I’m missing what got “taken away” with this patch….the ability to progress your personal story until a specific level is reached?
I’m seriously asking to OP to explain specifically what was rolled back with this patch.
If im not mistaken slots you had already unlocked were relocked. i.e. utility and elite slots.
Also as was said by someone else they lost a weapon slot skill that was unlocked before patch.
People complaining about the new leveling system need to smarten up, it is for new players. MMORPG levelling is supposed to be slow. You shouldnt be hitting the game’s max level in 2 months (i think some could even do it in less). If you are used to the old leveling system especially from leveling multiple characters, you will find the new way of doing things a complete drag. Those who havent played the game before might see it differently.
Its all so $tupid, people complain about quickly getting to end game and then getting bored. Anet responds by adding fractals, WvW tournaments, PvP rewards and other stuff to improve end game, but people still complain. Anet decides to slow down the leveling process so new players can appreciate end game a little more, but somehow the old players still complain.
Some of you need to be smacked and locked in Arah with lupi
Tell that to gw1. I dont pay monthly. If I want slow I can play like some of my friends and you know not level up quickly.
Ah yes by levelling “slowly” appreciate doing the same x dungeons repeatedly/ same world bosses repeatedly. Yes I can see it now. Heck they will love making a new alt too when they hit max level.
Also can still level up at more or less same speed… actually I think the new changes were made for people like you so arguing is useless.
^ usually me
1. Pre might stack
2. Cast conjure
3. aggro
4. Oh kitten no aegis ok use arcane sheild
5. Oh kitten still no aegis or prot. ok drop conjure
5.1. dodge
5.2. dodge
5.3 There are 4 EFFIN GUARDIANS somebody something please.
6. Death.
7. Watch them die one by one.
8. /p Im not saying staff i a bad choice but there are more useful weapon choices.
I always found said sayings odd. “treated like a 5 year old now”
Compared to early mmo’s we are treated like fetus’s. That were found decomposed in a trash can.
But I guess one had to actually play said early mmo’s to notice the difference.
Simply by being on the forum you probably arent who the changes are made for.
Also if “pestering” is the word you come up for when asking for help Im not sure social games are best bet. That or your guild mates arent really your mates.
I know this may seem odd but have you considered SPVP/WvW? No npc will ever be truly as challenging as another human and if its challenge you want. Humans make the best prey.
starcraft against cpu on hardest difficulty is quite hard but against a human is absolutely brutal.
Fav cuz I love watching mesmers/guardians/ele’s fail hard and not use proper abilities.
Least Fav because to be watching them I have to be in said group.
Made my own guild, mostly bank, but developing all upgrades.
Maybe one day it’ll become a normal guild O.o
Anyway, 100% guilds sucks.
99% of them demand all your chars to represent it.
And even if some allow guild banks, they still are moody and demand explanation why you didn’t represent them in past 5 mins.
Deffo not going for such guilds. Pain the az.
Some people are interested in finding a guild to call a home rather than use the guild for a specific purpose and then rotate between multiple guilds as you see fit to benefit yourself.
The guilds that require 100% are the guilds looking for members to add to their family, not just a body to boost roster numbers. If you look at it that way, it makes sense why some guilds want 100% rep. We target players that are looking to make GW2 their MMO for the long haul and to create a strong community where players can thrive and build relationships.
The people that typically hate 100% rep guilds are the same ones that say the game is boring, there is no end-game, etc. etc. When you have a strong core of players that enjoy playing the game as much as you do, you never find yourself bored. There’s always something to do or someone to help.
I think back on every MMO I’ve ever played and the one thing in common in the games I stuck out more than 1 year was a solid guild/clan to play with. Every time.
I find your wording funny. The wording for 100% rep guilds is absolute. Heck I find the use of the word family funny. heck I dont have the same last name as half of my family and they haven’t disowned me yet.
My experience with a 100% guild wasnt exactly positive.
1. Family? HAH Have overtime for 3 days and dont log on? Kick. Happened to a friend who joined with me.
2. Go play a mode that said Family doesnt play whilst they are doing something else?
Bishing.
3. Family doesnt exist outside of said game. Cant say hey lets go play some bf or even mention you are in a clan for bf.
Funnily enough I am in 3 clans for bf4. My own ( I like the name), my main guild (with friends of 5+ years who IDGAF, and my competitive guild who also IDGAF oh also friends of 2+ years.
Friends whose main words are MUST and REQUIRE don’t sound like friends more like friendly overlords.
I will always maintain a good guild isnt one that requires you to rep 100% but one that makes you want to.
Im a nobody as such I use my privileges as a nobody to trollbe aggressivedissect your postbe an kitten.
I made you feel unwelcome? Terribly sorry. Im sure the masses feel welcome here with the PHIW, Zerker, L2P banter.
Majority of that second post was to simply show what said person may have been thinking. The “slap” in your face was in a hope you would take it to heart the irony of what you said.
Ugh 5years out of the infantry and I still cant talk to you civilians properly therefore
I am sorry I was wrong in what I did. I shant do it again.
Ill leave the correcting and such to the legends. Infact to save some humil ill edit posts
unfortunately for projectiles it is for me. I know its intended path and intended landing location. But then again I like sniping in arma with ace and heavy wind.
btw for ac when you get the little marked icon. dont waste a dodge/block/invuln. Simply stand behind your fellow player. He will eat the massive damage for you.
They are certainly off now. I know this because I finally had the opportunity to attempt soloing on lvl 50!
I’ll tell you how bugs are Always mistaken for “difficult content”.
If you play lupicus you will see lot of people thinks that is quite difficult to survive lupicus shots.
That is why the aoes are totally unconsistent.
But they are not random, but simply projectiles will hit you on their way to the aoe if they are on the proper heigth, so even if you are way out of the aoe you will be hit.
That makes evading them quite difficult because you don t have a real tell on if they will hit or not.
You can use a reasonable prediction but still not much reliable.
Same exact mechanics happens with horrik AND cannon salvo.
Fire projectiles traveling straight to the aoe tends to hit anyone who is in their trajectory.
Its obviously a bug, but anet gives extreely low priority to bugs that goes against players.
I consider that a feature personally. Albeit one that isnt documented?
You know sorta like how you can hit multiple mobs by aiming at the one in the rear and lining em up. Unless you want to take away piercing from a couple trait lines.(atleast i think its traits) deleted ranged a while ago.
Haven’t been around lately, though maybe I’ll have some more time from today to the end of July.
Also, I modified this.
And I saw a beast rising out of the patch, with toughness and vitality, without damage on its attributes and blasphemous healing power on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a Settler’s; its major was like a Knight’s, and its minor was like a Soldier’s. And to it the Cleric gave his Healing and his Toughness, but not his minor power. One of its heads seemed to have been kicked, but it was reinvited, and all the casuals marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the Cleric, for he had given his attributes to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “I play how I want, and stacking is for noob zergburgers” And the beast was given healing shouts, and it never dropped a banner during his runs.
Because Anet made it that way. A workaround – screenshot-. I typically do that. Once people start talking I start prt screening. Never know when comedic(y?) gold will pop up before your very eyes.
More Party based enemy groups ala gw1 (when it makes sense) have a war+necro+guardian enemy patrol and have them use more skills. More gw1 skills used by enemy mobs to fk with us. A touch ranger running into the middle of a group and destroying it by life steal would be amusing.
as for QoL
A boss outline. So when particle effects go crazy. You can see an outline of what the boss is doing at all times.
Are you seriously comparing megaman to gw2 ? or how about this. GW2 red circle equal bad. I know people who are oblivious to this fact.
Are you seriously saying all current game can be fixed to use NO words and simply conveyance?
gg up down left right jump shoot
also #1
You have to read to buy it/ know it exists/find out price/ heck can you even start gw2 without reading?
All things considered. Yes. Fact is there are so many games out there that give either no assistance, and thus seem “hard” or they give so much that you feel like the game treats you like a child. The point is, most games that follow what Megaman did show just “hit this button” due to the fact you are playing on more complex control set ups. As for reading that should be all you really need. Having an in depth and detailed wall of text will only appeal to the players that like reading, can read and are willing to, or is only if the text is translated in a way that makes sense to someone who doesn’t read the original language.
In other words, Reading is a barrier. Images can overcome the reading barrier faster, and far more efficiently. To further bring home this point, some people play on massive monitors, with high resolutions. High resolutions often involve shrinking the UI and making the text smaller as well. I don’t know about you but reading small text is hard to do, and even harder on my eyes especially when there are flashes and action all over my screen. Flashy games as they are now do not help the “reading as a requirement” argument in the slightest.
In before someone says I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about, I have a bachelors in game design. I had to study this very thing during the curriculum. I had to go look at hideously bad games and actually talk about what they did wrong.
Edit to add your edit*
Also did you hear when he said that devs thought players are dumb and cant identify simple patterns in their head. As a player of fps’s… Majority of players I see probably need a pop up that tells them he killed you here the last 4 times maybe you should go different route.
The fact you brought this up only shows me that “In FPS games” which are commonly hacked and overly competitive “People are to stupid to identify strategic placement” This doesn’t mean EVERYONE is going to fall into that same trap. You act as if painting all players with the same brush is efficient. On top of that I have yet to see any FPS that uses proper instances of conveyance. They just throw a gun in your hands and say “Have fun”. Which to be honest is all most people who flock to FPS games really want. It doesn’t give new to the genre players any real assistance with “How to play”. Much like fighting games do. These are niche markets. Getting smaller and smaller due to the brick wall of text they throw at new players, if they throw any help at all.
Lol you mean like cod,bf dayZ. You mean like the massive amounts of conveyance minecraft has? or angry birds?
I sorta left out gw2’s red circles. I see massive amounts of people not avoiding them.
As a fellow holder of a b.s. albiet in nursing instead of game design I dont know how it is in your field but experience is way more valued than I have a b.s. Now if you said masters maybe but then again most masters programs I know of require experience.
I should ask what school you went to where most of what you learned was via pictures/video/maybe lecture? but then again I know nothing about game design.
Furthermore as a game designer why are your suggestions so vague. Even I came up with an example as did one or 2 other. How would you do it? without the use of text?
As a person who doesnt care about open world pve. I think once you die you should get nothing unless you are rezzed at the scene and even then it is 1 tier lower. SO gold->Silver->Copper->Nothing.. Screw punishing lying down. Punish death. Punish. For the heck of it.
Are you seriously comparing megaman to gw2 ? or how about this. GW2 red circle equal bad. I know people who are oblivious to this fact.
Also did you hear when he said that devs thought players are dumb and cant identify simple patterns in their head. As a player of fps’s… Majority of players I see probably need a pop up that tells them he killed you here the last 4 times maybe you should go different route.
Are you seriously saying all current game can be fixed to use NO words and simply conveyance?
gg up down left right jump shoot
also #1
You have to read to buy it/ know it exists/find out price/ heck can you even start gw2 without reading?
That video on thinking about it is mostly opinionated hogwash passed off as fact and regurgitated by those that agree with it.
Thank you. Something I can understand. Hour long- indepth- hard. Im assuming hard means unskippable/ have to complete objectives?
Sorta like titan falls tutorial. IIRC you couldnt actually play the full game unless you finished the tutorial and it required you to successfully demonstrate basic proficiency.
Something that’s profession specific and really takes you by the hand and tells you exactly what to do. Then you have to complete a test that can only be completed by using all the things you have learned.
For examples, guardians will have to use all of their blocks/invunerabilty/aegis to survive a part of the test. They will have to pull monsters together, or use line and ring of warding. Then use all of their reflects.
It certainly won’t be fun. But at least it will teach you nearly everything that you need to know about your skills.
Unfortunately, this is soon to be a 2 year old game and something like that requires too much work. It won’t happen.
But an in-game book with pictures will sure be a nice substitute. And force people to read it.
Thats actually something other games sorta do. Tera being one I think.
You start out with a max level char. use tons of cool skills get a feel for the class. Then you lose you memory or something and start from level one. again ofc there are so many variables with the weapons skills etc.
p.s Im glad I dont do this for a living or anything artistic. Wouldnt be able to stand all the this is how you do it from everyone. Id scream well do it your g’darnself before i jumped off roof
Good points. I presume it would have to make basic assumptions and then hope that sparked enough curiosity that the player would seek out more info.
Im gonna go with human guardian commoner as I key farm and thats the one I remember the most right now.
1. spawn after you talk to guy a pop up with a small unskippable video pops up demonstrating dodge against centaurs no text cuz words are bad
2. 1 centaur attacks you. You have to successfully dodge 4 times to unlock first attack skill aka #1
3. unskippable Video pops up showing you how to attack + dodge You have kill said centaur whilst dodging 3 attacks.
4.2 centaurs attack. see 3
5. 3 centaurs attack unskippable video pops up warning players about letting ranged chars kite them and how dodge projectiles. Has to dodge 2 melee attack and 3 ranged attacks.
ofc thats leaving out the third hit on the guardian is a low burst heal that takes longer than the first two hits so player may want to cancel that animation. blargh all I can see is massive complications.
etc etc?
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:D as I said I may be stuck in my ways. I mean my first thought on reading your reply was " its possible to read and not learn?* see image below
