I’m not sure how constantly adding permanent content affects the game system though. Would having more zones increase the amount of assets ANet needs to run the game smoothly (more servers = more cost, etc)? Though it’d be really nice to visit the Bazaar of the Four Winds again – I think it’s such a pity that the devs put in so much hard work to get a zone up and running and have to scrap it two weeks later.
And I believe ANet’s reasoning behind it was to make sure there wouldn’t be too many dungeons available – imagine if you wanted to do a Living World dungeon but couldn’t get a PUG to join you because the amount of players wanting to do the same dungeon would be spread thin?
Thats generally Anets hesitance with expanding their world, because they think it will thin out the population. The megaserver will help this problem, but at the same time putting so much temporary content has already lost them players, oh the irony.
In terms of dungeons, its already hard sometimes to find a group for a certain path in lfg, which is why people join PVE guilds to do dungeons with. I honestly doubt adding another 3 dungeons with 3 paths each in them will make a difference.
Again Anet is being cowardly because they fear they will fall into the same trap they did in gw1 with spreading the playerbase, but what they’ve done so far has already alienated certain players.
There is plenty of build diversity available in PvE. More builds are viable in this game’s dungeons than in most other MMO’s. Adding trinity would reduce build diversity. There’d be one slot for a tank running the right build, one for a healer running the right build and three for DPS running … the right build. Trinity would kill all groups that currently allow “play what you want.”
If you’re in a dedicated speed-run group, you’d be embracing the optimum build and group composition, not complaining about it. Since you are complaining, that tells me you’re wanting any build (or maybe just your build) to be acceptable in the PuG experience — random strangers on the internet with different desires and priorities.
No one who understood the game expected that Ferocity would suddenly mean that pseudo meta PuG groups would suddenly become more accepting.
There is no build diversity. Your comment may be the most misleading comment ive ever seen. Everything is zerker, just zerker. Everything is about optimizing damage you so can get that extra few seconds shaved off of your dps when you are downing a boss who is LOS’ed through a wall.
You didn’t even reply to my statement monotony of strategy in dungeons. For the most part, you only really need to understand how to stack and thats about 80% of the challenge in a dungeon. New players who come to this game are so confused by this after a certain point because they have never played a game that has such flawed design that it could warrant such strategy for the majority of its content.
You’re mistaking people’s desire for convenience with actual requirements. If you want to use different strategies, use them. If you want to use different builds, use them. You don’t even have to stack if you don’t want to. The only thing stopping you is the inconvenience of having to put together a group of the like minded.
The real problem is that dungeons are 20 months old and no content can remain fresh that long under constant use. How engaging are dungeons in other games if people have been running them nonstop for almost two years with nothing new on the horizon? I’ve known guilds that wanted to expand to larger raids (10 to 25 man) who failed because the principals couldn’t bring themselves to redo dungeons or 10-mans (once they got their own gear) in order to gear new recruits because they were bored out of their minds.
In other words, you want the meta to change. Well, as long as there’s nothing new, the meta will always be about convenience. Trinity might make the meta look better to you, but it won’t mean things won’t be stale, and the new meta won’t look better to those who dislike trinity. It would also mean the death of “anything goes” parties — the ones where you could play using builds and strategies of your choice. But go on demanding your preferred poison. I will, too.
You still miss the point, the fact that there is really one strategy to use ruins everything. Ye i’ll agree that people can do a dungeon in a long arduous manner clearing every mobs for no apparent reason since they arn’t rewarded any differently for it. People obviously speedclear through various methods(stacking/skipping). You can make your argument that no one is forced to do any specific strategy(this is one reason why mechanics are so poor in this game).
Now imagine if there was a strategy where you can complete a dungeon in 30 seconds. Obviously you don’t have to, you can do it the normal way and take 30 minutes like the expected time of the dungeon. People are still going to take this cheesy broken strategy anyway even though its not the only way.
Im not even suggesting they bring in a trinity, but its obvious there is more diversity with a trinity than there currently is in PVE. I mean its really quite hard to lie about it, just open up LFG and look at the number of zerker only advertisements.