People don’t want to be asked for duels because it’s “egotistical”.
As pointed out, duelers can go to Guild Arena (which defeats the point), go to PvP room (again defeats the point) or go to WvW (which again defeats the point). Those are our lovely options.
Leveling never awarded Spirit Shards before. And there was no ‘backlash’ until after HoT released, and people maxed Masteries. Many players did not even notice.
You are right I remember wrong they tried to balance it out with mob drops.
It never gave Spirit Shards. Never. Dinging a level used to award Skill Points, which could be exchanged with Miyani for Forge materials. Or, they just accumulated in the Hero Panel.
For several months, dinging a level gave absolutely nothing. No one seemed to care back then.
They did hence the backlash anet got when they switched the system and people got nothing spirit shards is the same skillpoints you used to get before
I’m going to say a design decision that causes you to stop doing a large part of the game isn’t a great design decision.
I’m going to say a decision that causes a fan to stop playing a portion of the game because of the gating of a minor bonus hasn’t made a great decision.
If I wanted tons of shards, there are lots of efficient (and more enjoyable) methods of acquiring them besides grinding XP.
I’m not in favor of ANet requiring Raids to allow shard-generation in the new zones, but I also think it’s not the biggest deal in the world. They should fix it, but if they don’t, it’s not preventing anyone from accomplishing their goals.
I dont think anyone is grinding exp they just play normaly and see it go poof when before it gave spirit shards.
I would install it just to be able to get living world season 3 episode 3 and above you missed the first 2
and always good to login once a day for the login reward + craft ascended materials to either craft your own stuff or sell for additonal gold.
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To answer question yes you will get hot if you buy the next expansion, No we dont have a release date so I guess its atleast 1 more year before it drops.
lol – I’ve been playing games since long before “WoW” was even a gleam in someone’s eye. Try not to be so condescending, as it simply demonstrates ignorance. Use Google, and look up “cc immunity timer DAOC”.
As far as resistances go; that sort of thing is very common in all games but this one. To my eye, cold and/or magic resist would be applicable here. As to the shoddy “boon” system in this game – try comparing it to a Shaman in EQ1.
You kids have fun now.
They also dont have the minutes long cc here like in daoc tho.
I address each new argument as it comes, but most of what I hear are the same old “raiders deserve pretty things and you don’t” line of “reasoning.”
No u just respond to arguments u can’t lose to.. what abt one I made. Like why ppl who do daily t4s never ever go back to do t1s unless they’re rly bored? Why going back in tiers once u acclimated to t4s makes u feel like it way too ez and not fun, and then u have to get used to t4 all over again whn u go back? That not do anything to improve ur skill more, in fact it deteriorate it. Also y don’t u want ez mode for arah too? That hard stuff also and ppl still ragequit for no reason
Then why care only about the Raid rewards?
I don’t only care about raid rewards. I care about a great many things. I’m only discussing raids here because unlike some people, I’m trying to stay on topic.
it’s relevant to the raid discussion in so far as raids have one of the longest term goals in the game locked behind them, and I do not think it is healthy for the game for them to do so. Keep in mind, I was not the one who raised the topic of rewards, my comments on the matter have been in direct response to others who said things like “well if you get easy mode, it can’t have good rewards,” or “you don’t care about easy mode, you only cares about the rewards,” or similar things.
If you have a problem with rewards being discussed in this thread, your problem is with them.
Nice to see how u dodge and evade arguments.. fact is u do bring up raid rewards a lot. Then u say something like ‘dont talk abt raid rewards pls, I’m trying to keep this on topic’. So let’s talk abt it then, since ur talking abt others talking abt it..
Ppl making valid arguments y rewards can’t be same for both ‘hypothetical’ modes. U can’t expect to get ascended that easily, or LI that easily either. U know what it stand for rite? Legendary insight and thers nothing legendary abt beating raid boss on faceroll mode. Pls pls agree with me on this
There is alrdy very less incentive or drive to do raids, I mean farming tokens but what else? That legendary insight is gated behind epic content suits me fine. Who cares abt legendary armor anyway? You said it urself I believe.. u can make like 10 ascended armor sets instead of wasting time on legendary armor. I don’t even care for it, and I’m raiding. Why should u, unless u just want the shiny cos it’s shiny? I want shinies too u know, but they cost too much
So y ppl against easy mode, top three reason: it mite take too long, it might not pay off or be worth it (would it be sustainable mode?), and lastly u arguing abt raid rewards being same.
That last is big no no. Ok, compromise: 1 legendary insight to equal 10 beginner’s insight.. double click to combine or smthin. Do u agree? Shake hands if so
Why going back in tiers once u acclimated to t4s
People used to go back and do all of them but anet shot down by giving people all the previous chest from just doing t4..
Good for player with little time but bad since the t4 players dont go down and help the lower tiers anymore.
That last is big no no. Ok, compromise: 1 legendary insight to equal 10 beginner’s insight.. double click to combine or smthin. Do u agree? Shake hands if so
Yes I agree to this if its daily reset for beginner ones so they can get some progress if they work their kitten of ( 6 a week), not that everyone would have time for that ofcourse probabely just weekends warriors mostly (1-2 a week)
I would be okay with that so long as the resources came from the ANET teams matches the intended audience for the easy mode, the more casual audience. If they were to take people from the LS3 team and have them work on easy mode raids that could work. Raid team keeps up status quo of content pacing and easy mode raids are made at the expense of LS3. Only ANET knows what kind of expense that would be.
And again, we have no idea how much time this would take, which developers would be needed, or what projects it would keep them from doing. That’s not our job. Our job is to make the case for features we want to see, it’s their job to figure out how to manage that process, and whether it’s worth the associated costs.
Our job is to play or not play the game. Everything else is equally not our job, it is a privilege. If you can argue for features, I can argue what content I would be willing to slow down pacing in order to implement said feature.
If an easy mode raid had to be put in the game and it were to take a significant time investment (which we cannot confirm or deny unless you work for ANET), then I personally would only be okay with it if it came at the expense the development most similarly affiliated with the intended audience…LS3. I’d rather a 3month delay in LS3 for easy mode raid than a 1week delay of the next raid wing
Considering ls season 3 was pushed and came out what was it 9 months after hot released due to raid releases, yea we can push the next raid release afew months.
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Maybe while leveling up you have to focus more on 1 traitline and its skills but at max this system is better.
And unlinking stats from trait lines is one of the best changes they have done to date.
I had mixed feelings about it, and actually slightly favored it at first. But now, I’m a lot less sure. At the very least, it needs to be clearer to players what the trait lines are actually intended to do for you.
Why do you think the system is better at max level?
becouse all core skills are unlocked with the hero points you get while leveling up.
something you dident get before unless you grinded out extra hero points.
Now with the stats unbound from trait lines no matter what line you take you got max in the stats you want instead of getting forced into extra healing power, condition damage or boon duration for example, even if you armor/item focus was something else.
But see, I think that’s a bad thing, because it sort of defeats the purpose of hero challenges in the core world. It’s kind of more interesting to seek out and do these as opposed to just passively getting a lot of points as you level.
I get where you’re coming from with the attributes and traits. I’m not sure whether I agree or not. I’ve kind of waffled about it a lot. As I said above, the trait lines having stat boosts kind of made it concrete what they were meant for, which I think was a good thing in a lot of ways.
No it made you pigoned holed into trait lites to boost your main stats if you wanted to max them now you can take any line for the traits you want not the stats
And thats only the first 5 pages in google, so yes we had raiders before it got implemented
So answering your questions isent for this thread/topic and is derailing the thread now?
Why even ask those questions to begin with.
maddoctor.2738: Then why care only about the Raid rewards?
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He doesn’t. For example, he was active in PvP threads too, if i remember correctly. And he is always first to admit that people eplaying types of content he doesn’t like have equal rights to ask for items to be made available for them as well.
maddoctor.2738:
Which isn’t for this thread/topic. It would be nice if people stayed on the topic of threads for once.
Maybe the wvw or raid backapack will have the animations you know got to keep people in those modes.
Who am I kidding scratch the wvw backapack of the list.
You think its boring with easy encounter as opener but can still complete it all, the one loving that opening encounter think its boring since they can only do 1/3 of the raid.
So people can’t be bothered to start with the wings that actually have introduction encounters, get better and play the other ones after?
And not every wing having an introduction encouter is why we need an easy mode? That doesn’t even makes sense anymore.
Are introduction encounter good or bad?
Well the ones defending raids say you have these 2 fights to train on… you cant train on them for other bosses so when more raids come out there should be more easy fights for the masses.
You as a raider dont like the easy starter encounters you said so its boring.
So to you that is bad hence it would be better if all were around the same challenge to you.
But the ones who can only do easy one would like them all the be around the same challenge so they can see the whole raid like you get to do.
You get a full 3 coarse meal others get the appetizers then the waiter say sorry but you cant have the other 2 coarses becouse you cant dance around the table on 1 foot with 1 hand behind your back balanceing an egg on your nose.
Do you see the differance?
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its kinda funny you skip over the very first sentence in the post you reply to.
You can not add an introduction encounter to every wing. We already have 2 in 3 wings. It gets boring to veteran raiders and has no purpose as you have to start somewhere anyway.
Raids won’t get anymore accessible as the main problem is the community wanting experienced players (happens in all games, nothing special here) and not the raid system itself.
ArenaNet could increase the rewards for multiple runs to help forming training runs or add the bosses to the special training area.
If you increase the difficulty only inside the wings and not over all wings combined it will hurt the raiding scene in the long run.
The thing that would help the most is to create rewards for training people.
And here we have why a easy mode raid is needed.
You think its boring with easy encounter as opener but can still complete it all, the one loving that opening encounter think its boring since they can only do 1/3 of the raid.
But on a serious note the above issue is one that the community can fix now, without ANET…..only how?
I don’t think it’s possible to fix that without Anet. My “idea” would be to give to more builds damage buffs that do not stack with current ones and more builds than can output Might/Fury/Quickness. This is buff/boon meta and the selfish professions are excluded while those with party buffs are invaluable.
If you include those buffs into an elite specialization, the specialization becomes mandatory, like druid or herald.
If you include too many of those buffs you get a massive power creep. You need to either rebalance most of the game or older content becomes completely trivial.
I don’t say it is a bad idea, but you need to be extremly careful with the execution.
That’s why I said: “that do not stack with current ones” to avoid power creep. If they add something that reduces cooldown like Alacrity, it won’t stack with Alacrity. If they add something that buffs power like Warrior Banners, it won’t stack with Banners, if they add something similar to Frost spirit, it won’t stack with Frost Spirit. Otherwise yes you run the risk of massive power creep.
The idea is to give some diversity to PS Warrior/Chrono/Druid as buffers. Instead of having all these 3 to every Raid team, because they triple the DPS of the team when used together, you’d have a lot more professions to choose from. An Engineer in place of a Druid, a Guardian in place of a Warrior and a Necromancer in place of a Chrono (I use them as examples, not as what should happen) but you get the idea.
I don’t know if it’s possible to make buffs non-stacking like that. But it’s something that can open up loads of builds and boost diversity.
Well it sure is possible you just give the same kind of buff to another class, frozen gyro=frost spirit for example.
But then we would have people complain that their class arent unique anymore.
They said early this year that the company is working on second expansion, I wouldent hold my hopes up for a 2 more classes if that what you mean with job, if crafts I dont see what else we need.
graphics are still beautiful so I dont see why those need upgraded already this is a mmo.
If they upgrade they potentialy lock out people who play now since their computers wont be able to handle it.
GW internally is a very different kind of game than GW2. The pace of expansion that GW had is just not possible in a true open world MMO vs a lobby/instance MMO.
As for the next one. I wouldn’t expect it for at least 9 months but with the current content release schedule, I won’t be too upset if we don’t see it until 2017.
You mean 2018 right? since 9 months from now 2017 is almost gone.
Yep, I time warped. Fixed.
Wish I could do that, would be nice to met mom again.
GW internally is a very different kind of game than GW2. The pace of expansion that GW had is just not possible in a true open world MMO vs a lobby/instance MMO.
As for the next one. I wouldn’t expect it for at least 9 months but with the current content release schedule, I won’t be too upset if we don’t see it until 2017.
You mean 2018 right? since 9 months from now 2017 is almost gone.
Well if your that OCD about it, why did you make said legendary in the first place?
You could have 5-10 asended weapons to sigil out how ever you like.
Legendaries were always about the shiny skin stat swap they dident trick you with it.
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This thread proves perfectly the question people ask who would use the stat swap on legendary weapon/armor.
Casuals that dont care that they dont maximise dps thats who.
Here’s what they had to say about open world PvP. They talk about how the game isn’t designed for PvP on PvE maps.
http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/TemperHoof/072012/23486_Guild-Wars-2-Redefines-Open-World-PVP
“The overall design for Guild Wars 2 does not support fully open world PvP and it would take a prohibitive amount of work to even make it possible. World versus world is our version of open world PvP, and while it isn’t ‘true’ open world PvP for more PvP purists, it does contain many of the elements that make world PvP so exciting. Hopefully it will mostly satisfy people that want open world PvP.” — Mike Ferguson
In future, save this quote for threads asking for open world PvP in PvE zones. That feature has nothing to do with dueling.
I’ve followed this game for a long time. I’ve seen devs say they wanted to add dueling. I’ve never seen them say it can’t — or won’t — be done. Prove me wrong — if you can. Flesh’s quote absolutely does not do so.
Dueling=player vs player equals pvp=player vs player
Raiding in MMOs is known for its gear grind. ArenaNet couldn’t do that, so they offered legendary armor instead. I wouldn’t count on seeing it elsewhere because it’s needed to coax people into raiding. By the 3rd expansion however, it should be old news, so they might offer another set, assuming they don’t keep releasing them with raids.
SPvP will likely be the next to see legendary armor, but as a tournament reward. I wouldn’t count on WvWing getting any because it’s meant to be a casual playground for PvErs to get into PvP rather than for hardcore WvW.
In the past, a suggestion has been to add the swapping feature to ascended. It could happen one day, but certainly not until a full set of legendary gear has been released.
What will they do after the set is complete? Further raids for it would be pointless, no?
So another set that of Legendary Armour that only 5% of players can get? lol I’m quite relieved I care for neither LA or raiding :-P
New raids will probably mean new legendary armor sets. As much as I’d like a stay swap on my armor, I’m not going to raid. I don’t have the time to commit to learning how to do the raids, not to mention the possible and probable wast of game time. Raise in every other MMO I have ever played had been horrible. Unless you ware way over levelled for them, they are just toxic time bombs waiting to go off, I’m too old for that. I miss the days when multi player meant you where all in the same room and when someone got mouthy about it you could just give them a slap and tell them to calm down its just a game.
Why isn’t there an option to begin a duel with someone in PVE?
Because from day 1 of Guild Wars 2 PvE was designed specifically with it being Co-Op mode only.
Just throwing this out there, but…..the only things I see as Co-Op in this game are the dungeons, fractals, and raids. That list can be shortened as it is very simple to solo dungeons and fractals (both I have soloed, highest fractal being 76). If the PvE is suppose to be completely Co-Op, then shouldn’t everything be harder?
What penelope means by “co-op” is “not making players compete with others to get things done”, rather than “only playable with other players”.
For example a guy is fighting a champion other game sorry he taged it his loot, gw2 oh give that champion a beating and your rewarded to.
So this is over a few hours? Ofc you’ll have more orders above you. I seriously doubt it’s one guy either.
Also, you overbid by 1-2c, but others that do it are, potentially bots? I don’t think this thread is holding much water anymore.
what part of i get overbid by 1c as 11 offer number for hours over and over again on 200 items instantly you don’t get? is that so hard to understand?
Then report it and move on? I don’t quite understand the point your thread has gotten to. There’s actually no point to it, all people can tell you, and have done, is to report it and move on?
You’d be surprised how quick people can over bid 1c on things they want, as I said, I basically nursed the TP for an hour or two, 1c overbidding for 200+ random t6 mats I needed.
The point was to get advices and thought about that,which i’m still having tbh.
There’s a huge difference between flipping the tp,zoning it or fast bidding on 20 items tracking them instead of tracking and instabid on 200.brother.
yes but you can have 200 people insta bid on 1 item each 40 on 5 or 20 on 10 each it dont have to be like you say 1 bot.
Just a bunch of regular people.
You want advice insta buy and you wont have this problem ever again.
-Single-use pot to reset all boss kill for week (cost lots of gold and tokens or somthin)
-is white mantle portal can be use outside of raid? If so then perma stealth pot with long cd.. so can stealth past champs and stuff, not exclusive to thief no more
-‘resistance’ to boss.. each time u clear boss per week u get stacking boon or somthin that make u take 0.5% less dmg/ condi dmg from him.. or something idk. Basically it would give more incentive for repeatability. Not every1 who do raids want to farm li or want legend armor. I don’t care for armor rly, don’t even care for drops anymore cos I have enough ascended trinket with new stats.. so what the point idk. But make it so idc abt all this.. help me do it cos there’s some point to clearing all boss all wing in week.. I mean y not chest or somthin if u kill all boss in raid that week? wth
Perma stealth out of combat isn’t exclusive to Thief welcome to 2015 and let me introduce you to Scrapper with Stealth Gyro……..
Did they take away the spy kits from karma vendor?
The voice of the community is speaking again I see. You do know that there is new content coming for those who want it and get tired of other options.
Sure, and there’s more content coming for those who like hard mode raiding too. That’s a different topic entirely. Here we’re talking about how to make raids accessible to a larger audience.
Quit saying hard mode raiding there is no easy mode raiding so there is no hard mode raiding, it is just Raiding and the Devs said they won’t make easy mode Raids, they will make introductory encounters, get over yourself, quit making baseless claims on how much time/effort/resources it would take for easy modes when the Devs have told you otherwise and have also told you to quit making those claims. move on the Devs have spoken!
With enough disatisfaction the devs can change their minds they have before they will again.
Maybe while leveling up you have to focus more on 1 traitline and its skills but at max this system is better.
And unlinking stats from trait lines is one of the best changes they have done to date.
I had mixed feelings about it, and actually slightly favored it at first. But now, I’m a lot less sure. At the very least, it needs to be clearer to players what the trait lines are actually intended to do for you.
Why do you think the system is better at max level?
becouse all core skills are unlocked with the hero points you get while leveling up.
something you dident get before unless you grinded out extra hero points.
Now with the stats unbound from trait lines no matter what line you take you got max in the stats you want instead of getting forced into extra healing power, condition damage or boon duration for example, even if you armor/item focus was something else.
In a game made for it yes but this one, no they are armor skins for specific weight classes.
We got enough clipping with the current skins.
Dont want a billion more that we would get if we were able to mix light medium heavy that aint made to fit together at all.
You can’t explore the Royal terrace, The airship, the lava lounge or the noble’s folly without paying for it. For some reason though that’s not causing threads showing up to say they are slippery slopes. Why does ledge and a tree cause a problem where a place stocked full of conveniences behind a paywall doesn’t?
For one you can buy those without having to gamble right?
And you have just as much convenience in la
Third as other have stated if this goes well whats next?
Yes true the drop alot so no problem if you happen to get same you will get the other of its kind in time.
Or you buy it from the vendor and infuse it if your really unlucky.
Or you go to lw s03e01 and buy 1 for bloodstone rubies or s03e03 and buy the one there for what material it goes for.
