If you look at when the game came out you could see that they had 3 light and medium armour classes but only 2 heavy, kinda like they planned Rev from the start.
Besides another class would just be another unbalanced class on a pile of unbalance and we all know that new specs are going to ruin balance again.
Ubi is right, they seem to have gone with how BDO is, the standard appearances are kinda similar then they put all the real effort into the CS.
Look at the raid dungeon after all that time, it was very hit and miss (from what I have heard more miss than hit)
Their defence is that expacs will bring armour skins but with HoT we got about 3 – 4 fulls sets was it? I think it is time to face the music and see that they have boarded the CS for outfits train now.
It just feels like the are leading up to a point when many of the human race will side with Balth and it will turn into another HoT.
More of an issue of luck getting on one of the full, active map instances.
I have sat in a “Full” LA once for an hour and only one person spoke and didn’t get a reply.
That is mega servers for you though.
Only reason they get more ridiculous is because people just mesmer portal them, doesn’t help that within what, an hour, Dulfy has a full guide up that everyone turns to, Anet even advertised one of the guides on fb if I remember correctly.
it wouldn’t be as big of an issue if they threw in varying length and difficulties instead of the recent ones that on your first run blind you could be spending more time in the puzzle than the rest of the location, and hoping that you hit the checkpoints and in the right order and that it didn’t glitch.
That seems more than likely to cause people to just leave the game for a few expacs then come back and buy say 3 – 4 for the price of one.
It could make it so that they rely on whales to keep them going between each expac more and more but just one possibility at any rate.
I have had matches where I battled few people but broke through doors and killed the lord and won the match yet I doubt I got top stats but we would have lost if I hadn’t xD
Getting top stat doesn’t really mean you’ve helped win the match or carried all the time.
I just want them to add world 3 like they should have done last year and didn’t and this year and still didn’t, but it feels more like they are leaving their seasonal events to stagnate (only adding a few new rewards) and don’t see it changing soon.
From what I have heard Guardian, Thief and Engi aren’t allowed into raid parties.
I am glad it’s gone now they can work on making pvp actually balanced and not just making do to meet the next esl deadline.
But it has already done some damage by putting off quite a few potential pvpers so hopefully they can recover.
For tournaments Anet should make pre set builds that people have to use, give a selection to each class.
This way they could reduce the amount of steamrolls, and they should also make it so that at the very least one one single double class is on each team.
They need to make it worthwhile to play, even if you lose.
People usually don’t bother if they feel they won’t win.
It is shame that they have been rehashing the old events without adding something new to it and not just a new skin.
But as stated expect something every 2 – 3 months, I just stick around long enough to do the Ls now then go on other stuff until the next one xD
Trib mode is hell, I did it last year to get all the skins but the whole point is that you are supposed to do trial and error like in those good old days until you get it right xD
Sorry to hear you dc’d but I highly doubt Anet would implement anything to this event or any older ones since they don’t really put to much effort into these things anymore.
Apparently it is a little easier with Guardian but not something I have tested myself.
I did not hit a single counter magic thing as it happened too quickly, I had a friend to do this was so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been but I seriously hope they didn’t do more stuff like this.
This was such a hassle, I was lucky to have a friend to do this with and I don’t think I will ever want to touch it again.
I hope they don’t want to do more things like that >_<
Doubt they will ever bother with world 3 unless they get really desperate.
They seem to be putting all their chips on leagues, raids and the next expac.
Their old events are just recycled each year and got a new mini or something as a reward.
Regen does seem to be pretty bad, the game seems to want you to be killing things fast.
I wish I hadn’t pre-purchased it and bought it on sale instead, Anet have been going a completely different direction that what they made and sold gw 2 on, if I knew the game would turn out how it is now I would have waited til vanila was free before playing it.
Any money I would have spent on this I now spend on other games and I doubt I will buy the next gw 2 expakittenil it is on sale.
I heard the only addition to sab this year is red skins.
Not bothering to log in just for another event they will leave stagnant, shame as Sab was always amusing, another event left to die in favor of raids.
Would you rather they had nothing until the next ls episode?
Sab is just an amusing little thing to do once a year, a nice break from the usual stuff.
If they get rid of it, knowing how Anet is now, they wouldn’t replace it with anything and it would just be another huge gap with no content and many of their fans that would be happy with what they had have moved on and what is left are the wow style played they tempted in with raids and “hardcore” content.
Bur the more unobtainable stuff a game has the less people put into it because they have already missed out.
Same with me, since I missed out on quite a few things and the game just kept pumping out Cs weapons I just stopped spending.
It would also mean more for people to do so they would stay around for longer.
It abandoned the water just like Anet did xD
And sab would have the reason I returned as well, but if no new sab stuff then won’t bother.
They don’t want to put work into alot of things and wonder why people leave and don’t stick around.
This attitude is what is sending the game downhill.
Gw 1 was set in the aftermath of the guild wars, gw 2 is set in the same world but tries to distance itself as much as possible from gw 1 for some weird reason.
All part of Anets master plan to get rid of wvw, steamroll til no one plays then……ESPORTS!!!!!
Welcome to chaosnet, where everything they add has a curveball.
They really need to stop ranked matches for a short time so they can work on the thing, but they’d rather not close down a revenue stream even if it is killing them in the long term.
I think they need to take specific class wins out of the daily, their current system isn’t good and it doesn’t help that to get a daily huge amounts are playing the same classes.
Why not have just wins in general or wins on certain maps instead?
I dis this with my friend and we never manages to hit that counter magic button a single time, I believe somewhere it was said that this fight is basically supper easy for guardians or something though.
They seem to be more interested in making the game more like the avaerage mmo to draw in more people so I doubt it’ll go back the way it was, probably more in the opposite direction.
Just wait for their next expac, they said that once a new expac comes out the previous one becomes free or is slapped onto the new expac for the same price.
Last year they had a set of patch notes that where just silly things I believe.
Was a bad idea from the start, people will leave over this and others will start becoming more strict in party forming and reduce interest in high end content.
It also makes it so people use specific builds and can’t handle changes when nerfs hit and have to wait for the new meta.
And one of the biggest draws this game has is the diversity of classes, dps meters take away from that and the game becomes less of this unique experiance and just another bland mmo ruined by a community of people who would quite easily move to a new game if it offered more raids.
I can see them going full on trinity but it would be a bad idea.
They would design Content built around roles and then you know that quite a few people will be more strict with party forming, plus with the dps meter checks it will not lead the game anywhere good.
But at this time it seems the trinity is the way they are going but only time will tell.
You could run around aimlessly and get destroyed by the blob, or try to take a sentry and get destroyed by the blob, or take a camp, tower etc in a small team and get destroyed by the blob.
Or you can wait be become the blob and do as pointed out above.
But in all seriousness it can be pretty slim pickings when solo or in a small group, best to hit and run a minor location (a camp) to lure out the blob then take your main objective (camp etc). Or try to split up the blob by faking to take multiple locations then all converging to take your main objective whilst they are spread but all of these ideas take a couple of people.
I used to love the game and basically advertised it to my friends alot but now I come on 1-2 days every 3 months to do ls then head back to ff 14 and bdo.
There are times when I remember vanilla gw 2 days and want to go on but when I finally do I am depressed with how bad it is now and just don’t stick around long than finishing ls.
A problem is that a pve play may come in and try, get utterly destroyed in every match (say 5) then leave and not return because they can’t even win a single match.
They can’t learn when they never had a chance, Anet needs to find a way to bring them in and get them up to the standard they need to be to stand a chance.
But then again if you constantly get thrown against a higher skill bracket just so people get matches then what can you expect.
Don’t expect any changes with this, they seem to have issues with their pvp and instead of doing serious work on it just slap band aids on it and continue the spvp.
But it is doing more damage than good in the long run.
Because quick game > fair game is the way of it, the whole thing should be stopped and worked on before they lose even more of their audience to this.
Would you really complain if you didn’t have a league for a while if in return it comes back and actually works for all? xD
Whenever you want to break the bar no one uses cc, when you want them to slowly knock it down they tear it down in seconds, the game needs to put some mandatory training in their story content, like a new mob appears and Rytlock or someone tells you that you need to break their bar or not so.
Onto the main topic, eventually they will need to nerf the HoT meta because when you content comes out old is left behind, when the new expac is out a huge majority will be in that and HoT (requiring a few members to do map stuff) can be the wall blocking off new players because they get destroyed due to lack of players.
Yes they have, alot of their original plans have been scraped and HoT seemed like an attempt to bring in main stream MMO gamers (games with dungeons, raids etc) but it drove alot of their fans away.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the next expansion went even further away from their original concept.
They are allowing dps meters now? Whelp then that decides it then I won’t be buying their next expac.
The community was already starting to get too many toxic players and this is the last nail in the coffin for the gw 2 they used to be.
If this ever happened they wouldn’t let you take the second professions elite spec.
I’d they did this they would have to work a long time getting weapon skills to have both first and second profession in it it would be too much work with too much to go wrong, imagine and thief with 3 illusions thief’s? If you don’t get the real one soon it would destroy you.
That is just one example.
I would just watch youtube vids of it and skip buying it.
But you could also save up gold, convert them to gems and buy it that way, I heard a few people do that xD
DR is set during the time before you fight Zhaitan and this seems to be their mo for now, each area is set in a certain point in time.
Don’t see them changing it either as it is alot of work especially when they have their teams stretched as it os between current stuff and the expac
I thought we would see 8 like in ls2.
I also don’t think we will get an expac this year, it seems to soon and if it did come this year I feel it would be an even worse start than it was in HoT
Only issues I have are with story and events being for zerk groups, areas themselves are a nice change from just full on jungle
It just seems like they are trying to get people onto their new maps more than trying to come up with a good solution to problems.
Makes me think that if they have to do stuff like this to push people into doing stuff then it really isn’t something good.
It should only be solo q or full party q, because anything inbetween just gets abused and ruins the season for everyone.