Guild Wars 2

Duthgar.2905:

well get used to the way things work in GW2 because MMO’s are going to be using a similar style from here on probly since it has had such a positive effect on most gamers.

I’m not so sure about this. I hope a lot of people who have played GW2 have come away with a new appreciation for the trinity system and old staples of group combat like CC.

What GW2 has done just makes things boil down to being self-sufficient and doing as much DPS as possible. Even the “soft roles” people talked about are worthless and end up being a hindrance on a group.

Case in point, in beta I came up with a hybrid shout/banner build for my warrior that focused on giving a group ~12 stacks of might and 100% regen uptime + lots of condition removal. It also has nice, steady damage. I thought this build was the kitten and I never deviated from it since beta — until about 3 days ago when I put together a cookie cutter berserker build and…wow. The massive increase in personal DPS far outweighed the benefits of my group-oriented build. My other characters pretty much follow the same model of max dps above all now too.

However, I don’t think GW2 should change. I don’t think it could change at this point and it is as it was advertised. They took the stance that waiting around for a healer or a tank isn’t fun — a DPS player issue mostly — and what we got was a DPS zergfest as a result.

I mostly heal in games. I enjoy it and get more satisfaction from excelling at it than I do from dps or even tanking. There’s triage and resource management involved and it’s nice when you’re with a tank who keeps a fast pace and pushes your limits. It’s not for everyone but to me this is all extremely fun. I’d wager that many others find it fun as well and that many people that play DPS find it more fun to have somebody else watching their health or soaking up damage for them.

I hope in the long run GW2’s approach which seems to be mirrored somewhat by TESO does not win out or, at least, older paradigms of group design don’t completely fall by the wayside.

Here’s mine, just a simple swordsman look with a fancy hat/mask.

More than anything I want to return to Elona. Besides that, Tengu.

Fror.2163:

What about the fact that cores/lodestones are not soulbound, but the tokens used to get those are?

I don’t see why account bound tokens giving unbound cores or stones would be a big deal. The suggestion was made with the idea that people would have a reason to continue running dungeons and prices would drop on stones.

Catisa.6507:

and how would this be fair to people who don’t like dungeons? A solution should benefit all equally or none.

Dungeons already reward cores and lodestones very rarely – I’m talking super rare (done 18 runs of CoE in the last couple of days and have gotten ~4 cores and 0 lodestones). It should require work but not this much and prices on charged cores and lodestones in particular are extremely high for an item you need hundreds of to make some weapons.

My suggestion doesn’t preclude other ways of obtaining cores/stones but if not dungeons, then what? Fractals also rarely reward lodestones and are tied to a higher gear tier; and people that farm meta events make more ectos for less effort and can get things like Final Rest.

Add lodestones to relevant dungeon token vendors. For example, Charged Lodestones to CoE vendor. The cost should be fairly high. 180 tokens for 1 lodestone seems reasonable to me.

This would increase supply, drop prices, encourage more dungeon running, and give people like me who run dungeons a lot a way to more reliably work towards weapon skins besides lots of gold.

Marius.8052:

It’s a 2 way street. You have kitten warriors that drop them too close to parties members or bosses (ex: dungeons). They don’t realize it’s a 600m BASE range.

Why would you need to spam F during a fight in a dungeon? I like to keep my banner close at hand in case I want to use the blast finisher. It’s never been a problem in my experience even when the whole grou kitten tacked up. The only time F should be hit in a situation like that is to revive and even then I haven’t noticed any problems. Reviving seems to be prioritized if you’re standing on a banner and a fallen ally.

Grizor.6543:

mdapol.8530:

I hope they buff the difficulty of CoF the way they buffed AC

I hope so also, it’s ridiculous that people will endure the mind numbing farming of cof1 for hours on end purely because it rewards the most cash/hour.

Many of my friends simply burned out from doing that and don’t play anymore.

It’s not ridiculous at all when you have an endgame that boils down to how much gold you can farm.

Even in mostly/full toughness gear on my guardian and warrior omnomberry pies have been invaluable for being able to actually melee. My guardian it might be less of an issue but my warrior…will have to see when dungeons reset.

What is this? What is this?

I’ve only played maybe 2hrs in the last 2 weeks. At this point I think I’m just going to log on for holiday events.

Ascended gear is the main reason though I’m not opposed to vertical progression; it’s how it was implemented and the effect it’s had on the economy that has sapped my will to play.

I have 5 level 80s in exotics. I like to play them all and I like PvE. Fractals have forced the need to focus on one character because progress is not shared and there’s no way I could try to meet the agony requirements on multiple characters.

Why? Cost. Back pieces are prohibitively expensive since they need an absurd amount of materials which they’ve subsequently caused to skyrocket in price. I was struggling to keep up with the economy with the time I have to play before fractals were introduced. When I finally found a decent time/reward source of income for me it tanked within a week.

Progression that’s a mixture of pure RNG and how much gold I can farm has killed my interest. If it was just the back slot maybe I could do it but I had other expensive goals I was working towards as well. A legendary + t3 cultural on one of my characters among them.

This has always been the case. You either have to be out of range or directly behind his tail.

Have these issues as well. The running off thing is the worst and I have to deal with it a lot if I try to pick up my banner too.

I agree mostly. People say turn off auto attack but that doesn’t feel like a real solution. The problems with animations and dodging still exist and you’re left with having to break up your dps. Dodging and attack animations are a problem across the board though. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve eaten an ice spike from subject alpha because chop has interrupted my warrior’s dodge.

The bigger issue with the sword to me besides dodging is that you can’t move at all. I’m sure somebody will tell me I’m wrong, but in my opinion any weapon that doesn’t allow you to strafe in PvE is effectively worthless.

Kind of funny to see people that are willing to settle for something as low at 15%. Thieves have 25% from a signet passive. Eles can have 25% by just being in air attunement for a bit but it’s unnecessary since an Ele can also hit two buttons and have 100% swiftness – same with warrior.

It is a bit odd, for a class that derives its name from ranging, that swiftness or other speed boosts seem pretty scarce.

I’m still just leveling my ranger but what I’ve experienced so far makes me worry about how effective I’ll be at max level. I’ve been running with mostly cats, jaguar really, to boost my dps.

Champions just wreck it and usually within 1 or 2 seconds if not instantly. Was fighting a steam ogre champion in metrica province for example and it was taking 70% of my pet’s health not with some super attack with an obvious tell but a regular melee swing. There have been a few other champions like the wasps in fields of ruin that destroy my pet nearly instantly and there’s little or no time to react.

I’m planning on a mostly knight setup at 80 so dps pets are my likely choice in the future. I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like on stuff like subject alpha if my pet gets hit with an ice spike. I don’t think pets should be invincible or anything but either the swap cooldown or the pet’s down time could stand to be a little quicker I think.

Yeah, changing the message around has never worked for me.

What you can do, to end the block, is to leave the zone in some way. This could mean zoning out or going to character select and going back in.

akamon.2769:

please add me as well! i’ll add you in return too and send you a tell when i can get on next.
looking forward to meeting all of you as well. ; )))

Sanctum of Rall server, Guardian main if that matters.

and silly question, but i never remember times.. when are the daily resets for dungeons exactly? and are these tied to daily achievment, jumping puzzle resets as well?

7p.m. EST is the daily reset and that includes dungeons and daily achievement. Unsure about jumping puzzles.

Francoise is the only one from this thread that I was able to run with but it went well. I’ll be making another group at the reset time and hopefully you can make it.

I’m not expecting they’ll do anything. To be honest — and some people might find this unreasonable of me — I really wouldn’t feel satisfied with any compensation short of letting me do the event again so that I can actually complete it and open the chest myself.

Ironklad.2476:

Its got nothing to do with a computer when an ENTIRE overload map crashed at the SAME TIME!!!

This. Everyone on the overflow map I was on crashed after 2 hours of the event and getting the Karka back to the nest. Then in another overflow map we’re finishing the second reinforcement event when it says new build available and destroys our progress (and last chance) at the event yet again.

I spent 3 hours working on this event and never got to see the end or get the chest and it had nothing to do with my PC.

For the next week or so running all paths (or 2 & 3 if Bjarl isn’t fixed). Best time would be at daily reset.

Noticed this tonight. Don’t think it was doing it yesterday. A fix would be great since I’m eating way more omnomberry pies then I’d like.

It may be about time for a cross server dungeon finder. It was already difficult to get a group going for things like CoE and SE exp and now fractals in the picture I can’t imagine it’ll get any easier. Running fractals seems far more profitable (and enjoyable) than most of the old explorables even with the improved loot.

Even worse is trying to get a story group for any dungeon after CM. It’s happened several times now where I travel around multiple zones (blowing about 14s+ total) looking for people just to run SE or CoE story and not find a single person interested.

If magic find was so important to him you’d think he’d repair his gear. It doesn’t sound like you have any conclusive proof that he used magic find besides the fact that he died and used a food buff. People die in all sorts of gear. You should have just kicked him.

Happened to my group too. Took over an hour to kill him.

It’s a nice thought. My main has all the dungeons unlocked but recently I’ve been trying to get my 3 alts through story modes as well. It’s not going too well. Actually, I just went through 8 zones looking for people to run TA story and I got 1 person that was interested.

Like you said it’s not like everyone has all the dungeons unlocked either. Usually when I run CoE I have to use my main despite wanting to run it with another character because I’m the only one who can start it.

Another solution would be to let explorables be unlocked for all of your characters once you’ve done story though that doesn’t solve the problem for people just starting out.

I use adrenaline every 10s or so and it’s still a good trait and the main reason I have any points in defense really. If I’m taking sustained damage then I’ll hold adrenaline for the full effect. Coupled with everything else I got going it lets me tank quite a bit.

Jay.3284:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Can you be more specific? What dungeon foe has a one-shot ability that is spammed too much to be dodged?

Thank you.

Subject Alpha CoE

Also it’s amazing the amount of people who think 5 signet Warrior is an acceptable build in dungeons. Maybe they should stop doing the weaker dungeons and run the harder stuff… but I digress.

Subject Alpha isn’t a great example.

To begin with Alpha has no auto attack that would make you use up your endurance. Next, and this is what most people don’t seem to understand about the fight, you do not need to dodge from the circles in most cases.

It’s a fight where damage should be pretty minimal.

Blackgate. Leveled my last character almost exclusively in Ascalon areas and it was a very lonely experience.

Absolutely not. Experience from crafting is one of the best aspects about this game imo. Had it not been for crafting I probably wouldn’t have had the heart to level my alts to 80.

I did all my exploring on my first character and these days, when zones level 20-60 feel like ghost towns on a populated server and low levels get slaughtered in WvW the leveling experience is nearly unbearable to me. I’m actually considering doing 3 crafts on my next character.

On my warrior I don’t mind them since I bring a bunch of group support myself but on any of my other characters I can’t stand a full signet warrior. Just putting FGJ on their bar without traits would go a long way.

I think this notion that if you don’t skip it won’t bug is simply a myth. Back when it was commonplace to kill Kohler and clear trash this bug would happen to me consistently. In fact, it was 6 runs of path 1 fully clearing all trash and events before I ever saw this path work correctly.

I’ve had much better luck with this path since then, only seeing the bug about 2 times in the last month and my groups have all skipped trash and Kohler.

If you find AC remotely “overpowered” you may need to review your spec/play and figure out how to improve. I run all paths of AC daily with pugs and it gets done in an hour or less. Finding a competent group for this dungeon is not hard.

Most of the difficulty associated with any of these dungeons comes down to learning the mechanics of the dungeon. Take the time to figure the stuff out and I think you’ll find the average player is more capable than you give them credit for.

This keeps happening to me primarily on large mobs, giants especially but also on smaller ones like subject alpha (which gets me killed when it happens). I’ll dodge backwards, endurance will get spent, and then it’s as if I bump into something and the dodge just stops and I take damage.

The light armor set labeled as Rubric in the PvP locker isn’t available in PvE with the sole exception of the chestpiece which is from a level 37ish story quest.

Sylvari staff elementalist here. I’d love a Bifrost.

The HoM staff is very nice though and I get a few whispers asking what it is.

johnnyaltomonte.5872:

Can anyone post pics to weapon skins? Also, once used, they last forever and not just for the duration of the Halloween event, yes?

You can preview the items from a candy corn vendor near the mystic forge in LA. The ones he sells are temporary. If you want a permanent skin it requires getting the recipe for it from the mystic forge.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11ygfm/crafting_the_halloween_exotics/

Mostly “Winged” with Whisper’s helm and Svanir boots

Recognize that you may have a gambling problem and take steps from doing it in the future.

To SteveMJH,

Same thing that Rob said about dungeon loot is also true in open world. I recently started looking at this and its literally such a bad chance of getting good loot from those big world bosses. Champions as well, the numbers are just too low. The Halloween patch is just too close to put this in and test it, but we are also working on improving this.

Jon

That is awesome to hear. Thanks for taking a look at the loot situation and working to correct it. I’ve done about 30 boss events with chests at the end and the only rares I’ve gotten have been those medallion/crest items. A few weeks ago I used to get a pretty decent amount of rare equipment doing these events.

On the topic of Kohler, I’m guilty of skipping him. AC is a pretty PUG friendly dungeon and Kohler stands out as the most unfriendly boss to PUGs. I just don’t like to watch my groups bungle dodges on the 5-6mins to kill him while I’m left tanking him. As a boss he’s one of the more interesting ones for me because he focuses me every time and does more DPS than I do HPS, so I’m required to dodge a lot.

I’m also guilty of skipping a lot of trash cus, why not?

I think the importance of attunement swapping is a bit overstated, at least for staff. In regards to killing things I seem to get better results by staying in fire as much as possible. Pretty much the only reason I’d swap at this point is for survival cooldown, and when I do I feel especially weak until I can get back into fire.

Thief, if played well.

Reclusiarh.2674:

I mean maybe you didn’t do enough damage? I believe this is the primary factor when calculating the odds for the rare loot. If one would just stand there and contribute one range rifle shot, he wouldn’t get anything , I guess.

I always get gold for these boss events, not difficult to do. Pretty sure if you can open the chest you get the same loot table as anyone else, and the same odds for items. It’s not that I’m not getting loot, it’s that I haven’t gotten any rares from chests in while, just greens/blues/yellow medallions. Used to be I could go to the Wayfarer Foothills boss and I’d usually get at least 1 rare from the chest – had similar luck with dragons; just not anymore which is why I tend to not bother with them. I do priests though just for the sheer number of trash mobs for the events which tend to be far more profitable than what’s in the chest.

Reclusiarh.2674:

Really? That’s odd, I got 4 rares from 5 fights, one time I even got 2 rares, both perfect weapons for my class. You must be doing something wrong.

Not sure how one could do something wrong in regards to luck. I used to get a decent amount of rares, but like I said, I’ve had a very long dry spell. I get a rare medallion here and there but I don’t really count those since they’re just as much garbage as all the blues/greens they come with.

Tarantalus.8671:

there would have to be some obvious benefits to choosing to marry another character in game,… as for why even have it?

That’s a really good reason to not have a marriage system. Why should people have an in-game benefit for choosing to get married.

FFXI is the only game I played that wasted resources on not only designing a marriage system but also having a GM presiding over it.

Oddly enough I see this suggested in pretty much every MMO and I’m always left wondering why a simple RP wedding which requires no additional work on the devs’ part and gives no advantage isn’t enough for some people.

Make a Charr and a Human, then take them to the Heart of the Mists and look at armors in the PvP locker.

I don’t go out of my way to do them. I’ve killed them plenty of times. I haven’t gotten a single rare from boss chests in about 15 events so I’m pretty much done with them.

Danikat.8537:

zaxziakohl.5243:

My thought would be, with such a wide culture base, it would be safer to be more open than closed regarding choices in these kinds of things. But that’s just me.

That depends on your definition of safe. Bioware got death threats (potentially serious ones) for including same-sex relationships in Mass Effect, even though it was completely 100% optional and if you weren’t interested you never even had to know it was there.

BioWare’s revelation of getting threats was a PR stunt to try to deflect from all the backlash they were getting about ME3’s endings. They’ve had same sex romances all the way back to Jade Empire – maybe even before. Still, their implementation of these romances in DA2 and ME3 can be criticized for how ham-handed they are about it.

Anyway, it’s a can of worms ANet really doesn’t need to open. The game provides plenty of options to make a roleplay marriage work.

Go look at the swtor forums.

Personally I don’t find anything wrong with “negativity” aka criticism on forums. There is always a shift from when everybody is in fanboy mode before an MMO launch and when they become customers.

These are very important people. They need to be seen.