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ANet, fix this bug, I’m getting tired of those bugusers, that do fractals with their lowlevels. Getting in fractals below lvl 80 was only possible during the Karka event, now remove this bs or remove the upscaling
The whole group suffers, because those guys have low stats, which results in neverending bossfights…
And to stefman: You censored the difficulty scale, so it’s probably lvl 1, which you can do with your eyes closed. And why do I even wonder, why you filmed the easiest fractal out of all?
Why? Whats the point of nerfing the upscaling or even removing it so low levels can’t do fractals? Is this more elitism that only level 80s should be able to do fractals? How very “WoW” minded of you.
This is GW2, where players can participate in end game content BEFORE reaching end game. Yea yea, I know that’s not how WoW did it- but get over it. It’s how GW2 does it, and rather than demanding that low levels be booted from fractals, you should be demanding that their stats get boosted more so they don’t hold their team back so much when they do!
You don’t even get loot in dungeons if you try to play the healer role. You may heal as much as you want, run around in the battle of the heat all the time and yet the re/arded reward system won’t give you anything.
It’s not only that the trinity is not existent in the game design, you are actually being punished if you take any role except for damage dealer.
Not true at all. You can heal, you can buff, you can support, but you have to tag mobs with dmg in order to loot them.
It’s a little worse than that.
Example: The reason I stopped being condition damage on my Engineer was because, in full exotics, when I would karma farm in Orr I would run into large groups of 20+ people (Plinx farm). Even if I started shooting the mob first, before anyone else, I still would not deal enough damage compared to the power/crit toons to be able to register as a participant, and thus got no xp and no loot. This, of course, also meant I was considered to have “participated” less in the actual event, and thus got less karma too.
After a few hours of that, I ran to the broker and bought a full set of power rare gear, a tier below my exotic condition gear. I tried again- 100% participated rate on every mob I killed. And this was even using my condition skill/trait build, which I had forgotten to change out when buying the power build. But even running p/p with a condition trait setup, I still got more participation than my condition build.
That said, a healer is going to have to do more than just tag. They are going to have to do comparable damage, at least to the point of being able to be registered as a participant.
You must deal at least 10% of the damage to that mob in order to tag it. That might be easy if you run the typical greatsword bezerk warrior as even a single whirlwind attack will be sufficient, but you have no chance at all if you run slow condition or even non-aggressive support builds. The game simply PUNISHES you for playing anything except for almost pure burst damage builds.
Will have to disagree with this. On my guardian, I can easily run support/healing and still do enough damage to a mob/boss to get credit for it. You just need to do damage and then heal/buff when needed. I do the same on my ele and eng. It’s all about prioritizing and figuring out when you need to do one over the other.
For a condition build, that’s difficult. There was no prioritizing needed- as a condition build my entire goal was to deal damage. Still wasn’t enough
But in a massive multiplayer game, wouldn’t player homes just segregate the player base?
If they use the home instance, then yeah, it’s worthless.
If they do it DAoC style with player housing suburbs, then it’s worth the effort.
I used to be all about non-instanced player homes, having come from Shadowbane and other city building type MMOs… but after seeing it in a themepark MMO, particularly Aion, I realized its not a good idea at all.
Aion did an awesome job of implementing it- adding in a MASSIVE area with tons and tons of non-instanced houses and then a single instanced “studio” apartment complex for everyone to start with. The problem is that despite how much effort they put into adding a ridiculous number of houses… it just wasn’t enough. It’ll be worse for this game, since there are no factions. Servers can house how many people? 5,000-6,000 active at a shot? 10,000-20,000 total? Even if they went CRAZY and added 4,000 individual houses, which is a completely unrealistic goal for the devs to finish it any time soon… it won’t be enough. Even if they limited the houses to 1 per account, that is still only 4,000 out of how many people who will get to have homes. And tbh, a more realistic number of houses would probably be closer to 1,000.
Instanced homes are used for a reason, unfortunately, and this is one of them.
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Sounds like the Fractals / Ascended gear patch worked, then! Prior to Nov. 15th this was the most friendly MMO I had played, with players who helped each other, spoke over in map chat and generally were all around sociable. I guess now that the Nov. 15th patch has come and gone, and it’s drawn in the WoW crowd while running off the GW1 crowd, things have changed a bit.
Shame. But, I bet all the WoW players are happy!
You guys speak of the GW1 crowd like they’re some kind of paragon of sainthood. Let me tell you a little story about my first real experience with the GW1 crowd.
I picked that game up about two years ago, long after it’s initial release. My first character was a Warrior. Shortly after becoming Ascended, I decided to give PvP a try. So I take my Warrior, by no means meta’d, to the Random Arena. And in my first ever match, a PUG mind you, I’m told that I suck (and I no doubt did) and it’s demanded of me by two of my teammates that I drop from the group. I didn’t, and so they reported me for leaching.
If that’s the GW1 crowd of which you speak, then I’d say it doesn’t matter if they stay or go or if the WoW community moves in.
No, that’s the e-sport PvP crowd. They are pretty much the same no matter what game you play. >_>
From what I understand, this topic seems to be mostly covering the PvE players.
Sounds like the Fractals / Ascended gear patch worked, then! Prior to Nov. 15th this was the most friendly MMO I had played, with players who helped each other, spoke over in map chat and generally were all around sociable. I guess now that the Nov. 15th patch has come and gone, and it’s drawn in the WoW crowd while running off the GW1 crowd, things have changed a bit.
Shame. But, I bet all the WoW players are happy!
