1)How will i survive
2)How will i support the team
3)How will i deal damage
same order for me, im not to big on playing wak a mole with the health bar but even when focusing on this I do A LOT of healing on my warier. Healing power go’s a long way with surviveing
for any one who may not know, this is a Easter egg based on. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ocarina of time.
you do know were going to get a thing that outlines there plans and tells us about priojects there working on this week right?
that said go do somthing ells Nothing is makeing you play GW2 ALL THE TIME. I for one play less because i have RL friends that dont play and some time’s i want to hang with them, there’s also a few single player games i like to play ((its often this or skyrim for me :P ))
Oh also when you start Dungeon runs lern and understand what combo Fields do
I often run with a necro that sets down a field that Give’s me life steal when I go range. so if i need to heal up real quick and she puts that field on the ground, i role back use my rifle burst shot heal up real quick stealing health from my target ((by shooting through said field)) than jump right back in with my sword
I play more of a tanky build with Sword/shield for my main wepon set
I use Tough/Power/Heal gear ((with a little condition/vit mixed in)) 2 shouts (shake it off and for grate justice)) and my shouts Heal, the healing signat, Franzy for fast burst Dammage.
and i often use battle standerd when im in a group for the rez
basicly as I fight im also healing myself ALL THE TIME.
you should also know that being Tanky ((as you can never be an actual tank in this game)) is much easyer to do when you reach max level and can REALLY focus on your build and what you want to do , than get gear that fits that role. Mace and shield are grate for this as you get 3 stuns
also you should know that Healing Power is actualy GRATE for some one who wants alot of survivability, you kinda need to mix up your skills in this one Min Maxing is not optimal for everything in this game
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Just pointing this out. The big jan/feb/march (jan being the smalest). Are sappose to have big things for PVP and PVE with the focus on cerrant content
If you want to really get into the world get in a good guild that focus’s on that kinda content
And have you done fractals???
Pve isnt dead but not as popuar as wvw fotm and dungeons also lions arch dwellers.
I feel bad for all the engineers necromancers in etc i come across in pve because im just thinking to myself “You shouldnt have chose that class nobody will accept you unless you’re guardian warrior or sometimes thief” Not saying i wouldnt accept em i dont judge professions im just saying a high amount do.
I main a Necro and play FoTM and other dungeons every day. Never had a single issue with anyone complaining about my class. Not sure why you would think people do.
As for PvE being dead, I have NFI what your talking about. I can’t go two minutes without running into people everywhere I go. Sure there are is a bigger spread going to WvW and dungeons, but there are still people everywhere. I can only guess that maybe its the server you are playing on.
Tarnished coast friend. And you are one of few then who dungeon with no problem i commonly and i mean it strongly commonly see people hosting games and restricting anyone but guardians or warriors.
I wont say your wrong but im on TC as well and i see plenty of people that dont have restrictions. But than im also in a guild that dungeon runs (as well as all other content) and if we need a few pugs we dont discriminate.
But than are guild leader is also a necro and she has the most servivabuilaty of any one i have ever seen
Glad im not on your server…. oh and its the freaking middle of the night on a sunday. People got school and work to think about.
That said thats why there has been so much of a buzz for the next few big updates as thay focus on current content.
Orr is just fine unless all you want to do is Farm Nod’s all day and frankly thats not what Orr is about.
give it to anouther friend :P
Im the same way this is also why i like running with my guild most of the time. We are all good and can often just smash through the content but none of us are really that focused on it and if we end up pugging it in a group of new players (or helping out new guildys) its all about talking and jokeing and haveing a good time.
( that said new dungeons and such we get together with our favored guildys and its seruis business :P)
I have committed 2 seconds of rage toward OP’s discovery.
Yeah exsept the names have been changed and there flaver text says ther “ninja” grateswords
Man when did SBI over take SOR??? O_O. Best match up ever
there far to alike to just be coincidence but than there not exactly brakeing any laws I think as they changed them up a bit.
that said looks like some one is a GW2 fan
MMO’s grow and change often getting better as time go’s by.
Unlike all the wow clone’s that just copy the combat that wow already dose well, GW2 trys something new, It will grow and change and get better ((harder)) as both the Devs and the Players lern more about it.
((i think its funny how for the first few mounths every one was saying HOW HARD GW2 was… and now that they have an understanding of how a fight works “Oh its brain dead easy…..” )) Anet didnt want us to be overwhelmed befor we even had the opertunity to lern to swim
i miss: play good -> kill boss fast else you die
they should make bosses have less HP, but more DMG (not with 1 spell, but just more dmg over time).
example: bosses puts major load of conditions on everyone, your team needs to group up and AoE clean conditions, if you don’t, you die. simple. And that’s teamwork.
Sooooo High level Fractals?
Played since Beta 1 , still exploring, Doing JP, dungeons, Running with the same guild oh and WVW when the mood is right
I play in a guild full of WoWers and like 2 GW1ers >_> I played alot of GW1 myself but never got to deep into it, it didnt hold me the same way this dose
its Jan/Feb/march actualy and the first bit is small and at the end of Jan from what we understand
I don’t do jump puzzles for the reward at the end, I do them because I find them fun!
Same here But than I also enjoy game’s like super meat boy… or you know super mario…. ((the first one were you didnt even know you were trying to save a princes tell you got to the first tode.
so… the games progression is in 5man instances?
and if the games sole purpose is pvp…. why is there even pve?
im confused..
guess you cant please everyone but… still this is an mmo but the pve is broken?
great now im more confused…
I ask the same question, I don’t like it at all either; but it is unfortunately the way it is, fastest way to make gold and easiest way to gain exotics is in dungeons. And the only way to gain ascended is in a single dungeon.
However, I do think it’s getting better. Ascended gear should be available in more places within the next few months, and Colin Johansen stated that the big patches coming in Feb/March will principally be improvements on the existing zones to give players reasons to play in the open world again.
i get what you are saying… im the kinda mmo player who could care less really about end game grind
i liked the ascpect of meeting new people and just having a blast doing whatever.. or helping other players …
i think they should let legendarys precursors drop from pve off any mob.. super high chance though…
would draw alot of people to it …. AGAIN JUST MUSING….NOT SUGGESTIONS MOD!
i could see people saying botters blah blah blah.. would ruin it blah blah blah…
thats the devs problem.. well not really since the stupid economy in this game
but other mmos did just great with out price fluctuations that would make the real world stock market eat a bullet…
blah.. im just ranting now..
Get onto a good guild man If your ever on the TC sever look me up I got a hell of a guild and I’m always looking for more good people to play with (( you don’t exactly have to be the best player))
I can’t share the sentiment for Dark Souls. But I have sort of had the same feeling about GW2. Im not sure what Colin meant when he said “We took everything you loved about GW1…”, because the history is pretty much the only thing that has carried over.
Perhaps Anet did not really understand what people actually loved about GW1 and what kept them playing for seven years.
And this is coming from a huge fan. Over 900 hours in GW2 already, thousands of hours logged in on GW, and who knows how much money I’ve thrown at them.
I don’t think its a bad game by any means. But I do think design decisions were catered towards more mass market appeal and speedy/low impact content generation than they were to fans of the franchise.
GW2 did some innovative things within the mmo genre, it extends the story of Guild Wars, but it doesn’t feel anything like an evolution of its predecessor.
Oh they knew at the very moment Jeff and Patrick walked out the door. Everyone always speaks of GW2 innovation what innovation? DE’s done before, combat system nope, scaling nope, the lack of the holy trinity rather the disquise of there not being a trinity dungeon system but there is, nope this has all been done before. So what innovation has GW2 done for the mmo genre I really would like to know.
its true enough that other MMO game’s have done ONE of the’s things to some small dagree
GW2 is the first one to Try and utilize them all together and really PUSH it to the next level. making something that as a hole is over all unige to the genre.
Did it work? I and many others think so ((not all i know))
Dose it have problems? Yes it fix’s some old one’s and crate’s some new one’s to be solved. WoW and GW1 went through the same growing pains when they tryed to change things up years ago ((the market was less harsh back then. much less was expected from MMO’s))
I pretty much agree with every post here, the skill caps, the hundreds of skills you could use, made the game have strategy a bit like chess (what skills counter this part of the game etc), made playing the game fun, the builds you could make the dual classes you could play, honestly if Guildwars 1 populations were like GW2 i’m probably just go back..
They really should have said " We took everything WoW players loved about WoW" but that wouldn’t go down well here in my opinion..as not much came over in my opinion..
I guess the future will decide, i must wait and see.
To be honest WoW really has almost no similarities to this game.
autoattack bwahahaha…ugg
yeah unless im useing my rifle i tend not to use auto attack as it tends to hurt more than help. I cant say that for WOW
So I was in the Dredgehaunt Cliffs just walking around and I came across a Portobello Mushroom (I think), So I go to gather it and as soon as I gather it a naked level 51 ranger (Effective Level) appears on top of the node and gathers it and then disappears. I didn’t catch her name but it was something like hfhfhfhffh… so… Thats BS. What can be done about it? What can I do about it? How would I go about reporting such a thing?
I looked it up and I guess this has been going on for a while… so… When will something be done about this?
they ban Bots all the time, mostly the same day they do big update’s
When you:
- are perceived as breaking promises and core ideals
- having poor class balance which is getting worse
- release content patch after content patch with more and more bugs
- are perceived as not moving fast enough in improving the game and fixing issues
- appear to be funnelling players towards buying gems
- have one of the more unrewarding games around
- are perceived as screwing with players via anti player practices like DR
- are perceived generally as providing poor live supportthen there will be negativety.
so right as people have been saying EVERY MMO FORUM EVER!@$#Q@@$
yeah im in a preaty big guild…. im the only one ((after asking a few time’)) that go’s to the forums…. they keep telling me to stop… but man i need to get my fix when i am at work
Just out of curiosity has the OP considered that the game just recently hit being more than four months old?
For five years ANet has been telling people that the game will be released when it’s finished. Yes, we all should have known better than to believe them. But we sure as hell have a right to harangue them for not living up to their promises.
Oh come off it.
any one who has ever been interested in MMO’s KNOW’s there never actualy “done” when they come out Anet has said it them self “MMO’s are service” the game was as done as it could be with the Cash they had and going by reviews and MOST players still holding a strong interest in it they provided us with a vary solid product.
not to mention an MMO can never truly be put through its pass’s until after its actualy in store’s (( do you have any idea how many people bought this game Day one because they had no interest in Beta’s))
Rukia + “Now you’re just a Guild Wars that I used to know.
I quit this game indefinitely, just here to voice my opinion.” = Hatter
as for the OP can I ask what level you are because frankly if you want to mindlsly Grind there is plany of the ((if you want )) at max level, some time’s i enjoy that as well so i focus on actualy doing my daily in a starter area or some such or just rome around the lower level area’s were there’s not alot of players
((EXP is actualy higher than you would think because ofall the Bonus XP from people not killing the mobs for some time))
is there anything other than exp your intorested in such as a wep you would like to get through Karma or a lagendary
Not at my pc so i cant give you the hours but i was in. BWE1 so yeah way to much
The lore is flushed out alot more like an elders scrolls open world rpg then the leener path rpg that was GW1.
There are planty of NPCs you can talk to in both the world and your story that go WAY more into the lore. There are also little mini scavanger hunts for page’s of books in one city.
And did you know if you kneel at a statu of dwana than her avitar will show up and you can talk to her about a bunch oflore
Thats not totaly true Rukia if you fallow Destanys edge story dungeons it delvs pretty deep into GW1 Lore
As for lore talk to the freaking NPC and read stuff theres plenty of lore in this game
Oh and the people who spend all there time in wvw
What server are you on
And as much as i enjoy this game it has one big problem. There are only 3 place,s to get real rewards from at max level. Fractals, orr and, dungeons
Comparison is the most basic tool to differentiate the good from the bad. So you take something new and compare it with what one consider is the best to see if its better or not.
The problem is when you compare a 9 year game old with a 6- months old game. :P
So a game is not allowed to be considered better because it’s older? That’s some amazing logic, especially since the older game is doing better than the younger game in this case. I guess Doom is a piece of crap compared to Black Ops 2 now as well, or Final Fantasy 13 is better than Final Fantasy 6.
I can go on all day with this, but my basic statement is that you fail at logic.
When talking about MMOs its not exactly fare comparitavly EQ1 as considerd better than wow by many players when wow first lunched . Wow being the buggy instanced mess that it was it took a good year and ahalf befor it got its footing and most people didnt realy jump in untell BC
But it is the only utility which benefits in such manner, that it can’t be expressed in numbers.
The whole battle system revolves around dodging, at least in PvE where almost every monster has one attack which requires you to dodge or to use CC to interrupt.
This means, that “skill” is only defined as the reaction test to use your 2 dodge and your 1-2 CC skills at the right moment. They could have replaced the whole “skill” system with only 4 buttons with separate cooldowns, at least for PvE, “dodge”, “interrupt”, “high DPS skills”, “heal skill” together with a slider to choose the cycling radius, being either 300, 600, 900 or 1200 units for full, 3/4, 2/4 or 1/4 damage received and dealt. Almost nobody would have noticed the difference.
Don’t get me wrong, it works almost as intended in PvP where you have short, intense battles and it’s all about dealing burst damage (which means you have to know your skills!), but in PvE it’s just broken, since most enemies are just huge health blobs (so burst won’t matter) and battles aren’t “short and intense” but rather “long and repetitive” so you are forced to take the same reaction test over and over again.
That has NOTHING to do with skill, thats just a torture until your concentration breaks and you miss a single (or maybe even 2) dodges / CC. It also causes all classes to play very similar in PvE, despite your choices. Some class mechanics like mesmer illusions or hunters pet make it slightly easier, but they don’t change the way it works. This system really hurts on those classes, where dodging is NOT the natural choice (e.g. all the caster classes).
But seriously, what did one expect? The system was broken, the moment they decided to create a system which should suite everything from solo gaming over equally balanced PvP up to zergs. Especially the first one was a bad decision, you can’t just make every single character able to play on the frontlines, without crippling the characteristic mechanics the original class had.
that’s more a problem with the PVE Mobs mechanics than it is With doge and CC it self
Im going to take a shot in the dark and say there players, which is why you have the UI off
No tanks, no healers. Just DPS.
This couldn’t be more wrong, there is no true dps class, and anyone going glass cannon in dungeons is letting their team down, dungeons are as much about staying alive as they are about dps, on any class.
Yet…I often see “LF 3 more xxx, high dps”, but never saw “LF 3 more xxx, high survival”…
Makes it easy for me to know i don’t want to group with them. Most high DPS groups i have ended up in spend most of there time with there face in the mud and rez zerging. (Its true enough you can beet a dungeon that way but any one who runs in successful team focused groups will tell you its faster to do it right the first time. Also less repair cost))
Zerg rez fests come to mind….why i don’t do them.
Sound more like you just need an actual dungeon group. Mine makes it through plenty without zerging or rezing most of the time
Man… if you think lerning the open world PVE is hard wate tell you start doing some dungeon runs. I suggest runing with a few people who know what there doing with builds focused on sapport and control rather than just high damage.
Oh and ask people about how combo fields work
my ele can tank fine, large protection uptime, aoe blind on every third attack, lots of dodges and self sustain, and I only have 10 points in earth, it’d be even better with more in earth.
Without a controllable agro system, tanking doesn’t require you to hold mobs on you, just to keep them away from the group til their defensive cds come back up.
The ele can do gw2 tanking easily.
. This is why there called. Bunkers in GW2 and not tanks. There something (or some one in this case) to take shalter behinde tell your ready to jump right back into the fight
And it will probably never be mounts…..ever.
We already have a mount. The witchs broom is nothing more than a totaly cosmetic mount :P
they sold 2 million copies in the first 2 weeks. The real copies sold number is between 6 and 11 million. I don’t see that massive people shed and I haven’t met a single person that has quit GW2 besides those that come to complain on the forums.
This is outright false.
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/37350/guild-wars-2/
Even if we assume that every single one of the 2 million copies sold in the first two weeks is a digital copy and thus not counted among the above figures (which we know isn’t true), that still only totals to under 4 million copies sold.
And given that many of the copies in that 2 million overlap with the retail sales in the link above, it would be far more accurate to predict a conservative 3 million or so copies sold. Nowhere NEAR 6 to 11 million copies of GW2 have left the shelves.
We just sold out of copys AGAIN at my store.
And not to mention in November the game had the most digatel sell on green man gameing beeting out both AC3 and farcry. Than in December amazone had a sell and it was one of the top 5 sold products
So 6 to 11 mill may be an exaggeration the game is still selling really well (i in fact have two friends who just upgraded there PCs and will be picking it up in the next week or so (after payday))
alos the christmas stuff just ended, people (much like myself)) are a little burnt out and doing other stuff than playing this video game ((i still enjoy it but i have other things in my life))
It makes me giggle every time some one says that combat is brain dead easy and yet i look back at the mob in the charr starter zone in beta that use to reflect dammage back at his attackers….
That mob wiped hole zergs because players would keep killing them self.
Needles to say he was nerfed.
And people wonder why the jade golems in the fractuls are the first mob to have any true resistance.
To be far lothefallen this game did take a huge hit from the nurf bat in the beta, because most players are like this guy. I wouldnt be supprised if that same nurfing hit the higher level content that many of us are at now.
Yeah there our some times a few threads with “this game is dieing” but thats just not true. More like this is the first big open world RPG thay have ever played and thay still expect things to be as active as thay were the first month?
I have played alot of mmo’s and in all of them (including wow) people tend to all congregate in the same area makeing the rest of the worl seem much more empty