Nope the point your missing is they clearly put that JP would be optional however if most of the living story is going to add them then that means the whole thing is nothing more then optional. So I salute anet for wasting time and money of paying players.
I think we don’t have the same definition of “optional”. You can get the 16 achievements required for the chest without doing the kites in the JP or finding the 40 crystals.
So those 3 kites tied to JP ? Fully optional. Except for achievement points.
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“And honestly, except a handful of JP, most of them don’t require a lot of coordination.”
When people come to the shop where I work & bring their broken PCs, I can answer them 70% of time: “Honestly, you do not need my services, you can do it yourselves, if you just search for right info on the Net, have patience and willing to waste bunch of your time”.
But I never say it because, being 40+ year old, I know that the time is the greatest currency in the world.
And yes, I do not buy a GAME to waste a bunch of my lifetime to do some exercises in masochism.
You didn’t understand : most jumping puzzles aren’t puzzles at all. One of them don’t require any kind of jump and dozen of others have jumps that won’t kill you.
If Anet placed something at the end of the Branded Cavern, then maybe complaining about it would be okay.
And on 7 kites, 3 of them aren’t even in a JP and 1 of them is an incredibly easy JP. That leaves Spekk, which can be hard, and Iron Pig which isn’t as bad at it seems. Obsidian Sanctum entirely depends on what server you are on.
Your still missing the big point here but I can’t help you figure it out if your not willing. So enjoy the game until they mess up something you like which they will.
What exactly did they mess up ? Your achievement points ?
Are you missing out on a mission or an event ? Unable to obtain a skin you desire ? Changed they way you play ?
He is right on one point. Anet said in the past that JP were optional for players. Now they are including them in most of the living story so right the best thing to do is is what night said. However I will say this right now don’t trust anet to keep anything they say.
Because the kites and the caches are really important to the living story ? I mean you really aren’t missing anything from not doing them. Except achievement points, which is approximately 500 points for all JP and achievements related to it.
And honestly, except a handful of JP, most of them don’t require a lot of coordination.
i personally like that it’s only 3 pieces.
You “like” that it’s only 3 pieces ? If it was a full armor set you would have liked it less then ?
“When it’s ready”…so cute, so this 3 piece armor was ready ?
I knew from the announcement that achievement points would give new armor skins that it was kind of lie. Sure one day we’ll get more, just like one day we’ll get the archery mini game. (And it won’t even surprise me if we get 3 pieces of armor again).
I think it’s worth mentioning the Sky-pirates update introduced a bug in the Goemm’s Lab Jump puzzle that could get players perma-banned by falling in the wrong place.
That bug wasn’t introduced in any recent update. It existed for months, had numerous threads in the bug forum and was never fixed.
Having to take a waypoint and walk back to the ship is incredibly annoying (but not as annoying as having to wait for everyone to finish the instance during the Clocktower JP…)
It’s not that they want NPC to be unique, it’s probably that they couldn’t be bothered to design a medium and heavy armor equivalent for that armor, and also a male version and some minor adjustment.
Even if a few years ago, they mentioned that we were going to be able to get every armor a NPC wears.
So the new armor is just shoulders, helm and gloves?
I hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the case…
Cathedral and Citadel aren’t located in the same place. And during the Searing, most of the Catacombs collapsed, thus the excavation teams.
But the dungeons in GW2 do feel smaller than in GW1 visually and they are actually incredibly smaller (except maybe Arah). Then again, in EotN, most dungeons were reskins of each other, you really could get lost in them and there were hundreds of monsters in those multi level dungeons.
I’ve did it with a guild team of 1 mesmer 4 guardians (so probably the easiest set up possible for this dungeon).
I didn’t even pay attention to the bit with “3 grenadiers on an itty bitty platform”.
The cannon part is…well they put a huge blind spot there. If they wanted us to fight in the “real” conditions, why do such a thing ?
Hiding behind the crates will simply make the fight way too easy. Why move around if you can just stay behind ? And you have blocks/stun breakers/stability and maybe teleport skills (didn’t try) to survive the golems.
As for the last fights, it can be annoying to get him to hit her. But she generally only shadowsteps when she is too far from players. So try to get a little bit closer to her.
And during the AoE part, if you don’t freak out and if you don’t stay close to each other, you shouldn’t have too much difficulty surviving that.
Didn’t want them to wear risque armor ? Male versions of certain armor have exposed nipples (except of course that Asura and Charr don’t have any).
They should have allowed female Asura and Charr to wear female version of armor that didn’t revolve around breasts or mini skirts, and give the male counterpart in those cases.
Well you currently have accessories recipes. But more stuff would be nice.
PUG != noob group
PUG = Pick Up Group
A pug can be coordinated and just as good as a guild group. A guild group can be horrible as a noob group.
Sadly enough, in GW2 most of the time a PuG is a noob (not newbie). Or at least that’s what I end up partying with.
In GW2, you can have 6k achievement, the dungeon master title and a legendary and still know next to nothing about playing your class in a certain dungeon. Because you can be carried by 4 other dudes. And heaven forbid you give them tips, you insufferable elitist.
But guildies can be the same.
Above is solely from damage stand point but as you know, PVE is all about DPS, dodge, and reflect. We still lack in the later two.
And cleave too (except for CoF p1).
They don’t make my characters look good, except for male light armor top which I want. But since I have to buy the other pieces too, I’m not too sure I want to buy the privilege of trowing items directly to the trash can. Unlike the fanatic armor, I can’t even wear it for fun…
I suggest everyone to buy the armor skins off the shop, it is possible that if they sell SIGNIFCANTLY more by selling the skins directly, they could change their marketing strategy to reflect it; which means this could end the RNG issue.
So we have pretty much given up on Anet making things available through regular gameplay ? I guess it’s better than we don’t have to test our luck and end up with trash, but it’s not really a good thing either.
I feel bad for the armor designers. They’ve been working on this armor for MONTHS (according to the .dat files), and people are bashing it like crazy! :’(
The armorsets aren’t bad either. In fact, they’re rather amazing! But it’s the small things which ruin it. (ANOTHER poofy trenchcoat…)
You cannot create something to please everyone. And after complaining so much that light armor have skirts nearly everywhere and medium armor have coats on nearly every single set, we get…a big skirt and a trenchcoat.
They won’t be in RNG boxes, you can simply buy it for gems in gem store, like the current skins are.
Why are you so sure ? Did I miss something ?
How about King of the Castle ?
Or Repair Master ? At least the other tasks can somewhat be fun, but repairing ? There’s nothing remotely fun in that >.>
Why does everyone automatically assume that this will only be available in the gem store ?
Take a reflect, put in in front of the trap, this will make him come close to it. Then you simply need to lift the oozes that he spawns right next to the trap. Just don’t instantly die when you go melee without reflects.
And if you don’t have any reflects : the ice balls are thrown in a flurry, so strafe. He can also throw five rings that spread out, so be careful when you fight in melee.
Well as far as PvE goes Blind is not a dps skill therefor it’s useless.
And bosses are pretty much immune to blind :/
I would love to get Critical damage with Precision like other professions have, but that would also throw off lots of the condition builds that use Precision. I think how Necro traits are set up is the reason we are able to be able to have so many different build types
I’m not too into my necromancer (well it’s my main, I did every dungeon and a few fractals but I don’t play with it when doing dungeons now that I have every other profession except ranger and engineer), but why would a condition build need precision ?
My experience with annoying and full of themselves PuGs has lead me and my guildies to search for newbies when doing dungeons. Maybe they are bad, maybe they are good, but at least they aren’t likely to have the bad habits that “experience” players have.
You can give them tips without them becoming defensive and saying something like “I know. I’ve done this a million time”.
But I do feel bad for those newbies. Because after going through a smooth run with us, they’ll probably encounter a horrible PuG, in which they’ll be asked to exploit in order to win simple fights.
I agree that this part is extremely boring. I’m pretty much afk or running around barely touching anything (and getting yelled at).
Unfortunately, like so many things in GW2, some players have a hard time with this part. And the day Anet makes it a little bit harder, those players are going to come here and complain that the made the game unplayable and that they have no reason to play this game anymore.
After a little bit of searching, it’s used for this : http://wiki.guildwars-2.ru/index.php/Mystery_Tonic :/
Re-skinned armor already?
Bleh.
Going to check when I’m done downloading the update, but it’s true that the heavy set looks like a reskin, or terribly close to one…
I know I’m always asking for new armor skins, and even if I don’t like those, at least it’s something…but why go to all that trouble of thinking about new armor skins when they have NPCs wearing armor that should have been available to players ? :/
They aren’t just rng. From the dev live stream: " Rich Dragon Coffer can be purchased from the gemstore, normal ones can be dropped in the open world."
Isn’t this also the case with southsun chests ? And the fused weapons ?
Tried to find it on reddit, but I’m not great at searching there :/ I’ll eventually get different kind of gifts to try this out, but since I don’t want any legendary, it’d be nice if I knew which gifts served no other purposes xD.
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Every single dungeon run with a PuG can be a torture. With friends it can be nice. With at least 1 friend at pugs it can be priceless (if you don’t mind wasting your time).
I don’t understand the “breaking the mechanics”. I’ll give you standing near the pillar in p3 because the NPC might need some work (like every NPC…), but aside from that, I fail to see where you need to exploit.
By saying something like “oh yeah, it seems that a gift of darkness can be used to craft something else than twilight, but they didn’t find the other ingredients”.
Or “I saw another recipe when I wanted to craft this item, but I didn’t want to try craft something I didn’t know”.
Are there any that haven’t been discovered yet ?
For example some using other gifts than light and ice ?
I wanted to be a tailor to find hidden recipes and craft town clothes…too bad there’s virtually no tailoring recipe hidden in the world. There are 2 sets of low level skins, but unfortunately they didn’t continue to add recipes for higher skins. Even if they can be obtained somewhere else, it would have been nice to be able to craft them, for cosmetics.
It’s NPC only armor, it’s also worn by that one lady in the Human storyline.
It’s NPC only armor because they couldn’t be bothered to make it available to players (they could have made it racial armor, instead of the T1 light armor set…).
And it’s pretty easy to see that : every trainer is wearing an armor that can be worn by players. Except one.
What bothers me with the way some skins are added is that it doesn’t make you play the game differently, taking you to new places. Instead you farm whatever you can (CoF because it seems it survived all the nerfs) then buy the item on the TP. No questing, no event, no running around to new places. Just farm for gold and buy it.
And then the RNG boxes take it to another level. You want to farm one ? It’s more efficient to farm and convert to gems, instead of wasting your time farming something rare hoping it gives you something extremely rare.
1. Many of the dungeons are Empty. I’ve been to AC looking for a group to get tears and NO ONE is there.
2. Since when does MMO mean 5 man instance dungeons.
3. They have the knowledge to upgrade or downgrade your abilities to an area. Why not just upgrade or downgrade the dungeon to the amount of players in the party.
This would give a 2 man team a difficulty of 2/5 of the regular 5 man dungeon. So it would not be any easier for 2 than 5. So what’s the problem with this system. Oh, I know some of those players that don’t do dungeons might get a legendary weapon and not have to buy the one your selling for 2500 gold.4. You could take 10 players and do a dungeon twice as hard as the 5 man one or 25 players could do one 5 times as hard as the 5 man one.
5.And I mean real useful AI characters we could use to do the dungeons.
1. Post of LFG. That might not be the solution you are looking for right now, but it’s the best one.
2. Since GW1 playerbase complained that 8 persons was too much, so they lowered it to 5.
3. Difficulty isn’t just a matter of tweaking health and damage. You have to take into account the different monsters abilities or their numbers relative to the number of players, and dungeons mechanics.
If they somehow manage to transfer the same difficulty for only 2 players, don’t think that it will become a walk in the park. With 5 players you have 4 people helping you. When you do down, you can instantly get back up.
With only one helper, if you go down you are pretty much dead because if your teammate comes to save you, who’s going to make a diversion so he won’t also die ?
4. More players doesn’t mean harder. Past a certain number difficulty is only a matter of communication. Just look at any meta group events : tons of players, more than half not knowing the mechanics and bashing their heads against the boss, but they still win the fight in the end, sometime without even dying.
5. Due to the nature of combat in GW2, they won’t be able to develop AI that’s intelligent enough to know when to save you, when to dodge, when not to attack, which skills to use and when.
Solo dungeons didn’t fail in Guildwars 1 (they were very popular) why would they then fail in Guildwars 2…
Yes they would just scale down the mobs and difficulty and then make the bosses vets… Similar to jump puzzle mobs..
3 months later xD
I’m having a bit of trouble remembering solo dungeons in GW1. I remember solo missions and Keiran’s missions. And they were made for only one player in mind.
Jump puzzle mobs do not scale, or barely at all. And scaling bosses to veteran would make everything trivial….if you can’t even kill a veteran on your own, you have some problems >.>
Some Scelerite and Jade weapons look nice, but not nice enough for me to become crazy due to RNG (even if it was in a end dungeon chest, like in GW1, I wouldn’t really farm it).
- The spider queen will not use her most dangerous attack (Poison pools) if you are all in melee. (If she did use it, stacking would probably kill you all nigh instantly)
Are you sure about this one ?
We never stack on that spot, but we all fight in melee, and she likes to throw her poison pools at us. Even if there’s only one survivor in melee, she might do it sometime >.>
P1 is variable, but it’s generally horrible because players completely spread out, making adds a real trouble after a few minutes.
P2 doesn’t seem to bug as much now, but my PuGs rarely think about bringing a reflect.
And I think they fixed P3, not sure. But I haven’t encountered a problem with the npc.
However I think there are still some exploits, from what my guildies tell me. But I don’t know for sure, because the only time I go to AC is when I have at least 2 guildies to make sure that we don’t have to exploit in order to play the game.
The 3 campaigns : wipe = kick
EotN : wipe = ressurect
DP removal might have been added as soon as during the first wintersday, but it become extremely more common when HM and getting kicked for having 60% DP was added…
The entire arugment was that with time Anet decided to slowly give people more chance than “one screw up”.
GW2 has the worst community because everything can be achieved even if you play terribly bad, with the lowest dps possible, at range, with 5 staff guardians using full PVT gear and turn a 15 minutes run into a 1 hour long run. This game needs a mechanic akin to “enrage” timers. In MMO with enrage timers if you don’t perform the boss will wipe the group. It exists precisely because you shouldn’t be able to complete content just sitting on the bunkiest build spamming your autoattack and heal at range.
Every single end boss in this game should have it seeing how this community tends to perform.
What GW1 had was more drastic : wipes. If your entire team dies, you are kicked from the instance. That was during release of course, then Anet became soft and allowed players to revive until everyone got 60% Death Penalty and then kick them. But then they introduced items that removed DP from yourself and then from everyone…making some runs last more than 3 hours :/
Another thing in GW2 that is not helping the players is that it’s sometime hard to realize how bad you are. And by “bad” I don’t mean dying from time to time, it can happen. I mean using useless or at least not great weapons/skills, awful positioning and either dodging too much or wondering how you dodge in this game…And when those players who are kind of bad find a good team, they think that everything is fine : monsters are going down, people aren’t dying (too much) but what they don’t know is that the run could be better…
I don’t mean that everyone should be a berserker warrior. Play what fits your playstyle…but honestly, how does using a scepter as a guardian fits any kind of playing style ?
This isn’t a jab at Cameirus. But these days, most guardians I end up with use their scepter with a shield (blowing all monsters away of course) and sometime use their staff…What the hell is up with that ? If you want to play support, bring a hammer and some shouts, but stop throwing blue bubbles at monsters.
Or a Warrior using a riffle all the time : why play a warrior to use a riffle ? I’m sure the engineer can fill your needs.
(And I even want to say that as Ranger you should melee because more damage, but if you play a ranger, it’s probably because you want to shoot some arrows, so I’m letting this one slip).
I have the memory of a goldfish sometime >.> I completely forgot about the SAB (even if I loved the skins, but didn’t even get to buy one because of work) and the guild missions.
I guess all those talks about tickets, and the new Dragon Bash skins made me focus on that xD.
i beleave in a Dev post that it takes to much reasorces to make a armor skin because it needs to be for light medimum and heavy and also you got to take in acount for race and clipping issues. a weapon is easy to bring to the table.
But a hundred weapon sets isn’t worth 1 armor set for players who don’t really care about their weapons :/ (or who at least found the one they love)
I kind of don’t really care about all the weapon skins, but correct me if I’m wrong, during the past months, how many weapon skins were introduced and how many could only be obtained through BLCs ?
What needs to happen is to make the system more solid to make exploits a lot less easy to pull off (although I can imagine this being quite difficult to fix). The harder it is to exploit, the less people will try it. Up the dungeon rewards to match the time + risks vs. rewards ratio (and/or lower open world rewards). Have less annoying mobs that use constant CC spam on players and have less HP. Have bosses with more interesting mechanics.
Look at AC. Bosses got new mechanics, monsters have less health and I think that making players carry skills against CC is a good thing.
And what changed ? Almost nothing : everything is still skipped, and players try to exploit bosses.
Oh and because players aren’t bothering to try to understand the new mechanics, they complain that some bosses cannot be beaten without exploiting.
The problem with monsters health is that you have to find the middle ground between 4 Berserker Warriors + 1 Mesmer and a team with Rangers, Necromancers and Engineers in it, and some of them not at level 80 with full exotics/ascended, because no matter how great the boss’ mechanics are, if he dies in 8 seconds, it doesn’t matter.
I just wished Anet was a little faster to fixing some exploits, especially when some “simply” require to remove a boulder, or add one to block the path.
Exploiting or cheap tactics annoy me to the extent that if I’m not with 2 other guildies I won’t even bother joining a PuG for any dungeons.
It’s not that I like to play fair, it’s that I like to do things efficiently. And doing an exploit with a PuG won’t be smooth : some members won’t know the exploit, some won’t want to do it, taking away more time than if it had been done normally.
Then there are those cheap tactics/exploits against bosses…Just melee the boss instead of shooting your puny arrows. It’s like with Frost…just run around him in melee range, it’s way easier than trying to run around him from afar. Oh that’s right, PuGs tend to range him on the boulder.
“But I’ll die if I try to melee” well we all died when we started playing, but some of us learned the mechanics, dodge and use the necessary skills for surviving while killing the boss. And when players exploit, they learn nothing at all. Or worse, some warriors think that a riffle is a good choice every time, no matter what his team is fighting.
Dungeons can be incredibly easy and smooth. But some PuGs that got bored of bashing their head against a monster/boss like idiots, decided that exploiting was the only reasonable solution, making those incredibly easy dungeons a pain to do.
However skipping mobs isn’t an exploit. If Anet wants us to kill every monsters, they would be clear about it.
The rubric set can be found in PvE, but it’s probably one of the rarest thing. I found the chest piece in Fields of Ruin back in september.
I’ll all for new armor sets, and even more for armor sets that are already in the game but cannot be found (or are a little too rare).
It’s been a while since Kohler was nerfed. It was when they changed AC.
Anet doesn’t want players to have to play through the story in order to be able to do dungeons. Nor do they want them to have to make choices that will render them unable to play certain contents of the game.
But yeah, as of right now, it doesn’t really feel like you belong to any kind of order.