Guild Wars 2

How are you not feeling powerful? If I head back into a low level zone then it only takes like 3 hits to kill everything.

The real difference is that the enemy mobs can actually hurt you if you let them. Which is by design. I think their take is no matter what the level difference, a bandit swinging a sword at your head should pose some danger. Just cause he’s level 3 and you are 80 doesn’t mean his sword is going to clang off your head and do no damage.

I cannot understand the op’s post and it seems like the first 3 are all responding to something different. This is horribly confusing.

This thread is pretty old dunno why the cm ressurected it. Just a FYI Red

ituhata.6830:

Just keep your hands off my bulbs and we’ll get along just fine, Johnny Bravo.

I respect all of my silvari brother’s and sister’s stamens and pistils. Unless of course they prefer otherwise /wink

Sib.1236:

Swagman.9013:

I would leave, but I feel an obligation to all the in game ladies to stay and grace them with my company, and yes even the men pretending to be women. They deserve my charms just as much as the actual ladies.

Hee Hee! If your IGL is to bring love and joy to other then that’s how it should be.
And im sure those male who play female are truly trying to relate to there feminine side and they fully deserve you attention

It’s a tough job, and I am only one swagman, but someone has to do it.

I would leave, but I feel an obligation to all the in game ladies to stay and grace them with my company, and yes even the men pretending to be women. They deserve my charms just as much as the actual ladies.

I think you misclicked on general discussion when you wanted suggestions.

Oh but wait, the title is a jab at Anet instead of an honest call to improve the game, I get it you did choose the right forum after all.

Now if only they had a passive aggressive/veiled threats forum all these could go in.

Here’s the problem with why you might be getting locked posts. Most “so mad” posts work like this, point out problem in title, explain personal experience with problem in post, say game is doomed and/or express disappointment. Ask community their thoughts.

How about we do the same post in a more constructive way.
Let’s make the post title a thought out solution to a viewed problem. Instead of “Bugged events everywhere!” how about “nightly server maintenance?”

Then in the body of your post why don’t you explain your perceived problem followed up with how your posting title solution may fix said problem. Then ask for any input from other on different ways to fix said problem.

Well through a quick look of your post history I can’t at all understand how arenanet would look at your liberal use of caps lock, the phrase ‘this is bullkitten’ and calling them liars is viewed as anything but constructive.

They definitely have some explaining to do.

Wat.. All you have to do is mouse over the signet and it tells you exactly how much power precision or healing they do. How are you missing this.

Wat.. All you have to do is mouse over the signet and it tells you exactly how much power precision or healing they do. How are you missing this.And to op I think the majority of those things are just gimmicky fun items to goof around with since they are all 1 time use and they hardly cost anything.

No no no… You don’t just transfer because you think the servers not full. I’ve never logged on and thought, hey the servers not full, time to transfer for no other reason than the server not being full!

Why were you server hopping in the first place when you knew there was a chance of this happening. Nothing really here besides I did a bad and want fix.

It costs 1 silver to do Andrea just go ahead and make it now, you can still join 2 other guilds if you get lonely.

Oh so your saying skill is the ability to apply learned knowledge consistently for a desirable result.

Ohhhhh

Isn’t that sorta what I was trying to say beforehand?

Brah your just having like, too much fun man. What ya need to do brah, is tone back on the fun. Alright your having like a fun overdose man, just relax, start farming like the same group of mobs endlessly, don’t move around too much. K brah?

I still fail to see how skill comes into play in anything, in tennis if you understand how your opponent is hitting the ball and know the way he/she is holding the racket to know which way it will most likely go, also added to your current position as well as the angle and speed that the ball was previously traveling at, then you will be able to determine where most likely the ball is headed.

All of the above are bits of data that can be learned, understood, and applied. There is no skill. A champion golfer does not have more skill at playing golf, he has more knowledge of stance, swing, grip, power vs distance and how wind affects the ball. Once again all knowledge based. No skill.

How does not being able to see enemy names = wow, you can see enemy names in wow.

Also the advancement in WvW is taking the map over, do you want tiered pvp armor sets? Yea that’s really moving in the opposite direction of wow.

Well I would agree that it was probably meant to be goon, but it can also mean the same thing like slime.

Hrmm I never really thought of it that way Avatar but I guess you are right. There really is no skill in anything whatsoever, it’s just varying degrees of knowledge. There is no skilled musicians, there are musicians with more knowledge of their instrument and song composing. There is no skilled quarterbacks, they just possess more knowledge of how the players will move on the field. There is no skilled race car drivers, they just possess the knowledge to know when to brake on what turns.

It’s a very interesting concept but when you really think about it there’s no such thing as skill. Even an artist just possesses more knowledge of how to combine colors and images to be pleasing to the eye.

Yea no part of that example is what I’m talking about at all. I haven’t ever had an experience like you described. All the bosses I fight can and do hurt you and the more I play the better I get (and others get) at not only avoiding damage but applying proper conditions, like blind and weakness, and using proper boons like protection to mitigate as much damage as possible.

Jackie you want sparkly weapon effects… What’s next you want vampire skins too!

I never said dungeons were too hard, but they did have varying degrees of difficulty and now that difficulty has noticeably gone down from what it used to be.

How is learning the dungeon not increasing your ability to play your character. Unless you never apply all those things you describe outside of said dungeon. Learning when to use conditions and when to change to cleansing skills I would say is improvements in your ability to play your character.

What other test would you like to demonstrate ones prowess with their character? A obstacle course in lions arch?

I think harder dungeons would be very fun. I really think Anet got the no trinity system right it’s just some bosses seem a bit OP for lack of a better word, to the more uncoordinated groups.

But I can see a lot of potential for the introduction of interesting bosses that provide lots of challenge.

I’d buy a suit ASAP if it were on the bltc. I have a nice fancy tophat but commoner rags to wear with it.

Anyone else notice this happening?

While I admit it’s not every single run that is a walk in the park I’m starting to get faster and easier clears.

I think the most noticeable for me was on Saturday. I had a group that did all 3 AC explorables, and on the colossus path where you had to protect the extractors, our group killed the burrows so fast we were waiting for the next one to spawn. And before the event got to 90% completion they stopped spawning altogether. This even was the one I previously considered the hardest one of the bunch.

I guess once people get more adept at playing their class and better understand the dungeons we are going to start demolishing the dungeons.

It is a pretty cool thing to see though, it’s a type of progression but not one that announces itself with bigger numbers and more dps. Rather it is displayed through you and your improved ability to overcome the challenges. All in all it took that group just under an hour to complete all 3 explorables.

I like that you can get a little insight to the type of person they are though. Grubnick has some knowledge of the woodworking terminology perhaps he or his father is handy with some tools.

Whereas corian has no idea about that but is refers to an Internet meme, I would guess not much experience around sawdust.

You fail to take into account the skill sets that these lower armor classes have. Yes a warrior and guardian have more survivability due to armor, but I’ve never seen a warrior vanish at 20% health like thieves mesmers and engineers do. Elementalists have the longest dash I’ve ever seen with that lightning rush, and don’t even get me started on ranger mobility.

If you want to nullify armor classes then you have to rebalance class abilities. No need for thieves to have several abilities that have a built in dodge or stealth mechanic. The engineers shield abilities put the warriors to shame as far as utility (I’m honestly jealous of the moves of engy shields)

“you found your best friend’s wife cheating on him with some other dude, but you aren’t sure if you should say anything since they are both struggling to raise their 1 year old daughter. And it might mess up the child to have them constantly arguing. Well we all have our moral quandaries to deal with. In fact, that story reminds me of my own, involving a gold spammer and 1 copper…”

“let me get this straight, your wife has cancer but because of a birth defect she was considered a liability and can’t get insurance coverage. So you’ll have to pay out of pocket to cover the treatment and you are considering turning to illegal means to get the funds since there’s no way you could afford it normally. That is a tough one. Hey while we are on the subject of problems perhaps you could help me out with one of my own involving a gold spammer…”

“so you say your daughter is pregnant at the tender age of 16, and the father is a deadbeat loser stoner that dropped out of high school. She wants an abortion but the family has strong Christian beliefs and is against it. Well that is quite the pickle, but I can relate. Let me tell you a little story about a gold spammer and 1 copper…”

“what’s that? Father on life support? Uh huh. Slim to no chance at recovery? Go on. Not sure if you should pull the plug or keep it going? Well speaking of dilemmas boy have I got a doozy for you…”

This is a dilemma?!

“yes I know you are starving little 3rd world homeless child and I know your muscles have atrophied, but let me tell you about a real dilemma involving a gold seller…”

Jordan.6157:

AlexanderFaust.4518:

I eat all of those alive in WvW… so… I’m curious by what you mean “unskilled”?
**I play a “counter” Necro

The most damage with very little effort.

That definition and no ranger…

I think the op is saying they are ez mode, if so there should be a lot more ranger on that list.

Mickey.4207:

Congrats OP. Ignore the flamers.
Grammar Nazi’s strike again ehh?

Why is it always grammar nazi, I prefer grammar spetsnaz. In soviet Russia grammar corrects you!

You might say the armor is…. medium-ocre

I haven’t found DR to ever be an issue so far.

I would like to know what makes them so interested in certain players. I talk quite often in map chat yet I receive maybe 1 a day.

I’m a shout support warrior, I wear toughness precision vitality gear (power too of course) I know my damage is nerfed from what it could be but I’m also able to take more hits and I can absorb some damage that would kill some of my weaker teammates.

This isn’t a game design problem it’s a community problem.
Why do you think every piece of berserker gear sells for 2-3 gold more than gear with condition damage or toughness on it.

Everyone sees OMG CRIT DMGZ and then they wonder why dungeons own their group of glass cannons.

The only thing I’m not getting here, is everyone’s wearing this gear, and so far everything is possible in this flawed gear. I have yet to hear a unanimous outcry that x dungeon is unbeatable presently.

So if this gear isn’t holding anyone back from completing content, you only want a change so you can min/max favorable and unfavorable stats. Which is just like, why?

I mean you just want to see bigger numbers? You want to blow through dungeons easier? They are supposed to be challenging. But as it stands they are all doable. I see no need to implement such gear changes.

I actually did tank a boss for the first time yesterday. The thief boss in AC explorable. I don’t know what it was that made him focus 98% of the time on me and that’s no exaggeration. But using sword and board I actually was able to take his hits.

I think this might be the future direction as groups become more skilled in their use of debuffs and buffs. Our guardian kept runes under my feet for buffs, the group constantly kept weakness up so hits weren’t that bad. I couldn’t just stand in one spot and take hits mind you, I’d be in trade blows a bit, hamstring duck out. Boss would hobble over to reach me while I regen/shout heal up and repeat the process over again.

Like I said that could end up being the direction things evolve to on their own.

“I see.
So people feel it’s safe to invest time on something and when you loose it due to a bug, it’s resoanable to get no sort of support.
Makes sense.”

Yea I do feel it’s reasonable, tell me where was my support after dumping a hundred hours into a single player game and my save file gets corrupted. Or while I’m playing diablo 2 and my connection goes out while I’m trying to transfer an item to my stash and it’s just gone.

Just cause there’s a staff working to improve the game doesn’t mean everyone gets a “oops I did a bad” button. Wow has that policy and because of it you have to wait for days before you get an automated message response. And several more days before you get to talk to a person.

I’m pretty sure that they don’t do single item restores because they have to perform a rollback on your account so it’s a lot of bs to go through for one item. At least that’s what I think I saw said.

Anyway yea that really sucks and it’s a crappy bug but wow that’s pretty petty if you were having a blast and now this one thing happens and the game is now heading for the shelf. If that’s your mentality then sooner or later something would have happened to give you this sentiment anyway.
Things happen to us all, I’ve died in skyrim after hours of exploring around only to see my last autosave was from exiting the inn before I started. It sucks but it’s just a game suck it up and move forward. Or don’t I guess.

Yes this will most likely be closed and you will be directed to the post.

Basically Scott Peters(?) said they realize condition builds are less viable to burst damage builds and they have a few solutions and are testing to see what will work.

So basically be patient.

I’ve gotten 1 exotic lvl 80 cloth shoulders from SE, sold it for about 3G.

But to put it in perspective (for me at least) I think I’ve only found 2 random world drop epics in the 5 years I played wow.

So far guild wars drop rate is like 12,000% better if I factor in how many random mobs I’ve killed in wow compared to the amount I’ve killed in gw2.

Revenant.2691:

Still think they should have a tier higher in stats than exotics, though. Nothing huge, just a lot more than the 11 points of damage they have now. Casual players could still ignore it and gear grind fanatics would have a goal after 80.

This Is baffling to me, I mean are you barred from completing any content as it is now. Have you ever died and said, if only I had 200 more weapon damage!

You just want higher stats so you can see your own numbers go up. It’s literally the mmo dopamine rush to make you feel happy.

They would never send more than 1c anyway bot farmers need to max their profits so that won’t ever happen.

Anyway no big deal to me, they give me a copper to press 1 extra button, more effort on their end anyway.

But that’s how these things work, in wow there was never your perfect set with the stats you wanted, you had to gem them right and mix and match peices. I’m using 3x power tough vit and 3x power presc tough, I mixed them to get the right stat combo I want.

Also power and condition damage are pretty much going to be the 2 main stats that people will want which is why they both have the higher numbers. I suppose condition damage could have a 4th condition one.

Healing power makes sense that it has few, I mean out of the 8 proffs don’t only ele’s guardians and engineers have worthwhile group heals?