By making the dungeons 5x larger (with multiple entrances from different directions), and adding 2-3 times as many bosses, you naturally spread people out with little effort.
I thought you just said that ANet wasn’t going to be doing a whole lot of work on dungeons? 5x larger sounds like a lot of work, and it won’t solve anything. A guild could just say “Hey everyone, doing Dungeon #3 tonight on reset” and get 10-20 people who are going to zerg it all.
@ipan I don’t prefer to play Diablo or Vindictus, I like Guild Wars 2 the way it is. I like open world mixed with group content. The thing about dungeons, is that it’s actually pretty popular. With the introduction of megaservers they would actually be over crowded. I played a mini-dungeon the other day and there were about 10 of us. If we doubled party size in the current dungeons, it would ruin them. IMO, this “next best solution” would ruin this kind of content.
Level 80 scroll, new class, free expansion, etc.
No. Please. I like my 5 man instances. If we make them open world, they’ll just become zerg fests.
I’d like a mix of crafting and scavenger hunt, Mawdrey style. Say, craft 4 Ascended weapons, throw them in the forge for an ascended Pre-Precursor. Each one has a list of 50 skill points it needs to be taken to and imbued at (it would have a checklist in the tooltip so you don’t need to remember it all). Once it’s been imbued you get a list of 10 champions you need to slay. Once all of that is done it becomes an Ascended version of the precursor you wanted.
To me, this means I should be able to access content in the game without needing to do any excessive farming
Except you do have access to all the content (except high level fractals). Name one bit of content that requires you to have top gear besides fractals. Not dungeons, people have soloed them naked before, not world bosses, people bring under levelled characters to them. The word you are looking for isn’t “content” it is “rewards”.
Cursed Shore 50+ people intentionally failing this event so they can wow farm it, and raging like animals at people who want to finish it…
Claims of 100+gold and hour luring more people to it all the time.
None of the other events are doable because of the amount of jerks farming this thing.
Not to mention it screws up people who want to actually finish the event so they can do the next one.
I hate to take the side of the farmers, but if “50+ people” want to do something and you come along and ruin it for them you’re doing the exact same thing they’re doing (preventing someone else from doing what they want).
So since it’s pretty much the same list from all responders with a few exceptions. What do you think this list will look like after the update? Any different?
Elementalist
Engineer
Guardian
Thief
Ranger
Warrior
Mesmer
NecromancerYou’re expecting too much a shift. The differences will close, and a few spots might change, but it won’t be that radical.
only engineer and warrior changed ._.
Even so, Engineeer won’t be nearly that needed and Warrior will never be that unwanted.
So since it’s pretty much the same list from all responders with a few exceptions. What do you think this list will look like after the update? Any different?
Elementalist
Engineer
Guardian
Thief
Ranger
Warrior
Mesmer
Necromancer
You’re expecting too much a shift. The differences will close, and a few spots might change, but it won’t be that radical.
Different colors are a decently large change. It allows color coding as to what commander will fulfill what role. What would you have them do?
In the open world it’s for the best, but I feel like it’s overkill inside of dungeons.
As a colorblind, this is gonna be so frustrating.
Imagine two commanders. One with a blue tag and the other with a purple tag (I have trouble with the two colors).
Me: Hey, can you change your tag color? I’m having trouble distinguishing between the two tags coz I’m colorblind.
Commander: Sorry man, thats gonna cost me 300g.Thats absurd.
PS. Still having trouble seeing red AOE circles. Still no colorblind assist option 2 years after launch. Thanks.
Different shapes instead of just colours would be a good idea, I guess there are no colourblind people in ArenaNet, it’s the reason the guys in Blizzard went with different shapes and colours for their raid target icons.
You won’t be off in any worse condition than you are now. It would still be a nice little QoL feature so everyone could enjoy this update though.
Personally I run Greatsword + Sword/Focus. In PvE Torch isn’t very good, and while Shield offers some good support it’s frowned upon. Sword does high DPS, applies blinds, and can block projectiles. It’s my favorite main hand weapon, and with Focus it also applies regeneration, more blinds, and shields you from a few big attacks.
Metatarsal
Metamucil
Metamorphosis
Metaphor
Metatron
MetallicaWhy is necro at the bottom?
Also:
That number shows cumulative damage. For all we know, you could have sat there for 5 minutes and achieved that number by spamming your number one key.
Crucible of Eternity should have 1.5-2 gold reward in my opinion. Ascalonian Catacombs is a pretty mind numbing dungeon, and takes little skill to complete at higher levels. Crucible of Eternity requires more skill, and isn’t always as mind numbing. I’m also a little biased that higher level content should be more rewarding than low level content. It doesn’t make sense to me that the lowest level dungeon should be the highest rewarding.
- Nerf reflection skills
It would require huge mesmer direct damage buff or bb mesmers
He’s being sarcastic. I hope.
My guess is we go to the mists after Rytlock and find Belinda there. She will then give you her blade, and the white aura the blade has on the wiki is the power of the Delaqua Ancestors.
They’re trying to keep the tag relevant as a gold sink but the way they’re implementing it really sucks.
I’m concerned that this tactic will become more widespread. Community makes a request for some feature which should have been there all along, feature is added but A-net takes the opportunity to jack prices up to “modern day levels”.
Introducing First Person Camera Mode!! Only 500 gold!
Dueling! 20 gold per duel!
1. To farm, map completion, or level alts.
2. Other players not coordinating so the rest of us can farm.
3. Silver (Fort Aspenwood)
4. Nope.
Just got the crash message while in Snowden Drifts. This gift of world completion may just kill me.
I tend to care more about the player behind the class than the class itself. I’ll take a Necro/Ranger that knows his stuff over a PVT Warrior who camps 1200 range with a rifle. Personally I’d list as follows:
Guardian – Wall of Reflection is a must when puging.
Elementalist – Fiery Greatsword is amazing when stacking, plus Frostbow trivializes some areas in dungeons, like Graveling burrows.
Warrior – Heavy armor, great DPS support. I tend to like seeing them in pugs because they’re harder to play badly.
Thief – Bursting is nice, plus the dark fields for blinds and group stealth aren’t bad.
Mesmer – They bring some fun to the table, with reflections, boons, and portal.
Engi – Haven’t had much experience with them, but they seem to offer some support which is always welcome.
Ranger – Bearbow has ruined the reputation of this class for me. I’m worried when I see one join a pug, but I won’t turn them away. They can be played well, and I appreciate the spirit support, but it’s done too infrequently for me to rank them highly.
Necromancer – Not a whole lot of group support, and with the condition cap they don’t play well with others.
Dusty Moon, most of the time I agree with you, but me and guildies are crashing even though we live no where near each other at the same time in the same zone. But not all of us. But it’s happened more than once…too often for it to be a coincidence.
And it just started recently.
About a week ago half of everyone on my map was kicked from the game. I asked around and everyone had experienced issues recently.
I really wanted to get Belinda’s Greatsword, but I don’t buy cash shop skins on principal. Plus I know I’ll replace it since it doesn’t feel like I earned anything.
Maybe another feature in the pack will be the fixing of conditions. One can only hope.
If you do any pvp, you would know that sanctuary is one of the best elites there is.
If you do any GW2, you would know that sanctuary is actually a utility.
Mesmer is a pain to level, Necromancer is frowned upon by PUGs, but Elementalist is actually in a really good spot.
You’re going to find a lot of resistance to this idea, even though I don’t mind it myself. Right now, people buy black lion chests not to get the skins for themselves, but to sell the skins for profit. If everyone knows skins will eventually be available they lose value. People will wait. People will stop buying (or farming) as many black lion keys.
It will affect the economy.
Good points, but don’t you think that the year delay would address this ?
I know a lot of people would wait if we were talking a week, but a year ? A significant part of Anet’s business plan is based on the fact that a lot of people would rather pull out their credit card to buy something now rather than wait to earn gold in game.
There’s a lot of things to spend gold on. And I don’t need any single skin right now. Plenty of skins in the game that I like. I might consider buying a skin I particularly like off the TP for 60 gold. But if I knew that in a year I could have it for cash, I wouldn’t personally buy it because there are things I can’t buy off the cash shop and those would take precedence.
There’s no shortage of stuff I want to spend gold on…and I don’t buy gems to convert to gold.
Yeah but you are not some impatient kid. You grew up in an era where waiting until you could afford something, or being thrifty in general, was a virtue. The gemshop works because a lot of people want their shiny, or whatever, now !
The average age of the playerbase is probably higher than most people think. The average gamer is now over 30.
I’m not thinking kids are driving the gem sales these days.
I’m not a legal adult, and I haven’t spent $0.01 on gems.
Supports what I’m saying. But you’re not a very big sample size.
[notserious]Except now you can twist around what I said into teenagers not supporting the game and that we should all be banned.[/notserious]
Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?
Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.
EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.
If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.
In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.
Polls on forums generally prove very little.
This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.
Facebook would also say nothing .. a lot of MMO gamers these days are 40+ now and
often don’t care about facebook at all.The only thing that would give maybe some decent data is an ingame poll .. like they did in AION from time to time.
LMAO! I told my wife about it and she wants to vote and can’t. Says she already voted. lol Must be we’re on the same IP.
I set it to not let people vote from the same IP to prevent one player from voting multiple times. I only want to get 9000:1 ratio if it’s legit lol. Maybe I’ll just poll some players in-game and use that data.
Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?
Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.
EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.
If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.
In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.
Polls on forums generally prove very little.
This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.
Facebook would also say nothing .. a lot of MMO gamers these days are 40+ now and
often don’t care about facebook at all.The only thing that would give maybe some decent data is an ingame poll .. like they did in AION from time to time.
Except that would only poll the players who are still playing the game. In a perfect world we’d be able to reach every single player who’s ever played and force them to give an honest answer. Unfortunately all I can do atm is post my little straw poll.
Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?
Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.
EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.
If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.
In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.
Polls on forums generally prove very little.
This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.
Misleading data is worse than no data in my opinion.
Feel free to go shout about it in Lion’s Arch to make it more reliable.
Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?
Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.
EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.
If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.
In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.
Polls on forums generally prove very little.
This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.
I haven’t even done LS2 yet – I was hoping for more zones to be opened, but when all w got was Dry Top, I was disappointed.
“I wanted more zones to play in, saw they only added one new zone, which isn’t as many as I wanted, so I’m not even going to play it…”
People want expansions. ArenaNet has said that they going to do the Living World instead of an expansion. People still expect expansion-like content. What’s wrong about that?
The Living World focuses around story instead of new maps or new things to do.
Sadly the story is very bad. Many people are not pleased with the outcome and insist that if ANet would’ve done expansions instead, the game would be better.What’s wrong is that he was saying he wanted new zones, but then went on to say he hasn’t even bothered playing the new zone because Anet didn’t add enough new zones….
If that’s not what he meant, which I sure hope it wasn’t, then I apologize for misunderstanding, but on face value it sounds like a case of “looking a gift horse in the mouth”. If you are familiar with the saying.
“I want cake!”
“No problem, here’s a slice of our finest German Chocolate cake.”
“Noooo I wanted an entire cake!” knocks cake to floor
It’s more like asking for a pizza, and then just getting the crust. “This isn’t a meal!” “But it’s free!” “But it won’t keep me from starving!” “But it’s free!”. I’m not trying to take a side, but I feel like your analogy didn’t quite capture the situation.
Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?
Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868
A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.
EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.
(edited by Morsus.5106)
You’re going to find a lot of resistance to this idea, even though I don’t mind it myself. Right now, people buy black lion chests not to get the skins for themselves, but to sell the skins for profit. If everyone knows skins will eventually be available they lose value. People will wait. People will stop buying (or farming) as many black lion keys.
It will affect the economy.
Good points, but don’t you think that the year delay would address this ?
I know a lot of people would wait if we were talking a week, but a year ? A significant part of Anet’s business plan is based on the fact that a lot of people would rather pull out their credit card to buy something now rather than wait to earn gold in game.
There’s a lot of things to spend gold on. And I don’t need any single skin right now. Plenty of skins in the game that I like. I might consider buying a skin I particularly like off the TP for 60 gold. But if I knew that in a year I could have it for cash, I wouldn’t personally buy it because there are things I can’t buy off the cash shop and those would take precedence.
There’s no shortage of stuff I want to spend gold on…and I don’t buy gems to convert to gold.
Yeah but you are not some impatient kid. You grew up in an era where waiting until you could afford something, or being thrifty in general, was a virtue. The gemshop works because a lot of people want their shiny, or whatever, now !
The average age of the playerbase is probably higher than most people think. The average gamer is now over 30.
I’m not thinking kids are driving the gem sales these days.
I’m not a legal adult, and I haven’t spent $0.01 on gems.
My Guardian want’s Mesmer clones of himself. Can you imagine a Wall of Reflection clone?
You don’t combine those ingredients to get the recipe, that is the recipe. Once you’ve gotten the recipe (it is an item) and consumed it, you will be able to make Zealots Insignias with those ingredients.
After reading the news about the new exclusive PVP armors, I cannot stop myself from wishing for a similar PVE counterpart. As it is now, the only prestige armor set in game, will be available for the 10-20 people that happen to win elite tournaments….
While I agree that top PVP players should get a special reward for their effords, I strongly believe that there should be a correspondant set for the people that prefer PVE.
I wish Anet would introduce an equally prestegius armor set, that could be craftable through PVE rewards and activities. I wouldn’t even mind paying 100 pristine relics per piece.
Before people start complaining that everything in PVE is easy so nothing will ever be prestigious: we have been lacking any kind of hard to obtain armor set, so now is the time to give us one of those. I am sure plenty of people will enjoy working towards one of those.
Wurm armor says hello: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wurmslayer's_armor
Why are people still ignoring this post?
also..
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sunless_weapons
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_weaponsThere’s a lot of skins you can only get by doing PvE already. Let us PvPers have some too…
Sunless weapons don’t count because it doesn’t require you to do anything hard or noteworthy, just to faceroll Tequatl over and over and over hoping to get lucky.
After seeing what we can expect from feature packs, and 1/2 a season of LS2, Its just not enough to [snip] keep people playing at the level where they feel invested enough to to spend money on gems.
I’ve never felt like I should spend money on gems, so I guess I’m good then.
I’d like them to do this sort of thing with Precursor crafting. Craft your ascended weapon, then imbue it at X amount of Points of Power, slay X amounts of champions, beat the 3 dragon champions, etc.
There are plenty of PvE exclusive armor skins, it’s just that people don’t bother to go looking for them.
Except those exclusive pieces of armor don’t have any hard content attached to them. The closest we have is Arah, which can be soloed.
I’m sorry, but PvP can have their new exclusive skins. I’m glad they have them, and I’ll congratulate anybody who puts the work into getting them.
No one is asking PvP exclusive armor be removed, we’re just asking if we can get some hard-to-acquire. skill-based armor too.
The reason you see lots of exclusive runs, is because casual runs fill up fast (my time has been around 1 minute when I say “All welcome”)
You should feel bad ‘cause you’re bad. Sry, fight was not even challenging – highly telegraphed, tendris are easy to kill from range, nothing hits bigger than 1/7 hp.
Died once – because I dodged off platform.
I meleed it, (I am by no means a good player haha) and died twice. I’m living proof it’s possible to melee I guess.
He and Anise make for an interesting combination. Canach has proven he has a strong sense of moral right and wrong, but also proven that he will do what needs to be done to accomplish it.
You get a lot of T6 mats when making mystic clovers. Do the 10 recipe. It’ll take you longer to get all your clovers, but you’ll get lots of mats along the way.
-I assume every player is male until proven otherwise
/high five
I saw a suggestion to try champion farming, since the champ bags drop T6 materials. Is that efficient, or is it just better to run dungeons?
As a dungeon frequenter, I can say it totally depends. Some champ farms can give champ boxes faster than most dungeons, but some paths are farmed, like SE P1. If you play a Warrior, Guardian or Elementalist I highly suggest trying it. You can get about a box a minute iirc.
You’ll get some T6 mats when you’re making Mystic Clovers, as well as a bit of Orichalcum.
This argument / discussion has been done multiple times in the past. The fact of the matter is, the game was designed from the ground up to NOT support player to player trading. Get on with your life.
The game was also designed not to have a dedicated healing class, but we still have people trying to roll a healer.
….and how does a healer and mail trade work out? Again, move on….
I’m just saying that some players won’t move on. They’ll keep begging for it or trying to find a way to do it.
How many hours are you at? At 600 I still die on occasion, and this new living story season is much harder than the personal story.