Guild Wars 2

I wonder if someone will still find a way to complain about or say only a warrior could do this.

XGhoul.7426:

You’re confusing difficult enemies with boring meat tanks.

I think you missed the joke.

I expected everything in AC to be soloable (With patience) apart from the burrows. Kudos for being able to do what many groups fail to do with 5 people.

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Bartho.7896:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Although to be honest, as the designer of that content, I did a facepalm when I saw your thread title.

Why?
Its the Warrior designer and the profession balancing team that should be face-palming.
While i consider guardian pretty balanced, since his high resistance and nice support for team is balanced through rather low dmg. I dont see any downside on warriors, they excel in everything.

Every kittening time wethospu posts a video someone in the comments is always “hey nah it’s warrior this guy couldn’t do anything without his classDD”. Have you not perhaps thought of the skill required to solo lupicius with any class? I’d like to see you get a warrior and do even remotely close to the same.

The whole reason warriors are OP is because mobs, mainly bosses, don’t move out of sustained aoe (Like 100blades). They had this in the BWE. Why did they take it out? To casualise the game in order to sell more? Sure worked out well!

90% of bosses also have nothing that discourages standing right in front of them spamming autoattacks/100blades, so utility is useless it’s just DEEPS DEEPS DEEPS.

Honestly these things are pointless popularity contests, the “best” game doesn’t actually win – it’s the one with the most rabid fanboys. I have every faith that GW2 has the potential to do well in it, and I love it, but I just don’t feel the need to sign up for all this crap just to vote for it.

Also perhaps more importantly; what is the ugliest thing spire has seen?

Alright, there’s a few simple steps to avoid this.

1. Waypoint to the door. If you are in combat, you will need to break combat before waypointing.
2. Step out of the “Honor of the Waves explorable” dungeon.
3. Cleanse your mind of any thoughts that might remind you of how cool the armour looks or how pretty the dungeon itself is
4. Do a different dungeon until they fix this kitten.

Lupi, especially for the first time. It just has an air of “oh kitten” about it. Nobody had done arah Exp when I ran this boss for the first time, we all had to figure out what was going on and it was great.

He’s going to return as a mysterious ally to help you kill primordius. Mark my words.

Primordius is really bad at dodging aoes so alpha kills him really fast.

Sure bro, I think I left a book on programming lying around. There you go, AC is fixed now! I changed “ac_bugged” to 0 from 1.

Can’t wait. 9/10 anet! one point deducted for no cross-region guesting >:l

Did this recently for the first time in ages. Am I missing something? I just went up and hit it with my axe warrior style and disabled it with hammer every time it was about to use that stomp ability. Hardly any damage taken. I understand warrior is better than most classes for pve but it’s not like every class can’t dodge.

Iehova.9518:

Writetyper.1985:

It’s short and easy anyway and as far as I know most people just exploit halfway to lupi so the token should be easy to get.

You’re going to have to be more specific.

I don’t know. I think people jump on cliffs or something. I did this thing in P2 where someone used a teleport gun to get out of the map to skip a run past deadeyes, probably like that up till lupi.

If you’re doing Arah just for the farm (Which I don’t recomend, it’s fun as kitten and the armour doesn’t look that good) then just look for groups doing P3. It’s short and easy anyway and as far as I know most people just exploit halfway to lupi so the token should be easy to get.

I’m not sure why you’re suprised at pugs failing at the hardest dungeon. If you pug arah and complain you need to realize you’re doing this to yourself.

>(not sure but i know that mesmer interrupted my shield stance and that’s very obviously a bug)

It’s not a bug, some abilities can go through blocks.

After how hard people complained at the clock tower I don’t think we’ll see a hard jumping puzzle ever again.

Blindness causes everything to miss. Blindness causes the weakness from warhorn to miss. “I can’t hear you because you’re blind”.

Besides, it’s a game mechanic. This is quite obviously not a realism based game.

Runiir.6425:

Blocking attacks without input is something a shield does by virtue of being strapped to your arm and simply being in the away of an attack.

Seriously, armchair warriors, go out and fight witha shield and sword for awhile against others and see how many attacks you block without actively trying…it is the whole point of having a shield.
Want to have a cost for it? Make a passive block cost 30% of an adrenaline bar. After all, a valid strategy against someone with a shield is to bash your weapon against the shield hard over and over again to drain the strength of your opponant and make them sluggish.

Passive dodging/blocking already exists in the game (3rd attack for ranger longsword, 3rd attack for ranger greatsword both being examples) so Anet is not opposed to it. Obviously the melee rangers aren’t opposed to it.
The thieves out there are also not opposed to passive dodges (dagger/dagger being the most seen thief weapon load in spvp as they use the dual skill to evade large attacks while attacking).

So why all this crying over a passive block? Afraid your big attack will miss? Don’t throw all your faith into one hit and plan better strategies with the expectation that you will be evaded, which is what everyone fighting a thief already does.

Are you honestly using a realism argument in this game? I’d like you to step back for a moment and think about how ridiculous that is, and then think about how a passive block adds nothing to increasing the skill ceiling on a class and only adds silly RNG to combat.

Passive RNG is bad, criticals are bad enough.

I like the idea someone had of using adrenalin to block alongside existing skills. I don’t know how this could be run though, no other weapon has a skill that exists outside of standard 1-5 (Besides warrior burst skills).

I run hammer/axe+horn warrior on my main, and I can tell you it’s pretty effective because it has decent burst and you can also lockdown someone for a long time… but… I can also tell you there is nothing funnier than using Banish to knock someone off a cliff.

You really can’t go wrong with a hammer :O

This is the exact reason why I use my soldier’s set over my zerkers set during AC runs, the bonus is just so small that it’s far better to take more HP incase you miss dodging once of those scavenger leaps or something.

I’m not sure if I’m picturing this right in my head but should it scale down at all? It’s based off your other damage… which is scaled down. Shouldn’t that make it the same ratio of DPS you’re doing in Arah as you are in AC?

Is this new? Cool. It pretty much confirms what I was expecting and hoping for: a reason to make everything replayable. Good news. I hope they add more in the feburary updates too.

Can’t wait to see what’s new about wub.

Soon™

Inflames.6340:

Im looking forward to update about legendaries nuthing more

Why would they change legendaries? that will only lead to trouble, apart from making new ones or making alternate ways of getting stuff like the precursors

Straight up making them easier would not make them legendary, silly. People would complain.

Kraggy.4169:

Writetyper.1985:

Why do people want the level cap to increase, btw? It’s just the same game with bigger numbers

Because for most people character progression stops at the level cap; forget phat lewt and gear, I’m talking about character abilities and skill, the continued evolution of playstyle for the class you’re playing, gear generally just makes you more ‘powerful’ without changing the way you play.

And I suggest most games players want more than arriving at the destination (ie. the level cap) then sit there forever running the same content.

True, some games manage this without actually increasing the level number (eg. FFXI with their ‘merit’ system, Rift with PAs. etc) but generally mobs also have to increase in strength to keep balance with increased character power; for that, and other reasons, it seems to me that non-level based character progression tends to be unsatisfactory.

I don’t understand MMO players. You just want something to aim for, and when you get there, you get nothing but slightly larger numbers than everyone else? But not really because then everyone else has the same numbers?

Why not make things to do instead of increasing the level cap so instead of a wild goose chase for meaningless rewards, you can actually have fun. Isn’t that what games are for, fun, right? Something with replay value in it apart from just exploiting past stuff to grind for meaningless kitten to look pretty in something where there’s nothing to do. I mean Wub and Fractals and getting Dungeon Master can only go so far.

pkbot.1345:

Why is this as an issue? Because one of the BIGGEST reasons for playing an RPG is to progress to higher power levels consistently, and feel powerful. The level scaling system at level 80 makes it feel like I just bought a new Porsche but I have to park it on certain streets to ride my bike.

I don’t see the logic in this, where is the entertainment in going to a low level zone where you one shot everything, where the challenge is even less than in regular PvE? Where is the fun in pressing 1 and seeing things get 1 shot? Do you want to show off? You basically want to run around a low level zone going “Hah!~ I’ve played the game longer than you!” to lower level players? Do you realize how rediculous that sounds?

It’s bad enough anyway. There’s no reason to go back to a lower level zone because rewards are not scaled. There’s also the added fact that the downscaling system doesn’t seem to work properly and on top of that you also have tri-stat gear, full traits, and runes that lower level players simply don’t have. Why would you want to make it worse?

Also if you want to one-shot things to fulfill some ridiculous desire, there are rabbits and rats and stuff everywhere.

Complete the monthly/dailies and run dungeons. Use full boosters when you consume the jugs.

Bamn, you have a tonne of karma.

No. The game is balanced around 70 traits. Everyone would be able to do everything, some incredibly strong cohesions between traits would come out, and all builds would become more samey.

Why do people want the level cap to increase, btw? It’s just the same game with bigger numbers

Noid.2871:

Yeah, it’s kind of sad how stupid these people are.

Sad? Stupid? No, I would argue that point (At least on stupid). If you make a system that rewards going faster, people are going to try and go faster. And that group setup is the fastest you can go. Why does this make you stupid? Seems like logic to me.

The problem is that there are people who don’t want this hyper-compeditive speed-running environment. And the only thing people can do about that is play with people in the same mindset.

Those of you who are doing the 10 at once recipe and then are complaining about not getting any need to do some basic probability. Doing 10 at once lowers the sample size because they all are a success or a failure, so it’s much more of a gamble. It’s like entering the lottery and then complaining when you lose, because the much safer 1 clover recipe (Which in a large batch will come extremely close to one third of what you chuck in) is still there.

Exterminans.9723:

“Challenging and short”? Seriously? Are you sure, it’s not path 3 you are talking about?

Besides, where is challenge?
You are forced to go for a borderline burst build and it isn’t even possible with some classes as they simply don’t have any suiteable burst skills. It’s not even about lack of teamplay or skill, either your whole group is equiped for that situation or it isn’t possible.

But it is really short. After this part you’ve got an easy boss, some golems, and then the last boss.

w-what?

Did you encounter a (known) bug and in a fit of rage compeltely forget who to type english and come to to the forums to let everyone know about it?

Exterminans.9723:

Writetyper, have you done path 1 recently? I mean past the december patch? With a group which hadn’t full exotic / ascended equip yet?
And did you try it without making use of any of the exploits like “keeping one alive” or “finding a bugged spot to stand”?

I did it three days ago. I was using a rare greatsword but full exotics otherwise, I don’t know about the rest of the group but full exotics aren’t that hard to get and they’re all 80’s so I think it’s safe to assume they were properly geared.

We fought it, the hard way. It was fun.

I just did Arah P1 for the first time today. I wonder what went wrong between making Arah and making HotW. Arah has amazing, deep boss fights like Lupi, the jotun stargazer, and so on. HotW has…? Oh yeah. Quaggans with 999999 HP.

Even the more boring fights of Arah like Melandru, Simin, etc are just really good concepts executed poorly.

It’s like they ran out of time and just decided to take regular mobs and put 0’s on the end of their health bar. I say regular mobs because that’s how much damage they do.

I feel it’s a bug, because they have an active ability that reflects projectiles (Magnetic Aura) but they reflect projectiles anyway because it’s redundant.

Anyway by force of habit I normally initiate on an enemy with warrior axe 3 which often results in laughs. I’ll not mention the first time I ran 2 where I killed myself with Killshot.

It’s insane, but I love the challenge of doing it. What fun would getting dungeon master be if every path was as easy as CoF 1?

There’s probably some exploit (Knowing this game, somebody will have found one) to make it easier but where’s the fun in that? SE isn’t one of the dungeons you do for farm, it’s not AC or CoF, it’s one of the ones you do for a challenge.

No nerf pls.

stof.9341:

Stinson.5972:

The event requires a decent number of people

Yeah, something like 3-4 people. How will you ever get that many people to enter a dungeon??!?

Implying people who run dungeons are all on the same server.

The people I run CoE with are all on the same server so we don’t have this problem, but I can see how rediculous it is to have a dungeon gated to a point where one person can’t unlock it if they want to. Why can’t you?

Great, now I have to stay awake during those boss fights.

Damage sponges.

Are not.

Fun.

Olba.5376:

Writetyper.1985:

Basically you just asked us for traits without saying what class he’s playing.

The topic is posted in the Warrior forum…

awkward silence here

Oh dear god this is horribly embarrassing

How did I manage this

;_;

Basically you just asked us for traits without saying what class he’s playing.

haviz.1340:

Iehova.9518:

I don’t see your point. By order of difficulty, Arah4 should always be first so you’re done with it and don’t have to do it again.

I get you now. You have the same opinion as me in that matter. Arah4 is the hardest path in gw2 because of Melandru’s and Grenth’s priests – not falling asleep there is the highest achievement one can dream of.

Oh man, that grenth priest… an excellent concept, but why did it have to go for so long? So many of anet’s bosses have this problem. Longer =/= harder, often just more tiring.

-0.1 second on weapon swap. Change fast hands to about 4 seconds instead of 5.

An incredibly short weapon swap when traited might just be the buff warrior needs to escape the predictability problem they have. I mean, I play other classes, when I see a warrior with greatsword I know exactly what he’s going to do.

+3% damage is incredibly redundant, especially considering most weapons don’t even do much extra damage on their burst skill.

You can glitch out but there’s nothing there apart from a bunch of ascalonians who die over and over again.

Iehova.9518:

I don’t see your point. By order of difficulty, Arah4 should always be first so you’re done with it and don’t have to do it again.

But you’re going to do it anyway. Why do it first?

Also if they do it last, it’s a climax. Will they do it in the allotted time or not? Will someone rage quit? What’s life without a gamble.

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/crystal-desert/ Is what I use. Change to your own server.

As far as I’m aware of, it’s the most popular – and therefore the most accurate. If this is what you were using before and it’s not accurate then you will just have to deal with it, I’m sorry.

Iehova.9518:

They chose Simin last. Cowards.

But it’s the last path in the last dungeon.

People who do that are flat out terrible. Every AC boss is easy as kitten and they can’t use the “in a hurry” excuse because it’s faster to kill him (No time kiting, melee DPS > ranged) legitimately. I don’t see why they’re farming in a game they can’t play.

Yes I’m being blunt/offensive, it’s flat out ridiculous. AC is a dungeon 45 levels lower than the cap, you shouldn’t have to do stuff like this. And you certainly should not be kicking people who don’t.

Frenk.5917:

Gold is necessary for ugrading since karma is not tradeable and there are many guilds which use the gild bank to ensure commanders have enough money to pay these costs.

Well make it optional. You can either choose to use your gold to upgrade, or use your badges. Run out of badges, check the guild bank. Simple.

jalmari.3906:

Loot is bad. Current loot system counts party somehow. This should be removed. WvW play has very little to do with party mechanics unlike dungeon where you are automatically in same party anyway. Also difference between being in party and not is huge. If you’re not in party all you seem to get is like blue drops or some claws whatever. Not to mention if you are supposed to be any help to your allies you are not supposed to run MF gear, lol.

Does anyone remember when people used to play games for fun instead of loot? I don’t remember hopping onto dota back in the day in search of exotic gear, I was in search of entertainment. Did this concept just get lost for everyone along the way, or are all MMOs so grind focused like this?

I can completely understand not wanting crap drops, but I feel there is a very important reason for that. Extreme example: If, say, everyone dropped an exotic when you killed them then everywhere you look there would be people farming WvW for gear. You wouldn’t be able to go 5 meters without seeing someone getting killed by their friend on another server and ressed over and over for loot. Remember when Dolyaks gave karma when you escorted them? Remember when every dolyak would have ~20 people walking along with it, taking server slots and generally polluting what is supposed to be a primarily PvP experience with PvE?

Another thing is existing competition would be boosted to abnormal levels. People wouldn’t be going for wins, they’d be going for kills, which does not necessarily equal wins. People would fight over using arrow carts, because they are the most effective way to tag zergs. A zerg would be 50% longbow rangers using barrage. Just think about how much animosity there is already, on the jumping puzzle, where big rewards are at stake.

A knee-jerk bandaid fix is not always the best solution, even though it may sound good on paper. Please remember this.

Croth.6287:

Is it really that hard and game breaking to add an option to re-enter? Why does it take so long to apply what should of been a hot-fix?

You throw this concept around like a rhetorical question (Which I understand, it’s perfectly rational to be upset in this case) but the answer is actually yes.

In order to have a checkpoint-based system instead of graveyard zerging (A concept that essentially makes every dungeon in a way possible, and therefore defeats the concept of levels), fractals used the same netcode as co-operative story missions and other instances instead of standard dungeons. Hence, needing to be in the same overflow, ect.

Not being able to rejoin fractals is an unintended/unforeseen/ignored side-effect of this.

Fixing said problem requires extensive work on the base game. Which, is no easy feat, even in a regular game. But this is an MMO, where everything has to be checked and double checked for security/exploit reasons, where everything has to be in perfect sync or nasty bugs could occur, and where everything has to be completely glitch free or people get extremely irate. And with programming, you can’t just throw more people at a problem to make it go away faster. Budget restraints are also an issue, anet are not operating on a blank cheque which is an important thing which most people forget about game design when asking why X feature doesn’t exist.

I’d be glad they gave us a date at all, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still working on it now.

Man that’s such a fantastic fix. Good to see we’re all fine and serious on the forums today.

Kill two birds with one stone and let people upgrade towers/camps using badges.