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Any mention of what the rewards in the dungeon will be? Will this be ascended weapons? New armor set (still no cavalier stuff out there)? Ascended armor? More trinkets?
Errm…it wouldn’t surprise me if ascended weapons and/or armour were the rewards in the new dungeon.
We all know ascended weapons/armour are coming at some point this year…
Probably cost tokens (another additional currency), you will need to run dungeon so many times till you have enough tokens…viola new ascended greatsword…
It makes sense with the storyline too, with the dredge/molten legion guys having access to, ‘new’ technology…
The main point behind Ascended is time gating (keeping people in game playing). The tokens to get a piece of Ascended armor would be astronomically high, or the amount you get for each run would be incredibly low. Either way it would also go back to gating Ascended behind one single mechanic, like it was when first introduced. All terrible ideas. If Ascended armor or weapons are ever introduced, expect the mechanic for getting them to be more akin to laurels than anything else.
They may introduce them via the dungeon and via laurels at the same time or within a month or two of each another…who knows…I suspect the price will be high and a lot of grinding one way or another…
Errm…it wouldn’t surprise me if ascended weapons and/or armour were the rewards in the new dungeon.
We all know ascended weapons/armour are coming at some point this year…
Probably cost tokens (another additional currency), you will need to run dungeon so many times till you have enough tokens…viola new ascended greatsword…
It makes sense with the storyline too, with the dredge/molten legion guys having access to, ‘new’ technology…
It would be extremely stupid though. Since the dungeon is limited time only.
They can’t really lock people out from getting the BiS things by completely removing the means of getting it.
Is it 100% confirmed limited time?
Or will the story part be limited, dungeon to stay forever?
Any mention of what the rewards in the dungeon will be? Will this be ascended weapons? New armor set (still no cavalier stuff out there)? Ascended armor? More trinkets?
Errm…it wouldn’t surprise me if ascended weapons and/or armour were the rewards in the new dungeon.
We all know ascended weapons/armour are coming at some point this year…
Probably cost tokens (another additional currency), you will need to run dungeon so many times till you have enough tokens…viola new ascended greatsword…
It makes sense with the storyline too, with the dredge/molten legion guys having access to, ‘new’ technology…
I hope the new dungeon is really, really, really hard, seriously I want it to be virtually impossible to do…
Anet have been far, far too soft on us with the dungeons they have created so far…
Signet warrior is your best bet, only a couple of buttons to press, nothing more simple in the game really…
Fire and Ice, possibly?
There’s 100% certainly a new boss to fight…
In WvW, big zergs vs zergs a condition build is AWESOME for farming badges of honour/loot in general, much more so than a berserker build…
I also have a lot of success in PvP with it as well but its more on par with berserker build there…
I vs 1 however berserker better…
Its up to each individual what they spend there money on…
I think the pick is definitely one of the best items they have added to the gem store…
My only problem with it is why soulbound it? That’s clearly done for pure greed/profit, forcing people to buy more than 1, when it could have easily been account bound…
If they did this, elite skills would never be used…at least by players who understand the combat system and how it works…
Its no brainer choosing between a skill with a 40 sec cooldown and a 120+ sec cooldown…
If they allowed it thou, I would like the healing slot to be opened up as well to allow any skill there…
Welcome new people this games great just be careful of dungeon invites at level 30 onwards…
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“Revamping dungeons, including rebalancing them, our aim is to reduce the people running those dungeons by making them 2-3 times longer to complete, making them die 2-3 times more and making the loot completely rubbish. A good example is our 1st dungeon revamp of AC, which reduced the people wanting to run that dungeon by a amazing 80% but we can do better! Our aim in the next dungeon revamp is to put off 99% of players running the dungeon! We know we can get there!”"[/quote]
Corrected the mission statement for the truth…
I play all 8, it avoids burnout and getting bored with the same skills/playstyle…
I support GW2, its not perfect but it is a great game overall..
No MMO is perfect is it? Otherwise we all would be playing that and not GW2…
MMO’s after have mass appeal don’t they? They are probably the most expensive type of game to produce and they after sustain there appeal for years…so they after go for numbers to some extent…
I wouldn’t add new weapon skills to already existing weapons in the game.
But you could add entire new weapons with there own skills.
Probably a lot of work though…
You could have:-
Morningstar
Broadsword
Crossbow
Longsword
Shortsword
Net
You could add loads really but all those extra skills, plus all the different types, plus making the different skins would be a big undertaking…
Anets probably right in getting whats in now 100% and bringing out new content…
Run around all 5 cities with movement buffs getting all points of interest, w/p etc…completely safe too…
Then at whatever level you are, run around all 5 starting zones doing same thing…
NO…
Because it would put huge amounts of people off playing WvW…
Which would mean less future development time spent on WvW…
In another thread someone said the new pick works out at costing $10 with current gold to gem prices…don’t know if that’s correct or not…
Would you pay $10 for a vitual pick?
Personally I had a large stash of gems and when the gem price spiked up, sold them for gold , made just over 50g…
Anet please let me roll a Krait character class they are way more powerful than our player characters and don’t even need any equipment…
The cooldown rates on a lot of elite skills are way too high…
The cooldowns of any elite skill which are over 60 secs need to be looked at and potentially reduced…
Some are 240 secs, 4 minutes long that’s utterly stupid, 80% of battles anyone fights are over in 30 secs…one way or another…
I think every 100% MF you get doubles the chance of a rare——>higher drop…sounds good right?
Wrong…
If the chance is 1 in 10000 to begin with 100% MF just makes it 2 in 10000, so you go from 0.001% chance to 0.002% chance, its laughable…
You are far, far better killing stuff faster with AoE damage and skills which target multiple opponents, so you want to go all out attack/damage to kill as much as possible if farming loot.
This will make you far, far more money than MF which is totally useless really in GW2…
Transmute it with those level 80 spineguard and you can use anything as upgrade item.
It won’t transmute, I tried…
I would like to use the skin but can’t…
Why not watch some youtube videos, pay particular attention to dungeon running, WvW, fractals, PvP, 80 level zones, world event farming, jumping puzzles and guild missions. That covers everything you do action wise at 8oth level…
Like what you see play…dislike it find another video game…simples…
Higher unemployment rate…in Europe than the USA…
I have a Asura engineer, he’s a right laugh let me tell you…
They add new content every month for free (but in reality paid for via gem store), theres been loads of new content added since release…
They are giving you constant FREE new content…its a new type of business model…you just after get your head around it…
A increase in the level cap has been discussed before and I believe Anet are open to the idea and that there IS a possibility of a future increase in max level, the way the games designed allows it apparently…
However, it will probably be some time off, 1 or 2 years at least…by then I think I would welcome a increase in level…
I have gone down the route of levelling all 8 different character classes to 80 and kitting them out in one set of exotic gear…more fun, versatile and stops you being bored with just one set of skills/abilities…
They have already promised legendarys will ALWAYS be upgraded to have best ingame stats…so a legendary will always be best…
On ascended, there will be no higher gear during 2013 but they have not said anything about 2014 onwards…
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I think GW2 is huge fun, currently having a blast in WvW, only mean’t to log on to do my PvP / PvE dailys today because I had stuff to do…made the mistake of going to Eternal Battlegrounds where we were assaulting Stonemist…8 hours later, I have 200 badges of honour…but no Stonemist…oh well…
Had the game since day 1, have had peaks and troughs but it remains really, really good fun…
It does have loads of grind but its entirely optional, you don’t after do any of it…
Some things that are could be viewed as grind:-
1) Legendary skin.
2) Fractuals.
3) Dungeon tokens.
4) Wxp.
5) Glory in PvP.
6) Laurels.
7) Crafting.
But they are all optional/side effects of just playing the game for fun really…none are a requirement in this game…
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In WvW I would like to see true autoloot, where any loot is automatically put in your inventory without you having to do anything other than slaughter the enemy of course…
Its too easy to miss stuff in huge battles or even worse die with the loot at your feet, knowing there is no possibility of a revive and the loot is in a enemy keep and your assault just failed..
…it could have been a precursor…
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I would love a 5th map but would like it even more if they relocated all JP’s, vendors and anything else you can do besides fight the war there too…
So the current 4 maps are entirely dedicated to the war/fighting…
For me WvW is the best thing you can do in GW2, its totally awesome…I am becoming seriously addicted…
I also never liked any form of PvP before GW2 and WvW…
I am on T1 by the way (always have been since day 1) and I don’t get any lag even in big zergs…
I think dungeons should be scaled in difficulty, make the higher level dungeons/fractuals 20+ much, much harder…
Make the low level dungeons easier, gradually ramping up the difficulty with each path/new dungeon…
You will get loads more people running dungeons and they will improve there skills, slowly but surely running increasingly difficult dungeons…
The learning curves far too steep for new players/casuals atm…so loads shun dungeons full stop…
Having Arah as the hardest dungeon is fair enough but AC as the 2nd hardest and CM 3rd hardest is messed up design…
Very simple explanation to this.
They are some parts in the world where you can be for example level 40, a couple of paces later you will be level 35 lets say, so the damage you do/receive is noticeably very different…
This happened to me in reverse, I was down levelled to 29 or something and a enemy was in missile range who was level 40, it 1 shotted me, I was level 80 in full exotics/ascended with high vitality/toughness…
In short its a bug…that works both ways…
Overall WvW is probably more expensive and least profitable, compared to for example speed dungeon running or world event farming or farming Orr…
However, its also a 100 times more fun and epic than either of those other options…
Just spend your gold on something that will make you happy…there’s really no right or wrong way to spend gold in this game…
Why do you after pay money to craft upto 400? I levelled all 8 crafts to 400 for ‘free’ by just playing the game and collecting mats by playing, if you have 2 characters already haven’t you already got a pile of mats stored up in your collectables?
Craftings good for making your own equipment and it is possible to make money with but you need a good knowledge of the trading post as well and the TP knowledge is probably more important…
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You can have 5 characters initially and buy more slots with gems.
You can guest onto other servers, the only impact choosing your server has is WvW, you can only fight in WvW for your choosen server.
All your characters will be on that 1 server, I think new players might still get a free transfer to another server or perhaps a medium population or less server, not 100% sure on this last point however…
The Black Lion Keys are there to earn additional revenue for Anet, which pays for additional content…they put unique skins in them for a reason you know…you may not get BLK’s but you are getting a lot of additional content every month, just think of it that way…
If you really, really want free keys have a spare character slot and keep creating/deleting a character…do personal story upto level 10, you get a free BLK every time…doen’t take long at all…
You get free BLK’s at 10, 30-31 & 50 of your personal story btw…
I know of dozens of players who point blank refuse refuse to do any dungeons after trying AC & CM, a few of those give up entirely on GW2 they had such a nightmarish experience in the first 2 dungeons…basically quit the game at level 30-40…they didn’t see the point in continueing…
Scale the dungeons in difficulty from easy(1st dungeon) to totally impossible(last dungeon), then everyone should be happy…
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Play each profession till 30th level, you fill out all your skill bars then and choose which you like best…
Remember, save up 10 skill points from lvl 20 to buy your elite skill at 30th…
If you don’t like a class before you get to 30 abandon it, there is never any need to ever delete a character, unless you need the character slot btw…
Also, as a bonus, if you do your personal story for all to about lvl 31, you will get 16 black lion keys to open 16 black lion chests for free…
Have a break, just log into the monthly updates, complete them, go back to having a break…
Also, as you clearly have far too much free time for just one game, consider having 2 or more on the go at the same time…a change is as good as a rest they say…
Play each profession till 30th level, you fill out all your skill bars then and choose which you like best…
Remember, save up 10 skill points from lvl 20 to buy your elite skill at 30th…
If you don’t like a class before you get to 30 abandon it, there is never any need to ever delete a character, unless you need the character slot btw…
Also, as a bonus, if you do your personal story for all to about lvl 31, you will get 16 black lion keys to open 16 black lion chests for free…
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I support this idea, henchmen/heros but only for dungeons/instances…
You can develop heros to become stronger over time…
Also both henchmen/heros are stronger than the current ingame npcs who drop like flies atm…
I can play at some odd hours and in the day during the week, finding other people to play with can be difficult at those times…so henchmen/heros would help…
Also, players could practice dungeons/instances before running with other people, thus avoid kittening other players off or suffering grief far being rubbish (people are only usually not good because of lack of practice)…
People running instances/dungeons are always going to be preferred/faster so I don’t see a problem with henchmen/heros…
Wouldn’t a better place for duelling be in PvP?
You wouldn’t stop people getting into WvW that way, who you know wanted to fight the eternal war…
I suppose you would lose your audience but you could always youtube/stream the best fights?
I don’t think Wxp is abused by this but isn’t badges of honour?
Warriors are generally viewed as good to OP in all PvE and WvW.
However, in PvP they are considered the weakest class because most players who PvP know exactly how to dodge/evade/strafe, so warriors find it hard to land there heavy damage blows.
My own experience of PvP is warriors are hard to take down timewise compared to other classes but I am always certain I will win if it remains 1vs1, because it takes time to take one down however theres always a good chance a teammate will arrive…
Well, it does no harm and gives, players who care about being top something to aim far…
Probably get more people playing PvP, in order to be near the top but otherwise won’t have much effect really…
Also, Europe has the number 1 in achievements, take that America and he’s more than likely French, ha ha…lol…
Also, Desolation totally dominate PvP…guess its the no. 1 pvp server…
They are pointless, no one buy them so Anet gets the message, anyone who spends 5 laurels for a +5 which will never make a difference to anything is a idiot…
so by your logic, people that like dyes or even minis/pets are even bigger kittens, because they don’t make a difference at all?
one more of those self-righteous people that think only their way is how to play, pffft….
No, dyes and minis have a use, the way stats work in GW2 a +5 stat increase is virtually nothing…so you would never waste 5 laurels on them would you, its one of those no brainer decisions…
They are pointless, no one buy them so Anet gets the message, anyone who spends 5 laurels for a +5 which will never make a difference to anything is a idiot…
Leveling as always been one ofmy favourite thing things to do in rpg’s, personally…you just after enjoy the journey and not rush around like a mad person…
But, but the daily only takes 20m-30m to do and you can ignore it, play normally and then accidently do it while playing or just finish 1 or 2 things off in a few minutes…
Also, you don’t after do them everyday…you will still get the item your after sooner or later…its not really a race is it?
I think vitality is better than toughness, its a conclusion I have reached just playing about with various builds…
If you want to be the ultimate survivor go vitality and then stack as much regeneration as possible, I think its called a apothecary build, you can get 1,000+ health regeneration per sec, I believe, with regeneration from various sources always on the go…
You will be exceptionally hard to kill…