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I’ll get straight to the point. Champions need unique drops like unique skins, weapons, armor, crafting materials, etc.. As it stands, there are Champions, Dynamic Events, or Group Event monsters who no one bothers to care about like the ones in Cursed Shore which are too far away from other DEs or deserted maps in low level areas that no one goes to anymore. How often does the mob at Cathedral of Verdance gets killed compared to other temples? How often do players still swim under water to get into Whisper Bogs to kill that monster that hasn’t been touched in months?
In order to avoid the ghost town effect for maps and certain areas of maps, there needs to be incentive to go there. GW2 players need to know that it’s a good idea to go back to some osbcure part of the world Wychmire Swamp to hunt a Veteran or Champion there because they have a 1% chance of dropping a unique item that no other monsters drop. Isn’t this an obvious tradition from past MMOs that alured MMORPG gamers?
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I failed to really see the logic or your argument for this. Let’s use an analogy. Let’s remove all cars from the Real World and have everyone start walking again. Then for sure people will more often stop to smell the roses, say Hi to strangers, get more exercise, no more kitten drivers etc.
However, what happens when you have to go to work at 6 AM in the morning? Or walk home at 8 PM at night? Take you 2-3 hrs to walk to and from your necessary locations.
From your statements I know that you haven’t played this game as long as most people here have. What about things like forming PUG groups for dungeons, getting there for Dynamic Events, rushing to hunt down Dragons when they spawn? You need Waypoints. Now cases where i’m Karma farming, I try to avoid using waypoints (if I can) as they cost 1-2 silver each and I rather maximize my efficiency in making gold if I can. If I can run and make the next even I would.
The point is Anet gave us the choice of stopping and enjoying the scenery. There are many facets to the game and a lot more things to do for players. Now you come in wanting to take away our choice because you want them all to do something you want to do. How about you just personally boycott waypoints. No one stops a vegetarian from being a vegetarian. Nor do we force you to eat meat. Just don’t force us to do what you want.
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You forget to show all the Ascended rings you’ve gotten through the process that are useless and sitting in the bank as well.
No offense to Anet, but I don’t believe the whole Fractals dungeon idea is considered complete (Even though it is my favorite dungeon and all I do in GW2 now).
Fractal relics are taking up space even after completing the infamous fractal capacitor back piece.
Ascended rings drop at a pleasing % due to players’ requirement to build Agony tolerance but end result is a bank full of ascended rings that are soulbound. I wish we can throw them into mystic forge to get random Ascended weapons or armor.
Fractral Weapons are skins?! I’m sure we all wanted actual Ascended class weapons and not skins. The whole idea of Ascended gear isn’t fully realized yet.
It would be nice to be able to purchase an Ascended weapon with those fractal relics even if it were let’s say 3000 Fractal relics. Not directly of course because those 250 item slots would fill up fast.
I rather have purchasable Fractal Ascended weapons than skins that can be crafted via Mystic Forge using large amts of relics.
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I got 4 ascended rings by the time I got to difficulty level 20. This is surely a person luck type of thing. You my friend need to go do some charity IRL =D
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The heart regions in each area are intended to let you know what’s going on in that part of the world. Talk to the NPCs, there’s a ton of hidden lore out there.
I don’t think going around talking to NPCs is solo play end game content the OP is referring to.
The most fulfilling solo content I found so far was killing Veteran Karkas in the new lv80 map. But other than that, there is nothing for a solo player to do aside from getting into the dungeon grinding doing “LFG.”
What is the point of repetitive Dynamic Events when the enemy camp you just destroyed rebuilds itself in 2minutes? The DE system is too superficial at this point as there is only one set of If-Else statements in a DE outcome tree. The end result is all the beautifully written and planned out GW2 Lore is marginalized because not much people care about it after seeing the same DEs over and over from karma farming for legendaries. Isn’t this existential problem getting more and more complex?
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1. The sound effects are really dry and unexciting.
2. Background music is usually anti-climatic
Will GW2’s expansion revamp the sound effects and music score of this game?
The sound effects in the game need a rework IMO. The sound of melee weapons when it hits a monster is more of a “thud..thud.. thud.” Some times I wonder who came up with such a boring sound. I recently played the new FFXIV alpha and although I found the combat and movement mechanics in that game too obsolete for today’s time, one thing Square Enix did great on as usual were the sound effects and music. The sound from a spell cast or a sword strike is sharp and alert and doesn’t put you to sleep after hours of farming.
It also appears GW2 ran out of budget for any background music at all. None of the maps, appear to have any themes that are unique and give any epic feel to them. The only meaningful soundtrack in the game was only at the last fight in the Story mode at Arah against the dragon.
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If the anti-farm code is actually existent and/or drop rate for legendary ingredient items are still super low… this is all to fight botting.
However, if there was a system in place to allow Karma purchases for ingredients, lodestones etc. I believe it would be beneficial and improve the desire to even attempt legendaries for players. Karma/Dynamic Events is the perfect way to avoid gold farmers/botters.
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I have 6 Superior Runes of Pirate on my set of Explorer heavy armor [rare] but on each piece it says Superior Rune of Pirate (0/6) and none of the attribute bonuses show up as highlighted.
Is this a bug? How do I know if it’s even working?
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As if you guys didn’t learn your lesson from the Halloween mystery boxes haha…
totally not worth the $5
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It’s a fail concept anyway. It doesn’t belong in a game that is supposed to be about player skill.
For a game about player skill, it also waste the mechanic of Stamina as it is simply a party oriented ability and almost becomes useless in solo play.
And for a game with no tank or healer, the concept of Stamina should’ve been pinnacle, but instead it is almost a gimmick due to the uselessly slow regen rate.
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After being in “end game” for awhile, I realized how limiting GW2 as a MMO has actually become. After finishing story content, there is absolutely no way to really go solo in this game. Keep in mind that was one of the biggest failures of FF11 was that it was impossible to play the game w/o a party. Now one of the things people do the most is playing dungeons however it always requires a full party. Is there excitement in this? Maybe after the first couple of times, but then it becomes a chore or a repetitive job. At least the classic random mob and random drop MMO system offers unpredictability. Part of soloing a really difficult map or soloing a dungeon by yourself is the exciting and test of your own abilities. For GW2 innovative combat system, I would’ve thought Anet would’ve made better use of the Stamina system. But instead it has a ridiculously slow regen time and aside for a couple of dodges it becomes useless when a player wants to solo a map champion or something (or something means hopefully a future open dungeon instead of a full party instance). I would love to test my skills against a boss or champion that can even 1 hit me if I were given the ability to skillfully be able to dodge the attacks. Will GW2 ever truly increase the stamina regeneration rate to something useful?
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It changes nothing. If anything the end location of the mobs need to be moved further away from the waypoint into more dangerous areas.
There are still stacks of Bots camping that area and can still hit the DE event mobs when they show up.
Or have some Veteran monster patrol that area and clean up some bots… bots might be good at auto attacking but they suck at running away.
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Test it and find out? The AC weapons are fixed to finally work at night time now even in dungeons right? It should follow the same mechanic.
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It will be the same here. You can count on that. They’re date specific for a reason. If they were set up like you say, they would be available to do all the way through right now.
Sorry that logic doesn’t work. You can set up a date to start, but each Act doesn’t need to be closed before the next one starts. Acts can be setup to unlock per 4 days etc but should be able to have kept open. O/w there will be people on the 31st when everyone shows up to do Halloween stuff, they can only do Act 4 and be really kitten This also prevents 100% of the population from all doing Act 1 simultaneously as before poster said.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
One of the biggest complaint in Star Wars was that fact that their holiday event was also broken down into Acts but they could only be completed at certain days. Therefore those who miss out on Acts or can only come on ie. Friday to do the events can’t do Act I etc. Will GW2’s Halloween Acts completion be limited the same way?
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That sucks for warriors
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Quad core and dual SLI? You’re not thinking bout the root cause. It’s the order of the rendering which was done intentionally as the game’s graphics engine won’t render players at priority in order to improve FPS/resources. Is there a way to render character tags/names first w/o needing to render the entire character model? That way enemies who try to exploit the graphics can be targeted and hit even if they are invisible
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A lot of the larger tier 1-3 servers are using the rendering exploit to defeat all the smaller forces due to the delay in large quantity of characters appearing before players. When is Anet planning on addressing this major issue?
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Looks like a variable in the code got a typo or something and broke the link
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lame bugged for me too
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Maybe he was using an AC 300 token weapon and not the ghastly??
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The commander icon doesn’t show up only on this map.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
First time i ever did Twlight Arbor Explorer mode Spider path and got 45 tokens. I tried Twilight Arbor 2 days ago but never beat the first boss with the party i was in.
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Using free tele to closest town and then tele to map reduces a lot of overhead cost…. unless ur just lazy
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Marked sounds like a great idea except for DEs in Orr where u are to defend a camp or something…
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Not that i’m saying GW2 doesn’t deserve props for trying. I am impressed with the content thus far. However, does Anet plan on reworking/upgrading its current Dynamic Events in the next expansion?
(Notice I said expansion as I’m still willing to pay for this!)
The way Anet advertised the game pre-release made it seem like each scenario had like 2-3 branches outwards and then another 2-3 branches from that creating a rich event tree for each DE. But in reality it is only 1 possible scenario and then 2 branching off of it depending on pass or fail. This only gives a DE tree of 3 possible scenarios counting as the entire tree. I wished for them to expand this tree to at least 3 levels in depth if not at least 2 branches from the initial condition.
Right now a DE event roughly looks like this:
IF (condition) Then
’something happens
Else
’something else happens
Loop
This is single level and quickly becomes apparent at events where they made the restart timers too short like 60sec… or in Ruins of Orr where the same DE chain together all the time. So instead of like traditional MMOs where players went out to start quests/events, these events are on cruise control and offers the opposite effect of appearing dynamic – they appear repetitive and eventually boring after a couple days.
I wanted it to be more like:
for breadth…
RandomNumberGenerator()
Case 1
IF (bla bla bla)
’This happens
Else
’This happens
Case 2
IF (….)
Else…
…
…etc
or for depth…
IF (condition) Then
RandomNumberGenerator(condition)
Case 1
Case 2
….
Else
RandomNumberGenerator(condition)
Case n
Case n+1
….
If there was more breadth and more depth to each DE scenario tree, than it would at least give a better illusion of being “dynamic.” Some randomness here and there goes a long way to make the world appear bigger than it really is. Right now everyone is getting claustrophobic in terms of end game content.
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There needs to be a system in place that not only boots players off WvW for plain idling, but also “INACTIVITY.” What I mean by inactivity is that i saw 25+ players on the server just either standing around a waypoint chatting for over half an hour while the rest of the server is fighting with whatever man power they have.
IMO WvW kick should be activated if a player:
1. Computer idles for N minutes
2. Lack of participation in either dynamic events, picking up supplies, repairs, not being in combat with enemy server players / enemy server NPCs (not killing centaurs in some random field), etc.
3. This excludes jumping puzzle areas
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I don’t understand why free transfers are still available. People are just sending spies for intel or mess with enemy server resources and supplies
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The problem is not whether or not the last boss was difficult or if he did dmg to us with his attacks etc. I’m sure everyone here is not satisfied with the actual design of the last boss fight.
If the Arah dungeon itself was too long then make the Zhaitan fight a separate instance somewhere else that we have to go and put some creative thought into it.
I rather fight up close and personal with skills i’ve attained from the past 80 lvls than fire a stupid cannon on a flying boat.
Furthermore, the sound track is not very desirable either.
Plus to put a cherry on top… the reward was pathetic. I rather it be some kind of GW2 sunglasses or special aesthetic item from the Gem shop
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Depends on what hours of the day you do LFG at dungeons. Although I agree that it is substantially not as easy as before to do PUG groups.
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As a Guardian, I don’t use any range at all. I’ve only played around half of the Explorable Paths, but I almost always come out with the least number of deaths. Heck, even the least downs. I’ve only come across a few situations where it is best to just keep my distance.
It is not the class either. I’ve a thief contact who regularly runs with me, and he rarely goes range, and he rarely dies.
From that I can conclude that your DPS must be crap. I mean damage PER SECOND. meaning you spend more time outside of melee range and not getting agro then actually committing to the fight. You must be letter all the range dps and/or NPCs taking the agro. But yes I do agree that it takes skill to stay alive to fight melee in dungeons because it’s a fine line between actually contributing meaningful DPS and being downed all the time cuz melee attracts too much agro.
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Would be more reasonable if Anet comes out and tells us the exact time we need to finish each dungeon in in order to get 100% of rewards if they are going to be like this.
At this point I rather them come out and say “You need to finish CoF in at most 30min or else you get 90% tokens!” Then i will just sit at the boss and not kill him for another 10min… with my team. IF that’s the stupid system that they want to go with give us transparency.
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Do it with skills. I kid you not.
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Good luck with that. Anet not even giving out compensation for other more serious and consistent bugs in the game.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
I just formed a PUG tonight and did CoF path 1. We wiped once, but managed to beat the final boss. The crystals do regen him, but it’s not absolutely necessary to destroy them. If anything better to use discretion because the time spent on destroying the crystals you lose a lot of DPS on the boss. The key to beating him is as said before…generate enough DPS to be greater than his healing and make sure all 5 are always attacking and pick up any downed team mates immediately.
I would say this is relatively easy compared to other dungeons.
If anything I would say the Devs need to tweak this boss some like reduce the number of regen crystals, but increase their regen power so players have more incentive to destroy the crystals instead of mindlessly DPSing him away like all other MMOs bosses.
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1st run CoF Path 2 – 45 tokens
1st run CoF Path 1 – 45 tokens
Does someone need to review how to write an IF statement?
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First time in days Cof Path 2 – 45 carvings
First time CoF path 1 ever – 45 carvings…
something is seriously wrong
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Giving out tokens at the end of the dungeon creates a multitude of bigger issues. A l ot of times people disconnect from the game and can’t get back into the same instance as their parties. Also, sometimes, the entire team needs to restart the dungeon due to disconnect bugs etc. And there’s also the case someone mentioned before about how players can kick you at any time to let their friends get your tokens.
Yes it is completely unbalanced how the difficulty varies per dungeon and yet the rewards are somewhat same.
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Perhaps the DR system wouldn’t feel so bad if the code actually worked. People are getting hit by DR penalty even doing their first dungeon run in the past 1-10 days. Alto the DR isn’t reset when you do different paths.
Even if the DR system is void of bugs, I only see people running between two paths of two different dungeons continuously.
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Anet is passive aggressively pulling a Jay Wilson on us.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Someone at Anet doesn’t know how to write an IF Statement
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So questions is.. should we just sit around the final boss and not do anything for 10-20min just to make sure we get the full rewards? Kinda stupid if reward system is dependent on dungeon clear time…
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I haven’t ran CoF in over 24 hours and upon completing it I only received 45 tokens…something seems broken here
diminishing returns based on completion rate is plain stupid and totalitarian. This isn’t why I decided to play GW2 to have my style of play penalized.
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It is strange that Guild Wars 2 focuses so heavily on its Vistas and jumping puzzles, and yet players are able to use the same knowledge to circumvent certain portions of the dungeon. It is intentional design..? I would like to think so as the methods of “exploits” in CoF and Arah are very specific as if the programmer had done it on purpose. If the designer doesn’t know about it, really his own fault.
This exploit doesn’t do anything to the game’s economy. It only allowed people to avoid repair costs for needing to fight those mobs in the bomb room. The timer still needs to get to 200% and the players will have the drawback of needing to fight the ghost inside the boss room. The dungeon clear time is still the same with this platform skip to if you really need beat the monsters and held out to 200%
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At the Hoelbrak cultural weapon vendor and I tried to open up the Buy window but during one of the times the window wouldn’t open so I tried click on it again, and the window opens and it shows that I just purchased a weapon. No joke! Around 50k karma pts gone just like that! I’m guessing the window didn’t pop up on my screen due to a delay/lag, but in fact it was there.
Why doesn’t high cost karma purchases have a purchase confirmation like the TP does??? That would’ve prevented any of this!
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I think both sides has a point. Dungeon exploration mode wasn’t meant for ill coordinated PUGs and it was stated so since the beginning. However, at the same time the rewards need to be higher. The cost of dungeon specific exotic armor should also be lowered.
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It’s easier to blame it on the gear than your individual skill. I have teams that run dungeons wearing nothing but low level gear to avoid any repair costs instead of wearing exotic or lv80 armor. If we can run dungeons successfully, then there must be something else going on aside from not doing a gear check. I also logged in to run CoF a few times to see how the new difficulty is. It is respectfully more difficult, but a lot of PUG groups still have issues with it when i party with them. And in my perspective they aren’t very good at this game. Maybe you guys should look into increasing your level of skill and team work rather than blaming gear that has near negligible stat contributions.
It’s not that dungeons are limited to guild specific groups, it’s that they require skill and coordination. It’s logical that guilds and non-PUG groups are better at this. If it’s too hard for you to adapt with new “PUG” players then you shouldn’t be in doing dungeons at all.
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You guys are funny. Saying you quit and yet come here to post that you quit or uninstalled.
CoF did get buffed but it’s not unplayable or OP or anything. If you are a decent player to begin with you can still clear it in 20min. Stop whining.
The 200% bomb part didn’t really change anything. No one asking anyone to fight them mobs still. Yes it stupid decision to make by doubling the timer, teams can still kite the mobs until the timer runs out without a single death. yes the mobs are too difficult for a random group who have no idea what their roles and professions should be doing. However, If 200% is a deal breaker for you.. maybe you should practice GW2 more.
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There wasn’t really any trick to it. Everyone just needs to go range including warriors and guardians. The greatswords’ damage was really not that much as you can heal from it. He was really easy to DPS down with everyone going range.
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