I have this fear as OP suggested. After few months of absence playing the game, I came back to play it again because of the news of expansion release. Less in a week of play, I got kicked out of blue from a low level fractal run yesterday. I have always been careful not to join trouble looking LFG groups, but there you go it happens anyway. Because of my inflexible play time, I have to use LFG to pug dungeons always.
I understand it’s not the best interest of Anet to ban people and lose players good or bad. So I am suggesting to forget about banning but instead force a title on the player account so that other people can see it. For example make some sort of prisoner/criminal/traitor/Jerk titles. When a player got reported and is proved to be bannable, force those titles on all characters of the account for 2 weeks the first time. They will be carrying those titles during the time they play till time expired and regain control to change their own title. 2nd time is 1 month, etc. The more bannable actions they take will prolong the criminal titles each time. So if a pug using lfg see those kind of titles, they would know what kind of people they are playing with and they can decide to stay or leave party. Those that carry prolonged criminal titles can actually form a guild and enjoy to make friends with like minded people XD. Though it would be hilarious to see a zerg of people with various criminal titles in wvw or boss events XD. Just a suggestion trying to help improve the quality of the game and wish there is something like that in expansion.
Only if Anet adds other titles like “Bearbow” and “Ranges at Lupi” too
As a guardian i minimize dodging
Well that’s not surprising
Guild missions are a go for tomorrow after reset! Come join us for your commendations stay for the community
A lot of people seem to have missed the point of this post. I wasn’t cranky because of grouping. I was cranky because the last step in an entirely soloable quest line was a group quest. It makes no sense at all, and it adds annoyance to an already annoying process.
Yet your original post says otherwise.
Communication’s not your strong point, eh champ?
The last mission in your PERSONAL story is group-only. Best of all, Anet doesn’t tell you this. Instead of saying, “Hey, we know you’ve been able to solo EVERY part of this quest line up to now, but here we’re going to saddle you with a bunch of brain-dead NPCs and make you get a group too”, they just let you blithely pop in so that you can wonder what idiot was in charge of a battle where several elites keep respawning every time you manage to kill them.
Even if you did magically clear the room somehow, you need two people to get through the door. At this point, I can only imagine the writers and devs high-fiving each other before going out to celebrate by giving some hapless nerd a swirlie.
I understand it must be very difficult having to communicate (or, god forbid, group up ) with people in a Massively MULTIPLAYER online role playing game. I understand that perhaps you are so socially stunted you break out into a cold sweat over the thought of posting a simple “lfg arah story” in the in-game LFG tool that is so easy to find a trained ape could do it.
But what I do not understand is your completely erroneous claim that arah story is not soloable. All you need is a SINGLE PERSON to stand on a plate for literally twenty seconds. A single person. From a game with a sales volume of 3 million.
Is it honestly so difficult to do? Or do you mean to say that you are so unattractive a partner that you cannot find a single person, (from 3 million) to assist you?
Or maybe your problem lies elsewhere. Because maybe do not believe you could get through arah story alone, even with the infinite respawns, hordes of NPC’s and easily-researched boss mechanics. But to that I say, nay! Even the most incapable player can get through the content in this game with enough perseverance.
So soldier on, friend! Don’t give up, I’m sure even you can make it with practice.
Feel free to contact me in-game for any tips, or if you get stuck on any of the hard parts of the story mode, such as mashing F at a cannon while zhaitan dies without attacking
On a lighter note, the other day, waiting on a 5th in swamp, needed a guard. Mesmer pops in: “I have reflects like a guard =)” Someone else: “and Aegis?” /kicked. Honestly, I had to give them credit for trying
The poor mesmer just wanted to fit in
On topic: I remember joining a group at tar in arah 1 a while ago, who must’ve been tired of waiting for decent players because their LFG said
“arah 1 zerk only at tar, 3 tries to make the run or kick”
the players did, in fact, count aloud the number of attempts each later pug took, and would kick when the pug got to 3, I wasn’t sure whether to feel amused or sorry for them.
So i just came back to dungeon after like a year… and i realise there’s this perpetual fear climate blanketing all the dungeon runs i did.
everyone is like very afraid of playing and enjoying themselves, instead it’s about yea dps , don’t screw up etc..
people kick people for next to stupid little reasons like failing to jump to the ledge at the start of SE1… wut?
i think anet needs to look at the dungeon climate, it’s not promoting enjoyable play at all.
There is no “fear climate” in dungeons, OP, sPvP does have it on the other hand…
But what do you expect, with necros being so good at killing players, while being so bad in dungeons
Challenging content eh? How about unskippable random encounters?
Kindof like with the troll in AC bursting out of a wall (except without him being optional)
Or the mossman instability where he pops up to say hi.
Now imagine that with lupi
Hey Devilmonk! Looks like you’re enjoying the New Player Experience™ added by anet in a recent patch
You see, anet recieved frequent reports that showed players often had difficulties understanding difficult concepts such as weapon swapping, utilitiy slots, downed combat, class features and other complicated processes such as breathing and walking at the same time.
So the solution was to gate each of those horribly difficult concept at artificial levels. Looks like you haven’t unlocked weapon swapping yet! But don’t worry, if it weren’t for Anet locking that content away from you, you might have gotten lost, scared and confused and chocked to death on your own saliva or something.
So you should be thankful you can’t swap weapons yet, heavens knows what a chore it can be doing such a difficult task almost daily!
If you didn’t enjoy artificial gating at low levels (minimum level for personal story) I have some great news for you!
Arenanet completely revamped the levelling process! Making all skills quick and easy to obtain, removing all artificial gates, awarding skill points more often and allowing access to every part of the game to a brand new player!
Just kidding. They did the opposite.
New players unlock weapon swapping at level 10 or so, can’t access most of their skills until level 30, and get their elite slot at 60! Also you don’t start with downed state, so what happens when you die at a low level? You just drop.
Also don’t get any ideas about doing pvp before your designated pvp level. Or using class abilities (this means attunements too! I hope you like playing on only fire )
In all, you should definitely come back so you can enjoy arenanet’s New Player Experience™
Recruitment is still open Come try us out if you’re friendly and looking to do some speedruns!
Congratulations on the skin! Now you can roleplay as an elementalist
Thanks for the positive note.
As a side note, I’ve found that previously I would auto-enter the game as soon as I hit the gw2 icon, with auto-log-in enabled. Now, however I actually need to hit “play” to enter the game. Was this a change I missed at some point?
Yeah, I understand OP, it can be nearly impossible to find literally ONE OTHER PERSON in the whole game looking to complete this mission.
After getting to level 80 over 30 or more hours of game time, I can see how difficult it can be to make even a SINGLE in-game friend to get to help you with this event.
It’s even more insurmountable to find any person at all willing to help you get past the first segment, literally the only part of that dungeon that requires more than one person.
So yes OP, I feel your pain, and I recommend you play a more single-player friendly game, like solitaire
Successfully defending the temples opens them for business for players who need karma armor, orrian boxes or obi shards (balthazar only). So what if failing gives players marginally better loot? And if the majority of people wants to let the event fail, let them! The TP needs more t6 mats entering the market anyway
Thanks for posting this! I will def try it, and I’m sure it will come in handy to lots of other people
Bump! Up to 140 and growing fast