Guild Wars 2

The answer is no. Increasing difficulty would cause loss of bad players, that are majority of any (mmo) game. Thats why the good games never survives long.

And of course none gives a quaggan about poor Spiky, who soloed all TA paths 3x hurray for Weth

Problem is that they don’t need to fight for customers, because there is not other mmo that could cause danger. No monthly fees, why would you try to make the game attractive for someone who already paid his money?

I am seriously sick of this easy content. Not to mention reward will be same kitten like now.

Algreg.3629:

Don´t get me wrong, Grenth is a nice event and very well designed, but when a game designer refers to this one as “very hard” it pretty much illuminates one of the major flaws of GW2, fine game that it is in all.

Let’s face it, Anet already decided what part of community is important for them, so they will do everything to please bad players. Now we surely know that guild missions won’t be challenging at all. Devs might not agree, but saying Grenth even is hard is, well.. let’s say they didn’t play anything else before.

I remember everyone was having so much fun in my previous mmo with every single new update. We got new dungeons, world bosses. None was able to clear and kill them even for weeks! And you know what, it was fun, you logged into game and you were looking forward to another raid trying to take down that nasty boss and when we finally did it, I was so excited even I did not win the epic loot it dropped.

I hope you read this Anet and finally realise what you are doing wrong in PvE.

Quote from interview:
“Also, anyone who was in the guild that kicked off the mission receives an extra different type of reward, which can be traded in for a new category of personal guild rewards that can only be earned through the guild mission system.”

Now I can’t wait to see babies crying how there is only one way how to obtain that goodies.

I think they should implement RNG to last step of making legendary weapon. You put in 3 gifts & precursor and you will get chance to obtain the legendary! Isn’t it cool? Maybe then people that are excited about this would finally wake up.

Bump!

Open your eyes, dear Anet!

I really hope to see epic battles against hordes of monsters. But well, considering last updates, we will end up doing Daily Dodge & Healer in guild group…

Isn’t punishing player for playing the game great? Sounds fair to me.

/sarcasm off

@Red Falcon: as you said..

that problem with ascended ring in FotM is pretty annoying, at start you have none when you need, and later you have no place to storage them. It’s simply not done yet and as I see it never will, devs just don’t care about this.

Random is probably the worst thing ingame atm, it can be a vital part of mmo, but not with so crazy numbers. (now some lucky guy that got Dusk at first try will come and say how amazing it is)

DR is simply stupid idea and I see no reason why should be someone punished for playing the game. If I wan’t to farm certain thing, I simply have to stop or DR will stop me.. nonsense. Sometimes it looks like people behind this game never played any other mmo, as I see it, grind is somehow part of mmo if you want or not, and killing it cannot be a good way.

And then I can be wondering why is my guild empty, while at first two months we had 90% people active, now it’s hardly 10%. Don’t let people farm materials they need, force them to do part of everything, and they will move to better place. And it’s sad, because this game has so much potential, just need someone more experienced to lead.

Zenith.6403:

- I will be missing the extra stats it gives. You could say that the stats increases are minimal and I agree. However, my point is that acquiring these items has very little to do with skill. Once you’ve completed all the fractals successfully, you’re good enough (skillwise) to get the item you’re after. There is no going around the fact that you’re going to repeat this dungeon for months to get a single item out of it.

I don’t know if this is meant to be a game for unemployed people living on welfare cheques who have 10 hours a day to grind dungeons for tokens. Perhaps I understand your attitude of having completed grueling task and now you don’t want anyone else to get the same goodies you have for less effort.

I feel insulted by developers of this game, who are making me waste time on pointless repetitive tasks.

Just take the advantage of playing game that has no gear check. There is absolutely no reason to rush for ascended backpiece, it took me 2 months to collect enough Fractal tokens to make one, I wasn’t in hurry and in the meantime I collected nice amount of money and other useful stuff.

I think it’s not really about that you would be missing few points to your attributes, people hate feeling when they are not at same level as others – in this case, having ascended gear. Even if it doesn’t make game breaking difference. Now when I think about it, in this game you have no inspect player option, no dps meter… there is no difference at.. just color is not orange but pink.

There is an exotic backpack at Orr temple merchant. And you are one of those people that never have enough and simply must complain. I got my fractal backpack by playing, guess what, I cannot see any difference, if you would give me 2 same characters, one with exotic backpack and othe one with ascended and dont let me look at numbers, I wouldnt have idea which one is it. Sorry I never understood you problem and prabably never will. Since you are obviously not “farmer,” I guess you wont be missing that 10 agony resistance.

THE DOCTOR.3510:

I don’t agree with the elitist thing, but the complaining is getting annoying.

You may not agree, but I could link you multiple threads where this was discussed a lot.

I also forgot to add players complaining about the need of grouping for dungeons but haven’t tried it yet.

Since start I’ve been reading many strange threads, sometimes I couldn’t believe my eyes. I should say that I know people are always whinig around mmo, usually not ingame, but via forum. But lately it’s just too much.

Everything that requires player’s attention multiple times is treadmill.
Everything that is not obtained without effort is grind.
Boss that requires tactic needs to be nerfed or removed from the game.
Dungeon that cannot be completed by first try is too hard and should be fixed to don’t frustrate players.
Party leader looking for certain class is elitist, egoist and should be banned for his behaviour.

Don’t you think it’s too much? Because this is what I see every day I visit this forum.

There is no endgame. This game was made for people that don’t like traditional mmo with challenges. You should log in for few hours per week. If you did same mistake like me and expected something more, am sorry for you.

Can’t understand how this thread can be ignored for so long by Anet. This is simply a must.

With ~300gold I can hardly buy precursor I want, and every day it’s more expensive so it would be infinite…

It’s not about my lose, it’s sick someone is using random system for such an important stuff .

I got to the point where I dont want to continue playing. After ~400 hours ingame, I decided to get precursor, as there was nothing else to get. Every day precursors become more expensive, so there was just no way to keep my money and buyout from TP, I simply had to try get it out of MF. Of course, after hundreds of gold, I ended with empty pocket and no precursor. Trying rares, exotics, still no success. I did not come here to whine and cry, it was my decision to try my luck.

But lets face the fact, there are basically two ways how to obtain precursor (i dont count TP). Chest and mystic forge. Chance from chest is so low that is not even worth to mention. Sure, few people got it, but waiting maybe even few years for it is not an option. Obviously the best chance to get it is via MF.

What do you think about it, is it right? I mean, if I would want to play hazard game, I would go to casino. I hope dev are happy with themselves for implenting korean random into the game. Whats worse, it’s not only problem of precursors, whole game is infected with random stuff.

I never understood reason why the DR is in game. One acceptable reason would be protection agaisnt bots, but punishing players for farming is.. well.. strange. As they are suppliers for most of people that rather buy stuff from TP rather than getting themselves.

OK guys, you are probably missing the sick part of this thread. Making solo option for story dungeons is acceptable, but I guess none of you actually read first post. Let me quote it for you:

Please make the story dungeons easier and soloable without nerfing the rewards
I haven’t tried to join a group yet in gw2 <- THIS..

For me OP is the biggest egoist I’ve seen yet.

I would like to tell something to all people that think: “end forced grouping”
MMO is not for you.

What’s more, with some “individuals” abilities, making dungeons soloable for everyone would require an empty instance.

People have right to play with players they choose, if the want no noobs, newbies, casuals etc, then it’s thier right. Just because someone didn’t invite you to party doesn’t mean it’s bad, maybe you should play singleplayer game or get over it.
So who is the elitist here? I say OP is.

On the other hand I understand, GW2 forum users (not players, those who whine every day here are no players for me) are something special, whatever bad happens to them, they have to come here and tell everyone how people hurt them. Awww

As I promised, I remade the video without music, so this time it should be available to all countries and everyone! Afaik people from US couldn’t watch it till now. I hope you will enjoy the video and leave comment if you like it.

Am also asking myself why I can get ascended gear only by playing Guild Wars 2
Now seriously, let’s startanother discussion how FOTM introduced treadmill and how are Laurels bad.

Shiren.9532:

The other two paths were easy to AFK until F/U was buffed. I’ve never enjoyed the final fight of F/F so I’d be interested to see how you handled it. Thirty minutes seems like a long time…

Does it mean the video is also blocked for you? Am already rendering it without music, in few hours it will be online.
30 minutes.. problem was that I couldn’t focus on boss, I had to pay attention on adds, whenever I killed one, he was replaced fast. I was forced to kite them and run around main boss, still I was getting knocked down and rooted. Soon you will see

Noob me for not trying ranged on phase 1. Bugged dodge roll (that is still not fixed!!!) made it hard, whenever it failed and I had to roll twice, I had no endurance to prevent the kick. Also these red circles that don’t show the range correctly are pretty annoying.

Very impressive video.

I skipped trash, maybe lame but I would have no chance against group of these guys.
About the Leurent adds. Afaik I wasn’t drunk yesterday, but I recall that there were 2 knights and one archer. Well, still it was quite tricky. I wanted to record it as well, but after several tries I stopped, Fraps is rapidly decreasing my FPS, as am playing on 4 years old notebook.

I managed to pull the first knight while others left combat, focus skills helped me to survive his crushing attacks. Then I realised I can pass them, on the other side there were some little plants (I really cannot recall the name), so I used them every time I got downed, because this time I had to kill knight and archer at once.

I hope it was understandable enough, as you see English is not my native language :P

Soon I will remake the video without music, so everyone can see it.

After little break I decided to make another TA solo video. This time Forward/Forward path that many players find being the hardest one. Again my goal was facing the enemy bosses instead of using bugs aka staying in safe long range. First and last bosses are good example. I did not record fight with Greater Nightmare Vine, as I’ve already recorded it in my previous video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQav3bi9lWA
Just a note, final boss fight took ~30 minutes. Hope you will enjoy the video.

Version with no music, due to problems when people were not able to watch the original video

Sorry but this is silly, introducing threadmill would make it worse for you? How exactly? You can still play your casual way. Or you’re afraid you won’t be on the same level anymore? Well, people that work for something should get more than those that do nothing. Lesson from real life.

Just have to say I fully agree with OP, this game totally lacks challenge. Sometimes I feel like playing Sims, people melt down when they hear about new Quaggan backpack, and still less and less care about gameplay. If I could take the time back, I would not purchase GW2, but it’s at least a good lesson for me.

BioFringe.7945:

Why not just add a Weekly instead of messing with the definition of Daily?

And then baby criers will come and tell how they are busy in RL and ask for the same.
One thing I learned, in any mmo community, people cry no matter what.

You made me laugh so hard, of course it’s not bannable. You can send whatever you have to whoever you want.

Btw, before you spend money on rare weapons, consider buying exotics instead. I spent ~150gold on rare greatswords with no success, if I were you, I would go for exotics, there should be much better chance. There is really no point trying it with rares if you ask me.

haviz.1340:

Spiky.8403:

So you didn’t watch any of my videos? Shame on you! Guardian it is >.<

What can I say, i got slow connection ;<

I’ve done it on guardian and almost done it on elementalist so it’s doable ;p

So you are either better player than me or don’t have impatient girlfriend. ^^

As someone above mentioned, red circles need to be fixed!

haviz.1340:

Spiky.8403:

So after several tries I always ended with mostly same result. I managed to pass through phase 1, but always wiped during the second phase. Even not standing in red circle I was still getting damage, so after few hours I left frustrated. Warrior.. ehm, i mean Wethospu wins this time

What’s your proffesion?

So you didn’t watch any of my videos? Shame on you! Guardian it is >.<

So after several tries I always ended with mostly same result. I managed to pass through phase 1, but always wiped during the second phase. Even not standing in red circle I was still getting damage, so after few hours I left frustrated. Warrior.. ehm, i mean Wethospu wins this time

Lupi is hard for little asura guardian trying to solo him #cry*#*
Bah.. there are many amazing guides on youtube, for a party of decent players it cannot be problem to take him down. Put some effort into it, this is not Sims or Farmville

I hate you! Seriously I regret I didn’t go for warrior. Dmg output with guardian is too low to make this. 1-2 months ago I’ve been trying path 3, but I didn’t manage to keep devices alive for more than ~50%. There were too many mobs already and what’s more, they act crazy when you trying to aggro them.

What more to say, well done once again.

Imo Guild Wars 2 is great mmo game with some little issues. Nothing game breaking. Problem is that it’s different compared to other mmo games that basically force you to keep playing. In GW2 you play when you can, no matter if you take one week break or not. Am not saying it’s wrong, but that’s the reason why servers will never be full for long time.

I am sick of people kittening every single day for same kitten. If you were not absolutely chronic complainer, you would finish this achievement in 2 hours. Hell that’s real issue, you have only one month to finish it.

Good job.
I can finally leave Lupi and stop trying doing this on my guardian

Aggro is working really strange in this case, Knights act like confused chickens, running to you and the suddenly back. Another fail is that knights are doing bigger mess than Leurent. Welcome to Guild Wars 2.. nothing more to say.

I will definetely give it another try, just getting there takes me ~45 minutes if I don’t fail.
I remember that I was completely lost about his skills, he has 2 different skills blowing that green mess, one for bees, one for worm. And that Chuck Norriss’ kick. I was watching video of warrior soloing him, but I saw nothing that would help me get prepared for it (I always missed dodging = stunned = dead). Is there some sound evidence of this skill comming? Also, will the worm not spawn if I dodge at right moment as he’s gonna spawn him on me?

Answering these questions would help a lot.

Here comes my last video of Risen Priestess of Dwayna, boss of one of the temples in Malchor’s Leap. Original length was ~27 minutes

PowerCat.5738:

I noticed you have 3 “blue” buffs on, the “wrench”, the “apple” but there’s another, the 3 X’s, what buff is that?

As Malzeth said. It’s +5% to armor, +5% to damage and regeneration boost.
But these cannot be purchased via Gem shop. At least I haven’t found them there. Most of them I got from BL chests and also from Winterland’s jumping puzzle (once a day).

Berserker Abomination (Arah) added.

Soon Risen Priestess of Dwayna will come. It’s Orr boss, but I don’t want to make a new thread for it.

This is gonna be my last couple of solo videos for next few weeks, so I hope you will enjoy them. This time went into Arah explorable path 2. Fight with Operative Belka is getting harder by the time, but I think it’s pretty well doable by other classes too.

Tomorrow I will add my second video of Berserker Abomination, it was pretty long and intensive fight as my dodge roll was bugging often as I used the key instead of double clicking. So I missed few dodges but overall I think it’s not that bad Sadly I wasn’t able to defeat Lupicus, I am newbie to Arah as I’ve never run it before (except story months ago) and I didn’t really understand the mechanism of boss skills pretty well. I was failing because of missed dodges, got knockbacked, stunned and bees owned me easily. It’s a pity because 4th and 5th boss should be soloable without any big problems. Well, maybe next time

As you said, you have to like it. Only thing you get out of soloing in GW2 is fun, and I think it’s good, people are not that mad when you do something like this ^^

One player asked me to do more solo stuff, so am currently working on Arah explorable, passed Operative Belka and Berserker Abomination and moving forward. It’s great because it’s my first time in Arah explo so I have to learn tactics at first = lot of wipes

Levistis.8356:

Nice job dude, I’m totally meleeing the nightmare tree now!

This is one of the things I wanted to show by making video. Not just that it is actually possible to melee final boss, but also the first boss. I’ve been farming TA for a while and in 90% of cases people were dying at Nightmare Vine way too much. Even in long range. So yes, it’s pretty well doable if you understand the mechanism.