I mainly play with a few friends, and we have a guild, which is mainly consisting of us.
I have yet to play Guild Missions since none of us have had all that much time because of our studies and graduation coming up.
- I can understand that bigger guilds are having a hard time unlocking these Guild Missions, and I don’t even want to know how long it would take us.
- Actually, when they announced it, I didn’t think it would be unlocked, but a feature to get a Guild’s members playing together, and then reward them in some ways for this.
- I am personally not a fan of having to grind my way up to unlock these missions.
I can understand that it is also a way of getting the Guild’s members to grind with eachother, like maybe doing dungeons (I assume they gain you some influence, we haven’t played together for some time in our little Guild, so I’m just gonna ask you guys) or going WvWvW together, you know, getting into the content together as a guild to unlock these.
- Maybe they should scale the influence needed depending on the size of the Guild.
That might be one way to go about this, but I agree with OP that four weeks seem like a long time to grind for the next Guild Mission.
I think the idea is that they wanted to make them so you could bash out a few of them quickly with some friends after work and such. Also it aloud them to reuse parts that were already built to add a bit of dungeon verity and let players pick what they like.
Also to save cash reuseing asets and makeing the game have a bit more to do in dungeons. Most MMOs lack a bit in this on day one GW2 dose not.
I’m pretty sure you’ll find that diminishing returns are a good thing for the game in the long run.
DR is anti player and therefore not a good thing. There are other methods of controlling drops.
Except it isn’t really. It is anti farmer, DR benefits every single person who doesn’t spend hours farming trash in cursed shore.
Which is even more ironic because Anet has gone on record saying they dont have a problem with farming and that its ok to farm but yet still kitten people with DR.
It is ok to farm you cant get band for doing it and your not going to f up the market by doing it, you just have to farm by Anets rules. Im ok with this because i dont have alot of time to play any way.
,you know every time i have done this event (that i keep doing to see if the QQing is justified). I have vary little trouble with it. And im a meli user that rush’s into fights O_o
Town clothes are useless. Why abandon something that worked perfectly in GW1, combat in your costumes that you spent good money on.
It really is true though, anything and everything that was in GW1 = not allowed in GW2 even if it is better. I just don’t get the logic in not allowing us to combat in our costumes.. oh cool I can stand around in a city looking good while the entire world is persistent, tell me HOW does that make sense!?
The reason we stood around in GW1 was because everything was INSTANCED and they were our trading hubs.
Plus with the massive culling, I couldn’t see peoples costumes even if I wanted to, hah!
because in GW1 you weren’t interacting with about 40 other people in combat. only your group in your own persanle instance.
I for one have no problem seeing that kinda stuff in the towns and such as i consider them safe zone’s ment for fun and such but I really don’t want to see all that stuff when fighting a Dragon .
“Our brand new Riding Boots, Riding Pants, and Riding Gloves will give you that classic equestrian look.”
Am I the only one that gets the idea that they are thinking about adding mounts of some sort? I know Anet has stated that they would never add mounts but it seems weird to have riding clothes if we’ve nothing to ride, except perhaps the flying broom.
Thay have NEVER said that they would never add mounts
they have said if they did add mounts they want them to be more than just a speed buff and to do it in a way that fits GW2.
and face it Way more people want them than the crazzy’s who think mounts are the devil
I would say yes. As lest for its age group and target market. Its a game much in the style of things like zelda. Easy to pick up and play but harder to master.
there also not telling us because there trying to keep info away from there competition , Kinda like DE’s and Transmutation stone’s A-net talked and talked and talked about them and than befor GW2 even came out WoW added Trans stone’s and game’s like rift had ((fail)) DE’s. when it was GW2 that origanly talked about the idea’s
GW2 is the most anti-grind MMO I’ve seen.
Time gating prevents people from doing the same content more than once every 24 hours thus preventing grinding of tokens.
DR prevents grinding mobs to be effective.
I love that we finally got a game that rewards varied play and makes grinding unrewarding.
You get stuff over time, you don’t “grind” for it.
I think this is actualy what it all come’s down to the fact that some people just cant deal with the fact that Grinding is not the best way to go about content.
I and most of the happy players in GW2 actualy like this fact
Sps Don’t bother with this Dude. read some of his old post, he may not be a “troll” but its clear he dosn’t like this game and in some way he wants to impose that feeling on every one.
Errrmmmm. You dont need to pug to join dailys. Also im not saying this to be elitist or anything
But if you want to realy enjoy an MMO (any mmo) join a guild! But dont just join any guild join a guild that meets the requirments you have to enjoy the game.
As for gear takeing time to get. Who cares! You dont need it to complete content. And just through standard play you will have it eventually
I don’t mind humor amongst a serious storyline. GW1 had almost no humor in Prophecies but the story was great. GW2 has a mix of serious and humorous, however the only humor I find actually funny are the Asura. Tybalt is a moron and my female necro feels like she’s babysitting him. The Priory chic (forget her name) is like a kid and my guardian feels like he’s rolling his eyes and going along with her childish antics. Yes, it adds some levity to otherwise serious situations. However, the way the humor is done is less than witty unless we’re talking about the Asura. Haven’t gotten too far into any of the Asura storylines (yet) but they feel at least a little smarter than the “oh my I’ve forgotten where I’ve left my friend, lookie Risen, help my poor flowers” childishness that some of the non-serious portions have. I think I need to start rolling Norn…if nothing else I’ll get drunken ego-driven humor rather than naive & childish Sylvari and Charr. To be honest, the human and Vigil storylines are the most serious.
. To be fair… most sylvari are just children, many only a few years old. There only “life” experience comeing from that of the dream.
There ment to be vary wise in the things they know but at the same time vary child like.
I think the discanect is when you look at them and the talk of “wisdom” comes up, you expect them to act like an overbaring pretanchus elf.
Hell the oldest (being the firs born) are only about 20 years old. For all we know she was only 5
and although some people think otherwise Min Maxing is not the best way to play this game IMO you want to mix it up.
want to be “tanky” tough and Vat is nice but your going to need some Healing power to, all that extra health from Vat dosn’t mean jack if you cant keep it up after a spike damage attack
and although your friend WAS kinda right about end game He isn’t any longer.
there has been plenty of content that could be considerd “end game” added over the last few months.
guild missions, a new tear of gear ((although its not needed or required for any of the game’s content.)) and thing like the improved dailys imo, ETC
to an MMO vet combat it nothing like other MMO combat for Exaple a Warriers CC acts more like that of a combo Braker from a fighting game.
its also worth noteing that if you like playing something like a Healing Role you can HOWEVER you are still required to do dammage as well as provide other forums of saport or control as well.
you would be much more of a combat healer, takeing the edg off and alowing your teams other abuiltys the opportunity to come off cool down. no more Easy mode DPS servivle in this game is vary dependent on your own skill.
MMO vets seem to have a harder time understanding this game than people that are new to the ganra ((unless said MMO vet has played MANY other types of games as well))
thats actualy what i was comeing here to make a topic about Sunreva. as i just sall people in TC saying thay were only gesting to mess with the RPers WTF is up with that.
I don’t care about rewards from guild missions, i’m not donkey chasing carrots, just let me play with my guildies ANYTIME we want, i don’t want to schedule my time to play videogame that is suposed to be “casual friendly”.
Anet broke their Manifesto completly back in November, keep that in mind.
How exactly. I can still get said gear (that i dont actualy need btw) by othere means. Theres plenty of other content i can still do at any time with my guilds.
Even if im not in a guild i can still do the content.
And guild content by its vary nachter needs to be scheduled because how are you going to do large scale guild focused content if your guild dosnt know when its going to be???
Well in a resont interview regarding wvw that talked about culling and said that they got pramition to up there bandwith. Lets hope it carrys over to pve as well. Along with the culling fix
well it’s ok, still very limited choice and some grind (25 aquatic slayer).
I play some games where you have choice to do 10 dailies from like 50 to 500 possibilities (depends on game), so I don’t feel anything much innovating here.
it could be innovative if we got a list if like 50 possible dailies where we need to choose 5. a list should be perma in this case, and we gonna have a real choice this way. As choose 5/10 is not big choice, IMO
soooo…. what game’s are though’s and can you do all dailys almost anywere
and FYI with the new systome you dont actualy have to do aquatic slayer if you dont like it.
Yes it is much better.. ever since the laurels were introduced the dailies have become very important to complete. Guildies are making sure they do dailies before doing anything with the rest of us which has noticably disrupted socialisation and group play.
Personally, I wish the dailies were either easier or didnt have important currency like laurels. Maybe give us a ‘weekly’ instead which gives 7 laurels.
Dailies were supposed to reward you for playing each day, without it being something you had to pay much attention to. So if you just did normal stuff for an hour, you’d get the daily. This hasn’t been the case. The required tasks are too specific and PvE focused. Which must be a pain for those heavily into WvW. Before laurels missing a daily was no biggie. Now its serious and its affecting gameplay.
So whilst i’m happier with the recent change.. it doesn’t go nearly far enough to resolve the issues with the system.
Funny….
my guildy’s often do them after, or in fact we do some runs see our dailys are almost done and than complet them together. this also nets us more influance.
as for WvW that patch is next month lets see what happens.
I made few tries and found: I hate most of dungeons + they got nerfed too.
I can’t play WvW as I dc when many people are next to me (and if I’m alone I have nothing to do).
Exploration is done, even if it was slow, grind, not fun experience to me.
Make alts? Done few, very boring.
So what else to do if not farm?
sounds like you just dont like this game. time to turn it off and unenstal. come back in a year or 2 mabby than there will be somthing for you if you dont find somthing ells to make you happy
as a None farmer I only ever do one or two dragons at most a day ((if that)) and i never do the same one twice… I have gotten so manny rare’s the last 2 day’s its awesome
and way more fair to the none farmer’s
farmers can still “farm” now tha just need to move around more. stop being so lazy
Arenanet is trying to “throw money at the problem” by simply adding server capacity but server capacity is not enough ; your computer needs to receive all these informations about players around you and sometimes your connexion is not good enough to see them all.
So basically, if you want less culling, you need to have a very good connexion and wait for Arenanet to optimise their servers.
thats not all there doing its also confermed that there rewriting the code for how characters render
that will take time, i good amount of time actualy
So. you can take a Charr with a pink mohawk, a pink quaggan backpack and a My little Pony bow consistent the the world and the natur of the Charr race?
Dont misunderstand me… im not against FUN, but Fun fitting to a race.
Its a video game, I mean really for manny of us the story of a Fat little Italian plumber who could jump really high, was amazing fun. ((Mario RPG for the Win))
and although anet has a huge focuson lore, as far as the Game side of things there makeing this a GAME not a fantasy world simulater. ((also why player housing is unlikely.
Super Mario`s World is not Tyrias World, right? Something ok in one game doest fit in another…. or how about Pacman in Battlefield 3?
Woosh… over your head, you missed my point intirly.
This is a game first and foremost Anet did not designee it to be some super overly dark fantasy world Sim, its true enough the charr have there own idels and belifes but on the hole (out side of your story) its not meant to be relfected totally in your character.
where all just a bunch of adults playing with our virtual Action figger’s ((or for some there more like barbie dulls))
I beg to differ there. all the “non-fitting Stuff” appeared after the game was released.
I dont understand your idea on “its not reflected on your Character”.. why it should NOT be? Your Character lives in this world. How does it not entirely reflecting on him or her?
Only cause of you the player not caring for the background and think a pink Quaggan Plushie is, what this char would wear?
“why so serious” yup i went there
ITS A VIDEO GAME. I mean why have Big head mode in game’s like 007 Golden eye.
So. you can take a Charr with a pink mohawk, a pink quaggan backpack and a My little Pony bow consistent the the world and the natur of the Charr race?
Dont misunderstand me… im not against FUN, but Fun fitting to a race.
Its a video game, I mean really for manny of us the story of a Fat little Italian plumber who could jump really high, was amazing fun. ((Mario RPG for the Win))
and although anet has a huge focuson lore, as far as the Game side of things there makeing this a GAME not a fantasy world simulater. ((also why player housing is unlikely.
Super Mario`s World is not Tyrias World, right? Something ok in one game doest fit in another…. or how about Pacman in Battlefield 3?
Woosh… over your head, you missed my point intirly.
This is a game first and foremost Anet did not designee it to be some super overly dark fantasy world Sim, its true enough the charr have there own idels and belifes but on the hole (out side of your story) its not meant to be relfected totally in your character.
where all just a bunch of adults playing with our virtual Action figger’s ((or for some there more like barbie dulls))
the world and the lore just give it depth.
yes im a awesome pink hair charr with a quagon back pack, and im the most Bad —- kitten in the room. and i will stomp dragons into the mud for what thay did to the norn. fist pump :P
So. you can take a Charr with a pink mohawk, a pink quaggan backpack and a My little Pony bow consistent the the world and the natur of the Charr race?
Dont misunderstand me… im not against FUN, but Fun fitting to a race.
Its a video game, I mean really for manny of us the story of a Fat little Italian plumber who could jump really high, was amazing fun. ((Mario RPG for the Win))
and although anet has a huge focuson lore, as far as the Game side of things there makeing this a GAME not a fantasy world simulater. ((also why player housing is unlikely.
I’m thinking that we consider the same things “endgame”, OP. If true, then:
Fractals were added in November. It is a good dungeon, though extremely repetitive. Though it has many levels of difficulty, it offers little additional challenge past Level 10.
Two new sPvP maps have been added since release. Both are fun. The newest one is based on CTF, which is always great.
And that’s it.
Dungeons were revamped and / or nerfed, with no additional rewards added.
No new Fractals have been added since their initial launch.
And that’s everything you came up with?! The only thing that matters to you is Dungeons Instances count and PvP map count?! This are the only things noticeable by you?!
Everything else in the game is accomplished through zergs. Literally everything else. So yes, dungeons, fractals, and sPvP are what I consider endgame.
With alot of the new or revamped content Zerg’s are not as usefule as they use to be.
Belive it or not its vary clear that A-net has a much better understanding of there Playerbase related to there game micanics and is now building content with that in minde.
adding improved AI combat with more skills and stage’s to change the flow, and although numbers help, for alot of the big new content numbers on there own dont win the fights.
(( true enough I cant say the same for most old content though))
Nope,. nothing has changed. It’s the same as it was. You know why? Because it’s not a problem.
What you want is a different game, and that’s not this game. The concepts you’re espousing are the very things Anet has tried to move away from. Probably not the game for you.
You can say I am wrong, but when myself, and millions of other players who bought this game and loved it opt to play an inferior MMO (mechanic-wise) and even pay a monthly subscription fee to access said inferior MMOs because they offer some sense of accomplishment and reward, I think there is a major problem.
MMOs shouldn’t feel like a single player game, and level-based games with itemization shouldn’t feel as if your level or equipment is largely irrelevant.
guild missons just got added…. thats kinda a big deal ((why has no one pointed this out))
also if you sever is still feeling dead. gest to a more active one like TC or i think SOR?
Fixed most (99%) of the bugs
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Come on, be realistic now. :p
I want to know what the OP put in google were he didnt see any listings of all the new content
we have gotten pretty big update’s almost every month now
to be fair we have gotten a loud of bug fix’s almost every other week. I dont understand how people can say things are not being worked on constantly.
granted this is the first one with solid PVP bug fix’s ((and pets still need some love Anet))
I’m actually getting off topic. I’m not really here to attack Guild Wars 2, I was merely curious if any changes had been made that might make the game more fun to regularly play. Or if any changes have been considered, proposed, or announced by the Development team. I understand not everyone has a problem with this game (if they did, they probably wouldn’t still be playing).
Anyways, it sounds as if there are no plans of making changes to encourage gameplay, and that was really my only question (I tried googling it but couldn’t find any information on changes or upcoming changes).
Thanks for your input.
And that’s you final opinion… People told you about a lot of new stuff in the game and you still conclude with that.
lol, where did anyone in this thread mention any “new stuff?” Are we reading the same thread?
gw2lfg.com That’s how people find dungeon groups. It works. It’s that simple.
What’s even simpler is finding a guild of like minded people and playing with them. My guild runs stuff almost every day. Why pug stuff when there are great guilds out there?
And now, with the new guild missions, there’s other organized stuff for guilds to do.
Dude serasly I dont think thats what he ment by new stuff. and thats not exactly new to the game. its a 3rd party site. usefull though it may be/
((i for one only run with guildy’s or the few friends that i have made outside of my guild as most pugs still strugle with actualy being any good at this game))
The only interesting thing I’ve discovered so far is one of the refugee’s stories in LA mention wanting to populate Southsun Cove...which is a plausible change imo.
I agree its slow. But its something new every month and very subtle. Almost too subtle. But its something you don’t get in most MMOs.
thay want to make it weekly
Hopefully we get more out of it this mounth than we did last mounth
Relying on food THIS powerful, and ANY of you expected it to NOT be fixed?
Fixed? Sure. It was too powerful, no arguing that. Fixes at the expense of already sub-par classes however with no feasible alternative…
There’s plenty of feasible alternatives. People are just being irrational.
Never once needed that food for my warrior. 30k HP 3.2k Armor say what about melee now ?
Same here I run a saport warrior with mostly monk runes for the higher healing facter and the Boon deration
useing the regen sig, shout heals, with all the healing power means i almost never have to spend my heal and haveing the extra boon deration its an easy matter to max out my might at 25 stacks
than if im really boned i can duck behind my shield use shake it off and my health will go up just from regening.
I often get stuck carrying the pugs i run and some time even my less expeanced guildys
Huh? why would you pay? I thought the whole point of letting people “cheat” by buying gold with real money was that the rest of us legit players would benefit from them developing the game with that money. I cant accept a game that lest people get ahead by paying with real money AND want me to spend real money to play the content. Thats not going to work for me, good luck to Anet with that one.
I think you need to get a better understanding of what it take’s to make and run an MMO.
They pretty much removed the whole paid tournament system, something that took ages for them to implement. So we are back to normal tournaments. Luckily we also have single round fights now and ratings to make it actually work. If you think about it, that’s not really a big step since launch.
I’m happy but you gotta be realistic.
You have no idea how much a big deal an actual match makeing system is do you???
