Did p1 other night, found it to be mostly easier only real problem was I got lag and gravelings not loading. Never had lag in a dungeon before and the not loading issue has only happened in WvW.
And the Troll hits too hard for Story Mode, was doing it with a party of 35-50 and he instantly downs at least 3 of us, was doing 3-3.5k damage with one attack.
Was a mixed group of lvl50 – 80. It felt like doing the dungeon for the first time rather than being with a group that runs past everything. Overall I’d say its a like a new challenge and worth doing again.
Admittedly lvl35 will struggle but thats partly to not having access to all the skills yet.
And yet it’s supposed to be a lvl 35 dungeon, not a hard mode for exotic 80’s. Make a 35 green group and get back to us on it’s doability. Vid too.
What these snarks who are so precise they piddle on a plate and make no splash can’t seem to rub two brain cells together to comprehend, is that AC is listed as a lvl 30 dungeon in SM. No way in hell’s half acre is a lvl 30 group in greens at best gonna do that mess. Hell, in explorer they list it as 35. Go make a vid of your lvl 35 group sailing thru the new changes, then get back to us on how awesome sauce you are.
Get rid of it. The kitten is broken anyway. You said at it’s implement it was for when a team had been locked out of a map for an hour before the kitten commanders were sposed to show up, yet they are ALWAYS there, so you can roll one out like pez, over and over and over.
If you can’t be bothered to fix the kitten, then remove it.
I’m not sure the game mechanics are flexible enough for making a soloable dungeon, but heroes similar to GW2 would be nice.
Seriously? The whole storyline is soloable except Arah. All it would take is nerfing hell out of the mobs to make it soloable. And to make it harder, they just button mashed 0 on the health meter anyway. Hell, they could make Destiny’s Edge fight as if they had 2 brain cells to rub together between them. That would help too.
We have a dozenish in guild. maybe half that on at peak times. yet we managed to build the influence that we had 17k this morning, with lvl 4 stuff long since built. Dun see how this is a problem. Only thing I think is stupid is how kitten long it takes to build kitten. 200+ hours for art of war 5 and economy. Make a big noise about how awesome sauce all this kitten is then make it take a dogs age to actually be able to do kitten with it.
Guaranteed a blue for a champ. Oh joy. So something a baby step above white trash that I’ll decon for parts. Yeah. As that talking celery stalk, Trehearne says all the time, when I see Champs, I’ll say “Moving on”
“Just a reminder, blue is the absolute minimum champs can drop, they have much better odds of dropping good loot than regular mobs, and once you’re properly getting kill credit for them hopefully this becomes more visible.”
Yeah. Believe it when I see it. I solo champs, and get nothing, for days now, could say over a week if I bothered with them anymore
The thing is….. world completion was designed when the idea was for the game to be released with guesting and paid transfers already in effect. The delay on implementing guesting, and the free transfers they allowed for months as a compensation, got lots of people world completion easily.
The gold star by your name and the title “Been there done that” was really supposed to mean something.
How can you really claim to have been there and done that if you’ve never fought in a protracted battle over a keep?
Legendaries being sold in the TP and world completion through free transfers have really cheapened the “achievement” of the endgame goals unfortunately. If you earn yours the hard way it will feel much better though…..
Earned my star. I been everywhere, and fought there too. GoM since I started playing. I don’t transfer to win, anymore then I use exploits.
There are so many reasons it’s hard to know where to start.
6. The people are nicer. I have never seen a PvE player send gold to another PvE player on the trust that you will use it for the better of the server. I have seen commanders get 20-30 gold in donations because they asked for it on the map just so they can take care of upgrades and buy siege.
PvE players are so selfish it can be disgusting, WvW players on average are very non selfish.
We drop plates of food for our whole server to make sure we have buffs. We play as a group and form a community we set up road markers to get around quicker. If I ask for a ram on a door I can get one instantly no one cares that it costs the 4s even if it gets destroyed.
Simply In My Humble Opinion the majority of WvW players are more fun to play.
This last part reminds me of getting sent gold to continue upgrades when a commander logged (Scarecrow). Never crossed my mind to pocket it. Helps remind me of some of the reasons I liked playing…… maybe it will make the burnout I’m currently feeling with the perpetual DH/GoM/HoD matchup is causing ease off. Felt a bit bad not staying last night when I knew there were people on I knew. Not quite ready yet tho. Maybe next reset I’ll have had a long enuff break.
Can someone please explain what motivates people to play WvWvW?
I think Conan said it best
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Yes, YESSS. Some of my best memories of the game come from breaking enemy sieges at Bay. (mostly a homeland defender) they are especially sweet when we are greatly outnumbered. Which is the norm on GoM.
The best way to preserve peace in the WvW JP is to kill the enemy so that only allies are left alive in the JP.
The only JP you should expect peace in is YOURS. If it’s red, it’s dead. Run your own BL for free badges, you get nothing from mine if I can help it. Not that I spend time in em. I don’t like JP’s and rarely bother going anywhere near them. Unless I figure enemy are camping them to camp flip. Then it’s hunting season.
I wish I had written this, but I couldn’t have said it better.
I completely agree the OP and his points.
“Only a WvW player has 10g in the bank and thinks he’s rich”.
I did when I first hit 10g. Then when I made 20g I thought I was swimming. I like to make my own gear cuz like the crafting and PvE stuff too, so am back down to 8g. But have a guildie who fracs and crawls alot, and when she told me her ascended back piece cost her 80g in comps….. I was disabused of the notion that I was rich. >.<
Given the large disparity in server populations it is simply impossible to have both parity and variety with the same rating system, and it staggers me that people cannot understand that. Pick one or the other, but you can’t have both.
So, let’s extend this. Pick two teams you local football team gets to play all season, cause you can’t have parity and new teams to play against in the same package. Static tiers are doing nothing but being boring. Over a week and counting since I cared enough to play for the same outcome as the last month and a half, or more. Combine that with a low pop server to start with, and GoM has lost a reliable night time defender, when that is exactly the time they need me most. Cause I’m bored of the same match, the same fight, the same result, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over……………………………………………………………………… Exactly what god given rule says the matchups have to be between just three servers, but can’t bump up and down from the tiers above and below for more variety, and challenge. Stagnation isn’t a goal.
But why would someone spend a fortune repairing armor for virtually no reward?
I can’t think of a time when I’ve ended a WvW session and lost money…
Seriously. Even on sessions where I wasted lots on upgrades and siege I usually came out ahead. Only loosing money if you aren’t dong anything but getting shanked. Even huddling in a group getting nothing but cap rewards will pay for repairs. Unless you stand round thinking you can play like you would a PvE fight. Gotta shake rust myslef if I wanna play. Been lvling a new guard and that PvE cushiness has spoiled me. Playing bad right now. When I’m playing. SOOO bored with the perpetual matchup with Henge and Haven. Can’t bring myself to bother, so more rust >.<
Ahh yess, so you and a few buddies is the same as the continual, and convenient double teaming of GoM. Even split up the middle. Zergs stopping to wave. Home BL’s left clean of each other attacks, far more often then not. It’s completely the same thing, capping one tower, as opposed to rolling an entire BL on each side, while leaving the other alone. Totally.
Thieves are beyond OP, the fact they have high damage plus high mobility plus high stealth and high escapability all rolled into one far out weights the fact they are “squishy”.
If they didn’t have the high damage the other stuff would be bearable!
When it comes to Risk VS Reward, Thieves are all reward!
Had 1 theif yesterday making 10 of us run round like idiots trying to stop him, he knew he was trolling us too as he was just stealth’ing when we attacked him and then appearing and literally bouncing round like a kangaroo in circles for the fun of it!
I’m a hammer warrior, didn’t matter what skills I used to lock him down nothing worked, he’d go invisible right in front of me, I’d immediately hit hammer skill 3 which is a stun and the next thing I know he was bouncing around miles away!
If being able to run circles round 10 people with no risk at all isn’t overpowered then nothing is!
They need to rethink about the Thief package as a whole, either swing the nerf bat at their damage to compensate for the rest of the stuff or take away some of the stealth’ing capabilities so they can’t ditch and run quite so easily!
Don’t get me wrong, I think they are a great class and have the potential for amazing scouting abilities and such, but they don’t play as a team due to the fact they can just go gank teams of people for the lulz!
Now tho asked you to chase him around with 10 ppl grp ? dont you have places to be with such force instead of chasing solo thief ? Just turttle up and move your way lol.
Would have been a great plan except the thief was following us while we tried to take back supply camps, like I said, he was trolling us knowing full well we weren’t going to stop him. (Although we did eventually when more people turned up and he panicked and back himself up against a wall and everyone laid into him).
The point still stands that no class should have that much yummy goodness rolled into 1!
You need 10 to flip camps? No wonder he could dance round you. And you know he can dodge your mighty hammer too right? It isn’t instawin.
Sad but true.
it is funny that you finish same fractal in 40 minutes or 1.5 hours or fail. Just cause many ppls use magic find.
Yeah. Funny. It’s all about the one stat. Not the player. Cause all ya leets are so precise you kitten on plate and make no splash, so always have the same run times unless you have an MF anchor holding your back. Nope. Don’t use any, except for my karka shell earring
Every class should get a utility skill that gives 25% movemnt boost, it would be a choise for each player.
Yes and give every class stealth, every class a teleport, every class a portal until all the classes are the same…
thats just a stupid answer and not at all relevant, being able to get around a little faster is nothing special or class specific, portals, teleports and stealth are class skills.
Makes grouping up so much more fun not having people go at comparable speeds. Either the slow person gets left behind, or the zippy one has to constantly wait around, negating the speed buff in the first kitten place.
Perhaps people need to get that World of WarCraft mentality out of their heads. Movement speed is fine.
Never played the game. Perhaps your people need to get out of dismissing everyone as being WoWheads. I love the passive boost on my thief. I HATE crawling around with my guard. And spare me the staff boost. 8 seconds of swift is kitten. And barely a reason to lug the kitten staff around. Movement is kitten when it feels like you are crawling through molasses.
Guaranteed a blue for a champ. Oh joy. So something a baby step above white trash that I’ll decon for parts. Yeah. As that talking celery stalk, Trehearne says all the time, when I see Champs, I’ll say “Moving on”
I would ask, what was your opinion about the breakout events? They are a part of the balancing solution and gave players impenetrable siege. That’s quite a benefit.
Utter garbage and dumb as a bag of hammers. Yeah, like the other guy said, can break em if min BO, but only if you have ppl there to do it. They make low pop servers hell. You finally push invaders out, maybe get some upgrades started, and a new BO starts up. And the title is Break OUT, not IN. So why the hell are they on the invasion side of things in the first place. I despise them completely and don’t even take part of them with my server. The only place I can barely see them having a point, and that is if I’m drunk and in my most agreeable mood ever, is if a server gets rolled back into it’s citadel and can’t Break OUT of it. As for the laughable Outmanned buff? Well, when you are outmanned to the point you actually need a buff, extra karma and xp don’t mean kitten when you are never getting kitten for defending the timer unless you actually break the siege. So you can hold for an hour or more and fall, and get kitten. Whoop dee doo.
I asked why and how I could benefit…and he wasn’t able to give me an answer.
Did you know that WvW points also giving you bonuses in PvE? Like Crafting bonuses etc?
I’ll get those bonuses even if I don’t personally participate.
Which is exactly why I suggested in the suggestion area that those who don’t WvW not get the bonuses. Much kvetching and whining ensued. But as my previous post tells. Other reasons leading to utter boredom mean, I no longer WvW. Did last night for the time it took to map clear GoM BL, Messed around for a bit, then said why am I bothering? And left. Maybe if they ever bother to reset servers, and mix up the matchups so it isn’t the same kitten 2 server alliance against us for over a month, I’ll give it a try again. Till then, so much meh.
I’ve been playing since the betas on TC only. Rolling, deleting and re-rolling alts as usual (its a disease, I know). Exploring & playing in open world and blithely ignoring dungeons, spvp and WvW. Not my style…I thought.
But for the last few weeks, I’ve been playing wvw. And enjoying it immensely. And this from an avowed soloist in all games. That said, there are a lot people out there who hate pvp in any form. I was one of those and I just lumped wvw into that playstyle and ignored it.
Its not spvp. But until you can convince the general populace to lay aside their stereotypes and give the style an honest chance for a few weeks…it will probably stay the way it is.
I feel much the same way about PvP. Got no use for it since I stopped playing CounterStike. And was amazed at how much I enjoyed WvW. Still haven’t bothered with sPvP, and unless a guildie finally drags me, that wont change anytime soon. But I’m tired. The tiers are to restrictive and static. We’ve (GoM) been locked in matchup with Henge and Haven for what seems since December. At first they denied it, but now they openly admit they are in alliance against us (as if the even split of our BL while theirs remain ignored wasn’t obvious), despite both servers having a higher pop then us, never mind combined. Am sick of the same matchup, it’s as kittening boring as saying it’s ok to have the same two teams show up to play your local whatever sports team, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…………….. Hell, even with them both on us we usually are in second, we used to being outmanned and are good at it.
But for the utter lack of reward for keeping on keeping on, while having to deal with the utter boredom of always playing the same servers = I haven’t logged since the last reset except to map clear my new guardian, hell, I hadn’t jumped into the mist since before the reset. Tedium takes it’s toll. It’s not like the servers one tier above or below are so out of reach they can’t rotate matchups. Course you also have the brain damaged breakouts making it pointless to upgrade anything as well, so nothing is. Since as soon as they are, the 2 server alliance comes and rolls thru reducing everything. So why bother kitten away coin on what wont matter? Yes, I know they can be stopped. I have. Point is, the tedium has beat all the care out of me, so I don’t.
Yeah. See pathetic people doing this all the time, worst bunch I’ve ever seen is Henge. Seems to be practically a requirement for them. But, this been around for a long time, and rather then reduce the invulnerability radius, or do anything at all, they’ve done nothing. Because that is how much they care, as demonstrated by the utter lack of doing sweet kitten all about it.
Since this patch the DR bug has gotten worse, and now even the few places where I USED to get loot are dropping nothing but blues or worse.
I mean it. Not. One. Thing. Over. Blue. in 3 hours of play last night.
I hear you. It’s been days for me since champ dropped ANYTHING, much less the crap they usually did. I was getting better loot off trash mobs then champs, for a fraction of the effort. Now, I don’t waste my time with them.
yeah, yeah. how about I haven’t had a daily listed since maintenance. Yes, my clock is fine, yes I do everything the dailies ask, regardless of if they ask me anyway. I do all that kitten as a matter of course. Didn’t have a daily listed yesterday, don’t have one today either.
Gotta love this, you doing it wrong, don’t PuG elitism. While back in the days of yore, we heard stuff about ‘playing your way’. Course, now it’s play it the way we say.
Have no probs with the new dailies. As long as they never try to make me do JPs, I’m good. x] tho the combos mighta been a prob. I never paid attention to what they were when they happened as I fought. To busy not dying.
How’s this for perception. Near an hour hitting karka as I searched for ori (congrats on killing the nodes, even less reason to go to a zone you must have worked hard on. sure ain’t going for a plain node guarded by a champ, bank on it) ZERO shells. But I was overjoyed at a blue spear and TWO bits of crab meat junk loot. THAT will sure act as a reason to go back.
@ the few people that do this sort of thing and exploit a busted hillside… c’mon.
It’s been quite a fight in your BL, GoM
Yeah. A spot you can jump where the terrain lets you go is an exploit. Unlike Every HoD I see hugging the invulnerability exploit. I had never known what people were talking about when they mentioned it till we were matched up against you some months back. And you always have to nerve to stand there laughing as if you are accomplishing something besides proving how pathetic you are that you have to rely on it not to die. IF the hill was an issue they didn’t want used, they would have closed it like they did the path you used to be able to jump to get the POI over the asura lab in the water cave in Bloodtide Coast.
I got an exotic sword and some picks. I threw out the leftover comms I had and wont ever make more. Never bought keys either. From the loot I’ve gotten out of the chests I barely see a reason to keep the 60+ I have in bank, much less pay for keys, either real money or fake. I was piling em up for my first exotic, and the day, literally, I had enough, they disabled her. Just got the sword to get rid of them cause already paid for ex dagger and pistol during the wait. (Seeing if I like the S/P build for thief or not, searching for a build I like, couldn’t care less about opinions on ‘optimum’)
Simple solution : ignore personal story. There’s a whole lot more that this game has to offer than having to tolerate that annoying fruit-face.
Is pretty much where I am. Forced myself to get to the kill mouth of zhaitan part. “My Story” has long since become the story of how I became Trehearne’s Lackey. I detest him. And unless some guildies prod me to finish, I don’t see it happening. I just don’t care about busting my kitten to put Trehearne on a pedestal.
HELL YES! I have kitten in my pack that I’ve had since halloween cuz I forget about them in inv as I run about killing kitten. We have keyboards with all kinds of buttons on them. Let us use em.
Only notice if a person is afk in WvW and they keep getting wiped. And since going afk in a danger zone is dumb as a bag of hammers I keep rezzing them. The repair bill should be a lesson to them to move to a safe spot and not serve as a distraction to others with stuff to do. PvE, rez and move on. If you didn’t take a few seconds to run out of aggro range to WP and go afk? Not my prob.
I don’t even know how a wvw player can get 5g a week.
By not relying entirely on WvW as an income source?
+1. Cuz those of us who spend lotsa time there, of course, ONLY spend our time there. No breaks, and the money drips from every orifice of the slain. Nope, out WvW time is never subsidized by PvE time and other income streams.
The only reason to go to that zone is now gone, gg
Wait, wut? That rich node was the only reason I went there. I used to try for Karka shells, but the drop rate was so pathetic that after hours there and only having 3 or so made that pointless, given how long it takes to kill them. Spose I’ll go and see for sure. Maybe the shells drop at a useful rate now to make up for it.
Dailies and monthlies are currently the only way to get ascended amulets; everyone will very likely be doing them. Enjoyable or not, they are currently mandatory for staying on top of the gear grind.
On top of the gear grind….. yet I keep having this pesky recollection of being told this wasn’t a grindy game cause the devs aren’t making a grindy game.
To people who are complaining about combo and other dailies. Find some friends.
Yeah. Stuuupid. Like my gaming should be dictated by when ppl are on. Cuz LFG’s get responded to so kitten fast when it is a group for profitable activities, not just someone needing their daily bs. Brain damage, much?
so dh got transfers, hod apparently got transfers…so come GoM next mmk?
GoM will need something resembling a WvW oriented community before we can attract anyone I’m afraid. As things stand right now, servers using kindergarten tactics out maneuver us.
Don’t bank on it. All we have left are the stubborn ones who don’t like the idea of jumping ship like a kitten to a higher tier rather then fight your way back up. Most of the time when you call for help in LA you are met with silence, at best. Or mockery. Less and less I’m surprised when players and guilds leave every week. Were a number of ppl I used to defend our GoM border with, ain’t seen most of them in a while. Dun even know if they still on the server or left or quit. We keep trying….. but I have no faith in the majority of our pop. Those of you keeping on keeping on…. salutes See ya back in there next logon. Those of you who can’t be bothered yet like the world buffs our efforts net you….. doing a good job of wearing down my no server jumping resolve. But you ain’t got me there yet.
a. you do not ‘bleed’ that sounds pathetically over dramatic
b. non WvWers getting buffs doesnt negatively affect you (infact; you could argue that it positively affects you; more PvE-ers the faster people can gear up for WvW and farm gold for seige/upgrades)
c. goes completely against any kind of community spirit
d. i had a ‘d’… but i went and got a cup of tea halfway through writing this; and seem to have forgotten "/ ill edit in if i recall
also; ‘parasite’ and ‘average thief’? i think you need a reality check.
-So sorry you can’t grasp the concept of metaphor with the bleed, aka, getting killed.
-That gear can just as easily have come from a WvW player selling their loot. There is NOTHING on the TP I or anyone can’t get on their own. They can’t get any of those world buffs without our efforts tho.
-Being mocked for keeping on trying at WvW really promotes that ‘community spirit’
-Try playing on GoM, before you feed me that ‘community spirit’ crap.
-Benefitting from others effort while not trying to help and mocking them for continuing to try? You are a parasite.
-I know how good a player I am. I’m an average thief. Go check your own reality before telling me what I should see in mine.
Sure there are some decent ones, but also many poor or undeserving ones.. that’s why being able to purchase your Com Tag is a bad idea by ANET.
I would much rather have a ranking system based on players voting on each others performances after events or WvWvW battles / PvP zones.
When a player reaches a certain amount of votes they gain a rank up the command chain and then when they reach a ceertain level they are offered the tag by way of achievement.
Not as easy as it sounds to implement i guess, especailly in WvWvW where the players are zoning in/out all the time but I am sure there is some bright sparks out in the ether that could cobble something together.
+5000 this. Getting a commander icon should be merit based o the view of the people you play with. Not loot sold from dungeon crawls and market manipulation. I know a number of folks I listen to over some “commanders”.
The Commander icon means nothing more than that the person who has it had more Gold than common sense.
All it really means is they have the gold for the icon. Dun mean they can find their butt with both hands, GPS and a field guide, tho. Watched one kitten away all the supplies in our tower yest (GoM) during a breakout siege buying an outfitter upgrade. Because that was so much more important then being able to make repairs and build siege weapons. Needless to say, we immediately went from winning that siege to loosing the tower. Then Bay. I see more people abandoning ship after this week.
If you take the soul-binding off, all the armor and equipment will drop to near worthless.
Really. Then why, pray-tell, can you not even decon some soulbound crap? Is deconning the gear you wore and outgrew gonna destabilize the market for the sake of an ore or piece of wood? Or heaven forfend an ecto? My character didn’t pay for my account. I did. Not that I’m ever going to go for a legendary. A skin isn’t worth that kinda effort in my view.
I am weary of busting my kitten in WvW, accruing the world buffs for the benefit of those who refuse to help those few of us on GoM who fight in The Mist. I suggest you stop allowing them to leech off the efforts of those who do bleed and pay for the upgrades while fighting there. If you can’t be bothered to help in the WvW fights, you don’t deserve the benefit of the world buffs. Nothing they do helps us in our part of the game. I see NO reason they should benefit by our efforts and cost of coin. Especially when just about every ask for help in LA is met with little more then mockery.
If you don’t fight in The Mist, you don’t deserve the buffs it provides. Set up some kinda code that checks if you actually go there, AND do more then stand around inactive or screw round in the JP, to qualify for the buffs. Sick of carrying parasites. And I’m sure those that have been at it longer, and are better then this average thief are even sicker of it. Guess that’s why players and guilds leave after every week of wasted effort trying to drag round the lampreys.
