Guild Wars 2

Name: Ridley
Main Character: Sereth Stonevine (Though I go between a lot of alts too)
Current Server: Piken Square
Interested Activities: Events, Roleplay, Chatting, Fractals (Occasionally)
Active: Most days, usually afternoons and evenings (GMT)
Additional Comments: My main guild has lost a fair few players through lack of interest, so it will be nice to have a good number of people to talk to and play the game with.

Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S project, Y/N?: Yes!

You could always put your miniature into an invisible bag, that way it isn’t put into your collectables when you deposit them all

The top half isn’t that bad (Basically the half with very little dredge), it’s the southern half which is awful. Not only are Dredge pretty tough, they’re packed really tightly together and the suits are -really- tough to solo. The vista in that huge dredge mining cave is sadistic, and it’s annoying that another vista -requires- a jumping puzzle to get to, and there’s -another- jumping puzzle after that (meaning a JP which requires a JP to even get to).

Cooking or Artificing (If you level through making potions). Jeweling isn’t too bad either if you got a fair bit of metal.

Agreed, especially bad for roleplayers as it’s hard to create a personality for my characters when the Personal Story forces one upon them. Really jarring for characters who are evil/just kittens.

The Pale Reaver that dies actually really made me upset, you see her a fair bit in one of the Sylvari storylines, but I’ve also seen her in at least three other storylines on non-Sylvari characters. I’ve found the deaths in Orr are much more ‘effective’ when you’ve played through on a few different characters, made different choices and the like, since you see much more of most of the NPCs you meet in Orr: Elle, Zott, Jayne, Tegwyn, Galina, Snarl, and some others I can’t remember off the top of my head.

I agree, Doern is smoking hot, isn’t he?

More on-topic though, while I love all three Orders, Whispers is probably my favourite, Tybalt being my favourite of the mentors (Even though I love both Sieren and Forgal too), he has the best voice actor in the game in my opinion, and is just so…adorable! Demmi is also a really well-written character too in my opinion. I agree that they could have revealed the Master a bit better, but it wasn’t that bad.

Trehearne however is an abysmal character, as has been said loads in other threads. Worst, most boring VA in the game, which is odd considering everyone finds him really inspiring and charismatic, he’s just mono-tonal and dull. He also just kinda barges into the story as a minor character, rapidly becoming the leader of the only army with a chance against Zhaitan, despite having -no- previous military experience; the player character would have made much more sense, and Trehearne would suit being an adviser a lot better.

In my opinion my favourite part of the Personal Story is the 1-20 bit, the race-based stories which are determined when you make your character. After that it’s the 30-40 part where you help your Order, and Orr is easily near the bottom, some really good quests, but too many god-awful ones (Underwater Cathedral anyone?)

1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁸
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁷
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ⁵
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ⁸
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – ²
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ²
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁵
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ³
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – ³

Have the same problem, the tank works for a while, then the turning kicks me out, when I jump back in it’s turned all the way in one direction so pretty much useless, and trying to turn it back does the same thing. I’ve tried killing the risen without the tank but it’s far too dangerous and they seem to just endlessly respawn.

vox.5019:

UnderdogSMO.9428:

well considering the only content that use’s that is some endless dungeon with the entire point to grinde out said gear to make it further into said endless dungeon i don’t really consider that being locked out.

If the only point to the dungeon was to get gear to go further into the dungeon then why play it? That’s not the case, there will be high-end rewards that are not related solely to the dungeon. And to get to them you need to get to the higher levels of the dungeon requiring as much infusion as you can get.

And for the zillionth time, this update only includes backpacks and rings because the rest isn’t ready. When they are done there will be ascended items for every slot. I don’t know why people keep arguing that it’s only backpacks and rings.

Vox, again you make things up to reinforce your paranoid whining. -Nowhere- has it stated that the rewards you’ll get deep in the dungeon will be unrelated to the dungeon, it makes more sense if anything to assume the bigger pieces of gear (chestpiece, weapons) will be at the bottom. The point of this will mean the dungeon will be slightly easier to recomplete, same reason in WoW the last boss of a raid drops high level gear.

vox.5019:

This is not a simple case of “if you don’t like infusion don’t play the dungeon.” Many of us have been waiting for the return of challenging elite areas like we had in GW with elite rewards. What we get is mini-WoW complete with a fresh gear grind every time new raid content is released. If we wanted that, we’d be playing that. If you wanted that, why did you come to a game that had all of its pre-release marketing saying it wouldn’t be that and was the successor to a game that didn’t increase its gear stats for 7+ years?

Where exactly did it say they’d be adding more sets after Ascended? Most of this backlash is all assumption.

kistell.5684:

Celle.2716:

Booning.5476:

UnderdogSMO.9428:

gwawer.9805:

To the people who are saying “I didn’t buy this game to grind dungeons I just wanted to stroll about in the world and do my thing and enjoy dynamic events la la la”…

Are you actually doing that? Are you actually going back to zones and re-experiencing the events and the world? Or is this just an ideal that you wish you could do, but never actually could get yourself to do?

Maybe this is why Anet is being flexible now with their original philosophy, because they see that despite their own ideals of having players go out into the world and just “having fun” people simply don’t do that anymore.

People never Did. i mean hell look at the RPG’s of yeaster year they were FAR more “grindy” than this game.

even game’s like mario yes you never had gear you needed to progress but you still needed to gather your little extra live’s and beet each level one by one and if you died OMG you had to start all the way over from the begaining.

most gamer’s look for some form of progression in there game’s whether it be level to level ((to see the end)). Gear/stat upgrade’s.

I have no problem with Gear progression as long as it never becomes as steep as what we see in WOW

I just potter about having fun with the content. Never set foot in a dungeon ( instance with single group of players is not epic to me – it just feels small)

Looks like my money is no longer required by anet. No worries – will find something else to spend my spare cash on… Gin maybe?

When you don´t run dungeons, why would you want that kind of gear? oO It´s not required to play as usual.

Who do you care what some one else wants in their game and on their char?
Trolling is an art you fail at on so many lvls

People throw around the word ‘troll’ now as a general insult to people who don’t agree with them, it’s silly. He’s not being a troll, he’s not saying the person can’t play the game whatever way they want.

What he’s saying is that the -only- content where you’ll need this gear is the new dungeon, which is likely to be the same place where you actually -get- the gear. If you don’t do dungeons, you wont be doing this and so you won’t need Ascended gear. Exotics, Rares, heck, even Fine gear is enough to clear pretty much all other content.

And before someone brings up WvW, exotics are almost on par with Ascended, the numbers on them are so similar that skill is what will determine who’s better there.

Creslin.1758:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I read the blogpost again and noticed a little detail:

Ascended items (rings, backback) do not have a rune-slot. Rune-stats are worked into the item.

So unless you want to spec for a very specific way these items might not be as useful as one might think. Technically the new tier has better stats, (which is normal for a new tier) BUT those stats are given and can’t necessarily be individualized to go well with your build. You might want an Exotic Ring instead of a Ascended, depending on your build.

It’s bad though that it looks like we have to go to the new dungeon in order to get the Ascended Ring in the first place. The mats for infusion are probably the rewards for getting farther in the dungeon (which would make sense) and balancing will be much easier for Anet if the players stats aren’t random but given (through the new Ascended items) —> much easier to finetune difficulty for really difficult encounters.

If you look at the stats on the ascended ring vs. the exotic ring…the stats on the ascended are significantly better than the exotic, even considering the gem slotted.

What rings were -you- looking at? I see +5 Power, +5 Precision and +3% Magic Find, hardly enough to be called ‘significantly better’. The gem stats are built into the ascended ring because the slot you get on it will likely only be able to hold very specific bonuses which will probably only be effective in that new dungeon.

It’s annoying when trying to get around (especially in Orr), but my main gripe with it is in Jumping Puzzles. Because they felt the need to cram mobs in so many of them, if you get into combat with one and then jump to another platform/another level, the mob evade-bugs but you’re stuck in combat with it until you relog, really annoying to have to do that repeatedly in some of the JPs.

Most asura have amazing voices, especially the males, Zott’s voice is awesome.

But Trehearne, yes, dullest voice I’ve ever heard in a video game.

Indeed, the number next to the down arrow is what your level now is, confusing I admit.

The trick with that quest is to kill the floating weapons circling him. If you aggro them, you can run behind a pillar and since the Mouth doesn’t move, you can kill them on their own. Once they’re all dead the NPCs insta-res and you can nuke down the Mouth until he summons more floating weapons, the NPCs die and you can just do the same again. Not too hard if you do it this way.

I think you mean Gendarran Fields, the level 25-35 human zone? And since it shows the shortest route, depending where you are the route can often be dangerous. You should approach Snowden Drifts from the east, Wayfarer Foothills, then make your way through the zone.

Totally agree, I find it -really- hard to see the red rings around enemy AoE as well as around traps. My partner was so surprised at first as to how I kept running blindly into them and complaining when I died.

I can agree with that, if they made hearts and events a bit harder and put more emphasis on learning tactics that are required in dungeons, possibly from a tutorial area, it would help a lot, though I still think that trash health pools and damage could be reduced by about 20-30% for story mode.

I know this thread has probably been made before, but I couldn’t find a thread myself that I felt was general enough to just post my thoughts on dungeons, so I made this.

I personally believe after having ran a couple of dungeons and seeing changes ANet have made to dungeons since release, that the difficulty they want dungeons to be is too high. The very fact there are two modes (Story and Explorable) should mean that one is easy and doable by nearly all players, and the other is harder and meant to provide better rewards and challenge for those that want it. I even read before release that this was the case.

I was excited when my guild got together to try Ascalonian Catacombs (Story Mode) and the difference in difficulty from levelling/events was -huge-, getting 2-shotted, running back, getting 2-shotted again. I understand it’s going to be harder, and practice makes perfect, so after using my dodging more and focusing more on survivability things did get a little better, but we were still getting killed loads and most trash fights ended up being zergs from the waypoint. It also seemed stupid that the actual bosses were a lot easier than the trash, which have too much health and could do with having their damage reduced.

It being the first dungeon I really got a blow to my self-esteem at this, if i’m doing so badly here, I’ll never be able to do the ones later on. Then I heard that apparently Caudecus’ Manor was easier, so we headed there. Unfortunately, it was right after ANet buffed the place and we ended up in much the same situation there, wipe after wipe after wipe until we gave up and all felt like crap with a fair amount of silver wasted on repair bills.

I’m all for explorable mode being really tough and all, but Story Mode is supposed to be the easier version open to everyone, but it’s so difficult already, and from what I’ve heard from others, there’s no difficulty curve going through the dungeons in turn, apparently the difficulties of the dungeons are a bit random as you gain access to new ones. And before people say I should just get better gear, I had pretty good gear for my level when I tried these dungeons, it shouldn’t be a ‘requirement’ to be decked out in on-level-rares to be able to finish these.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that Story Mode dungeons should be made easier, as it scares off a lot of people new to them and is frankly too difficult.

My problem with the Personal Story is that the difficulty curve isn’t so much as curve and a line that randomly zigzags. It’s mostly luck in what choices you make and if they lead to ‘that one quest’, as there are quite a few quests which are far harder than the others.

The early human one to stop bandits poisoning the well springs to mind, I did it with a friend and we both had pretty decent gear and we still both died loads to the neverending waves of bandits spawning. The equivalent quests you’d do with the other human origin options weren’t nearly as hard and were much more enjoyable. The worst thing about this is that this quest is a choice, the other option to save your friend was a ridiculously easy quest in comparison.

I also agree that class can alter the difficulty a fair but, doing story quests on my warrior or guardian is a lot easier than on my mesmer or elementalist, even with similar gear and traits.

I love fighting Branded, Ghosts, Nightmare Court and Sons of Svanir (or any hostile norn, though they’re rare outside of these guys).

Can’t stand Krait, Gryphons and getting bored of Centaur. I also can’t stand having to fight Quaggan, though that’s because they’re too cute, even if they are corrupted by Jormag.

The problem quite simply is that a lot of people have their own logic when creating a character, and refuse to open their mind to anyone else’s logic, hence why often people get so defensive about their character and accusing others of being somehow ‘wrong’ for making their character different to their’s. Quite frankly the whole point of character creation is to make who you want, a guy playing a guy, a girl playing a girl, a guy playing a girl, a girl playing a guy, a human playing an asura, and asura playing a charr (Okay so that last one is unlikely to come up too often), it doesn’t matter and it’s quite frankly none of their business.

It’s down to personal choice anyhow, some people want to look at something attractive, some people want to play as someone more relatable, some people want to escape from reality and play something completely different, that’s pretty much it.

To make him spawn you need to complete an event chain that begins completely randomly. There’s no way to start this manually and it isn’t on a timer. People have said he’s popped every 30 mins on their realm, and others haven’t seen him for a whole day, it seems you’re just unlucky.

I really don’t see what’s wrong with asking for this, people aren’t awful people for being concerned about getting an achievement they’ll need to wait a year to complete. Yes, there’s a hurricane and obviously it’s important to prepare as much as you can and ensure you’re loved ones are safe. Then what? Should they huddle together in the dark while the hurricane blows around them like on TV? No, more likely they’ll want to distract themselves from it. And this is coming from someone not affected by it so you know.

Also, I can’t see what would be so difficult about adding some NPC in Lion’s Arch for a few days after the end of Halloween who teleports players to the Mad King’s Party (Which seems to be Act 4). I mean it can’t be that hard to code surely.

Found one at the Inquest base in south-eastern Mount Maelstrom. Being a condition-specced mesmer on my own though, had no hope of bringing him down. Still, he dropped a blue on the floor before he escaped, and you get an achievement when he turns you into a baby siamoth.

Reminds me a lot of the treasure goblins in Diablo III.

Your failure -is- only funny if you try.

Ugh, I remember that place, Inquest -everywhere-, not to mention if I recall correctly, the things themselves take ages to destroy if you’re on your own.

Aye, looking at the patch notes lately, they don’t seem -too- much in a hurry to fix the -many, many- bugged events in this game. It’s gotten so bad that about half of the meta-events I see as I level are bugged, and they’re meant to be the more epic and exciting ones.

Until they focus more on fixing events,. they really need to go back to resetting servers every night.

Aye, I was very surprised at the severe lack of seating in this game anyway, coupled with the fact that you have to manually sit on chairs, and many /sits don’t suit sitting on a chair at all. WoW’s system is good because your chair sit suits being on a chair, and your /sit suits sitting on the floor.

I don’t understand why we don’t have English servers. I mean they could just turn 3 or 4 of the ‘european’ servers into English ones, that way people on the european servers can still speak their languages, but people who find it annoying to not understand people on map chat have a place they can go. I mean if german-speaking people get their own servers, why can’t english-speakers?

Please add more things to spend skill points on, as not all of us use the Mystic Forge. I’ve got 100+ Skill Points and nothing to use them on, I can’t even buy the mystic forge items to sell and make money because they’re account-bound.

I know it was ANet’s intention to bring endgame to all levels, but the side-effect of that is that upon reaching level 80, you don’t really unlock -anything-. Pretty much all level ranges have access to Events, Hearts, Skill Challenges, Vistas, sPvP, WvW, even world bosses, which is great, but it makes level 80 feel empty. I mean all we really unlock are dungeons and new zones to travel in, but it would be nice to add something new that only level 80s could do, even if it’s rather small, because once getting to 80, getting decent gear and getting 100% world completion, there’s not much else to really do (beyond grinding for even better gear).

I understand that you want to rush to the ‘funner’ and more popular events, but you’ll just have to level to get there. I’m not surprised ArenaNet have made it so that a level 4 can’t do events in a level 80 zone, because it makes no sense.

Regarding the more random timing of when he can spawn, I get the feeling that all that would do is get guilds to send people into the zone every 10 minutes to check up on him, or at least always have a member ‘stationed’ there.

I’ve had this problem in the past too. A couple of the renown heart NPCs in Bloodtide Coast refuse to sell me their wares if an event is up nearby, one even refused to accept the pirate outfits I needed to hand in to him because an event was happening.

Can’t remember their names but it was the old guy at one of the pirate bases (As said before, you gotta hand pirate outfits in to him), and an asura on the beach overlooking the underwater Inquest Lab.

Just don’t make a Mesmer and you should be fine.

You really shouldn’t choose your profession based solely on farming DEs, it should be based on what class you find the most fun. However, in my experience the best classes with strong, instant AoE attacks are Warrior, Guardian and Elementalist.

Agreed, no idea why she’s ten times harder than any other events boss in the zone, and a boss this hard in a 1-15 zone is just silly, new players are going to lose a lot of self-esteem from repeatedly dying. (Same problem as the fire elemental in Metrica Province).

I myself have only beat her once with 3-4 other people, by waypoint zerging, and by the end we were all naked.

“If you’re curious about MoP then GW2 is by far not the game for you.
People who even remotely consider traditional MMOs as an option for their entertainment don’t belong to GW2.”

God forbid anyone should be able to find both games fun. Yeesh, all you’re doing with this statement is alienating a lot of the player base. I myself am currently playing both.

I agree, like when you dual-weild pistols and still only bother firing one, it’s pretty stupid.

It’s a really tough subject. On one hand I empathise that you find it more difficult/impossible, but on the other hand I don’t want to see them removed or made easier, since the challenge is one of the main points to them.

Also, if they were removed from map completion, there’d be much less incentive to do them and many people wouldn’t bother.

There’s no game-mechanics need for mounts with waypoints around (Though waypoints should be cheaper at max level than they are now). I suppose it wouldn’t be too bad if it was only for vanity purposes, but they’d have to fit with the setting, no dragons flying around, just horses/golems/druids.

Karma sets from Orr are stupidly expensive. 42,000 karma for a single piece of equipment is just ridiculous, I rarely ever bought anything with karma while levelling, and after getting to 80 and spending a couple days just doing events in Orr to see what they were like, I could barely afford one piece. They should be a third of the cost they are now, it would be a very tedious grind to get a set.

Sounds pretty good. WoW have the good ol’ equipment manager where you set entire outfits and can switch between them in a click, and of course you can’t switch in combat.

Totally agree with the first one, RPing in taverns is awkward now as you have to just mill around the middle of the room.

I don’t think he’s asking for dyes to be easy to craft, just easier than they are now. Halving the mat cost would do this well I think, and still make them cost a fair bit to make.

I mean as it is now, you could be putting 50 of three different mats together, and ending up with a dye that you could buy on the trading Post for 50 copper.

Cooking is awesome and by far my favourite discipline, but I admit the dye-making part of it is a bit meh. I’ve never made any because the mats are so expensive/rare. I mean some of them can only be gotten from one or two patches in the world, and you need 50 per dye! That’s crazy.

I can doubly confirm this for frostbrood wolves, they tear through me in moments.