Guild Wars 2

You don’t get any “credit” for it, no. If you do it before, you still got to do it again when you get Victory or Death.

On the upside, it’s a really easy dungeon… Just extremely padded, boring, uninteresting and a massive limp kittened let down…. But it is easy….

Start at ‘Game Update Notes – February 21, 2013’ and keep reading

Can we keep the perma-stealth kittening somewhere else?

It’s terribly off topic and I’m interested to see if the OP actually posts some evidence, cause otherwise I’m just labeling this “whiny out-of-the-anal-cavity bullkitten” and ignoring it.

Zelyhn.8069:

People will instantly tell you that you lack humility, that you are an elitist, that you are despicable etc; for no reason.

Ironically, because they lack humility.

This isn’t a game thing. It happens everywhere, especially in the real world. Nobody accepts that they’re not the best at everything ever. Oh sure, they’ll say they do. It’s socially acceptable that they do. But they don’t. Secretly they know they’re crap, but they don’t accept it. They’ll deny it to their graves if they can.

They are bad, of course. In my experience most people are really bad at mostly everything. Which is why they’re insecure. People who are good generally don’t have issues with being told they’re not. They’ll either prove you wrong, or, more often than not, not give a kitten, since they are “secure” – they know and have evidence that they are.

Of course, there is the issue that most people who claim to be good really aren’t. They’re just another subset of the bad ones that decided to take their denial one step further. But, then again, good players aren’t particularly bothered by it either. It’s only the insecure bad players that feel threatened by it. Much in the same manner that big dogs are usually a lot more quiet than tiny dogs. It’s the tiny dog that is scared of everything, and thus barks at everything. The big dog doesn’t care. You can attack him if you want, it’s your funeral.

lordkrall.7241:

Because someone that is actually good have no need to shout about being good?

What if it is relevant to the conversation? What if it merely a statement, part of a discussion? You’re right that most good players don’t usually mention they’re good, but sometimes it’s relevant, at which point it’s merely a statement of fact. And why do you care? If you don’t believe it to be true, why does it upset you? I doubt you go around the street correcting everyone who says something you believe to be untrue, especially if it’s not an objectively easy answer.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I just hate illegal aliens clogging my server up. Go home.

Ahoy there Sarah Palin, how are these illegal? Or aliens for that matter…?

No, the overall system is fine.

This system could (and should, actually) be in place for the holograms though, much like the boxes in Super Adventure Box (still the best update to date). They’re much harder to get/more limited availability mobs, that die fast and everyone wants/needs for achievements.

After how good SAB was, I don’t understand why they keep going backwards in so many areas…

I’m agreeing with Vayne… Oh dear, must check for raining blood, talking cows and other signs of the apocalypse…

On a serious note, Vayne is right. Dailies are, for the most part, easy. Go into WvW for a few minutes and you usually end up with 1 or 2 free dailies at least. Also amazing if you have Veteran Slayer as WvW is littered with vets.

Another ridiculously easy way to get the ambient killer achievement is Ebon Hawk fortress. On the south exit there’s a mining area of sorts, with an area that spawns around 10 rats very quickly. Tada. Free daily.

Dailies are super simple if you’re smart.

Bright.9160:

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you that the design is wrong, but there is a reason for this.

The reason they made all dungeon paths reward the same reward, is to prevent organized speedclear groups to farm the ‘harder’ content at 1/4th of the time of what the normal players do it for the highest reward. That’s what happened in DoA in GW1. I was one of those SC players. I made close to 200k/hour in that area (more like 180k/hour), because after each run, I also went around and picked up loot that was left behind to salvage into materials that sold for a good chuck of cash. We could clear it in 25-35minutes on casual runs, in HM, which meant double the rewards from NM. PUGs on the other hand cleared that area in 1h30 on average in NM. That’s 3 times as long, for half the reward. So we were basically making around 6 times more money/hour than PUGs did. I think that was a situation they wanted to avoid.

Now, in theory, that doesn’t sound completely unreasonable. However, what this resulted into is that PUGs will just farm the fastest and easiest dungeon over and over, because it’s the best money/hour scenario for them. Whereas the people that actually bother doing the harder content, are stuck with absolutely terrible rewards for their efforts and quit the game eventually.

Actually, I’m pretty sure this is more of an issue of “rushed out the door design” than anything. Cause right now you still have the issue of organized teams making a lot more than pugs in certain dungeons (like CoF1), while other dungeons are just plain not worth doing reward wise (e.g.: Arah).

Either ways, I have a way around that, and am planning on dropping a suggestion about it soon.

lordkrall.7241:

But it is.
It have a unique skin. Just like the other dungeons.

… Let that one sink in for a while…

lordkrall.7241:

I have actually yet to see a single person in Arah gear that have not done Arah Explorable.

Which would be extremely relevant if Arah gear was anything other than normal exotic gear. Which it isn’t.

LordByron.8369:

mostly becaue arah gives 100% exotics of yur choices after few runs….like every explorable dungeon.

Thus the issue. Arah is by far the hardest explorable dungeon. Lupicus is a great boss (except for the whole “shooting outside the marked circle” kitten, but whatever), but also easily harder than any other boss in any other dungeon. But doing Arah P4 rewards you the same as CoF P1, or CoE P1…

It’s an issue with the current dungeon design…

> /block
> kick from party/leave party
> don’t play with player again.

Problem solved. I know I’m the minority here, but people come across as incredibly “8 year older throwing a hissy fit” kinda whinny when they complain about other people’s behavior in a game like this where you have a block feature and are never forced to interact with specific players. “I don’t like it!” – Fine. Don’t play with them. Problem solved.

I wish real life came with a button you could press that made someone you don’t like completely unable to interact with you in any way, shape or form. Man, my world would be a lot quieter, happier, and less stressful. Heaven.

1 of my friends really wanted the fused greatsword. He farmed alts for keys day and night, spent gems in keys, opened probably around 100 chests. Nothing.

Another friend of mine opened 4 chests, got one. Some guy opened 4 chests got 3 claim tickets.

I really wanted a Sclerite GS. I farmed around 70 boxes. Nothing. Some low level warrior stumbled upon one on the first day of the event while leveling in Southsun. Saw someone with 3 of them.

Life isn’t fair. RNG can go suck all the kittens. All of them.

Agreed. 1 coffer for winning is a very low reward for the time it takes, especially if you compare it to Holo farming.

On the up side, this is easily the most fun and functional side game ANet has ever done that isn’t named “Super Adventure Box” (but that was as off the charts). A lovely surprise after the disaster of Crab Toss.

MakeitNeil.4561:

Well, here are the numbers me and my friends found when testing the healing and condition removal of these classes (keep in mind that we didn’t include skills that remove all conditions for it’s effect but assumed that it only removes 1 condition).

Yeah… Methodology please. Your numbers seem screwy as kitten. Not to mention your little assumption is ridiculous. All condition removal =/= 1 condition removed.

Jesus kitten, some people are just never happy…

Yes, someone from ANet (Colin?) mentioned they’re working on end game loot issues. For now, they had two “urgent” issues to deal with: T6 dust was inflating massively, while ectos were dropping like a lead weight. The fix they found was rather elegant and simple and did, indeed, fix those problems.

HPLT.7132:

Spent 3000 gems on Keys – Opened more than 40 boxes – Got no ticket. Thanks Arenanet for learning me this lessons. I am out !

You… Do realize that these are no longer available right…? Was this just an incredibly late reply, or did you try opening them now? Cause if you tried them now, you could open a million and you’d still not get them…

The merchants are staying.

That said, consider if you really wanna do that, as they’re quite expensive for the very slight variation of stats from the normal Apothecary, and have absolutely normal looks about them.

Kolly.9872:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Balance patch is at the end of June. Cry more in the meantime, though; it improves the experience for everyone.

the end of june of 2014 is a more accurate date. But we will talk again in 19 days.. and I am not crying, just noting which are A-Net’s priorities as always

Let’s try to put it in terms even you can understand:

There were no balance changes or major bug fixes this patch. Those are slated to the next patch. Would you rather they include small fixes they have done or nothing at all?

Cheers.

Meh, ANet was quick and swift on this one, but honestly, bit of a whiny complaint isn’t it? I bet if you look through enough languages you’ll find plenty of names that sound/read like something insulting, especially if you include slang.

Oh well, it’s taken care of either ways I suppose.

Never make big investments prior to patches, you never know what’s going to change.

Unless you’re trying to guess market trends to make a profit, at which point, you guessed wrong, deal with it.

This is a really clever way to fix 2 problems at once: the inflation of T6 dust due to ridiculous rarity, and the deflation of ectoplasms since the increased availability of rares, without resorting to asinine solutions such as increasing their rarity again (for example, by lowering the return rate on rares).

Nothing but good things to say about ANet on this one.

When I was new to the game I used to think things like Defiant and Unshakable were used to prevent stun-locking bosses to death… But that’s not really it is it?

I mean, in dungeon-based play you have 5 people, and most classes have little access to hard-CC, especially long-duration hard CC, while bosses have a truck load of health. You couldn’t really stun-lock bosses to death even if you tried. But maybe you could “lock them” for longer periods than intended…?

In open world, however, that could be an issue, as you can have hundreds of people sitting around…

…But wouldn’t it be a lot easier, to just add “diminishing returns” to hard CC…? I mean, in a way I guess that’s what defiant does, but it does it in a rather brutish manner.

Wouldn’t it a far better mechanic if the boss stacked defiant stacks each time he’kitten with CC, with each stack diminuishing its effectiveness? Much like Frenzy the boss would lose stacks as time passed without being CC.

If CC actually becomes a viable thing in boss fights then you also open up the boss design to more interesting fights. Fights where you need to interrupt the boss or get hit hard, for example. You open up control as a viable thing, instead of the typical tank, spank and dodge.

Conncept.7638:

Zasalamel is horribly animated. Notice how he’s blurred out for the majority of his animations? They couldn’t think of more than three or four moves that didn’t have massive clipping and movement issues and so they had to use gaudy smear frames to cover up the remainder of his moveset. And that makes perfect sense since scythes are designed to be used in one single repetitive motion, the amount of ways you can animate them without their wielders anatomy getting in the way is almost zero.

The bad animations in Zasalamel are more an issue of the studio than the concept – they could have easily been done right. He’s a proof of concept. On top of that, a fighting game character like Zasalamel, in a fighting game like the Soul Calibur series, has a ridiculously larger amount of different attack animations than anything in GW2. The job becomes exponentially easier when you need 10 different animations instead of 50 or 100. Even more so when they can be simpler or more “grounded” animations, instead of the circus trick and over the top kungkittenmovie/anime acrobatics expected from SC.

And that’s only accounting for them being used as melee weapons. The sky’s the limit when it comes to more magic-oriented ways – e.g.: Mesmers and greatswords.

Conncept.7638:

And please explain what would be so difficult about animating a cannon? You hold it and shoot, don’t we already two such weapons in the game? Hand held cannons were a common weapon in China for almost 300 years before spreading to Europe, hence the comment about Cantha.

Nothing… Except, as you’d say, it would be ridiculous.

Chinese “hand cannons” were called cannons because they hadn’t invented the concept of a rifle yet. They’re, in everything, more cumbersome, clumbsy and inefficient rifles, which is why they went the way of the dodo once rifles came around. Except for the ones that were basically portable siege weaponry, like mortars… Same issue.

We have rifles in this game. And proper cannons. According to your “this wouldn’t apply/would look silly in real life” argument then it’s the exact same issue. No sane living being would carry around a “hand cannon” when they have rifles and pistols. The only way to turn it into something worth shooting would be to turn it into an actual siege weapon in power, which, in turn, would blow up the limbs and/or torso of the user whenever shot.

Conncept.7638:

If you’re going to challenge someones ideas, make sure you actually have some idea what you’re talking about first.

You first.

Obviously, they’re both possibly within a game based on magic and fiction. My only problem is that you raise the issue that Scythes can never be used for combat in any fashion, not even within the fantasy-fueled universe of GW, but a hand cannon would fit like a glove in this world.

By the way, scythes, and other hacked up varieties, were used as weapons, actually, by the Chinese for once, and about every farmer-encompassing army prior to firearms being invented – inefficient, but as it turns out, a lot less so than trying to punch a sword.

Conncept.7638:

Invictus.1503:

Scythe

We have it, it’s called a staff. It is physically impossible for a scythe to work as a martial weapon, and more importantly it’s visually impossible, you couldn’t possibly animate a character using a scythe and not have it look completely ridiculous. The only exception is b-list anime and that’s because they use a sickening amount of cross cuts.

It can and has been done. Zasalamel. Your argument is invalid.

It’s also hilariously ironic that that’s the reason you provide against… And then suggest things like:

Conncept.7638:

My List

• Cannon (over the shoulder, fits in with a cantha expansion)

nyocum.2185:

So my 3 to choose from is Warrior, Ranger, and Thief.
I like all three classes.
I know there is no “best” class, however I would like your personal opinion on which 3 is your favorite. I want the class to be, in your opinion, well-versed in all aspects of the game, PVE, Dungeons, WvWvW, s/tPVP, exploration, etc.

Thanks!

Note: All of the “best” and “worst” refers to these 3 classes only.

Warrior is the best (by far) in PvE and Dungeon play, but the worst in both PvP and WvW.

Ranger is the worst in dungeons, but possibly the best in PvP (with some builds), ok in open world PvE, and strong/very strong (depends on build and what you do with it) in WvW.

Thief is possibly the best in WvW, but the worst in open world PvE, decent in dungeons and good in PvP.

Do keep in mind that they’re all decent enough at anything, so it depends on where you’d like to focus more, or what playstyle you end up prefering – can’t help you there.

Oh yes! Colour me interested.

morrolan.9608:

I like the textures but not the model.

This.

The textures are clearly beautifully rendered with a lot of attention to detail… Shame that the shape is ugly as hell.

Vol.5241:

You can’t put legendaries in the forge. It does not show up as an option and you cannot drag them in.

The only legendaries you can put in are Sunrise and Twilight – combining both gives you Eternity.

/case closed

This.

If you could the only logical conclusion is that you’d just get another random legendary.

Wait till lvl 80. You’re a warrior, the easiest profession to level with by far, and leveling isn’t exactly hard in this game.

Just have A greatsword. At lvl buy a lvl 80 exotic (only, don’t waste money on items bellow lvl 80 and bellow exotic rarity) when you can. Your first buy should probably be with Berserker’s stats – Power/Precision/Critical Damage, but that depends on your gear.

dovrak.4376:

Or make it only visible for allies. There’s a lot of people, my self included, who just rush upleveled targets because they drop like flies. I think it’s not fair for a guy who wants to level his 60’, and is being rushed even in teamfights by 80’s in full exotics/superior runes.
More like an upleveled tag is a free badge tag in 90% of most situations.

So is being caught in certain situations as certain classes. Deal with it. Know your limitations and don’t get caught out of your depth.

There is a reason why we have some information on our enemies (not enough, imo). In a fight you gotta know who to prioritize.

Also the point of upscalling isn’t for you to pretend you’re a real lvl 80, but to prevent you being laughably instagibbed in any fight against actual 80s – like in most traditional MMOs.

This horse has been so viciously beaten it is less than dust at this point.

Technical limitations. The amount of stat tracking the servers would have to do would balloon out of proportion. Not going to happen.

Those are some kittening ugly kitten weapons…

Hey ANet, if I get a weapon claim ticket, can I get a Sclerite Greatsword instead? Trade ya.

Super Adventure Box had the perfect core system.

You could work for what you wanted, although that was entirely personal and non-tradeable (i.e.: you couldn’t farm a profit), or you could get lucky and earn a hefty sum through a tradeable weapon.

I don’t mind them adjusting how difficult it is to attain something (as long as it’s reasonable of course), but I want to be able to actually earn what I want through work, and not just hope I get lucky, and if I don’t happen to be lucky, all I’ve done was for nothing.

Alternatively, just sell the items for gems. I don’t mind paying for items, but I refuse to dump money into a lottery. I farmed over 50 supply crates in southsun for the one skin I really wanted. Not ONE claim ticket. Not. One. I’m not mad enough to shell out real money for 50 more crates for a whole new wad of nothing.

I would hope the Sclerite weapons/supply crates would stay indefinitely as a way to mitigate the inexcusable fiasco they were… but I doubt it. “Stay the course” mentality and all…

It’s not the mobs, it’s the event scaling that has gone crazy.

“What’s that? 15 people? Have 2 champions and 3 veterans on top of the normal large wave!”

CrazyDuck.4610:

That’s life get over it, I’m sure you wish everyone won the lottery too.

I’ll make sure to consider that next time I respawn and do magic IRL. Or next time some comes along and defies the laws of thermodynamics by creating things from nothing.

If I wanted more “life” I wouldn’t be playing a game.

ASaturnus.4980:

Peetee.9406:

Playing 1 day a week for 10 hours and playing 5 days a week for 2 hours should yield the same reward.

No, it shouldn’t. And it doesn’t in any MMO I know of.

Yes, it should, and it does in most good games. If other mmos don’t do it it just means that they’re also wrong.

I don’t mind paying, I have done so before in this game, but I do refuse to throw my monet out of the window in some lottery-based scam.

Put the weapons up for sale and I’ll buy them. What I won’t do is dump my precious money in these RNG within an RNG boxes. kitten. That.

CrazyDuck.4610:

What would be the point if everyone had the same skin?

I really despise people like you, so I’m gonna keep it very short lest we end up trading insults: Having the kittening skin.

I like the skin. I feel comfortable about my kitten size and don’t need something others don’t have to wave around as a vicarious way to feel special. I just want the skin, because I like it. I don’t care if everyone under the sun has it or if I’m the only person ever. I care that I want it. I want to have it for me. Hell, if you tell me I can press one button and everyone, myself included, gets all of those, fine! I’ll press it so fast I’ll leave skid marks on the kittening thing.

@Topic: Over 50 crates, nothing. kitten it. I refuse to dump money into a lottery. If they sell it for gems, I’ll buy it. Not crates.

Hexgame.4802:

And finally, new weapon skins were released from the crates (although stupidly rare).

No, they weren’t. When time-restricted content is only accessibly through incredibly low odds RNG within RNG, then it might as well not exist.

As far as I’m concerned the whole Sclerite weapon kitten was just a sadistic way for ANet to make fun of their players.

No new skins.
Can’t Mystic Forge the kitten you buy.
Way too expensive for just crappy looking exotics with very niche stats (really, who benefits from it besides Ranger…? Maybe Guardian and/or Ele…? Sort of…).
Still no guaranteed way to earn/buy a Sclerite weapon.

Cheers ANet. Best disappointment of GW2 so far. Would Alt+F4 again.

The only thing they can do to redeem themselves in my eyes is to either make it possible to earn/buy sclerite weapons, or make sure they don’t end with the event.

I was quite excited, and then more RNG within RNG…

kitten. That. kitten. With a bottle rocket.

(Part 2)

ANet knows this, and for that, they sell MF boosts and even included a nice little permanent 200% MF bonus on the southsun event (and a pathetic gold find boost… why? Even if it made millions, you can’t buy the skins with money).

And then, on the other side, you have diminishing returns, which start becoming evident within less than 1 hour of play and you nerf farming spots whenever they’re found. I’ve done enough farming since this event started to start noticing the patterns in the DR system, and when I start “fresh”, with almost 400% MF, I find something in almost every drop. A green, a T5 material, a blue… something. Almost no junk or whites. Before an hour elapses I’m starting to find junk or nothing in most kills. This is consistent behavior. It hasn’t just happened “once” or to myself only. You sell 1 hour MF boosts ffs, and your DR kicks in before that…

And we have dungeons… You need hundreds of tokens for each piece of gear, each run gives you around 66-69 tokens, and you only get rewarded for each path once a day per character…

And I haven’t forgotten “Ascended”. Originally designed to appease the vertical progression crowd along with fractals, they’re slowly bleeding into the rest of the world and, as BiS, forcing you to keep up… No, 5 to 10% stat increase is not kittening trivial in WvW…

This is all from the company that said, and I quote: “We do not make grindy games”. Really now? What game are you making then? Cause I’d love to play it.

So, Arena Net, what do you want? You need to decide on where you’re going with your game’s design… Do we have to grind or not? If you want us to grind, then you can’t also punish us for grinding. If you don’t want us to grind, then you can’t force us to grind to acquire content…

Personally I’d prefer it if you stuck to your original statement, the one that lured me into the game, of no grind. That’s my thing, and this is your game. But if you do want to have grind, then you need your game’s mechanics to accommodate it.

Cheers.

Because….? Badges of Honor are the standard WvW base reward.

Note: “Because I felt like it” and “Because I said so” are not acceptable reasons.

Vayne.8563:

Sure..but it’s still against the TOS to curse in the open world.

Actually, all I’ve seen so far points to this being a lie. You don’t get banned for “cursing” (which would be immesurably stupid from ANet). You get banned for insulting people, bypassing the filter, and behaviour that has less to do with language and more to do with, for example, being racist, extremely sexual, etc.

I.e.: “kitten this kitten” – ah ok. “kitten you you piece of kitten” – not ok.

Interesting. Let’s see the results.

Ranger – Human – 80
Thief – Human – 80
Necromancer – Human – 80
Warrior – Norn – 80
Mesmer – Human – 80
Guardian – Asura – 80
Elementalist – Sylvary – 63

Also an Engineer, Charr, but he’s only 13.

Lighter.5631:

Guardians and rangers are kings of PvE, bar none. You never explained anything so i won`t either.
btw if you wanna be taken seriously you need to stop the ridiculous exagerations, because farm cof1 is not king, or maybe it is to you lol.

Do I really have to do this? It’s like someone saying “water is wet” then someone in the back getting up and shouting “I’m sorry sir but I doesn’ believe that, you gonna haf ta explain!”. Fine.

Warriors have the absolute highest DPS in PvE, bar none. Unfortunately, due to the way PvE is currently designed, that’s the absolutely most important thing in a class. There is no such a thing as “tanking” in this game, because everything that can be tanked, doesn’t need to be, and everything you’d want to tank can’t, because it just one-shots you anyways, or at least hits you hard enough that you can’t take a second hit. So the only way to tank is to dodge. Not even blocking is 100% since some attacks are unblockable. Because of that, and since nobody has infinite rolls, most of the dangerous attacks are punctual and telegraphed. Warrior can easily deal with that.

This means that they also come with just enough survivability for PvE, with the extra dodging from GS’s WW and the punctual AoE condition clear.

This is true from CoF speed runs, where it’s all stupid easy, but Warrior has the highest DPS anyways, to level 40 fractals where everything one shots you, but Warrior still has the highest DPS.

The other 2 classes that shine in PvE are classes with perma-vigor, high damage if fully-berserker/speced for it, but with extra utility – Mesmer and Guardian. Even then, the “perfect party” will only have 1 of each at most, and 3 warriors, because end game PvE was rushed and poorly designed, and DPS is king.

It is irrelevant. Your best skills are non-racial.

Daecollo.9578:

PvE/Dungeons: Average, they are good in old content (CoF Path 1.) and horrible at new content (Karka.)

You should see the video of a warrior trying to solo a Karka, wheras every other class can solo them, warriors cannot without luck+lots and lots of skill, one mistake = instant death.

Daecollo if you ever wanna be taken seriously you need to stop the ridiculous exagerations. Warriors are kings of PvE, bar none. If you’re not facerolling PvE content , including karkas, you’re doing something horribly wrong. Warrior’s issue is PvP, not PvE.