I have all of these achievements so there is no general problem.
Are you sure you have done three phases each lane? Since the Gerent is nerfed and many players know the fight most lanes kill the Gerent in the second phase so it is hard to do 3 phases nowadays.
It doesn’t matter which tier the map has T1 is OK, it is easier if there a waypoints open. Tag up and spread out so that you have 5 organized people on each side. Normally a few randoms join you which makes it easier. We have it done a couple of times this way, always successful.
In between the eternity you spend grinding for gold and materials to craft ascended gear in order to survive high level fractals,
Why?
You get 77 AR from Trinkets.
You get 17 AR from your Back.
You get 14 AR from your Weapon.
You get 42 AR from your Armor.
You can do Level 59 with 77 AR (only Trinkets)
You can do Level 67 with 91 AR (Trinkets + Weapon)
You can do Level 68 with 94 AR (Trinkets + Back)
You can do Level 76 with 108 AR (Trinkets + Back + Weapon)
You can buy ascended trinkets with Laurels, Badges of Honor and Pristine Fractal Relics.
You can get an ascended back by doing PvP or with some easy tasks and 90g (Mawdrey) .
You can get ascended weapons with specialization collections.
You can buy ascended armor and weapons with raid tokens.
The drop rate of ascended armor and weapons is quite good (11,4%) in high level fractals (50+).
and the almost two years some people spend trying to craft a legendary (829 gold for total material cost, even with the Legendary Collection quests, is REALLY grindy and excesive) just makes me cringe.
Legendary Weapons are optional prestige objects which have to be expansive, else there were no prestige in them.
We are looking at adding a way for players to earn Quickloot in WvW as well. We wanted to keep PvE progression (Masteries) separate from WvW progression (Ability Lines). However this means when a new Mastery ability is created, that might also be useful in another gamemode, it doesn’t automatically crossover.
Your post is 3 months old now. Can you please give us an update on the progress?
I’ve even gotten a few silvers/golds (I think) in the games. Mathematically though, there is simply no way to gain enough more points without more silver/gold awards in the games.
There are more Mastery Points than you need to max. out Mastery Tracks. You need no gold and only a few silver in every adventure to max. out Mastery Tracks.
I don’t think that the difficulty of Story Missions were raised at all, after all that are all Level 80 Story Missions. Parts of the Story was always group content. Of course if you did Level 10 Personal Story with a Level 80 Toon in Exotics it was braindead easy, but old Level 80 Arah Story Mode wasn’t that easy to solo.
I have done every Story Mission (core Tyria and HoT) solo, many on different classes and all were doable.
I watch other characters either solo or pair with 1 other player to defeat Champion bosses in HoT but, even if I find somewhere ‘out of reach’ to stand and continuously hit them with scepter/torch I seem to do absolutely no damage whatsoever. If I jump in close and use GS I tend to die quicker than I can blink an eye!
With 175 condition damage your burn isn’t enough as you primary source of damage. You can use it to assist your damage but with zerker gear you need to use direct damage. GS is a high burst weapon but is not so good for long fights against dangerous enemies.
(my ranger could fight his way thru without to much troubles where my mesmer has runs into problems)
It seems as you think you have to fight each and every enemy on your way. That’s not true you can just run through them and as a Mesmer you have multiple invisibilities which make that much easier.
If you don’t try to facetank every enemy or run into zergs of enemies the HoT open world is quite easy it just isn’t faceroll on the keyboard easy as core Tyria.
Its like he said, mobs are easy as long as you avoid them. Epic journey where you fight powerful monsters and come out victorious you ask? Sorry you cant have that in the jungle, you gotta run for your life there. HoT in a nutshell, move with the players zerg or hide in the bushes… just make sure there isnt a frog waiting for you there.
Nope. People say “it is so hard to travel the open world”. That just isn’t true, traveling is easy if you don’t do stupid things. That doesn’t mean you can’t fight these enemies, however you shouldn’t do stupid things here either. Don’t try to facetank dangerous enemies, don’t pull to many at once etc.
I have done nearly every HC in HoT and many champions solo. You need good positioning, awareness and knowledge about your class and the enemy mechanics, then nearly everything in the HoT open world is soloable.
Since Anet has taken away the exploit of sitting on the wooden beam sticking out from the house groups are now taking to the trees.
Please anet fix this exploit. Make it so trees in the boss area cannot be climbed.
That’s an exploit?
I thought exploits gives you an advantage. Mossman is a really easy fight, up on this tree it takes twice as long and don’t give you any real advantage. In my opinion the tree isn’t a exploit it is a noob detector.
The fact that they said they increased the drop rate and it has now been 10 days since I have anything good come out is crazy I know ppl that were getting boxes every day and now no one is getting anything. it is bull crap if they increased the drop rat then fine but in 10 days you would think I would have gotten something
RNG is RNG, the drops aren’t equally spread. You can’t expect to have a drop every 10 or x boxes. You may have nothing or multiple drops that’s the way how it works. Sometimes you have luck, sometimes not.
I had one infused ring out of my last twelve “Champion Chest of the Mists”, that’s just bad luck. Hopefully the next dozen gives me multiple ascended chests.
(my ranger could fight his way thru without to much troubles where my mesmer has runs into problems)
It seems as you think you have to fight each and every enemy on your way. That’s not true you can just run through them and as a Mesmer you have multiple invisibilities which make that much easier.
If you don’t try to facetank every enemy or run into zergs of enemies the HoT open world is quite easy it just isn’t faceroll on the keyboard easy as core Tyria.
@OP
You have some really good candidates (Hammer Guardian, Minion Master, Ranger …) maybe you should test them and please give us feedback which one is the laziest. ;-)
The laziest class is definitely hammer Guardian. Why? Heavy armor, passive bulk, AOE blocks, damage rotation is auto spam, auto spam gives players permanent protection. It doesn’t get much lazier than that.
Minion Master.
Minions Attack everything which attacks you, minions heal you and minions transfer your conditions to the enemy. You need to do literally nothing, eat a sandwich enjoy a cup of tea and let the minions play for you.
A starter area and getting all of the existing armor skins to fit just so you can have a new skin for your toon. No just no. A complete waste of resources.
This.
Please use your resources to give us some cool content and don’t waste it on overgrown chicken.
I swear I have killed about 100 Tigers so far (including Veterans) and have yet to get the Flawless Tiger Claw needed for the Wild Abandon collection. Am I missing something, or am I just unlucky?
The drop rate of the items needed for the Specialization Collections is very small, maybe because these are Exotic Items.
I have farmed Quetzal for 2-3h straight till I got my Silencing Down Feather, must have killed hundreds in that time and they are all veterans. I finally got mine while killing the Champion Quetzal Commander, I think it dropped from one of his adds.
Has anyone while traveling/questing on HOT feels like if you are playing an MMORPG version of Dark Souls II?
Well the biggest difference is HoT is quite easy.
I honestly can’t understand all the whinning about the open-world part of HoT. Of course it is a little bit more difficult then core tyria. But the biggest difference here is that it is nearly impossible to get killed in core tyria, even if you do stupid things, and in HoT you need to avoid the stupid things, like using white gear or facetanking zergs of enemies.
HoT has its own problems like empty meta maps and so on. But traveling the open world is none of them.
Some adventures are just to hard. U need Gold to max out Masterys.
There are more Mastery Points than you need to max. out Mastery Tracks. You need no gold and only a few silver in every adventure to max. out Mastery Tracks.
That is a very difficult question. Instances are nice because you can play with a group of friends. I love really big fights like WvW, DS or TD. But these fights are hard to organize with maps full of AFKers or people doing other things and it is very hard to get your group on a single map. So I would like to see features like Guild HoT Maps. A feature like “Guild World Event” or “Guild Missions” in which a guild can a have a separate instance of one the big Meta-Maps like DS or TD. That would be a really nice merge between Instances and Open World. I fear that would introduce new problems and would be harmfull for the community if big guilds only play with themselves.
but the Personal Story would still be a nice alternative – assuming of course that it was difficult enough and they could do with without devaluing precursor as you said.
Content so difficult that it is comparable to 1,000g? That content had to make raids look like a walk in the park. The forum is full of threads about the high difficulty of raids. If anet introduces content which is way more difficult than raids to get precursors, they risk to get tarred and feathered by the angry forum mob.
I was pretty pumped when HoT came out and heard about the collectible legendary items; then I found out it still required a boatload of crafting and mat/gold farming. A lot of people were disappointed because it boiled down to the same grind as before.
I didn’t get that. Anet announced a way which requires the same amount of work/costs as before but doesn’t involves much RNG. How could someone be disappointed because Anet did as they said? Anet always said that the purpose of theses collections is to eliminate RNG and not to devalue precursors.
So what purpose does it serve?
Why would someone want to grind old content and dump mountains of gold when they could farm the gold to just buy one for much less time and cost?
There are dozens of threads about this topic. Why we need another one?
TL;DR;
TP prices of precursors only rarely reflect the costs to create them. In these context the prices for the “The Legendary precursor journey” are absolutely fair and the prices of some precursor in the TP are quite cheap.
This would be OK but the runs doesn‘t take that much time.
Before the nerf I had many rather casual daily Ascalon full (P1-3) with 1-2 guildies and 2-3 randoms. That took us about 30 min. So 3×1,55g=4,65g for 30 min which was quite nice.
I’m too casual of a player to get a legendary but this new addition for a precursor are so much of a grind fest I might as well grind for gold and buy one off the market.
I don’t get that. With HoT came a new way of getting a precursor which is as much work/cost as the old ones. And now you complain that there is another way? Prestige items have to be much work/cost if they were cheap there would be no prestige in them.
The real problem here is that the guild system isn’t balanced around guild sizes. 1,000 drops is not much for a big guild with 500 members but it is much for a small guild with 5 members.
Second, has anything else in similar fashion been taken away from the original gw2 account players?
Legendary Crafting was never in “original gw2” so there is no taking away something from you. Crafting Legendary Weapons is very expansive in the most cases it is cheaper to just buy them in the TP so you don’t miss out on something useful.
Of course after 3 years and millions of accounts and characters all very common names are taken, but it is not hard to find names. I have 28 characters and only 1 time I needed a second try in naming and the names of my characters are quite common. For example my norn guardian is named “Asleif Janson” which are both quite common Nordic first and last names.
GW2’s goal is for you to have fun! PvE, PvP, WvW, raids, dungeons, trading post wars, fashion wars, it’s all out there for you to try!
This and many more things like GvG, Jumping Puzzles …
Try everything and do whatever you enjoy. I play most aspects of GW2 (I hate JP) and have a lot of fun. And if one aspect is temporarily in a bad state (like PvP at the moment) I just play something different and wait for a fix.
Of course you need to be able to „blind“ type. What’s the benefit of a keybinding if you have to look at your keyboard instead of you screen? You need to practice that, if not it is not much better then clicking.
Luckily I’m used to “10 Fingers Typing” so I don’t have any problem with it and wouldn’t even think of looking on my keyboard.
Look at how many players are in DOTA2 and how many are in GW2 ranked PvP, how long you think that a team exclusive queue would be, even worse, imagine same scenario in non prime hours?
Both queues would be very long. Many people play in small teams or duo. If all these where in team queue solo queue would be very long too.
Score DOES matter. The higher your score, the more you’ve contributed to the match. The more player’s you’ve killed, decaps and caps you’ve gotten, buffs you’ve captured. I’m sorry but anyone who says score doesn’t matter is full of it, and needs to play better.
You get personal score for many things including very bad and silly things like double- and multi-capping. So playing for personal score often results in very bad play. You should play for the team and anet should have removed personal score long ago.
But maybe I am doing it wrong. Maybe I should stay on a point while others are capping it to get personal score and not helping out on other points.
