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All the arguments here against level cap increase were the same ones raised during the introduction of Ascended gear. By some of the same people. You’re still playing.
I’m not paying a subscription fee. I can’t vote with my wallet on Ascended gear.
However, I do not have to buy an expansion pack that raises the level cap.
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If someone says they’re going to punch me in the face, I’m going to be very vocal about the fact that I don’t want to be punched in the face.
If they do it anyway, then I’m not going to associate with that person any more, as they have little regard for my feedback.
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I’m surprised no one has brought this up yet.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Level-cap/1836153
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Crossbow for Guardians.
I will wait for this.
I can never understand why people want Crossbows for Guardians.
I never heard of a Paladin, Crusader, Holy warriors, people that use shiny magic ever using a Crossbow.
Vampire slayers, witchfinders, etc.
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Per Anet the “end-game” is and always has been Dynamic Events
I go to upper level zones and guess what I don’t see.
The player base actively pursuing these DE.
Just last night I was in Frostgorge Sound and there were DEs going on left and right. Some I could do on my own, but many I could not.
This is how Anet designed it. These DEs at this level are suppose to be done with groups of people.
That s why since the first of this year I have been saying there needed to be DE raid groups formed daily.
The only people that can go around saying there is nothing to do in this game ae those very people that say it.
again —-— DYNAMIC EVENTS ARE THE END GAME ………. PERIOD
Do them or shutup
Maybe they should have learned their lesson from WAR and Rift and made them an actually ORGANIC, DYNAMIC SYSTEM, and not just a repeatable quest on an unpredictable spawn timer.
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Adding more levels in a new area will allow for you to progress through it
I see no reason whatsoever why progression through a new area has to be tied to level progression.
and enjoy new story content.
I don’t see any correlation between an increased level cap and my ability to enjoy new story content.
It is the same as levelling in any point in the game. The levelling slows down your pace through the content, which allows you to move at the intended rate.
I don’t play B2P games to have my pace manipulated by external forces. I quit Pandaland and came back here for that reason.
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In GW1 I would try to get to EotN as quickly as possible for the Don’t Stop Believing buff. Level grinds are an epic fail.
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Elementalist: Asura
Engineer: Asura
Guardian: Asura
Mesmer: Asura
Necromancer: Asura
Ranger: Asura
Thief: Asura
Warrior: Asura
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If they raise the level cap they will have truly abandoned the idea of this game being a Guild Wars sequel.
I did not play gw1 so I can assume they only made expansions for it without cap increases?
Correct . GW 1 has never raised its cap past 20 ( yes 20 ) and it did pretty well for itself. I should hope they never raise the cap past 80 in GW2
There are fundamental differences in GW1 to GW2 that made that possible. For example, skill progression.
Adding more levels in a new area will allow for you to progress through it and enjoy new story content. The levelling can help pace you through the area, so that the new content can be experienced a rate intended by the dev’s. It can also help with adding challenging personal story content.
There’s already a level scaling system though. If they add a level 1-15 area, I can take my 80 there and enjoy it.
Also, one thing the Manifesto promises is a “branching” personal story. When in truth, you always return to the same trunk. Maybe, instead of forming the Pact with Trahearne, you decide your talents would be better applied in the new lands. Or you’re from the new lands, and decide to join Trahearne, because you’re weird.
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If they want to remove the ability to attack gates, then they need to make siege weapons a character ability and not an item you pay money for, like vehicles in Planetside 1.
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If they raise the level cap they will have truly abandoned the idea of this game being a Guild Wars sequel.
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I want pistols for Guardians. I AM THE LAW!!!!
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Dancing clones for Mesmers… me gusta!
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I will also try to stay away from P2p, F2P and PTW games. If it has a cash shop I’ll avoid it too.
So you won’t be playing any online games then?
Diablo 2 and Guild Wars 1 were strictly B2P and weren’t exactly unsuccessful.
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The WvWvW abilities are garbage the only one I’d want is the supply one and that one has a ridiculous price to represent its desirability.
Give me Planetside 1 style certs, not this filth.
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Actually, World of Warcraft ruined them. We haven’t seen another game like Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies since then.
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and here you’re reversing the roles.
both Berserker and MF gear is gear that is very hard to use, because you’re sacrificing vitality and toughness. If a person manages to survive with it instead of sitting on the ground they are not a bad player.
Snowflake situation was an obvious exploit, not something that you figure out as a game mechanic.“Zerging” can refer to many things that normalize the skill and specialties of an individual across a faceless mass. The favored tactic in WvWvW, or the rush that surrounds any noteworthy world event.
As for Berserker gear, toughness and vitality don’t mitigate as much damage as Berserker gear enables, thus the opportunity cost is great NOT to wear Berserker’s.
most berserker players sit on their floor on their kitten though. In order to use that gear properly you have to be really good. Or just use a toughness/ vitality safety net.
So much damage avoidance is based on movement though, because you can only take so many hits in high-end PvE. Full PVT only gives you one or two extra hits.
If you can’t beat Metal Slug 3 on a single credit, one extra life won’t make a difference.
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I’d much rather have bosses with enrage timers/soft enrage mechanics or other high DPS requirements than having actual DPS meters.
I disagree with this, if you get a group where your all support, that becomes bad.
Good. It’d be nice to shut up some of those people like “support rangers” who can’t quantify their output in terms of HPS, boon uptime, or cleanses.
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I think “end game” shouldn’t apply to MMORPG, because the term implies attrition. It makes sense in Chess, where you’re constantly losing pieces on both sides, or DotA, where towers get destroyed and players begin to snowball by hitting high levels and attaining powerful equipment. It has very little applicability to the post-WoW MMORPG genre.
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Sotzz just needs to be declared a total failure and deleted from the game.
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It’s funny how majority of players have no idea about harder PvE content and only cries about cof.
I wonder, will we ever see a post about current holy trinity of gw2 – guardian,mesmer, warrior.
Many people have talked about taht in this thread, in fact.
It’s always better to just start a discussion in a thread that’s already proven itself. When you start your own thread, you run the risk of it being deleted, moved to Suggestions, or to the ghost town known as the profession subforums.
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and here you’re reversing the roles.
both Berserker and MF gear is gear that is very hard to use, because you’re sacrificing vitality and toughness. If a person manages to survive with it instead of sitting on the ground they are not a bad player.
Snowflake situation was an obvious exploit, not something that you figure out as a game mechanic.
“Zerging” can refer to many things that normalize the skill and specialties of an individual across a faceless mass. The favored tactic in WvWvW, or the rush that surrounds any noteworthy world event.
As for Berserker gear, toughness and vitality don’t mitigate as much damage as Berserker gear enables, thus the opportunity cost is great NOT to wear Berserker’s.
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The problem with this game is that it does not cater to “casual gamers,” but it caters to BAD and unskilled gamers.
It rewards bad and unskilled play (zerging, using MF gear, etc.) and punishes good and efficient play by anet literally banning good players who figure out the system (Snowflakes situation etc.)
Because of anet’s decision to cater to BAD players, not casual players, everything has just been reduced to a terrible grind.
Thus, instead of a situation as in GW1, where skill was the biggest deciding factor in how far a player got (at least in the beginning,) in order to cater to the lowest common denominator, the bad players, its been watered down to where time spent in-game is the biggest deciding factor in how far a player gets.
So in order to be considered a “good player” you have to discover and take advantage of a game exploit.
That’s interesting logic you got going there.
When you declare what someone else’s logic is you’re doing this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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I want to be a Worm Slayer. Arenanet, why do you tease me with such a great achievement name that’s not a title?
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Where the Ritualist at? :P
Engineer is basically the modern rit.
If they make it so that turret cooldown starts on activation instead of the turret’s death, like mesmer illusions or ritualist spirits, I could agree. Otherwise, they’re kind of a waste of a utility in PvE, like necromancer minions.
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What was there to research? The game was under strict NDA until BWE came out, and you had to pay $60 plus tax to play BWE.
then wouldn’t it have been smart to wait till it got released and read the reviews first?
Maybe. I was going to sink a significant amount of time into it so $60 seemed a reasonable amount to pay.
If I considered that money sunk costs and had no interest in GW2’s future I wouldn’t be here posting now.
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I don’t care about being a hero. I want to influence things from behind the scenes. If EVE was a fantasy game instead of a space opera, I’d probably love it.
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What was there to research? The game was under strict NDA until BWE came out, and you had to pay $60 plus tax to play BWE.
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Curious, Do you think the current content is too hard without a trinity?
Too easy. Your autoattack is your “rotation”, with the occasional burst ability like 100 Blades that’s also one button.
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-Makes an entire game around the concept of getting rid of the trinity and dedicated healers.
-Players ask for dedicated healing class and more trinity features.
The first thing happened before people had a chance to actually see how it played, and what sort of strategization was required to clear content. The second occurred afterwards.
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Have you ever wondered why it’s called HOLY TRINITY?
Has anyone ever tried reinventing a wheel?I agree, I may get boring, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not working perfectly.
Well, one philosophy I’ve taken from City of Heroes is that you can use the trinity to create an infinite variety of roles, with the expanded idea that:
1) An enemy prevented from acting through control is an enemy tanked
2) Damage prevented through buffs and debuffs is damage healed
3) Damage increased through buffs and debuffs is damage dealt
This is why, when Arenanet spoke of a “damage/control/support” trinity, I thought it might actually work. And then Defiance was introduced. And then the differential on Healing Power was made infinitesimal for anything but the #6 skill.
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Ignore the trinity. Why not 1) Frontline 2) Midline 3) Backline. As in GW1’s PvP.
Never mind, with the current system that would never work.
Everyone’s a DPS till the end of GW2.That’s why I frequent these trinity threads. Not because I want tanks and healers. I want definitive roles that aren’t “do nothing cool until we need you for Time Warp, Feedback, Temporal Curtain, or Portal”.
People seem to demonize all specialization systems for whatever reason, though. I guess it was so horrible having to tab out when queued as damage in the Dungeon Finder that all games have to be punished for it.
nope, it’s just that most people are bored of clones of clones of clones. The same system was in there since everquest. They want something new. This game offers something new, yet you seem to want that taken away from us.
Everquest had the trinity? News to me. I thought it had mezzers, nukers, and buff twisters in addition to the more famous roles.
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Mesmers are better minion bombers than Necromancers for some reason.
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Ignore the trinity. Why not 1) Frontline 2) Midline 3) Backline. As in GW1’s PvP.
Never mind, with the current system that would never work.
Everyone’s a DPS till the end of GW2.
That’s why I frequent these trinity threads. Not because I want tanks and healers. I want definitive roles that aren’t “do nothing cool until we need you for Time Warp, Feedback, Temporal Curtain, or Portal”.
People seem to demonize all specialization systems for whatever reason, though. I guess it was so horrible having to tab out when queued as damage in the Dungeon Finder that all games have to be punished for it.
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If they called the Paragon weapon “Javelins” it wouldn’t conflict with the existing underwater weapon.
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don’t start a political debate please. I don’t support North Korea or anything they do. That was a blatant attack towards me.
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I want “Stand Your Ground!” to be a trinket. It feels kinda like otherwise there’s not much to do with it but spam it for the retaliation.
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support Guardian or Heal Ele is bs.
Aaaand you just insulted a whole bunch of people. GL going into Arah and CoE with high DPS only.
I can Heal better with my full cleric armor and full ascended ring set.
Does that make me a healer? Hell no. Bs.if you were healing spected and wearing that gear though your healing on yourself would be vastly improved.
The CD on your self heal remains the same, which influences your HPS a lot more than the amount healed.
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There are many reasons to be subjectively contented with a subpar profession. Maybe you have godlike reaction times, so that you never get downed when others do. Maybe you have four friends willing to carry you through anything. Maybe you’re the one that’s always happy to use a bundle item required for an encounter instead of using the skills you rolled that profession for.
Combat log parsers don’t lie, though. If you’re not pulling your share of the workload in terms of damage output or boon uptime, there’s one way to find out.
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You can say its easy. Maybe it is for you. But its pretty simple to go on to Youtube, and look at games like Zelda, Bayonetta, Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, and even the trinity-using game TERA, and compare how enemy attacks are telegraphed there, compared to in Guild Wars 2.
Even a bosskill video for World of Warcraft on Heigan the Unclean will suffice. Tell me how many people you see there “standing still and doing their rotation” for longer than a minute.
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I would rather it would not go to trinity. Ever. You can still heal as a heal dedicated character and you can still tank just fine using your utility blocks, dodges and piling toughness on yourself. I like not being forced into a role.
Toughness scales poorly, endurance runs out quickly if you like to dodge, and all blocks are associated with significant cooldowns rather than passives :[
you don’t dodge at random, you time your dodges, yes, there’s cooldowns, that’s why you use your abilities in an intelligent manner instead of spamming them. It also helps to learn the bosses mechanics so you would know when to dodge, when to block, etc.
Problem with that is that crits from a bigger mob can land you in just as much trouble as their dodge-or-die attacks. Never mind that it is not always easy to spot the tells through the fog of particles that can form around a mobs, especially if there are a couple of elementalists around.
sorry to tell you, but I think that you should play more to become more familiar with mob mechanics, because me and my boyfriend can get by without dodging at random.
You can say L2P all you like but that won’t turn this game into Dark Souls.
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There are always people out there who want to play a profession because of the feel of the profession rather than the numbers the profession generates.
I love the feel of Engineers and Necromancers. Otherwise I wouldn’t spend so much time lobbying for them to get numbers that suit those feels.
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Instead they made a system where every player has a somewhat more equal role. Where you need actively dodge to avoid damage. And where every class can heal itself.
This makes the playerr more responsible and also makes combat more active.What this does, is make it so no one can do anything unique. Everyone is measured up in (a) DPS (b) the ability to fill in missing boons.
Dungeons don’t use mechanics that encourage synergy. If the enemies didn’t have increased HP and damage, it’d be no different than soloing in the open world. The one exception of course is encounters that force some players to pick up bundles or man static emplacements… thus denying them the one thing that makes them unique, their weapon skills.
This, exactly.
And even those weapon skills aren’t all that unique, when you look at them hard enough.
A Mesmer plays the same as a Ranger? A thief plays the same as a necro? A guardian plays the same as an engineer?
You talk about uniqueness and yet you want the game to go down the exact same path as every other mmo that has ever existed.
You want “lfg fotm, tank and heals!” incessantly in LA chat?
What you seem to be asking for is a carbon copy WoW game with Tyria skins. Forget it. Anet knows all to well that if they went down that path people would simply switch back to their old mmos.
Start a poll thread and ask how many players want the trinity in GW2. You will find you are in the minority, because many (if not most) people are here for the lack of trinity uniqueness the GW2 offers, even if it also causes a few other problems.
You say “you want” a lot, and then start reciting stuff never actually said by the posts you quoted. That’s a pretty stark example of a strawman argument.
Me, I’m just waiting for ideas like “Engineers play the Engineer role, not the tank, healing, or damage dealer role” to have some game mechanics behind them, not just PR.
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I’m afraid Arenanet heavily resisted the idea of event scoreboards as far back as BWE, and instead decided that participation = merit, just like a certain kind of Olympics.
And you can see the kicking and screaming in this very Suggestions forum any time a damage meter is proposed. Sorry. I like your idea though, so +1ed
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Instead they made a system where every player has a somewhat more equal role. Where you need actively dodge to avoid damage. And where every class can heal itself.
This makes the playerr more responsible and also makes combat more active.
What this does, is make it so no one can do anything unique. Everyone is measured up in (a) DPS (b) the ability to fill in missing boons.
Dungeons don’t use mechanics that encourage synergy. If the enemies didn’t have increased HP and damage, it’d be no different than soloing in the open world. The one exception of course is encounters that force some players to pick up bundles or man static emplacements… thus denying them the one thing that makes them unique, their weapon skills.
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I would rather it would not go to trinity. Ever. You can still heal as a heal dedicated character and you can still tank just fine using your utility blocks, dodges and piling toughness on yourself. I like not being forced into a role.
Toughness scales poorly, endurance runs out quickly if you like to dodge, and all blocks are associated with significant cooldowns rather than passives :[
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Keep in mind you have to be heavily traited to heal with shouts. The OP can be boon spamming with a Guardian or laying down fields with an Elementalist out of character creation.
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Teleport hacks are fairly well known. I don’t think Arenanet is going to talk about them until after a ban wave, though, as is standard MMO development procedure.
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One thing I would like, with some overlap on the OP idea, is a “Usable by this character” checkbox. When searching for cheap food, for example, if I just want the XP bonus, the only thing that matters is whether I’m the required level to eat what I’m buying. Naturally, this would also cover armor types, but its not the same.
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