Guild Wars 2

Considering the quality of the new dungeon it’s bad that it’s being removed…

I loved the boss fight at the end. I don’t want it to be gone in 2 weeks…

Aaha, got it. Thanks.8)

The bar still appears stuck at 90%. Gandara, Plains of Ashford.

2 weeks from now: Where’s my content from the past few months?

^ I would support that.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

They’re giving us free new content each month for our non-subscription accounts, rather than releasing a pay-for expansion? What a waste of time, indeed.

Yup, when they could have made it a permanent addition to the game.

acedragonz.9387:

For every action there is a reaction. The destruction of the Molten Alliance will have an impact one something thus continuing the Living Story.

OK, but I still need a reason why a player who joins any time beyond next month should care that this content ever existed? On the other hand, I’m sure they will care about the terrible state current, permanent, dungeons are in.

joemag.4975:

Protip: Those adds are easily pulled. Anytime my group wipes on Kholer, I clean them up easily by using Necrotic Grasp on them one by one. Other classes have similar pulls. Hope that helps.

If only groups were actually willing to give Kholer another try after the first wipe.

acedragonz.9387:

I am not talking about the content per say. I should’ve explained better. The F&F will leave marks on Tyria while other dungeons do not. Thus it being repeatable is not relevant to the storyline but in F&F it is. If you do not like the fact that they are actually trying to make something different with an MMO.. then leave.

How does content that completely disappears after a set time leave a mark on Tyria? And even then, answer this for me: What does temporary content add to the game after it’s gone? How does this content improve the game, not just at this moment, but in the years to come?

As for your final piece of advice, here’s something for you: if you do not like the fact that I’m wanting content to stay in the game… then leave.

Deimos.9285:

Personally I love the fact that the game keeps having one time events like this, it really makes it worthwhile to actually play on a consistent basis so you can experience the events unfold. It also rewards the people that are dedicated enough to be playing more often rather than those that play for a week and take three months off. Basically the more frequently you play the more you should get out of the game, in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that.

So, it’s only a reward if it’s temporary? Why is the content not a reward if it’s there to stay? What does anyone gain from someone missing out on temporary content?

acedragonz.9387:

Very easy solution. Don’t play.. If you don’t like it why bother? Others obviously enjoy it, so why are you talking about it being a waste of time if only the minority thinks that? I don’t regret a second that I invested in this Living Story.

Really? Did you even read my post? Why the hell would I want content to stay in the game if I didn’t like it? …

No worries, it’s gone in 2 weeks.

Ride the Lightning was my top favourite skill in the game since the first beta weekend, just for how awesome it looks, and making travelling across maps fun. Looking at how bad Elementalists are doing in PvE, I see little reason to continue playing on mine, sadly.

Meanwhile Warriors keep getting buffed every patch, even though they’re already the kings in PvE… sigh, maybe I should start playing one…

Eluveitie.1290:

Can you still visit and participate in the invasion of Normandy? No? Oh, thought so. Because it ended years ago and you probably weren’t born in the time to go there.

That’s the idea. There’s a lot of lore to this game, so time continuity is important. Plus, there’s the exclusivity factor. If you give someone who just joined the game the chance to have something that the player who has played since Beta has, then there’s no special rewards that people can go and say “yes, I was there when it came out”.

Argument does not hold up when:
-I can run other dungeons just fine without them disappearing from my game.
-Enemies appear out of thin air on the overworld.
-Orr never changes, even after I have beaten Zhaitan.
-World bosses return every few hours, no matter how often they are killed.
-Natural resources grow back every 24 hours.

Exclusivity does nothing to improve gameplay. It doesn’t make the game better, or more fun to play. It doesn’t do anything.
These devs have been working on creating a new dungeon, when they could have spent their time reworking current content. Like, I don’t know, fixing Citadel of Flames path 1 so it isn’t face-rolled by a group of 5 idiots every 4 minutes. Maybe fix the numerous bugs. Maybe make current dungeon bosses more than punching bags with a massive HP bar.

Simon.3106:

One more thing, the more traits you provide, the more OP Elementalist gets. Balancing would be HELLLLLLL

Wait, the class that gets nerfed every time there’s a content patch?

Opposed to the class that does 4 minute CoF runs and still receives buffs every single patch?

rozcinana.7249:

Urgh… I hope they don’t up the cap. If I have to replace my lvl 80 ascended gear I will blow my top.

They will… I just know they will.

I have yet to hear a convincing argument why this content should be temporary.

I don’t buy this because: living world crap. We’re playing a videogame here, not a fantasy world simulator (and even if it was, this game would be doing a kitten -poor job).

lordkrall.7241:

Milennin.4825:

How’s the world alive when the content disappears?
How about we just make every dungeon a one-time only experience to make the world feel more alive? Like, it’s breaking my precious immersion, being able to beat the same boss over again! Why do world bosses keep coming back even though they’ve been killed by players a million times now?

The dungeon is tied to the invasion from the Molten Alliance.
After we have defeated the Molten Alliance it would make little sense to still have it there (especially since everything else gets removed).

The world bosses are not the same. Several of them is not actually killed and those that are is actually dead, but another character like them takes its place. (The Shatterer is a rank after all, not a specific dragon).

OK, then where do all these Giganticus Lupicus’ keep coming from? I mean, I keep killing them, but they always come back! And there I thought they were extinct. Why do enemies respawn out of thin air on the world map? Where do all these Orichalcum mines come from every day? I keep mining the same area, but every day there’s more, surely this can’t be right… right?

Furutre.2193:

Stop crying. This content is amazing, it makes the world feel alive. If you dont like it, play something else. Im tierd of people complaining all the time about the great content Anet releases.

How’s the world alive when the content disappears?
How about we just make every dungeon a one-time only experience to make the world feel more alive? Like, it’s breaking my precious immersion, being able to beat the same boss over again! Why do world bosses keep coming back even though they’ve been killed by players a million times now?

What a kitten waste of time to put effort into making temporary content. It’s all for nothing in 2 months, and players who join after that will never even know about it.

I doubt it’s intentional, and if it is, I can’t think of a single reason for making it like that. By now, ArenaNet should know that most players prefer skipping Kholer, so by making an optional fight harder after failing it once, makes people want to try out the optional content even less.

Before the AC patch, it generally wasn’t too difficult to convince a group to take out Kholer for some fast and easy loot, but now it’s a lot harder. Yes, for player who know how the fight goes, or are generally not sucky at the dungeon, the new Kholer is easier. For new people, or the average guy who does AC, the fight is a lot harder due to adds that keep spawning during the fight which make it harder to see what’s going on, and can wear down an unexperienced team. Then the issue with adds not disappearing after a failed encounter makes things only worse.
Personally, I like the new Kholer encounter, but it’s just too tough to handle for most PUGs now. Pre-patch you could at least lure him away from the adds, which made it easy for new players to learn to watch the charge-up for his spinning attack.

“Pick a nerf and pray.” (Fire Emblem Awakening)

I’ve seen the edge on various maps. It’s fun to find ways to get there.

Try to solo every dungeon and path.

To answer the title: Yes.

Putting these in order (1 being the worst, 10 being the least bad).

1. Ascended and Agony
In a game that took pride in having skill based combat and minimum amounts of grind this absolutely doesn’t fit in the game at all.

2. Putting RNG in the gemstore
You can’t sink much lower than this when it comes to making money.

3. Magic Find in dungeons
In a team based setting Magic Find does not belong there.

4. Dungeons
I could write a book on things I don’t like about dungeons in their current state, but to keep it short: Bosses that are boring, easy HP sponges. Bosses that only target 1 player the whole fight. Trash mobs that aren’t worth the time and risk killing, and are easily skippable. Same rewards across all dungeons and paths regardless of difficulty and length.

5. World bosses
They are nothing more than a 1 minute (or 10 second in the low level areas) loot, zerg and lag fest.

6. Legendary items
From bad design for most of them to the fact that they’re buyable off the TP, there clearly wasn’t put in a lot of thought and effort into the whole Legendary items thing, which is a shame.

7 Skill
This kind of ties in with a few of my other problems, but I feel that grind is hugely favoured over skill in this game, and that’s what bothers me. Skill doesn’t get you awesome gear, only grind does. Skill doesn’t get you a legendary weapon, only grind does. Skill doesn’t get you titles (Dungeon Master being the sole exception), only grind does. Skill isn’t even required in a lot of cases, it’s often more about grinding down enemy HP bars than it is about skilful gameplay.

8. Story
I had hoped for the personal story to be closer to Guild Wars 1 missions, by offering unique challenges and mission objectives. Instead of threw me bunches of regular enemies and the most easy and boring bosses possible. The story itself went quickly downhill after level 50 when my Order’s mentor leaves…

9. Crafting
Crafting is completely useless besides it being an easy way to level up an alt, since everything is buyable on the trade post for roughly the same price as it costs to make something yourself. Needs untradable skins that can only be obtained through crafting.

10. Cities and home districts
This one was going to be obvious, but there’s just about 0% reason to ever go back to any of the racial cities, except for exploration purposes and the occasional story objective. There’s even less reason to ever go to your home instance…
1 thing that would surely help would be to make travel to my racial city free, but for now Lion’s Arch is the only true place to go to.

11 Underwater
Yes, an 11th. Deal with it! Underwater combat in its current state is a bore, and offers way less variety and fun gameplay than combat on land.

A badkitten elemental assassin/ninja when playing my dual dagger Elementalist.

As long as it’s split from PvE I don’t care…

Yeah, you can thin numbers. It helps to do so if you get overwhelmed, but best to do it when you only have 1 burrow open at the time.

I’ve been struggling with Chef, but looking at this… does it mean that discovery is a lot less important for Chef? I just make the same thing for 25 levels, then move on the next thing?

If your level 80 Warrior doesn’t feel more powerful than your level 35 Guardian in low level areas… does your Warrior by any chance still wear level 30 or so gear? Because when I go to a low level area on my level 80 characters I literally faceroll over anything in my path. When I go to the same area on a character the same level as the monsters, I might actually face a challenge here and there, if I agro too many, or get into a fight with a champion monster. And it just takes a lot longer to kill stuff in general on the low level character.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Edited to add: This is a great place to throw out your ideas of what you’d like to see any of them do encounter wise to make them more exciting.

I loved these events during the beta days. Encounters took a few minutes to beat (could have been made a littler longer (5 minutes would be just right IMO)). Make them more anti-melee the more people are around, and give them tons of huge AoE (Frozen Maw from beta days comes to mind, I loved this guy, but in its current state he dies in 5 seconds…)

What I hate most is the one that burrows. It knocks back when it returns to above ground (this is OK), but then it has another knock back right after it has returned to above ground (this is not OK). There’s not even an animation, it just sits there, but the player still gets knocked back.

makku.2508:

Devs stated they don’t like that players use AoE abilities on single targets (makes me wonder why they created weapon sets and even entire professions that hardly feature any non-AoE abilities in the first place, but w/e). Reducing the AoE limit wouldn’t solve that, swinging the nerf-hammer at the damage values does.

So basically Elementalists might as well do nothing in fights when fighting 1 enemy at a time.

Okay.

In that case, why not make the whole game with 1 on 1 fights, and just remove multi-targeting? Would solve all these difficult balance issues.

Firegoth.6427:

Why are people still doing the 10 recipe? on my 5th run now and still done under 250 attempts with the 1 recipe.

It’s not dumb luck anymore.

Took me more than 250 using the 1 recipe only.

I have played Warrior only up to 10, so can’t give detailed help on the profession, but…

-Make sure your gear is up to date. Don’t use gear that’s severely below your level, and try to find, buy or craft blue or green items.

-If you have a lot of trouble beating your personal story, consider asking someone else to join you on the story. Ask around in Lion’s Arch, I don’t think it should be too difficult to find someone who wants to help. Otherwise, study monster patterns. Look good at the animations, and identify which attack is always 1-hit killing you (even though this normally shouldn’t happen, so my guess is you either are severely undergeared, or it’s one of the few very unbalanced story missions still in the game).
Also have a good look at your utility skills. Every class has utility that helps them survive better in a fight. Warrior even has a skill that makes them invulnerable for some seconds (Endure Pain).

To craft stuff you have to talk to the crafting NPC at a crafting station. For example, if you want to be a Weaponsmith, you go to the weaponsmith station, and talk to the NPC there to unlock it. You can have 2 crafting professions active at a time, but you can switch between them for a small fee.
Once you start crafting it’s important to constantly discover new items to make. Discovering makes up the largest part of your EXP gain for crafting, and it’s pretty easy. Although you first need to refine raw materials (make bronze bars out of bronze ores for example). For some refinement you’ll also need to buy supplies from the NPC at the crafting station.

It just really depends on the situation.

Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.

ArenaNet has said they’re going to add in the missing stat combos some time later (including Carrion), so you might want to wait for that.

Elementalist since beta.

Benny Hill theme.

flappers.9153:

So, I can invite people from another server into my party while in the instance? or is this done before entry?

Thanks

Either way. Normally you recruit or join a party and wait till it’s full before entering. But if someone leaves during the instance, you can look for another player to join. And yeah, players can join your party and do dungeons with you as long as they play on an EU server.

If you don’t like strangers, why not play them with your friends? Or with people in your guild?

RagingDragon.9475:

As for the Dungeon you probably are talking about the Ascalonian Catacombs. That is the first dungeon that you will get access to. Unfortunately there were some changes to that dungeon a couple of updates ago, and it has limited the amount of people that run it. That being said you have 2 options.

Assuming it is story mode that he wants to do, it’s fairly easy to find a party for story. But it most likely won’t be a pretty experience if you end up in a party of inexperienced level 30’s.

flappers.9153:

Thank you for the responses, I will try out this lfg website.

What is this guesting onto a server about? I’m sorry for the newbie question, this is new to me.

Guesting automatically happens when someone on another server enters an instance. You must be in the same area with the entrance to the instance (Plains of Ashford for Ascalonian Catacombs) to get an invite to join. As long as they play on an EU server you automatically join their instance, even if they are on another server.

I think it happens when you stand on the pile of rocks in front of the table near Hodgins. It’s somehow counted as an unreachable zone or something, and makes the monsters invulnerable. Best to avoid it, or quickly dodge roll over it.

gw2lfg.com is the best way to find a party until ArenaNet implements their own LFG system.

I had one drop for me, like 2 days ago.

I’ve been playing the D/D Elementalist since beta, and still do, because it’s simply the most fun thing to play.

I agree that an optional detailed tooltip would be very nice to have. It’s hard to judge the value of some skills or traits with the vague descriptions that we get.

AoE nerf? Does this mean that AoE goes from hitting 5 stuffs at a time to maybe 2-3 at a time?