Guild Wars 2

More weapon skills or additional weapons for each profession? Shut up and take my money!!

The new Waypoint all the way at the bottom of Cursed Shores might link to a new map? Also new skills please or at least allow a new weapon to be wielded for each class. Mace thief/ Sword ele/ sword + pistol warrior and etc. Would be so much fun.

Yea, Risen Peasant with a hoe is more powerful than a warrior. He must be holding a legendary hoe.

Try submitting a ticket to ArenaNet. https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/

Well said. Pretty sure most of the playerbase have the same view of the new dailies. It’s just a pain in the kitten. Yes, it’s torturing the kittens, please save the kittens.

Did it state the reason why the installation failed?

The prices are fine to discourage server hoppers to winning servers. I think ANet did a good job on the pricing.

Yes, I am also awaiting a confirmation on this. Hope the devs will provide an answer soon.

So now we’ll be seeing lots of players raining down the Mystic Forge? Awesome.

Yea, would love that sphere grid system of FFX / PoE. It will really boost endgame and increase variety of builds, but the boat has sailed. ANet will never go that path (no pun intended).

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I won’t be at the office until Monday, but I’ll check it out.

That’s very good of you. Would be good if you guys scaled Ruins of Orr temple events too as maps such as Straits of Devastation are currently a no-player zone. Would be nice if me and 2 of my friends could complete the Temple event to get the karma vendor.

UnderdogSMO.9428:

Victros.8154:

Thanks for all the help. How are you guys soloing event champions? Are you kiting?

Kite, move, dodge at the right time, block at the right time, and more often than not one player should be able to take out five or so trash mobs at level

The only Champion I find it hard to solo or even 2-man is the Champion Modniir High-Sage in Harathi Hinterlands. His spells literally 2/3-hit anyone.

Czinczar.3786:

You mean that if I am on a EU server, I can join a US party, and that will place my char in an overflow map ?

Yup, it works but it’s a pretty bad way as we’re “using” other people to join overflow. I hope ANet will have a way around this though.

Czinczar.3786:

well it works, i joined a NA group, and i have been placed in overflow ! Thanks.

You’re welcome.

Use gw2guilds.org to search for your country specific guild.

Go gw2lfg. If you’re on the US, filter EU lfg. Vice versa for EU players. Join their party, which will place you in overflow because you can’t join their server. Type “oops, sorry. I’m from <US>/<EU>. Joined wrong party. Good luck.”, leave party and that’s it! You’re in overflow.

P.S.: Feels like I’m teaching something not right here.

Where are you from?

Is there a filter for specific servers?

Thing is, NPC always get hit by it. Then he stacks insane amount of berserk. You basically can’t out run, out dodge or overpower stacked abominations.

The eye sees what you couldn’t see.

Rampage.7145:

FateZero.8536:

You don’t need to hardcore farm fractals for ascended items. I run fractals only once a day and that’s it. It’s too repetitive. I have 5 rings as of now and only 1 is bought using the pristine relic which I saved for 10 days as I left my fotm at level 13.

No dude u don’t understand, i just don’t want to do fractals, most of my guild thinks like i do aswell, we just want to Kill ppl and that’s it, we don’t want dungeons, or killing dragons, none of that we just want to PVP, and heck we don’t wanna have gear disadvantages to those PVErs… hell no

I’m not sure about PvP but i thought you guys have access to all items? I only do PVE and WvW. You could get ascended through daily achievement though.

You don’t need to hardcore farm fractals for ascended items. I run fractals only once a day and that’s it. It’s too repetitive. I have 5 rings as of now and only 1 is bought using the pristine relic which I saved for 10 days as I left my fotm at level 13.

juno.1840:

True colors shine through!

So your issue is that you personally ground out fractals for your ascended gear and you want everyone else to do it the same way otherwise it’s not “fair to you”!

If you enjoyed fractals, then you shouldn’t have any issues with who has what ascended gear and where they got it from. If you didn’t enjoy fractals, and instead were grinding for gear, then you should be happy that alternate avenues will soon exist to get said gear. No reason to be upset, you did get your gear before anyone else who chose to wait. There is a price for being “first”.

The argument made previously regarding the changes to fractals is legitimate. If a lowbie (lvl 80 with low fractal progression) wants to tag with their friends in lvl 12 fractals, they really should have 5 agony resistance (yeah they can scrape by without it, but it’s a detriment to the team as a whole). They won’t receive a lvl 12 fractal reward (which I have mixed feelings on) for completion, so their only opportunity to play with friends is to grind away (like you did), or spend laurels on a ring.

If they spend laurels on a ring, that’s laurels they didn’t get to spend on something else (and it appears there’s a lot of “something else” to spend laurels on). So yeah they paid a price. Don’t be upset about the price you paid and expect everyone else to pay the same price. You made your choice and if you are not happy with it, then not much will make you happy at this point.

There’s no true colors or fake colors. Everyone on this forum is practically the same color. People who want a way to upgrade their exotics to ascended are the same color as whatever color you just said I am. I’m just being sarcastic. If they could demand something just bcoz their exotics were hard to get, then why not fractals players who got their ascended the hardway. This is not my point.

Main thing is, players who refused to enter fractals to get their ascended gears because they hate fractals or whatever reason should not complain when ascended via laurel gears does not contain agony resistance. Why? because you guys hated fractals, remember? If you hate it so much so that you refuse to enter to get ascended, then you shouldn’t be going into fractals post-patch.

Don’t say that “oh, I need that agony resist because I might wanna join my friend in fractals”. That’s just an excuse. You do not want to join your friends because if that’s your reason then you would’ve done so. You just want the 3-4 chests that drops lodestones because it’s really easy to obtain it in there. Therefore, my conclusion is that those players who refuses to do fractals to get their ascended gears in the first place and is demanding agony resistance to be included in laurel ascended gears, just wants the easy way to get into high level fractals for the loots.

Exterminans.9723:

It was a small number of players who wanted to constantly grind for better gear because they were use to from the last MMORPG they played. Yet they made the heaviest appearance on the forum for the first two months…

Oh, and most of them are already went on to the next MMORPG by now…

Now Anet is stuck with a system which most of the remaining community doesn’t accept, plans for an audience which is no longer present and with a boatload of problems if they decided to switch course now.

Kindly cite the source of your said statistics. Where did you get the [b]small number[\b] and [b]most went to other MMO[\b] from?

Knox.3748:

FateZero.8536 when i bought the game i wasnt thinking on have to grind a dungeon with % to get item. Well, a dungeon like that came up and then we who dont like to pass hours doing dailys and going higher on fractals became a little anoyed. But i cant care less about AR. Why should i do ? Its a Condition inside of fractals so having no AR is cool to me. And hey, i already have 1 Elem and 1 Engi with both Ascended Rings and i didnt like the way i had to grind that kitten. Now that i will be able to get them by playing the game i can move on and get some levels on my Warrior. Thank you Anet, no more grind for me is awesome since i like to explore and play my way. So getting all alcended stuff from labels that you get from dailys and monthlys, sounds good to me.

Thing is, there are multiple issues being raised by players in this forums and most of them worded their statement in such a way that it gives an impression that they are self-entitled minded.

First are the guys who complained about “what about our hard earned exotics?”. Well, did ANet promised at any point in time that lvl.80 exotics are going to be permanently BiS gears? Any game that I buy, I am prepared to changes. However, now people are crying about how ANet should create a way for people to upgrade their exotics to ascended tier. Lol, must be joking.

Secondly, people who opposed to fractals are whining about not getting agony resist via laurels. Why do you need agony resist out of fractals when in the first place you opposed fractals strongly? If you want agony resist, then go and challenge yourself to some fractal levels and buy them yourself instead of demanding agony resists to be available outside fractals. If you aren’t even up for some fractals challenge to get that agony resist, why do you need BiS gear when you just wanna stay in your comfort zone? Heck, just wear your beginner’s gear and stay in town flipping the TP or craft your kittens.

Last but not least, GW2 is a product released by ANet just like how Microsoft develop Windows. You learn to use their product and expect that there will be some changes that will not suit your taste sometimes. They do not cater to you alone. There’s millions of users. Just because some of you in the forums dislike that change doesn’t mean it has to be tweak to your liking. That’s life, learn to accept changes. Everyone paid for it, not just you.

Learn to compromise sometimes, it’s better that way. It’s just an addition that ANet is adding which you could obtain the changes but you just don’t want to not because you can’t.

kKagari.6804:

FateZero.8536:

kKagari.6804:

Substance abuse iirc isn’t legalized at any age (in most countries), whether you are 10 or 90. Responsible consumption of alcohol is different.

Not sure if serious or just trolling. So, it is illegal if we fed our character Omnomberry Pie to increase Power, Magic Find and Exp. Per Kill? Because that’s using substance to enhance our character.

Right, so ANet will rename Elonian Wine to Elonian Sparkling Water.

I believe a healthy diet (and exercise) would also increase your physical ability. Doesn’t need to be a ‘substance’. If I was famished and I ate meat pie, my power would probably increase too.

Why is everyone insinuating that I’m trolling? You’re not allowed to troll on these forums.

Because there are other higher priority issues that needs more attention rather than Bakestone Caverns bro.

Shadow Blade.1324:

i think this is getting confused, as per the prelude you can buy infusions for laurels, what i was arguing for was that the base infusion included on infused ascended items be on the items you can purchase as well as the non infused version, like infused rings drop from higher levels of fractals infused whatever can be sold for more laurels.

with the changes to fractals, if i understand them correctly i will be able to join higher level fractals as long as someone in the party has done them, thus agony will be present, ill still be progressing from lvl 1 to lvl 2 and so on, but if my friends are on lvl 113 ill still need lvl 113 agony resist to be able to play with them, if i dont want to just be a burden dieing all the time due to not enough AR (exploit strategies aside) and the longer i dont join the fractals grind, the farther behind the average level ill get, how likely will it be for me to find a lvl 1 fractals pug exactly 11 months from now to start gearing up? cause im not betting its high

cesmode.4257:

Kind of my point earlier about the whole..“Why do you need agony resistance if you arent running fractals. And if you want to run fractals, why are you complaining about running fractals to get the agony infused ascended gear?” My whole stance was that some folks want to almost sidestep grinding in fractals for agony infused ascended gear, AND then run high level fractals. Have their cake and eat it too.

this is a cyclic argument, I don’t want AR to run fractals I want AR so I’m not prevented from playing with my friends in part of the game should I wish to because I’m gated out of progression. if I just wanted to farm fractals id be doing it right now, what I want is to be able to play any part of the game I feel like dipping into on any given day with my friends and not be segregated from them because of poor design. someone mentioned earlier if infused items were available outside of fractals people wouldn’t do fractals to get them, they’d just do the other activity and fractals groups would die out, isn’t that a problem with fractals itself not being fun enough to merit player attention without forcing people into it due to being the only current location of BIS offering superior rewards to every other part of the game ( hope DR is getting fixed in the upcoming patches )

Alright, let me get this straight. You want Agony Resistance to be available via the infusion which could be bought using Laurels. You want Ascended gears to be available outside Fractals.

So what about Fractals players who spent hours saving up just to get our first Agony Resistance infusion? First you guys complained that it isn’t fair that PVE players do not have the options to get BiS ascended gears. Now that it is available with stats, you want an easy way to obtain Agony Resistance via Laurels. Really??

Comparing daily/monthly achievement to Fractals run, daily/monthly is a cakewalk but you want the same reward as players who painstakingly save up for Agony Resistance infusion via Fractal runs. For once, run the Fractals. Earn your Agony Resistance. Stop being self-entitled.

tl;dr:
Pre-28th Jan patch Fractal players:
- Had to level up fotm 1 to 10 to get a chance to obtain ascended ring to slot in Agony Resistance in order to proceed further. If no ring from daily chest, have to grind for another 10 daily fotm to buy first ring with Prestine Relic.

Post-28th Jan patch:
- PVE players who complained about ascended gears get to easily obtain ascended gears with Agony Resistance via daily/monthly achievement (cakewalk) without having to go though Pre-28th Jan patch Fractal player’s hardship.

CoolStoryBro.

kKagari.6804:

Substance abuse iirc isn’t legalized at any age (in most countries), whether you are 10 or 90. Responsible consumption of alcohol is different.

Not sure if serious or just trolling. So, it is illegal if we fed our character Omnomberry Pie to increase Power, Magic Find and Exp. Per Kill? Because that’s using substance to enhance our character.

Right, so ANet will rename Elonian Wine to Elonian Sparkling Water.

lothefallen.7081:

Oh look, more grind, hair-brained story injections, and cash shop flaunting. What a great update. Nothing that really matters like class balance, new skills, or weapons or anything like that…awesome! Now i can grind dailies for Ascended items as if FoTM wasn’t awful and pointless enough. I really don’t believe they’ve been seeing more and more players log on. They’re not giving us anything of value. Another lie…these updates aren’t the size of an expansion, get real. You guys need better communication not this hype-inducing PR and shady marketing.

If I recalled correctly, ANet was talking about nerfing AoE but never mentioned anything about thief’s burst damage, perma-invis or Heartstalker spam skill. Not sure if that counts as class balance, lol.

It’s a way of life. You can’t expect compensation just because you had the best item. It’s the same in life, you want a computer with the latest graphic card, go buy one. You can’t expect Nvidia or AMD to say “Hey, you guys who had our previous best graphic card, here take this latest and most powerful graphic card which we just launched for just a top-up of $50”. Yea right.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

FateZero.8536:

You want something fractal specific but too lazy or dislike fractals.

Just to clarify something, ascended gear is not meant to be related to FotM only. It was rolled out via this dungeon, however, this new gear tier is meant to be obtainable (eventually) throughout GW2 world.

This is the next step ANet has taken to allow Ascended gear to be more readily available. The question I have is – Is this the ony method they (ANet) have added? If so then, IMO, more could have been done.

Obtainable out of fractals is not an issue. People who doesn’t do fractals shouldn’t be making noise about wanting an outside of fractals way to slot in Agony Resistance. It’s redundant. Kindly refer to my explanation below.

FateZero.8536:

Shadow Blade.1324:

@ FateZero.8536 you seem to be missing the point, BIS gear allows you to do ALL content, if you dont have it you need to get it, then your completion of that content is only dependant on personal skill/ teamwork and you can play whatever you want. Looking at it another way would you like it if after getting your fractals gear, you couldn’t use it in any other areas of the game and had to go grind each of those areas to get JP / WvW /other dungeons/ DE etc specific gear with no other way to get it? sound fun? so if you were interested in that content you’d have no problem farming lower levels of that content for the +% light gear to combat the % heavy debuff in JP or so on? cause that’s your argument

You’re missing my point here. Players who does not want to do fractals, hate to do fractals or refuses to do fractals to get ascended items when it was first introduce shouldn’t be insisting/demanding for agony resistance infusion to be available outside fractals. Why? Simple, because it’s redundant.

What I understand from your earlier post (not the one which I quoted in this post) is that you want ANet to implement some new recipe for Agony Resistance via the Mystic Forge/slotting. Why did I say new recipe? because currently to infuse any kind of agony resistance into ascended accessories, you’ll need vial of condensed mists essence/glob of coagulated mists essence/shard of crystallized mists essence/fractal relics. All of which aren’t available outside of Fractals.

Therefore, why do you want Agony Resistance when in the first place you do not enter Fractals? ANet has announced that they will make Ascended gears available outside Fractals and the stats will be the same except the absence of Agony Resistance which non-fractals players do not need.

Even if by some change of mind that you intend to do fractals, you’ll have to start from FotM level 1 which Agony Resistance is not needed till level 10 onwards. You’ll have more than enough time to save up for the Versatile Simple Infusion.

Shadow Blade.1324:

@ FateZero.8536 you seem to be missing the point, BIS gear allows you to do ALL content, if you dont have it you need to get it, then your completion of that content is only dependant on personal skill/ teamwork and you can play whatever you want. Looking at it another way would you like it if after getting your fractals gear, you couldn’t use it in any other areas of the game and had to go grind each of those areas to get JP / WvW /other dungeons/ DE etc specific gear with no other way to get it? sound fun? so if you were interested in that content you’d have no problem farming lower levels of that content for the +% light gear to combat the % heavy debuff in JP or so on? cause that’s your argument

You’re missing my point here. Players who does not want to do fractals, hate to do fractals or refuses to do fractals to get ascended items when it was first introduce shouldn’t be insisting/demanding for agony resistance infusion to be available outside fractals. Why? Simple, because it’s redundant.

What I understand from your earlier post (not the one which I quoted in this post) is that you want ANet to implement some new recipe for Agony Resistance via the Mystic Forge/slotting. Why did I say new recipe? because currently to infuse any kind of agony resistance into ascended accessories, you’ll need vial of condensed mists essence/glob of coagulated mists essence/shard of crystallized mists essence/fractal relics. All of which aren’t available outside of Fractals.

Therefore, why do you want Agony Resistance when in the first place you do not enter Fractals? ANet has announced that they will make Ascended gears available outside Fractals and the stats will be the same except the absence of Agony Resistance which non-fractals players do not need.

Even if by some change of mind that you intend to do fractals, you’ll have to start from FotM level 1 which Agony Resistance is not needed till level 10 onwards. You’ll have more than enough time to save up for the Versatile Simple Infusion.

Shadow Blade.1324:

cesmode.4257:

Again,
If you want ascended gear with built in infusion, then youre sights are aimed at high fractal levels. So go run fractals.

They are making ascended gear, without built in infusions, available via laurels so people are STATTED on equal footing, even if they dont run fractals. The infusion part of ascended gear is specific to fractals ONLY. So if you want ascended with built in infusion, then that tells me you are someone who wants to run fractals because that “upgrade” is specific to fractals.

If you do not run fractals, you do not need ascended with built in infusion.

I see no problem here.

Can people please calm down about this?

you don’t seem to understand the point, this was supposed to allow players to get BIS outside of farming fractals, if it doesn’t have the inherent AR then its not BIS its that simple and creates a sub teir if it cant be upgraded, as you will still have to grind lower level fractals and fight rng to get the stats you want if you want to dip into later fractals for a challenge or because guildies need +1

it does nothing to mend the fracturing of the player base people will still have trouble finding geared players to attempt the dungeon with since there is no AR on the gear, (infusions will help to some extent) youll still only have 50% of the infusion at most as someone who farms fractals, less when higher rarity infusions are released. then you have to grind lower level fractals (if you can find anyone to play them) to get a new set of gear with 100% AR.

Let me get this straight. First you non-fractal run players whine and cried about how you guys can’t obtain BiS ascended gears without doing fractals bcoz you guys hate fractals. Then when ANet gives you a way to obtain ascended gear outside fractals, you guys once again whine and cry that you can’t get agony resistance.

Why in the world do you want agony resistance when you guys were in the first place whining about not wanting to do fractals?? You want something fractal specific but too lazy or dislike fractals. I just can’t comprehend the level of fractals whining in this thread. Now ANet has given you a way to obtain the best stats gear, so just wear it and stkitten

Sorry, if the mod is gonna infract me then so be it. I can’t stand these people. When ascended gears first came out they whine about how they don’t wanna do fractals but still want those gears. Then ANet made it available outside fractals and now they whine about unable to get agony resistance when in the first place they DON’T DO fractals.

Why in the multi-kitten world would they remove Dynamic Events when this game is promoted and advertised based on Dynamic Events as it’s selling point??

pricer.5091:

I haven’t seen a level 80 rare item drop in Orr for ages. But I do my dailies in Wayfarer Foothills (1-15), it takes me ten to fifteen minutes and I always get a couple of level 80 rares, on one occasion doing the grawl cave event I got three.

I’m genuinely surprised people don’t know that low level areas drop level appropriate loot…

That’s what I was trying to say. Seems like OP didn’t played GW2 well enough.

AoE spells are used on large group of enemies or an enemy with large hitbox. It is a logical course of action and that isn’t an abuse. What is also not an abuse is casting AoE spells at a choke point to discourage enemies rushing in. This my friend, is called strategy with a logical mind.

If we’re not allowed to use AoE spells on a single target, then ANet might as well create a restriction that prompts the user “unable to use <spell name> on single target enemy”. Yea, I bet that would increase GW2’s popularity.

Grevender.9235:

FateZero.8536:

You could solo temple event, then good for you, gratz, but it doesn’t mean everyone is like you. Get what I’m trying to say?

yup, you are trying to say that the unskilled have to master social skills, create an huge zerg and get their payback

Totally

I don’t know what you’re talking about or rather you do not play the game at all. We are in fact getting level 80 loot when we kill mobs in a level 1-15 zone.

I enjoy my personal story (1-20) and also the order’s story quest (20-50) but hate it when it became Trahearne’s story. I dislike how characters from our personal story quest seems disposable, they’ll just disappear after we join the order.

Got both charged and corrupted lodestones when I did fotm 10 last night from Jade Maw’s chest. In fact, I’ve gotten most of my lodestones from Jade Maw’s chest. However, I got my glacial lodestone from a random corrupted ice elemental in Frostgorge Sound.

Here, official kitten link with reply from the dev:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first

faustus.8493:

So this is my rant about the mentors. Major story line spoilers, mostly for Vigil since that is the one I finished to the end with.

So you join the order and meet your mentor: Forgal Kernsson, Tybalt Leftpaw, or that plant chick whose name evades me. If you are like me, you start to connect to this NPC. I liked that fact that Forgal would very rarely need to be revived, unlike a certain NPC who shall remain nameless for now. He could fight and he really felt like a mentor. I was using a Norn Mesmer so the fact that Forgal was a Norn Warrior (Maybe?) really clicked with me. Unlike with Tybalt where he and my human were engineers…

I enjoyed the missions where I got help from Forgal. If I was being honest, then he was my favorite NPC of the entire game. I even changed my style of fighting to match his as closely as a Mesmer could. I figured that hiding behind my clones was a bad idea and Forgal was not as expendable as a clone.

Then along came Claw Island. That dragon showed up and I knew something awful was coming. Then Forgal began his talk about the heroic death and the odds. When he talked about his legacy I started to tear up. In all honesty I think I was crying when that door closed. I had lost the mentor who had literally changed the way I played the game.

To my horror the story gave me Trahearne as a partner. I had to turn my Mesmer from a damage build to as close to a tank build as I could get. Why? Because that wimpy plant could not take any damage. To keep him alive so he could do his freakish amounts of rituals required me to take all the aggro.

To make things even worse, the Pale Tree decrees that he is to lead us to victory! First, since when did the Norn listen to the Pale Tree? Or the Asura? I understand that part of the story is watching him grow from a scholar to a Marshal, but I would have made a better Marshal. I know they wanted a neutral party to lead them but I was making almost all of the decisions! Most of what the Pact does is because I told Trahearne to do it! So the Vigil was in fact in control.

I know that most of this could just be me being an idiot but that is what I thought.

We all share the same horror of which is called Trahearne. I feel you.

I’m just waiting for Crystal Desert to have slots… My guild is there… They recruited me on overflow.

I saw a player in one of the Lion’s Arch overflow advertising to sell his account which he created on Crystal Desert just before it became full. He said the account is empty but it’s on an active WvW server with healthy active population. Is this allowed? Pretty sure it’s not ethical.

I thought there’s a level requirement to equip gathering tools.

Well, for those who crafts their own legendary there are materials where gold can’t buy such as skill points, karma and badge of honor.

I saw a Dev in game too in Timberline Falls. Human female avatar with the ANet icon next to the name where usually you’ll see the world completion achievement. Didn’t spoke though, seems like she was in a hurry to check something out.

Agreed about disposable characters being thrown at us. Take human storyline for example. We start off with Lord Faren/Quinn/Andrew and Petra. However, after we’ve done with the starting story branch (poor/moderate/rich background), these characters just disappeared, no words from them ever again (not even a mail wishing us good luck on our journey ahead).

Then we’re given a mentor according to which order we chose. Mentor then dies with us having no options/choices to choose their path for them. Finally, we’re stuck with cabbage Trahearne.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Diviner.7405:

Orion Templar.4589:

FateZero.8536:

when we arrive there, it was all crickets

I know what you mean. Earlier this week I was at Malchor’s and a group of about 10 of us were trying the Lyssa event. It’s pretty much impossible to keep up with the spawns of multiple veterans much less try to attack the high priestess before the shields go back up and you need to reclaim one of the side nodes with such a small group of players. Clearly the temple events were designed with a larger group in mind, however I’d like to see the dynamic event scaling work even for these types of events so that a smaller group could have a tough challenge but with coordination and skill could still see victory.

All temples can be done with 10 people. One of them is even soloable. If you could not do it with 10 people, then either the people with you were not fully geared or they had no idea what was going on and were uncoordinated.

This.
I did Lyssa yesterday (very early server time as I live +8h to the server time zone) on my mesmer.
Started the first event, and nearly finished it, when an additional player arrived (engi with mad explosion placement skills ^^). We cleared both other spots without any problems and promoted the free wp.
We started the final event with 4 players and finished it with 7.

People got way to deep into that zerg thing. Zerging is most of the time the easiest option, but not the only one.
It helps a lot if you know what’s going on, heaven forbid that people would have to learn how to play in an endgame zone.
Only a hand full of mobs really CC in Orr, most of them you can just run trough. Read the kitten mobs name and avoid ’em accordingly if you do not want to fight.

Ah too late, this sounds way too much like a L2P post. Sorry, wasn’t intened to be this way. But seriously, try to be aware of your surroundings in Orr. And you will be fine.

There are some people with l33t hand-mind coordination while there are some people with casual ability. I believe you did not meant to sound elitist, so I’ll leave it at that. You could solo temple event, then good for you, gratz, but it doesn’t mean everyone is like you. Get what I’m trying to say?

What I am trying to say is, Anet should’ve made maps and events keeping in mind to spread out a healthy amount of population across all maps. For example, with Fractals in, the population seems to lean towards it leaving other maps abandoned. I know because I too prefer Fractals than to explore the world. Returns are better and it guarantees me a rare-exotic drop. That’s bad game design in my opinion.

I highly doubt GW2 will shut down. Even MMO which is heavily infested with bots are still alive and it’s almost 8 years now, such as Cabal Online. Not to mention the bag-of-fail like D3 is still surviving.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Just wanted to let you guys know that we’re reading this thread.

Your logic, reasons, anecdotes and ideas are being listened to. Also keep in mind, that as I said yesterday, a skill can be a balance problem in one area of the game, but underpowered in another. That’s the nature of using one set of #‘s to balance across all areas of the game. So we’re keeping that in mind as we look at this. We may need to do different tweaks in different areas of the game.

We’re also not going to make a knee jerk reaction to this. We’re still gathering data, watching player trends, and having meetings on all possible ramifications from possible changes.

That’s good news. At least we know that devs aren’t tweaking without a concern for players at heart. Also, kindly look into the Heartseeker skill of thief. It’s really overpowered in my opinion and also their invisibility duration is insane. Not fun at all.

P.S. I play both Ele and Thief.

My friend recently maxed his warrior level. Wanted to bring him to straits to get the Balthazar armor but when we arrive there, it was all crickets. So the 3 of us did the pre-event for the temple but upon reaching the top of the temple, the pact lost all morale.

I believe everyone should have a chance to experience temple events and if one has to wait for a crowd like right after GW2 release to come, then only God knows how long he has to wait. My friend had full interest in this game when he started like 3 weeks ago, but upon reaching the deserted land of straits, he told me this game’s design is flawed because if there’s no crowd doing temple events then neither him nor other newcomers could ever experience temple events or hope to get the karma vendor.