The travel golems were changed. We need to actually progress through each level to “earn” each travel golems ability to travel. Make it to the second floor and that golem will work on following trips. I’m assuming that after making it to the second floor and unlocking that golem.
This would have been a nice feature from the start. As an add in, after most players have completed the achievements, it is exceptionally unfair to all the players who don’t play every day and an exceptionally poor choice by the powers that be to implement it now.
Has the name of this game been changed from Guild Wars 2 to Scarlet Wars 1 yet?
I suspect the " 2 " has significant meaning to a large part of the player base.
You go to one of Scarlets attacks. You’re the only one there. You kill off a wave of her minions. Then another. Then after a long hard fought battle you even manage to beat another wave alone.
Then before you can collect any loot, Scarlet appears right behind you and slams you downed into a mass of enemies and you die instantly. You are, all by yourself, such a huge threat to her that she takes the time and effort to eliminate just you. Seriously?
Twice was enough for me. That’s avoidable content for most players now so She really doesn’t matter much anymore. Good or bad is lost to content that wasn’t thoroughly thought out.
Removing achievements from anyone for any reason is a total failure!
I’ve never done fractals and now I certainly wont become involved in temporary content with temporary achievements!
Will you recommend the game?
Yes, but only with a qualifying statement.
Why
the profession balance is poor and the game is subject to change by a small but loud few on the forums.
What do you like about the current living story content?
Nothing! I hate the current content. Having something new every 2 weeks is nice but I’d rather have expansions, new gear, new races and professions and all balanced.
What do you dislike?
I have absolutely no interest in fractals. The mist is PvP and I feel no need to prove myself to anyone. Wont be doing any of it.
I have enjoyed the living story content that takes place in the open world, but that is not what I came to the game for. That was Dragons.
In my opinion do I like the direction of the game?
Ummm, what direction? The changes away from increased difficulty and toward mass dependence on the “leaders controlling the zerg” through non-game communications programs is disgusting to me. I’m not interested in the military. After the first day or two, the setting is empty because the zerg already went through, when the proper distribution of achievement points and some simple time gating could make it long term enjoyable game play.
To me, the focus seems to be on, and always has been on PvP. I’m glad PvP is there for those that like it however nothing done for PvP should affect WvW or PvE and it always does. If they now want only massive groups playing like it seems, expect massive groups of players to disappear.
Am I being fair in my observation?
That’s for the OP to decide. I can only post my personal opinion.
The Living Story is ok. Just ok. Some is entertaining and some is an attempt to force us to play parts of the game we simply are not interested in. Having absolutely no interest in fractals, I’ll be skipping most of the next couple weeks.
An expansion would create content for those not interested in what A-net wants us to do. That is why there is no expansion.
They must be trying to tweak this. Farming the second floor caverns for most of a day netted not one green key. Farming the first floor caverns for hours earned no blue keys.
Running through the third floor yielded 8 pink keys. Yet last night I got a green key from the final boss chest. Go figure.
Do we get our trait points back to re-allocate after so many have been changed?
I’d ordinarily tend to agree that this content is designed for a zerg, however there are specific achievements included in “The Nightmare Within” that are designed for non zerg play. Tower Explorer and Tower of Nightmare Survivor are two such examples.
If those achievements earned the larger number of achievement points, instead of the ones made simple in a zerg, then players would approach the Living Story with a different perspective.
If achievement points scaled with group size (more players present equals less achievement points) that would drive players wishing more difficult content to attempt smaller groups and still allow players wishing less difficult content to zerg up.
The combination of changing how achievement points are awarded per task, and scaling achievement points per number of players present, would be awesome in my humble opinion.
It’s amazing that someone can experience good luck and then tell everyone that if they don’t have good luck, they shouldn’t complain because there is no problem.
A 2 handed weapon needs to have enough legitimate uses to last till you can swap back to another weapon set. The shortbow does not. There is no flow.
As long as “balance” passes are made based on PvP, any post or thread is totally pointless in regards to PvE.
If your only playing once every 2 weeks and you want everything to be “easy in a zerg” then this is for you. Your done the first day.
Sorry, this is not accomplishment I can be proud of. How about one living story event that requires intelligence, an actual time commitment and designed for a group of 5 or less. Something that everyone doesn’t complete in a day or two.
What does it matter whether it’s temporary or not when my pets will die instantly to the AoEs? Oddly enough, every other character class doesn’t lose their main mechanic support in dungeons.
Just more time wasted on useless content instead of fixing the broken main mechanics.
Yes, more like 1 to 4 silver each time. I doubt it’s been happening long enough to amount to a single gold so it’s a poor choice for a title. But, it did get attention. Maybe enough attention so a few will check next time it happens.
The next time there is a game update, please everyone check your coin totals before the update or before traveling which starts the update. Then check your coin totals after the update. I think you will be surprised.
I suspect the game is using the nearest waypoint to somehow relocate us on the map and that the game is charging us to travel to that waypoint. This may only be happening if you die and need to travel or your leaving an “instance”.
Please check it out the next time you see the “a new game update is available. Your game will restart in 50 minutes” or whatever it says exactly.
I have 3 questions.
1) How do you explain to the bulk of new Rangers that the bow they WANT to use makes PvE leveling twice as hard as using melee weapons?
2) How do you explain that it makes no difference what pet you use because they are usually all dead in the first few seconds or their attacks are easily avoided?
3)How do you explain to new Rangers that they need to reach level 80 before they even consider trying a dungeon because of AOE damage?
Hmmmm, post a constructive comment. OK.
“So now that we know that doesn’t work we can try something else”.
Now where do I post this constructive comment so that it actually gets a response?
Checking the Dev Tracker Thread it has to be in the PvP thread so…….
Wait, what was your point again?
This thread does an excellent job of showing how only 10 players on a server are enjoying this content and the rest are not even trying to do it.
Of course you can kill a dragon with only 4 others in Trehernes Personal Story though.
WvW players being forced to do PvE is just as bad.
Sure, you can try to compare the 30 or so world completion spots in WvW with the hundreds in PvE . You can try….
I really don’t see how anyone can defend content like the mad kings realm where you can not see what, or how many, things are attacking you and you can lose over 22k health and die in less than a second.
This nonsense that requires 200 players, all in constant “non gw2” communication to do anything is absurd enough. To take perfectly good content that the vast majority enjoyed and destroy it for the few that cant think independently and need to be “instructed what to do” is pointless. Create new content for these people who need to hide in massive groups to play, and leave stuff that works alone!
Did you read his post?
He is exactly correct.
Just because you may want to spend time in the middle of the night doing non PVE stuff doesn’t mean anyone else does.
To the OP;
It’s included because a-net thinks WvW leads to PvP and that’s all they really care about.
OBVIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If there is a system message that a new game update will occur in like one hour, and we waypoint travel, that starts the update and we must log in again.
That’s fine, except when we log back in we get the message " the waypoint you were traveling to is contested…" and we are still at the old waypoint not the new waypoint or one nearby.
The problem is we were charged for the move, update occurred, and we didn’t move.
If we are in an instance like the Mad Kings whatever, and we travel to a waypoint inside so we can leave the instance, then after the update we reappear back where we originally traveled from, and we were charged.
Is this intended?
I play Ranger BECAUSE it is the weakest class with little to offer in group play.
I want that challenge.
If you are posting that this class is not bad, then you either haven’t played it, or you’ve
surrendered your right in a MMOG to play the role of “at range” that most people choose the class for.
Now add the pet that’s off collecting agro, unresponsive, already dead, or un-useful for the next area/stage/boss…
If you want a real challenge, take a Ranger into a dungeon.
Still, if you are a different class, you could protect your class by claiming Ranger is fine.
If you’re not going to put the range back on the short bow and make it a ranged weapon again then don’t bother with any of the rest of the changes.
Clockwork Chaos invasions worked great yesterday.
Clockwork Chaos invasions crash to desktop or freeze the computer today.
Whatever you did, isn’t working!
How many crash reports do you need?!?
The invasion was being held up by Jormag. If you had come to help us kill it, you could have watched it die and then crashed to desktop like the rest of us. Of course, re-logging in gets us once again to the non active overflow.
I’ve had 2 crashes and 2 frozen screens (can still hear the game sound).
Exact same computer setup except Nvidia 670GTX
Thee only way out of the freeze is to reboot. Of course we DONT come back in the non overflow, we come back in an inactive overflow.
This should not be happening on these systems. Please fix this!
Yeah, I love watching all those cut scenes over and over leading to the final battle with Scarlet…. NOT
because I can either use my pet and not kite her (pointless), or set my pet to friendly and lose it’s abilities entirely (pointless).
to the final Scarlet battle and rangers inability to kite scarlet unless we make our pet friendly, thereby elimination a lot of our attack?
SERIOUSLY?
Entered a Sparkfly overflow that had the Clockwork Chaos invasion occurring. Near the end I got the pop up window asking if I wanted to move to the “real” Sparkfly Fen and did. Lost the end because it wasn’t happening here or had already ended.
This option shouldn’t come up during the active invasion event.
Has this 2 week update stuff clogged the Mystic Toilet even more?
1 clover from 25 tries tells me so.
Anyone else tried this recently?
“Complete 1 Beacons of Kryta torch runs.”
If that makes any sense.
Just got one from a JP chest.
The queens gauntlet entrance ticket to a PvP mini game doesn’t belong in a PvE chest.
I see many threads started asking about weapons, gear, traits, build and methods
ALL sidetracked and destroyed by comments that deal only with PvP and WvW.
Why isn’t there a place to discuss PvE?
I’m embarrassed for those that buy one and very sympathetic for those who go to the effort to make one, only to have them nerfed by the Development team!
6/25/2013 should have put a stop to anyone trying to make one.
Anything other than JP’s and forced garbage PvP mini games would be very refreshing!
If Anet was a Car company, they’d make their sports cars with square wheels so not to overshadow their family sedans…
Actually, I suspect they would simple shrink the gas tank to nerf its range.
I have not played PvP. There are a number of interesting reasons why, proposed here.
I think the reason many of us do not, is because we don’t feel the need or drive to prove ourselves better than the next guy. It’s as simple as that. We can have fun in the game without that pressure to always beat the next one. No offense intended. I’m glad it is here for you to enjoy. In fact, the way I see the games design, PvE leads to WvW which leads to PvP so maybe it’s just a matter of time for many players.
I think you guys took a statement way out of context, but this is hilariously funny. I believe the question asked referred to Shortbow and Longbows range and that many players wanted shortbows range back as well as Longbows being extended farther.
He essentially stated that would be a bit unbalanced, and that many feel the Longbow isn’t that attractive. They didn’t see a reason in to bump the shortbow to the LB because they fill the same role and then then many players would say the LB was unattractive.
The role of the LB is supposed be long range bomber, if you have two weapons doing the same thing they become redundant. I got to spend a few hours talking shop with Chaplan recently, and his explanation which is easily taken out of context if all you hear is Shortbow makes LB unattractive than you missed the context. He was saying that Longbow’s role is clearly defined as the Long Range attack for the Ranger, but that the Shortbow was filling that role, and rather than having two weapons do the same thing. They wanted to make sure the LB’s role was used and making it more attractive.
There is nothing wrong with this statement. It’s your understanding of his comment, and listening to Battosai’s actual question to realize what he was saying.
Actually, the very wrong thing with that statement is that it demands that the axe be nerfed next because it’s taking the place the shortbow was demoted to. I’m sure everyone will love their new 600 range axes. Actually swapping the names of the two bows would have achieved the stated desired result without forcing an entire class to change their builds to try and remain effective.
Generally, a successful business plan is to make things better – but do no harm.
Especially when the service you are providing is fun. Alienating anyone is counter productive. There seems to be an honest attempt at making things better, but at the same time, they are doing harm. That problem is most easily resolved through communication. Even if it is one sided.
Personally I think they got a little carried away with the rapid fire updates and are lagging behind on communication. I can’t see this as a move away from PvE.
They must realize that the nerfs from the 25th have driven players to other classes or other games. The fanboi’s are posting “THANKS FOR THE GREAT JOB!!!!!” like usual after each change. But they see the need to reevaluate their actions given the feedback.
If I thought "hmmm, it cant be that bad.., " I’d start with something exactly like a “facebook likes” program that’s easy, doesn’t grant any significant game changing incentives and allows me to feel better about what was done.
And yes, the term bribes fits perfectly.
Is it possible to get Looney Tunes to do the next balance pass?
If you truly want to be realistic, the only viable builds are melee and there’s very little interest by Rangers in playing melee. The other classes simply do it better. I expect Rangers to gradually disappear until the Devs read in another class forum that the Rangers are gone. That’s pretty much the only way our class might become viable at range. Sad but very likely. Still, if you enjoy the melee Ranger build, good for you.
1) All of the development team must stop playing “Defiance” and play 20 hours a week, for a month, as Ranger split evenly across PvP, WvW and PvE before attempting to balance the classes.
2) All of the development team must use that experience when balancing the game.
3) All of the development team must play 20 hours a week, for a month, as Ranger split evenly across PvP, WvW and PvE after attempting to balance the classes, before going back to “Defiance”.
Why do you want a Legendary?
With the chance it’s stats will be nerfed the day after you finally achieve it, whats the point?
No thanks.
Fix the game first
(Vol.5421
nerfing a Legendary means altering the skin or remove its effects.
nerfing a Legendary does not mean nerfing the skills associated with it that made you want to equip it in the first place.)
Thanks for your definition of what a nerf is but I don’t see how that applies to this issue. Clearly, the issue is not how a Legendary looks, it is exactly about the fact that it’s skills can be nerfed to the point of making the Legendary worthless in one or more of the game areas. Again, every server will be different but take a look at the value drops since the last patch.
(edited by Tumult.2578)
This is an attempt to discuss the fact that Legendaries can be nerfed out of existence, and not about the shortbow and it’s not about Ranger. That shortbow is the perfect current example only.
(All I will say about class is that I understand your love of your class. When you are ready for a challenge, try Ranger)