Guild Wars 2

I hope its not insanely twitch based being from Australia i never as to yet got the Sunset cove JP ever done, because of lag issues and ping times, i had to get a friendly mes help me out in the end it was just too impossible with lag symptoms..

Thank you Anet more info is definitely appreciated, this new way is most welcomed..

Would the Coal come in Black lion Chests are do we just buy it out right from the cash shop?

If they make Ascended gear easy to get like Exotic gear then i’m cool with it, if they continue to make it a boring insane grind like it currently is, i’ll probably be gone sooner than later..

I came here to play a casual game, not be ground into the boredom, by terrible mechanics and money sinks…..

I agree pretty much, all the Dungeon Armors look bad too me (i use them to transmute stats only) some crafted armor is nice (very little) and some random armors are ok.

But mostly 99% of the Armors are not attractive at all, GW1 armors were the way i liked them.
But compared to weapons haha armor has a lot more choices, very few weapons are nice to me.

That feeling when you buy an Awesome Exotic in the Trading Post for 1g

+1 here totally agree 99% of my game play stops at fort trinity, the orr maps are just insanely painful to play, i cannot be in groups 24/7 so i stay clear of orr completely its just annoying and not fun.

My little Pony bow, yeah that’s totally serious…The reason i never bothered with Legendaries are they are a joke on the owner and of course the pain to actually get them..

I even laugh and Dusk/Twilight users they are one ugly FF7 cloud sword..

Its a great mechanic, but certain classes are unbalanced and bias, all classes should have an equal downed state.

Kholer can solo my Ranger, i think he needs a nerf

It fractures the player base and makes casual players quit. which in turn does nothing healthy for the game.

Tsaimath.4302:

little hint:
You don’t need to forge the infusions you can simply buy them in the FotM-Lobby for 75 (defensive) or 225 (defensive or offensive) FotM-Tokens.
And the Back-Slot Item can be bought for 1850 FotM-Tokens and 24 Skill-Points
There would be your Twilight

And on a side note: As someone who farmed the 250 Powerfull Blood, there are better spots than the Trolls to farm it. You just need to look around

Not to be negative, but if these Ascended gears are so “needed” why didn’t the company add them to the whole game and make them easy to get, like exotics, i’ll wait and if they are as needed as Anet says i’ll get them either easily (in the future) or i’ll move on to another game that doesn’t have such things.

I really dont get all this Legendary goal stuff, i play to play the game, do i really need some ugly sword to make me look above everyone else…..no, which then save me years? of heartache and grinding drudgery…

Same for Ascended gear seriously all these people standing in Lions arch think the look awesome with those ugly glowing back pieces, no not to me, looks like odd silicon deformations attached to their backs..

Its great to have goals but when it effects you emotionally and causes you real life money issues its time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, do i need this to continue the game or am i in the Drone mentality to look cool..

P.s. I do agree this game has way too much grinding to call itself a “casual non-grinding game though”

I like it, i loved it a lot more before the last event, but that’s just me.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

The problem we are seeing a lot of that is causing this, is that people are skipping mobs and rushing through things, and it breaks their scripts when the players activate something while the NPC is stuck in combat.
We try to find and fix scripts in those areas to decrease the chance of it happening though, so details about where and how the NPC broke, and what your group was doing (don’t fret about admitting to rushing or exploiting something) will help us in identifying and fixing the problem.

Better rewards for the content and you’d see less skipping being done.

That said we actually had Path three Bug on us at the lovers / Asura Tzark area that turns us to ghosts, he died and the event kicked in, nothing we did fixed this, we had to reset the dungeon and waste an hours progress.

Less hassle, seriously running through half a dungeon to get back to a boss so it doesn’t reset is just frustrating, the main reason i gave up CoE..

All classes equal in dungeons and have an actual use to be there.

These insane insta kill mechanics that are just plain annoying (cof fire rocks, CoE laser fence) that mesmers can totally circumvent just sucks…

Trash mobs harder than boss mobs, seriously…

Lack of Rewards to suit the risk, 2-5 hours in a dungeon for blue and green junk out of a chest (why bother) no wonder so many exploit and dodge half the content in them, even 60 tokens aren’t worth that hassle in the end.

Zero rewards in Story dungeons = waste of time bothering.

Now do it at proper level 35 with level 35 equips and i’ll be impressed.

Tulisin.6945:

Nuka Cola.8520:

what i don’t understand is WHY would any1 spend 20g+, 50 skill points to get an additional +5 to a certain stat!? This is the stupidest (if that’s even a word lol) upgrade the whole game has… +5 to a stat LOLOLOLOLOL

Because that is how high-end stat progression works in MMOs.

See: Raiding highest tier content for a tiny stat upgrade.
See: EVE officer modules worth literally thousands of times more than slightly worse stuff.
See: TSW dungeon running dozens of times for a percentage point or two upgrade.

There can only be one “the best thing to put in this slot” for any given situation, and given that there are people running around with thousands of gold and nothing to spend it on, there’s basically no reasonable limit on what people will shell out to max out.

Same goes for “toy” type items that are limited quantity. They might not be worth anything to you, but to someone with maxed-out stats, hundreds of times the wealth you have, and nothing else to spend it on, things literally become priceless.

Can i just point out, that is the reason i never touch those types of games you wrote down, and the reason i played GW1 as everyone was on an even footing, if i wanted that type of game play i’d have played those games..

This whole implementation to Guildwars 2 has had a terrible and damaging direction added, we need these types of additions stopped and repaired asap.

God that was refreshing to read, thanks. Cant wait till 14th

I agree with all

Chasing a massive zerg all around a map killing an odd enemy in WvW is not fun, but they have a WvW patch incoming so we will see.

PvP isnt fun for me so i’ll defer that too others

PvE yeah the world is Large and i agree, maps are dead, major reasons are Dungeons, mostly the broken FotM has killed a lot of PvE.. That said my major Criticisms are BUGS, and broken content hinder PvE as much as limited populations, on top of that the Class imbalances (certain classes cannot solo as well as others Ele, thief etc) these imbalances also hinder the PvE a lot.

And finally on PvE the loot restrictions, nothing good drops in PvE, really nothing, even rares are boring now and they are insanely limited, up the drop rates on everything (including t6 mats and worthy drops from Champs, Vets etc) and you’ll see PvE come alive

xiv.7136:

Found this on a website, guess it answers your question

Not to say the game is dying or not but you know the server limits can be manipulated right, the company can fluctuate how many people can make a server full.

Trust you’ll know when a server really is full, day 1 Karka event and the insane lag, pretty sure the server was full.

Putting on the Diving Goggles at the Grove and jumping to my death as i hit the water (i kid you not)

Azurymber.5193:

Oh personally I’m fine with mesmers using portal. I actually think it’s pretty cool. It’s just that it would make a lot more sense to give each job something special or useful in each situation. Most other games have this build in as they don’t have dynamic classes. FFXI did an -amazing- job at this, where each job had really unique abilities that set them apart.

But here I feel like some jobs are -extra- good at certain things, whereas others are just terrible. For example I feel kinda imbalanced in PVE as an elementalist, as other jobs can do a lot more dmg than i can, even if i max my power and never miss, while taking considerably more hits than me.

I don’t believe in nerfs or making one job better than the other. I believe in balancing jobs out so they all feel special to play and all have some sort of competitive advantage in some sort of situation. As opposed to having 2 or 3 really good jobs and a lot of meh jobs.

This comment here is how i feel too, certain classes have a role in GW2, other classes seem to have zero direction, its very strange.

You brought up GW1 and yes there are similarities to it and GW2 but in GW2 the classes unbalanced behavior seems to be multiplied. (i personally believe its the lacking of skills, in GW1 we had many many skills to choose from per class, in GW2 we are very limited and what we have now isn’t working on many professions).

I have made Multiple 80 professions and i agree certain classes far out do the others and something needs to be done asap, Ranger, Elementalist, Necro all need overhauls from what i’ve played of them because classes like Mesmer, Warrior, Guardian even Thief and Engineer to a point far out surpassed them.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Dante.1508:

Hi gail I did not attend the Event (at the time it happened) but did receive a mail.

I attended the First days event and the second day the event chains were broken all day for me, the third day i attended the event many hours after it had been completed (because of my timezone is AUS) i missed the actual third event as i was working..although i did login to the event that day.

Sadly i hope i get to keep my mail contents even though i missed the Actual event?

I think you will get a chest. I cannot say for certain, though, so please wait for the remedy.

Sorry you misunderstood my post, i have received the chest in the mail, even though i turned up many hours later to the event (after it happened), so technically i shouldn’t have received it?

But i have got the mail.

Hi gail I did not attend the Event (at the time it happened) but did receive a mail.

I attended the First days event and the second day the event chains were broken all day for me, the third day i attended the event many hours after it had been completed (because of my timezone is AUS) i missed the actual third event as i was working..although i did login to the event that day.

Sadly i hope i get to keep my mail contents even though i missed the Actual event?

You need Giant eyes or they look like they are asleep in cut scenes, i had to remake a few Asura due to this bug…

And haha Bald Zojja

I made a Engi after Ranger, its awesome i can finally play a support healer and DPS as well its so much more fun.

Poor Ranger needs so much love from Anet to be Viable, maybe one day it’ll get that love, until then i’m support Engi

This is just my opinion but i think everyone will receive one, i just think they are sending them out in waves to keep the Trading post from tanking (as everyone will dump some exotics on it at once)..

As i said just my opinion, if not this is another messed up incident.

Sea of Sorrows because its US/Oceanic so players are on 24/7..

No for me they left the best stuff out.

Personally feels like they just tacked on WoW to GW2 and ignored GW1 to me

Yareon.2835:

In my guild of about 100 people about 25% stopped playing, and nearly 50% of the rest barely login every week.
Some of them went back to WoW because GW2 wasn’t so different as advertised.
Many of them stopped playing beacuse of non existent fix and balance (both in PVE and PVP)
Many of them stopped because lack of variety in PVP (both WWW and MISTS)

Nearly all the people that barely login now (and that may leave shortly) are tired of grinding and feel like there isn’t much to do except for grind.

This is the situation of my guild and of many other guilds I have contacts within.

+1 this says it best for me too, i hope the company reads this post over many others..

TakaEagle.9486:

Hi,

I’m in a rather large guild which should represent a rather accurate cross-section of the gw2 community. When i look at the roster, i see SIGNIFICANTLY more guardians/warriors than any other class with mesmers/engis being the least popular.

Can i get some reasons as to why these two classes are so popular? I don’t think they’re too OP (if at all) so what could it be o_O?

Thanks

Of all the classes they are the most balanced and work properly of the lot. The rest are so broken or unbalanced its not funny..

Alastar.2863:

What I would like to ask the people who say they quit is this:

You complain about Gear treadmills and Grinding and the Ascended Gear,
Can you name ANY mmo that has less of a “Grind” then this game?
Can you name Any mmo that has an easier Gear Treadmill?
Can you name Any mmo that has absolutely NO issues with one weapon being superior over another? (outside of Eve Online [I think.] or Battlestar Galactica online.)

Yes too all Guildwars 1, the first game was great. Was it a MMO yep.

Gotta say i haven’t quit yet but the lack of solo, casual play with great loot drops is making the game stale as, dungeons are not worth the time anymore and all i ever hear and see is FotM and Ascended, both of which can go the way of the dinosaur in my opinion, terrible ideas badly implemented. Go back to your roots Guildwars 2.. not look to WoW grinders for inspiration please.

I do not want to farm or grind anything, i just want “good” loot to drop as i play the game, be that open world, instances, Dungeons and wvw (every where) I want my level req loot to drop and i would like to have no need of any silly “Magic Find” application to hinder my good loots (every where)

In short i want to be able to play casual and earn as much or a little less as a hardcore farmer earns, pretty sure thats what casual play means, i did not join GW2 to play economy markets or start a second job, so the game should be aimed at all types of players evenly..

MarzAttakz.9608:

John please mate, stick with your Ele man! I know it can be frustrating but seriously mate, it does get better and learning to play the Ele well will teach you how to play your other classes even better.

Seriously mate, playing an Elementalist is like having the game stripped down to the bare neccesities of survival, once you’ve mastered that and apply what you’ve learnt to your other characters you’ll notice a drastic improvement in your personal abilities. Heck mate, you’ll even be better at other games.

Just wondering but how is any of that fun to play?

I came to Guildwars 2 for a fun experience not a “white knuckle hand eye coordination must be top notch 24/7 i could die to anything at anytime” thing…

Ele is just not fun at all…

Totally agree, the NPC is just pitiful, everything about trahearne screams annoying

Did you guys all forget about Wildstar?

http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/

Totally agree the map is just frustration…

I laughed hard, thanks for that

I just want to be able to turn the pets off, like in GW1..

JohnJSal.8634:

I just started an elementalist and I really enjoy pretty much every skill they have, but I’ve noticed a little more recently (I’m level 12 now) that once the mob closes to me (if they do), I barely have time to glance down at my health before it’s nearly half gone.

I’ve played a mesmer (to 57 so far) and I don’t recall losing health that fast. Is there something inherently weak about the elementalist, or does it just have that much less health than other classes? Or am I just doing something wrong? I haven’t settled into a groove yet, because I enjoy swapping weapons and attunements, but even still, I seem to get hurt fast and die often if I’m not extremely careful.

(I do tend to run around and stay mobile, so it isn’t that I just stay put and let the mobs beat on me.)

Thanks.

I’m feeling this too, and got much worse at lv 23, i effectively gave up playing ele they are just so incredibly weak and the damage is not great (at least at lower levels).

I was dying from mobs 5 levels below me, i moved around as much as possible, i switch elements as best i could (why should we no other class is forced to do this why is ele?)

I gave up trying to kill stuff my own level then after multiple deaths on lower level stuff and not being able to do events and skill points solo i completely gave it up…unless Anet decide to revamp them or add more defense/damage i guess she’ll sit in my selection for a long time to come.

I’ve leveled Ranger, Warrior, Guardian and Engineer with no issues all to level 80, i’m now currently leveling a Mesmer and must say its a lot more fun than elementalist, not sure why Guildwars 2 Ele was so bad i really loved GW1 ele and had no issues with it..

Try reading any of the “Tier 3 Cultural gear is too expensive” Threads, yeah that brings out the elitists in droves, ask for "rare gear that costs 119 gold " to be lowered or made cheaper and you’ll see the prestige side of Guildwars 2 raise its ugly head..

Ask for Legendaries to be made easier to get and watch those same elitists jump in and e-thug their way through the thread…

Yes for so many its all about the kitten..

I agree with the OP so technically its not just his personal opinion.

Great post OP i totally agree, i hope one day all these issues get looked at, they need it all badly.

Agree these things need to be addressed Asura Engineers need to be Asuran

Knote.2904:

Another alternative would be to make them purchasable for karma as well, more uses for karma is always good.

Totally agree, why isn’t it karma already, to the elitists, the game was suppose to be aimed for everybody not a select few who exploit the markets.

I remember when this game was designed for everyone evenly, these days i don’t feel that way at all.

Everything feels like a grind in game now, even a simple thing as leveling up feels harder now than it did.
My latest Alt is always 2 levels behind when completing a map, a few months ago i was exactly at the req level, have they lowered the exp amounts? i do many many events in game and still i’m behind the req level, so much grind..

If its not exp its gold or mats or whatever else Anet wants to limit us with, yes i play many hours but i still consider myself a casual player.

I don’t ever think i’ll get a Legendary weapon and even if i did i’d just sell it for the 350 gold it makes me, as i can buy so much more needed items than 1 silly weapon to boost my ego..

Anything that lowers the trading post, cannot be all bad.

I agree with pretty much everyone here, Fix the Current Game, Balance the Classes better, then deal with new content..

Content is wonderful but when you cannot even play it due to bugs that do not get fixed, it just angers your customers.

JonPeters.5630:

This is absolutely an issue as the game matures and we are working on ways to make running story mode with someone worthwhile even if you have already run it so players just reaching these dungeons can more easily find groups to play with. It will probably take some experimentation before we find the right motivator.

Jon

Most story mode Dungeons are a nightmare to do (especially when no ones level 80) the reward needs to equal the risk involved or the risk needs to be dramatically lowered.

Personally if rewards were on par with Explore and the dungeons were actually able to be done by the correct level players (not lv80) i think you’d see it open up a lot more..

We took my brothers girlfriend through Ascalonian catacombs today (her first time doing a dungeon she was 55 the req for AC story is 30?) with 4 lv 80’ we wiped countless times, missed chest cause of deaths, bugs and glitches..

When we finished she said she will never do another dungeon again and logged out, is this really how you want you customers to feel about your game angry and frustrated everyday..