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Apparently I should be running through the streets shouting praise at A.net for what, exactly? Bugged content. They can go kitten themselves. And you can, too.
Yes, how dare they release something with unintentional bugs?! It’s not as if they were trying to provide us with something for free.
Get some perspective.
perspective. ANet has no public test servers, and it shows.
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as a necro can solo vets… normal mobs are easy they just have 1 attack that hits hard and a little more health (im level 74)
True my lvl 30ish necro can solo vets there the only thing I had trouble with was the burrowed worms I’d dodge twice then they’d kill me in a corner after I couldn’t dodge anymore. though I didn’t try kill all the creatures (like the sharks).
yes those are annoying. The best thing I found was use spectral walk so you can run around for a decent amount of time with speed and get out and wait for it to come back up again. Without speed i didnt even try running around in there (talking about the gather golem part event).
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the fundamental flaw with thieves and why you can’t compare them to games like LoL is thief takes ZERO skill to put out massive damage. In games that are actually e-sports that balance around that, it takes high level skill to play the class at a high level (shocker) thus leaving casuals balanced since they can’t do the same thing the pros are doing. In GW2 it’s like push 3 buttons and insta-gib anyone that doesn’t have defensive CDs up. it’s dumb.
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anet should take a page from Rift and do events like them. Week+ long, series of easily identifiable quests that then open up daily quests that give you event currency to buy nice gear and cosmetics for all levels culminating with a final weekend event.
trying to pack an event like this into one weekend (at the same time as free trials) is just asking for problems.
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One week later, there’ll be single digits doing it.
fixed. one week at most. There’s nothing worthwhile in that zone.
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People flamed me before for suggesting ANet have a public test realm for events/changes to be tested prior to being released live saying ANet releases stuff when its good and ready and test realms dont help anything (even though almost every mmo uses them)..
I can only think a weekend of testing would have helped this event out immensely.
Also as others have said the overall explanation of this whole event is quite bad. Even when working I was seeing people running up to Noll and see him not doing anything and assuming he was bugged and just giving up.. not realizing he has a timer before he actually does anything, and is then insta-gibbed by the people standing there. So if you afk while it happens and come back youll just think it’s bugged and say kitten it and log off.
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The battle has moved from Lion’s Arch to the karkas.
Go near Sanctum Harbor Waypoint in Lion’s Arch. There is a transporter NPC near the boats/docks that will transport you to Southsun Cove.
and what are we supposed to do in southsun? just kill mobs and do the events? are we just doing this to fill time until the next phase starts at some predetermined time or does the amount of events we accomplish actually lead to something?
I got bored in southsun after about an hour
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as a necro can solo vets… normal mobs are easy they just have 1 attack that hits hard and a little more health (im level 74)
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i almost spit up milk, 10/10 troll op
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Noll – Northern Shiverpeaks, people saying other mobs also bugged
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what is exciting about something that has been done in every other mmo? Hell even warhammer had a stat to gate content.
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until there is match making and separation of pugs/premades in tournies im stickign to pve. have fun.
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it took 2 months to add 5v5 (5 if you count beta)… not good speed lol
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2 people are enough.
to fix bugs reported since beta by 2014
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Just a question, is that all that they have for the necro for this 11/15 patch?
Coz I can’t see the patch note atm.
yup
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i love how they spend more time on awful underwater combat than major issues. but hey only 2 designers working on classes so we should see meaningful trait and bug fixes by 2014
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even flesh golem is annoying in pve to the point i almost dont summon it with exceptino of maybe a veteran mob. it runs off and attacks stuff all the time, or stands there doing nothing or despawns when you go in the water, it’s more annoying to manage than it should be.
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Dont use them, that was my solution.
thread should have ended after this response.
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Guild Wars 2 ?@GuildWars2
Jonathan Sharp is going to be showing off a new PvP map live at 2:00 PM PST on http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2 : http://ow.ly/fkgxU ~RB2 #GW2
So maybe another hour?
new pvp map… STILL CONQUEST
ughhhhhhh, nobody cares. PvP is down to like 30 matches running during primetime
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I don’t believe bleed duration duration and scepter duration stack in the spite line, so might want to re-spec that.
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Would love to see you kill a bunker in that build, would take you F O R E V E R
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Look mate, there are no real gear picks/sets until you’re level 80 man. Just level with heart quests, get gear from the karma vendors after doing the heart quest,s and save your cash until you get 80. Or do dungeons and save your badges etc., until you can buy exotic 80 gear. Spending money on anything sub 80 exotic is a waste.
uh buying gear is cheap. I buy new gear (greens/yellows) about every 5-10 levels at a few copper more than they vendor for with purchase orders, so when youre done you just vendor it and break even. I haven’t bought anything with karma.
my question was just if there is no “ravaging” gear in the 50+ range cuz i’m not seeing it on the TP, or if I’m just missing something.
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so im back to leveling my necro since pvp sucks and in the 50s there was ravaging gear with precision, toughness and condition dmg. then in the 60s all i can find is carrion gear with power vit and condition damage… not a huge issue since im running a staff/scepter/well build so the power is nice but is there no more ravaging type gear from 60+? what are people using for wvw?
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WoW questing sucked, no personal story, no WvWvW, PvP sucked etc. Even raiding in WoW sucked. The combat sucked.
In GW2 you have enough options already, now ArenaNet are adding content for hardcore endgamers and you start to whine.
hardcore endgamers aren’t playing GW2, they are playing WoW. The dungeon/boss mechanics in GW2 are laughable to hardcore raiders. Even Rift has better and more challenging dungeon/boss mechanics Sorry my friend.
Because we all know the trilogy = best mechanic evahhhhhh.
i heard rez rushing is even better.
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you could roll alts, and do 5 mans and pvp. All optional of course
and what else is there in GW2? Roll alt, do dungeons and WvW.
In WoW they intentionally made it clear that raids were the only game type that they would cater to for most of their content, and primarily all fun was at end game content.
in GW2 they intentionally made it clear that all content is end game and viable throughout the game, so that it can be enjoyed by anyone fully, because the entire game would have been catered to equally.
It’s been shown only a small % of people who play WoW actually do large raids, I believe <20%. So, no. Majority of players, play casually to level, craft and run simple 5 mans or pvp.
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WoW questing sucked, no personal story, no WvWvW, PvP sucked etc. Even raiding in WoW sucked. The combat sucked.
In GW2 you have enough options already, now ArenaNet are adding content for hardcore endgamers and you start to whine.
hardcore endgamers aren’t playing GW2, they are playing WoW. The dungeon/boss mechanics in GW2 are laughable to hardcore raiders. Even Rift has better and more challenging dungeon/boss mechanics Sorry my friend.
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God you people will complain about anything. So they’re adding a new “slightly” better tier of equipment after 3 months. Did you REALLY expect them to not add any additional sets/armors/weapons/etc. to the game EVER? It’s not like this armor is even going to be that much better than what you already have. Chill the kitten out and enjoy the game.
they could have added new gear that had same stats but new/cool skins. That is whate everyone expected, not new gear with new skins AND new/better stats.
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Using the logic people are using here.
All the dungeons were optional, you could just craft and explore and do easy dungeons with level 80 greens. No treadmill at all.
Except in WoW, all endgame content was raids. there was nothing else. All endgame content was geared only towards raids from the very beginning.
you could roll alts, and do 5 mans and pvp. All optional of course
and what else is there in GW2? Roll alt, do dungeons and WvW.
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Using the logic people are using here.
All the dungeons were optional, you could just craft and explore and do easy dungeons with level 80 greens. No treadmill at all, just like GW2. Ascended gear and the new dungeon are completely optional.
Also the small amount of stats between the different tier pvp gear was marginal and good players could still do well in pvp without it.
/sarcasm
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The new dungeons are for hardcore endgame players. You don’t have to do any of the content, you can sit in a corner in Divinitys Reach if you want. It’s ok.
and same could be said for LOTRO, yet they still scrapped and and considered it a failed mechanic.
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Considering the entire Manifesto was about options, and the new gear is not mandatory, there was no lie.
Nothing is “mandatory.” You can run around WvW in a set of blues. Have fun with that.
Considering WvW ends up devolving into a game of number of players fielded in an area, its not difficult to do at all….. I still don’t have any Exotic Accessories, and hold my own no problem. I’ve leveled two characters in WvW no problem….
WvW is not a 1v1 scenario, it’s no SPvP and was never balanced….. Ascended Gear will make no difference whatsoever to it.
Infact, you can’t even customize Ascended gear to your playstyle, where as you can with Exotics through upgrade slots…. That’s more valuable to a WvW player.
Additionally, WvW is an entirely different beast as it doesn’t fully rely on individual stats. In the end it always breaks down into mobs of players fighting.
Ascended gear will barely have any effect whatsoever in WvW. It never was equal, and never will be.
There are items already in game that are more useful anyways, and its not like every WvW player has them. Take a look at the Tri-Forge Pendant.
+40 Power
+40 Precision
+40 Toughness
+40 Vitality
+5% Critical Damage
+40 Healing Power
+40 Condition Damage
+ Upgrade slotDoesn’t this item alone already effect game balance? It provides bonuses to all stats and has a slot for upgrades… where the complaints for it?
Cause this pendant isn’t really worth, you can’t max any build with that… Clearly you still don’t know how this game works. It’s like divinity runes, jack of all trade master of nothing, used only for take some belace but a lot build are based on max burst, bunker or condition where this thrinket is almost useless.
Most build focusing on only one stat like max damage tend to be flawed. WvW is all about outlasting another player, through use of skills, stats and traits. That Pendant sets a precedent that no item does, as it allows for a balanced boost in skills that can be used to supplement multiple builds. In the end, I’m not sacrificing much in the way of stats to use something like this item and can still last long in WvW. This isn’t a game like WoW where I have to min/max my build to be effective.
that pendant is crap. Of course most builds dont focus on one stat, but show me a build that focuses on 7 stats lol.
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Many of you people trying to defend this by saying it’s optional, just don’t get it.
It’s optional for casual players who aren’t 80 and don’t care to grind for exotics and legendaries. For the rest of the players they were told they would be able to get more or less the best stats with relative ease and then be able to go on and enjoy running dungeons for cosmetic skins or WvWing, without any gear being released with better stats. I don’t think I need to explain any more.
Whether it’s small amount of stats or not is not the point, it’s that they are releasing gear with better stats, when they said they wouldn’t. Period.
It’s like DaoC. DAoC you got your crafted/templated gear and then you were done, the rest of endgame is doing Darkness Falls runs and RvR. Then they added expansions with new gear, that wasn’t “required” but had better stats and you got it from PvEing. Guess what, game died soon after.
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After reading the blog…you can see the items go up in LITERALLY 2 points per stat aka 10 to 12 precision etc etc…
Personally I kittening love you ANET…thank you for this. I can’t wait! If you feel 2 points of stats are going to be that big of a deal for dungeon content that scales you down ( except arah obviously ) and wvw…then well we simply disagree…WTB PvE Leaderboard website. Willing to help with its construction / maintaining.
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After reading the blog…you can see the items go up in LITERALLY 2 points per stat aka 10 to 12 precision etc etc…
Personally I kittening love you ANET…thank you for this. I can’t wait! If you feel 2 points of stats are going to be that big of a deal for dungeon content that scales you down ( except arah obviously ) and wvw…then well we simply disagree…WTB PvE Leaderboard website. Willing to help with its construction / maintaining.
2 stat AND infusion slot, so you cant run the dungeon with your non ascended gear because agony will kill you. so you are forced to grind it with each live expansion in order to continue deeper in the dungeon.
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this is bad, not only do they add gear with better stats they add a dungeon specific stat on it so you cant even run the dungeon in your slightly lesser legendaries if you wanted.
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I keep thinking if they had just canned the downed state and added a healing line to each profession and balanced around that this game would be 1000x better. Am I alone?
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LF2M 3/6 Ascended Gear or better PST, must link items.
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p.s. they have already stated they are adjusting thief burst.
well if they will adjust thief burst less than expectations everyone will continue with QQ….
well that’s up to ANet to find the balance between casuals and elite. But if you choose to balance around pros instead of casuals the game will die very fast. No casuals = no viewers = no e-sport.
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rank and QP currently mean nothing but time played, so i see no point in them wasting time adding this until they add ranks that actually represent skill.
LoL @ QPs mean nothing but time played. Yeah, maybe that is the only thing separating some top teams with QPs and the system is unable to provide an accurate measure of which team is objectively the best. But regardless, the teams with QPs are the stronger teams playing.
So none of the off-hour teams are good, cuz they have 0 QPs since there are zero paid tournies running during their play time. There are multiple threads in regards to this lol.
My post was not that people with QP are bad, but there is no way to say someone with 5 QP is worse than someone with 50 QP. Team with 5 could be miles better but was only able to do 5 tournies during the first couple days of release since nobody plays during their online time.
On top of that many with 5-10 QPs could have just faced a bunch of randoms who blew what few tickets they had saved up prior to the release of paids. So again, outside of the top teams who people already knew were good, QP means very little.
Let me know if you need me to explain more lol.
p.s. I left out teams that may have got QP from block exploiting etc. that adds another worthless layer to QP meaning anything.
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So if having thin skin has nothing to do with it, after all dota 2 and LoL work just fine, whats wrong with GW2?
Perhaps because everyone always blames each other for losing, even if everyone in the game is absolutely terrible. Even if half the people in the game are terrible and half are pretty good. Even if 3 people on the team are on their 10th game and the other 2 are professionals in disguise.
It’s easy to come back to a game where you think the fault lies with the players.
You also missed the part where I said GW2 needs loads of work, but that’s to be expected.
At any rate, this thread has become a Pitchfork Brotherhood, so any potential for actual discussion is completely out the window. Not that any actual discussion happens on this sub-forum anyway. It’s mostly “I agree” or “you’re an idiot”.
Enjoy patting each other on the back.
you are completely missing the entire point. The simple point is casual players should play against causals and organized teams against organized teams. GW2 doesn’t allow that, every other game does. Hence the barrier.
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you dont need to say OP, OK, UP. you can just say Required in tourney, can make do in tourney, hurts team in tourney.
Required: Mesmer, Thief, Guard
Can Make Do: Ele, Warrior, Engi, Necro
Hurts Team: Ranger
As long as there is a “required” list, ANet is failing at balance.
Just look at the QP ranks and you see all mesmer/thief/guard and a few random others here and there and like 2 rangers lol.
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rank and QP currently mean nothing but time played, so i see no point in them wasting time adding this until they add ranks that actually represent skill.
In gw1 there were iway fame farmers with pretty high ranks…but everyone knew they were random ranked noobs, the same would happen here…if you are r30 but you can’t do crap every good player will know about it in a few days…and good luck gettin your reputation back if you’re tagged like a noob fame farmer…
Farmers exist with or without /rank emotes…but for many many..many players (Expec those from gw1) emotes would be a really nice target…and if you want to put lots and lots of time doing something, you MUST have a target
or they could just add a ladder system with in-game ranks everyone can see. I see no value in an emote. Good players already know each other.
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competitive tpvpers = minority.
If you don’t fix something that is causing disdain with the majority of your playerbase you end up with a dead game.
just a thought.
p.s. they have already stated they are adjusting thief burst.
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A better question is what do people find fun about WvW? How is mindless zerging fun?
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I pretty much only PvP in mmos and already went back to PvE to level an alt. For some reason I decided to try my engi in PvP just to see, not sure why I bothered.
Played one spvp game, one sided stomping, I just stand in back lines and destroy everyone with nades, other team starts losing and people keep quitting making it even more lopsided victory.
Bad luck I guess so I go solo queue for a tourney. Win first match 500-50, other team has 4 players. Dumb. 2nd round face a team of people ranked top 30 in QP rankings and get stomped because they either got stomped and lost all their tickets or there are no paid tourneys running.
Great system Anet.
Rift PvP had more balanced matches than this lol.
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My biggest gripe is character progression. Once I hit level 20 on my engi I have nothing else to look forward to in character trait progress except an elite skill on a long CD. I already have all the abilities and traits and nothing else to look forward to. I can buy the best gear there is every 5-10 levels on the TP for 1copper more than it costs to vendor it. Only thing that makes it somewhat Ok is downleveling and being able to do all the starter zones, but as soon as you do all those and have to start going to the 15+ level zones they are ghost towns and you are farming every heart by yourself.
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rank and QP currently mean nothing but time played, so i see no point in them wasting time adding this until they add ranks that actually represent skill.
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because its no skill zerg v zerg. daoc was great because smal super skilled groups could decimate zergs, even in the open field. not so in gw2 thanks to the horrible downed mechanic mainly.
downed state is also the reason attacking a keep is so lame. you kill someone but he runs out of los at the last second, goes downed and saves himself. dumb
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Downed state, the bane of bad players.
how so? In other games 1 skilled player can kill 2-4 bad players if they play well. In GW2 you can’t do that thanks to downed state.
If anything it removes a level of skill and simply makes it a numbers game. Oh you could 1v2 them? oh, well you got downed state to deal with so better bring a friend to make it a 2v2 roflstomp for sure.
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