My only advice… stay away from this forum. Stick the the ‘players helping players’ and the various class forums.
Don’t mean to be a troll, but he left WoW because of the gear grind. The new patch is “slowly” introducing that same system. Why hide the truth from him? Though I agree that a lot of thing said on this forum is incorrect, but some of them do have their merit.
As for twisted.4683 the game is great, just for most of us right now in its current state. 3 month ago I could see myself playing this game for years to come. Don’t let what I just said discourage you, just letting you know what has happen so far.
This game has nothing even close to WoW’s gear grind.
My only advice… stay away from this forum. Stick the the ‘players helping players’ and the various class forums.
Yep… less gold sellers and less bots. Good work.
Good first time post, it really sums up part of the problem but its much more than that. Anet really burned alot of players, and I’m talking maybe as much as 40 – 60% of the currently playing population.
I would LOVE to see the source where you came up with the numbers ‘40-60%’.
Link please.
Yes, the introduction of vertical progression obsoletes a lot of previous content. That’s why I’m surprised that game after game uses this. More vertical progression = more content that a player only uses briefly.
Don’t make this a backhanded attempt at bringing up ‘progression’… the home cities were fairly empty even before that. Stay on topic.
I do my ‘business’ in Rata Sum… all of the crafting stations, TP, and banks are all very close together.
I ‘hang out’ in LA for social purposes.
Um, as far as I know, rings don’t drop until tier 10 fractals because, well, agony doesn’t set in until then.
Go to the dungeon vendors and find a set you think looks cool.
Run the dungeon to earn tokens.
Buy the gear.
Win.
Exact same thing here.
What do you want them to say?
Anet has stated that they run these events when they see the most people on, which is typically the weekend. You can’t please everybody, you can only try and please the majority.
Why we don’t care you are leaving…
We don’t care.
Looks like a trust fund baby showing off how much gold he bought on daddy’s credit card.
Looked like just a launcher or client thing… nothing downloaded after that little bit.
Is Ascended gear better than Exotic gear for WvWvW?
No.
Why is having roughly 8% higher stats not better?
It’s not 8% higher stats… it’s 8% (if that number is accurate) on just a couple pieces of gear compared to their exotic equivalent… so probably 1-2% overall, if that.
It will be craftable.
The Ascended gear will be craftable. Relax.
Yes, more gear will be coming in the future. So why worry about that when all you have to worry about is a couple rings and a backpack?
Because its called a power creep for a reason. It creeps in and kills a game.
Ok, you seem to be dead set against these changes, so i am done arguing with you.
Good luck… I hope you find a game you like, because this one obviously isn’t it.
And why do you keep talking about a full set? For now they are only releasing rings and a back slot item… that’s 3 pieces.
Relax or quit the game… it’s that simple.
So when you’re proven wrong, you change the issue but ignore the fact that the blog posts states that more gear is to come and full sets are bound to appear? That doesn’t work.
Yes, more gear will be coming in the future. So why worry about that when all you have to worry about is a couple rings and a backpack?
It’s +2 stat points that’s making players have an aneurism because of kneejerk reactions.
Its +77 stats. Thanks.
3% magic find increase is +67 of a stat on equivalent gear.
+5 minor.
+5 minor.+77 is not +2. +77*16 is 1232 stats. You have a stat spread of roughly 7000 (unless I’m mistaken, doing this off the top of my head in terms of maximums). Thats 17.6%.
And why do you keep talking about a full set? For now they are only releasing rings and a back slot item… that’s 3 pieces.
Relax or quit the game… it’s that simple.
It’s +2 stat points that’s making players have an aneurism because of kneejerk reactions.
Its +77 stats. Thanks.
3% magic find increase is +67 of a stat on equivalent gear.
+5 minor.
+5 minor.+77 is not +2. +77*16 is 1232 stats. You have a stat spread of roughly 7000 (unless I’m mistaken, doing this off the top of my head in terms of maximums). Thats 17.6%.
They only showed a piece of gear with magic find on it. If it was a power piece, you would have equivalent stat plus a couple of points.
You will be able to craft the new items or buy them off the TP by those who can.
Doesnt excuse the 7.936% increase in stats from exotics nor the artificial gating mechanism of the infusions. Plus having to regrind this when I have already grinded out exotics, Im not going to play ball if this hits live.
LOL… well, it’s going live, so you might as well uninstall.
Thanks for playing.
Aye aye aye aye aye.
( I needed 15 characters)
You will be able to craft the new items or buy them off the TP by those who can.
What’s so special about level 20? I hope you realize that there are 60 more after that.
Asura are still vermin.
Norn are hardcore. Walk around with no clothes in the snowy mountains, like real men.
And chesthair.
Even the women.
Nothing specific that I can find.
How about chilled? Immobilize? Fear is both. Who knows… it is what it is.
The overwhelming feeling that I get when I play GW2 is that it’s a game that was released too soon.
It’s as simple as that. ArenaNet is no doubt having regrets.
People love to make this ridiculous statement. GW2 was just about as polished a release as any I have ever seen. Does it have bugs? Sure, every MMO does… even WoW which has been out for many years still has bugs.
And if they had delayed releasing it, I bet you and the guy you quoted would be first in line crying about the delay, saying ‘just release it already!’.
So that ‘it was released too soon’ is just such a tired, worn out argument that it needs to be retired.
Yeah, they won’t do anything. Just be more careful next time. They have said that they may implement a confirmation box for purchases.
Nope, nothing you can do except be more careful in the future.
Also build a stat called ‘Toughness’… it will reduce the amount of direct damage you take.
The reward is to be able to go outside for the first time in over 2 months.
Crystal Desert has a very healthy population.
Start getting some gear with the ‘Vitality’ stat on it.
Your post is moot in my opinion (not trying to start anything here) for the simple fact that you say it’s not living to it’s ‘’full potential’’ when you’re not even playing the FULL game. Nowhere in this do you even include pvp which leads me to believe you haven’t spent time doing wvw or spvp.
How can you say ‘’not living up to it’s full potential’’ when you haven’t even played the second half of this game?
PvE and PvP are essentially two separate games inside one game. It has always been this way. The way they’re designed appeals to two different styles of gamer, and some people just won’t enjoy both.
I had a lot of expectations for GW2…
I found the problem… but that’s YOUR problem, not the game’s.
Expectations like fun dungeons, diverse characters, and variety shouldn’t be issues.
That’s YOUR opinion… mine is different. Plus, I wasn’t quoting you.
I spend a lot of time in Rata Sum because the bank, TP, and all crafting stations are all very close together.
I had a lot of expectations for GW2…
I found the problem… but that’s YOUR problem, not the game’s.
Why are you on a different server than your friends? Were you server jumping to exploit WvW?
They got the game later than me. I was in a guild and it fell apart, now I want to join them on their server to play with them, since my previous guild is a ghost-town.
Well, why didn’t they join the server you are on?
Why are you on a different server than your friends? Were you server jumping to exploit WvW?
You’re assuming, very likely wrongly, that the last tier is 1,000,000. It’s more likely to be 250,000-300k.
And I hope you go into chat on your server and apologize to everyone for wasting supplies just so you can forward your achievement.
You should get an achievement and title for extreme selfishness.
If you can’t kill a guardian in PvP, then you ain’t doing it right.
Wait wait wait… are you saying an mmorpg has long term goals to achieve? Blasphemy!
Translation:
Dear Anet… I couldn’t kill a thief in PvP. Please nerf thieves. Oh, and Elementalists need a buff. Thanks.
The question has been answered by a dev… no need to argue about anything.
Instead, you should gather an army of skilled riders and invade China. It’s been 800 years, they’ll never expect it.
But they have a big wall around the place.
No matter what time they do it, it’s a bad time for someone.
They put a post in news and announcements moments after the patch. November 7th update. Best place to look for things like that.