Its no less fun than the treks … but I do understand what you are saying. and I agree it is upsetting to have 15 min to find and kill 2 mobs and lose the bounty because it took 12 min to find the first one alone.
Always cross your fingers that you get Trillia Midwell and Poodaboo (arguably the two easiest ones to find)
Several others are also relatively easy or at least straight forward to find but regardless of the target I have a hard time imagining how the search can be fun. It is just a lot of time spent run around staring carefully at your screen. There is no process or mechanic. It is a braindead as can be. Whacking barrels and poking rats doesn’t really count either.
I wouldn’t say treks are the same. They are similar if you use a guide for both. In theory a person who has a good memory and fully explored the world would be able to do all the treks without a guide.
Maybe take some inspiration from the old console RPGs where you talk NPCs and they give you clues about where to go. Instead of a patrol path they would need hideouts. It would make the search less about numbers and more about knowledge of the area. There would also have to be enough locations to make checking every location impractical. It probably shouldn’t be done for all bounties but at least for the ones in Ascalon it would make sense. I would expect the Charr legions to have a decent information network.
It could also be something more simplistic and ties back to the hearts. If you had completed the heart the NPCs can provide you with some information. It would encourage map completion/exploration which would help with doing the bounty hunts anyway.
Which is surprising, considering PvP communities are generally pretty up there in terms of toxicity. Are we really that bad, that developers dont want to talk to us :’(?
You really like having sharp pieces of broken glass falling on you don’t you?
The problem with PvE isn’t really skill balance anyway. Looks more like a failure by the people creating content to take into account the various skills available to all the different professions. Replacing ‘LF healer’ with ‘LF someone with reflects’ certainly wasn’t one of their best moves.
Then there are things which seems contradictory. There are too many situations where the way to increase your survivability is to increase your offensive stats rather than your defensive stats. The incoming damage is just so high that the defensive stats just meaningless and best defense is simply to kill the damage source reduce incoming damage to 0.
Ufortunately(?) none of this is actually new. Same problem existed in GW1. Except there it was because many of the mobs used the skills as players so any changes to skills resulted in changes to those mobs. In all there years that GW1 had been out there had been only 1 or 2 changes to the mobs to account for those skill changes.
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In the beginning I was actually using a mix. Keybinds for some and clicks for others until I read http://taugrim.com/2012/06/27/guide-to-guild-wars-2-keybinds/ . I don’t use that set of keybinds but you can say it’s inspired by it.
The real lesson from this seems to be that GW2 players do not give a kitten about FB and ANet should be spending less efforts in that direction.
Also possibly Twitter.
I guess the ultimate lesson is that we buy your game to play your game not to be your friend.
The real lesson has probably something to do with that Nexon woman.
There’s a trend in f2p games to encourage facebook/twitter likes, through in-game bribes of all kinds. I suppose likes look good in a board meeting presentation or something.
Well I guess it matters for the marketing department. “Look! Proof that we are working.”
The real lesson from this seems to be that GW2 players do not give a kitten about FB and ANet should be spending less efforts in that direction.
Also possibly Twitter.
I guess the ultimate lesson is that we buy your game to play your game not to be your friend.
Crafting can be a good way of earning gold. As long as you gather the resources yourself. Farm world bosses, if you see something you can invest in, invest, do dungeons (theyre not that hard) CoF is fun and very easy, even if its your first time. Basically just play
selling the materials would yield the same, if not more money
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It depends on the materials and items.
The problem with crafting for profit is that while it can be easy since you are just comparing a bunch of prices. It can also be a bit time consuming. It might be less time consuming if you get used so you know what is or isn’t in demand. I only do random bits of it and only in cases where I am guaranteed a decent profit(around 10s+ after taxes, fees and the value of raw materials). I usually end up doing that when I need the items myself and I need to check if it would be cheaper to buy or to craft it myself.
Locate ori nodes and harvest them, have a regular route. If you have high level alts you can park them there.
Of course, sell all your mats on the trading post.
Gold and Platinum ore.
You only need to be lv20 for gold and 30 for platinum. There are places where rich nodes of both types will always spawn.
It is also worth it to do map completion on the higher level maps(Mount Maelstrom, Frostgorge Sound, all of Orr and maybe Fireheart Rise). Obviously you can’t repeat those on a character but the exotics can contain some expensive upgrade items. Ideally you have a black lion salvage kit around to dig them out. Aside from those the crafting material can also be very nice.
There are a bunch of other things you can do to support the troops. You can bring the care packages to the npc and train(fight) with some of the troops. That is actually the fastest way to finish that heart with a higher level(or equal depending on how confident you feel) character. Start a fight with all the NPCs at once.
It also makes sure people get spiders all over their face after doing TA F/U
A fairly common complaint is about the lack of loot in dungeons so this shouldn’t be a problem.
Depends on what you plan to do with the character. For DPS it’s not all that different between them. Trying to maximize damage does make things more complicated.
Could it be the new contents every 2 weeks start doing something to everything? Like the fractal ice elemental animation bug we’ve seen lately?
People have been complaining about those bugs loooooong before those things started.
I mean those bugs from Chryzo videos, the sparks attacking players while Simin is still active and 2 sparks in the same circle. I’ve neither seen those bugs before nor heard any one talking about it. Have you?
The only one were talked a lot is Simin’s health regen at 50% and lately, the lack of dps time regardless how fast a spark run is.
The “2 sparks in the same cage” one yes. The other one … not sure. Only way to be sure is to ask google(because the forum’s search sucks/is broken).
The level range in this game is really just there to tell you if a place is too high level. Other than that it’s just go where ever you want. The only other thing to be concerned about is crafting materials since those drop from level appropriate enemies. Gathering nodes are also the same. In both cases higher level isn’t necessarily better.
Lornar’s Pass is actually 25-40.