Don’t blame this event’s problems on any customers’ equipment. That line of thought is certainly out of the ball park.
Event crashes, bugs and what have you, had nothing to do with my system…the setup for this event was poorly implemented and the design left a lot to be desired – judging by all the issues that arose.
So you know what caused the crashes? have ANet let you in on their debugging, or are you grabbing ‘facts’ out your behind?
Maybe ANet admitting that those are in fact server problems they are aware of? Or maybe using your brain and figuring out that when your input is not registered or delayed by X seconds but everything else moves fluidly then its is not a problem with the graphic card?
Fanboys gonna fan…
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They haven’t removed him(her) yet????
NEW BUILD AVAILABLE!
I had this Everquest 2 account once. A good time to look back to see what changed.
And TOR became F2P as well…
And another fanboy trying to defend the game.
There are lots and lots of reports of server lag. When your character can still move but the server does not update anything or does not register your button presses then it is not memory, graphic or any other PC lag but server lag.
And I seriously doubt that everyone who experiences this lag is on dial-up. I certainly am not.
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Thats a common forum bug when you reached the post threshold for Page 2. The forum wants to display Page 2 but there are no posts on that page yet.
I guess no one told the coders in India to not push another build while one, sorry, two-time events are running…
You get a chest with 3 exotics and some rares.
But still no. That event was just horrible.
What challenge?
My usual tactic is then when suddenly downed signs appear all over the screen to run back and to hope that any one of my abilities actually activates through the lag. I can’t see the enemy or the red circles until I am standing right in the middle of them. Thats no challenge, thats stupid.
It is a contested way point.
Its not contestet, it doesn’t show up at the map at all.
That way when someone dies, he has to spawn all the way back at the shore and make his way through hordes of enemies to rejoin the event.
And before you say “someone should rezz him”, all people doing the event on the server I was one were killed instantly by invisible AoE spamming enemies.
Noll did work for me.
But I can’t find Canach.
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So we are in the new zone now. Lag is of course horrible.
Catapult was done, “event” happened and finished quickly with no one even having an idea what happened with all the lag and invisible enemies and now no one has an idea what to do. Some NPCs were talking but then they went invisible. And a ship is missing so I guess most of the server missed the event.
Great work ANet.
Sadly ANets idea of “challenge” is to simply increase the HP to ridiculous levels (see boss/dungeon monster HP etc.)
So the current legendaries are “right on target” for them.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Polearm
The polearm is a spear-like weapon with a head similar to an axe or sword. This weapon was included in early development stages but didn’t make it in the final cut of the game, though it may make an appearance later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1mRFmqz7F4#t=10m21sit’s shelved indefinately/until a later date.
Too bad.
Sadly today everyone associates swords with fantasy/middle ages when in reality the polearm was in all times more widely used even among knights.
As ANet didn’t even bother to check for clipping when they designed the racial armor (Charr) its probably safe to say that they do not care about that and will never fix it.
And even if they wanted to, the game has so many problems that they will never find time for it.
There could be several reasons for that.
1. ANet itself has no idea what to do in the future.
2. ANet doesn’t want to raise expectations which it then has to meet.
3. Every new feature will also alienate some other players (“this makes the game too easy” or “why don’t you fix X first”) so they simply don’t announce anything
4. They don’t have a (good) PR guy who takes care of community relations and marketing.
For PvE players the Endgame is horrible. You grind like in other MMOs except that while in other MMOs the grind has a purpose (gear to become better), the only reason you do grind is GW2 is, at best, a skin which often doesn’t even look all that good.
Some people might find it fun to farm vistas or to events in itself, but I, and I guess most people, want a reason to farm things. That can be getter gear from drops, it can be story (hard to do during endgame) or things like faction to unlock items or even other quests.
In most big MMOs the endgame is also tiered. You do X, then Y unlocks. That is missing in GW2. When you hit 80 all you have left is doing the excat same thing you did during leveling.
And this is why the GW2 endgame fails hard.
I reported this in the bug forums about a week ago, nothing yet though.
Considering that it is only a graphical issue and that it only effects a very tiny number of players it (rightfully) won’t be fixed any time soon I believe.
Proof? 0
Supporting evidence? 0
Valid argument? 0
Childish tantrum? Check
Ignorance continues
Fits your posts perfectly.
An open letter to a dev regards the current state of the Necromancer class, and the silence thereof.
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This will be moved to suggestion, the thread nobody reads. :P
I think it will be closed with the reminder to use the game bug forum.
If the mod has a good day it might even be accompanied with a canned “We are aware of this issue and are working on it” message.
1. As it was already pointed out GW1 had bots.
2. GW2 has a lot of gold sinks.
3. Earning gold in GW2 is not easy.
4. With gold you can buy gems and the exchange rate when buying gems with real money is simply horrible.
The more time passes without actions against bots, the more I get reminded of those comic strips…
http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=226
http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=227
http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=235
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@lxal
Feel free to share and enlighten us with this “ACTUAL EVIDENCE” you claim to have.I mean clearly you really are that ignorant to think a screenshot can show how quick someone was killed.
Clearly, you are THAT ignorant to think a video in wvwvw with all orb buffs is a basis for balance
Clearly, you are THAT ignorant not to understand even the basic mechanics and functions of a warriors frenzy to get why the hissy fit started in the first place, your just another inept troll who only saw the damage and not the frenzy on cooldown. Ahh you didn’t know that did you. I bet not, clearly you are far too new.
Or perhaps edited video suffices? Where someone can cut out the 20 times the thief died or had to run away but only kept the 1 time he killed. Silly rabbit.
With such ignorance, I am surprised Darwinism hasn’t caught up with you yet. Tis’ the world we live in.
And I am also not ignorant enough to think that a video showing spvp and tpvp gameplay from a thief downing players in seconds like for example in Jinzu’s video will change your mind.
I spend enough time on the thief board to know that most thief players will never accept any evidence that there is something odd about backstab. They always come with baseless accusations how the player downed by a thief sucks and can’t play or build glass cannon no matter his equipment.Jinzu’s video is edited. It doesn’t include how many times he fails, or dies or whether his team ends up winning the match. If all you care about is one build and not how effective it is in actually winning games then you have a real problem with finding any balance.
Let me guess. Thief player? Like I said, no evidence is good enough…
Actually that is how classes are balanced.
According to you an ability with a 5 minute cooldown which randomly kills an enemy in the match with no way to defend against it is balanced because its not necessarily game deciding.
It doesn’t matter if the games where Jinzu pulled of his backstabs were won. You can’t balance an ability with bad teammates. And how often did Jinzu fail? Do you know? I am pretty sure you don’t. So let me be a thief player for a moment and demand ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
From the current thief flood in PvP it doesn’t look like that the success rate is low. And even if it were. The existence of such a combo alone is already problematic even if it is hard to pull off when the result is pretty much guaranteed instant death unless the enemy builds in one and only one specific way.
Or to use LoL terms. A combo which kills everyone unless he has a HoG is balanced, people just needs to buy a HoG, right?
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I don’t understand why people ask for advice on how to beat a thief in a thief forum section. While we may know the potential weaknesses to our class, no thief player can give you an adequate answer in how to defeat us with your class. Seriously, the best advice I’m going to give you is to search for answers on the engineer and elementalist forums.
And strangely whenever someone talks about thief bursts angry thief players pop in, accuse everyone of being noobs and tells them to play a thief. And now you say playing a thief doesn’t help either.
That should be in the racial sub-forum and not a professional sub-forum.
Except that this concerns the toolbelt skill which only Engis have.
@lxal
Feel free to share and enlighten us with this “ACTUAL EVIDENCE” you claim to have.I mean clearly you really are that ignorant to think a screenshot can show how quick someone was killed.
Clearly, you are THAT ignorant to think a video in wvwvw with all orb buffs is a basis for balance
Clearly, you are THAT ignorant not to understand even the basic mechanics and functions of a warriors frenzy to get why the hissy fit started in the first place, your just another inept troll who only saw the damage and not the frenzy on cooldown. Ahh you didn’t know that did you. I bet not, clearly you are far too new.
Or perhaps edited video suffices? Where someone can cut out the 20 times the thief died or had to run away but only kept the 1 time he killed. Silly rabbit.
With such ignorance, I am surprised Darwinism hasn’t caught up with you yet. Tis’ the world we live in.
And I am also not ignorant enough to think that a video showing spvp and tpvp gameplay from a thief downing players in seconds like for example in Jinzu’s video will change your mind.
I spend enough time on the thief board to know that most thief players will never accept any evidence that there is something odd about backstab. They always come with baseless accusations how the player downed by a thief sucks and can’t play or build glass cannon no matter his equipment.
You just need more skill. Just read the forum here, thieves are UP. All their combos are dodged pretty much by pressing any button on your keyboard.
/sarcasm
This is about all the advise you will get here. Just use the 0.5 second window (which is only there when you see the thief coming) to dodge (and hope that the thief didn’t anticipated that) or use a block skill.
And of course you have to build bunker. If you don’t then you are not even trying to defend against a thief and deserve to lose.
I am just saying that you don’t need only combat data from spvp. Everyone can roll a thief and have a look at the numers by himself when he goes to the testing range, then do the same with another class’ power build (try a necro).
However, I see why you don’t likt it. Oh wait, it is no real data because you don’t like it (besides the regular backstab bursts everybody can experience in spvp games by himself anyway). Good logic. Honestly, your effort to defend this build is getting comical.
Sorry, you are getting carried by a broken mechanic. I know for some it is hard to accept but…hey…life goes on /pat, pat, pat
And the Ignorance continues. If it was so easy everyone could just make a thief, that would imply it would be just as easy to show ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
As you ignore all ACTUAL EVIDENCE which already exists on the forum why bother? When someone posts whatever you want them to you will just demand something different or make up a claim why it is not valid.
Anet has said several times that they won’t balance WvW (Not that it matters when you look at how much success they had with stuff they want to balance).
So likely never or when the population has dropped by 50% again (A few weeks after TOR F2P start might be a good date to check back).
Get used to it, your personal story stops at lvl 20. Nothing from it matters past that.
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This is imo the biggest problem the game has.
Bugs, lack of content and bots are, sadly, to be expected in an MMO (Although the amount of those problems in GW2 is quite staggering).
But the silence from ANet is what hurts the game most. There are many problems in the game which can be traced back to bad design. Wv3 and the whole PvE balance for example. No word from ANet on how they intent to deal with those issues. There is also no comment on more immediate issues like botting, etc. except “We are looking into it” which is universally understood as “Shut up” or some blog posts about some “vision” for the game which has nothing to do with reality and is imo a slap in the face of the players.
Engineers are the Spec Ops of the game.
What makes them powerful is not that gun they carry all the time but the gear and gadgets they have.
From which they can use only 3 at a time like everyone else. And their elites suck.
O really want to know how the Priest of Balthazar telegraphs his instant kill attack (because thanks to ANets awesome lag reducing mechanicy I don’t seven see his character model).
The problem is that its not that bosses have special instant kill abilities which are telegraphed (or rather they have them in addition), but that their normal, non telegraphed attacks deal so much damage to instantly kill most characters (I am not talking about glass cannons but characters who simply do not spend every available point in defense).
And sadly the boss design is simply boring. Most of the time ANet simply took a normal mob, multiply HP and damage by 10 and calls it a boss. Fighting them is boring and a tank&spank. Only that without the “holy trinity” the tank is whoever the strange mob AI focuses on. And to tank a mob means running around in circles to not get hit while everyone else takes free shots at the enemy.
It doesn’t really matter. Considering the speed in which ANet is addressing problems it won’t be changed any time soon, if at all.
So just assume it is intended.
What happened to the days when people made videos of stuff worth showing? Uneven fights that were turned around due to random event or luck? Overcoming great odds with skillful play? Funny and humorous or dramatic events etc.
Those still exist, just not with the thief.
I really don’t understand the problem with AS + BS….
What exactly is the problem here?
Are you kittening crying because a glass thief counters other glass classes, and you can’t run your glass cannon build, and be unstoppable, so you have to target the counter for glass cannon builds?
Plain and simple, a glass cannon thief is a counter to any other glass cannon class. Period. That’s it. That’s what we do, people.
You know, when I am running around in sPvP and I am set up for backstabs, maybe 1/4 people I AS + BS on take more than 7-8k damage. That’s a pure dps spec, as well. Out of those 1/4, about 1/4 of them will make it here to the forums to kittening cry about it.
What happens to the other 3? They are people like me who realize “that’s what I get for running a glass cannon build. Touche. I’ll be ready next time”
I challenge any of you crybabies to run a GC thief build, and truly be effective with it.
It requires a certain style of play, and believe it or not, it’s not always as easy as it sounds to “pick your fights”. Sometimes you’re stuck with what you got, and if that, what you got, happens to be you engaging in a fight outside of stealth against a survivable class that knows what they’re doing…. well then that’s GG. Every time.
Thieves kill people, and they do it effectively. That’s our role, people.
Why is it so wrong that we are able to slip into a 2 v 2, correctly pick your target, and put em to the ground instantly, THE WAY YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO AS A THIEF, thus changing the battle in our teams favor, but it’s absolutely ok for a guardian to walk into the same fight, full heal everyone on his team, and turn it in his favor? Something seems wrong with that picture.
Seriously, crybabies, give it a try. I have a feeling you will be sorely disappointed in how often you will get caught, snared, stunned, etc outside of stealth, and how once that happens there isn’t kitten you can do but die… and die much faster than you are able to kill someone.
It has been shown again and again that this is not true. A backstab thief can pretty much kill everyone not going full bunker and those are brought low enough that Heartseeker can finish them off easily.
And the only chance to defend yourself against that is guessing correctly when the thief is going to combo or, when you have not noticed the thief getting into range, using the right ability within <1 second and that small chance was only patched in 2 weeks ago. If you do not manage that you are dead. No other class boasts this much of killing power coupled with the lack of defenses against it which is also coupled with a lot of survivability on the side of the thief thanks to stealth.
And in PvP everyones job is to kill other characters, thieves are just much, much better than most other classes which is pretty much the definition of OP.
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Sadly after lvl 30 your entire history gets erased. Warband, college, family, all gone.
Guys, thinks like this happen.
Just be glad that the game works so well that it wasn’t necessary to introduce any bugfixes with this restart.
“A lot of future income will (is supposed to) come from expansions. And when only a few people play the original game, not many will buy them.”
I doubt that, after years of MMORPG experience, I stopped believing most of the “I left the game weeks ago, will never touch it again, but still post” crowd and even more the “I will never return to a company xx game” people. Recent experiences: D3 “wtf, servers down, never going to play D3”, “wtf, Pandas, never going to touch WoW again”.
And thats why TOR still has a huge playerbase…
When people don’t have fun they will leave. And a lot of people don’t have fun with the GW2 “Endgame”.
Crossbow? What should the engineer do with something archaic as a crossbow?
Remove the Charzooka as a racial skill and make it a engineer weapon.
So yeah, they’ll lose players, but it being F2P they’ll get a lot of them back over time, especially once they add new features to supplement existing content.
1. The game is not F2P
2. A lot of future income will (is supposed to) come from expansions. And when only a few people play the original game, not many will buy them.
Fair enough, but when enough people don’t find the activities in the game fun then they should change the style of the game if they want to keep their job.
Nah, it’s just a risen priest boss. But he is terrifying none-the-less. I can’t tell you how many times getting “fear” forced my character to run right into an AoE field. Also, his fireball attack owns. Got double hit for 11k dmg per hit (immediately back to back).
Yeah, he can instant kill people with hardly any chance to evade like most other bosses in the game. But the only thing which makes him “terrifying” (which should mean frustrating) is that you only have 10 minutes to reduce his ridiculously bloated HP pool to 0.
I am curious, having only played a couple of other MMOs, one seriously, are there any MMO examples people can mention that at initial release had enough content to satisfy hardcore players for more than a month? For this purpose I define hardcore as anyone playing enough that it would qualify as a full time job, i.e. >30 hours/week.
Hardcore players? I am anything but a hardcore player and the content GW2 hat doesn’t satisfy me. But thats because
1. I do not care for a race to legendary items
2. Its not the quantity of the content that is lacking, but the quality.
If you make the data public, it will at least stop the constant chatter on the forums of “X is OP” and “No its not, L2P”.
Won’t happen because then ANet would be under pressure to fix something.
Please fix the existing “weapons” (And by that I mean Engineer kits) first before thinking about new stuff.
Would be cool it steal would do that. I would troll thieves so hard by letting them steal mortar.
Thief in GW2 is just different from Rogue in WoW. WoW rogue would just lock you so you couldn’t move until it was done eating. Thief in GW2 gives you a chance to dodge at least. Someone stealths and you dodge roll the other way. Once that thieves stealth and CDs are gone you win.
Fear the day thieves stealth and then wait for you to finish your dodge.
That’s not what I said. I said, a lot of people are enjoying the game. If your feedback is you don’t like it that’s fine, but it’s not exactly actionable. You’re allowed to have your opinion. Mine is that I’m having fun, I’ve gotten my $60 worth and I’m not at end-game yet.
Just wait till you are. The closer you get to 80 the less fun the game gets.
Again, actionable feedback is going to be more effective for Anet than “it’s not fun and it’s not WoW”. What’s not fun about it, and what would make it more fun for you? I’m genuinely curious.
I already gave a lot of feedback what I think is wrong with GW2. And its not as if many other people have not reported the same things.
If you are really interested, here (haven’t mentioned the story problems in there where your race and class suddenly stops to matter after you join your orders)
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/A-lot-of-cracks-begin-to-show-now/first#post366481
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