Guild Wars 2

And make rings forgeable while you’re at it. Because I’m sitting at 5 rings with worthless stats at the moment.

Brassnautilus.2941:

so you just need to stay in there for days….

Holy kittening kitten. What’s it like at that level?

Farming CoE for my kitten cores, pretty much.

And daily dose of level 20 fractals.

Kalok.4273:

I dont think even a level 80 at fractal level 2, should be allowed to participate in the higher level fractals untill the re-req’s are meet like everyone else

Give me one valid reason why my alt should be forced to do the climb all over again. Rings? He already has two. Backpiece? Book/quiver is not a problem. AR? As if 225 tokens are remotely hard to come by.

Dradiin.8935:

My biggest issue with my hate towards the TP is the fact that the developers have said they adjust drop rates based on the TP.

[citation needed]

Writetyper.1985:

There’s not much you can do except hope that they tone down on the skipping and fix some of the bugs in the February update.

Yeah how DARE this exploiter scum simplify their gameplay.

Rob, what about Bjarl switching aggro mid-charge? That a glitch or WAI?

Rika.7249:

HotW, Jellyfish and Lornarr suffer from this.

Also Evolved Destroyer.

haviz.1340:

“Totally unkillable boss”, you really know how to tell jokes.

Are you suggesting I called Simin unkillable in her current state? ‘Cause I didn’t.

Wanna grind? Start the arduous journey towards a legendary. It will suck out your soul, especially if you’re aiming for Sunrise/Twilight/Bifrost.

Just because they were announced, doesn’t mean they’ll follow through.

As Izzy said, “We PLAN to ship…”.

Rev up your disappointment.

Errant Venture.9371:

No, he’s blaming his bad luck salvaging ectos the last few days on stealth nerfs which there is no actual evidence for.

Every patch is a nerf to ecto rate, didn’t you know?

PowerCat.5738:

No but there’s been a massive nerf to salvaging CoF gear. Good luck getting ectos.

Really?

Yareon.2835:

Never said that, I was just stating that skipping the bridge often makes the next part only HARDER with a possibility to have you actually LOSE TIME instead of gain it.

Only if Ferrah acts like a kitten and pulls the two casters when you’re already killing those other guys.

Yareon.2835:

Yes, they should.

No they shouldn’t. But they probably will. No farming allowed. No dosh allowed. The gems must flow.

Picked up a couple of PUG, they just ran after the bridge pulling also the champion in the room with the 2 ads and the imps spawned by the flame shamans near the turrets. Never wiped in that room before that and you just need 2 more minutes to clear the bridge. -.-

Wonderful tale chap, but your one single terribad experience in a PUG of all things does not imply the entire path is kitten.

pdfrod.1948:

My point was that the encounter should be fixed, so that good groups can do it without having to rely on this trick.

Considering the “fixes” we’ve seen so far, it’s vastly better to leave the 4-1 feature in rather than have a totally unkillable boss.

Trollhammer.7439:

Spawns are totally killable with well geared party. But then again, why would you be doing CoF well geared?

Quick dosh and ectos.

pdfrod.1948:

Therefore I suggest the following fixes for this encounter:
- Get rid of the 4-1 trick;

Not until she becomes sufficiently doable (by good groups) so that the 4-1 feature isn’t necessary.

- Make Simin lose a bit of health when the sparks are put in place. The amount of health lost would depend of how fast sparks are put in place. Example:
– Perfect sparks run: Simin loses 10% health;
– Slow sparks run: Simin loses 1% (or even 0%) health.

A better idea is to have her lose 2% HP whenever a spark is trapped.

And now the more hardcore players hit the FotM hard cap. What has this achieved? Nothing.

They should put a door in at the part where they’re trying to execute crea irontooth so that you have to kill the mobs on the bridge before it opens, similar to arah path 3 with the door before the first 2 bosses.

No they shouldn’t.

PowerCat.5738:

Agony is a way to “gate content” for you to grind “vertical progression” of gear to pass the “gated content”.

Which is bad design by definition.

You’re doing it wrong. Discover some items. Insignia + two partials = item.

Chris Starflame.1023:

That does not answer the question.
I asked “What is endgame?”
I did not ask “What is endgame in GW2?”

You gotta ask the proper questions, son.

Endgame is AFKing in LA with your shiny legendary, tier3 cultural armor, tier3 ascended backpiece, commander icon and GWAMM title.

You DO realize Gaheron is the endboss of CoF2 as well? Death was merely a setback.

I’m betting on the Arah3 treatment myself.

Fractals was created to challenge

Haha. No. Artificial difficulty does not challenge make.

Lupus with agony…

Koptev said it best: NO NO NO.

Twill.6217:

it’s only “8 minutes” if you’re on a turbo-charged skipping mode, and there’s no reason to skip optional bosses or money-dropping mobs.

There are only three skippable packs in CoF1. Two trash packs no one gives a kitten about and an optional boss that drops kitten loot. Our group makes it in 7 minutes if the stones don’t kitten us over.

i do expect dungeons to be a bit more challenging, however, there is a fine line between challenging and tedious. and so far all dungeon “fixes” only made paths more tedious.
if i can’t have a balanced dungeon and instead i have to choose between a face-roll one and tedious one then i’ll take the faceroll, thank you very much.

What this guy said.

This DR bullkitten should’ve been scrapped on the 2nd design meeting. Why is it still in-game is beyond me.

seekerbiswas.4259:

1. More Level 80 maps and quests.

Like Rich Ori Cove? Improve the already existing zones instead, remove the kitten farming DR and make Orr less annoying.

2. More Social Aspects(I mean make guilds important)

Yes please. Guild halls with JPs in to hold social guild events.

3. More Ways to earn karma at max levels

Not necessary. Karma’s a joke already, my main has 450k karma and I haven’t even used all the consumable karma items I have.

Just kill the spawns. We usually kill the last hellstorm by 95%.

haviz.1340:

Before fix, you could go away and make a cup of tea in the meanwhile, is this how harder content should be played? By being afk?

“Tedious” and “hard” aren’t necessarily the same. The evolved destroyer is tedious. Simin is was hard.

Stop being annoying in the JP unless you wanna get trebbed.

They’re “working on it” and it’ll be “available” "soon"™.

You do not need a mesmer timewarp bot to kill Simin. There, I’ve said it.

Blame the demand, not the supply.

If people would pay me 20g to get 60 tokens and an achievement they don’t deserve, who am I to say ‘no’ to this?

Lalangamena.3694:

properly built ranger is very strong in PVE.

Funny, I’ve never seen one. Care to enlighten me?

Wethospu.6437:

I have tried to do P4 with other guy but I don’t think our DPS was even close. But maybe with two Warriors…

Do it, do it, do it. 1 glass cannon, 1 sanic boomer using the 4-1 spark feature might actually succeed.

Kain Francois.4328:

A part of me believes we will see this change in the upcoming “expansion worth of content.”

A part of me dreads the thought it’ll be in form of “Random Lodestone bags” from the gem store.

First, thank you for addressing so many of the important issues in this patch. After playing a couple of hours tonight, however, I’ve realized that the fight against exploiters will never truly be won.

1. DPS is still way out of control – in some cases I’ve even seen players kill certain monsters before they were killed themselves.
2. People are still taking advantage of skills with unintended effects such as increased survival, damage output, and situation control.
3. There are several chests that continue to drop non-blues when opened; there are also still other, more nefarious means of gold farming, such as killing enough monsters that you actually MAKE more gold than your waypoint cost.
4. I personally witnessed an incident where a player found an exotic and when they salvaged it, it dropped ectos.
5. Some gear seen on vendors still had stats other than Vitality that could, in the hands of an insidious agent, theoretically be employed toward the end of making combat easier.
6. Bosses still have low enough HP to be able to be killed by players – I don’t have screenshots to prove this, but it is happening. Hopefully your data analysis can pick it up.
7. Some bosses and champs are failing to properly spam stun, wall, poison, burn, spin, reflect, daze, knockback, slow, and chill players simultaneously while they one-shot everything and carpet every square inch of the zone with toxic ooze
8. I personally was able to set up a bizarre configuration in the trading post search panel where I could find items with specific stats and also be able to sort them in a way that was not effectively random.
9. A friend of mine told me they were playing with some person earlier who – and I’m just the messenger here – seemed like they might be having fun while playing the game. I don’t know how true this is, but if it’s even a possibility, god help us all.

I’m just trying to do my part to ensure this kind of disgusting and cowardly behavior gets stamped out as soon as possible. If there’s anything I hate in a game, it’s feeling like I’m getting more powerful and that my time and efforts are culminating in some kind of… shudder… progression. I’m in this for the frustration and disappointment, 100%, and I stand behind you with every patch that brings us closer to those ideals.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

Farm the TP, no DR 100g in 2 hours for starters

Tell me your secrets, master.

It’d be even better if Evolved Destroyer wasn’t such a kittenfest of a boss fight.

The intent is stupid. I shouldn’t have to relevel fractals from level 1 on my “alt” when my “main” is at level X already.

Consider the following: If people go to such great lengths to circumvent game mechanics, maybe the problem is with the mechanics?

HotW was a prime example before they “fixed” it.

Making the sub-bosses drop Wondrous Bags was a step in the right direction; at least they don’t feel entirely unrewarding now.

If only Lodestones were purchasable with their respective dungeon tokens, this would be wonderful. Of course it’d hurt gem profits so it’d never happen.

haviz.1340:

They increased difficulty few times in p2 and decreased difficulty in p1. It’s christmas time now, but later I would expect some tuning to CoF because everyone farms it.

Rob said he’ll “touch” CoF3 because he can't find groups for it. Prepare for the apocalypse and a few weeks of undoable CoF1,2, get your gift of Balefire if you need it, etc.

haviz.1340:

Okay, I guess getting bifrost might be a more difficult than rest of the legendaries but you could have done shard runs for some time during launch.

And just about every legendary that requires gift of Zhaitan.

I remember how people were crying about Magg path in CoF. They nerf quick rewards.

I wasn’t farming dungeons back then. What happened?

And my 9-minute CoF1 runs aren’t quick at all.

Getting legendary was always a matter of time and grind. Getting some titles requires something more than killing hordes of undeads in Cursed Shore.

We both know it’s not as simple as you put it. Gift of Zhaitan is a kitten to farm without a DM team to play with.

Anet doesn’t like when you farm tokens without completing dungeon in a legit way.

Understatement of the millennium, considering the length Rob went to in order to destroy Arah3 farming.

There has to be a limit where you view something as free market.

Fair point, but I just don’t think that 60 tokens for a fair amount of dosh is going to affect the game that bad.

Nike.2631:

I’d like to see all three of the dragon lieutenant battle achievements as part of it – get landed on by the Claw of Jormag, fire ze lazer at Tequatl, and bust some crystal prisons around the the Shatter’s toes.

NO NO NO, that’s just silly.

Writetyper.1985:

It’s based on the story instance netcode for a reason

I’ve yet to hear a single good reason why FotM was based on this code to begin with. Why wasn’t it designed based on regular dungeon again? Laziness? Idiocy?

They were probably rushing to get it done on time and it’s hardly practical to mess with the base engine on a short timescale.

Yes, let’s rework a fundamental part of the game engine instead of shutting down fractals until they’re redesigned properly using already existing, more fault-tolerant resources.

LOGIC.

Sacrifices. Damage control. The lesser of two evils.

Why are you defending this kitten? I don’t understand.

If anything, at least two parts of this “hunt” should be Trahearne’s Story completion and DM title. God knows what they have in mind though.