6/10 Not enough gated content.
Since everything cool is behind masteries in the expansion, including story and character specializations, why not make gem purchases locked behind masteries aswell?
Would be really cool and awesome, having to farm like 6 tiers of this mastery and in the end you are rewarded with the ability to buy gems with real money!
So only the best players, those who show dedication and invest their irl time for days and weeks will be able to buy the new skins!
can we keep the beta option once Hot launces?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: VaLee.5102
I would like the betas to be a thing in GW2, but not for the reasons you mentions, like it was said above, go HotM to check new professions.
The betas would be nice to have to test balance patches and new upcoming content, every respectable MMO has them in some form.
Did you just start playing MMOs?
Enrage timers in raids is nothing new, it’s what separates good groups from bad ones, and there’s nothing more rewarding than to kill a raid boss with a few seconds left.
I think mods should start deleting these fail attempts of market manipulation. This is the second topic of this type I see today.
Since the goal is team gear-build diversity, I’d expect a meta more like 6-8 glass, 1-2 heal and 1-2 bulky tbh. If the gear meta just changes to mostly Knight’s or Soldier’s, then ANet will have failed. It seems an ANet comment about glass builds having a harder time in HoT is being taken to mean individual builds. Well, what if they meant all-glass-team gear? That was the point of the changes to how content is designed.
I don’t see how you can have challenging content that will require the group to spread out for example without any kind of targeted heal or support skills currently in the game.
How do you heal a buddy who is far away? Who do you heal first?
So in the end it all comes back to individual gear/traits and everyone for himself, unless ANet goes again with the “stack all in the corner” type of encounters.
Can never go wrong with this.
1) Stop thinking this game is WoW, or needs to play like WoW. There is no “holy trinity.” You are not a DPS.
I beg to differ, imo every class is a DPS in GW2, with heal and support skills on the side. Think of a retri pala in WoW.
They all have different spells and mechanics, but as general gameplay they all feel like a retri pala. You pew pew 95% of the time, use heal when you’re low hp and utility when things get a little tougher.
Which has now been confirmed as something ANet are attempting to deliver (in HoT).
One can only hope at this moment, I guess we’ll see next week with the raids beta.
If that first boss can be killed with 10 zerkers then we’ll know the answer.
Blizzard specifically removed like half of each class’ skills a couple of patches/expansions ago, because they were useless and no one used them. Just as a fun fact.
There will be no trinity, being it soft or hard, or any kind of specialised roles in a group as long as the content is not asking for it.
Why should I do an encounter in 2mins when I can finish it in 1min?
Why should I bring a healing/support character when we can manage without one?
As long as the encounter doesn’t specifically require you to have a dedicated support (e.g. you need aegis every X seconds on boss Y else you can’t kill it, and the character that provides aegis takes 20k damage), then nothing will change, maybe just the gear set name.
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Like WP said, put down a water field, blast it, and you’re at 100% HP. Druid has no place in meta currently. We have to see how raids are.
@OP You mean something like this?
“LFM Exp. Soldier ONLY! READ DESC.”
ANet is trying to correct something that is fundamentally flawed.
You cannot have variety in gear sets or builds if all the professions use the same basic character stats, e.g. there’s no intellect for casters only or attack power for melees, or if there’s no kind of replacement for the holy trinity with dedicated support,heal,dps,etc.
No matter what they do, everyone will have the same gear with this system no matter if it’s called zerk or poney, because everyone is specializing on clearing the content as fast as possible.
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They have no plan on getting DX11 on main Windows market and you want OS X support?
I like your optimism.
The haven’t addressed this in 3 years and they never will. Deal with it.
This.
Why not go ask GlassWire support?
Even if you have the mats, it would be better to just sell them and buy bags from TP, it would be cheaper. Same goes for any crafted item.
Why would you want that?
In the end it benefits all the players, since more people around the map, more money for ANet in the long run, more/better quality content for you.
Exaggerate much? It’s only 10 hours over the span of 4 days to get a 450 bloom item (set of skins, or a potion).
I want to see that math.
Wildstar went f2p, same as ESO.
ANet said they are thinking about it if I’m not mistaken, at least for the trait builds, so fingers crossed.
WoW offers 4 expansions + base game now for 20$, should I go complain to Blizzard that I paid 50$ for each back in the day?
You got to play the game for 3 years, that’s what the price is for. Happens with every game, MMO or not.
I bought Dragon’s Age Inquisition for 70$ at launch, now it’s 20$ or smth. Should I complain?
If by stress test you mean ANET stressing the players, then yeah.
There is endgame gear and then there’s the rest of the gear. There are no different types, basic and advanced, of endgame gear. And the endgame gear is ascended. Which, surprise, requires you to grind like a lunatic to get the full set.
Just drag them out of your inventory and click.
But they have the “No grind phylosophy” !
I’m sure you are all exaggerating….Oh wait.
Confirmed here aswell, just had it today. Got from 80-90 fps to 10-15 fps and no sound except music.
4790k, gtx 980, 16gb RAM, win 10 x64 pro.
First time it happens, seems new bug from last update?
Have you tried turning it off an on?
Who cares about metas and be top on DPS meters when you can roflcopter through plants with a bigasfk scythe!
Make overloadings instant cast and maybe, just maybe, will roll tempest when I’m afking in LA.
Leveling a necro.
Plzinvtodungeon
And my Revenant is “Iseedeadlegends”
Genius!
Friendliest community indeed. Some toxic comments here.
Some guilds do in fact do that as a joke but only to their most closest friends because they are just having a laugh and re-invite after and kitten. Jeez.
Indeed. I’ve kicked and been kicked from the guilds numerous times as a joke, some people really need to lighten the kitten up.
I didn’t die even once on beta with all my characters in full zerk, not solo and not in zergs.
It’s just a matter of dodging and kiting. Kiting is simply non-existent in GW2 in PvE atm, bet most of the players have no idea what it is.
If you don’t have enough endurance or have the utility skills on cooldown, just use the environment to your advantage, break line of sight or go higher ground, pulling back a little to refresh your cooldowns it’s part of the tactics sometimes.
You can’t expect to stay in one spot or in the middle of a cluster and hope you’ll get lucky and won’t die.
Break the “stack all together” mentality and you’ll be fine.
So having the break bar go empty in 0.5secs it’s on spot for you?
Agree with the op, the mechanic is useless in zergs, can ignore it completely.
Exactly what he said. ^
And it’s been going like this since forever, no improvements whatsoever.
Using fire #4 on staff ele is funny, you get teleported back and forward until the server makes up its mind where you should actually be.
Nerf warrior GS #2.
WoodenPotatoes and MattVisual.
Valee that is not comparable. The cyrillic community is not insignificant. Berzal is not asking for translation / voice work. It’s just for chat.
+1 to op.
Are you saying my fellow african buddies are insignificant? How dare you!
I want a Zulu localisation, else it’s a discrimination against my tribe. And my fellow african neighbours want it too, so please offer localisation for the 500 or so dialects that are spoken in my region, else we’ll feel disrespected and we’ll riot.
There is the Belinda sword that is katana like. Not sure if it’s a permanent one, but was a few days ago in the store.
People are running out of things to complain about…
This kind of reminds me when Death Knights would use frost walk to kill you when jumping in to water.
Haha everyone did that on ToC at Anub’arak, them memories…
On topic, it’s just a troll/joke or w.e you want to call it, some people are so salty and serious in this game, lighten up.
90% of the time I was running at 60fps, with everything maxed at 1080p, including supersample, and that’s because I use v-sync. Didn’t notice a single hickup.
The whole beta map seems very well optimized considering the amount of detail and stuff to render.
Whatever PC you got I don’t think it’s ‘Super high end system’.
Also the night event meta is not complete, you can clearly see there is more that should happen at night that’s not currently in beta.
I’m pretty sure every necro and his mother will spec into reaper, eles and guardians will probably stay the same, not sure about other classes.
It’s most likely the entrance to the new raid, Bloodstone smth.