How is it not? It’s temporary…and brings only 1-2 events that u mainly finish in a day if u reaaaaaally take your time doing them.
A proper mmo expansion (atleast in the experience of other mmos) unlocks not 1 but a lot more zones..unlocks a ton of quests..a ton of new items so on and so forth…. races..classes..weapon types..etc. LS just unlocks 1 quest/story /month.
So what’s false about it? It would only be false if u never played an mmo long enough to get to experience what a true expansion means…and i am not talking only about a p2p mmo like WoW. I am talking even about the “chinese grinding mmos” which are f2p with cashshop
In one of the first Cantha threads created on the forums i remember an anet post kinda supporting that conspiracy theory also sadly. That guy fron ncsoft was a top guy there until he left. They didn’t want Cantha for cultural reasons.
Depends on the % NCosft gets..and from a very old article i can’t find i remember reading they take a huge amount..more then 50%?! The article poped up in the first months of the game so it’s kinda hard to get to it again.
Also….it’s not “their” game….remember the hole in divinities reach which was replaced with the queen pavilion? U know what was instead of that hole before the release? It was a kantha themed side of the town. It was later revealed that the only reason they took it out and might never see kantha ever in GW2 is because some guy at NCSoft said so.
So yes…it’s anet’s game persay but honestly NCSoft pulls the strings if they can influence the content and design even of the western version game….and that shows u how much of the % they have on this game.
U know what the sad part of all of this and bigest mistake will most definitely be? After we “rebuild it” …to look exactly the same as before…nothing changed. The proper way would be to reshape LA, modernize it..make it look better. If someone builds something from scratch it builds it with new materials..new looks new everything.
But let’s be serios..ANet is notorious for recycled content galore.
I honestly can understand why ppl would like to change this game as soon as something else appears. ANet sadly has not offered anything worth in 2 years now. Just random temporary buggy glitchy laggy and overall bad designed content.
Sry if anyone from ANet reads this but that’s just the truth and the majority of your player base undeniably agrees with that (the ones that still play it). We already know your EU income has gone 50% almost compared to last year.
Same PvE..same quests, same systems overall with small cosmetic changes, same skills with 1-2 added that almost no one uses….WvW unchanged and in general going worst with each season they do..less and less ppl. More and more farming combined with the most draconic dropsystem in any mmo game ever made (and i dare any of u to come out with an mmo that is the same or worst), PvP is a game mod that very few play yet (compared to PvE / WvW playerbase) it gets more attention then all others, dungeons are lame and have nothing special about them (usually in other mmos u do dungeons for related items…here besides some skins u only need to unlock 1 time u don’t need them).
The reasons for wanting to change this game as soon as possible are piling up quite fast and there aren’t enough signs of a valid huge expansion to solve this problem any time soon.
Yea, tournaments lasts way to long..but ANet needs an excuse not to do any type of content/recycle old stuff for months on end. They have more important customers to take care off (Chinese).
From what i know they are still debating if they want to do a payed expansion (1 huge pack of content) or introduce stuff for free through LS (but low amounts over time).
All options are on the table. No news on major stuff for now tho.
Lol people still do fractals….waw. Just shows u how full of nothing this game is at end-game.
PS They also said they increased asccended drops for WvW ranks from what i remember. I did over 500 ranks (to which u also add 2x boxes from reset nights) since the seasons started. Keeping count of my loot it looks like this:
3 rares, 1 exotic, rest greens. Period.
GW2 is honestly among the most unrewarding games i have ever played when it comes down to loot. Even hardcore grinding asian games offer u good loot after X farming. Bar none the worst drops in any mmo i’ve ever played…and trust me i played some really HC grinding sh**. I honestly can’t think of an mmo title that has this much punishment for players who want to get loot (DR, RNG) and also have one of the lowest loot tables on the planet…for SUCH a long time now. I honestly can’t think of 1 name.
What’s so special about Liadri? she was a boss made specially for certain classes. I did it second run on my zerker warrior…then i overfarmed her. Easiest boss ever for a zerker warrior. Try it with other classes and things get complicated really fast.
A good boss is not a boss that’s hand-tailored for a select few classes. A good boss is one that all classes have difficulties to beat and have to come up with strategies.
@Bobby Stein
Q: If according to your Wiki Ree was on your team since atleast 29 July 2013, can i ask if she did or did not work on any of the LS story from S1? Or is she about to start out with S2.
With the insane requirements vs the insanly low drop and lack of materials for resonable price? no sry.
If they add legendary armors it’s strictly to make the game p2w even more. Consider the game revolves around skins mostly … so the main win of the game is the skin not the stats. That means the game is a major p2w game as long as they don’t fix drop rates and make it more accessible. Not make ppl either be very good at scamming tradingpost or waste thousands of $$ on gems.
just 1 slot..i have all classes in this game. I have extra sets for some of them and so on and so forth. I also did a lot of set changes (for stats) since the last time i used those gloves. Limited or not i finished the meta that gives that reward. I should have access to it anytime i wish. It wasn’t a drop from some obscure mob, it was from a reward chest.
The same theory could be applied to achievement skins..why have unlimited skins? u unlock it once and that’s it. If u salvage for some reason or another why should u qq for it? Consider reaching 10.000 AP like finishing the meta for an event, it’s a 1 time thing. Yet..achievement rewards are unlimited.
Hell..by your theory..why do we have a wardrobe system in the first place?
I want to ask if anet is planning on auto-giving all skins won from the meta events prior to the patch. For example the fused gauntlets from Flame&Frost. I used that skin on a pair of gloves that i changed in time completely because of their stats and salvaged the old ones. Had space issues where to keep them.
Considering i finished all the event metas since the start, i should be elegible to obtaining the skins for them at any point in time. Right now even if i participated i have no memorabilia :/
Yes they will…because in the future, when they start seasons or events, they want to do it simultaneously allover the globe…not “EU/NA get first..China gets after 1 month” that’s both stupid and counterproductive.
Ppl who want to level can go in EoTM..it’s literally the perfect map for that. Yet u refuse and come in the main maps where the slots available are limited, tensions are high specially in seasons when ppl are more competitive then usual…and u take the spot of a lvl80 guy who could actually be useful in the fight.
It’s completely expectable to get raged on by the others..specially when u have an alternative map made specially for casuals/upleveled and in a game where lvling up is one of the easiest in any mmos atm. U can make 0-80 in a week by solo playing for 4-5h/day. U can do that even faster in EoTM… Do level 80 then come to the main maps..that easy.
It’s the same as dungeons. Even if a dungeon lvl req is 30 for example…i will kick anyone who is under 80. Because it takes away from the fun of 4 ppl just to carry 1 extra guy who dies all the time.
Only issue i see with this intended 2v1 personally is if in a matchup where all 3 servers are almost equal…they still 2v1 another server. I don’t see the “2 lower servers trying to beat the bigger one” in that thing. It’s completely something else then what was intended. And if u 2v1 in a matchup where they are very balanced it will always result in the third server loosing whatever the tactics they apply (literally always…it’s a 100% guaranteed loss)….because wvw is a numbers game. This in time will destabilize the matchup.
2v1 works for ex in the case of 2xT2 servers against 1xT1 server. That’s what was intended in the first place.
Apart from abusing a system that was intended to be aimed at lower servers not equal servers, i find 2v1 a nice thing for WvW…but again, read what i said above.
2v1 is a double edged sword system. U risk to 100% guarantee the destabilizing of a server in an equal matchup because of how easy and risk-free it is to abuse the system.
This discussion is so 2013. ANet openly said they understood the community’s concerns related to the lack of permanent content. That’s why they decided to take longer breaks for story stuff to come out. The test will be when Season 2 starts…we will see then if they actually learned anything at all or not.
I remember them saying they are heavily considering expansion style content for the future and are taking in consideration if it will be payed or not.
For now it’s literally useless to point out things they already said they are trying to address in Season 2. U can start QQing again if things don’t get improved during S2..but not prior
PS. For the ppl that try to see since when those screens are taken. Don’t look at the tag..look at the buffs area above the utility skills. Back in the orb days.
Even so…..how much IQ do u need to figure out rams are good for walls?
They really are beautiful and makes u feel peaceful. Great artist is great no doubt. As for when something like this will be in the game i have no clue. Keep in mind all of them have the same hero/girl in them. If they will be all used it’s a sign there will be a big story related to just those 2.
I have something for u if u want. I made this back in beta. It’s a live wallpaper dark version of the login animation to save your monitor for imploding from all the white. U have the details on how to do it in the details section
Doesn’t surprise me…china has enough gamers to fill the shoes of both NA and EU combined. Won’t surprise me in the least if they divert all their attention to China for $$ and completely ditch NA-EU..or just offer scraps.
Sadly anything ranger does….ALL other classes do better. I am sorry but that’s just the truth.
if you actually believe that, you have A) not played the class since before june 2013, suck at playing it, C) refuse to face reality.
Take a pick.
You either lie to yourself in a blind fanboi attempt to defend the class or u never played other classses or have no clue how to play other classes. Take a pick
As for your own picks….90% of this game’s community says otherwise about rangers…where u might be…on whatever map u might be or whatever mod u might play and usually there’s a good reason for that. Odds are against u ^.^. Glhf
Well…honestly this thread continues to be constructive..i appreciate the ppl posting here…JQ/TC/SOS/BG …whatever “color” u guys might be. Nice to see we can leave aside the tipical server trash talk created by noobs to have a solid conversation about something
@Kigera: Well..the current condition of wvw season doesn’t help that cause also, does it?
Personally i think, if there was the same system which was in S1, with the current T1 balance..matches would have been much more fun and closer. ATLEAST much better then what it’s now….S1 wasn’t perfect…but from my opinion it was better then S2…and if that’s the case…that means ANet instead of improving they are regressing. That’s bad.
@Sol: Competition yes..i am definitely up for that and agree with u…. Seeing someone (SoS) trying their absolute best to loose on purpose to come over someone who invests in that competition…definitely not. That’s something wrong in my view…..very wrong. That’s not the kind of competition ppl want to be part off. This effects more ppl in a negative way then it does in a positive way.
It’s the exact same thing as saying “hey u can learn however much u want in life….a slacker will still beat u at the end”. That’s not a good image to promote specially from a competitive point of view.
Actually i was..on DB, SOS then BG….moved back when transfers were free. Most of my moves were because most of the ppl were doing pve more then wvw….or in SOS’s case, at the time, the community was not that great. Don’t know how it’s now. So yes i know how much coverage does to a server…but honestly at T1 the coverage is pretty well balanced…a server is know for good SEA while the other is known for good NA and so on.
Personally i see atleast T1 being very balanced when it comes to population and the best example i could give u is to look at the last match JQ/BG/TC had just before the seasons started. There was like a 10k difference between them or even lower. U honestly can’t get closer then that even if u have the exact same number of ppl constantly on.
At lower leagues i am sure it’s not that different…but the major difference is the dedication and effort they put in wvw. They might put their majority of work in other areas of the game.
In my experience and my server’s experience it HONESTLY always was Server A….ALWAYS. I am 100% not trolling or trying to prove a point just by throwing an answer that suits me. But again this is my experience. Maybe u had a different outcome.
Sadly anything ranger does….ALL other classes do better. I am sorry but that’s just the truth.
The AI makes pets almost useless (almost) and once u kill that pet..u cut a ranger’s DPS into half instantly. What’s left? spirits? please….
ONLY valid area of the game where rangers can perform quite well is in PvP (not PvE or WvW compared to other classes)..and even so u will need a party combo that makes the ranger shine (as little as it can).
When a class (any class) depends on third factors like pets and spirits that means if the class is left without those 2 things…there’s almost nothing left…and sadly that happens over 90% of the time.
I am not saying u won’t have fun with a ranger….but take whatever fun with a ranger and multiply it atleast twice with any other class…that’s the feeling.
He’s right though. Whenever I roam on my thief in WvW I tie a blindfold around my head to make fights fair. After about a half hour I untie my blindfold to see what has happened. I’m always running into a wall somewhere close to spawn, so I can only assume that I have defeated at least 100 enemies at that point. And that’s with a d/d setup. I could probably get at least 200 kills using the same method if I used d/p.
Personally i don’t even like the changes compared to S1…..it was simple back then..u are good? u win…period. Best server wins a season like any normal competition on the planet.
ROFL, not hard to guess what server you’re from. I don’t think you understand that WvW matches are primarily won by a server’s coverage and not skill. I know its hard to believe but coverage imbalance actually exists, friend.
I know it’s hard to believe friend…but coverage is part of the efforts of a server..both directly and indirectly. The more a server is known to be a good one the more ppl will come to that server and even settle. WvW is a game of coverage..yes…. but in many cases coverage hasn’t solved complete zerg wipes from a more skilled server/group/commander/tactics. The moment when u stop thinking of WvW as being only coverage related and start thinking that numerous things make WvW what it is..that’s when this game mod will progress.
“Zergs” in wvw is just the surface of what’s necessary to win games. U have to see past that or stop lying to yourself. With all honesty don’t read this as an insult.
No system should encourage a server to “throw” a match or intentionally under-perform to manipulate their overall score and future match ups resulting in a higher final placement. The fact that the league’s scoring system allows and encoruages this is highly problematic. SoS simply shouldn’t have an incentive to throw a match to be rewarded with a higher placement.
Honestly I don’t think WvW should have real individual rewards for League/Season placement. It’s perfectly fine to give players a reward for completion of the meta achievement, but WvW isn’t a balanced competitive format and it never will be. The only rewards for placement in the league/season should be “prestige” and temporary finishers until the end of the next league/season. The current league system shouldn’t be used again due to how easy it is to manipulate outcomes (regardless of how players are rewarded) and T1 servers shouldn’t be in the same league as any other servers until the population gap is made smaller (if ever).
Personally i don’t even like the changes compared to S1…..it was simple back then..u are good? u win…period. Best server wins a season like any normal competition on the planet.
It seems to me “we” (anet) are just looking for ideas to make lesser servers not feel so bad for their loss..which in reality is flawed. U have to work for your win. Not be carried there. If a server is in silver/bronze/bone league or whatever this shouldn’t effect the work and dedication put in, by the higher servers. Don’t bring everyone down because u can’t grow your server like others did.
But hey maybe i am old fashioned when it comes down to a true competition and the outcomes of it. It’s just a personal view of things.
For me this season and system is the “Ooooh let’s feel bad for the slacker servers” system. Nothing more….sry if u feel offended but that’s the truth. Why not just organize a season where everyone comes first place? Hold hands..share stories…sing about double rainbows and unicorns…
This new system only makes slacker servers slack even more..it doesn’t in any way entice them to get better. The message it sends is “let’s not do anything..we win anyway”
FooKFiGhTeR …. u should take a break from this game…your general hate for pixels really is unhealthy. Also please stop spamming communist propaganda ^.^ this thread isn’t about your beaten up JQ ego..this thread is about a serious topic that may or may not effect wvw as a whole.
Sry, all the money made via your gem transactions go directly into the chinese client and aion expansions. What ever scraps of coins are left go into so called groundbreaking featurepacks that in reality include systems that in majority where already made and implemented since the start of the game (in pvp), a few layout designs for skillpoints…changed the a number from “5” to “1” for skills and make it sound like it was a biblical change.
Thank u for your gem transactions..and each time u think that the game is lacking just think about how your contribution helped chinese play the game and how happy they are ^.^
I feel like there’s going to be some info about what’s coming up next week. On 1st of May China gets GW2. We might get news together with that release.
suck at playing it, C) refuse to face reality.