Oh god there was me thinking 3s is too much.
Yeah, that’s ridiculous.
8v8 is perfect.
5v5 is too small.
5v5 is perfect.
8v8 is too large.
I’ve put a lot of thought into a system that, while it wouldn’t fully bring GW1’s system back, would spice up the skill system without completely re-designing the game.
Did you take into account the Grandmaster trait “Harmonious Mantras” which allows mantras to be cast 3 times instead of 2?
What is your opinion on the mantras with this trait included?
Makes them worthwhile.
Shouldn’t need a grandmaster trait for them to be worthwhile though.
LOL I play an OP class!!!! Guardian!!! First time I choose an OP class and did not even imagine it.
I picked mesmer before people decided they were OP.
Glad I picked the right choice!
Cry of frustration is on a long CD, it lasts for a fairly short time.
iMage is terrible.
Completely changing SWG for the worst?
Fine.
Adding a gear treadmill to DAOC?
It’s alright!
Ruining the entirety of world PvP in SWTOR?
Whatever.
Unbalancing a bunch of classes, making pyromancers OP as hell in RIFT?
Meh.
Making speedrunning not earn as much gold?
AWFUL I QUIT THIS IS TERRIBLE
I play mesmer.
Moa is undoubtedly broken, so is time warp.
No mesmer elite is balanced, mass invisibility is outmatched by veil.
Alright, I think we’re over reacting a bit?
Come on, worst patches in history?
Jeez.
I was going through the lower zones and I found out why Orr is so bad.
The lower level zones have so much hidden stuff, the terrain changes and there’s that feeling of awe.
Orr just feels bland, a island of sand. There’s hidden stuff, but the risen try as hard as possible to stop you from finding it.
EVERYBODY COME
Daze is pretty weak.
I don’t think it prevents rolling.
Oh god, 10v10 would be awful
So glad they didn’t do that.
But yeah, I do find 8v8 is still too much.
For the design, it should be one global number and I feel 5v5 works the best.
Don’t know too much about PW, but moa needs to be nerfed.
Quite easy to counter 100b though.
Just because it’s easier, doesn’t mean that’s what they should do.
How does that not sense?
They may be unbalanced, but that’s due to other classes being weak, not due to mesmer being strong.
They can counter almost every other class without gimmicky glass cannon builds, but in all honesty, all classes should be able to.
But they don’t, so… what you are saying is that mesmer is the only profession to counter everyone, so it’s fine ?
Did you stop reading at that point or something?
(I mean excluding downed state)
I see a lot of people saying mesmer is OP, but without really explaining why (outside of downed.
They can counter almost every other class without gimmicky glass cannon builds, but in all honesty, all classes should be able to.
Most of the OP builds for other classes require some glass cannon build (100b, HS), but the mesmer builds don’t. At least from what I’ve seen.
The only other class that comes close is guardian, maybe engineers (pre nerfs at least).
Are they unbalanced, yes, compared to everyone else.
OP? No, everyone else is just UP.
(excluding down state, that’s OP)
Just my thoughts on balance.
Do any of you use mantras?
I’ve been messing around with them, I decided to make a build based on the healing you get with a trait.
Not even that made them viable.
Lets look at the mantras we get right now.
Mantra of Recovery – 3s charge time for 2740×2 healing
10s CD, probably the best PvE heal, overlooked because of the charge time though.
Mantra of Pain – 3s charge for 324 × 2 damage
No CD, for the charge time, you could use your auto attack and deal more, the plus is you can attack while CC’d/ charging another attack.
Mantra of Resolve – 3s charge for 2 condition cleanse.
20 second CD, null field or arcane thievery has no cast time and clears all conditions, but 45s CD.
Mantra of Concentration – 3s charge for 2 CC breakers
25 second CD, Blink has 30 second CC for a blink skill that also breaks CC, no charge.
Mantra of Distraction – 3s charge for 2 dazes (1s)
30 second CD, Signet of domination stuns 2s on 45 CD
It seems that the mantras are the best bet, but they’re REALLY hurt by the charge time. You cannot use them effectively in PvP, anything that CCs you will stop the charge, and 3s is a lot.
I think the charge should be lowered to 1.5s, increase the CD if you need to.
OP is nuts if he thinks all of that can be done in a month.
The problem is, for any AI, it’s predictable.
You can randomize it all you want, but it comes down to repetition.
GW2, Dark Souls, Touhou, every game follows this.
People don’t use AI, they can change up whatever they’redoing on the fly.
When Guild Wars 1 was released about 4 months later they introduced a new zone, a new instance, new outpost and new quests. So i would expect a new content to hit gw2 world around that time. I doubt they could prepare that type of content in such a short time!
If GW1 did, what makes you think GW2 can’t?
What would be stopping you from coming back when the update comes out?
Remember, there’s no sub fee, you aren’t paying.
Where do people getting this 24/25 update from?
Moa morph, time warp and confusion.
I don’t know of any way to stack confusion, except underwater and downed.
If you want good dungeon gear, the grenth karma gear is good.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mortal_armor_of_Grenth
Currently no.
It;s way too early to judge, there’s no meta at all yet.
They need spectator and ranking to even have a chance.
If they’re trying to do this, fire the guy who told them to.
Really, if gold was really easy to get, the price of gems would rise to a point it’d be hard for anyone but grinders to get.
That, and people would have more incentive to buy it.
I think they’re trying to prevent inflation, it was a massive problem in GW1.
Arah SP is fun up to Zhaitan.
If they’re teleporting, they’re genuinely hacking.
I really haven’t seen a team build that relies on combos yet, and really I don’t blame the team.
Combos are a nice system, but really, they can be pretty weak.
The only real GOOD ones I’ve seen are projectile -> smoke screen (blind) and blast -> chaos armour (really good for clones) and both can be activated by 1 person.
Something like water field -> blast finisher is seen as useless because the heal amount is REALLY low.
They gotta be stronger, then team comps based on combos will come to play, making the gameplay deeper in 5v5s.
it aint easy for groups to coordinate right now, and the game doesnt encourage that.
its an all out zerg fest on most champions.
im ok with it, because the game is more “action” than “tactic”.
but anet can definitely improve was for players to play together.
as this will be the way to make the game last.as of now, playing together feels like playing with npcs.
nobody have the time to type things to do/plans/call outs.i dont have a solution, but it definitely should be a point of focus for the creative gameplay designers.
For DEs, you really can’t expect 50+ people to work together.
It was the same as RIFt’s world bosses too, but MORE people zerging.
Until I 100%, then I’ll come back for updates.
I don’t get why people zerg anyways.
The scaling makes it so more people = it takes longer.
They’ve said they’re working on all of these except darkness falls.
I thought it did already?
You had a chance in the beta.
It’s the natural reaction.
Since they cannot come up with anything, they cry and throw insults around while flailing about.
See: the posts in this thread
Lets take a break from crying like 3 year olds and actually talk about the game.
I was thinking about the sigil system, how it could be expanded.
We have pretty basic stuff now, but it feels kinda similar to diablo.
What would be stopping arenanet from adding increased attack speed sigils, really superior sigil of rage adds quickness.
Did arenanet design this like this on purpose? It’s awfully similar to the slotting system diablo/torchlight/PoE has.
Could it be expanded?
Would anyone else like to see randomly generated dungeons or something?
No treadmill crap, no baby easymode crap.
The dungeons aren’t worth it.
We all play for that little rush, and in current dungeons you don’t get it.
You can fix this without introducing gear treadmill, very easily too.
1. Rewards
The rewards you get are terrible. Not talking about the cosmetics, as of last patch dungeons have become a gold sink, not even for the CHANCE of making money, you’ll almost always lose it. Reverse the change. In fact, give us more for doing the dungeons. You get much more from doing event chains in Orr and it costs much less time and money.
2. Tokens
Change the way tokens work.
Tokens are universal now, for each dungeon. Not soulbound either.
Instead of buying the gear, they buy mystic forge pieces. “Unbound” pieces.
You can buy the bindings from the vendors or have them drop.
For example, forging a staff piece and a twilight binding gets you a twilight arbour staff. The bindings are very cheap.
1h weapon – 1 run
2h weapon – 2 runs
chest piece, legs – 3 runs
shoulders, helmets – 2 runs
boots, gloves – 1 run
3. Remove grave rushing
It’s making content trivial.
You don’t feel like you’ve accomplished anything when you’ve just grave rushed the boss.
“Well don’t die then”
I obviously don’t die on purpose and I’m not going to just wait for my team to res me.
Make waypoints locked when the boss is aggroed.
4. Balance
This is obvious.
These forums are awful.
It’s a shame.
Post something good – The people against it jump you.
Post something bad – The people for it jump you.
Post something constructive – Your post is ignored.
Stop calling it progression.
The real term is “time barricade”.
“raid progression” does not grow your character, all it does it barricade you from content.
Thanks.
Most of the Arah SM is good, except zhaitan, the mouth has too much HP though.
Its an unfortunate occurrence in all forums in all games where the naysayers dominate the conversation, while those people that like the game rarely post or even bother with forums.
Which gives the illusion that “everyone” is horribly dissatisfied with the game. When its really a pretty small percentile.
It’s definitely the outspoken minority vs the silent majority, which makes sense. People are going to be less inclined to voice opinions if they’re positive as opposed to soap-boxing inane issues.
Eventually you start to realize that responding to these people and actually trying to be constructive is a waste of time.
I’ve realized it.
The problem is there’s nothing.
xp
karma
currency
crafting components
junk to sell
gear
achievements
entertainment
I’m sure there are various other things which the game already gives you which I have missed out. Far from nothing.
:edit:
titles!
Don’t get titles from dungeons as far as I’m concerned.
You get barely any junk to sell, or crafting components, that’s the PROBLEM everyone is trying to address.
Don’t get karma either.
Gear is less than my current gear too.
I can get more money from doing DEs.
The problem is there’s nothing.
Opening chests gives you awful loot, loot you can’t even wear.
Like 60 copper.
Unless you’re really pro, you’re probably going to get downed, but the loot you get doesn’t even cover the repair costs.
I know the cosmetics are there, but it’s a long term reward, we need SOME short term rewards.
Everyone crying about difficulty please leave though.
Problem is you progress through the game so fast it doesn’t feel epic or lengthy.
A trip to 80 takes at least 50 hours. If you don’t think that’s lengthy, it might be time to go outside.
50?
Doing what?
I consider my time quick and it took me 100 hours.
Don’t nerf, buff the other classes.
The thing is, the reward is there, but it’s so far in the distance it doesn’t seem worth it at all.
Small things while we’re getting it would ease it, but they’re moving backwards with the last patch.
The rewards are awful, making it a gear treadmill would be even worse.
5/10 because possibly people will do dungeons besides CoF now
I haven’t once gone over 2 gold, there’s way too many gold sinks, not enough ways to make gold.
Why do you feel the need to have a big pile of gold? I’ve never had more than 3G at any given time, but I have all my trait books, I bought that silly cooks outfit partially with gems I got with gold. I’ve upgraded my weapons and armor fairly regularly and experimented with some of the different runes. I’ve leveled my crafting skills halfway up. I bought a piece of cultural armor I liked the look of. I take way points when I feel like it and can always afford my repair costs. I’ve given my alts some start-up funds and contributed to my guild so we could get a commander book for WvW. I really haven’t felt poor.
I think the problem here is that a gold in this game is much more valuable than a gold in other MMOs and so our sense of scale is off. What would you rather have 100 Yen or 1 Euro?
Because exotics, crafting and legendaries.