Guild Wars 2

many thanks all I will try my luck tomorrow

Thanks Crise

making more sense now, the shovel allows me to dig for more bubbles I guess? I can go back into world 1 zones 1+2 multiple times can I and collect bubbles but not baubles after the first time that day?

So I can just run world 1 zone 1+2 once a day and do you think that would be enough? I need 25 bauble bubbles for backpack and 35 for a GS – that’s a lot of bubbles

Also what is the shop about? Dulfy videos unfortunately seem to presume you understand the basics and just crack on with achievements..

Thanks

I cant really jump that well – I know therefore that SAB is probably not for me but I grew up with 8 bit games so want to experience it and also really want the backpack and possibly one weapon.

Any advice on how to go about this? ive got 10 continue coins because I actually saved the ones from 2 years ago, but I don’t want to be dying all the time – I think the gist is to get to checkpoints and smash things? should I just stay in world 1 zone 1?

Finding it really hard to find Idiot guides – ive heard ther are shops in there but no idea what im supposed to do with them…

Please help!

Have you tried the Hot pvp tracks? ive heard they give more exotics and ascended boxes – to be honest im convinced that along with the nerf to ascended drops in Fractals when Hot went live that they did the s ame to Dungeon tracks – I get whites frequently these days, and very rare to get an exotic

I have got one Precursor – Chaos Gun, but other than that I may even be a little worse than you – ive never got any good exotics like Genesis – other than a weird drop twice in a row of Final Rest – nothing from Teq, 3 Ascended armor boxes 4 good rings.

Im due I tell ya!

JustTrogdor.7892:

Rococo.8347:

Noooo ;( what are my chances of getting 1 weapon and the backpack – I will eave it too the professionals after that…is it timed? because if it is, im going to have to crack open my wallet and pay inflated Auction prices if so

I suggest you read some guides on Dulfy.

http://dulfy.net/2016/03/31/gw2-super-adventure-box-2016-guide/

Thankyou – will do.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Rococo.8347:

Ive never played it and am the most unco-ordinated person on the planet

- will it give me Donkey Kong PTSD?
- will me being terrible at jumping make it a no go?

Yes and double Yes

I’ve done every JP in the game with ease and SAB makes me want to smash my keyboard into my screen. World 1 is ok, you can probably do world 1. World 2 will make you hate Gw2 and yourself and everyone around you.

Noooo ;( what are my chances of getting 1 weapon and the backpack – I will eave it too the professionals after that…is it timed? because if it is, im going to have to crack open my wallet and pay inflated Auction prices if so

Ive never played it and am the most unco-ordinated person on the planet

- will it give me Donkey Kong PTSD?
- will me being terrible at jumping make it a no go?

Titan.8215:

Hi MO, any changes to dungeons?

Not much – just a couple of achievements, one where you are required to whine plaintively in map chat for 1 full hour begging people to join your LFG that is now utterly unpopular.

If you stop whining for more than 5 minutes you lose activity participation.

If you start and fill a group only to get kicked by the people who have NOT spent an hour getting it together because they don’t consider you ‘Leet’ enough you get a ’Russian Doll ’ box.

Contains 76 bags all with a smaller chance of actually containing anything of worth than the previous one opened.

Personally im stoked.

Donari.5237:

AysonCurrax.3254:

Rococo.8347:

Please don’t tell me they just put new items in the Gem store – Dear God ive known Sociopaths with less flagrant disregard for reasonable behaviour.

There should be Razzies for Gaming , if Mo really thinks this is a full xpac he is the equivalent of Adam Sandler.

Some of the streamer reactions are on point – WP and Brasil in particular, kitten Bogotter not so much. When people like that sound sour you need to stop being so defensive and actually work yo butt off.

Today they “only” added the glider. Watch them add a full set of weapon skins nobody wants because they are ugly and in no way to related to whats going on in the game (mostly because there is NOTHING going on in the game) in about a week or two. that is the level of sensibility i expect from this company from this PR stunt onwards.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Legendary-weapons-6/page/27#post6066536

In which I asked people not to take them to task for this Tuesday’s likely glider and gave reasons why not.

There are plenty of valid reasons to be upset with this announcement and with the (so far) lack of dev followup. The bubble glider isn’t one of them, as far as I’m concerned.

Sweetheart you arnt the one who gets to decide what is valid, what is not and consequently take someone to task for it – like you have just done with me – everyone has a right here to question Anet within the forum – you do not have a right to call me out for my differing opinion.

Period.

I think he should get a new nickname, ive liked a lot that are being thrown around but im thinking:

Halfpac Mo ( a homage to Tupac Shakur)

SAB will NOT save this kitten at this point, so I hope they have more up their sleeves for April.

Please don’t tell me they just put new items in the Gem store – Dear God ive known Sociopaths with less flagrant disregard for reasonable behaviour.

There should be Razzies for Gaming , if Mo really thinks this is a full xpac he is the equivalent of Adam Sandler.

Some of the streamer reactions are on point – WP and Brasil in particular, kitten Bogotter not so much. When people like that sound sour you need to stop being so defensive and actually work yo butt off.

Dawdler.8521:

Rococo.8347:

But its fabulous large group play – and it reuses content – its win win.

No its really not. “Fabulous large group play” work only a short while when its new and everyone want to try it. HoT is the proof of that. Only simple bosses work in the long run.

Halloween is played year in year out and it has less to offer than many of the Big events in season 1.

Hot maps are not proof of anything that counters my suggestion – Hot Maps are terrible and nothing like season 1 content.

Season 1 suffered form server problems which created terrible lag etc, the actual content was sound.

A few content release stats since Hot went Live:

Gemstore:
Back packs 7
Gliders 12
Outfits 6
Appearance sets 3
Mini 13
Utility 4

Black Lion weapon sets 8

There have been no new armor sets since Hot released with only 3 when it was, no in game Gliders, 1 soon to be released Legendary all others cancelled, 2 almost impossible to get shoulders, 5 Halloween skins, 3 back packs.

No NEW maps or LS or Festivals or events discounting the paid for Xpac since January 2015.

No new playable content until August/Sep 2016.

Staff supposedly working on current and backlog content paid for as part of HoT: 120
Staff working a new Xpac when the present paid for one has yet to be completed: 70
Staff taken off one agreed part of Hot to help complete another: 6
Staff working on gemstore and other money spinning areas out of the 120?

Fractals is not the same – that is 5 man content which is exactly the thing im trying to avoid – for both fun to play aspects and design problems to implement – I don’t want this content made 5 man – it need to be open world as it was and no one seems to be thinking about it that way instead saying it needs to be crunched down to small group content – it wont work.

But its fabulous large group play – and it reuses content – its win win.

I still have no idea why they never thought to reuse Labyrinthine Cliffs or old Lions arch in this way in particular, New Lions arch reminds me of Milton Keynes its pretty soulless.

Im also not asking that they are ‘replayed again and again’ once or twice a year means it remains scarce but still fun to revisit – did you actually read what I said? lol

In between actually celebrating Easter in RL ive got my kicks by reading the comments every day about the March Sale offers in Dulfy and Reddit.

Its a mountain of riches if you enjoy sarcasm

There was so much brilliant open world content in LW1 that could have ( and still could) with forward thinking been reused and God knows we need the content.

- why cant season 1 events rather than attempting to remake them into instanced small group content ( which im sure is a nightmare) be brought back as some sort of regular Festival type scenario where the whole event is ran again through dedicated shards as a ‘go back in time’ event – a little like the Caverns of Time in WoW

’Located in the eastern part of Tanaris, the Caverns of Time contain various portals to different key historical periods and events in Warcraft history. The caverns act as a crossroads for the various timelines, and through them one can travel back and forth along the ebb and flow of time. ’

A new one could be opened up every 3 months for a few weeks – just like a Festival allowing Newbies and Vets the chance to revisit the destruction of Lions arch , see Labyrinthine Cliffs , reattempt Marionette, actually redo Southsun without lag so bad you take 10 minutes to get to the cavern – new content dearth’s would be broken up, the lack of regular Festivals would no longer be an issue, there would still be high world participation of they only ran for a certain period once a year.

Because its so sad that one of GW2’s best USPs which was massive open world pve battles and events has been reduced to currency grinds for collections in Hot maps.

Frankly I don’t think season 2 has that much re playability because of all the small group instanced content – I think many people who don’t give a fig about Raids are just are not being provided for – hell even poor wvw players were known to get into the large open world LS in those sorts of events – EVERYONE did those events.

Festivals and large world content keep people coming back and its not like anything else is currently in content rotation is it?

Nothing wrong with emergency reallocation of resources if things are desperate – so long as you choose the RIGHT ones
– everyone would feel a lot less doom and gloom and uncertain about trusting any future announcements of content if you had taken some staff from the new xpansion team – seeing as they are 70 strong and the largest team in the Company presently.

Insisting on pushing forward with a New Project regardless of if that’s the ‘normal’ Development process when you have an unfinished project you are essentially cancelling parts of is enough to put a lot of players off for good. This situation isn’t ‘normal’ the Director has gone mid implementation, you cant really start chopping out advertised content and justify 70 people working on new pay wall content.

I dread to think when LS3 will be ready even with scrapping the Legendary team.

I think they knew even before they started the pre sale for HoT that they were not going to deliver everything they had advertised in their community streams etc – Have a look at the box if you got a physical copy – it only mentions Guild Halls, Elites and Masteries – that’s it, its very legally savvy and very depressing.

I also think they don’t have ANY Project Managers – none, nada.

Ive project managed for 15+ years YOU are the linchpin that keeps it all together by communicating to each team where the others are at if it impacts their schedule – YOU are the person draining the blood out of the faces of sub contractors to GET IT DONE

- YOU are the person telling your client ( the company ) if they start changing the goal posts AFTER the contract for the project has been agreed that NO they cant do that and it will have to be saved for future projects.

I like the language you are using MO – it implies genuine attempts to correct mistakes – unfortunately this massive turnaround on project parameters yet again is just old patterns repeating – its skritt like and a complete kitten ache for customers who bought the xpac based on what you said would definitely come with the xpac.

And i say this as someone who only bought the xpac for LS and had no intention of ever making a Legendary – its just plain wrong.

Put your hand in your pocket – get out your wallet and get yourself a god kitten Project Mnager who can COMMUNICATE and who can reign in any lip flapping about ideas that cannot be completed within timeframe and to spec.

Christ I would work for half rate, im sure others would too.

Just in case people didn’t know ( im probably the only one lol)

The wizards hat currently on sale in the Gem store was available free at the 2012 Christmas event – I thought that I had lost mine at some point not realising that when town clothing was dropped items that were on characters at the time were not put in bags, you couldn’t see town clothing in the panel anymore and I must have missed taking one of my characters to get my town clothing ‘updated’

So before you get your gems out double check with the armor Guy at the Trading post – I just found mine on my Asura

I did the story mode – I was trying to unlock the Dungeon for pvp track – however just before the end the group leader said you don’t get full rewards unless its your personal story finale – im too far back in PS for it to count.

I just need someone with a little knowledge of how this Dungeon story mode was changed to see if I was supposed to get rewards and I need someone who knows about Dungeons in general to say if you lose ALL your shaky box rewards if you are ported out because the leader has left, there was nothing in my bag though.

Boxes only go into your inventory normally when you have more than 4 I thought?

Im confused if this is a bug or not as I didn’t realise I was supposed to ONLY do story mode for Lost City of Arah when I had completed my personal story.

I got no loot other than 2 shaky boxes which I assume is correct?
The leader left literally 3 seconds after the cinematic dumped me back in the instance – I was sent back to Orr and the shaky boxes gone?

Have I just done the Dungeon for no loot?! Usually if you zone out the shaky boxes stay…

Why cant you bring back Alpine maps AND adjust DB, make it smaller lose some of the Pve mechanics, which I assume is a much larger project..

.. then have them in rotation? that is after all what was implied in the run up to Hot?

other than that which is my Top priority:

2. Better rewards – ways also to get items from other game areas .
3. 24 hour matches arnt sustainable unless you have a presence from a different time zone which most servers don’t – reduce night time points or something else.
4. More creative ways to match up so we arnt always matched against the same servers.
5. Gliding – seriously – keep Desert BL it IS beautiful but see the above changes brought in then introduce gliding – F2P already are penalised in Tyria, no need to do it here.

It sounds about right time wise – it also sounds akittenore like, are you making enough gold to work towards buying something you really want? if so that should give you enough incentive to keep going as there is an end in sight

- I only did this level of farming when I was making Mawdrey – and to maintain sanity I parked one group of characters at a good orichalcum site and another group at a good ancient wood site and called it a day.

If I were you I would split characters between the two sites, don’t bother porting them to the second and keep one character just for playing on that doesn’t farm atall. It took me longer to get what I needed but I don’t get PTSD when I come across a rare node these days.

If you arnt working towards buying anything though with no goal I think this type of gameplay will ultimately drive you up the wall

No I wont.

And I don’t see how even if you like HoT that you would think its a safe bet to preorder when we are still waiting for things advertised as part of Hot ( apart from Raids which to be fair are best served with a staggered release)

I will buy it if I ever do 9 months after release when I 1. know if its the sort of xpac that has content I would like and 2. have seen that promised content is actually in game.

I suspect people’s hopes are up because the forum did ask what people would like to see in the Gemstore, hell I don’t even like the Bunny ears and only really buy character slots type of things but it would be nice if those many people finally got them.

That said Illconceived Was Na is probably right on this sale being like the others…

Already tried to get an answer elsewhere but think this may be a bug:

I don’t see anything in the patch notes but went to do some PvP dailies last night – the UI for your active track ( or any of them actually) usually shows when you hover over the bar the percentage completed – it NOW shows only the rewards you will get for that part of the track.

I don’t need to know which rewards im getting next? I need to know the percentage ive completed!

This conversation deserves more than to be sat in the desolate backwater of Living Story sub Forum – its a big issue – especially as they were pretty much bragging that Raids were not intended for the majority of Players.

For Casuals there is pretty much only LS as content with Dungeons decimated – and yet excluding the xpac there has been no open world casual content at all for two years as the last original LS content was in March 2014.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Release

Fenris Amarok.4052:

Angelica Dream.7103:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Before we launch we’ll be covering a lot more in depth info on guild halls and guild progression, including a number of details we haven’t announced yet. Hang tight – your answers will come then!

I feel kinda screwed by Anet. “You have to buy HOT to see what is in HOT”
We are a tiny 3 person guild (since GW1) and just can not earn favor.

That write in no way says you have to buy it to see what’s in it… I think your anger is getting in your way. Gaile said they’d be releasing the info close to launch. If you preordered before that, that’s your fault and your lack of judgement. Not theirs. Also, my guild has around seven active people and we almost always only do guild missions with 3 people. You have no excuse.

They didn’t release the info people were looking for BEFORE the xp went Live I can assure you of that and im joining this thread that normally I wouldn’t bother to do to support comments stating it was an issue I only bought HoT 4 days before it went Live – I was on the exact thread you are quoting from BEGGING for information that would confirm or deny WHICH upgrades were being grandfathered in , which were not and what the changes to rep meant in terms of new currency gathering.

EVRYTHING I and others were concerned about in that thread and others came to pass – I ended up spending gold on upgrades they ‘implied’ would be grandfathered in that then were not – all the upgrades I had worked for on my solo Guild were pretty much thrown in the bin – and I don’t care what any person who claims solo Guilds ‘arnt Guilds’ thinks – if a group of people or even one person has EARNED rewards from a game those rewards should NOT be taken off them – that most definitely happened here with Guilds.

It was a Gold sink avariciously manipulated to look like a brand spanking new games system for the benefit of everyone.

It wasn’t and even big Guilds are suffering and especially wvw guilds…

I don’t see anything in the patch notes but went to do some PvP dailies last night – the UI for your active track ( or any of them actually) usually shows when you hover over the bar the percentage completed – it NOW shows only the rewards you will get for that part of the track.

I don’t need to know which rewards im getting next? I need to know the percentage ive completed! why would you do this?

I don’t know what’s wrong with them that they cant see that at this point no one would give a Hot kitten if they reintroduced old festivals that could be considered ‘Lore’ or ‘Immersion’ breaking such as Festival of the four Winds so long as we got something Content wise until Living Story finally turned up.

‘their world pvp may have died, but to be honest, i was never fond of wow to begin with.’

I STILL miss playing Alterac Valley, it was always entertaining regardless of whatever unworkable iteration Blizzard came up with, going on to a match 24 hours in when they went on forever listening to all the crazed sleep deprived players makes me feel warm ;D

Well to me WvW seems very quiet, cities seem quieter and so is pvp later in the day, I don’t know how shards work so unsure about Hot maps but im never sent to a suitable map, I always have to taxi out – that could just be the design/timer/megaserver issues though….

Overall though im seeing less people, people seems to be losing a lot of Guildies and ive only just gone back to Hot atall after playing just for 3 weeks before Christmas before deciding to take a break.

There are a lot of players like me that simply don’t want to or arn’t able to commit the grinding time to doing Legendary weapons or Raiding, playing and paying for the maps and story and to be frank – its about time we saw some Living Story.

Cosbuster.4379:

What about the map design itself? Running around in endless circles again and again and again. Somebody will make a mistake at some point and you will have to continue running around and around until frustration, boredom and tedium keep rising and more people start screwing up. Then it’s the “blame people” phase and then everyone leaves. I don’t know who can possibly find that fun.

I was in one of these the other night that should go down in Legend, we were in there almost 2 hours our Blue Comm, who to be fair seemed very organised, failed to make sure the boss team was sorting out the pods, we failed, the other comms got ansty, then they lost their kills and started again only for us to fail on Blue again – chaos ensued, people left the map taxi’s failed, social breakdown, twitter level animosity and declarations of blood feud level revenge.

Thank God I was on an alt and at least got a couple of vistas, I would have been fine and laughed if it hadn’t been for the fact the DS I did before that was ( unknown to me) a map that had had a low pop warning early in the map that I was taxied into which then promptly shut down when we got to the towers.

Joy!

Thanks for all the replies some really useful stuff here.

Having found a few more things online aswell it seems even hybrid guides want Vipers which is just too expensive for me atm not knowing if I want to be Cond or Power as my main type of gameplay.

- it looks like im just going to have to pony up for 2 sets – if I have this right, Sinister ( poor mans Viper) for Cond and then Zerker for power( with maybe a couple of pieces of defensive gear)? Are my free Dungeon Rabid weapons still ok?

Warhorn and GS look like something I should try out too I really like Scepter/Dagger though – I just wish Hybrid builds were more popular/doable within design constraints in GW2 as a whole, all my characters in WoW pretty much were Hybrid and very flexible, being able to swap to a secondary Healer and saves wipes at a pinch was fun -

Are there any other classes that can do a hybrid build other than Necro?

Thanks for that – tbh I would really like to try a Hybrid spec if its doable, I used to play shadow priest in WoW and it had a lot of flexibility and utility.

Ive been through a lot of the Hot Maps now with other characters and I can see the potential of plague when I get swamped at events – would Rabid weapons and armor be overkill though? am I gimping myself by crafting a part zerker part rabid set instead?

I didn’t find many up to date guides most of them are focused on Reaper.

Ive now bumped my Necro up to 80 and im trying to find the best ( cheap) combo of gear to try out a few different play styles whilst I get to know Necro

- I will be playing Hot Maps and some Tyria world bosses for now, im not aiming for Raids with this character, I randomly picked Scepter/Dagger Axe/Focus when I first rolled her which I like and have some Rabid exotic weapons in the bank.

Does that mainly lock me into a condition play style? – Do I have to get Rabid gear to match ( Sinister sounds a pain to get) and get completely separate gear to try a dps build or can I go with zerker armor and mix in rabid weapons and try to go hybrid – or is that frowned on?!

Thanks

IndigoSundown.5419:

fluxy.1203:

i agree with you .. and do not understand why people keep playing and paying .. O_o time to find an new game …

“Why do people continue to play MMO’s?” That’s an interesting question. Probably because it fills some emotional desire/need on their part. Taken on that level, people who dislike/hate HOT likely find that playing that content detracts from their sense of fulfillment rather than contributes to it.

I find it interesting that ANet thought to hire an economist so that the in-game economy would function as they wished, but apparently did not see the need to have a psychologist on hand to analyze the meta-needs of their player-base. By all accounts, they rely on metrics, which can be deceiving.

I think metrics are complete bullkitten 80% of the time – at least that’s the amount of time anything I do that contributes to a metric is only done because I have been pointed into a particular style of gameplay that I wouldn’t have chosen normally.

If you make A look unappetising and people flocked to B that doesn’t mean people want more B….

Im past being annoyed with Hot and have just moved onto ‘meh’ currently – there is talk apparently of them rejigging the way Hot map Meta’s force you into blocks of gameplay ( on their timetable not yours) but I cant see it being anything other that a slight re parcelling out of rewards through the whole meta period – we will still be locked into the godkitten 2 hour timetables, because they would have to rebuild from the groundup I suspect to get rid of those.

There is an interesting thread on Reddit about people being locked out of LFG and how rubbish it is for those fighting their way through taxi wars at the start of a new map – a rubbish conflation of two manky systems – LFG open world and map timers – making the game just way to tiring to feel bothered before you even get started…

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’re sorry about any inconvenience that you experienced with the bug fixes and related restarts. We had some significant issues that we needed to address. Better to have a forced restart — as irritating as it may be — than have players unable to join the game, or locked on an endless loading screen, or having their refrigerator start spewing ice cubes whenever they enter Rata Sum.

Ok, I joke about the latter.

But seriously, we are sorry, it’s just a necessary thing to make the experience better for everyone.

I wish people would stop piling on the OP whose complaint is valid, and also thinking backwards – the issue ISNT the reset – the issue IS the 2 hour locked in map timers.

Its just completely unacceptable to have players invest 2 hours into the game only to get kicked before the end and lose their contribution.

‘we are sorry, it’s just a necessary thing to make the experience better for everyone’
Its it ‘necessary’ to have a Skinner Box timed map for ALL HoT maps to make the experience better?

No.

I haven’t played HoT maps since the first week of Dec after getting kicked from a few maps – at least if they had actually given people random loot rather than stopping everything from dropping loot you could have had something to show – but No, they decided to lock the tiny amount of loot there is into meta event completion.

Reason 4568 why Meta Map Timers are a piece of kitten…

I couldn’t get into Divinity Reach where all my characters are.

On Reddit there is one poor guy stuck in Arah, and you KNOW if they could find a way to leave him in there as an example to others still trying to do Dungeons they would..

I also have problems with dexterity sometimes and find ranged combat is much more forgiving than melee as less worry about positioning and less hectic in general, I know Ele is considered a complex class but if you go staff you tend to stay in 2 attunements and can still do a lot with aoe and have some control with earth and water – best to be in groups though with some melee to take the attention from you…

The Asura female Dreadlocks are lovely…great texture.

Or try the Norn ones, as above you need the hairstyle kit for the Sylvari, none for Human as far as I know.

Culled the below from an old forum thread ( which I can only get cached through Google now) which may clarify places other than Dungeons – you can always get the Dungeon weapons and tokens for armor by doing the pvp tracks instead – that’s what I do What ever you do DONT salvage crafted gear…

thehipone.6812:

Mystic – thanks for your work and willingness to share all of your research.

The tl;dr on this thread seems to be:
-Named exotic weapons with rabid/shaman/dire stats that ARE NOT specific champ loot bag drops WILL salvage with a chance to give the inscription
-Named exotic weapons with rabid/shaman/dire stats that ARE specific to champ loot bags DO NOT give the inscription. List of specific champ bag exotics here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Champion_loot_bag.

Specific cases:
-The jury is still out on whether the Ugly Stick can salvage into a rabid inscription
-There are no exotic weapons that can be bought on the TP that can salvage into a Magi’s inscription
-It is unknown whether items created by fixed Mystic Forge recipes (x mystic coins, 1 eldritch scroll+other stuff)). However, they tend to be relatively expensive compared to the price of the inscription.

Other sources of inscriptions:
-Items bought with dungeon tokens can yield the inscription/insignia if they have the right stats (I have not yet found an exception, has anyone?)
-The account bound exotic items dropped in fractals also yield the inscription/insignia if they have the right stats.

Unfortunately, if you need an inscription or insignia for crafting and want to try to salvage it, you need to do your homework to avoid wasting gold.

I really hope that the exciting prospect of Gliding in Tyria isn’t locked behind the next Expansion because that would be a pretty cynical money grab right?

This just feels wrong headed to me, they have a limit on resources but they have already moved on to 50% invested towards the next Expansion before they have fixed HoT’s many issues or even given the players the largish chunk of HoT that was supposed to be provided after HoT went live?

Hi Roguefire,

this Reddit post lays it al out for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ww50x/eli5_how_to_make_money_with_dungeon_tokens/

:D

Thanks for the replies, im going to be mainly Pve for now with some wvw if it gets sorted out – I just want to avoid staring at the knees of the thing im attacking as much as possible.

Its just an experiment, I don’t think I will find melee fun tbh, so maybe I should just pick based on the animations!

Im getting around to rolling a Rev and Warrior as I have some character slots spare but have always been a ranged player here and in WoW – I would love to have an Asura but realise my Melee play will probably be harder with a short character

Ive heard Rev doesn’t have that many options for ranged play, would anyone be able to advise if I would be better off rolling an Asura Warrior instead ( I will have a Sylvari for the other soldier class I think)

Thanks!

Malediktus.9250:

One black lion set every 2 weeks is an insult. The old rate of 4-6 week for a new set was more than enough. Add to the insult that most sets would make perfect sense to be ingame rewards.
Mini Sabetha in gem shop is an insult, too.

Its actually more like a new BL weapon set every 10 days – with Gem outfits/bundles etc as much as twice a week -

If that isn’t a Company changing the business model whilst still conveniently charging players for the old system ( B2P) at the same time I don’t know what is.

You cant fleece people with TWO forms of financial penalty for one product without eventually kittening off a whole load of them – I already feel bitter about buying HoT because of this blatant money grab.

I think Power creep only ‘works’ when it allows greater access to ‘hardcore’ content over time by being tied to Character level cap increases and/or easy to obtain varied ways of getting starter Raid gear.

Over time in wow you forgoe being an early adopter of a new Raid when the price to entry is higher, knowing you can still do it a few months later when Heroic gear reward levels are increased or the level cap increases.

Here you have ONE way of getting ascended with increased mats, only the first boss can be done in Exotics and of course there will be no opportunity to do the raid later because – no increase of access to entry level gear.

Ive just heard people raiding the last 3 weeks may not even have had an Ascended drop yet so you cant even farm the first Boss to kit yourself out. Sorry but WoW Raid Bosses always had a loot table of the highest gear in the game – none of the sup par Exotic kitten…

So the Raids will remain inaccessible to far to many people because Power creep really is happening but with no mechanisms to make it easier over time to get into Raids.

Add in the ‘other’ stealth ilevel with the new 4 stat sets and it doesn’t look good – I certainly cant see me being able to Raid.