If think most people miss something. It’s okay to die in PvE, it means monsters are not pinatas.
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Nope. It’s a very difficult event and I still don’t know everything about it.
You COULD always get the materials yourself. That’s what the map rewards are for. Sure it takes time, but you can get materials while doing other stuff. Like playing the game.
Honestly though, some materials are overpriced compared to the effort required to obtain them. And obtaining those yourself instead of grinding the gold for it is both faster and cheaper.
While I agree with most of what you say, I do have some words of wisdom.
-Wait it out a bit, the economy might eventually stabilize a bit.
-Wait it out a bit, ArenaNet might realise something needs to be done to nudge the economy in the right direction.
That said, don’t stop speaking out, Arenanet needs to know what you think of this.
Complaining about precursor prices when the market hasn’t even stabilized yet.
Please just… Play these hero challenges the way they are intended… Instead of bashing your head against a brick wall? And then complaining how Anet gave you a concussion for something they have no control over? They’re not even hard group events. Most of them can be done with like 3 people. Don’t even need your tank/healer/damage setup. Just 3 people.
Can I please get some acknowledgment for the argument that most MMOs with so-called “cheaper” xpacs still have that monthly fee thing going on?
lol this is a hilarious thread. I also hate when I buy a multiplayer game and can’t play it by myself.
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Only 20 minutes? What are you even complaining about?
I do not know the specifics, but the common trend is for the Nuhoch lane to fail first. This leads me to believe that Nuhoch lane is the hardest to organise.
Anyone else have some info to share?
Try looking at lfg during the evening, I rally commanders like 3 times before giving up and calling it a day.
Anet, please don’t do this. Please don’t give any mind to people who QQ because they don’t know how /map or /guild or LFG works.
Incidentally, that guano thing is perfectly accessible during the day.
If the hero challenges were veterans instead of champions, the reward (10 hero points) would be rather disproportionate.
Further more, what is wrong with attempting challenges in groups in an MMO?
What are you talking about? Mordremoth so totally has a mouth. You even fight against it.
Also, I wouldn’t call the skies above Arah “confined”. (lots of stuff wrong with that fight, but scale was not one of those things)
They were replaced by outposts.
I did not make this thread so people can complain about how bad they are at navigating. I made this thread to pool information on the Gerent so we can beat it. So if you don’t mind, I’d prefer it if you stayed on topic.
People seem to misunderstand how this dragon works compared to the other ones. His physical body is the whole jungle. You’d always just be fighting his body parts at best.
Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree with what you just said. But Anet need to be careful about draining all of the challenge from the game, and not being pushovers either. There have to be some things in which Anet needs to stand firm no matter how much people QQ. I agree that this does not have to be EVERYTHING though, but for one, I hope to dog they won’t touch masteries. And that raids will be balanced with at least an above-average skill cap.
I’m looking to defeat this thing. But I’m not sure if I have all the data here. I don’t know if a guide already exists out there, but I thought it’d be nice to pool some information here.
-There are 4 lanes, each with their own battle. If any lane fails, it’s game over for everyone.
-Each lane has a Gerent which starts burrowed. Each lane also has an event which is meant to make it surface.
-After the Gerent surfaces, a time limit begins. Once the time runs out, the Gerent will burrow again and the event will move further down the lane.
-After the third “round”, the event ends in failure.
-Periodically, a large pack of Chak spawn that make a beeline for the cannon. They will not fight, just run to the cannon.
-If the cannon takes too much damage, the event ends in failure.
I’ve only been on the SCAR lanes, so here’s a description of it:
-The SCAR team works on a resonance device that forces the Gerent to surface. A gauge will slowly fill up while they work on it. They need to be protected so that the gauge will keep filling. Once the Gerent burrows again, the entire team moves down the lane and sets up a new device in a new location.
Things I’d like to know:
-The Gerent has a defiance bar. It’s a very tough bar that I’ve never seen broken. Therefore I am unsure what happens if he gets broken.
-The Gerent has a kitten ton of HP. It’s very difficult to deal enough damage to it. Anyone know if there’s a trick to dealing more damage? Does he take more damage when he’s broken?
-Is there any relevance to these “levels” that you seem to be able to gain from doing well at the unburrow event.
-How do the events in the other lanes work?
The mob design is there to keep it exciting, not the time limit. The time limit is broken and should be fixed.[/quote]
What is broken about it? I was never unable to beat a single hero challenge so far. Well, the vampire one took a bunch of tries because it took a while for everyone to get it into their heads that his drain move is a melee attack.
I never really got the trahearne hate. He was the one who did all the leading and administrative duties while you were the one who got kitten done. It’s a nice dynamic, and you get acknowledged for that too. He’s not even present during the final battle. And he never acts like did anything either. In fact he’s the one who is like “This is the guy who did everything.” points at player
Everyone has that issue. It’s not just you.
We knew about what? They never told us for example how many new skins there would be.
I expected many sets – I was wrong. They never said HoT will release with very few armor skins.
They never mentioned anything about tons of skins. O_o You just assumed something, and now that your assumption turned out to be off, you feel like they’ve been lying?
Yes, I am complaining because it is bad design.
So if you stab yourself in the eye with a screwdriver, and your eye starts bleeding and you lose the ability to see, it’s the screwdriver’s fault for being badly designed? Because you should be able to stab yourself in the eye without it causing damage? That’s not how you’re supposed to use a screwdriver.
Actually, I’m pretty sure some of them are soloable, but you almost need to have the right class for it and be geared really well.
I’d be curious to know how such people feel about the time limit… the ones who have solo’d hero challenges.
You’re confusing two things. There is nothing wrong with people soloing content that isn’t meant to be solo’d. If people manage to pull that off, more power to them. The problem is with complaining about being unable to solo content that isn’t meant to be solo’d.
I am extremely puzzled by this discussion. I’m casual as kitten, but I why do people complain about it being too hard? It’s further into the game, “beyond level 80”. Just step up your game a little and you’ll be fine. I explored a lot of the map just ignoring enemies. Yeah I died a few times, even right in front of that waypoint I tried to tag, but such is life. That happened to me in vanilla GW2 as well. I’m not sure what the issue is.
Or is it just that you’re using zerker gear?
Self imposed challenges =/= difficult content. If you think it’s that simple you’re kind of narrow minded.
That said, catering to what their players feel they need isn’t bad in and of itself. I just hope it’s not some slippery slope that ends with free twilights for everyone.
Complaining about being unable to solo something that isn’t meant to be solo’d.
I’ve never ran into any of the issues you mentioned and was able to do it in two tries.
Why do you even want to get rid of the time limit. It’s not like the time limit is too short or anything.
Why is this discussion even a thing? All these things you are complaining about.. You knew about these things before the expansion was even released. All you had to do was not buy it.
Has HoT lost the scale of the elder dragons?
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The idea that Mordremoth’s weakness is his mind is sound. And I enjoyed the epicness of that battle. The main problem is it all came too sudden. We spent almost no time trying to find a way to defeat him. We were just following Destiny’s Edge, and by the time we found them, we were suddenly thrown into the final battle. You never even explore Dragon’s Stand properly during the storyline.
The story would have been loads better if the story made you spend a little more time in Dragon’s Stand. You know how back in the Living Story one of the objectives was to do the Marionette Fight? You didn’t even have to win. Could be like that.
The part where you keep dying isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Get good at the game. No seriously, I’m not joking.
Then how did you get nearly 400 HPs? You must have done WvW or Tyria?
The only ones I can’t get to are like the one or two that are in poison regions, and maybe one or two that you need leyline gliding for? Plus the 100 or so points I started with.
Sure, but considering the amount of XP you need just to access most of the hero points I know you’ve been playing a lot, if you want to tell me the XP fairy grinded for you while you slept then you got me, I can’t prove otherwise.
? I only have the 6 mastery levels.
All that stuff you listed is irrelevant, you’ve still nearly earned 400 HP since release thus you have not been playing the expansion casually. And I’m not overestimating anything, it has been all I’ve been working on since release so I know exactly how much time it takes and you’re playing considerably more than me, and I’ve been playing more than the average casual.
Regardless of how much you actually played, there is no way for you to know how much I’ve played. You’re making an awful lot of assumptions. Which aren’t true. And you refuse to take people’s word for it as if they’re lying. That’s no way to hold an argument.
I’m not sure how you can class yourself as casual if you already have nearly 400 HP since HoT release.
Hm… Lets see… I spend hours idling in Lion’s Arch, or wherever I am really, just talking to people. I only have 3 ascended armor pieces and no ascended weapons. I have 500 in only one crafting discipline. I have a severe distaste for anything grindy, and therefore avoid things like dungeon farming for gold. I have two alts, neither of which I play very often. World completion on my main is less than 50%. I also have barely played the game at all before the expansion came out, because I ran out of fun stuff to do. I complained about the idea that the minimum requirment for raids would be full ascended.
Yeah… I’m fairly sure I’m casual. I’m fairly sure you’re overestimating the amount of effort needed to get the points.
No one forced you to play all day, every day since release.
I didn’t even have that kind of time. O_o
And here I thought the Casuals were only 1 %
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Dengar.1785
I’m a casual and I HATE the change. Please don’t lump me in with you people.
You still have the same number of HP you earned before. You also still have the option to not play the elite spekittenil you have earned 400 points.
What on earth makes you think a “refund” makes me feel better about putting in effort that gives absolutely nothing?
And “pretending it still costs 400 hero points” is incredibly short sighted. Since other people are still getting the same stuff I get. Except they don’t get to lift a finger for it.
Am I the only “casual” who dislikes this change? I was quite enjoying playing the game for a few days working to unlock it. I almost got to 400 points too. And now all that hard work is being invalidated because a bunch of people want instant gratification. If you play casual, stuff takes longer. I like it that way.
Plus, the whole “QQ wins again” makes me fear for the future.
So instead of putting in the effort to earn awesome things, all you gotta do is QQ to the devs?
What’s next, free twilights for everyone?
What’s wrong with you, Anet?
Can we get some dev response to this? Let us know they are aware of the issue?
Regardless, while Anet goes to fix it, you can at least continue the story for yourself.
I know this does not fix the core issue, but you can start a different chapter, (say, chapter 13), leave the map, then start chapter 14 again, then enter the map again. This worked for me.
I had the same issue, as well as the recipe issue.
I have the same issue, I was alarmed by the fact that I didn’t get a flashy “recipe learned” animation. The item just disappeared without doing anything.
So I wanted to try the first story step. But every single voice quip cuts off before they complete their lines.
Anyone know what’s causing this?
Playing from a mac if that’s relevant. But it probably isn’t.
With elite specs being a thing now, I see more reason than ever to frequently swap builds. Is any method of saving our builds being contemplated? It takes a few minutes to swap builds and find all the correct traits and such.
I only use one beta slot anyway.
I’ve played around a little bit with a greatsword/staff Dragonhunter.
It’s… Not bad, I guess.. But I’m not sure if I’m actually going to run Dragonhunter once the expansion rolls around. It just feels like it’s a waste to pick Dragonhunter if you’re not going to be using a bow or traps.
This is for PvE though.
I’m thinking I might take the Dragonhunter for a spin in WvW and play Staff/Bow, and see what I can come up with.
That said, I’m hoping the final version of Dragonhunter has a bit more viability for people who don’t want to use the bow or too many of the traps. The changed virtues alone should be an incentive to consider making the jump.
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