Yep, think what you did wrong: hit by sniper cross fire whilst knocked down by a charging beastie into a red zone of death. Got a build tweak for that one?
Learn to dodge?
How about one shot instant downed mechanic? Got a tweak for that?
Learn to dodge?
Or just actually being involved in the fighting rather than standing spamming 1 from the back or running a tanky auro healing condi removing heavy armor toon?
These guys don’t get downed often, so doesn’t really apply to this thread. I don’t have a solution for braindead people though, except to stop playing open world content in MMOs. Sad, I know.
I ran through an old area the other day where it put poison on me continuously which couldn’t be removed, and just running through it I was down to under 50% hp, which reminded me why I felt most of those things were designed around heavy armor auto condi removal auto healing warriors and guardians….
New areas are awful for contested WP’s, especially if the map is quiet, and missing that glide means running across the whole map again through piles of mobs that slow you, knock you down or swarm you whilst you try and check the map to see where you are heading to to attempt that glide or jump or whatever again.
Missing a glide only results in death if you mess up big time with the landing, so it’s more like two misses in a row. You don’t think you should get penalized for that? Also, the Pocket Raptors and Rolling Devils are pretty much the first mobs in the whole game you cannot just run through and ignore. Is that a bad thing? Every single class in the game can either bypass them with fast movement skills or stealth, or alternatively decimate them quickly with AoE.
Everything else can still be ran through and ignored, with a dodge or two for their knockdowns and pulls.
Sorry but all this whine about waypoints sounds like a L2P issue and nothing else.
Not every class has infinite dodges, nor is everyone able to play events on full graphics because the game crashes when you do. many times there is nowhere to dodge to, the field is full of pretty aoe death fields. Or you have been knocked down in to a field of death and can’t move whilst your HP bar disappears.
It’s not a L2P issue. If you are knocked down you can’t dodge. L2P? Wait, I should have dodged the charging guy that came from behind whilst my dodge was on cooldown just after I dodged the first sniper?
Dodge an instant death mechanic that you can’t see and don’t know when it hits, whilst endurance is on cooldown? L2P?
Missing a glide means you have to WP back and start the route over again in many cases- doesn’t matter if you die from landing or not. perhaps I didn’t make that sufficiently clear. One miss, long run. Clear now?
Many of the mobs you have to get through have cripple, pull back or immobilise whilst many skills have cooldowns. It is a lot easier to move around the map on certain classes than others. It’s also a lot easier if you know exactly where you are going so you don’t have to try and find a safe spot to check the map. It also gets tedious having to kill your way through the same mobs over and over again to try and reach that HP.
I’ve yet to find out how to dodge the big mushroom guy’s pull back/down.
The maps are a lot less fun if they are quiet as then you have full mob spawns rather than paths people have already cleared or pulled out of position. Try and find an empty map, roll a new toon so it’s all blacked out, try and forget you know where to go, then try and work out where that HP point is and how you get to it whilst moving around the map and finding places to stop (remember you don’t know the map at this stage, no cheating!).
At one stage on VB the only WPs uncontested were the entrance one and the one next to the entrance to AB (and I didn’t have that part of the map yet).
AB and TD can be even worse with the large numbers of veteran mobs you don’t want to waste time fighting to get back to where you needed to be.
You don’t need infinite dodges unless you try to mow through a pack of pocket raptors (where the right choice of action is to kill them with cleave/AoE).
Ever heard of stunbreakers? Yeah, I know, novel concept for pure PvE players, but slotting them is not such a bad idea in HoT.
All one shot attacks have an animation you can watch for and save your dodge/invulnerabilities for. Granted the effect fireworks can sometimes obscure them, but that’s not really a difficulty issue, it’s a graphics issue and I believe Anet is working on it.
I’ve now played up and until to DS with warrior, thief, engineer, ranger and guardian (and further with some of them). None of them have had any trouble getting through the zones solo when set up to do so. All of them are full glass cannon builds, although the defense traitline on the warrior is just too good to pass.
Have I died a lot? Yes I have. Have I died because I didn’t have any tools to avoid the death (on the second or third try with a new mob/jump). No. Every time I’ve died it was either because I was still learning a new mob’s mechanics or exploring a new place, or was not paying attention. Not a single time did I think “boy this is too difficult, I can’t do this, too unfair”.
So as blunt as it might sound like, yes it is a L2P issue. End of story.
