Well, I got my precursor during the Madd King Event in the PvE area from one of the boss boxes. It will never do me any good as I will not be bothered to do dungeons. But it looks nice in my inventory. At one time I thought of selling it but it cost too much to put it on the TP. I even got a lot of the mats and stuff to finish it but the dungeon ones are just not for me. The WvW was fine but not 5 mans, no way, been there, done that, left WoW because of it. I’ve never played with nastier people in my life than the ones doing 5 man dungeons and they were just screaming at some poor guy who didn’t tank or heal the way they expected him to. Seven years on WoW and only a few figured out that the LEADER’s responsibility is to teach the others how to get through. Kind of like Commanders. Get it Commanders just because you pay 100g for a tag doesn’t mean you know what your doing. They should have to take a test to get those things. You give me hero’s I’ll do it. Not a problem.
My computer has been laggy a bit especially on loading Waypoints. Which can be a problem in the Scarlet Invasions because you need to get around the area better. Some times by the time I load in the fight is almost over. Now some of that may be slow callers and me just not seeing the call right away. But some of it is my load time.
I don’t want armor! I’ve got armor I love. There’s lots of styles in the game. And as I said the ones for the dungeons are not to my liking. I want better content for the world. I don’t want 50 players zerging a 5 man boss I want 50 players fighting the 50 player boss. But your happy to send someone who wants to solo into a 5 man dungeon to try and fight 5 man fights alone. Or just give me Heros and then I’ll do the 5 man dungeons. But if I have to hear someone screaming about the tank that can’t tank or the healer that can’t heal again, I’m going to reach through my computer and rip out some ones lungs. So to save my sanity and yours please come up with a better solution than just do it the same old way because it’s not working for a lot of players.
Enough with the dungeon rewards. You get quite a lot already. Leave the dungeon and enjoy the outside world for a bit. You might find you like it.
Well, even the champ train gets boring but not as boring as dealing with puppy holes in dungeons. Got tired of kittens. I did all the dungeons I will ever do in WoW and came here because it was to be an open dynamic spontaneous world. What a laugh, we get dungeon instances with legendary weapons and most everything good tied to them too. All I really want is an alternate way to achieve for most items. Just as hard a way but an alternative. If you don’t want to do dungeons there should be big real world events that give the same currencies. Or at least some kind of currency exchange. Too much of A trade it for C.
Most of the new crafting materials are pretty attainable. I would say the dust is the easiest. Maybe in the Scarlet invasions if you win you could get a big sack of ore and fragments. Kill two birds with one stone. Give a good way to get the mats and help stop people from just farming the events. I kind of liked winning.
I been doing the Jumping puzzles and there are some farmable chests that have the Fragments. Also the Big events like Claw and Shadow Behemoth have Ore. But I got to say, that doing the same jumping puzzles over and over is a bit like, let me see, oh yeah, FARMING. BORING!
Be sure to do the Jumping puzzles with a level 80 as a lower level will not get the fragments. I don’t know if a lower level will get the ore and dust or not.
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The dungeon gear is pretty ugly and not worth the effort.
I just don’t understand the need to do 5 man groups all the time over and over and over again and the religious zealotry needed to defend them. Yes they were big at one time but time marches on and we can do better. This was advertised as a dynamic open world game and we just are not getting it. And dungeons should not be involved. They are a step backward. A thumb to suck for people with no imagination. Been there, done that, and I am ready for the next adventure. But hey, I know a lot of players like them so put them in the game just don’t tie things to them so those of us who want to play in the world can pretend they don’t exist.
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Yes I agree and the dust should stack to 999 because it’s filling my storage up.
I don’t care if you put the holy grail in a 5 man pug dungeon I’m not doing it.
Scarlet Invasions. Leveling toons. Discovering new areas. Finding something I’ve never seen before. The new pit arena in Divinity Reach. The living story 70% of the time. Dailies and Monthlies. Doing the hearts and chevrons and vistas. A jumping puzzle once in a while. WvW a bit.
But I hate 5 man pug dungeons and fractals and PvP.
No, I want big complicated events in the world not tucked away in 5 man instance dungeons. And not just running in and killing a boss.
I want more events like Scarlet invasions. Imagine instead of a dungeon a whole area of the map to move through with a list of accomplishments. The dungeon becomes Frostgorge Sound with a 10 minute window to get into an instance doing the event. So perhaps the first objective is to take back a fort with a few champs to kill. Then you find out the Aetherblades are trying to undermine the Kodan on one of the ships and you have to help the Kodans. Any way you work your way around the area doing the chores and generally righting level 80 wrongs and eventually you get to the real problem and kill the uber boss at the end just like a dungeon but bigger and everyone can play not just 5. This isn’t gonna be easy and will take a lot to win. But if you do you get some of the currency of the area and the standard rewards.
Absolutely not. I just want dungeons to be bigger events that everyone can take part in that happen in the world. Events that are bigger than a dungeon. It can work like a dungeon and have a story and even a linear progression and even things happening in more than one place, objectives that need teams to split up and do and succeed. Then after 30 to 40 minutes of playing your way through the steps of the event you could fight the big boss at the end. Isn’t that what a 5 man dungeon is any way, a big fight through objectives to a big boss at the end. You are too narrow in your perspective and fail to dream big. Why play in a puddle when you could have a lake or an ocean.
I have found that the 5 man dungeon is just boring and filled with players too rigid in their thinking. Obviously they succeed in the environment and don’t want any changes. They like it and get rewards that they want and don’t want others to have because they will be less special. Well, it’s a big game and I just want another way to skin the cat. Not easier.
The only other thing I can think of is to add the same kind of content for dynamic players and give us our own currency. Which seems stupid when there are already too many currencies in the game. Frankly I believe there should less not more currencies.
I would like to see for every Dungeon and Fractal a big corresponding dynamic event in that area the would reward the same currencies. I think the dynamic events are much more fun and more in tune with the ideology of the game than the dungeons and fractals. Yes dungeons and fractals keep the WoW maniacs happy and I’m not saying take them out of the game, but I am saying give those of us who like the dynamic play style a place to gain the currencies from the dungeons. I’m not saying easy either just a place where lots of us can go in a big social group to play. Like the scarlet invasions a 10 minute window would be fine. If every dungeon and fractal had a corresponding dynamic event it would be amazing. But you would have to make an effort to make it better to win than just stand around farming champs.
Now I hear the Dungeon Runners screaming even as I write this. But I say let them scream as I buy a lot of gems.
Dear Colin,
I’m pretty sure the whole idea is to make it easy to get Fragments and Ore in WvW and dungeons because they are having trouble getting people into these areas. Hence, big rewards of stuff you really need. Now, even that won’t get me into a pug dungeon. It might get me back to WvW for a bit. I suck akitten but at least even I can follow a zerg and fight. No skill needed. Big rewards. GW seems to like you to do all parts of the game, they made it and you darn well better get your butt there and play everything. Having no one in the Dungeons to group with is only part of the problem with doing this boring crowd control content. Yes, crowd control content, it gets you off the main maps and into a controlled environment for as set period of time and they don’t have to worry about over crowded servers.
If your not doing WvW or dungeons the dragonite ore and Empyreal Fragments are much harder to get. You will be spending a lot of time looking for real world splendid chests and fighting a few veterans solo to get a chest with a few fragments. Or waiting in LA for a port to a Jumping Puzzle. Or doing the same jumping puzzle over and over again and again for the chest. And don’t try and use a low level who needs the EX for the puzzles only a LEVEL 80 gets the Fragments.
Now Colin, I don’t mind a good jumping puzzle, and there are quite a few I admit I cannot do. They are quite creative and fun but once you’ve done them a few times, really, is that not the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome, or the same outcome even more boring.
I got no problem with working to get something. The cool downs are fine. I do have a problem with the fact that you made this wonderful dynamic world and you keep trying to get us out of it and into instances and WvW and PvP and Fractals. Yes, you got to have dungeons and fractals or the WoW maniacs will have a kitten. But who really cares about the WoW maniacs. I don’t or I would still be there as it is cheaper to play. Yes, you can play GW without buying gems but they are so much fun. I don’t even want to know how much I’ve spent on gems but probably about 10 years worth of subscription time on WoW. Check my account if you don’t believe me.
So I may not be your Ideal Target Group to listen to but I am the one buying the gems to finance the ones who don’t buy them. And I want real world dynamic play. Like the Big Karka invasion and Scarlet Invasions and I want some kind of in game scheduler. so I can know when an event is happening. And I don’t want items tied only to dungeons or fractals. There should be redundancy in the currencies and if you can’t get it one place you should be able to get it some where else. As and example the Ascalonian Tears you get in the dungeon should be available in the real world in the Ascalon Areas from big dynamic events like Scarlet or Claw. And there cannot be enough of these big dynamic events. Every dungeon and fractal should have a corresponding world dynamic events. Yes EVENTS as in lots more than one. There should be so many dynamic events in this game your head should spin form having to figure out which one you might want to do. Slam bam there’s you level 80 content. Every hour for 10 minutes there’s at least 3 dynamic events happening, OMG I’d have to pick. Now, that would be Heaven. I came back to GWs from WoW and Rift because of the dynamic world aspect of the game and want More and More of it not Fractals and Dungeons.
Lately I have noticed when I use this skill my character seems to jump or change directions. It is a small teleport or spin move that is quite disconcerting especially if your in a big battle. One minute your facing your target the next you press your skill to get out your clones and your dizzy and looking off into the hinterlands and have to find your target even sometimes.
I got Dawn and a lot of the crap to craft the darn thing. Got most of the clovers just crafting them for the dailies, I think I need 5 more. But I’ve given the whole thing up because I hate Pugging dungeons and don’t feel the need to try and do by myself what was designed for 5 payers can do. I’ve even gone to the dungeon to bite the bullet and try and get into a group, surprise the place is empty. So who cares, obviously not many players in the game are collecting the currency. So I’ll live with out the darn thing. But there is nothing like buying a game with a built in fail. There should be a way to achieve and work hard without having to do the parts of the game your not interested in.
Keep the fractals and dungeons and PvP. I can live without it all. I want real time dynamic world events. As we were promised when we bought the game. Like the one time Karka Event and Scarlet Invasions. I want stuff happening in the world not instances. I want auto grouping. I want an in game event timer log so you can plan your play around what’s going to happen.
I want to be able to log on look at the schedule for the next 6 hours and say I want to do A,C and G and in between I’ll do my dailies and maybe join the zerg in Frostgorge for a while. Then I might go look into doing a bit of Adventure Box or what ever the living story is.
I DON’T want Pug Dungeons or Fractals ever as far as I’m concerned it’s a waste of my money. A bunch of 10 years fighting over who got what and who is the worst tank ever, sorry but I’m too old for that crap.
And I absolutely don’t want any specific item tied to doing dungeons or fractals. If you can get it in a Dungeon or Fractal I want it available somewhere in the big world too. Yep, I’m talking the dungeon currency and the Fractal currency too. So there. I don’t care if there is a specific skin available only in the dungeon but I don’t want a legendary weapon tied to doing a dungeon or fractal. God, The WvW was bad enough. But not as bad a pugging a dungeon. GW1 then WoW did me on dungeons, and I’ll never do on again. I don’t mine if you need them in the game to keep the dungeon players happy.
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I suggest Rift or WoW for fishing.
Talk about boring standing around LA waiting for a yellow announcement to pop up. And don’t blink because you will miss it. Why can’t they just give us some kind of schedule? Colin is this your idea of not waiting to have fun?
Keep your dungeons and fractals and adventure boxes and PvP. Just give us more invasions. Real stuff happening in the world not instances.
Auto grouping would work fine.
They are need to craft stuff!
Flying Mounts. Yes!
Keep the living story. Loose the Dungeons, Fractals and PvP, PLEASE!
Well, I too don’t group but I did do the first on baby and got some stuff. It’s just boring the whole thing. It was cute the first time but it takes a long time about an hour or more to get 250 baubles. Get a shovel you can find easy baubles that way. And once you learn a spot it seems to regenerate there often, not always but often. I can do up to the toad and that was as far as I got by myself but I could not carry any more baubles by then any way and had to start over any way. And if your going alone don’t bother with continue coins, just start over if you die.
So it’s really just a bauble farm. If you must have something you just have to dog it till you get enough baubles. At least you can turn them into bauble baubles and they take up less space in storage. Some if the stuff is on the TP but can get pricy.
I wish they would have skipped this whole mess and just left Scarlet Invasions going every hour.
I too would give you one of the many useless ones I have. But I think if you can find and invasion you can still get them.
Anet could come up with a way to share account bound stuff but not sell it. If we are willing to give it to someone why not. Maybe put it on the TP for no price and if you really need them you could get them. You know players actually helping players.
No idea! It’s a big secret. We need a leaker!
I been on for quite a bit tonight more than 4 hours and I never saw an invasion. I did use the timer and bump around for chests though.
The one thing I would like to do and wish Anet would simplify or clarify is the temple events. They just never seem to happen so no one bothers. And the timers never seem to be right.
What’s wrong with jumping to events, if your having fun and enjoying yourself? And getting it done! You can only do each event once a day and even that gets boring if you do it too much.
But Scarlet is too much fun to miss.
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One of the best things about the whole Scarlet Invasion scenario was you knew that every hour it would happen and you could plan when you would play accordingly.
Now, they haven’t stopped and I hope they don’t ever. But it would still be nice to be able to plan when you play in order to do the most stuff. The yellow announcement in the crawl is easy to miss if your busy.
I use the online dragon timers. You got everything pretty much on daily Cool Downs, so why not just bite the bullet and give us in game timers for all the events. Sure some people are gonna go from event to event but you got the built in cool downs and they can only do so much. So constantly farming the same event is useless. We would be able to optimize our time and get the most out of it and do a whole lot less standing around. And people would show up and if you did the 10-15 minute spawning window for a overflow with the event no one would be too unhappy to be in overflow. The day two of us tried to do Claw in overflow is still pretty funny! We did get through the crystals but he was a bit much.
The prices in the Gem Store could be a bit lower!
The new patch is OK and the new gear I just can’t quite get all worked up about it yet. I just gonna get some of the mats and see what happens. NO need to finish everything all at once.
We could use a schedule for the new Scarlet Invasion so those of us who would rather do them than the Adventure box could plan not to miss them.
Probably you will be able to use them again but I didn’t find doing them that much fun and would have liked a bit of coin better. Getting them was not that difficult and a few coins for those Gnashblade tokens would be nice too.
They will think of some way to bring them back like the adventure box which I wish would have stayed in the box. It’s pretty boring if you do it more than once every few days. Not like the Scarlet Attacks which were extra wonderful.
Time gating or cool downs and account binding it all is just so boring. But I’m not in that much of a hurry to get everything, once you get all the stuff you want it gets boring.
Yes I love this event and would much rather do this than the adventure box. So please give us some kind of schedule so we can be sure and make time to be there.
Heck, Just open up the one they got!
Thanks for mini Queen Jenna. Please lower the prices for gems. Come out with an expansion with lots more levels and areas to explore! I prefer to live without pug dungeons and fractals and PvP though. Stick to your open world dynamic model and just make it bigger and better.
I seem to be getting a few Queen Jennas, is there anything to do with the extras?
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I actually think Gw2 is making more money in the gem store the say the big completion with the monthly subscription. For 120 dollars you can get a full year of most monthly subscription games. In GW2 100 dollars gives you 8000 gems which you can blow through quite fast.
Oh and the plush quaggan attire is to attract little girls. They are looking the young teen market and figure to attract some girls and not just boys. One game, many markets, much money, that’s their motto.
They built a well rounded game and they want well rounded players. They seem to like to make you do the stuff you don’t enjoy to get the achievements. They seem to feel since they created it you darn well are going to play it.
I too am an open world dynamic world fan. I can absolutely live with out WvW, PvP, Mini games, Pugging Dungeons and Fractals and I do. Of all these thing the only one with any redeeming value is WvW and even though I do sort of like it, I usually don’t bother with it except to map the areas. But I do always fight while mapping. I suck but I make good cannon fodder and figure my dying keeps someone alive who knows what he’s doing.
They built all this crap in order to attract more players and now they have to try and keep everyone happy. So they failed, they should have picked one thing and just did that.
Karma and crafting
This stinks as bad as the pandas in GW1.
All I have to say is I’m ready for that expansion NOW!. I want more levels and more places to explore. As many as 60-80 more levels. And lots more places to explore. And Kodans and Quaggan races. So rack it up Anet I don’t want to wait as long for this as I had to for GW2 because life is too short.
I think your going to get a Queen Jenna mini soon. Or at least that was what it said in the chaos advance.
Just goes to show you no good deed goes unpunished. You can’t please all of the people all of the time.
Seems like a good idea. People just don’t want to group in this game. I was fond of the auto grouping in other games like WoW.
Absolutely not there are too many idiots running around not knowing what they are doing now.
You should have to take a commander test to get one! And get 100 players to sign your petition!
Yes, the Sylvari need some major help! Most of the hair looks like leaves stuck on mud! Finer softer leaves. Maybe look at plant fibers or braided fibers along with leaves. I get the organic thing but I just looks like you could not figure it out. Or just give them hair with plant accessories.
Sometimes by using the magic well you can get 2 soul bound crystals that Zommoros loves. Which are pretty useless because you need 10 to throw in for the spell for clovers. So, I do the mystic drain with my toons that need EX for the daily EX points. So many of my toons have 2 crystals sitting around useless. If you would please account bind them instead of soul binding them I could use them. Also if you sold them in groups of 3 for 2 skill points it would be nice too. Thanks in advance!
Ah, but he only has eyes for Jenna!
dulfy.net has a good picts and advice!
This system seems pretty simple and easy to me.
1. Be ready with your toon at the start of the hour.
2. When the hour hits and the icon tells you where the fight is happening, go there. You will be put in a zone where the event is happening. You got 10 minutes to do it. After 10 minutes you just get a regular zone to do regular stuff. Don’t leave the zone and travel to the main zone because you might miss the fight altogether. Unless your alone but so far in any zone I’ve been in there were lots of players. But you might miss the event if you travel no matter what.
3. Look on your map for red events go and fight. Follow the others. Fight some more. If you get lost refer to your map for red events or look for a Blue Commander Icon. Most of the time they will be heading for the next fight. You can use the way stations within the map, just don’t go outside the state or county the fight is happening in i.e. Queensland.
4. It’s easy to get left behind especially if you like want to look for your loot. Loot is kinda easy to miss. It should fall next to you like WvW not all over the battlefield. But it is what it is. Most of the Champions with Gold Halos drop a chest of some kind.
This seems pretty practical to me and easy to use. The fights take about 45 minutes and you get a lot of stuff at the end.