Guild Wars 2

Mighty Assasin.3816:

I think the concept is accurate.

I think you missed my point entirely.

Elitists pls go.

Bartho.7896:

Evolved husk is the reason why p2 is faster than p1. just l2p.

Bjarl is way faster than husk, just l2DPS.

Bartho.7896:

Path 2 is like 5-10min faster than p1, takes some brains to do it fast tho.

The evolved husk is one of the worst bosses in the game.

P3 is long, but not THAT long, id say 10min longer than p1.

Until the evolved destroyer.

Who the kitten thought this kitten is remotely fun?

Because Bjarl is bugged and no one at anet seems to give a kitten and the other two paths take several galactic years to complete.

The entire concept behind gift of fortune is flawed and shouldn’t have been made.

Humposaurus.5764:

Flipping is the fastest way to make gold in this game.

Oh? Enlighten me. I’ll need a few vaults of gold soon™.

Why do we NEED these NPCs again? Can’t we kill [insert boss name here] and read a cool story without having a kitten around?

I’m looking at you Randall and Magg.

Let’s have Lupus, Simin and Alpha3 in every fractal instead. Y’know, ‘cause we don’t fight them enough.

Here’s a broken event: Lupus’ grub attack targets non-players. Fix it.

ledzep.9504:

I for one am happy this is not the most efficient way to make money anymore.

Will you be happy when YOUR favorite money making method gets nerfed into uselessness?

Yeah, I thought not.

Jzl.8715:

Otherwise you’ll only have people in harder content getting all the money and loot.

Why is this a bad thing? People being rewarded for their skill was pretty much the selling point of GW.

When are you guys going to nerf the gold drops in AC?

It seems you don’t want us to make money at all and just buy gems.

Ruien.9506:

Good fix Anet. Wish you’d ban for exploits as well and you wouldn’t have to fix stuff like this.

Losing customers is always a good thing.

Enfrayia.8179:

Iehova.9518:

Also knockbacks with bigger aoe than the platform you’re standing on is stupid.

Jump on to the platform behind you?

Cripple?

haviz.1340:

There aren’t worse bosses than those from path 2 and 3 unless you enjoy fighting them for 10-15 minutes in underwater. Last time I went for a cup of tea while fighting them.

Simin and her piss-poor execution comes to mind.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Soon those stats will be back. Give time, ascended weapons are coming.

Yeah I just can’t wait spending all the t6 and stuff I’m saving for my legendary on an ascended weapon.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Arah is not farmed just for money.

Actually it is. The tokens are just a bonus.

They steal tokens for a prestigious rare beautiful armor , weapons and gift

Oh yes, everyone sneaks up on the final chest using uber-leet hax and steals the endboss’ rightfully owned shards of Zhaitan. It’s the stargazer, that inquest, the wraithlord and the bloodstone shard each divided Zhaitan to a gorillion shards and kept them to themselves. And we thieving scum sneak up and steal

That’s why i mentioned the glory of arah.

Arah isn’t glorious. It’s annoying and tedious.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

How farm first boss going invisible, killing 2 bosses quickly, chest and reset for a few hours is called game mechanics, tell me

It’s not explicitly forbidden by the game mechanics to do so, therefore it’s legit.

One more thing, don’t you think some players have FUN farming money? Surely you do not wish to deprive players of the FUN they’re having because of a silly whim.

Did you wonder why devs removed the chest token reward improving the final boss 60token reward?

Because chests are guaranteed to spawn, bags of goods are not.

When you’ve done these dungeons so many bloody times you remember every pull, you WANT to get it over and done with ASAP. Trust me on this one.

ElendStormcler.7105:

You can do Explorable mode without doing Story mode in the first place.

It was changed few weeks ago.

Citation needed.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

I can give you a simple answer: a dungeon is meant to played till the end,

Says who?

not exploited killing 1st boss and resetting

Part of game mechanics. Not an exploit. Quit whining and get yourself a group that does 12 runs/hour.

I still remember when devs was so proud they get rid of token farmers

Nothing inherently bad about that.

And i was so happy Arah was back to his glory, closing the lupicus WP exploit path3 noobrun.

Rallying at a WP is not an exploit. If you really want Lupus to be fought without waypoints, it’s VASTLY simple to close the door behind him when he’s pulled.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Devil’s advocate question: What if the design of FotM was done as a reaction to certain players who raced through the token dungeons, got what they wanted, then complained about nothing to do? Does it not make sense then, that a developer might see a need to resort to mechanics to slow down progression?

Gating progress by RNG is just about the dumbest thing to do.

Also knockbacks with bigger aoe than the platform you’re standing on is stupid.

I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t been implemented yet.

Sure story modes will die even more, but now everyone and their sister Deborah done them.

People are always going to choose the path of least resistance, deal with it.

Anzu.5702:

They’re not that bad! My fave dungeon (bias because it has my favourite armour) but you will enjoy it

There ARE worse dungeons than HotW, but it doesn’t mean paths 2 and 3 are good.

Especially the endbosses.

You’ll see what I mean when you’ve done them.

Enjoy paths 2 and 3. Particularly the endbosses, they’re a delight on their own.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

DR isn’t meant to punish good teams, but to act as a safety net for if an exploit happens and a fix isn’t immediately available.

Right now it does just that – punish good teams. Many a time we’ve been hit by DR just for playing the game.

No one gives a kitten about other MMOs or how ‘grindy’ they are. We care about the state of GW2 here, otherwise we wouldn’t be playing it already.

No T6 mats please, they’re already in high enough demand to skyrocket their prices.

janay.1457:

Ok, this is different. Lets say if someone reached lvl 25, that lvl should be applied to all his chars. What I am talking about is to not let someone who is first time in FotM immediately reach lvl 26 (or another higher lvl) …

Why not? I’m not talking about carrying scrubs here – no one in their right minds will do that – but about people who missed the train and fully well can just skip the easymode.

janay.1457:

I dont agree. As I said – It’s not fair for those players who passed from lvl 1 to lvl 25 doing every dung without skipping lvls. Its fine as it is, just fix other bugs …

Completely forgetting about alts in the process. It’s not fine as it is.

janay.1457:

So … if:
X= lvl 1
Y= lvl 25

X will join Y in lvl 25 dung and they successfully finish the Fractal, X will be able to unlock lvl 26 dung? (wtf???)

Yes, because having straight enough hands and working [Brain] to clear level 25 should definitely let you do level 26.

I don’t think this is fair for players. I’ve been trying my best to reach higher lvls even with d/c and bugs … Why don’t u try it as well?

I don’t think it’s fair my group NEEDS to redo the boring easymode crap for that one guy who we know is good, but didn’t hop on the bandwagon early enough.

Kishandreth.2798:

The players are to blame, its your choice to abuse the glitches.

It’s Anet’s fault for not testing content. They’re not glitches. It’s clever use of game mechanics.

That is all.

Here’s what needs to be done in Fractals:

1. Enable a level X character join a group of level Y characters at level Y, where Y>X. When this character clears the 3-4 fractals he unlocks level Y+1.
2. DC’ing. Fix it. This has been mentioned way too much.
3. Remove unavoidable agony from Maw. Every agony should be avoidable.
4. Give a pink ring of player’s choice when they unlock level 11/21/31/9001.
5. Significantly lower the cost of an ascended backpiece. 1880 tokens or 300 ectos and god knows how many t6 mats is way too much. If you want ascended backs to remain less than ubiquitous, change the mats to at least drop from fractals and remove the dependency on t6 and ectos, they’re bottleneck’d enough already.

Could you please fix the bug remove the feature where killing the Archdiviner before the cinematic bugs out the entire fractal?

It screwed my group of our daily dose yesterday. Thanks.

Just wait for Arah4.

I hope you enjoyed the torches.

Malediktus.9250:

Yes, its serious.

Surely you cannot be serious.

William Fairfield.1428:

We are currently looking at the entire structure of the reward system.

Which brings me to the next FotM question I’d love to get an answer to: Does the probability to get a pink ring scale with level or is this uniform across the 10-20 range?

Hey Will, how about removing RNG from ring drops? It’s incredibly frustrating being blocked by the game from playing the game.

drkn.3429:

To steamroll PvE with – you meant.

Considering I pretty much quit PvE altogether on my TW bot, yes.

Sion.1653:

That would ensure that anyone who hasn’t kept up with the pace may in fact never find a group to run with.

Absolutely wrong.

Content shouldn’t be designed where new players in the future won’t be able to get on board simply because they came too late.

What prevents said new players to group up and do their low level fractals?

Honestly, they should have the levels reset every month, or something.

Hell no, don’t give them any ideas. The last thing I want is to run the faceroll levels again just so I can do the non-trivial levels again.

Perhaps they could give more incentive to help someone on a lower fractal. Anything to fix this mess would be nice.

This is actually a good idea.

Piriel.5197:

“Trinity” doesn’t exist in GW? I call BS

This has less to do with “trinity” and more to do with the FACT that warriors/guardians are currently the best classes in-game to steamroll fractals with.

Have fun finding a group for Arah4.

I shouldn’t even have to explain why.

That is all.

Ezeriel.9574:

How about being so mad that you can’t raid, because several guildies are attending an in-game funeral for another player, that you get the rest of your guild to show-up and make fun of the real life family members of the deceased.

Serenity Now had a sequel?

Divus.3175:

Oh please, 2x necro + 2x mesmer can be amazing team in fractals. And that’s because of portals and quickness. 20 sec. of quickness + 2x Lich Forms can do extreme dps to a single target.

Find me two mesmers in the same group that perform well and I’ll make cheese for ya.

All these cinematics get boring after the 2nd time you see them and you see them all when you clear your first levels.

I have no idea why I should be forced to see the kitten shaman jumping into the lava or that stupid asura going apekitten when I’ve already seen that for the umpteenth bazillion time.