Probably because they play games to have fun and not have orders barked at them by some random nobody who for all they know is a 10 year old crybaby who’ll call them a “Noob” unless they bow to their every whim.
…now theyre going to be reworking armors, runes, and sigils. This is something that should’ve happened before launch. Not after you have an account full of toons. I have 8 lvl 80s and theyll all need reworked after this.
Im a returning player and was thinking about roling a new character to get me back in the swing of things.
Ive done warrior, mesmer and elementalist. Out of those id say mesmer was the most fun to play as (mostly PvE), warrior is definitly the easiest and most practical (in my opinion) for dungeons and other endgame stuff like that. Im thinking of roling a thieve next, opionions?
I rolled one of each profession and found the Engineer and Ranger the most fun to play (Engie was a bit slow to start until around level 30-ish though). Mesmers are quite fun too but again not until around level 30-ish. Guardians are decent, I have 2 (rolled a second one to get the Charr PS achieve) and don’t think I’ve ever died on either of them
Necro is my old faithful probably due to my stubbornness and since it was my main in GW has the lions share of my play time.
Elementalists are just garbage to me, I got one to 80 but they without a shadow of a doubt are the least fun profession by a coutry mile. Warriors were quite boring too and felt like chore.
Hope that’s helpful. All of the above is my opinion and not fact (pre-emptive strike there)
Edit. Forgot about Thief, one thing you might want to take into consideration is race. I found my human, sylvari and asuran thieves boring and ended up retiring them. When I rolled a Norn one I found it much more fun for some reason. This has happened with a few professions, race really makes a difference to professions for me.
Apologies Dev’s for my flippant replies (which I’ve now deleted). I just feel like I’m trying to climb a vaseline covered pole in getting a response to this.
Caedmon.6798 – This is a day one type fix. This is loads of players targeting crap instead of…sigh.. A pic is worth a thousand words (wish we had some…. sarcasm)? It makes us game like morons “Duh, I’ll target that thar Moa! Mesa no target dragon”
I think it’s different staff at ANet now, Minecraft and console trained folks (FoV lol). No offense but what kind of person makes a PC game have a low FoV when it’s not a console port wth an editable ini?
Theres WAY to much spamclick we have to do, very annoying and dont understand why Anet hasnt came with a open/consume all function right with release
It’s because there are titles associated with breaking your left mouse button that would be pointless (well, more pointless) if we could key in amounts to buy and use consume all like a normal person.
3 Ascalonian fighters walk into a bar. The barman says “Good evening ghosts what can I….” the first fighter holds up his shield in a blocking motion.
The barman looks confused and thinking it must be a joke turns to the second fighter and forces a chuckle. “chuckle, Now sir what can I…..” The second Ascalonian holds up his shield and blocks too.
The barman is a little confused and annoyed by this point and expecting the obvious throws an empty tankard at the third Ascalonian. The third Ascalonian fighter is knocked out by the tankard hitting him in the face.
Sigh, there goes my “Make it through ONE day without someone using the T word” Title.
On topic, I wish they’d add skill #5 – Suicide! So many times I go down and know there is no hope. I’m already at the map trying to WP while I wait for boring downed to be over. Even in some cases I just can’t be bothered and let myself die because downed doesn’t spark the do or die feeling I got from Borderlands 1&2. Suicide option would be great.
Or even an option in settings where you could get an additional 100 HP’s if you turn downed state off. Hell, +1 hp would be enough for me.
It’s not just AMD OP. The Black Citadel used to run smoothly on my comp. at launch (I’d occasionally get a dip to single digit fps that alt tabbing to desktop and back solved). Now it’s pathetic low fps constantly, the optimisation team (if there even is one) are hopeless.
Hang drum looks like an outey (using bellybuttons to compare drums, there’s something I never thought I’d do lol) version of those Hawaiian steel drum things.
Och, we don’t even have alliances in this game to do alliance battles. I’ve said it before on GW2Guru but the multi guild feature feels like someone played GW for about 10 minutes and didn’t fully understand how alliances worked then implemented their version of it into GW2.
The guild part of the name I think was just to get bums on seats (for want of a better term). If they called the game Tyrian Warriors Olympic Grindfest to more accurately describe it, it would have gotten less interest no doubt.
They could make it so that you repair armour with salvaged mat’s that amount to the repair bill just so you don’t have to traipse all the way back to an armour repair guy to fix it. Christ, if some players have maxed armoursmithing I’m sure this isn’t outside the realms of the impossible, that they could fix their own armour on the move.
People need to listen to the podcast instead of just reading a post. This is only the first step to balancing the builds, not a complete solution. They can’t make more changes till they see how this one goes down. This isn’t a zerker solution only a single step.
Too little too late? Bet the cash shop dept. didn’t stop to see how things go down.
Honestly… where is everybody? There seems to be no need for interaction with anyone pre-10. The chats seem completely dead. While I enjoy the gameplay, I feel very… bored. I am going to power through it and whatnot, but am I missing something in the social department? Did I miss a tutorial on it? I’m not on an empty server; what’s going on?
Like others have said, unless we get underflow maps, have fun on your single player MMO.
If you get into a good guild it helps. People to chat with and chat to read while you get 100% on the maps with nobody.
I’m in the Raven alliance and they helped me through some boring times. Ask in LA (Lions Arch) for guild invites.
The devs don’t want powercreep but do we really want a permanent downward spiral with fewer options, less builds, less diversity, lots of useless skills/traits?
Doesn’t matter what we want, they’ve given us this already.
“I always see players on TC or BG you should guest” etc.
Why doesn’t the game tell this to new players when they install? That their gaming experience in GW2 will be a lonely one unless they pick from only 2 of the many supposed high population servers?
I totally agree on the night being a little darker but if it was realistic darker. I’ve played on some games. Thief series (about to be ruined by Thief 4 – The Moron Age). Going full dark would be making a massive element of the game prone to to thieving and Anet would have to overhaul a lot, lets face it. If they made the nights darker without allowing thiefs to be thiefs. It would make thiefs laughable as agents of the night.
If they had thought of or could be bothered doing things like this from the start……
But we have SAB to compensate so fear not.
Either that or ANet would admit to the profession being wrongly named and should hae been named “Mugger!”
Ps. I also didn’t find it fun that about 30 different types of axes, swords in this game all shared the same lazy skin.
Tip, When leveling if you get a higher level weapon with words in front but it’s the exact same skin as a rusty axe. (even exotics). And you realise . “This is a beta”
It was fun as hell for me in the first two months. I got bored and uninstalled for 6 months-ish. I came back and it was a a bit more fun but in the sense of fun being achievements and grind (which were fun in GW as rewards for GW2). I ran with it and levelled an alt of every profession to 80.
..When I questioned myself as to why ‘I’ me personally still played outwith my Guild. I’m now taking an very long break but will keep in touch with my Guild on their forums. Outwith dailies and Sesame Street storylines, there was nothing but callous addiction.
It’s a shame they didn’t expand the amount of zones. After Southsun it seems they threw their toys out of the pram and the LS was born.
There are so many areas on the map that I was hoping would come to eventually be exploreable. Even some parts of the game with gates etc. that reek of new area later but not anymore
Combat run speed
Long invuls on enemies
Snares and immobs
Long KDs
…have me gritting my teeth in virtually all PvE zones. There’s a point where they add a challenge and there’s a point where they add a needless but annoying delay in combat.
Also, Rangers, stop bringing passive Signet of the Hunt into dungeons.
Combat run speed is a pain especially as Norn and Charr. I think the combat would make more sense and have more fun to it if we got a 25% boost (adrenaline) when we went into fight mode. Instead our toons go into auto limp mode while the monsters laugh at us and don’t. As I posted similar in another thread it negates the point of casting limp in PvE when the monsters run faster than us while they are limping and we are not in many cases.
I think the fact that you can’t out pace an undead zombie with decaying muscles who you cast limp on is call enough for increased speed or at least the removal of the stupid combat slowdown.
Champ trains in Queensdale made Tequatl irrelevant. Why coordinate for a long fight, when you can just follow a zerg for better loot?
Meta boss trains avoid Teq too. Anet made Teq irrelevant to all but the dedicated guilds. Play your way? No, play our way and we want every single player that want to do Dragons (if Claw and Shatner suffer the same fate) in the same guild. Sound like fun or herding? I’m not cattle.
Keep in mind, OP, that the world that you’re experiencing now, is what you can expect at 80. Your gear will be better, but you will still be scaled down to the appropriate level for a specific zone. Nothing is really different at 80, except that you will be pigeon-holed into a specific gear set up, and one of a few cookie cutter builds in order to maximize your effectiveness.
Begone troll. OP the game is whatever you choose to make it. Grumpy here is talking about a specific subset of the player base. Coming from WoW you’ll know the type when you see it.
You will be scaled but as you level up you will also unlock skills to pump up your power level a little vs a true level x. There are lots of helpful people in game, just ask around a bit.
lol @ grumpy but to be honest he has a point and I wouldn’t call him a troll simply for telling it how it is for many players. I’ve been using the same gear/build on my main that I was 8 months ago because with having alt’s it’s too expensive to play around with different gear for me. But that is me and I suppose if I’d focused solely on one toon things would be different but I’d also have gotten bored and no doubt quit by now in this scenario.
1. What’s the average leveling speed? I’m not looking to powerlevel, but are you rushed in any way to get to max? It’s been a couple hours and I haven’t hit level 5 yet.
The leveling speed is more or less the same here at all levels, so you are maybe used to a system where the first levels go really fast but the later levels take forever. Here the first level seem to be a little slow in compare, but you maybe don’t need longer for 79-80 than from 4-5.
However leveling speed also has to do much with how many events you do since they give most of your exp.
There’s also dailies and monthlies which give good xp and if you can get dynamic events that are in the same area as heart quests you can get a double reward of xp. My first and main toon I took a lot longer to level up than my alt’s. First time round I was looking under every rock and behind every tree etc. but by the time I was on my 3rd alt. it was steamroll time. Best just to enjoy it rather than worry about how fast you get to 80 on your first toon.
Go to the world map M in game that’ll show you zones connected to your starting area and the recommended level. You can also go to Lions Arch from where you can get to the starter zones for Asura, Human, Charr and Norn for a change of scenery.
You know what, I had this whole big long speech reply typed out then I realised. It’s Christmas Day (well, Boxing Day now lol). I don’t think any of what either of us says matters anyway.
Thanks for your contribution!
Although one comment that i have to do im not considering these opinions as “trolls” people are disappointed indeed and people i know WILL leave if nothing good happens in gw2. But i havent lost my faith in Anet, not yet.
If I didn’t see it in official forums of pretty much every game I’ve ever played (or even in ANY creative medium), I’d be more worried about these dissatisfied masses and the state of the game they’re kittening on.
As it is… this forum is NOTHING out of the ordinary.
A lot of people complain because they want to see the game improve and get more people in (myself included). I didn’t spend 5 years in GW1 just to bash GW2 for the hell of it. It seems at the moment ANet are bailing water into a sinking vessel rather than out of at times though.
In an alternate universe I’d love to read the forums if ANet followed the manifesto to the letter, I wonder what the complaints would be like there?
I hate that, when companies stick a letter or two after numbers. What the hell is that about and what do they even mean?
Nvidia do it too and it seems to confuse more than help. I read someone here that had something like a gtx680(ti?) or something that is apparently less powerful than a 9600gtx. Things like that leave me scratching my head.
Rant over, I’m a g700 user and honestly have no complaints. Read reviews on Amazon or something and maybe you’ll get an idea of which sounds better for you.
I generally avoid 1 and 5 star reviews as they can be biased either way. 1 star reviews can be funny reading though
Right click options for mini’s that include ‘Activate minipet when changing zones’ and ‘Lock minipet to inventory’’
Wider FoV
Clipping issues worked on, not every single one but some are truly terrible and deserve attention.
New armour and weapons that are obtainable by the average joe and not locked behind a wall of tedium or only in the cash shop
Living Story with achievements instead of achievements with a Living Story
TP with more options eg. selectable armour type, medium, heavy etc.
I’ve posted others in other threads that I’d like more but nothing happened with them so now I just think of things that I’d like in the game just to amuse myself :P
My main is a Necro (Sylvari, also have a Norn Necro) as it was in the original GW. I’ve gotten the map completion star with her and if ever my guild is doing a meta boss train she is my go to gal. I’ve got 10 alt’s which were fun to play for a change (except my Ele which I just don’t seem to get or find fun, even though I took it to 80) but I feel most comfortable playing as a Necro, probably because I’ve spent the lions share of my time on GW2 playing her.
I’d say my other favourite professions in order are Ranger, Thief then Mesmer (currently getting Mes to 80, only toon not at 80). My Warrior and Guardians (2) were fun as was my lil Asuran Engineer but whenever new LS comes out I’ll go straight back to my Necro.
This happened to me on my Mesmer, I was doing the DE in Gendarran where you have to re-capture 3 areas in the fort place with the heart quest. I was doing well and had killed a champ and veterans galore, then all of a sudden WHAM I couldn’t move. I could still use my skills but was locked in place.
Sometimes if I hit up and jump because of my key configuration I’ll accidentally find myself in the chat box but I typed and said “kjhdfgkj” in game to make sure this wasn’t the issue and still I was locked in place only able to use skills and not move.
Should make a suit / tuxedo costumes for male, and put it in the gem shop!
They had these in GW, they came with the wedding part of Gwen’s story I think. You could also get a dapper tuxedo for females and all could be worn OVER your armour.
Now this isn’t possible because immersion is only allowed to be broken by SAB skins and Quaggan backpacks.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
I’ve noticed that with my Thief when I use Dagger Storm that I can’t hit enemies until they attack me first. Eg. I was spinning near two monsters last night that didn’t see me until DS was halfway over, I only started damaging them when they started coming to attack me. Maybe something happened that’s had an effect on spinning skills?
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