Guild Wars 2

So much negativity. There are people out there who are on lvl 1, but if try to play an mmo by yourself it’s not going to work out when you want to do group content.

EDIT: It took WOW 6 years to make the content gate as small as it is. Remember BC? If you started late you were left behind.

Doesn’t seem any better than none lost shores skelks.

Is there any reason to go back? Other than trying to farm karka shells I don’t see a purpose to this place.

Where’s the P2W? Gem to gold? That’s worse then farming the gold yourself.

The problem is the lack of loot some people had.

What went wrong is that 40+ people run up a ramp, die, THEN see the champ and 9 vets standing ontop of them.

Start putting T6 mats in chests and I’ll farm dragons every chance I get, or dungeons, either way we need more T6.

Karka was fun, minus the culling and overtuned mobs.

Invisible enemies, and the very shallow zoom, plus the 9+ vets all spraying poison.

Really, WvW. Are people in full exo stomping everyone below 79? Are 80’s in masterwork getting roflstomped?

Can I get a refund on my masterwork gear? No? Then why would I get a refund on Exotics?

Columba.9730:

RhysSebastian.7651:

Ahhh, so the solution would be to make it possible for Infusion based gear to be buyable from other players. I mean it would still require you to grind in some way (which we do anyways, for money or for fun) but would still allow people who do not want to run dungeons to remain viable.

Thanks for the insight guys.

I find it surprising so many people are opposed to having more stuff to do in a game though lol. I think i get the picture tho.

As for the comment about legendaries, I mean legendaries are optional. You arent severly detrimenting any group by not having a legendary. I have some faith that ANET isnt designing dungeons with everyone having a legendary in mind lol. I for one dont have th etime or desire to farm legendaries, I find ascension gear a bit more feasible for me to attain.

Great job on the thread so far guys

ascendants aren’t optional, yet I have to grind dungeons to get them to compete. I hate dungeons. This violates their promise to me that there would be multiple ways to get gear. I would be happy to pay a $30/month sub to avoid this nonsense.

Compete with what? If you don’t do dungeons you don’t need this gear, and they haven’t broken any promise about multiple paths. There’s no way in hell I would pay 30$ a month for less content, when I can get great content for free.

Hopefully when they release more Asc gear it’ll be more common, and be no more difficult to get than a full Exo set. I don’t expect that to happen for a few months at the earliest though.

Xpiher.5209:

Phy.2913:

EDIT: Fractal lvl doesn’t reset.

I’m fractal level 6. Yes it does. Stop spreading lies

William Fairfield.1428:

There is no weekly reset of your progress. Your progress will remain saved on your character.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Concerned-about-weekly-fractal-reset/first#post781909

This doesn’t happen on my server (Ehmry Bay) but in overflow right after the event Friday I saw someone looking for a tank :/

Don’t worry, we ridiculed him.

EDIT: Fractal lvl doesn’t reset.

The problem with crafting these is the T6 item requirement. You’ll never farm these in a reasonable amount of time.

There’s not much reason to kill the mobs there as it is, drop table seems off.

Columba.9730:

depends how you play wvwvw. gear matters. if it doesn’t how about we make it all equal? would yo be ok with that then?

That would be awesome. Spvp is already like this, since gear matters more on small scale fights.

The said themselves they would add Asc gear to pvp. I don’t see this as much of a ladder yet though, barely a step stool.

Maybe they should give some incentive to run the lower ones then. Like running a lower lvl will increase the max level you can enter in brackets.

Then you should hope they bring in those pvp Asc gear they promised soon, before people start making wild accusations that the sky is falling.

Blacksarevok.8104:

Phy.2913:

You’re assuming player skill with keep up with the difficulty. There will always be a portion of the player base at the lower levels.

If that were the intention, then they wouldn’t have added agony resistance.

If Agony is the only thing that gets harder then you’re right. If the difference between lvl 1 and lvl 15 is only agony then you have a legitimate point.

The people it will affect are the people who will also be doing it. Maybe the top 5 servers will care, but even then the impact will be small.

You’re assuming player skill with keep up with the difficulty. There will always be a portion of the player base at the lower levels.

So at lvl 10 I’ll be getting 14 greens instead of 14 blues?

Blacksarevok.8104:

Phy.2913:

Yes, because one person in your zerg is the reason you can’t take that keep. Without that +30 power the entire group will fail.

Lets not pretend like top-end PVP guilds won’t farm fractals and get everyone max gear because THAT’S WHAT THEY DO

Grats to them, they’ll get to fight the other top end pvp guilds eventually. This wont affect my rank 14 server in the slightest though.

Yes, because one person in your zerg is the reason you can’t take that keep. Without that +30 power the entire group will fail.

One of the fractal bosses, the one with the five golems, I’m sure the golem names are various references and at least 1 Borderlands 2 reference.

Where is it stated the WVW is gear based? Since when was it gear based? Who’s going to force you to get ascended items?

That’s right, no one.

Those skins are not unique either, so not a big deal if you don’t get it.

Is this a problem because mesmers can carry people, or is it a problem that people need carried?

Nothing stops you from going back to the previous lvls.

I have 1 complaint about this event, and it’s that every 3 minutes someone asks when the event starts. It appears that Anet needs to hold our hand far more then they already do.

80 is technically easy to reach, it’s just incredibly boring for a lot of people.

GW1 wasn’t a level based system?

Usually they have more abilities then normal mobs, though they’re usually just larger versions. Killing champs should be worth the effort though.

Mr Crazy Moose.5760:

Ganzo.5079:

Because there is no gap to close now between exotics and legendary.
they create the gap when the patch goes live.

Then they will need to close that gap with another tier and then maybe close the gap that creates with another one and so on.

Why don’t they close the gap between rare and exotic? Fine and masterwork?

rtommaso.3120:

Never.6014:

The vistas are much easier than jumping puzzles, and only vistas are required. They are the little maps floating around the place. Jumping puzzles are the 5-20 minute challenging puzzles that give an achievement and chest reward at the end.

Some vistas are in the same place of jumping puzzles.

1 Vista is like this, maybe 2. It’s not this widespread issue people make it out to be.

You’re right, how dare they add minimal difficulty to something that’s already easy to do. Space bar is hard to reach sometimes.

Aaron.4807:

Hey, this dungeon has already made the old dungeons obsolete because they do not reward you with ascended gear. Anet has already made content that is 3 months old irrelevant. Weeeeeeeee.

Is anyone actually running dungeons for upgrades? Last I checked the gear I got from a dungeon only served to give me money and materials, and tokens.

Why do we have blue, green, yellow, orange levels of gear for the same level? We already have 5 tiers of power at 80.

Requiring vistas for map completion makes perfect sense, they’re a part of the map. There are maybe 2 vista’s that are actually difficult.

How about this, you don’t need vista’s for map completion, and I wont need hearts for map completion? Ridiculous? I thought so too.

Crater.1625:

I would much prefer the patch be delayed until these issues are resolved than to see the patch put into the game as-is, followed by massive player dissatisfaction and the possibility of having to take away the upgraded gear from players who already have it, if ArenaNet does ultimately decide to walk back on the (poor) decision to add an upgraded equipment tier.

That’s even less likely then them going full treadmill.

If they keep raising stats then people will have a valid argument, but since I don’t work at Anet and can’t see the future all we can do is speculate.

They also said they were open to raising level cap in an expansion if they felt they needed to, but that’s a different discussion.

They promised no gear treadmill, I don’t recall a promise to never increase stats, they also said they might raise level cap (which worries me far more).

Thosekittenmain.6328:

Substance E.4852:

Your faith that this will not happen ever again is just as unsupported as their idea that it will.

It isn’t faith. There is simply no information to suggest otherwise at this point.

I am ready to adjust my opinion if ANet decides to create additional tiers after this one. When that happens, the gear treadmill will be set in motion. The idea of a treadmill is that it keeps going and going, which can’t be done by one additional tier.

At this point, I am of the opinion that the Infusion system is what prevents the ‘Gear Treadmill’ from actually starting.

It also depends how the infusions work. Who’s to say infusions wont become a treadmill themselves? Though it could be used to satisfy the pro-treadmill types.

Thosekittenmain.6328:

Phy.2913:

Did Anet ever say exotics would be the strongest gear? I know that’s what everyone expected, but who knows if this wasn’t planned out long before the game release?

Had the Ascended tier been released within the launch, this outrage would be avoided.
I simply think Anet underestimated the relative ease of obtaining exotics and struggled to find a way to challenge players for many different situations with the standard set of stats.

The Ascended gear, in my eyes, is an attempt to tackle this issue while at the same time avoiding the need to create additional tiers. After all, infusions can account for many different aspects of the different dungeons in upcoming content.

Yes, Anet screwed up most likely, but not in the direction many people suggest they did.

They said they wanted something between exotic and legendary. If legendary was planned to only ever be as powerful as exotics then the only gap between the 2 is time/effort, which isn’t that big an issue in this type of game (ie. no sub). But if they always had the plan to have legendary be slightly stronger then a lot of this arguing is moot.

Did Anet ever say exotics would be the strongest gear? I know that’s what everyone expected, but who knows if this wasn’t planned out long before the game release?

Negatron batman. Either way, it doesn’t matter since I’ll wait for the update and see how it goes before spouting my hate speech and doomsaying on the forum about what a tyrannical money hungry company Anet is.

You know, the logical response.

I have. I also know that there’s only 2 ascended item slots as of now.

It sounds like they’ll eventually make a full legendary tier with slightly higher stats, which sounds a lot like a treadmill, just stretched out longer.