It’s just FREE content so what do you mean by worth it I wonder. You get exotics for doing the ancient karka, and the new dungeon is hands down the best thing in the game for high levels. I love this update.
Got some exotics and the 20 slot bag (my fav). Very nice rewards. The two hour grind on the event is pretty annoying but at least you get something.
I’ve PUGed to level 4. No major problems.
Biggest thing is if you’re not a patient and nice person yourself, don’t ever PUG.
If you demand things that are way too much… full exotic gear at level 1 for example is laughable requirement.. you will also fail with PUGs. Know what’s realistic but don’t expect to do it with Superman speed with no snags, and there’s really no issues.
Yeah, I’m not really feeling it. It’s like Orr’s design problems all over again. Not the one where they had too many mobs but just a kind of hollow feeling to the events.
FotM is the winner in this update.
There are checkpoints, just not waypoints. If your whole team wipes you can all res at one near the top after the left/right seals one.
I think we need a party finder for dungeons more than ever.
But I see nothing wrong with restriction. In fact it’s a good idea. It helps you find people who are on your play level. We just need a group find system to make it not take forever.
So learn to get better at it? I agree at first glance it seems random and hard but people are already finding some good ideas.
I’d advise you to just be patient. My corpse was sitting there for 5 minutes on that map but eventually people decided to res me to come help finish it. I didn’t rage at them, I just let them come to their senses on their own. I mean they could troll you on some map… yes… but they’re going to be trashing the party and you don’t have to confirm you’re ready to leave if they beat it without you… so it’s rather self-defeating for anyone to not realize that teamwork is better. They most often will, just learn to not ever freak out in a PUG and things will 99% of the time work out.
Yep there’s some truly awesome ones. Swamp is tough and random it seems, but I don’t really mind. This is what people wanted. Stuff that you can’t always get the exact same experience out of but it feels epic.
A lot of areas feel like real party content as well meaning you’ll have roles to do. It’s great.
Yeah they’re really cool. More like EOTN mission pack or GW1 missions. Definitely a nice kind of content to have!
I did not DC or crash but the sluggishness of gameplay for a half hour was pretty bad.
They need to think about this stuff and how it effects us. It’s kind of annoying to take the time to take part in something and have it be executed in a poor manner.
Very laggy. Barely functioning framerate and responsiveness the whole time. I didn’t lose connection or crash but the performance was very bad.
I do not approve of LA being used for this. The area just seems to take up too much memory and have too much going on to run a massive event on top of that.
Please consider spreading the load better, devs.
I’m just expecting a nice content update. Will I care about all of it? Maybe not. I don’t like Diablo Inferno gear grind and if that’s what the Fractals are then I doubt I’ll play too much. But it’s just something to start working on the game’s level 80 content. If it’s not that great they can take the feedback and build something cooler. Online games are always a living, flexible process.
This is STUPID. I bought the game on the promise on no gear progression.
Well I guess you weren’t paying any attention whatsoever to what went on from levels 1-80.
I mean I really don’t get it. People are complaining about stuff that we realized half a year ago in betas… that it’s a really cool game but it’s still a typical RPG stat-based affair and not the coming of Super Mario meets Zelda meets Asheron’s Call meets wonderland that is fun to imagine.
This is really, really, really old news and no GW2 did not just turn a corner into this stuff.
It’s still a cool game. I don’t see the big deal unless people are still chasing a dream and not adjusting to the reality that’s been here.
“The new additions in November are just the start of our item progression initiative.”
What. The. Hell.
Are we not going to get an explanation as to why they changed their entire vision for GW2 for the past five years? This is not the game I signed up for.
So… what do you want to do at level 80? I just don’t understand. Orr forever? That’s not working out well.
All this is is something new. Like getting a free expansion already. Such overreaction from people.
The update just sounds more and more cool to me. If it turns out to me an annoying grind (i.e. legendary weapons) then I have to say that’s fine too because I respect that different people like different kinds of content.
By the way GW1 respected different groups of gamers the same way. If you don’t think there were crazy but totally pointless grind endgame stuff to do, you didn’t play it.
And the part of the point is not to grind it! Take it as a long term goal.
Yes, that’s right. You don’t sit on the game and click your fingers raw. That’s not why they add this stuff even if some people are somehow in a position to play that way.
But all in all I’m excited. All updates are welcome free additions to the game. If you’re leaving forever for some reason, well it will be interesting to see what other games you find with as much variety and updates.
It isn’t mis information: "With great challenges come great rewards. The patch will introduce ascended items. Ascended armors are “slightly more powerful than exotics” and can, in some cases, hold slots for infusions."
From: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/guild-wars-2s-lost-shores-content-primer/
Hold your horses. You don’t have confirmation that ascended armor infusion works outside of the one new dungeon at all. It logically follows that it doesn’t since the system is designed for a specific dungeon and not to make you a god.
It’s funny because it’s like we’ve got a game bigger than all of GW1 and expansions out of the gate… and people are unhappy. I’m happy. I’m very happy with all this content and immediate updates. It’s amazing!
Say what you will, but with a new tier in, everyone is going to expect that you have your ascended weap or whatever when doing dungeons soon enough.
Just like everyone expects you to have a legendary now?
Lies. Lies. Lies.
Calm down and see the reality or get mad about nothing… that’s up to you.
No, don’t repeat stuff. The point is that Tyria changes/evolves. This is not character-based content… meaning your player created it all. It’s world based meaning attend or don’t attend.
I think GW2 would be significantly less cool if they backed off on world changing stuff and made it infinitely repeatable.
I like one time events. It’s like having a live role playing feature or something. Reworking how they do this would seemingly miss the point of… why they’re doing it. It’s just to add a little bit of charm and immersion!
I work too but I don’t care if I miss something. Tyria must evolve, and I must live my life, but when we can meet up we will.
The community is pretty awesome. Orr just brings out some of the people with (for lack other accurate description) no life who live to farm and be abrasive. Even still Orr isn’t hard to deal with anymore it’s just hard to stomach the repetition. Hopefully the upcoming dungeon adds better 80 content.
In my opinion, the trading post already has a nauseating overreach into the game. It’s nice not everything can go there.
Just fun.
Unfortunately there was no achievement, whereas incredibly lame grind tasks like pumpkin carving had one.
I’d like to thank the developers who worked hard on those PVP games just to have them risk being ignored with the lack of achievement. I enjoyed them.
Yep, I don’t really care. Tried it maybe 15 times. It seems based on having a very detailed memory and not losing it under pressure.
If it was solo I would beat it in 3 tries probably, but doing it with no visibility of my character is just not my thing.
Well there’s hundreds of thousands of people without power already. I have power for now but we’ll see in the morning… The utilities have hopefully ramped up to deal with this nightmare.
Only one person gets picked to do it.
You don’t use emotes… you use for some reason a changed skill bar and have to pick the emote.
It’s kind of annoying and I hope he doesn’t play this game at the party because it’s not really Mad King says anymore but a click the right icon game.
I haven’t seen ANY of the halloween weapons drop for a group. Shabby Mad King’s “armor” pieces that are reskins might, and other armors. The weps are still quite rare.
He takes 10 minutes to deal with so I don’t see how it’s that bad.
Try to avoid jumping where you can, but just use walking off. Less damage. It’s all possible.
Watch it on youtube. I actually liked it better when I saw a different version reoccur in game just a few mins back, because it doesn’t cut away from your character.
Wow.. a hurricane is about to hit you and all you people care about is missing an event you can Youtube later? Is seeing something really so important that you can think of nothing else like your families and homes? Someone WILL be recording this and it will look the same in a video as it will being in game for it. Take care of your real lives and be grateful you live in an age where people can record and post the things you want to see.
Quit trolling. This storm is not funny and obviously we’re preparing for it.
Guys, I’m sorry – but it’s not like this is storm going to knock out the entire NE’s power.
Irene had a lot of people in the NE without power for up to a week. I was one of them.
We are reasonably worried about this happening again. The storm is going to stall up here for like 24-48 hours of high winds! That can feasibly wipe us off the power grid. You have LOTS of trees near lines in the NE. It’s becoming a disaster all the time now and we really need all underground lines.
It’s a shame. I’d really love something to keep tabs on it. Even GW1 had a gamer title.
Unless I’m missing it… there’s no achievement or tracking of the halloween PVP games wins you get? It feels a little strange with all the other stuff on achievement tracks.
It’s not really “Mad King” themed stuff that’s just the rune. It’s regular endgame craft armors. It’s not really worth getting unless you have some obsession.
It really sucks that they nerfed it so bad. You get complete junk now. It was something for 80s to do before…. people were talking and communicating and having a good time. Now it’s useless. Thanks ANet!
God I hate games using real money economies.
Just like Diablo 3 we’re seeing nerf first, worry about players enjoying themselves way later.
They should definitely do something if there’s mass power outages. Some of these storms have been no joke the past few years. And the northeast is very heavily populated so no it’s not a small amount of people.
What’s economy breaking about it? The normal people need stuff like this to even out the price gouging of the people that manipulate the auction house 24/7.
My advice: just don’t use their store ever again.
Play their game, pay them zilch.
It’s what they deserve if they want to treat the community bad give 95% of new items to economy exploiters instead.
The big gap between act I and 2 is rather odd. Really we’re more in pre-event stage it feels like until friday… (assuming late friday night at that)… so it does feel a little weird. In future events I hope they don’t have such a gap.
Wish they mentioned this before I used half my tonics goofing around but what are you going to do.
I think they need to get the economics under wrap. Having one high end item for patch is okay for that market. Having all of them turn into high end or cash shop is rather poor balance.
We’ll have to see if anything else comes along in the event to correct this but so far… yeah it’s rather ridiculous. People won’t want to tune into new content if it’s only for the ultra auction kings who are already rich.
I just found him around a little corner parallel to the door of the chest room (inside the chest room.) If others pop him you can’t see him because there’s bit of wall hiding him.
I feel bad for you. You took something on faith and got screwed. But I would have asked because that’s the nature of online games.
Oh god downloading 7,600 files… the server cloud seems a little broken. Maybe ANet should get on the phone with those guys
Well update was here but we broke the servers.
Well it’s no fun working all day, anticipating the update… getting home. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Then I might not even see it on the east coast.
But these things almost ALWAYS happen with updates. To every game. It’s just how things go with such complicated software. So it’s not surprising.