Guild Wars 2

So your server has less then 80 people playing?

Fungalfoot.7213:

I don’t think open world content should be easy. That said, I don’t think open world content should require team speak or a ridiculous amounts of coordination either because it’s just not designed in a way which naturally promotes that.

To be fair, it’s just one fight in one zone and with a 15 minute timer at that.

Then again, there are whole zones for inexperienced players. The main story line is (usually) easy. And the last few LW patches were more grindy than hard.

Also, didn’t Anet say Tequatl is the hardest boss in the game now? If so then why must it be downed in less then 24 hours or nerf? I’m not demanding Dark Souls in terms of difficulty, but a Kirby Epic Yarn is equally frustrating, though, at other aspects.

First off, beautiful thread, OP. I really like the way you express yourself. Though, I totally don’t share your view. I can understand it, to be fair.

I think the problem is that people were conditioned the wrong way. Over months.
No, you’re not entitled to a reward just because you show up.
No, if you don’t think while fighting you’re not eligible for success.
etc

Once the nay-saying has subsided (a bit) and people start thinking straight again and start to formulate strategies other than just complain (and it MUST be possible, since all servers are on the same page), it’ll get better.

I personally think this game (among many other MMOs) is way too easy.
It totally undermines any tactical thinking (especially in non-instanced PvE).
For me Anet is on the right track.

luckywaldo.6089:

It’s excellent, and it’s a shame that the game has trained people up to this point to think they deserve rewards just for showing up.

That’s today’s gamer for you I guess. I don’t get it either. People feel way too entitled.
I finally have a reason more to rethink my build and strategy. I welcome more tactic in my games. If a trained monkey could play the game then there is no satisfaction.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Aeros.2046:

This is what we asked for.

I never asked for this.

Hi, my name is Commander Shep… Payadopa,
and I did ask for this!

Something I find not as well developed is the exploration aspect, especially in NPC ghost towns like the vigil (just been there). Before exploring I kind of already know that’s basically just NPC chatter I’ll get (often just like one sentence, too). I still go to these places ‘cause I really like the lore and mood they try to convey, but it’s basically just empty space.

I hope you guys develope something along the lines of hidden quests/ events that kind of reward the behaviour as discribed above. Would really spice things up and reward people like me. As it stands now, it’s not enough in these areas.

Other than that, thank you, Anet. I really enjoy pleaying (especially LW, even though it’s a bit grindy).

cheers

Kudos to Anet. Now that they first wave of people has passed it’s a lot of fun doing the PvE stuff. I even fought with just 2 to 5 people till reinforcements arrived. lol Felt pretty epic.

I’d like to see an in-game explanation on at least the basics of how the Mystic Forge is supposed to work. I know I can look it up but it’s tedious. I have so many pieces of gear that I want to use but it’s the same as throwing stuff away in my book. I’d really like to delve into the finer parts of it but it’s not at all encouraged by Anet. I also don’t want to watch like 3 hours of YouTube footage.

lol Try to get a totally awesome feature into a game to make it more convenient and watch how people complain just for the sake of complaining. Classic~

Thank you, Anet! This is a totally great feature!

I don’t like either options where you can see the name of the bag in the inventory list or where you only see blocks. The former makes the inventory too long and the latter one is impractical the moment you buy special bags as you can’t distinguish the tiles from one another.

I’d prefer something along the lines of coloured tiles. The first bag has tiles outlined in white and the next one in black (or whatever) and so on and so forth.

If it worked that way I’d be totally fine with it.

I hear you. I’d also like to see something like colour coded bag slots.

I’d like to know if there are any plans to better the Mystic Forge UI.
I would like to see something along the lines of the general crafting UI (with a tab that shows you your stowed away items in your bank etc.).

I never really tried the MF before (lack of guidance from the game, I guess) and the process (and I just mean the mixing, not the actual obtaining) is cumbersome.

Since I don’t know the way the forge works (and yes, I like to find out on my own how it works, I dislike looking stuff up on Wikis) it leaves me with stuffing my inventory and try.

Like I said, it could be handled way better (unless I’m missing something here).

Thanks for reading.

Well, it’s called achievement. I have no problem with them being hard. Doesn’t feel like you earned them if they were not.

I have to agree. It’s either taking way too long (waiting like 2 weeks to get a few new sentences) or is plain out boring/ generic …or both.

I can see Tyria is full of potential and history but so far the most I see from that is from blog posts or GW1 players. The game should tell the story, not external sources,
but at the moment it feels just like that.

I must admit I’m sharing that sentiment.
I do play a few hours in a row if I have the time, but I can’t nor do I want to keep that up all the time to get enough achievements to get my prize.
It creates a bit of stress over the time since I’m doing nothing but do LS story content before it goes away.
My mesmer is 40 now and I stopped doing my personal story at 26 or so as I’m not having enough time to do both.

I really don’t know how to better this, as I like the flow of new content really much.

A timer as with daily and monthly would be nice.

Will the new Living Story content (which I love, by the way) conain a new set of achievements, or is the comming patch more like a part two since it’s probably the same Living World team behind it (at least that’s my guess as both events are kind of tied together)?

I’d like to know, so I can set up a schedule (didn’t have enough time to play, lately) and couldn’t find anything on the forum.

Thanks!

Yeah, I’ve seen a few of his (pretty awesome) videos, but that is kind of the problem.
Why isn’t this stuff in-game?

Giving NPCs more things to say than two generic sentences would be a good start, as most converstaions feel pointless.

The Living Story is finally picking up steam and I love it!
I never played GW1 but I heard so many things about it like that it has a cool story and all (I’m a sucker for story and lore) and that was sorely missing in GW2.

It’s awesome to see that it’s getting better every 2 weeks!
Keep going, ArenaNet!

I just wanted to thank Anet for the lovely update we got.
It’s so much fun, I’m having a blast. The new map, which basically is a huge JP in itself
is alot of fun to navigate and I also think Anet is going into the right direction when it comes to telling a story. It’s not there yet, but the direction is pleasing.

So, here we go:

‘Thank you, Arena Net!’

<cheers from a distance>

Without attacking anyone, I don’t understand why people don’t get stuff like that.
You get mail that tells you exactly where to go, yet people ask (you even see a giant envelope on your screen when you log in).

The item discription says a node will start to appear in your home instance, yet people ask where it’s going to be.

Your story missions lead you to your home instance and I’m pretty sure it says home instance on the map in every capital except LA (as there isn’t one), yep people are oblivious to its existence (though, I blame Anet for that as the home instance is pretty much just an empty space).

I can imagine it can be quite frustrating on Anet’s side seeing that they provide as much info as they can but still that seems to never be enough. ^^’

I hope it stays hard. We had enough easy-as-pie content for the last months.
All we need (and I can’t believe we don’t have it STILL) is a find party tool.

And another thing. I thought you get kicked once you stop moving for like 60 seconds.
Why is it then that a player (who I reported, as the team who had him always lost) can stay in-game for like four(!) matches?
I’m really starting to like Dragon Ball, but not if it’s unbalanced.

Sir Black.7423:

The game has potential and I wouldn’t mind seeing it around. But only if they fix the issues with idlers, as well as people being able to switch off of the team that already has less players.

Otherwise, we’ll just end up with ridiculous stuff like 5v0 matches with 20 minutes remaining on the timer…

What he said.
I played for an hour and almost all matches were won because one team basically gave up or swiched teams. You shouldn’t be allowed to switch to teams that already have more members!

Other than that, Anet said a team is supposed to handle -one- month.
I’m guessing that every living story part is broken down into two releases/ tiers.

How about we try it out before complaining?

Who knows, maybe content stays longer than two weeks.
Anet just said they are going to release not delete every other week.

Man, it’s not working on Gandara.
I even guested Fissure of Woe, the torches lit up, but still the door won’t budge.
What gives?

I think you shouldn’t be forced to play story mode anew with every char.
I can barely find people to do story mode on my main.
Still haven’t seen another dungeon than CM and AC.
Also, why is there no group finder? It’s frustrating.

I really like the short stories as well. It’s just a shame that they are told outside of the game.

Now, if something like that were to happen in-game (maybe as CS), I’d actually love GW2. At the moment it’s sorely lacking good story-telling.

NPC dialogue is either too short or meaningless, let alone the myriad of NPCs that are completely forgettable.

By talking about the Karka Hive, is there a reason why the place looks like it’s exploding.. constantly? lol

I just wanted to leave this here:
The event is pretty cool, as far as I’m concerned. Story telling is still meh, though.

What I like in particular is the difficulty. Finally a map where enemies aren’t mind-numbingly easy. I even failed an event! Woo! I think this was like the first time in open world PvE that I actually had to think about my skill setup. I hope this trend continues!

I’d love to see that!

I’d like to see something akin to a mini slot for your mini pets.
It’s annoying to constantly double-click the icon every time you change zones.

Thank you~

I have given up. I tried to find my last item for the last few days. I even guested two other servers every day and I never found anything I didn’t already have. sigh
Was the last achievement I needed. ; ;

@ OP:
I hope it does. ^^

ForAce.1943:

This is MMO, not Single Player game! Come on ppl!

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Yeah, I know what you mean, but then again, I have a very small guild.

I am having a hard time finding people for any story mode dungeons.
I’m level 80 now and I still haven’t been able to complete more than 3 of them.
Just did Sorrow’s Embace (I got lucky, I guess) and it was really cool.
It’s kind of annoyed that I’m only given the opportunity like once every few months,
even with lfg.com (which in itself is quite sad).

Is there something ArenaNet wants to do against that or is everything working as intended? Am I to be expected to lfg for hours? Everything else in this game is leaning toward convenienve (for better or worse), so I’m confused.

Malediktus.9250:

Its easy actually. I thought why can you take 5 people in if its mindnumbing easy alone already.

Yeah. It should scale up at least a little bit. While it was fun soloing, the moment you duo it’s painfully easy.

And about soloing:
You can’t actually loose in that instance as long as you kill at least one enemy before you go down. When you think about it that way it’s quite disheartening, really.
This game already is too easy.

SAB is pretty good in this regard.

I’m mildly annoyed to say the least.

At first I was not. But things sometimes turn out that way it seems.
I finally found some people to do some TA story with and bam I got told to skip all cutscenes. After me saying ‘Um.. no.’, I was kind of ‘threatened’ by someone in my group, asking if I want to get kicked. I was even told to watch it on You Tube!

After that, I left as fast as I could. For just having some fun and maybe some nice conversations/ meeting interesting people (social element in MMOs, anyone?), this surely left a sour taste.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand, why (some?) people are like this. Why even do story at all, if you don’t want to see the actual story? And even if they have seen it already, but not completed, what gives them the right to tell others what to do?

It’s an increasing trend in todays gaming comunity, I’d say (you know, short attention span, general unfriendliness and the likes). Sadly, as GW2 is concerned, I have the feeling this has also to do with not needing to talk to each other in everything PvE (except for said dungeons, maybe), but that’s just my two cents.

I’m just putting this out here so the people at Anet can discuss this trend and maybe find a solution (if interested). For me, it’s a huge setback. After all, dungeons are the only thing (at least in my oppinion) that are not too easy (in PvE at least) and I really like them for that.

Thanks for reading!

Everyone is a gaming analyst these days.
I like the new dailies as you can choose what you like the most.

Other than that, I play very casually (due to various reason as difficulty and such)
and I have no problem completing the daily in a fair amout of time.

Also, you’re not being forced to do a daily -every- day.
I’d go crazy if I had to. lol

Yeah, I knew about GW2lfg.com (though, I haven’t tried it yet, but surely will now!).
I meant more like in-game. I find Anet rather competent, so it’ll find its way into the game eventually.

I didn’t know about the reward structure, though. Good to know.

Thanks for the reply!

I agree with the OP. Some people should get off from their high horses.
Seriously. This is just a game. If someone proclaims it is work, said person doesn’t understand the meaning of playing a game.

Other than that, I find it increasingly difficult and rather frustrating that nobody does story dungeons, every. I merely find like 1 other person every time I shout. I wish Anet would somehow encourage people more. A looking for group tool would be nice.

Looks good. Though, I’m still waiting for ‘subscribe’ to work. ; ;

Maybe the OP has been playing too much. I can’t complain. I just got my first 80 recently and I’m at <40% world completion. I think there should be other things than just playing an MMO. Y’know, another single-player game, another MMO, or , dare I say it, even real life. ^^

Edit: Also, I really like Anet. They do listen to complaints and stuff like that, but if you feel the way you say you do, it’s probably best to take a break. Content doesn’t develop itself.

I agree with Tauril. It’s totally uninteresting. Discovering things feels unrewarding and in the end I just walk through areas without a tactic, two-shotting everything (ele lvl 80).
I can fight up to 5 mons and more without breaking a sweat.

I toally agree with the OP. I love walking around uncovering things, even if the reward is lackluster (honestly, I couldn’t care less). On the other hand, as a lvl 80 char, everything (unless it’s tagged as group event and sometimes even then) is too easy.

So far, the only way to really get in danger is to either fall off a cliff or aggro like 5 mobs.
I’m not saying the game should turn excruciating difficult, but as it is right now, I can’t enjoy it. The moment I find an awesome quest I kind of already know that I’m going to win anyway. It’s kind of discouraging even before I have started it. /sigh

I was really looking forward to the changes made with down-/ upscaling but it feels the same as before. Especially when I duo with a friend of mine we don’t even bother to heal that much. For an elementalist water attunement is almost pointless in a non-dungeon situation.

On the other hand, I really like the way you can solo/ group up in this game. Just slightly increasing most of the difficulty would do wonders, though.

I really like the new dailies. Gives me something to work toward. I even started doing stuff I usually wouldn’t, like crafting. Thank you, Anet.