Guild Wars 2

Meanwhile for the newcomers I don’t think it’s fun to wipe and stay in the dungeon several hours. It can be very dissuasive for them to play dungeons.
You can say whatever you want about end game, if nobody but 1% play it it’s a failure and it’s not the 1% elitist that will keep the game alive.

The game is fun, at least for me. I randomly bought it out of boredom because I didn’t have anything to play. To be honest I thought it would be more like a GW1.5 with static boring combats so that I finish the story and never play it again.
I was wrong, I really love this game and unlike GW1, I’ll buy the expansions of GW2.

I miss nothing. GW1 wasn’t so great to make me buy the expansions.
GW2 suits me better.

+1 for OP.
It’s a pain to find a group for story mode so why not add henchmens ?
And it’s also a pain to find a group without using a specific external website…
You do realize that newcomers don’t really know it right ?

@Dub
My apologies, I didn’t pay attention to your name, the way you wrote your post I felt it was the OP speaking lol

Dub.1273:

He just killed me with his ranged projectiles in melee. NERF PLZ IMPOSSIBLE.

You never beat him and you expected to go melee him ?

People, please. Stop saying be patient, pray the gods of wubwub to change your color. When something depends more of your server than your own efforts it’s broken.
Juste like when the monthly had the invaders kill.
Exploration en PvE can be done in let’s say several weeks if you play moderately. But WvW exploration must take months ? Come on guys, that’s not serious.

This game is very limited if you play it like a solo RPG, sure there is lots of things to do but once you crush the content you just come to the forum posting “now what to do ?”.

@Op
here my thoughts : I didn’t think that GW1 was a so great game. I only played the 1rst game and didn’t bother buying the expansions. The story was so remarkable that I can’t tell you what it was anymore (though I don’t really like the story of GW2 that much).
I tried GW2 cause I had nothing to do after holidays and I’ll gladly buy the future expansions, I really love the foundations of this game, I really love the dynamic fights of this game.
You can’t tell that everyone that loved GW1 hate GW2. Half of my guildies have GWAMM or champion of god title and they play everydays.

You just forgot that in Cof you also earn enough tokens to buy two yellows when you’re done with your berserk gear long ago.

When I see the revamped version of AC, I’m now expecting the worse for the future revamp of dungeons.
Pre patch, AC was more like a guild activity which reunite lvl 80 and new players at lvl 35 who bought the game recently and joined my guild.
Just don’t expect all these new gamers to play at progamer level when they still have so much to learn and discover about their classes.
Revamped AC is just a fail and no one in my guild propose it anymore.
I even prefer do a run at Arah path 3 with the right difficulty for a real lvl 80 dungeon.

Hello, I don’t know when it started, but recently when I’m doing dungeons with people from others servers sometimes :

- They don’t see every members pictures. The party is full, they can see physically the people but don’t see 2 or 3 people’s lifebar/picture unless they leave and rejoin. It makes people believe the party isn’t full.

- They can’t enter dungeons unless they disconnect and relog.

- For fractals, sometimes they or I see that the fractal level is 0 at the gate in LA when it’s actually more when we’re inside.

It was fair to nerf it in PvP because people have between 13000-19000hp, but it wasn’t so op in PvE when dungeon bosses have more than 1 000 000hp like in Arah…
Nerf the health pool of mobs, not the skills…

Here we go again with the “because it’s broken in PvP we must nerf it in PvE”…
I thought PvP was clearly separated from PvE…

Well, I prefer double tap because I’m used to fighting games. I’m used to dash and back dash by double tap very fast with stick/gamepad.

Thanks for answering, the daily chest with rare was just a suggestion but true it may broke further the economy.
I think it would be fine then if we could just have 20-40 extra tokens for the revamped versions of the future dungeons coming.

@Robert Hrouda
I suggest you do like this to make everyone agree and happy for AC :
Story mode lvl 30 : no changes
Exploration mode lvl 35 : the old AC
Exploration hard mode lvl 80 : the revamped version with no DR on tokens.
If DR it gives something like 100 or 80 tokens then 60 then 20.
Or maybe give a guaranteed daily rare/exotic at the end of the path.
Or maybe add T6 to the loot tables, so that no one dares skip mobs anymore or doing short dungeons (Cof ?) or camping Cursed shores

With that, it will feel more end game if you clearly explicite that it’s easier for lvl 80.

I’m just sad that currently AC isn’t part of my guildies activities anymore, now they prefer just doing the world bosses, no risks decent rewards. If your goal was to make the dungeons deserted, then ignore my post.

Iehova.9518:

Riss.1536:

True, but I don’t want to be forced partying for farming.

Have fun soloing dungeons for your 500 tokens.

Yeah… Whatever… I already have all the gifts except the gifts of grinding T6…

Heijincks.9267:

Riss.1536:

mmm… I knew Anet would nerf the rewards somehow… So I will do extra efforts to gather the 250 ectos for my legendary before the nerf.

Getting dungeon tokens from CoF and up, then buying cheap rare gear with them (a hat costs 30 tokens) is just as good if not better.

CoF is already cakewalk, HoTW a bit harder but still cakewalk, CoE is cakewalk, but I’d avoid Arah.

True, but I don’t want to be forced partying for farming.

mmm… I knew Anet would nerf the rewards somehow… So I will do extra efforts to gather the 250 ectos for my legendary before the nerf.

Against randomizing… Don’t listen to people who aren’t trying to get their legendaries or to upgrade their ascended backpack, they have absolutely no clues of the pain to gather ectos…

Good idea but I think it would make some classes more broken.
It would just be warriors as the main class and the utilities of others classes.
I already know I would create a warrior with the utilities of a guardian to be OP.

I admit this monthly was decent because there was no group dependant tasks (dungeons) or server dependant tasks (kills in WvW when your server is dead).

critickitten.1498:

Exotics may be quick to obtain if you buy them from the TP, but that requires grinding the gold (or playing the TP).

It’s true that you can grind for cosmetics, but you’re also grinding for stats in this game from the moment you hit Lvl 80, as you try to find or buy better gear. Yes, it’s nowhere near as bad as other MMOs, something I also know from experience. But it’s still a grind.

Dude, support me. I’m gonna create a game where there is no money and decent gears come with no efforts in your mailbox. That’s your definition of genuine no grind right ?

“Charrs need no gods”

Tell me OP, was your friend one of the “I’m full exo and I have nothing to do anymore” guy ?

Vayne.8563:

Xericor.9103:

I missed this..

So effectively this means they are saying ‘go repeat X(fractals/dungeons etc) over and over and over’, and in the same breath saying we are not allowing you to ‘repeat Y(big event), over and over’.

On one hand I can see where they are coming from, they don’t want people getting good stuff, easy, by repeating the same fight. But they want us to repeat the same grind over and over elsewhere, for longer, with less reward…

Repeating a fractal takes time and some amount of skill. Repeating a dragon event means standing there with a zerg and getting a reward for a few minutes of your time and pretty much no real effort. And the reward you get from the dragons is actually more than you’d get from running a fractal. You get at last 3 items, and in many cases more. So it’s like running three fractals or an entire level.

People who run fractals are actually doing something. People who farm dragons want easy loot.

The problem with easy loot is what it does to the economy long term. Much of the stuff from the fractals is account bound. That’s not true from the dragon chests.

People complained that they were getting blues and Anet fixed it. People want free loot all day every day and that Anet can’t provide.

If you want loot, play the game.

So you want everyone to play the same way as you for being rewarded ?
Everyone must do fractals to earn cash ?
Fractals weren’t meant for that, it rewards you with ascended stuff and it’s fine.

Winfernal.9208:

Riss.1536:

They have a higher chance, it’s not guaranteed but now it’s decent.
Yesterday Destructor gave me 3 yellows, and Tequalt 1.
Enjoy before whiners mass want nerfs.

I know it’s fun to get 3 yellows with no to little effort. But do you know what would be even more fun?! Getting 3 yellows after a relativily difficult fight!

In my humble opinion!

I’m done with temples fight with only greens or blues after 30 min of wipes.

They have a higher chance, it’s not guaranteed but now it’s decent.
Yesterday Destructor gave me 3 yellows, and Tequalt 1.
Enjoy before whiners mass want nerfs.

Ursan.7846:

The 6 locations they are in had lots of people. Which is great. But what about the locations not there? The world is big, but you’re concentrating a big portion of it onto 6 specific spots. That isn’t good for the “open world.”

Still, that’s better than sticking only to cursed shores.

HiddenNick.7206:

Riss.1536:

You know what ? I’m going to enjoy the world events before anet nerf the chests to oblivion in the next update.

I rather would hope that they improve rewords for other stuff before i’m bored to death while doing the same things over and over again.

No one forces you to do these things over and over again. That was BEFORE when you could farm it several times a day.
As for the broken economy, I couldn’t care less cause I’m playing mainly self-loot. The ectos I never buy, always had it by salvaging.

You know what ? I’m going to enjoy the world events before anet nerf the chests to oblivion in the next update.

And here I was trying the rez guardian skill on dead people wondering why it never worked.
At least Anet won’t try to nerf the skills.

And again a whine thread… Please Anet stop the new contents and make it a console game with no evolutions…

Yeah but if it’s the stats you wanted it doesn’t work.

Dangerkips.6035:

I get that. But some people like to have actual net increase in their character’s effectiveness.

Yeah, the same people who find the game too easy. What’s the point ? To overpower easy mobs more ?

Don’t need it. Where’s the fun if you know in advance that you would take 0 hit and only one or two peoples woud take damages ?
In this game you have to be aware when you have the aggro or not, if you want to help someone who has the aggro you have bumps, interrupts or barriers.

Add the quick turnback to X to have a quick glance when there are zergs behind.
Add the undraw weapon to Up arrow to cease the kitten auto attacks when needed.
Add shortcuts for switch weapons and map on the extra buttons of my mouse.
I put all the skills and jobs skills on the numeric keypad cause I don’t know how to blindly activate the 6 to 0 skills without mistaking.
On combat, I use the mouse only when I have to vertically adujst the camera or when I activate a targetting skill.
I’d really love gamepad support for the battles cause it’s more like action RPG games.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Riss.1536:

The problem is more about the Black Lion Kit. Why the hell would I buy one at the gems store if I often salvage and get between 0 and 1 ecto ? (more often 0…). Prefer not buying and selling yellows to the market. Seriously up the kit to 75%.

Rate is around 0.8 to 0.9 ectos per salvage, so if it was 75% then you’d get even less ectos.

Currently, master kit has a 25% chance of having rare mats. Black Lion Kit has 50% chance. I want a up to 75%, that’s what I meant so I don’t think you would have less by upping the kit. Otherwise, it’s better to directly buy the ectos than to buy gems or use gold for the black lion kit.

The problem is more about the Black Lion Kit. Why the hell would I buy one at the gems store if I often salvage and get between 0 and 1 ecto ? (more often 0…). Prefer not buying and selling yellows to the market. Seriously up the kit to 75%.

Because the game feels more like an action RPG, it would be cool a native support of gamepad.
And I’d love to play the game on my big TV with a gamepad.

It would be a good thing for time killing while waiting for AFKer before dungeons.
And who never wanted to quickly duel one of their guildmate or a frend just for fun ?

If think there are a lot of people who never played GW1.

Amadan.9451:

i’m also tired of people talking about mesmer and only noticing time warps or portal.
i use portals only in jumping puzzle.
a staff mesmer is a good conditioner and almost immortal. my focus skills can reflect projectiles and every single phantasm i create regenerate allies health. i didn’t put any point in power. i’m slower than my ranger in single target pve damage, but i can solo everywhere but dungeon.
mesmer skills in general can reflect projectiles, stun, daze, create confusion, apply random conditions, remove conditions, applay boon, tranfer boon, steal boon end transfer conditions, can teleport, apply regeneration to self etc etc. and still people only thinks mesmer are portaler, speed giver and focused on power traits.

Maybe, just maybe because others classes can also do everything you said but portals and time warps…

Essence Snow.3194:

others average 30 porous bones, 0 rares 1 t6, and 0 dyes.

So true for me.

Can someone explain me the point of this thread ?

Couldn’t care less. The stats don’t make you OP, and for a long time I had yellow stuff.
Ascended were implemented to please the QQ fans of geartreadmill from the others MMORPG.
I wasn’t a big fan of fractals and now that I can have the purples with only doing the dailies it’s no big deal.
Eventually the purples may be buyable on the TP later.

UnderdogSMO.9428:

i think most people do most of there talking in guild chat

Agree. I do that.

I’m also from Northern Shiverspeaks, there is always a lot of people in LA and I’m often on the overflow…
When I go to open world, I always meet 1-3 guys doing DE, wherever the map.
When I fight dragons there’s always a lot lot of people…
Don’t you have culling or computer issues OP ?
Or maybe we don’t play in the same timezone.

okay thanks for the confirmation.