I really don’t think they changed Adelbern all that much. He just grew old, and his mind was probably slipping towards the end. The 20 year outright war, the time between the Searing and the Foefire, against the Charr didn’t help his mind either. He was 78-79 when he died.
He might have seemed fine at the end of The Last Day Dawns, but then you need to add the stress of another 10-15+ years of war to get to him at the Foefire. All of his soldiers and countrymen slowly getting picked away, attack after attack, battle after battle by the Charr.
I really can’t blame him for going insane at the end. Plus with him being in his late 70s, and him thinking that Rurik’s still alive sometimes, I wouldn’t be surprised if he developed Alzheimer’s or something.
This. And Adelbern’s slide was pretty predictable once the Searing opened the floodgates. For a good example of a leader of the people losing his kitten as his country disintegrates, go watch Downfall.
(I’m not saying Adelbern is comparable to a certain paperhanging kitten, just that their final days were likely comparable.)
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At the early stages, Black Powder is riding shotgun alongside your dodge roll. Learning how to use both will give you a good feel on how initiative and evade keep a thief upright. With that in mind, S/P and D/P should get you through the early stages. Once you get some traits lined up, then I recommend playing around with the different weapon sets and see which one suits your tastes.
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I would absolutely love unoccupied dungeons for RPing. Formal balls and performances in Caudacus’ Manor anyone?
That being said, a simple menu upon entering could do the trick, allowing people to enter the “general” or “instanced” versions of the areas.
I am currently running our guild storyline, and I am finding it increasingly frustrating to find places to set adventures in. Being able to go into an uninstanced Catacombs, for example, gives a nice, large area for some sort of Ascalonian event.
Please ANet, give us more areas to play in, and we’ll keep buying your baubles off the Black Lion.
Signed and +1! More uninstanced toys for us roleplayers!
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When in reality, neither group of player wants to play with the other. Which is natural, because they get different things out of the game. The only time you will be subjected to the “elitists” standards is when you try to compete with their ranks, which it sounds like the majority of people against /inspect try to avoid already.
Well, here’s the thing.
/e raises hand like Captain Kirk asking why God needs a starship
If neither group of players want to play with each other, then why is either group PUG-ing in the first place?
It sounds to me the more reasonable assumption is if you want to keep your teams to your own standards, you do it with friends and guildies.
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Except, your arguments all boil down to ‘I don’t want to be excluded for running a terrible build’. You also all seem to be under the impression that you will be kicked once someone sees you’re running Knights or Soldier’s for example. Whilst I personally despise Soldier’s gear, I know it has it’s uses, and it can be a crutch for newer players to harder content, because of survivability.
There is a long way to go between ‘pants-on-head-kittened builds’ and ‘zerker or gtfo’ builds.
And to be honest, the anti-elitist crowd in here IS acting more elitist than the actual elitist crowd. It’s like looking at a group of gay people beating the ever living kitten out of someone for just saying he thinks being gay is unnatural (for the record, I don’t believe that, it’s just an analogy), and then feeling morally superior for doing so.
It’s pretty simple: most people of any value or relevance think it’s a good idea, bad players and leeches think it’s the devil cause they’re afraid they can’t be carried anymore. Good players think it’s a good idea/don’t care because, worse case scenario, they just don’t party with people they wouldn’t want to party with anyways. Crappy players know they’ll take longer to find a party and it’ll mostly be others like them, so nobody will drag them along.
Done to death. This particular horse isn’t even a carcass anymore but a fine paste. Game needs inspect for better pugging. Will, hopefully, get it eventually, but hardly a priority. Meanwhile just try to stick with partying with people you know. As of right now I don’t join random parties unless I know more others in it, and that we’re all good enough to carry the rest. And usually when one of us is the leader so we can kick any dead weight “too heavy” to carry.
Remember: If you’re against /inspect, you’re obviously a crappy build / bad player / leech. Oh, and you’re the elitist too.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna have to get my cognitive dissonance meter replaced. These suckers aren’t cheap…
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A casual gamer is a 40 year old guy who works 9 to 5 and wants to roflestomp everything with his 1 hit win class, as a way of achieving gratification. I`m not saying he shouldn`t rather he shouldn`t that easily.
I’m 39, I work 9 to 5, and I play a P/D carrion thief.
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I found it stupidly easy with thief and remove conditions in stealth trait. D/5, stand there healing in stealth trait, regen in stealth, and no conditions can touch me. This is more important in the exp mode than the easy storymode.
Once I figured out his tricks it was the same for me. It took a while, but my P/D was never downed once. I thought it was a fun little challenge.
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You know, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard an RNG box called ‘shady’ or ‘gambling’ over the past couple of years, I’d probably be able to afford keys for all the Black Lion boxes I’ve got filling up my bank.
And yet, here we are: Almost every F2P game now has RNG boxen in some form.
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Haha I could say the same things about your arguments…
You don’t have any facts on why they are hiring or how well they are doing. You have no idea on their finances either..
What I can speak to is what I see….so go ahead and whiteknight all you want and get good and fired up, I don’t care…you aren’t trying to convince me really, you are trying to convince yourself that every thing is ok…and in doing so you don’t even realize people like you are a true cancer to a game.
Let’s see, there’s hiring announcements on Anet’s home page as well as NCSoft’s quarterly reports, so Vayne has that going for him.
You come back with ad hominems.
So is this how you learned how to make a convincing argument or are you here simply to be a kitten?
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Don’t let these whiteknights argue and tell you otherwise because all they are doing is trying to convince themselves.
If you want to see it for yourself just log in and look at the population declining before your very eyes…
Who are you going to believe, the ‘Full’ status markers, the getting kicked into overflow trying to visit Southsun, the fact that only now nine months later has Anet reduced the box cost, or the desperate trolls of the First Name Only Haters Club?
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By allowing this kind of addictive spending and making things so rare you’re hurting your player base.
You do realize that lockboxes are pretty much all over the MMO landscape now, right? Seems to me that developers recognize them as a license to print money that – as far as they can tell – doesn’t hurt their player base.
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And you know what? It’s turning out not to matter. People miss the commitment, progression and immersion real MMOs have given them, and they’re fleeing GW2.
If ArenaNet wanted to make a game for people who don’t have time to play games, then… score.
One way you can tell how well the game is doing is by how hard the Stop Having Fun Hardcores are whining.
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What I find amusing is that everyone just goes along with the idea that there should even be a need to farm, instead of mechanics being implemented to naturally have players acquire what they need through normal game play.
People farm because Anet wants people to farm. Keeps people in game.
HUH! Are you serious? Just the opposite is true.
Because there are two definitions of farming going on here:
Farming as per Lyssa lamenters: Wiping mobs in one location with the highest return value for hours on end.
Farming as per Anet and I believe killcannon: Travelling from zone to zone, wiping mobs, doing events, and collecting nodes as you meander along. (And CoF p1, at least for now.)
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I know you have a REALLY hard time accepting this…but some people really do enjoy farming. And it doesn’t matter if Anet accepts it or not but a significant portion of their community are farmers, if they keep alienating them they will lose them and that can only hurt the game.
I think the question is why people feel the need to farm drops in the first place?
I don’t feel like adding more drama bombs today, so I’ll leave some of the answers unsaid. I will say, though, that the traditional MMO mindset isn’t always easy to break.
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also, your pet can be made so strong, it just solos Vet Karkas for you while you make a sandwich.
…. Man, I really have to get around to getting a hunter past single digits.
People underestimate defensive strategies, IMO. It’s not so much about how much slower you kill or how much punishment overall you are capable of taking but what you can do with that margin of error you open up.
Totally concurred.
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I’m just coming off of the opposite, actually. During one of my recent leveling armor upgrades, I switched my thief’s usual carrion setup for zerker, P/D for D/P, re-traited for offense, and gave it a go. The backstab crits were nice as well as the direct damage, but I missed dodging all over, blazing away merrily out of stealth, and not faceplanting when my initiative ran out. It felt like I was going higher reward for a much higher risk.
The leveling upgrade after that I went back to carrion, P/D, and re-traited again for defense. The improvement was noticeable. I may not be ganking mobs in backstabs but I had a much thicker cushion of error thanks to the improved vitality and defensive traits and the mobs were still dropping pretty fast regardless. He’s back to being what I consider fun.
Nothing against OP’s decision, its fun for him so run with it. In PvE, its all in what you want out of your character.
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I’ll just repeat what I posted to Massively a few days ago:
“…the real heart of the issue: That the school kids that grew up on UO or WoW grew up, got jobs, bought homes, started a family, and don’t have the time to commit to MMORPGs like they used to. And the next generation of school kids now have hundreds of MMO options including not-so-Massivelies like MOBAs, Minecraft, and the DayZ mod. The market that spawned UO, DAoC, and WoW just isn’t there anymore.”
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It’s a crock of bull to me. The solution is clear even with proxy’s and such. They just do not want to do it because it’s a hassle, would cost them money, whatever BS excuse you want to toss up for them.
Banning legitimate players based on their host nation is a ‘BS excuse.’
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Or I replied with my personal opinion. No matter what I said, no one has to listen to it. (Unless that wasn’t directed towards me, in that case… doesn’t change anything).
It was directed towards the OP. No worries.
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They nerf everything profitable so farmers would do something else, but what they should really be doing is making other things more profitable.
There are ways to make a profit, just ask Indigo for starters. Its just a matter of breaking out of the mindset of seeing mobs, bosses, and dungeons as cash pinatas and looking for alternatives.
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a.) Remove gear levels. Have attribute bonus values scale automatically at a fixed rate based on your level and the gear’s rarity. Having multiple pieces of gear that are identical except for the scaling of the stats is pointless. Differentiating on aesthetics, rarity, and attribute arrangements is more than adequate; adding level in too is overkill.
b.) Set level thresholds for rarity – 10 for blue, 20 for green, 40 for rare, 60 for exotic, 80 for legendary/ascended. Upgrading a piece from one tier to the next should occur infrequently and be a big deal.
c.) all gray and white gear is single-stat, all blue and green are dual-stat, all rare-legendary are triple stat. The scaling of attributes is identical within a given rarity, and increases with each tier.
That’s all. I’m sure I’ll get some people naysaying but I’m totally confident this would be a better way to handle weapons and armor.
Right off the bat: More vendor trash minus cost of replacing out-leveled gear equals more liquidity. Either the loot table takes a huge hit or the auction house goes boom. I’m not sure the players would find either option acceptable.
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Currently I’ve tried conditions with D/D and P/D, S/P with decent damage and survivability through Valk gear, and a more squishy burst D/D build with 30 in Crit and 30 in Sa. I really like conditions as I can kite my enemy while their health ticks away but I was told it isn’t great for dungeons.
For condition builds in dungeons, bring along a short bow. Drop poison fields for others to finish in, use cluster bomb when someone else drops a field (might stacks!), and keep using both for the condition damage.
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Thieves are my second favorite party members ( though I only want 1 at a time)…
Party stealth + blind fields + blast finishers = irreplaceable
EDIT: I personally like 0/30/20/20/0 for PvE – you can use any weapon set other than P/D effectively and it provides plently of initiative to blind spam…
Blind spam is a really big deal, don’t undervalue it…
Party stealth can allow for easy mob skipping + ressing + w/e you can think of in a given instance (I’m looking at you dredge fractal bomb run)
Single target damage thieves are entirely competent, and S/P or S/D (or just sword lol) and/or shortbow and/or Dagger Storm provide decent AoE for AoE fights…
You have me intrigued. Do you recommend zerk armor & weapons, or something tougher?
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Veldan, serialkicker, beren, Jski, gennyt and IndigoSundown; l will not argue with you, Snowy, Dante and StormageddonBK.
No need to tell those remaining individuals about gw1, "they know everything ‘self-knowing’, and are quite experienced and quite knowledgeable of the worlds of Guild Wars.
No need in responding to their Arrogance, Elitism, Pride and to their Egoistical arguments either.
As I already stated, as the saying goes, “no point of talking to a person about his existence if he doesn’t know how he got here”
And yet you’re still here. Still posting bombs, still randomly bolding words. It really sticks in your craw that much that people are still having fun playing the game.
How sad.
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Active forum users form less than 1% of the playerbase. even if 99% of the players here on this site don’t want harder content, doesn’t mean all the other people in game thinks the same.
Or it could mean that. Do you have evidence either way?
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Just this weekend, I found an active sonic periscope and Molten Alliance, so either there’s leftover events that were never shut off or they’re still out there.
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I wasn’t talking about being forced to do the content. I was talking about being forced to be in a large Guild to have access to the content. That’s a dumb way of cutting players out of being able to do something that they added to the game.
So you’d rather force the large guilds to acquiesce to your need to solo everything. ‘Stop having fun doing things I don’t want to do.’
And please, stop pretending that Guild Missions are hard to do for any large Guilds. Everything is easy when you get a zerg on it.
That sound you hear is every large guild leader in the game having a simultaneous gut laugh at your comment.
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I am saying that exact thing. Because that’s what Guild Wars 2 was advertised as. A game where you could play your own way, and not have to worry about having to specific things to get your gear and experience the content.
What if I want to play in a large guild and do large guild things?
It was literally sold like that. Do you understand that a lot of people bought the game because they said it was a game designed to be that way? There should never be a point in the game where you feel forced to do something you don’t want to do, just because that’s the only way to complete the content.
There’s nobody and nothing forcing anyone to do guild content.
If guild content could be soloed, then it’d be trivial for large guilds and they’d be up in arms over not being able to ‘play their way’. Half a dozen of one, six of another, both going ‘stop having fun I don’t want to have’.
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One that bothers me most however is the lack of backstory and uniqueness. Look at every beloved villain. Lich King/Arthas, Joker, Illidan, Vader, Khan, etc. Their backstory were plentiful. In the case of the Lich King (a character beloved from Warcraft 3), the downfall of Arthas from beloved prince to souless murdering maniac gave the character so much story that equalizes hate and pity to the villain. All we know of Zhaitan was he was a dragon who awokened hell bent on destroying the world.
Counter-points: Sauron, Emperor Palpatine, the Daleks, the Borg (pre-Voyager). Not every great villain requires an involved tragic backstory, sometimes you can easily get away by simply dropping a giant threat and letting it loose on the world.
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The only thing i see is lineage doing better than GW2… GW2 had the most players ever at launch, if GW2 really was a great game, they would have had 2 times more than lineage 1 on the chart right now. Why didn’t they?
By your standard, the only ‘great game’ is apparently World of Warcraft.
No it’s not, i don’t like wow, but i can see why it’s a good game.
Your own definition of ‘great game’ was twice the quarterly revenues of Lineage 1. Ergo, WoW is the only great game. Or LoL I guess. How many other games made $66 million over the past three months?
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Some people are challenged by problems and motivated to find a solution. These are extremely valuable traits that you can bring with you in the real world.
Or you can run away from problems and give up. That’s the biggest difference between a casual and a hardcore. A casual gamer just wants to relax in the sun. No strategy development and thought process required.
I’m just going to sit down on this chair, press this button and get tickled.
Yes, yes, we know ‘hardcores’ like you are the specialist of special snowflakes. Here’s your gold star, I’m sure it and ‘hardcore MMO player’ will look just dandy on that resume.
Now if you’ll excuse the rest of us, we’re going to have some casual fun. And there’s nothing you can do to stop us.
EDIT: I have nothing against actual hardcores themselves. Different strokes for different folks. Just remember we’re all bozos on this bus.
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The only thing i see is lineage doing better than GW2… GW2 had the most players ever at launch, if GW2 really was a great game, they would have had 2 times more than lineage 1 on the chart right now. Why didn’t they?
By your standard, the only ‘great game’ is apparently World of Warcraft.
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In PvE, its all in what you want out of your character.