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Suggestion: Mounts [Merged]

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Mounts are fun.

You can use way shrines in ESO but also use mounts. Why do people automatically argue that it’s either one or the other?

I bet gw2 would have such epic, beautiful mounts in these graphics ^^

Because in ESO traveling by wayshine gets very expensive since you have to wait for the CD of the price to drop, hence why mounts makes sense

Suggestion: Mounts [Merged]

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Yeah, who wants to use instant teleportation systems for a small fee?

Where are the Dev's

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Wasn’t there supposed to be balance patch before the start of PvP league? Yeah guess It wasn’t so important.

Idk about you guys but for me pvp seems kind of broken…

They considered the “balance patch” the HoT patch (many of us have already snickered and laughed at this, so a bit late to the party).

They gave us a tiny fix at least to chronomancers recently, which helped, but balance and league still messed up.

Its the holidays. Just had Xmas and now New Years coming up. Basically nothing is going to happen till January. Give it a week then start posting hoping for an answer.

Guild Wars 3

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And the death penalty that basically made it after two deaths, reset.

The morale penalty/buff system was one of my favorite features in Guild Wars.

It meant you had to not suck at the game.

At least until they got stupid with all the consumable nonsense in EOTN that just let you turn on easy mode by spending some currency.

It was horrible and easily exploitable. All it took for one person to troll everything and get people killed.

“oops! I didn’t mean to do that!” – party wipe
“Oooops! I did it again!” – party wipe, kick the wiper, reset instance…

If by “exploitable” you mean “required your team to not suck” then sure. Someone wanting to troll your PUG has like five thousand ways to do that in any game. That’s why PUGging is generally less of a good idea than making friends. In any game. Because you will inevitably PUG with trolls at some point. In any game.

except it varies by degrees.

GW1 – troll does his thing either midway or near end of the run, forces you to restart the whole thing.
GW2 – troll does his thing, gets kicked, no progress loss, just some time.

Honestly, if this was your biggest issue, you missed the entire point of the system, and the game in general. It took five wipes to get booted, and only if those were back to back usually, and even more if you were at the middle or end of the run due to the morale bonuses you already had from killing bosses on the way. Are you telling me you let someone troll you through five wipes, and that your comp was so brittle it couldn’t stand losing one member?

I can’t think of a single piece of content in GW1 where I had to kick someone and we couldn’t just finish the run with 7 (or 11 for the factions elite stuff)

The entire point was that you couldn’t do the lazy res zerging you do in GW2, and that getting killed at any point actually mattered. That was far superior to the system we have now, where the same dead weight can die over and over and it doesn’t even matter because you just pick him up and everything’s right as rain.

In GW2 I can routinely lose two party members every encounter in any instance, and those deaths don’t mean anything, and the damage of mobs is tuned so high and their Hp tuned so low to account for that that the whole game devolves in to one big DPS race because death is meaningless. That’s boring and it makes runs boring because it is literally impossible to fail.

Though, if all you want to do is insert buttons and get loot, I can see how it’s annoying. GW1 played better as a game with that system in place, rather than a loot dispenser.

never said it was my biggest issue, but good job assuming. People are looking at the game with rose tinted glasses…again. Like people tend to do until they go back to it and the bad stuff starts to come back…

Heck, the message boards spread around are still up. Go and read some from years back

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And the death penalty that basically made it after two deaths, reset.

The morale penalty/buff system was one of my favorite features in Guild Wars.

It meant you had to not suck at the game.

At least until they got stupid with all the consumable nonsense in EOTN that just let you turn on easy mode by spending some currency.

It was horrible and easily exploitable. All it took for one person to troll everything and get people killed.

“oops! I didn’t mean to do that!” – party wipe
“Oooops! I did it again!” – party wipe, kick the wiper, reset instance…

If by “exploitable” you mean “required your team to not suck” then sure. Someone wanting to troll your PUG has like five thousand ways to do that in any game. That’s why PUGging is generally less of a good idea than making friends. In any game. Because you will inevitably PUG with trolls at some point. In any game.

except it varies by degrees.

GW1 – troll does his thing either midway or near end of the run, forces you to restart the whole thing.
GW2 – troll does his thing, gets kicked, no progress loss, just some time.

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And the death penalty that basically made it after two deaths, reset.

The morale penalty/buff system was one of my favorite features in Guild Wars.

It meant you had to not suck at the game.

At least until they got stupid with all the consumable nonsense in EOTN that just let you turn on easy mode by spending some currency.

It was horrible and easily exploitable. All it took for one person to troll everything and get people killed.

“oops! I didn’t mean to do that!” – party wipe
“Oooops! I did it again!” – party wipe, kick the wiper, reset instance…

GW2 Community Anger

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There are too many factors that can go into a decision or statement by a gaming company.

Take for example, the first panel. Devs shouldn’t make promises, EVER. Harsh I know, but its the cold truth because if it comes down to it, they are gonna break it. “We won’t do the thing!” until later in development they realize they have to do it, or suffer loss of sales or further problems down the road in development. Sure, they can try to avoid it as best as they can, but if there is only one option, there is only one option.

The next few are all about discussion. True, devs should inform players more on whats going on, and stop with this secret BS. We know, you don’t want other developers copying your stuff, you want to be “first” in showing off new toys before others quickly copy it and implement it into their systems. But when you reveal the new item, post a blog, then shut up about it when its not working or something is wrong, THEN there’s the problem.

At the same time, the community needs to understand that mistakes can happen and should help more than spit vile. Look, I don’t believe an MMO dev team goes out of their way to destroy their game. Everything is done in their eyes to make it better. If it goes live and is found to be an oops, then the community needs to say “you messed up, here’s why, here’s a fix.” then leave it be. The devs then need to reply and have a conversation when possible (cause they need to work). The CDIs were great for this.

Then the community needs to sit back and wait, because code in an mmo is like a Cube made of spider webs. Reach in there and pluck out the one strand, without breaking or touching the other strands. Its not always an easy process.

That’s basically it. But who am I kidding, everything has to be “NOW NOW NOW” in today’s time

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Yeah, also bring back the reputations.
And bring back the constant resetting of an instance just to kill one mob for a chance at a specific weapon skin
And the death penalty that basically made it after two deaths, reset.
Rubbing up along side invisible walls to get full map explored
Paying to get instantly ran to LA

Good timez

This achievement actually upsets me...

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Eating 500 candy canes probably upset someone too being Diabetic…

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WARRIOR FORUM SPECIALIST !

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Not to mention the job is to recommend a good thread for a dev to read.

Too bad anything mentioned with “warrior” in it gets sent to the junk folder and just deleted anyway.

wvw current severs status .

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Server population is tied to WvW activity. What that looks like is WvW activity dropped by a large amount since the expansion started.

i had the very real feeling you be the ONLY one that get,s this . and the points of my

post also this is going with the topic 2016 money reports . and btw flesh wound

THANK YOU FOR GETTING IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since you did not post a before picture of what the server statuses were before HoT launches or even how often you checked the server statuses, it was impossible to tell on your OP what the exact cause of the server drop was. It could have been ANet raising the server caps (still might have been and they just overestimated the number of players who would buy HoT), or could have been activity dropping off, or a combination of the two.

I personally don’t take much stock in anecdotal evidence that isn’t backed up with hard to doctor evidence. People’s perception and memory can be faulty, so it isn’t that I think people are intentionally lying.

i gave my proof take it or leave it . dont care also too there was NO OTHER TOPICS

at the time covering these matters . thus no need to make this topic before then as it

is ONLY current now. but i have keep a track of the number.s and the posts on this

can be found in the forums. but you will have to DIG to find them . iam not going

to do that. iam just putting out the CURRENT information . in regards to the 2016

money report topic . so you really need to try again and look for the information

your self

It’s the OP’s job to do the convincing of the readers of the thread, be they other players or devs. Newsflash: devs don’t have the time dig around for the evidence buried in other posts made in the past.

So it’s you who has to try again.

the drevs have NOTING AT ALL to do wit this post. ahh so sorry it is you who needs\

to TRY AGAIN .

You’re reading comprehension is lacking.

The first paragraph was a GENERAL statement in regards to threads in general. Not to this thread specifically. Hence the use of the word OP and not you in that paragraph.

Since in this thread, you are the OP, it’s your job to convince me that there is a problem with the numbers. You’ve only told me that the servers aren’t full.

You’ve not given any proof on the why. We do not know how often the server status gets calculated as it’s no longer real time. So we don’t know how many times it’s been calculated. We don’t know how much activity a player has to have in WvW to trigger being counted and/or how often.

Given the feedback threads I’ve seen OTHER players post, I’m betting recent decisions on WvW have caused a drop in activity. Whether that’s the only reason for the current server status is not proven. You could be 100% right. You could be 50% right. I doubt you’re 100% wrong though given the feedback I’ve seen.

And it won’t be proven unless people conduct surveys of truly random players. Which is impossible for players to do.

Uhh…the guy is getting secret information so secret even the guy giving it doesn’t know he’s giving it. So, we just gotta, ya know, trust him.

Now, tomorrow we need to take another screen shot at a random point in time, like lets say 3am pst, to prove his point even moreso. This is how the internet and forums work. Just trust what he is saying

Is Beserker Warrior too OP for the pvp?

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Its normal you know.

One time i was like usual doing 100b in mid Foefire, my m8 chrono gave me alacrity and quickness, my 100b turned into 1000b then our engi gave me magnet power, i pulled all players to my 1000b and then it happened numbers beyond believe started to appear, My GS got too hot to the point that 1000b reached their lord and got insta died, game ended with the message:

“You Win”

no joke i tell you.

This is real. I saw the video but anet had it deleted. Supe srs.

True story.

Happened to me that it deleted my character. I’m waiting on CS to restore him, but it looks like the code got sliced up too

I'm not even mad.

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And Anet must think big esports outlets won’t see this is the home league aka development turf.

Their whole esports thing was for marketing. Marketing what, I don’t know. To who is the better question, as anyone who watched the stream would’ve seen everyone making fun of it, and announcers trying to make it sound interesting.

I mean, I hate to say it, but the only thing different from WoW’s pvp (which is also horribly balanced last I played) and gw2 is how gear is handled.

Sent cannot balance every three months at this point, its not going to work

Please extend PvP league.

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Oh please god no, I want this nightmare of a PvP season out of the way as quickly as possible so they can perhaps balance the game and make it not suck. While they’re at it they should remove the current league system entirely and replace it with one that actually works.

Tribal armor set

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Someone should pm this thread to gaile. She said at LA wintersday to link the thread in question so she can show devs for answers

Wait, she said what exactly?

She has commented on this tread. Although that was quite a while back.

She said to link her threads in question. I wasn’t the only one who had asked her there either. Sadly, holidays coming up, probably won’t hear till Monday maybe

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Someone should pm this thread to gaile. She said at LA wintersday to link the thread in question so she can show devs for answers

Adventures, do they need changes?

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The name needs changed. These aren’t “adventures” but mini games

Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas

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The holiday events seem to be designed so newer players and poor people can make some quick cash so they are more likely to continue playing.

So you go ahead and cry all you want. I’ll be over here counting the bank I’m making by not going for the stupid shoulders.

Whaaaaat? Nu uh. It’s impossible to make gold in this game! Next thing you’ll tell me is people should’ve saved up those fractal boxes before the patch!

Just coming back

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How is the population in game currently? In PvE, PvP, etc?

I’ve noticed a lot of frustration on the forums: people saying they’re moving on and that they don’t like the game anymore, etc… is this affecting the in game population or is this just forum frustration?

I can never tell how a game is doing so I’ll just ask here.

Forums are for complaining, not praising. How many people you see posting constantly about chak garent change or wood change or getting cloth and wood from gifts with karma?

Rarely if at all

History of Warrior

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Ah, I remember those days, everyone complaining about 100b warriors, because no one wanted to slot stability.

Fun times

'Easy' build for returning player.

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Just wanted to pop in and say that HoT is basically balanced around exotic, so it may be a bit harder in rares. But no other armor tier, so no, no new gear to make gear obsolete. Just new stat combos

Winter’s Presence and the Community

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All I really have to say is I have disabilities that do not allow me to do jumping puzzles, and I DEFINITELY don’t have the spare time/money to be grinding constantly for drinks and whatnot. It isn’t really about making it easier. It’s about making it possible to do in the first place.

The more time I spend doing this event, and the more time I see such terrible negativity (one could argue that those who don’t have any issues and don’t want to change the current system are the ones with entitlement issues), the more it drains out of me. I do like the Christmas stuff, and I DO want to earn the skins and titles, but it’s just too much to ask of my, physically and mentally.

I just want to play video games and have fun. For me, it’s an escape from real life. It’s disheartening to see that that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone here.

If you play video games to have fun, the skin shouldn’t matter to you.

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Wait til you hear about Santa Claus…

Aww man….he dies?

Stupid jrr Martin killing off everyone we like…

a new player has to buy the game AND HoT?

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It is, but you know how it goes!
Anyway you are kinda late to the party, people already complained about it months ago :x

Yeah, it should’ve cost anyone new to the game $100 to join. And then when the next expansion comes, $150, and so on. I mean, WoW players must be losing their minds that everything up to Mists of Pandora is costing only $5.00 (+15 sub). I mean, what a rip!

Don't look at LFG.

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Why would Anet take action? There is no rule against spoilers from other franchises.

Using the LFG System to annoy and upset people is very much against the rules. Hopefully this sad pathetic soul gets permabanned.

Exactly, he isn’t using lfg to LOOK FOR A GROUP. He’s using it to spoil a movie. Thus, abuse.

Winter’s Presence and the Community

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Its a game.

Cosmetic stuff could be handed out like confetti at a parade, and it wouldn’t alter the game world or experience one iota.

Anyone who argues about economies, exclusivity, the difficulty of acquisition, etc., etc. is missing the point, and comes across as kind of… well you know. Anyone who thinks the Batwings, or the falling snow should only be available to those able to sink all their time into the game is missing the point of games entirely, and views said games, and grindy MMOs in general as jobs.

You can tell who these people are. They spam “N00B” in chat, talk about how elite they are, their skills at speedclears and such.

The game should cater to EVERYONE. Every cosmetic rewards that isn’t gemstore could be mailed to every single player en masse and it wouldn’t affect gameplay one bit. Certain peoples’ kittens would shrink a bit, but that’s their problem.

The worst part about Wintersday is just how much it makes me realize the lack of empathy among gamers. Sure, its not all, but its enough to be depressing.

Exactly, its a game. You don’t need the cosmetic items at all as it won’t affect your gameplay one bit. All armors could be removed and you just allocate your stats instead and the gameplay would remain the same.

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You are right, there are people who are simply unable to get certain items from the game. But to make it easier for those people is to cheapen it for others who are proud of what they’ve done.

Not easier, equal. We should all have an equal chance to get things in this game.

When you make content that is especially difficult or impossible for players with disabilities to do part of a requirement for an event, item or story, then you are actively excluding players. You are making them less than the other players.

Imagine you are a brown eyed person, and you enjoy a game. Most of the time, the colour of your eyes has no impact on your gameplay; you make some adjustments, you avoid optional content that is difficult for you, and you keep playing. Then they start adding required content that works better for blue eyed people. Blue eyed people can get through it just fine, so can green eyed people… but for brown eyed people, it is difficult, even physically debilitating and harmful.

And people’s response to that? To tell you to suck it up, quit whining, just ‘keep practicing’, to not expect the devs to make it ‘easier’ for you, because that ruins it for everyone else. All because you want equal access to the game.

This whole attitude is exactly why, when I got violently ill playing a particular HoT story mission, I wrote directly to GW2 support… only to be told I needed to go post on the forum, because that’s where the Devs are.

I didn’t want to post here on the forum, because despite it being 100% better than most MMOs, it is still filled with people who would happily insult me, belittle me, and berate me for trying to ‘ruin’ their game, just because I expect better out of ANet- not content that is deliberately designed to trigger physical disability.

You are asking for near impossibility for two different, but equal ways (okay, that does sound really bad as I type this, ya know?). Take for instance the tokens instead of jump puzzle. First, how do you decide what is equal time? That can vary. Second, where do you put the tokens? Garunteed one per gift? Then people with money can easily buy it, making it an easier path (not equal). Random chance in a gift? You’ll get people complaining about rng and not having money to buy gifts or hate grinding the other activities and dailies. Not to mention, the time factor. What if someone with a disability also has only an hour of play time? Should that be taken into consideration as well? Is it really possible to design something to include every single person and design it around their life?

No. That’s when its being asked too much. Look, people are getting upset at pixels and unable to obtain, them. Pixels in a video game that won’t be around forever. And are you really going to be thinking in 20yrs, “man, I wish I had gotten those cool snow shoulder pads from a game no longer running anymore”.

I really hope not.

Not getting an item shouldn’t ruin your gaming experience. If you don’t get it, wait for the next chance instead of beating yourself up. And if, you are beating yourself up, I suggest taking a step back and remembering its a game, and if that doesn’t work, seek help

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Win 10 64bit, 64bit client

10k drinks [Merged]

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No, im dead from alcohol poisoning

Update gifts and purchasable rewards TODAY

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This is all because they did one Halloween different, it was expected to be different for everything…

Remove JP requirement for shoulder item!

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If they would award tokens each time you complete a festival event( bell choir, windersday jp, infinitarium, snowball fight) and then have a token requirement to get the collectibles. That way people could have played the content they enjoyed and get the skin too.

I’d be game for that alternative. Options…always good thing.

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Wintersday is sadly disappointing

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If anet makes everything a one time thing (living world), people complain. Make things the same with small tweaks, people complain….

Well of Precog is now Unplayable in PvP

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However, I’d like to point out, that well of precog is now a bit of a troll ability.

soooo…. like shadow refuge. lets keep wasting shadow refuges to troll. it works.

I thought playing a thief was trolling in itself :P

(i’m sorry thieves, you do need help)

lol Zero Counterplay rage quit?

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Clearly, from what i’ve been told in the forums, that is a L2P issue

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Sorry m8 i dont see any reply about “balancing around” the only official response i see is from IsaiahCartwright “It’s recommended”. u mean that one?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Budget-raid-setup

you can beat the entire wing in complete exotic, ascended is not required…

Myellin hmm dunno.Even the guy in the video says this pretty clearly

“I will not, in general, recommend anyone doing the raid in exotic gear as a group going in on their first run, regardless of what I’m about to show you, as even we were surprised by the tuning of some of the enrage timers”.

First i noticed they had 2 herald in their raid (dunno if in pve that class does the same bugged dmg as in wvw) and the guy talking in the video (also one of the 2 herald) mostly spammed only the autoattack….dunno

Second why then make people to believe ascended gear is needed in raids as cleary stated by Crystal in that tweet?!Shes the game designer (GW2 Raids),whats the reason to?

How new are you to Gw2 that one of Anet’s biggest problems is communication? Devs like to contradict it each time to time. Or have a second post to clarify what the first said.

This isn’t new

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Sorry m8 i dont see any reply about “balancing around” the only official response i see is from IsaiahCartwright “It’s recommended”. u mean that one?

person asks “is ascended recommended?”.
isaiah “recommended”

Ok…“recommended”,what about the “Last boss should be full asc”.
when isaiah reply was posted?prior,after Crystal tweet?!

after
also, should =/= will or must. it still means the opposite can happen. example “this pebble should scare away a hungry tiger”.

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Sorry m8 i dont see any reply about “balancing around” the only official response i see is from IsaiahCartwright “It’s recommended”. u mean that one?

person asks “is ascended recommended?”.
isaiah “recommended”

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Learn from WoW

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when it comes to WoW i will say the most bad part about it is paying to play it. but at lest you know you will have the game updated with out any questions at all. but as for the rest of it. yes it has lots of skills and so forth and you can move the ui stuff around if i remember it right . and it has quests which do beat the hearts quests . and i will say with wow you got no server lag and so forth . but yet gw2 has its good points but as of late it has gotten more bad points then the good ones . i do hope that changes but yet waiting 3 mo,s for updates is a major kitten in my book . so it is a give and take both ways . and you can all talk about both points of both games . but yet i got to say if things in gw2 does not get better . lets just say from what i see right now ahh if no changes happen here . other then people leaving the game well then i think maybe anet will git the idea or shut it down like they did city of heros . but i have seen a lot of people leaving . and not coming back but yet still got to hold out hope for this game . unless the next update goes even more kitten bad

Yes, you will have the game updated. I believe a major patch is what? approx 3 months? So bout $45. And you have no idea the quality or amount coming in that patch. Wasn’t one of the WoD patches a completely flop where it added pretty much nothing but twitter interface and a selfie stick? Good spending of $45 I guess…

When will verbal abuse be punished?

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One, putting names up in a screen shot is naming and shaming. a general no no.
Two, report, block, move on.
Also, replying to them only has them talking more to you.

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Is it still as bad as described here with the ascended droprates?

Supposedly changing with today’s patch

Reason to NOT select an Elite Specialization?

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Do you want to play a condition warrior? No? No specialization needed.

Name the Worse Warrior Trait

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I know, hard question cause a lot do suck. But narrow it down to the one you hate the most.

for me, Unsuspecting Foe

Learn from WoW

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where do I start?

Leveling Experience:
Faster in WoW? Yes, it HAS to be. You have 100 levels (110 next year) to get through to get to their end game content. This wasn’t the case 10yrs ago. Heck, back in vanilla, depending on your class, it could take you over a month to hit max level (its been awhile, but basically any class that could heal couldn’t deal dmg, so have fun killing stuff!). Now, due to balance changes, and exp between levels being cut repeatedly, you barely explore any of all the zones, since once you hit the level to go to the next continent, you go there for a massive gear boost.

Comparing hearts to questing is stupid. Sorry. Quests give you background sure, but lets face it, its faster to just click accept and go run to X, Do/kill/gather Y, then run back to turn in (least in most till I think their newest added some “turn in on the spot”). GW2 lore is more spread out that if you want to learn about it, go find it and discover it for yourself. A better way imo, since it gives more feel of self accomplishment.

GW2 has a soft trinity of control, dmg, and support. Its not very apparent in dungeons and open world (least you may not notice), but in raids its looked for.

For spells, more =/= better. If you would know, WoW had ALOT more spells than they do now. I mean, soothe animal, such a useful spell…oh wait….And they are still removing more now. Even in GW1 with its amount of abilities, some were basically useless, or repeats with a slight change, making it superior to its predecessor. So that skill became useless.

As for uniqueness, you don’t know what type of playstyle someone is playing unless they tell you, or you pay attention to buffs, dots, and weapons. See that warrior with a bunch of signets and greatsword? Signet warrior (he’ll crit a lot and stack might). Necro with minions? Minion master. The differences are there. But i will give it that some of the older traits need overhauled so it IS more of a choice. And adding weapon skills to pick would be nice, but atm with how balance is, I wouldn’t go touching that.

You’re last one is already in the game. Its called “specializations”. See a warrior on fire? Berserker. Necro wielding a giant scythe in his shroud? Reaper. Guardian with a bow? Dragon Hunter. All locked in to their own trait lines in order to be considered that specialization.

How to attract PvE players to PvP?

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1.) Lack of game types.
2.) Absence of balance between professions and builds.
3.) Toxic players.
4.) Broken competitive systems.

This is what keeps players away from the pvp scene.

and then hackks posts to prove one of the points right XD

Most Common Mistakes Made by SoloQers

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1. Don’t soloQ. This game isn’t for soloQ anymore.

2. Get HoT. Without it, you are handicapping your team.

3. Don’t play warrior or thief. You are handicapping your team.

4. When you do find a team in order to be able to PvP now and climb the ranks, be sure to get a schedule for each week to know what times everyone can play. If one person can’t play do to work or family, find someone else. Don’t SoloQ pvp outside of team play to risk tanking your rank, unless you are going to be the one guy in Amber on the team to give yourselves faster Que times.

I tried ESO

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Holy crap was ESO a waste of money for me. I mean, you wanna talk broken promises? They were to remove those “champion levels” or whatever they were called once you hit the max level and replace it with something else because the xp requirement was INSANE (people complain about mastery exp. No no no. This was atrocious). But what did they do? ADD MORE. I uninstalled right there and then.

Their auction house or trading post was a mess to navigate and find the right mat to buy. You had to basically go around the world to find the right store from a guild and hoped that it sold an item you needed or wanted.

Their crafting, good? You can’t be serious. Its horrible. Sure, you can upgrade an item’s quality, WITH A CHANCE AT LOSING THE ITEM COMPLETELY. But oh, you can get more of the item to reduce the chance of failure! Have fun grinding that out and fighting others in dungeons for that loot.

And oh, you can level up your craft just like in skyrim! Make a bunch of useless junk to level it and salvage it (getting a lot less in return), then have a left over skill point to unlock the next perk.

Wanna research a perk you can add to weapons and armor? Starts off short at first, but once you start to know everything, the research time increases. I think I stopped caring once it hit 3 days (not to mention, you have to FIND an a piece of weapon or armor with that property. And it doesn’t unlock it for all types, just that one specific type. IE, a sword that can crit more? Research it. Now you can craft swords to crit more! Now find a dagger with that same property to research it so you can make daggers that crit).

And if you think Scribe in GW2 is bad? You know nothing about inscriptions in ESO. If you don’t have an “inscription buddy” DON’T DO IT.

ESO basically FORCES you to pay RL money for a mount. Sure, you can get it with gold…eventually (like, after hitting max level and even then still being poor), so its basically “pay us money”. Litterally people and guides say to just pay $15 dollars for a month to get the mount. Then, you have to TRAIN IT (spending more gold) to make it go faster and have a bigger inventory (the third stat you ignore till its last, endurance). In which case, you can only level up one trait one at a time, every 24hrs.

You can fast travel, but there is a “cool down” to it, in which it’ll cost you x gold (scales with level) if you try to fast travel from one spot to another immediately. I think the last mine was at was 700g, unless I waited 45min (the cost goes down the longer you wait). This is really bad when the quests for crafting are at one town, and you are questing on the other side of the map. Have fun!

Want to sell stolen items? Can only sell 100 stolen items a day.

I will give ESO one credit. They got stealth right. The thief class had only one short invisibility spell, on a long CD. Stealth was how it was in the other Elderscrolls games. So props to that (I can’t disappear right in front of you).

The rest of the game? Well, there is a reason they are offering a random million bucks to anyone that plays for a certain period of time…

And I didn’t even GET to mods that are required in order to fill basically functions liking looting….geesh….

Less then 1Kb/sec on Update anyone?

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no….

i’m at 2

99% of my playtime in Gw2 is queues.

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Tbf the population hasn’t catched up at all.

Population can’t catch up because of the matchmaking system