Even if base specs were bad, let’s take the ideal case u are talking about, why would players have to suffer because of it? When this expansion was advertised ANet insisted on the fact that both old and new specs would be equally powerful and have important roles. You can’t ban players for the developer’s mistakes.
shatt build? It was a very good build yet so many of you have been brainwashed by 1 broken build it;s not even funny. You know mesmers are terrible and casuals when all their wins are heavily based on just 1 copy paste build and think it’s the only one that class has to offer.
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Current bunker meta is pure cancer. I don’t know how the balancing process goes at anet and what their mentality is but this is just cancer.
Balance = “pure dps can counter pure tank” equally to “pure tank can take on a pure dps”. That is no where near the case in this game. It’s actually pure tank will almost always win vs pure dps if he doesn’t make mistakes in skill rotations.
“Seasons last for eight weeks, allowing players to earn progress in each league. At the beginning of each season, progress earned from the previous season is reset and all players start at the same division tier. Prior to each season, there will be a planned balance update. "
You compare a pure competitive game to an “all-in” game that offers pve pvp and wvw. The only way they will ever make this game even remotely “esprtz” is if they completely separate PvP from PvE from WvW and make heavy changes depending on each mode.
That will not happen.
Also their views will never grow significantly even with those changes because let’s be serious…mmo esprtz…who the hell cares..it’s like saying diet hamburger….it just doesn’t have a future. U can’t compare mmos to dotas. They are completely different.
I can just imagine a dude coming to me and saying “hey i am a pro mmo esprtz player” i would burst out laughing.
bla bla bla “i exploited with a team to legendary and i think i have skill” bla bla bla.
Get in line with the rest. At least half the diamonds and all legendaries are a statement of exploiters. Nothing else. Good thing anet put an icon near your name so we can spot u easily.
Can’t u understand it’s down to how many seasons there will be? It’s useless if they are cross season and u only get 2 seasons…because even with cross u won’t be able to get all the division passes u need.
U didn’t answer my question, if i get ruby in all seasons do i get the guarantee that i will have the backpack yes or no. Nobody….literally NOBODY can answer this question in simple terms (yes/no)?
If i made it to ruby it pretty much understood i unlocked T3 already..in fact i finished 90% of T3 i just need the daily grind + 3x division passes (which is the main problem). Problem is am i obligated (even so) to get to diamond (at least once,spanning all seasons) in order to get the backpack? Because if there are only 3 seasons that means even if u get 3 times ruby u won’t have the backpack.
As is i will need 3 (T3) + 4 (T4) division passes in order to fully finish this.
Do people need to get to diamond at least once (in any of the seasons) in order to get the backpack, YES or NO?!
Let me put it another way. If someone gets ruby in ALL seasons, does that mean he will have the backpack? (with the condition he does all other achievs and so on, not important). That’s what ppl want to know…not stuff that confuses even more.
If the answer is YES honestly you blew it with this whole backpack thing…because pvpers have absolutely no limit imposed to them in any part of the game. On the contrary they don’t need to geargrind for ascended, for fractal relics, for fractal infusions, for fractal levels and whatnot hours apon hours in order to get into fractals. In pvp u get the gear for free and can change for free. Content is much easier in perspective for them because they have no limitations.
@morrolan besides these leagues being a huge exploitfest and a joke..nothing to do with any skill what so ever, i understand his question because PvP players are not restricted in any way shape or form from getting let’s say the fractal backpack. Nothing resets there. On the other hand here it resets and forces you to exploit in order to get the backpack.
The question is how many seasons are this year. If there are 4 seasons it should be ok for anyone to get them as long as they get to ruby which is easy to get to. If not, well….for most ppl it will be impossible to get because of the resets, which make things unfair.
How many runes do u need to make a bunker build? It’s like the only viable build in pvp anyway. Anything other then that u shouldn’t even be able to join pvp.
I don’t see anything about punishment for the people who clearly exploited (and are actively exploiting if u see the daily plathora of screenshots) and already got everything they needed in the first season. So should i understand nothing will happen to them? If yes be sure any exploit that will ever appear in pvp i will take advantage of it….because i consider it a reward at this point, by your lack of action.
Hahahaha…this guy is adorable. He thinks PvP is about skill)))
No bro….it’s about how much u exploit. ANet backs that up by not doing anything about it. Stop lieing to yourself. If they wanted to fix this they could in less then a day..by just making u match/party up with people max 1 tier lower then u…or even equal.
At this point you are just lying to yourself in an effort to prove to yourself your own point….but if it makes you feel good who are we to tell you otherwise. As such should be the other way around.
Black Desert is eye candy but judging by reddit articles i’ve been keeping track of, IN IT’S CURRENT STATE they don’t have endgame, are lacking dungeons, mobs are too easy and boss fights are not that many(?). Just to know what you’re throwing yourself into. They did announced a big chunk of content being released soon so remains to be seen.
But yes….graphically it blows away all competition. Even the combat is awesome from what i’ve seen in videos. Everything you do gives you that epic feeling regardless of the class.
Regardless of how it turns out to be i will be playing that when it comes out…it’s a 1 time buy i should be dumb not to pay for that when i payed for GW2&HoT lol. GW2 reached it’s maximum potential in my opinion.
From what i know the first closed beta (NA/EU?) starts on 14th dec….we will see what’s up then i guess.
Holiday events happen in absolutely all mmos regardless of the payment model they chose. Compared to payed mmos, free mmos use these occasions to make money. It’s normal….but saying we should be thankful for something everyone does and is considered normal, is out of place. Hell..they even happen in some single player games (and most multi player games) nowadays via FREE DLC. You have to understand these type of content are vital to companies that want to keep their customers interested in their product and in most cases a means of making more money indirectly via other stuff.
LS updates are vital considering the amount of content they deliver is mediocre at best by any mmo standard. Without LS there is no reason to play if you are up to day with everything you are interested in. Again it’s an old excuse. You must not have played other mmos. Other mmos come up with very consistent content (even if you like that content or not) on an yearly basis. We had to wait for a mediocre full-priced expansion what…3 years? Yes LS was vital for them otherwise without it this game would have been gone long ago. Also through LS is a means of exciting players to buy stuff from the cash shop (again not a bad thing).
Problem about cash shop appears when the nr. of “stuff” we get in cash shop far exceeds the nr of “stuff” we get ingame just by playing.
GW2 started great…and visionary..and turned into a lackluster, with questionable goals, game.
You can not convince me an “almost exclusive cash shop” content game like GW2 makes less then a traditional 15$/month game unless you have actual numbers to show me. Until then google f2p and see how much of an income they have over p2p games and those statistics are made on games that are much lower ranking then GW2. If you consider GW2’s position the numbers increase even more.
Story was much better made. The fact that it took 1-2 days to fully finish a dragon off (compared to original on first try) deeply disappointed me. I was having a conversation with some toads and then BOOM the dude is dead. Made it all feel so lackluster.
The boss fight was cool, with the mechanics and all….but when u fight an obese trunk, all of that goes away. If a cool fight is not accompanied by a cool boss, it’s worthless IMO.
So yea..what they did well was “how they told the story”..but that story ended WAY too fast and with an anticlimactic end. Rushed almost. It was worth 1-2 LS updates not more.
Last time i checked i payed for the expansion i didn’t get it for free. If someone in your family bought you the expansion, that doesn’t mean it was free. In fact i payed as if it were a full game not an expansion…..and it’s not even an expansion worth’s content all in all at this point. This putting aside how many things they’ve broken with their new systems.
This is exactly how I feel about the state of the game. Hot? Not.
credit for the image goes to lokikaraoke from Reddit
Nailed it perfectly for me. After 1 month of an mmo expansion, i am back to doing dailies and loging off. Maxed out masteries….done 99% of what pve offers (1% left being toxic-eletism from raids and brutal separation implied by anet..who the hell cares what you like to play..u are most likely useless in a raid). And PvP? it’s the biggest joke i’ve seen in an mmo yet. I pitty the ppl who actually consider themselves pro in this PvP system.
I am considering more and more to take the path of my friends and AH my account.
All in all this expansion is “the foundation” (as they call it) of trash covered by fluff. Once you get past that fluff..the smell kicks in. And the grind..oh my god the grinding..i have never experienced such unpleasurable grinding in my whole mmo experience. Korean grinders have become “heaven” compared to this and i am not even kidding. At least those grinders are ACCESSIBLE from a time investment and an effort point of view.
wiki it. It’s used for the backpack. Doubt anyone knows about the final stage yet. Don’t worry in 1-2 weeks protected exploiting esports players should give you an answer.
Why make it hard for them? Why not just…u know….remove thief from pvp as a class. Even better..insta-ban anyone who queues with a thief in pvp. Would solve all problems instantly.
God…you ppl come up with the most tedious stuff.
Don’t worry you will be forgiven if you buy something from the gemstore.
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