Guild Wars 2

Robert Hrouda.1327:

there are currently no plans to implement a dungeon finder.

If you are having trouble finding groups for dungeons, you can use our LFG system. Open up your contacts menu in-game, and there should be an option in there for grouping. That way it’s not just people standing out in front of dungeons shouting LFG until someone invites them. This system does not stretch across servers, or to other maps.

Hi Robert, this is a very BAD idea. Let’s say I’m looking for a group, and I check the LFG list. I’ve never seen more than 2-3 people on this list in the first place, but now I do not know if these players are going for map completion, looking for group to farm mats from specific mobs, looking for group to do dungeons, etc.

If the LFG option was cross-server, there would be more than 2-3 people on the list, maybe about 50 people LFG on one map. Now I have to whisper 50 people and see what kind of group they are looking for (completion/dungeon/trash mobs/events/etc).

WoW had a better dungeon system, I SIMPLY click a button that finds me a group for a dungeon throughout all the servers. Yeah it’s THAT easy.

I understand if you don’t want to copy WoW for succeeding in the dungeon queue department. I also understand if you are too lazy to code this or your programmers simply don’t know how to code it. Not sure why you would want to use a bad LFG system to make finding a party to do END GAME content.

afflaq.3947:

This isn’t a bug. On the male model, the medium armor does not show the shoulders – I suspect that it’s due to the fire shoulder harness that “counts” as a shoulder slot from a visibility perspective. If you read the tooltip on your shoulders, you’ll see very clearly that it says “This item is currently obscured by another.” You’d have some wierd issues with the shoulder strap conflicting with the shoulders. Personally my preference would be for the male armor to have the same chest/shoulder layout as the female one – I personally think that it looks better, but that’s just my $0.02!

I have this set on my female human ranger and the shoulders do not show at all. Even with the Hero menu up I can check/uncheck the shoulder box and nothing changes on my character.

I wish someone from AreneNet would give some insight.

exotic gear at lvl 80 is not much better than rare gear at lvl 80.

but you will still have better stats wearing blue 80’s vs wearing exotic 50’s while scaled down.

Efaicia.3672:

Drakken.3427:

for 1: people hate snitches like you, the dungeon was made incredibly hard no wonder why people are exploiting it.

for 2: developers play with pugs and for sure they’ve seen this already, there’s no need to call yourself out. not really sure why you would want to ruin other people’s fun anyways.

1. People hate cheaters like you.
2. What? I’m not entirely sure why developers would WANT to play with pugs as these dungeons are balanced for cooperative, communitative, stragicly advanced groups. So one would think, you know, …logically…, that would be what they are testing/playing with.

1: I have never done a cof run where someone didn’t want to jump the wall, i have never had someone tell the group, “guys this is the wrong thing to do, we should not be doing this, i’m filling out a bug report now cya guys whisper me if you want to do it the right way!”, like all of you above are claiming.

2: If you read the developers post on why he changed the dungeon in the first place, you would see that he clearly stated he himself played with groups who exploited the dungeon and that’s why he wanted to change it.

Davinna.2067:

@Drakken I think Fox was in the right here. I for one hate people who exploit. I have reported exploits myself. The Magg fight has been made imposible thanks to people who were exploiting it. I’m an honest player that is being punished for the few, it’s frustrating.

Not sure why you, or anet, think kiting a group of 15 mobs for 100 seconds was “exploitable” when it is clearly impossible to kill every single one, and it was made even harder because they added more mobs and increased the timer. The guys that are ranged and shoot lava at you 2-shot all the light/medium armor characters, so graveyard zerging is the only chance you have at succeeding. Of course if you have a bad group, this could take up to 10+ tries before you give up and say, “Hey let’s jump the wall, and collect 25 tokens this run AND save time while we’re at it”.

for 1: people hate snitches like you, the dungeon was made incredibly hard no wonder why people are exploiting it.

for 2: developers play with pugs and for sure they’ve seen this already, there’s no need to call yourself out. not really sure why you would want to ruin other people’s fun anyways.

Grath.9587:

The other solution is making rangers and pets immune from each taking damage from the same source (i.e. each taking damage from a single greatsword swing).

This is a great idea, I wish they made pets more useful all together though. When you are pvping the pet should be a threat to an enemy, right now people just ignore the pet and go straight to killing you making it useless.

More teams would want rangers on their team if players “feared” the insane damage or survivability that pets have.

I have this set and thought it looked normal until i seen this, now that I unequipped/reequipped the shoudlers nothing appears, please fix anet

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Lol if they ban all the people currently exploiting CoF I don’t think there will be anyone left playing the game.

When 99% of players feel the need to exploit something because they see no other reasonable way to complete it then I don’t think the problem is with the players.

i like this post lol

The timer is NOT the issue, it’s the massive amount of mobs that spawn around 60%. IIRC there’s at least 15 and most will 1-shot low hp chars.

o noes ma keyz!

where did robert say this?

tl;dr, dungeons suck, too much aggravating for not enough reward

6 months for a set of armor and weapon? no thanks.

lions arch > black citadel > fireheart rise costs less than 2 silvers to wp to the door.

I don’t die, neither does any of my team.

The doorblast room is easy, may be considered exploitable by the way people have been doing it all day. I’m not going to give the secret away until I get a full set of armor though. Join pub games, and get your farming in

Just recieved 3s and 22k exp, diminishing…

Magg path, and yes it’s a substantial difference than just getting 2silver, I’m doing it for the tokens anyways.

All day today I’ve gotten 2silver and 17k exp, last 3 runs I’ve gotten 6silver and 44k exp, at least it’s a little profit now.

^ Just like Blizzard, telling their players how to play.

They are just mad people like Kripparian quit their game because they farmed exotics in a few weeks from launch and got extremely bored after the grind.

Farming Diablo 3 (based on rewards vs time invested) = 1/10

Farming Post-patched Dungeons (based on rewards vs time invested) = Worse than Diablo 3

I was fine with farming CoF 69 times for 1380 tokens getting 25 silver and about 200k experience each run.

I am not fine with getting 2 kittenin’ silver and 17k exp after completing a buffed CoF.

Arenanet does not care what a bunch of their players think about how unrewarding doing a dungeon is. People have been crying on this forum for hours today and 2 threads have responses from the developers themselves. I do have to agree though, grinding dungeons in this game post-patch is less rewarding than farming Diablo 3.

Way to go Anet.