.

Guardian is more fun, Rev skills hardly work.

Mace as well… Two skills hardly ever hit anything..

Ok thanks guys and gals, Sorry for my late replies as being Aussie my time zones a bit off.

I get that too, in Charr caves areas.. One of the guild rush areas in Charr map is like that.

Also an area in hrathi highlands

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Dante.1508:

Man that last expac was horrible and i…….. oooOOooh Glowing hands…

“Official quote of Guildwars 2 Community”

Yeah, it’s so odd that people would find things to enjoy in a game even when other things might ruffle their feathers. Weird. o.O

On a completely unrelated note, did y’all know that grudges are the second-leading cause of early onset baldness in gamers?… just under Hot Pockets. /themoreyouknow

~EW

Poor Braham…. why aren’t Dwarves all bald?

I actually think he looks way better bald lol, that hair cut was just bad..

And i really liked Taimi’s reaction to him being bald lol

Doflamingo.6957:

I think either Kralkatorrik or Jormag, the other 2 should be kept for later

The “Grind Dragon” as per usual. The “trading post” will be the evil side kick.

Man that last expac was horrible and i…….. oooOOooh Glowing hands…

“Official quote of Guildwars 2 Community”

If it has more salad story line i’ll give it a miss honestly..

And to be honest the lack of open world pve content, how much grind/padding has been added to the game and how the content was gated behind masteries, also how hard the game has become is a negative factors in my purchasing as well.

Nike.2631:

Oh for pity’s sake! It’s not a PROMISE, its a policy. One that’s changing, thank the Six.

Seriously, not every word you ever hear in your life is a “promise”. And if you can’t distinguish promises from every other form of communication I pity the people around you.

Honestly if a company says something they should stick to it, and not say something then change on a whim, it makes the company look poor…

Honestly it makes them look like one side doesn’t know what the other side is doing..

Ashen.2907:

I thought they said armor sets, not armor pieces. Could be wrong though.

So if they added six armor pieces all separately.. thats ok?

Please no more Salad

I swear to God any expansion that focusses on the Asura will be an expansion I shall avoid like the plague! It’s bad enough that Taimi exists in all her stunted patheticness, but if I have to put up with more of the wee rainbow munching potogold seeking bar stewards I will lose my kitten. The Asuran race needs to be collectively rammed into the SAB where they can be enjoyed as punching bags in place of that poor shop keeper’s cart.

Taimi is awesome and the best NPC guildwars 2 has ever created since release, if it wasn’t for seeing her in Hot expac i wouldn’t have even bothered purchasing Living Story 2..

What the hell is wrong with you to dislike such an awesome npc :o

Vayne.8563:

Every time the company says something, anything at all, it becomes a “promise”. A promise isn’t a statement. Every time someone says that Anet broke a promise (and in this case they didn’t), they get less and less incentive to tell us anything.

Because this fan base takes statements as promises. Things change all the time. That’s the nature of MMOs.

How come when they told us they couldn’t bring gliding to core Tyria and they did, no one called them on breaking a promise?

The problem is, even in this case where the information is wrong, it still sits on the first page with a title that accuses.

Why say it at all then.. and these “changes” seem to be a running trend lately, its very poor no matter which way you look at it.

Because they are new, when a new class appears in the next expac they will be overpowered and revs will get nerfed, its how game companies work to attract purchases..

Personally though Rev to me is a horrible class op or not.

Definitely Instant 80 Revenant, they are so broken skills wise and lackluster to level.. Honestly i’m contemplating deleting my Revenant and shes 80..

Nuggi.7861:

The 500 gold hedge as seen on the picture here. Never enjoyed anything so much in my life. Was worth all the effort. Tiny, but green at least.

Now you can make 25 of them for the same price.

Why on earth would you make a 500g hedge?

Nope used to enjoy crafting very much then Ascended dropped and i barely touch it now, occasional piece of exotic.

Ascended ruined crafting for me.

Its why i enjoyed Guildwars 1 Armor, it was sexy in a simple way and still looked stylish, this new stuff in GW2 is just over done and seems very aimed at an asian / anime type customer base..

Sadly that type doesn’t appeal to me at all, so i don’t buy anything or even bother with it.

And primarily being an Asura player everything tends to look terrible on them anyway… They don’t even give Asuras a female version of clothing anyway its saddening..

battledrone.8315:

roamzero.9486:

Anet fudged big time with raids. Living Story and the raid content should have been basically the same, with some story culminating with a 5-man easy version of a raid wing so casual players could familiarize themselves with the mechanics. After getting their feet wet players could then ease into the 10-man harder version.

please, dont
this is how DCUO does it, and it feels very cheap

That’s funny i played two days in DCUO then left, it was horrible.

Ardid.7203:

You also get 3 tiger kitties useable as backpacks and a special instanced place only for you.

Ok obviously that will make me run out and spend 2k in gold instantly… not.

Ardid.7203:

Quality doesn’t always go hand in hand with money. In fact, the hardest problem for any company that values quality is to overcome the urge to gain more by sacrificing such quality compromise.

So, yes, from a mere commercial point of view, popularuty is always more important. But there are other povs that matter. I personally highly value every time Anet chooses quality over cheaply pleasing the dumb masses (yes, masses ARE dumb, it has been measured). I also despise when they do choose the easy way.

I think what I’m trying to say is: If you want Anet to simply comply with wathever the masses ask, then you should go play wow, or any korean MMO. Those gemes seem much more popularity focused to me, and their quality speaks of that too.

Luckily you are a minority.

Shinzan.2908:

The increased event rewards are great, actually makes stuff worth doing. Rather than nerf this back to pre-patch levels they just need to buff the final meta rewards as well.

What exact rewards are you talking about, because i’ve done a couple of the events and crashed 99% of the time..

I actually got one reward and it was a load of trash loot..

With their future plans i just cannot justify buying anymore expacs, its better to just wait a few years then buy all in one hit.

redcomyn.4651:

Shylock.4653:

You should try this
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_DPS/Support
build.

redcomyn.4651:

The people who are saying that you can do core Tyria just by pressing ‘1’, are flat out lying.

The auto attack chain of the hammer is your max dps and gives you perma protection. So yes, you basically just press 1. ;-)

So you found one build on one class that approaches just pressing 1. That isn’t much of an argument. I did use a hammer guardian for a while, but I have moved to more interesting builds. I am not interested in optimizing damage from a character. Instead, I use the weapons that are fun, then make it work for me. As long as I win most fights, I am happy.

I may have been too harsh in the original post, but it peeves me that there are some people (trying to be nice here) who over exaggerate how easy open world pve is. When these people do that over exaggerating, I automatically discount their entire argument. They have shown that they extremely biased and have no desire for a reasonable discussion.

Well said totally agree, lets see a press 1 Thief, Ele and Mesmer build..

ProtoGunner.4953:

I don’t understand, even with a squishy zerker ele HOT is mostly faceroll. You have tons of active defense, and your dodges. Yes, you will die from time to time, but not if you pay attention. All who claim it’s unplayable solo just don’t pay attention enough.

Different players have different levels of ability, different ping times, different builds etc..

My whole game i’m fighting a 220 ping time being Aussie, it can take 2 to 3 secs for skill to pop after i press it, every skill..

Everything seems horrible delayed in this new 64bit GW2 as well for me.. If it didn’t take me 12 hours to download the game each time i switch exe files i’d go back to 32 bit in a heart beat.

This is kittening funny, solod all the HoT maps to get my elite specs with both my base guardian and BASE revenant before they nerfed things to make them easier, 2-4 days after HoT release.
What the kitten people? Same people that struggle with low level fractals?

Yes i gave up Fractals and i’m lv 7, they are far too hard for me, if that is something for people to laugh at laugh away, i personally just drag the team down, and they are constantly ressing me..

I purchased the Living Story 2, and while the story is amazingly more interesting than the first i’m dying constantly in the battles solo, its not fun for me and well i have no idea if its my 230ish ping time or what but since returning to GW2 the bar is so high i’m losing interest fast with how hard this game has become..

Marthkus.4615:

Dante.1508:

What if i don’t want your cookie cutter build? No offense but i’d like to play my own build viably?

You get to do 5%-20% of the dps of an optimal build. Even what I suggest is only half as effective as optimal builds in terms of DPS.

If you do a mix stat build, you will get at most 20% dps, but more likely 5%. That means one optimal person is worth 20 of you. Meta achievements would be completed faster if 10 of you were constantly reviving someone playing an optimal build poorly. Because those optimal builds just do stupid amounts more damage than you’ll ever do.

It’s not that damage is the only thing that matters, it’s that none damage decisions axe your DPS by punishing amounts to the point that no trade offs are really worth it. Stat build variety is what kind of glass build you want. Build diversity is picking between traits. A tank is just a full berzerker with tanky traits.

Ok thanks for the info, and thank you for the build advice earlier.

Hi all trying to get my ele through hot but failing miserably can anyone point me to a viable ele build in Hot..

I only have Exotic gears and cannot get Ascended anytime soon..

I’m currently running Dual Dagger which seems the most dps but range is horrible.. Staff is meh damage and so slow, I have pretty much Zerker gears but would be willing to craft other gears if needed, can’t make Ascended sadly not 500 in crafting and don’t have hardly any Ascended materials to craft with..

Thanks in advance

Luckily it seems i am excluded, yay.

God i hope not or under water would need a complete over haul.

I paid $57 on sale at EB Games.. In my opinion its not worth $57 as it has very little story and open world pve content..

Here in Aus it was 89.95 new which after seeing what i got its a little ridiculous in price.

I didn’t even get a character slot which was disgusting with my price i paid.

I like how this game has pigeon holed every class into one or two builds and if you don’t take those builds you die…. a lot.

How is that fun at all and isn’t that pretty bad mechanics when half the games systems have been considered obsolete and not usable anymore.

My condition twin pistols Engie dies hideous in hot, my Shortbow Ranger was so useless i had to resort to Longbow which i hate…

My twin dagger ele will die in seconds, as will my warrior and guardian, because those builds i use aren’t ace of spades in the so called meta..

So for me my builds suck i just don’t play said characters anymore, its sad imo..

nottsgman.8206:

Murderin.8269:

nottsgman.8206:

what profession are you playing with?

I have a level 80 Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Necromancer. And Revenant, which I have the least issues surviving on. But it is a very boring playstyle. They are all in full zerker gear, except the Necro which isn’t really geared yet.

Its mostly Silverwaste/HoT stuff that I have survivability issues on.

My 80 war is super tanky in full zerk gear. Go Strength defense and berserker. Use healing signet, rage stomp, outrage, and head butt. Grab rousing resilience, the trait that make zerk mode a stun break, and the trait that gives might and stab for stun breaking.

Start a fight with head butt and outrage to have 3k armor, 19k health, and 800 health regent per second.

You do lose a lot of damage picking these traits but you should still burst down most mobs.

What if i don’t want your cookie cutter build? No offense but i’d like to play my own build viably?

Just change your traits around a bit and get some ascended soldiers trinkets (advantage of ascended is you can just have 1 set and move it around your toons as required).
You still won’t survive if you charge into every fight, but it’ll give you the chance to learn each mob’s attacks and tells. Then when you’re more comfortable, you can swap those trinkets/traits for more glassy ones.

I have no way of getting Ascended gear, i cannot do Fractals, i have very little ascended mats, the grind is insane and my laurels are sitting on 20…

That is weird because the jump puzzles i’ve done seems to stop my glider from working at all, it just seems to be disabled.

The whole levels thing in fractals has made it very hard to get into, partially why i never bother, who wants to add a lvl 7 to their fractal team..

All i do is die over and over bring their teams down and have no agony resist because i can’t get it or afford it..

So Fractals for me is like Raiding, something to ignore.

Prefer Kodan, Tengu, Centaurs, Krait, Harpies tbh over Quaggans or Golems.

Kormeg.2469:

GW2 has always been the easiest MMO I have ever played. Hey, instead of demanding the entire game shift to suit you, why don’t you guys try adapting or improving?

Lol, that’s not not gonna happen. Nvm

Runes of Magic is far easier than this game, RF Online, Anarchy Online, The Secret World while hard in places the stories were easy solo..

Anything that doesn’t include Sylvari yet again, its like that’s all there is in GW2, i honestly detest the race now after all the stories..

I can’t be the only customer who hates sylvari at this point, can i?