No there won’t ever be an Oceanic server. Not going to happen. And I live in Australia.
it’s not about what you like, aurora, or your roleplay phantasies it’s about (numerical and mechanical) facts.
gameplay and fun doesn’t matter when it comes to efficiency and numbers.what the goals for ranger were i don’t know. i guess you had to have that class since it is a classic one in nearly every rpg (the usual treehugger with bow and pet). i have never played one since they have always been subpar.
What percentage of the playerbase do you really think cares aobut numerical and mechanical facts. I’m guessing it’s a much smaller percentage than you think it is.
I assume you’re doing this on a beta character.
It’s a load screen. I haven’t actually paid huge attention to load screens in a very very long time. I’ve already seen them for years. It’s not like they’re going to change.
Load screens are what makes me post so much of the forums. Every time I port, I end up here for a minute or six.
I finished three beta achievements completely and nothing has changed on my life account. This is to test the achievements in the beta, not to give you some sort of advantage.
and even if that does work out, it still requires the player to participate in the raid, which is something they probably have no interest in doing.
That ship has sailed, and it sailed long ago. I’m not big on participating in guilds made up of hundreds of people I’ve never taken a meal with, but that was the requirement to get guild merits and the weapon skins those buy. I’m not a huge PvP’er in this game but I had to do it to get the glorious medium armor coat (turns out I’m actually pretty good at it). I like Fractals well enough, but I haven’t done so many the RNG has dropped any of the weapon skins on me. I don’t have any of the luminescent armor despite having thousands of hours played. I still haven’t killed Liadri, but I understand that its a requirement to have the miniature and wear the title.
You either jump through specific hoops or you don’t. But hoops are well established as part of Gw2’s rewards system.
I find Neitzsche to be mostly a morose twit, but he did get one thing right – to truly want something is to want to take all the steps required to get it. Otherwise you’re just fantasizing about it. While I’m with you that alternative, proportionate methods of acquisition would be a huge plus, I just don’t see ANet adjusting course on something they’ve already done repeatedly in the past. On the other hand we’ve seen them respond to the irritating nature of the first round of weapon precursors by added a new means of acquisition, so maybe the same will eventually be done for the armor legendaries. Years from now, but eventually.
This is patently untrue. Guild merits are attainable even by small guilds over time. I know five people guilds that have unlocked all guild missions.
Keep in mind, that might not be a problem after launch. I have a feeling that elite specs will be locked behind a content wall in the live version, so while you might be able to play as a Revenant during that story chapter, I bet you won’t be able to play as a Herald, so Glint would be new.
Where have the indicated a content wall for specs? My understanding was they would unlock auto when hitting 80
Nope. They’re like any other specialization, except elite.They’ll require hero points. How many for the entire suite is anyone’s guess.
I am for removing the anvil… And a short cooldown after exiting(say 5 minutes)
Having an anvil allows you to bang your head into a wall infinitely until the wall cracks. If there are waypoints inside of the raid and an anvil, it will be beaten within a few hours for the first ever try. Unless anet puts in place things to stop players from grinding their way to victory, players WILL grind their way to victory
Yes, yes, let’s make raids even more about putting up with annoyances. Only those with TRUE patience should be rewarded!
It’s not about annoyance,
It’s about forcing players to play properly and not just throw themselves at encounters for hours until they win.
Removing anvils puts a ‘lose’ condition on instances (All your armor is broken), which means if your party sucks, you will actually fail. Something that only happens now if your party runs out of patience.Remember when you could actually lose at video games?
The concept of ‘game over’ is barely existent anymore
I believe from what’s been said they’ll be something the equivalent of a rage timer. Which means that the time it takes to kill something becomes important. People going back to repair will probably not work in the middle of an encounter anyway.
OP, don’t move to Australia. You think you’re crying now? lol
I have to agree with Yargesh on this. I seriously doubt there’ll be a reset.
lol at all these people pretending to not know who Angry Joe is. I find that when ever someone makes a thread like this about a Youtuber on any forum, that anybody who comes to the thread to say “Who is this person”, or some other remarks in the same vain of “Angry Joes, is that a POI” actually know who that Youtuber is.
Maybe it’s because I’m older, but I really didn’t know. I don’t really hang out on Twitch and I don’t really do You tube much. I tend to read print instead of video. Videos take more time than scanning a written review.
let me ask you this? If you didn’t know who Angry Joe is prior to this thread, would you have come onto this thread just to say “Who is Angry Joe?” or would you have done what any reasonable person who truly does not know who someone is and web search the name? I know I take the reasonable route, and just look up the name to find out who someone is. People kittenpond with “Who is XXXX” in threads like this already know who that person is, they just do not like the person for what ever reason and trying to devalue their popularity.
That’s how I found out about him. Saw a thread and googled him. But I think the people reacting aren’t really reacting to say they don’t know him. They’re annoyed that people put such stock in these other people. I can see both sides of this.
But yeah, I watched his review and looked him up.
Not that we know of.
Great price for the mail carrier, ty Anet. And I’m sure some of the new free to play players might make use of a merchant express, even if most of us have a bunch of them from daily log in rewards, which they don’t get.
The entitlement is strong with this one.
lol at all these people pretending to not know who Angry Joe is. I find that when ever someone makes a thread like this about a Youtuber on any forum, that anybody who comes to the thread to say “Who is this person”, or some other remarks in the same vain of “Angry Joes, is that a POI” actually know who that Youtuber is.
Maybe it’s because I’m older, but I really didn’t know. I don’t really hang out on Twitch and I don’t really do You tube much. I tend to read print instead of video. Videos take more time than scanning a written review.
I really wish people would stop pulling numbers out of their kitten. It’s okay not to know. Making up numbers helps precisely no one. I think there’s X number of players. X number of players are still playing since launch. It’s all speculation and it’s unlikely any of it is accurate.
That’s funny. I find PvP boring. To each his own.
Angry Joe wasn’t on my radar at all until his Guild Wars 2 review. I wonder how many people found out about Angry Joe by following Guild Wars 2.
I’m not hyped, but I am cautiously optimistic.
Raiding shouldn’t be “expansion content” only… Raiding should be an addition to the entirety of the game… As I said I HAVE HoT. I just don’t think it’s fair to the portion of the player base that aren’t getting HoT, not to have a raid or two eventually put into core…
It’s absolutely fair. Anet has gone to considerable expense here. They’ve hired a raid designer. They’ve got coders working on it. Raiding was never advertised as part of the original product. Anet is perfectly within their rights, both legally and morally, to charge for a new feature that’s coming in the expansion.
If every major feature in the expansion was available for everyone, why would anyone buy the expansion.
On top of that,. this community pretty much forced Anet’s hand in creating the expansion. There were posts each and every day with people threatening to leave if there wasn’t an expansion. Many thought the living world was not enough.
The argument for a paid expansion was pretty pervasive. So Anet delivered the expansion at some expense and needs to recoup that expense.
In what world is that not good business?
The meta game often evolves because of pugging. In an environment where everyone is in the same guild, using voice chat, you can talk in detail about what you’re going to do and try new and sometimes more difficult combinations, or strategies that involve more planning and communication.
But pugs want stuff done fast so they can get on with other stuff. Many pugs, not necessarily most but many, will have nothing vested in any individual run. They want everyone to know their role so that they don’t have to explain stuff and they can just get their loot as quickly as possible. This is why metas evolve in PvE.
I wonder where people are getting these numbers from. I haven’t seen anything to suggest they’re correct yet.
The whole game is small guild content. lol
Until you’ve played the raids, you can’t really know that they’re the same as raids in other games. I suspect they’ll be quite different.
That said, the game is different for a lot of reasons. The fact that it doesn’t have static events is a big one. Everyone can still rez everyone else. Combo fields don’t exist on most games. The way guild halls are being done is different.
I’ve played lots of MMOs. And yes, I’ve played betas of HoT and this game doesn’t feel like most other MMOs to me.
Your mileage may vary.
Hey Everyone…my name is Vayne and some of you may know me. What you may not know if that I’m the guild leader of a guild called Wardens of Destiny (WoD).
We’re mostly a PvE guild and while we run dungeons and fractals, we’re more about open world PvE and story. Many of us are altoholics and we enjoy the open world, as well as achievement hunting, jumping puzzles and just hanging out.
We’re a social, casual guild with an emphasis on fun. You’ll often find us in mumble, laughing and having a good time.
The guild is most a US guild and is most active US evenings. There are a few people on late night, but it’s not a prime time for us.
Guild missions are run twice a week and there’s a guild social night once a week, all at 6pm PST or 9PM EST.
We don’t have a 100% rep policy. We don’t have very many rules at all. Just be cool to each other and have a good time.
Hope you see some of you in game.
Guild Wars 2 is most certainly free to play now. Guild Wars 2 HoT isn’t. They’re different products, one which continues the other.
It’s still buy to play the current content, but you can do the old base game for free. I’d imagine over time, there’d be more and more of Guild Wars 2 you simply couldn’t access without paying.
OP, there’s an old saying, cutting off your nose to spite your face.
You won’t buy the expansion because you’ve spent $10 more than you should have. I can understand this feeling. I would still not let this feeling control me.
There’s a pizza place by my house. Best gourmet pizza I’ve ever had. Loved it. I later found out that there’s a special on the board there that no one told me about, even though I was buying the pre-requisite for the special. I probably lost a lot more than $10 over the many months I’ve been there.
So I stopped going. I was angry that I spent more money than I had to.
I’ve since gone to every other pizza place, gourmet and otherwise in the area and even much further. But no one makes pizza like that one place. It was awesome.
I recently decided to start going there again. Yes, I spent too much because I missed the sign with the special and no one told me it existed when I was buying there. But by the same token, I spent a whole lot more trying a bunch of places I liked less.
I wouldn’t let $10 stop me from playing a game I was enjoying. Principle or not, it’s 2 cups of coffee where I come from. For those two cups of coffee, I’m going to get at the very least dozens of hours of entertainment.
Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.
Happy birthday (early). I’d say that the HoT launch is a pretty good birthday present. Hope you have a great day.
I think gliding and jumping mushrooms add immensely to the game. Sorry you don’t like it but a lot of people do seem to really like gliding.
It’s currently being acknowledged within the Ranger community (perhaps not by all, but certainly by a noticeable number) that this could be the make-or-break for the Ranger. For me, I think even if Druid is underwhelming I’ll still play it just because it’s always been my favourite archetype in MMOs.
This perfectly illustrates my issue surrounding how Rangers are discussed on the forums. The class isn’t ideal, but it is fun, at least for me. If it isn’t fun, then why are you playing it? Are you some kind of sick gaming masochist?
You see all of this hyperbolic rhetoric about how “broken” the profession is (there are bugs, and pet AI can be improved, but it is far from “broken”), with some even complaining that it is unplayable, but these people still play (and presumably have fun with) it.
So no, if you are going to continue to play Ranger if you don’t like Druid, it’s not make-or-break. It could be a disappointment to you based on your expectations, but you’ve already indicated that it is still worth playing despite an underwhelming Druid.
So stop QQing and just play the kitten game…
Please tell me what part of my thread is QQing? I’m not expressing personal opinion over the “make-or-break” case, I’m presenting the vibe from the Ranger community. At worst I’m putting forward a pessimistic outlook for what could be the case upon the release of the Druid, and the less-than-optimal conditions leading to its reveal. I have nowhere in this thread moaned about it though.
I don’t think there is a ranger community. There are probably tens of thousands of people who play rangers. Many are quite happy with them. I main a ranger, and I’m quite happy. It’s my favorite profession in the game. I don’t seem to have the issues you do.
Maybe the ranger “community” is smaller than you think.
+1 Open world has always been my favorite part of the game. Most of my guild spends most of their time in the open world.
I had problems with logtech mice (g 600) but not my razor. Guess it’s just the luck of the draw.
Peoples ironic dismissal of WoW is so comical its sad. WoW did it so no!
News flash: GW2 is the epitome of themepark gameplay which WoW created.
Actually Guild Wars 2 IMPROVED on a lot of the nonsense that was in WoW for no real good reason, like kill and node stealing.
What you don’t like being able to remotely deposit mats? Should be go back to WoW because we’ve built upon it.
The LFG tool is better than the one used in WoW. Returning to it would be like devolving.
The price of progression. People want it. They asked for it. Anet provided it. Not sure what else to say, but horizontal progression is not vertical progression. This is what the playerbase asked for.
As a veteran I’m pleased to see new people enter the game. I’m pleased to see that Anet is removing another barrier to entry for people trying out the game. SWToR is free to play. ESO is free to play. Archeage is free to play. Wildstar is going free to play. Honestly how do you people think the game is going to compete. The people who were interested bought it already, and the people who aren’t interested aren’t likely to try it. If you want to see the game’s population increase, and I do, there needs to be a vehicle for that to happen.
Anet is removing entry barriers for new players. Veteran players aren’t being shafted by this. But they’d absolutely feel shafted if there were no new players and there was less and less money to make content and eventually the game just faded into oblivion.
No. You don’t get anything. It’s not Anet’s fault you didn’t play the game. On the other hand, the free accounts have lots of limitations on them. Just the log in rewards, which free accounts don’t get, are one reason it doesn’t matter. There are quite a few restrictions on free accounts you won’t have.
Looks pretty good to me. I know this worries a lot of people, but I don’t think it will hurt the game.
doesnt it bother you that you need gem store items to craft a legendary ?
5 box of fun. 320 gems.
I have never ever bought a box of fun from the gem store. I have like 20 of them. There’s one in almost every achievement chest.
+1 agreed. Rewards needed to be redone. Adding levels, yes. Nerfing fractals into casual mode? no, anet really needs to stop catering to the casual plague on MMOs.
If it’s out in plague proportions, they’d be a pretty stupid business to ignore that segment. You cater to the plague. That’s how you stay in business. lol
You’ve hit diminishing returns. Now I just ask for a port to there, instead of leaving a character parked there, as I used to.
The ranger has been ignored by Anet for the last 3 years. Their damage is terrible compared to the others. And their only good healing/condition cleanse Healing Spring skill was nerf to nothingness. Pets are unreliable and takes too long to attack.
I would suggest to make another class…don’t waste your time leveling a ranger.
I suggest to stop using a bloody bowbear…
Melee damage on Ranger is good – it’s probably 4th DPS ingame if you use sword+horn/great sword.Terrible damage is on necros, engis and mesmers. (and necros are rather debatable of their “terrible” damage)
1) I keep seeing “bowbear” on the forums; what is/was it?
2) How can a sword/gs melee ranger deal good damage? The damage coefficients are terrible. Do they solely rely on damage modifiers from traits?
Bearbow or bowbear is a nickname for rangers who use a longbow to stay at range and let their pet (usually a bear because they have most health and toughness) tank the enemies for them. It’s a boring but effective build in open-world PvE but absolutely terrible in anything more challenging and it gives you a very steep learning curve because as long as you’re using it you don’t need to use dodging, positioning and other techniques.
The problem with a bearbow ranger, particularly in dungeons, in the tendency of people to stack. That means foes will be right on top of you and your bow will do minimal damage. If you’re the only one not stacking you’re ruining everyone else’s strategy and at the same time, you’re not providing the support that everyone else is looking for, and if you use your 4 longbow skill you knock back stuff people had nicely stacked together. Bears do less damage than most other pets, so they’re less useful in dungeons.
In dungeons raingers need to take the spotter trait, and frost spirit (not sure about that one anymore), they need to use sword/warhorn for buffs and switch off to greatsword to get maximum damage.
A ranger who does all this and doesn’t knockback does fine in dungeon groups that stack…but because so many rangers don’t do all this, they’re often shunned by speed run groups and min maxers.
If you start your own casual group or join a casual guild none of this matters at all.
OP you’re speaking from fear, not knowledge. You’re worried that the changes will make fractals worse, but you don’t know. This is a guess on your part, based on a single article in the Anet blog.
While I understand being nervous about upcoming changes, people don’t like change, I wouldn’t be so quick to throw in the hat just yet. Give it a chance. You might be surprised.
Raids probably are coming…but what Anet sees as a raid and what most people who have raided see, might be very different things.
Every MMO forums of every popular game that’s not moderated to death is pretty much like this one. That’s because no one can make a game that can please everyone. People want the game to be their ideal game, after all we spend a lot of time playing our MMOs of choice, and so people are dissatisfied.
It’s not like a driving game, where you get the game and that’s pretty much it. You have a chance to change it post launch. And since most people believe their views are widely shared by some kind of majority, it invites them to weigh in.
All games need feedback and that’s what forums are for. That said, plenty of people who are frustrated can’t see how their frustration reads to others who aren’t frustrated. It ends up looking more like an attack than feedback. It’s not because these are bad people…they’re simply frustrated people. They have a right to share their feelings as long as they stay within the guidelines set out by Anet.
And I have the same right to respond to them. Something to do on long load screens. lol
I support the nerfing of harpy pheromones. If it has happened, good job Anet.
Out of curiosity, why sinister stats and a a rifle. Wouldn’t a pistol make a lot more sense for sinister stats?
Anyone else underwhelmed by the"Elite" specs?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
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Let’s also keep in mind that this isn’t just a single spec, but a redesign of the trait system to allow Anet to add even more future elite specs. That’s a huge deal.
This isn’t some one time thing we’ll never see advancement on. It’s a fundamental change to the game as a whole.
What you’re getting is a very updated version of the game. Anet is lousy at advertising their own product.
In most games, when an expansion comes out, you generally get more content. But Anet is giving us entirely new systems and those systems are the ground work for future expansions. This expansion, in the surface, may not look like much content-wise, but the changes it’s bringing in change this game significantly.
You may or may not think that’s worth it, but I think it is.
Why has this happened? Because this game dared to stray from what other games are doing. It tried to find some new path for MMOs and got some things wrong and some things right. There’s a price to be in the forefront of that sort of experiment. You don’t always get it right the first time.
One of the main issues, for example, that people have had is the lack of max level progression. So Anet added masteries. But it’s not just a closed system. It’s a system that can keep on growing, pretty much as long as the game exists.
I’m probably more excited about the mastery system than I am about anything else in the expansion. Calling a major game reboot a “dlc”, in my mind anyway, undermines what the expansion is really about.
No, I’m saying there will be an open beta, AFTER closed betas. This isn’t a demo, it’s a beta. It’s for testing. No doubt some people will use it as a demo, but it’s a beta. When the game is more or less finished, I’m sure there will be an open beta.]
You claimed this is an open beta in your OP, but it’s not. It’s a closed beta. It’s a beta weekend event. If you wait for a while, I’m sure there will be an open beta though.
Open beta is for everyone. This is the closed betas. At some point, there will be an open beta as well, just like when Guild Wars 2 launched. We had the same deal.
Open betas are for everyone. This isn’t that though.