Guild Wars 2

Agree with Seras and the others.

Every class in GW2 has weakness, the guardians main weakness are 1) craptastic range attacks 2) lack of escape tools.

Now i agree that running in small scale/solo wvw with a guardian requires a lot of awareness or you will get caught by random larger groups. But that is the price we pay for our fantastic utility, control and survivability. Yea if you want to be a tunnel vision dps then a guardian isnt the best choice, but if you want a class that will make a massive difference in group vs group fighting then its the best choice.

The guardian might be the most group “depended” class in WvW, the more ppl and the better the organization, the better the guardian gets.

AkiraZero.8514:

I’m quite surprised to read comments that AG was portal bombing and turtle stacking tbh, its not like us to be so coordinated lol!

Ohh we portal bomb like a proper boss, every chance we get, we will portal bomb :p

We just dont turtle, mainly because i dont like the lack of mobility and im to lazy to get my ppl to spec for it.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

When inside the Vale supply camp looking at the entrance, players can jump from outside onto the hill on the right, then then just drop to the patch to the side to the roof. AG did it repeatedly whilst we defended Vale. There is a similar glitch on the left that I have seen some use but isnt used by many

We, blade and quill – BaQ, do this. dont see it as an exploit to be honest – and yes did it last night(around 9 pm english time), and we were aroud 20-30 ppl there. Didnt engage down in the vale because we saw more ppl we could kill at Redbriar tower. I have seen jumping puzzles that required MORE glitching.

We aint the only ones practicing portal bombs :p
Got hit 4-5 times by GHs portal bombs, was to late to kill our golems at north outer hills gate, failed at taking out trebs at stargrove, and failed at killing our ram+crew when we took Redbriar around 11 pm english time last night.

Btw you guys got some impressive defenses at hills keep last night, we tried for 2+ hours or so to take that kitten keep with us having superior numbers but simply couldnt get through walls or gates because of your height advantage and well entrenched siege weapons. Next time we will assult with more golems

Thx for a good fight last night.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Weekend is over!
Time to clear AG from the maps.

The weekend is normally AG’s weak spot since Fury, Unity and BnQ dont run in full force Friday – Sunday, but we always roll out in force monday – thursday. See you on the battlefield tonight

Konfuz – commander of BnQ.

Had this problem last night, it might be something to do with fractal lvl?
Have done Volcanic Fractal 5-6 times on lower lvl fractals and didnt get a teleport, but got a teleporting vet mob last night at lvl 8.

Havnt played a game with a LFG option, but i like it:
1) makes it easier for casuals to get dungeon groups
2) faster and better then “/map LFG FotM”

Nicely done Taisia.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Except when your guildies are way over your level, not bothering at all to waste a week to make a lv1 reach their lv24, instead of keep going deeper. Human nature, time management, senseless drop. You know?

I have played in top-of-the-line hardcore guilds and my current very social and casual guild and i rarely have problems with getting ppl to run dungeons/battlegrounds for countless hours because i or another guildie need some gear, while the rest of the team didnt need anything.

Its even easier in GW2 since you can be in multiple guilds.

EDIT:
Yea, i have played with ppl/guildies that didnt want to “waste” their time helping other guildies, well, those ppl didnt last long in the guild.

morphemass.2850:

This is incredibly bad design and with all the negatives associated with FoTM and Ascended gear one has to wonder, was this thought out fully and what exactly are Anet going to do in order to make other dungeons attractive again?

You do know that the “old” dungeons are now a massive gold mine right? Doing the 3 paths in AC now gives around 3+ gold compared to maybe 1-1,5 gold before the patch. Arah can be farmed for even more gold, as long as you exploit the forgotten path.

OP:
1) the crash thing is a big issue, i fully agree and A-net is working on it!
2) Sorry but the main reason why you had a bad experience is your lack of effort in looking for a proper guild.

I simply dont get ppl that play MMOs and complain about how their friends have left and now no one wants to play with them, but the same ppl cant be bother with trying to find a new guild or even make friends with random ppl.

GW2 is a MMO, a lot of the content is design for groups and everyone and their mother knows that guilds is the primary source of grouping.

Tin-foil hats levels: all time high!

But still a good read(no sarcasm), always liked a conspiracy

I never said he didnt exploited the marked/options he had. Ohh and you could make loads of gold on the TP the 1-2 month or so. waaaaay more then you can make today.

And i didnt say that he was your typical guy, just that it is certainly possible to get a legendary within 600-700 hours played without using gems.

Valtameri.2075:

That’s all good and well, but not everyone likes to play with tp at all.

Thats fair enough, but then you are limiting your options aka speed of getting the legendary you want.

1100 hours played and you havnt got a legendary?!?

If you played the TP in the beginning of the game/at launch, sell mats that you aint using, sold particular jewelry in the beginning of the game you could pretty easy get a few 100 gold in less then 200 hours played. A guy from my guild got 400ish gold in the 2 month of the game by just playing the TP, then he grinding Orr like a boss for a few weeks and then he bought his legendary staff. i dont think he broke 700 played hours.

Dee Jay.2460:

Grinding is repeating the same activity over and over again, not because you enjoy doing it but because the rewards bring you closer to whatever goal you’ve set for yourself….Now I’ve played my fair share of MMOs ranging from DAOC over WoW to WAR, SWTOR and finally Guild Wars 2.

I have played a lot of the same games, DAoC, WAR, tried SWTOR and if you didnt grind in those game you never got to endgame. Those 3 games had/has a serious gear grind, more then any other game i have ever played(inc GW2) because if you want to compete you had to grind for ingame days if not month on end. Compete doesnt mean winning, it means that you didnt get killed in the first min of combat.

Lets just take WAR as an example: unless you got a full high rr(70+) wb to carry you, it took 70-100 ingame days(yes thats between 1680 – 2400 hours of playing time) to get to top lvl (rr80). Then they made the rr weapons, even more silly grind, then the rr81-100 rr ranks and new gear. In my casual guild we had multiple ppl with one character that had log over 100 ingame days.

1) tanking, doesnt mean standing still just taking the hits to the face. Yea i can do that if i roll with my dungeon gear and spec for it. You can also tank by kiting very close to the mob keeping it on you while your mates nuke it down
2) Lost shore is a group zone, just like cursed shore. actually it seems like lost shore is more of a group zone then cursed shore. We are still taking about being able to take a few hits from a vet mob in lost shore and yes every single class has the ability to do that, nearly no matter the gear. Be that ignore dmg abilities, avoid dmg skills or whatever….and everyone skill got double dodge after their skills are used.

munkiman.3068:

Big difference between a Guardian and a Necro, survivability wise, even with full on glass cannon gear.

Yea i agree, but with me running 12000 HPs at lvl 80, no tgh and i can still semi-tank on my pure glasscannon guardian not using my defensive abilities. A proper spec’ed/yellow geared lvl 80 necro should be able to run around in lost shore without getting one-shot-down’ed.

digiowl.9620:

L80 rares are undergeared?

C’mon, my guardian in my yellow lvl 80 MF glasscannon gear can take a few hits without me using my defense skills. Are you rolling in berserker or MF gear?
In my dungeon gear i can face-tank the vet crabs and only dodge the roll-over attack.

digiowl.9620:

And i just now had a champion mob in a DE drop me out of Death Shroud with a single swing, meaning i would have been downed had it touched my health. No real warning, just a simple weapon swing.

Then you are severely undergeared OR taking on mobs that are intended as group content.

For everyone that cant get groups:

1) Join a guild
2) Make a guild group
3) Go to LA
4) Enter FotM
5) Profit

Note: if you cant get a guild group, you need to join a better guild. Its called Guild Wars for a reason and you can even join multiple guilds.

digiowl.9620:

Except for when the game itself makes those skills worthless (see culled veteran karka roll of wipe).

Thats one time event, yes it was laggy like hell for some of my guildies, didnt experience lag myself in the 3. event (sunday event).

digiowl.9620:

And i am unsure if it is skill or simply wired to the max reflexes to hit a “make me invulnerable” when the big shiny lights up. To learn, something has to hurt but not instantly kill on first encounter.

Nothing in this game kills you with one shot, yea you can get one-shot-downed, lesson learn, move out of the way. GW2 combat system has a lot more actually skill involved then GW or your standard hotkey MMO combat system.

If you think that GW2 comabt system is stale, then 90% of the rest of the MMOs have terrible combat system.

I strongly disagree with the OP.

Combat system:
GW had/has a much more stale combat system then GW2, dodge makes the GW2 combat system. No more standing semi-afk pressing the same standard combat sequence.

If you dont move and dodge you die = skill
Standing more or less still and pressing the optimal combat sequence = fail.

Jack of all trades, master of none:
Another great thing about GW2, no more team wiping because one guy doesnt do his job/remember the correct skills.

Enemies do not have clear abilities:
i dont get your point, most if not all bosses have clear tells on their main attacks

Many skills and traits are useless/not properly defined:
And GW had 100s of skills that no one ever used, because there was a few optimal skill builds and everyone and their mother used those.

Vertical scaling criticism:
Yea i agree with this one, but its a MMO and a lot of ppl wants vertical scaling/gear grind. Its only the degree of the gear grind ppl disagree about.

Multi-guild system:
My guild doesnt have a problem with it. My guild is 9 years old and we dont have a problem with guildies being in multiple guilds. But i do agree that there is a lack of “guild” in GW2. Server Wars would have been a slightly better title.

Crafting:
Crafting is always tedious no matter the game, sell the mats and make a profit.

Dungeons:
Couldnt disagree more, GW2 dungeons might be one of the best dungeon designs around. Rewards individual skills, punish the weak and makes group play a bonus, not a must.

Underwater combat sucks:
No argument here, its sucks. ohh and plz remove it from dungeons.

One mode of SPvP:
They need/should change that, but give it time.

WvW problems:
WvW is one of the best open PvP systems around, it only lacks a title system.

To sum up:
I think you, OP, are overreacting. Its seems like you are stuck in the old way of doing things, seeing all the small faults and not the big picture. Is GW2 perfect? No, its a 3 month old MMO and as all MMOs it needs to get the polish right. I think that GW2 is not the game for you, since a lot of your complains are down to the skill/combat system.

agree with this one. the rest of the fractals are great, but not the swamp one.

We 4 man’ed a lot of the lvl 1+2 fractals because we got DC’s in the party and our guy couldnt get back in. 4 man’ing the fractals wasnt a big problem, then only fight we had problems with was the “Jade Maw” because we didnt get the boss mechanic. After we understood what to do, it wasnt overly hard even though we got one guy DC’ed, one guy with extreme lag(he could barely play) and then 3 guys more or less doing the boss fight.

Yep, same here. i hope A-net adds a money reward for completing a Fractal.

why? Yea, its harder to turtle, but on the other hand one mesmer can only portal bomb every 90 sec now.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

You are wildly over exaggerating the survivability of a Guardian. Yea a Guardian can roll in full glasscannon spec and survive Arah without going down. I could properly run naked and with a bit of luck do the same. The guy is new to the guardian, no reason to tell him to run the hardest spec we have, when you can run a hybrid shout-AH-dps spec in knight/dungeon power-vita-tgh armour and do just fine dps wise.

Next thing: not everyone runs with a ele, a support guardian is a viable and pretty good build – even with a ele in the party.

On the topic of weapons:
1) yes get lvl 80 exotic weapons.
2) If you are running dungeons the GS is good, but hammer is better. Why? one skill: Mighty Blow. MB+two-handed mastery = loads of might, healing, blinds…

YES to new content!

NO to more powerful gear.

Vorch.2985:

It’s a RING…and BACKPIECE…my god, chill.

And they are implementing a whole set(s) of ascended gear and weapons. Yea it might be ring and backpiece now, but they are aiming at a full set and that is.

I played Warhammer online for nearly 4 years and play through some horrible gear/progression grind. Plz dont make the mistake that WAR did, do not make more gear progression in WvW/PvP. Right now exotic gear is expensive enough.