Projectile reflection/destruction and proper condition removal really takes the bite out of the majority of the enemies in CM.
It would have been nice to be able to guest between EU and NA servers, and hopefully they continue to work toward making that possible.
I’ve seen quite a few mentions of meeting in overflow in this thread. That doesn’t allow playing open world content together, only dungeons (as far as I know).
This is incorrect. You can play open world content together in overflow. You just need to form a group in an overflow region (Lions Arch) and then you can go anywhere in the world with your group.
No. Simply forming a group on an overflow in LA doesn’t allow you to play open world content with your group of cross-server members.
Currently, you must all be in the same overflow server of that particular zone, and in order to do that, an overflow needs to exist, and one member of your group has to be on an overflow in the first place so you can join on them. Most zones don’t have the player population to even have overflows in the first place, so this kind of thing doesn’t happen very often unless you happen to form a group at that particular moment with someone on a server that has overflows in the zone you want to play in.
This is again, incorrect. I very often join non-fractal groups while i’m still in overflow. Could you explain how our group gets to AC or CoF in your theory? Because that’s exactly what i’ve been doing.
What you do if you want to play together inworld is that you send one group member to LA, other group members join in overflow and now you can go anywhere you want.
So AC and CoF are ‘anywhere in the world’ and ‘open world content’, now? Instanced dungeons are NOT open-world content, sorry to say. You can’t do things like dragons or other large DEs without being on the same overflow with your cross-server group until guesting gets put in or you all feel like free-transferring to the same server and be stuck there for 7 days.
It would have been nice to be able to guest between EU and NA servers, and hopefully they continue to work toward making that possible.
I’ve seen quite a few mentions of meeting in overflow in this thread. That doesn’t allow playing open world content together, only dungeons (as far as I know).
This is incorrect. You can play open world content together in overflow. You just need to form a group in an overflow region (Lions Arch) and then you can go anywhere in the world with your group.
No. Simply forming a group on an overflow in LA doesn’t allow you to play open world content with your group of cross-server members.
Currently, you must all be in the same overflow server of that particular zone, and in order to do that, an overflow needs to exist, and one member of your group has to be on an overflow in the first place so you can join on them. Most zones don’t have the player population to even have overflows in the first place, so this kind of thing doesn’t happen very often unless you happen to form a group at that particular moment with someone on a server that has overflows in the zone you want to play in.
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So bad when during a big pitched battle between two large forces, the only thing you can see of the enemy is mesmer clones. Straight up made me not want to play at all for the rest of the night.
Might as well just add more general content in the world, any of which can apply to the current daily achievement.
I’m completely done with daily grinding of faction rep after getting both Lightbringer and Sunspear rank in GW1 to max, along with all the other rep grinding nonsense from WoW. Keep that garbage away and implement more uses for karma instead.
Maybe they should buff runes/sigils to make them more useful instead of nerfing a consumable.
Why can’t they? There just needs to be mechanics that can’t be overcome by throwing more numbers at them. It hasn’t been done because no one has really tried yet. Easier to just pop in the same stuff that’s been in every MMO since ever because that’s what’s ‘expected’ of the genre.
Old Tom in the Uncatagorized fractal occasionally shoots a bouncing lightning bolt that can bounce off pets/minions, potentially hitting nearby players multiple times.
What if the teamwork in combat revolved around “essentially the same attack” that everyone has for damage and survivability.
What I mean is, everyone has a group heal, but it is on long cooldown. In order to heal and live through the fight you have to time and rotate your group heals otherwise you die.
Everyone can break the bosses armor so that he takes damage, but it is on a long cooldown, and if you all blow it at the same time, then there will be long periods of no damage being done, resulting in the group dying because they couldn’t meet the damage needed.
Everyone can control the boss, but you have to space out controls between the group otherwise there will be periods where the boss is flailing about and hitting everyone for obscene damage, and the only way to prevent that is to immobilize/knock down/block at the right times, but for the group.
Take that self survivability and apply it to the group and the group becomes stronger for longer periods of damage and combat.
this kind of does exist, it really boils down to the fact that guild wars 2 is very forgiving right now, go play some higher level fractals and you start to see people really come together with team work to succeed.
The main reason people dont use teamwork, support, and properly use their defensive/team defensive skills, is not because this type of play isnt encouraged by the mechanics, its because the fights are designed so that people can win. (generally speaking)
Exactly. It’s like I said earlier in the topic. The core mechanics are actually solid. There just isn’t much content that really showcases what it can do at the moment.
Simply saying it took five months to complete MC doesn’t tell the whole story, since much of that time was likely taken up passing through gear gates and the whole issue of actually finding a time to get 40 people on all at once.
Most of the supposed difficulty in WoW was about logistical issues involving the organization of large groups of people and getting them to do exactly what they needed to do at the right time. Individual tasks were not difficult, but communicating when exactly they need to flip a switch in a group of 40 was the hard part. With a group of 5 like you have in GW2, there are fewer variables, and such communication hiccups are significantly reduced if not eliminated entirely.
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Why teleport to all of them? Kill stuff, gather, and do events along the way to finish other parts of the daily/monthly and easily recoup any travel expenses.
Mountains out of molehills every kitten month.
No thank you no trinity otherwise i would play other mmos but im not.
couple of reasons :
1st you have healers and tanks thinking they are more important than everyone else in a group which in turns breeds a horrible community.
2nd There is no way in wow that a dps player get a quick group you always wait much longer than a tank or healer.
Also whats the point of standing still in a fight thats the most boring thing in other mmos for me doesnt matter what you do you always gets hit that is just not realistic its like standing still in front of a person with a gun and just wait for him to shoot you and hoping for the best.
It is not as if you didnt know that there is not gonna be a trinity either if that was your thing why switch to another mmo. If the wow type machanics is your thing then play wow that is the exact same reason i moved to guildwars the trinity is not my thing so i left wow and im happy.
Speaking about the realism… how realistic downstate is? You lay down and raise your hand so you can magically get back to fight endless times?
I won’t comment on finding party because I haven’t tried much yet. Looking at other posts tho it seems that finding one is easier with certain classes/specs. For me it doesn’t matter if I have to look longer because bleeds dont stack past 25 or because they already have 3 dpsers.
Looking at your post you are another one that thinks trinitiy=wow and thats the game on wnich you are basing your opinion. Well than I did every raid and dungeon in that crappy game and I hardly ever stood still during encounter, and I only stood still because I couldnt cast while moving and every second of not casting counts as dps loss.
On a side, in WoW after every encounter I knew I could have played better. I messed spell priority a bit, or I popped my cds a while too fast. I don’t have that feeling in gw2 there is no self improvement.
have you ever done any group content? or are you basing this soley off the open world events? If you did dungeons or fractals higher than 10, and didnt feel any teamwork, or see the importance of your build, playstyle and how well you execute, you were probably being carried by a team, because even ascalon catacombs can be pretty harsh without people who know what they are doing and how to effectively deal with situations, beyond a dps race.
I did a dungeon naked with my Guardian + Hammer and went AFK on bosses with 1 on auto and never died. Cleared the dungeon, got almost 70 silver, tokens, loot, and only had to move my character to the bossfights. Didn’t have to communicate with my team at all. Didn’t have a role, i just sat there, put down wards, and never died. I washed the dishes, watched a few youtube videos and made a bagel with cream cheese and capers all while auto-piloting.
Yeah, this is part of the reason why implementing a more solid trinity or direct healer class would improve this game socially, depth wise, and design wise. Then maybe the team could design an encounter in which the boss had real difficulty not just a health bar in scientific notation and 1HKO you had to dodge out of once ever 25 seconds.
Do people defending the game as it is not play it? Are they even lv 80 yet?
This doesn’t really say anything about the core mechanics, but the design of that particular dungeon/path, which is lacking in several places. Convenient how you failed to specify which dungeon you ran. Trying to do that in places like Arah and most higher level Fractals isn’t going to fly.
I run a hybrid damage/offensive support build on my Warrior, focusing on boon duration and might stacking to provide solid personal damage output and high uptime on offensive boons to the group. I flip between regen banners and healing shouts pretty regularly, but tend to stick with regen banners since I find that groups that provide constant regen aren’t very common. That 150-200 per second tick of healing certainly isn’t nothing when combined with the active defenses of group members, especially when I don’t have to do anything to keep it up besides cast a banner every minute and a half.
That’s your perception of the game’s mechanics, which I disagree strongly with. I see a very sturdy foundation with a lack of content to really take advantage of what it offers. Fractals are a start, and we’ll see what the dungeon revamp brings in a few months.
I wouldn’t call simply dropping everything that they’ve already built in favor of a hard trinity an improvement.
The core mechanics they have in place right now are solid. It needs refinement and expansion, along with content that actually takes advantage of said mechanics, much like what the trinity has already gone through for many, many years already.
They read enough to know about those particular fixes, but as usual, ignore the context.
Apparently it’s too difficult to read the very first sentence of the actual announcement.
Are videos of hotjoin games supposed to prove something?
I’m just tired of having to deal with them. They’re just not fun to fight against.
I had a lot of fun with dual sword+Longbow crit and condition damage build. Hammer is also extremely entertaining.
Nope. Leave them in. Then people will learn when it is appropriate to dodge, use stun breaks, full invulnerabilities, and stability skills. If they don’t, too bad.
Jade Maw is flaky because the timing compared to the animation and sound cues is a little random and could stand to be tightened up a bit, but then I can just double dodge or use another skill to avoid getting hit.
Well…giving both might and fury would certainly make it worth using.
Uh, everyone is able to participate. Completing it is another matter, but if it was too easy it wouldn’t be very entertaining.
Axe doesn’t do anything else besides damage. That’s what it’s for.
Nope. Other dungeons don’t have a variable difficulty setting to worry about, which is part of the draw of fractals in the first place. I’d imagine that is playing a significant part in the complications of getting people back in when they get kicked.
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Where does it say in the patch notes that this was fixed?
Yes, seriously.
Because not all bugs are created equal. Those were much easier fixes than the D/C issue, which didn’t make it into the December 3rd patch because of how difficult it ended up being to fix.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dec-3-patch-notes/page/2#post914876
Some bugs are harder to fix than others. There’s a post floating around somewhere that the D/C issue in Fractals was much more difficult to fix than anticipated because of how they’re implemented, so it didn’t make it in this patch.
Definitely something on their end. I’m in California, and I’m getting pretty bad lag, but only in overflows and fractals. If I’m in other dungeons or the main instances, everything is fine and dandy.
Why not?
What makes any other criteria more worthy of being part of the monthly achievement than any other criteria?
Suffice it to say that there are people who don’t do fractals, and there are those who don’t participate in WvW. Having these be part of the monthly achievement encourages both camps to move out of their comfort zones and try out different things.
Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything they don’t want to do. The rewards from the monthly achievement are relatively easy to obtain elsewhere and are hardly necessary to enjoy the game.
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What are you on about with the monthly not rewarding players doing a variety of things? Only 1/4 of the monthly objectives is fractal runs, the others are WvW kills and things related to seasonal events or content patches.
What…are you talking about? You realize that you can go back and play any fractal difficulty you’ve already completed, right?
Okay, so don’t do fractals if you hate them.
I guess I’ve missed the memo where you MUST do everything on the monthly achievement regardless of your own preferences.
It doesn’t, because with experience, the reviewer has changed his opinion.
And…not to go off topic, but for all the supposed fluidity of ME3’s combat, it’s hampered by the incredibly obnoxious all-in-wonder button syndrome that they refuse to split into separate bindable functions for the PC version. I absolutely LOVE herpa-derping around in and out of cover when trying to revive a teammate, or stopping to revive a teammate when it’s currently suicidal when I’m actually trying to sprint AWAY and get into a better position because one button does all of those things.
It’s funny that you bring up ME3 multiplayer as well, because the weapon leveling system/RNG packs in general in that game was atrocious, and remained that way for months before they took measures to correct it.
Even then, power creep was all over the place in that game when they released the first DLC. Geth Infiltrators basically outperformed everyone in damage with the combination of Tactical Cloak’s damage boost, Hunter Mode, and their absurd heavy melee, allowing them destroy entire groups of enemies before they could even retaliate or even perform actions, and heavier targets didn’t last much longer than that. Then, they could also shoot proximity mines for crowd control and further damage boosts AND use any weapon they wanted with no repercussions. THAT also took months of balancing to bring into line, mostly revolving around buffing virtually every other race/class combination in the game.
SMGs were completely useless aside from extremely specific builds, and assault rifles weren’t much better besides a few specific ones, mostly the Falcon and Mattock because they had unique properties that the other ARs didn’t, and pretty much every single weapon besides Widow/Black Widow and the Carnifex went through numerous incremental buffs before they were as good as they are now, and because of the power creep from their content updates, even those weapons have received buffs as well.
It’s taken almost a year for ME3’s multiplayer to get to the state it’s in now. GW2 is a much larger game and has been live less than 4 months.
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I’d like to ask this question again, because it seems that no one ever has a good answer, and this was brought up by someone else when it was dungeon completions as the target of contention last month.
What makes any other criteria more suitable for the monthly achievement than any other criteria? Aside from these past few months when they’ve been linked to big content patches, they’re pretty much arbitrary. What makes those who don’t enjoy fractals/dungeons more privileged than those who don’t enjoy WvW (which has been part of the monthly achievement every month since launch)?
Completion of the monthly achievement is also not necessary. You get Mystic Coins just by doing the daily, and if you want more, you can buy them off the TP.
If you don’t want to do it, then don’t. It’s as simple as that.
I’d think that 12% damage all the time would be best if you have no crit.
I’d wait. I don’t see the need for it right now.
T3 cultural can stay right where it is as a purely cosmetic gold sink. If you want exotic stats, there’s plenty of other places to get it.
And what does agony resistance do to every other mechanic and enemy that doesn’t involve agony?
Nothing. Not a kitten thing. You’re still going to have to be able to deal with all of that if you want to finish higher level fractals.
Considering you can already effectively roflstomp Shadow Behemoth and Fire Elemental as a downscaled 80, I don’t see the need in eliminating the downscaling system. I’d say they need to make it more strict at lower levels instead, since it feels pretty good in the middle levels.
Bandwidth costs are footnotes in the financial reports for these companies.
Most ongoing costs are paying personnel to maintain these services.
Just check NCSoft’s Q3 earnings report. Bandwidth costs are placed into the ‘other’ category, hardly even significant enough to warrant it’s own classification.
I get T6 mats regularly when running fractals.
Totally worth an extra 10-20 seconds per mob to kill some extra stuff.
Warriors can just use Balanced Stance to get away. Breaks stun and grants stability.
Alternatively, slot Fear Me and hit it to break their lockdown if you get caught. Shouts can be used while CCed.
Having a Guardian gives you a larger margin of error, but isn’t required at all. I’ve run in several groups where I’m the only melee player on my Warrior without much issue. You just need to get a little more creative with whatever support the rest of your party brings to the table.
I end up repeating lower level fractals pretty consistently even though I’m up to level 18. I get groups faster, and it’s more entertaining than sitting around with my thumb up my kitten doing nothing.
The minor reduction in token gain doesn’t really concern me. There’s no pressing need for this ascended gear, and I’m much too far away from my legendary rifle at this point to really mind not having the obsidian shards RIGHT NOW.
You can easily avoid his agony attack by dodging twice in a row. No special invulnerability skills required.
I have to say…that I’ve never seen anyone ask anyone to link their exotic gear or fractal level or be kicked in this game.
Ever.
And I run a LOT of dungeon PuGs.
People who are looking for specific criteria usually let people know when they’re spamming in map chat beforehand.
You know…you don’t have to interrupt the heal if you do the lava buckets correctly. He’ll stun himself every time he tries to heal while superheated.
Lava bucket timing is also easysauce if you have even one immobilize in the group a couple of seconds long.