i have played hundreds upon hundreds of games and i have NEVER seen a quest as stupid as picking up snowballs and throw them at npcs. The imagination that went into this quest in particular is insulting at best. and im not even talking about the abysmal writing/voice acting because that a completely other story. you can defend it as much as you want but i have done my personal story, done enough stupid hearts to know how pathetic they ALL were.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
this is why so many are asking themselves why is the whole map so fluffy, happy and ready for festivals. Its like there’s nothing serious happening EVER. This game is rated T for teen while there’s tones of games rate E for everyone that are much more serious and not as kiddy. If i had to guess, i’d say this game (by that i mean the quests/story/LS/npcs and not gameplay itself) is aimed at 8-14y olds. Even a 16y old would laugh at quests such as picking up snowballs and throw them at npcs, its mediocre.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
Greatsword will get you killed if you use it outside of a zerg.
lately, GS related posts are so &%$# that it isn’t even funny… like wtf is this??? You must be trollin cuz if you aren’t, it shows you haven’t played mez much. Not only GS is strong everywhere but you seems to forget or ignore there’s more than one freaking weapon per class and the other set could be sword/pistol or whatever you want…
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
Part of playing a mesmer skillfully is knowing what phantasms and clones you have on the field, in what order you placed them down, which ones are in danger, and which ones will be replaced first. That increases the skill cap.
Not only would a change like you propose be difficult to actually use effectively since the icons would be so small, it would also be dumbing down the class, which is bad.
This.
and you agree for what reason, exactly? is showing a mini icon of x phantasm instead of a circle will render mesmers skill less? Like really? Do some of you even think for themselves or just quote people who stream/posted multiple builds on this site with “This” as if agreeing with such a person makes you smarter and more knowledgeable? Serious question because i really don’t get it. I suggested the tiny circles change for something more visually appealing while helping you see what you have currently up, he brings the “Part of playing a mesmer skillfully” as if something as simple will render mesmers skill less and people just ‘yes i agree’ lol. Anet is already working on removing pet tags so tourneys are more appealing to watch with 150 pets running around and this is essentially the same thing except for the player and not the viewer.
I will give you a stupid example. Lets say anet forced all their players to play with a layer of vaseline (yes you heard that right!) on our monitor and i came here suggesting to remove the kitten thing so our gaemplay becomes more fluid and precise. Would this render all class require less skill because you can see more information on screen? This is essentially the same thing, the more information on screen=the better, that simple. I did not suggest something like making phantasms hit for 10k at all times but a minor tweak that has nothing to do with rendering the class ‘easy’. Last time i checked having more information isn’t exactly making things easy but improve gameplay as a whole.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
the “2.0” is supposed to be an upgrade from the previous version and a shatter build without boon strips and IP is just lol no thanks. If shatter build with 20/20/0/0/30 is the 1.0 version, this is a pre alpha edition.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
simply because boon stripping/20% more mind wrack damage is more important (in a shatter build that is). The other reason i don’t like it much is because mesmers aren’t what they once were in gw1. you can’t load rups and go ham on people. here we have rups on very long CD and not enough we have access to.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
who’s hating on GS, like 3-4 ppl on this forum? lol who cares what they hate. the weapon is great and you don’t need to play 1k hours on mesmer to know this.
edit: there’s one thing i HATE on GS and that’s Spatial Surge sound. Its annoying as ^%$#. Mind Stab is also bad for whakittenoffers/CD but im not gonna consider GS as a “bad” weapon because 1 kill out of 5 is meh…
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
focus is better for pve. pistol is better for pvp. sword offhand is better for pvp. but that’s not to say sword as offhand or pistol is bad in pve. i would take these two over focus against none rooted bosses any day. focus is just better for general pve when killing multiple enemies.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
no lol that’s too much. its perfectly fine as is but i dunno why both, clones and phant are indicated by circles. Tweaking this will only lead you to knowing what you have currently up faster so saying something such as my suggestion would decrease the skill cap is kinda funny.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
“Part of playing a mesmer skillfully is knowing what phantasms and clones you have on the field, in what order you placed them down, which ones are in danger, and which ones will be replaced first. That increases the skill cap” Are you a PR lol this is exactly what a PR would say… It wouldn’t dumbing down anything. If there’s an image representing each phantasm instead of just circles it could be something like a small GS=izerker up, a Pistol=iduelist up and so on. This has absolutely nothing to do with “skill”. You could be out of LoS blocked by a wall while having some phantasms survive for longer than others or inside a soup of particle effects which makes seeing very hard. Icons are small but it wouldn’t be any harder seeing a small greatsword representing izerker instead of a circle and even less so if they chose the simplistic way to just show clones as circles and phantasms as triangles.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
I put this here because its the only pace where devs read anything. and you’re saying No for what reason exactly? and it would be shutdown why lol changing the tree circles indicating your illusions for something less simplistic is worth a shutdown now? Okay!
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
Change the circles showing the amount of illusions up to different shapes (the 3 circles on the left of your F1-F4 skills). For example, a triangle could indicate a phantasm and a circle would be a clone. Kinda important for a phantasm mesmer in a game with so many particle effects (this is important x10 in pve). Would be even better if a small image of each phantasm would be showing instead of a simplistic triangle so we know exactly which one is up.
edit: did some1 really thought this suggestion was to put different shapes on illusion heads so you AND your enemy sees them? Sweet jesus lolz its only the three circles near your F bar….
thread title is extremely (sry for that) misleading and i suggest you read my posts before commenting i’m not suggesting icons on top of illusions.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
since the addition of ascended weapons i have done lev48 about 5 times and seen one person get a box. it would be pretty cool if ascended weapons were significantly more common as a drop in high level fractals than anywhere in the game.
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That mats to begin with aren’t tradeable, but after you refine them then you can sell them
Doesn’t break the 200g barrier per crafting prof.
atm you could buy all the tradeable mats for a wep for around 50g + whatever a vision crystal and inscription would sell for (25/50g) so your looking at 75-100g a weapon, realize this is the FIRST week/month of ascended weapons. Prices would drop like a rock after 3-6 months. When people with only 1-2 characters to gear out finished, then all the mats they gain are would of been for profit.
who wants to wait half a year?
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
LOL wow just wow, someone felt they needed to troll me so hard that they actually logged into game and found my character I was playing and whispered me something trollish before either blocking me or logging off as fast as they could!
I was just posted about how wrong it was earlier to expect people to reach max level before gathering these materials from champions in the crafting forum because I noticed it on my low level toon and I guess I hit a nerve.
All I can say is if these forums incite you to this much rage don’t read them whoever it is.
typical nerd behavior. Send you a wall of &^%$ and puts you on ignore list because he’s scary of you replying.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
I was like you except it didn’t took me long before i asked myself why i even bother. stopped bothering after completing all halloween achievements and not going back.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
every1 felt weak when leveling mesmers for the first time. just keep playing and get deceptive evasion as your first master trait. should be significantly better when unlocked. aim for a power builds in anything pve related.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
I’m not sure but i think i’ve read somewhere that new skills are for 2015 just like other new content not related to LS. So no, new skills is not for 1st Oct.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
OP, to answer your question. I don’t think so. Changing the engine is as complex as redoing the game.
AFAIK, Anet has its own engine and it’s a really powerful one. It has good physics and great graphics while keeping FPS high. I can’t name a single engine that can handle dragon events like this game does.
hahah especially the physics part
I meant basic physics (falling, speeds, inertia, push and pull). Meaning what’s enough for an MMO but you are right, I over-expressed that. It’s not, speaking objectively, good.
Why its always “good enough for mmo”? Its 2013… mmo’s are stuck in late 90’s, time to evolve this relic of a genre. Destiny will show everyone how its done.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
Someone above made a valid point about lack of reward for dungeons. If typical dungeontakes an hour and gives me ONE gold but champ train gives me 6…..well i’m an accountant, but even if you are not i’m sure you can do the math.
Not only dungeons but everything else as well. Why the F am i getting like 70copper for completing a Heart? Why am i getting 1silver for completing an event that took ~10 minutes? Anet wants us to do open world stuff when rewards aren’t just bad but completely pathetic never seen in an mmo. Then people complain about champ farmers rofl
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
i can’t believe some are actually asking for nerfs… are you like stupid or something? this is probably the game that received the most nerfs in its 1st year than any games released in the passed decade and you want more? like wtf
exactly he want it to take longer to grind for ascended etc. What happened to play the way you want !? some people just want to get legendary in this decade. Then others want to nerf some of the only profitable farms. Not everyone have time to play 15hours a day. Some people like me have jobs for them profitable farms are good.
I don’t think you read his post. I must agree with him in that it causes problem for others that are in the same zone doing other content. It’s very problematic for all in the zone. I don’t agree with his solution, but I do agree with his premise. Of course proposed solutions get heckled, but fun-fun we can just keep at each others throats in the zones until the game melts and everyone logs out for good.
you know what the real problem is? GW2 has no farmable spots. Lets say running dungeons wa truly rewarding (3-5g per run without stupid DR). Do you really think we would be seeing zerg trains farming champs? No. But since there’s absolutely nothing to farm in this over nerfed game, everyone is doing what they can to make some kind of money. Don’t blame champ farmer but &^#^ anet nerfing everything that can possibly be nerfed.
I will pose these questions to you. Why do you need to farm? Where does it state that you need all that money and materials now? Why not play the game and not just farm the game?
I will answer you with a question. Why do you even play? The answer is to do something. That’s the answer. Farming is makes you money which gets you closer to your goal which can be a legendary or whatever. Running around and doing hearts like some are saying that’s what enjoyable in gw2 is just laughable.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
OP, to answer your question. I don’t think so. Changing the engine is as complex as redoing the game.
AFAIK, Anet has its own engine and it’s a really powerful one. It has good physics and great graphics while keeping FPS high. I can’t name a single engine that can handle dragon events like this game does.
hahah especially the physics part
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
i can’t believe some are actually asking for nerfs… are you like stupid or something? this is probably the game that received the most nerfs in its 1st year than any games released in the passed decade and you want more? like wtf
exactly he want it to take longer to grind for ascended etc. What happened to play the way you want !? some people just want to get legendary in this decade. Then others want to nerf some of the only profitable farms. Not everyone have time to play 15hours a day. Some people like me have jobs for them profitable farms are good.
I don’t think you read his post. I must agree with him in that it causes problem for others that are in the same zone doing other content. It’s very problematic for all in the zone. I don’t agree with his solution, but I do agree with his premise. Of course proposed solutions get heckled, but fun-fun we can just keep at each others throats in the zones until the game melts and everyone logs out for good.
you know what the real problem is? GW2 has no farmable spots. Lets say running dungeons wa truly rewarding (3-5g per run without stupid DR). Do you really think we would be seeing zerg trains farming champs? No. But since there’s absolutely nothing to farm in this over nerfed game, everyone is doing what they can to make some kind of money. Don’t blame champ farmer but &^#^ anet nerfing everything that can possibly be nerfed.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
At least the Unreal Engine is optimized. Or am I wrong here?
we haven’t gotten a single game running in UE4 yet but UE3 was very well optimized and the most used engine since 06. Im betting UE4 will be very optimized as well and have true next gen visuals (not wiiu graphics such as seen in gw2-.-)
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
They decided to stay with the same outdated engine just like CoD and its quake 3 engine released in 1999.
Well the CoD series is the same game over and over so why would they need to change the engine? They’ll probably still use it to make games for PS4 and it’ll still be the same game but there’ll be no shortage of mugs who’ll queue up and buy it.
“Probably still use it”? They’re using it LOL
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
This is what a lev48 daily should reward you with.
-5gold
-50 empyreals
-1prestine relic
-2 guaranteed rares with very high chance of exotics from Maw’s chest (50% of getting an exotic and no less)
-normal tokens which i don’t care cuz i have 15k of them…
-10% chance of getting an ascended box from Maw’s chest
-all other boss chests guaranteed 1 Rare
Now we’re talking about lev48 worth your time.
You want all of that for an hours gameplay :\?
how is this “all of that”? its significantly harder than any content in the game and if you get cliffside/dredge its mostly way longer than 1h. This reward isn’t comparable to other dungeon rewards because 1- other dungeons are easy and 2- other dungeons have a joke reward system even since the added 1-3g per run. Its about time they make fractals worth running,,,, it’ll be 1 year since they exist very soon and we get no kitten from them but useless tokens
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
No but i read the dungeon/skills part and i agree.