Has Anet communicated with us if any of our issues will be fixed? There seems to be a lot of unhappy customers, shouldn’t they be letting us know if they will fix it or not?
They have communicated about issues such as fractal rewards and wvw.
Yep, same experience here. I have yet to find a successful DS map, after several frustrating attempts with LFG. I’m done with it.
I will teach you the secret steps to joining a good DS map. Listen carefully because any little mistake can ruin your chances of executing this complex technique.
1. Be in a DS map when the timer is between 1h45 and 2h.
2. Open LFG.
3. Join any one of the 10 parties that say “DS taxi” or something similar.
4. Right click your party member’s icon and click Join in their map.
I know this sounds hard, but if you manage to follow these steps, I guarantee you will find yourself in a successful DS map. Good luck.
Was there any design like this in the base game? I remember that it was more like “come when you want, do what you want”. Now the game tells you when you have to play certain things.
I AM frustrated right now because i couldnt find a group neither on guild nor withing pugs which could beat this w/o ppl getting downes by seekers, green aos or whatever reason.
Try to find a good guild and show that you’re good.
I wanted to help other people and thought “Do I really want to do this for many hours for 0 reward?”. No.
I still helped my friend for about 6 hours but it feels bad. If there was no cap I would have helped other people too but it was just too much time for nothing.
Strongly agree.
And here I am in a TD map at 2 am EST that came decently close to beating the chak gerent (my point being that there are enough people). I was in this map for about 6 hours (4 chak gerent events) and the map always reached t4, many optional events were done, and people were helping out with hero points. Surely this is an anomaly. No it isn’t, try playing the game.
I attempted Gorseval for maybe 7 hours with many different people aside from a core 4-5 group. We could not do enough damage to break 66% and we simply could not figure out what was the problem. Maybe some people knew what was the problem but stayed quiet.
Now I feel like a DPS meter would be extremely useful for determining the problem and showing us how to improve as a group. It would save so many hours.
I got probably over 10k empyreal fragments from SW chest farming. It’s not exactly fun but that’s a way to get empyreal fragments and dragonite ore, bloodstone dust easily if you need them.
For PvP yes. For PvE hard content if you have a really good excuse you can swap 1 kit for a utility skill. Still have to constantly swap through the rest.
Open world PvE you can play whatever.
You either have 2 choices organize the map you are in and start taxing people or look in lfg for a taxi to another map . I haven’t had any issues finding organized maps and doing any events bar TD meta .
Really don’t see what the issue is ,there are plenty of people on the new maps and finding people for dry top / sw or any old content is easy as well.
This. It’s like some people live in an alternate reality.
I got 250 crystalline ore all from pods (did not do story yet). It really didn’t take that long. Compared to some other legendary components 250 crystalline ore from pods is quite easy.
Never noticed it and I always look for the 18k exp popup after completing an event, and I do many events. So that thread sounds like a gross exaggeration to me.
“A lot of people seem to struggle to find a good dragon stand map”
I don’t notice that. Use the LFG tool. LFG has a lot of room for improvement, but if you use it you’re certainly not going to be struggling to find a DS map. Every time I want to do DS I find a full map.
Btw a correction for SCAR lane. It’s not that there’s a 2 second window to break the bar, it’s that it breaks in 2 seconds.
Another correction: this is not the only boss to (debatably) benefit from not breaking the bar. Mouth of Mordremoth unarguably rewards not breaking the bar for a period of time, after which it has to be broken.
This is taking longer to fix than I expected. I don’t care that much about the rewards, my ascended spec weapon can wait, but yeah, I thought it would be fixed faster.
Stopped crashing when I set the graphics to lowest possible (select Best Performance in the preset dropdown). I also relaunch the game before starting long event chains like Dragon’s Stand or Auric Basin.
I use the scrapper trait line for the traits for PVE. I use Mass Momentum with Juggernaut for a flamethrower build. Adaptive Armor is nice because I use berserker stats.
I don’t use a hammer, rifle is better for PVE.
I also use the stealth gyro because it’s really good.
That’s it. Gyros are disappointing, I expected a cooler and better integrated mechanic. Summoning a friendly minion with horrible pathing is not cool. I wanted gyros to be “closer” to the character and be more permanent (not skills that last 15 seconds).
Function gyro is pretty useful in PVE in my experience. But I have no idea what other classes got, very possible that their new mechanics are more interesting than the function gyro.
Yes, the ‘Drop Target’ and ‘Cancel Attack’ thing annoys me. When I attack with grenades I sometimes want to drop target… but the first press of Esc cancels my queued grenade attack, so I have to press it twice, and I don’t even want to cancel my attack. Sometimes it doesn’t work well so I mash Esc and it opens the menu.
