Guild Wars 2

I’ll go off on a stretch which is probably 99.99% incorect.

The Thaumanova Reactor and Fall of Abaddon fractals both have to do with Scarlett. Portals + Steam creatures from the reactor, and somehow Scarlett has obtained a power to dress up her minions like fallen gods!

I would not be surprised if I was correct, which I’m not. But this LS storyline is all over the place.

Please make /airplane an emote!

Beta testers may know what I’m talking about.

I never have to look at my keyboard / binds.

One of my high school classes had a section about typing, and you had to type X amount of words in a minute to pass. It’s sadly helped me more for gaming than it has other IRL situations.

So why weren’t the ToT bags rewarded alongside w/ the chests?

A joke version of the greatsword ( ponies, sparkles, etc ).

I would love to see the rage by all of warriors on the forums.

Serdoc.7261:

One funny side-effect of this change in hot-joins, a lot of people are rolling bunker guardian for apparently the first time, in hopes of locking down a capture point. Seems most of these new guardians are just beyond terrible, like no idea when to use their skills or how to bunker a point

Guardian/bunker is my main. I always felt forced to spec DPS for hotjoins or just queue for broken solo queues. Finally I can play how I want w/ equal rewards for the team.

There aren’t many impressive items/titles in this game to witness.

I guess some people on my server think Twilights are cool because I constantly see a half dozen warriors by LA bank spamming 1.

What if that IS the jungle dragon behind her =O

I just hope that you gain rank points when you lose.

Not to discourage losing, but sometimes winning is out of your hands because of the hotjoin system. Gaining 0 rank because half your team left would be brutal.

Great change. I’ve been waiting over a year for this.

Maybe now 3/4 of a hotjoin team won’t rush home at the start. Or players sprinting to a node you’re decapping for the extra 10 pts.

I usually do every single daily every day.

Not necessarily because it gives me more achievement points, it just gives my playtime more structure.

I was about to transmute my newly crafted ascended weapon to have the skin of an exotic. But the transmute box window doesn’t indicate that I will keep my infusion slots of the ascended weapon? Do they carry over?

Rama.6439:

Arrow.3856:

Dont worry it will get fixed august 2014

Yeah, it’s gonna get pushed to the back of the desk, just like precursor crafting has, promises made, promises broken, not that they have made any about TEQ and not that we are asking for any but please, don’t Anet, we don’t want you to break anymore.

Xista.7391:

Jade Quarry tonight.

Thought I took another picture. Had a bonewall up at 13 minutes, 0 turrets alive.

And what do you expect, all the PvErs are in WvW cause Anet gave them a bunch of new achievements to go after, and all the WvWrs are sitting in que.

Only difference is more players at Tequatl. Still same outcome.

Jade Quarry tonight.

Thought I took another picture. Had a bonewall up at 13 minutes, 0 turrets alive.

I got the daily camp capturer done.It boosted me from 2/5 > 4/5. Doing a 5th achievement got me the daily reward chest. Viewing my daily achievements does freeze my game however.

Mastruq.2463:

Xista.7391:

It just seems like a pathetic attempt to push more people into the Tequatl encounter, because they know that there is a large playerbase that pursues every single achievement every day.

You give them too much credit. They most likely forgot to remove the boss week dailies in this case.

Whatever reason for it, I dont see a point in removing them, just like a whole bag of other dailies you either do them or you dont, no harm done. Someone will be happy about it at some point so why take that away?

Edit: dont get me wrong more different dialies instead would be great too… I’m in favor of adding things to the game. The general tone of the posts are more in favor of removing something and I find Anet removes or temps enough stuff in this game, no need for the players to push that even more.

It’s more like:

I want to log on and do dailies. I can do every single daily just fine. But the chances of me failing Tequatl post-patch is probably 99%. That’s not fun.

I think he wins this game.

I think it’s an alright idea if done properly. IE You have to do X > Y > Z before you can do W. If done properly, it can help give the living story patch a linear so it feels like you’re progressing.

But with the Halloween patch, it doesn’t make sense. Yeah, you’re trying to get the Mini so you can fight the boss. But the achievements required to do it don’t make sense. I can progress to unlocking the final dungeon by doing the Clock Tower…. Wat?

It just seems like a pathetic attempt to push more people into the Tequatl encounter, because they know that there is a large playerbase that pursues every single achievement every day.

I survived a whole round as a villager.

No credit.

Dante.1508:

eisberg.2379:

Xista.7391:

People are considering open-world champs bosses now?

Wow.

And that is a key point right there, the open world champs are in fact not bosses at all, notice how none of them have unique names. Even Shatterer is actually a title, not a name. When one shatterer dies, another one takes it place. Actually bosses are all in instances only, none are actually in the open world, and do not respawn 10 minutes later unless you started the instances again which is not the same as respawning.

Um what… many champs have unique names…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_champions

Like 95% of that list is " Champion ’ Generic Name’ " and they have no unique skill set what so ever. I know some do, but the champion zerg in Queensdale/Frostgourge being called bosses is laughable. They’re just glorfied mobs.

People are considering open-world champs bosses now?

Wow.

1.) PvP: Hotjoins are toxic and don’t teach basic techniques. They’re just there for rank farming.
2.) Tequatl-Like bosses: IMO such a large scale encounter that requires numbers and coordination should be instanced.
3.) Living Story: IMO the story is progressing a little slowly. Especially since most of the story seems to be new story, not expanding on previous loose threads (could be wrong). I’m just afraid that the Scarlette story like will take longer than a year to tell.

This! More of this, plz!

This is a living world.

I’m so kitten intrigued now about the next living story. Somewhere that I used to know has changed (for the worse?).

Same here.
Jade Quarry @ LA

I’m just in a guild by myself.

It seems like on Jade Quarry there are only guilds with 450+ people, or small ones where no one logs on.

May just start my own sometime and keep it tight knit. I was a guild master in other games, might as well be in this one too.

When open world content requires a full map with everyone on TS / knowing what they’re doing, or a massive dedicated guild to hijack an overflow server…. something’s wrong.

Might as well be instanced at that point.

That’s like asking whether you have better odds at winning the lottery, or end up dating a fashion model tomorrow.

B.) is definatley out of the question. People have played this game for thousands of hours without even seeing a precursor drop.

A.) Is more viable. But then again you’re subject to RNG. You could spend 10g and get a precursor, or 2000g before you see one. Not a lot of people end up spending less gold in the forge than what precursors are worth.

My suggestion – find an efficient way to make gold. You’ll be able to buy a precursor faster than farming for a precursor.

What comes to mind is hammer/staff guardian. Hammer has protection/knockback/immobilize/ward. Staff has heals/boons/wards.

I guess I wouldn’t classify it as a ‘shut down’ character, it’s more enemy control with group support set up.

I was hoping this would be part of the ‘legendary update’ last month.

Finally completed the look on my guardian. May go for a different sword though (infinite light perhaps?)

For the most part, I’ve been liking the living story. I like that there’s new content to do every two weeks and has a progressing story.

But since for the last month and a half, we really haven’t gotten any story what so ever. SAB has a mini-side story that’s probably not related with anything, plus I don’t find it all that fun. Tequatl was good in theory, but we all know how that turned out. So far we don’t know if there is any ‘significant’ story about him. Now with the new dungeon path (haven’t completed it yet), it doesn’t seem like there is too much story there either, nor content outside of that to do.

The optimist in me thinks that they’re working on a longer-term goal (significant releases). I’m pretty sure SAB/Tequatl were side-projects by the devs that made it to an actual release. Now we’re coming up on Halloween where the majority of that content is probably going to be the same as last year. Maybe their living story teams have some extra time to work on releases for the end of the year.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

each book type only resets your traits once, you cannot reuse them.

as for the new consumable, I wish they were a bit more expensive but we’ll see how it all works out. unlimited retraits would be horrible.

On second thought unlimited uses would probably be bad. . I think people would feel forced to respec in between wvw fights, dungeon bosses, etc…. Maybe if it had a long cooldown of 1 hour or greater.

I like buying items from the gem store, makes me feel like I’m supporting the game. But…. it just feels wrong to shell out cash every time you want to respec out in the world.

I’d much rather pay 10-15 dollars one time for unlimited respecs.

It’s a severe flaw of most MMORPG’s today.

At least this game doesn’t have quest text. I’d rather read short stories online rather than quest text about why I have to kill 10 rabbits.

You took (hours*days)/hours. Your answer comes out to days.

DrDivine.5378:

Xista.7391:

I’ve become spoiled.

I tried to play WoW last month. I couldn’t stomach it. 5.2 content has been out since early March. Only thing that has changed was crappy ‘heroic’ scenarios that are kitten easy, and some daily quests in the Barrens.

GW2 has released 13 updates since then, compared to WoW’s 1 since March (had to look it up). Sure I may not be interested in everything that GW2 releases, but it’s still peaks my interest enough to log on an check everything out.

Oh, also I was a huge PvP-er in WoW. I tried queueing for a BG recently. After 9 minutes in queue, i just Alt+f4-ed. The game is no longer worth 15 dollars/month to me.

To Warcraft’s credit though, I do think the one thing they still do better is story telling. Guild Wars 2 has some pretty good story archs and interesting characters, but the cinematics of WoW and how serious their plots can get actually kept me invested longer than I thought. Even Cataclysm, a huge step backwards, had an excellent set up for Deathwing.

I really like though how I can just jump in and out of this game whenever I want. With Warcraft, I always felt I had to play EVERY day just so I could get my money’s worth. Now, we have an MMO that gives us surprisingly deep content all of which are free forever after you buy the game.

WoW’s story is probably better (OPINION), but GW2 keeps me more interested in theirs.

Why? The majority of WoW’s lore is told through quest text. Many players don’t know why they’re doing the things they’re doing in WoW. Many probably can’t tell you why the end raid bosses are being killed.

At least in GW2 most everything is voice acted, and released every 2 weeks. Plus I much prefer reading a short story with every update, rather than reading quest text on why I have to kill 10 rabbits.

But I think the majority of MMORPGs have poor story telling all-in-all. Each has their own thing that they do different that different people prefer.

Uvatha.5476:

Xista.7391:

Galtrix.7369:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Yet the game is still a success for you. Since you have played the game, and tried out all content (I assume).

How many hours is that? 60+?

money well spent i would say. Worse games out there that only give 5 hours total game time and sell for $60.

I played about 3000 hours of GW2, and I can happily say I should’ve spent my money on a game that would’ve given me 5 hours of gameplay. That game would’ve left me with some type of happy ending or a fulfillment of playing.

Guild Wars 2 was fun for the first few hours until I hit 80 and then the fun just slowly dissipated until it vanished and was replaced with work. No feeling of fulfillment. No feeling of joy. No feeling of accomplishment.

3000 hours? This games been out, what, ~400 days?

3000hours/400day = 7.5 hours a day? 52 hours a week. No wonder why you’re burned out, you play longer than most people work.

(400×24)÷3000=3.2 hrs daily. That seems more manageable than 7.5 hrs daily. Even so I would be bored too if I played this game daily even for that amount of time. No wonder your burned out and feel like it’s a job. TAKE A BREAK!

I’d recheck your units on that calculation there.

I’ve become spoiled.

I tried to play WoW last month. I couldn’t stomach it. 5.2 content has been out since early March. Only thing that has changed was crappy ‘heroic’ scenarios that are kitten easy, and some daily quests in the Barrens.

GW2 has released 13 updates since then, compared to WoW’s 1 since March (had to look it up). Sure I may not be interested in everything that GW2 releases, but it’s still peaks my interest enough to log on an check everything out.

Oh, also I was a huge PvP-er in WoW. I tried queueing for a BG recently. After 9 minutes in queue, i just Alt+f4-ed. The game is no longer worth 15 dollars/month to me.

Galtrix.7369:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Yet the game is still a success for you. Since you have played the game, and tried out all content (I assume).

How many hours is that? 60+?

money well spent i would say. Worse games out there that only give 5 hours total game time and sell for $60.

I played about 3000 hours of GW2, and I can happily say I should’ve spent my money on a game that would’ve given me 5 hours of gameplay. That game would’ve left me with some type of happy ending or a fulfillment of playing.

Guild Wars 2 was fun for the first few hours until I hit 80 and then the fun just slowly dissipated until it vanished and was replaced with work. No feeling of fulfillment. No feeling of joy. No feeling of accomplishment.

3000 hours? This games been out, what, ~400 days?

3000hours/400day = 7.5 hours a day? 52 hours a week. No wonder why you’re burned out, you play longer than most people work.

They are definitely worse than GW2LFG pugs.

Every single pug I get into has wiped at least once, no matter what the path is. Just today, wiped on the trash skip to killing the Acolytes in CoF P1. Had several people in HOTW1 try to kill the turrets that knock you back, just before the final boss (they wanted more loot)…. that was a first. Also did a CM story where we wiped about ~5 times.

I’m 99.99% sure that you’re average joe is queueing up for dungeons right now, because most people I run with have less than 1500 achievement points. And that’s great! But right now, it seems that the community as a whole is inexperienced with the game’s dungeons, as where people who used GW2LFG were (mostly) knowledgeable players.

I’m confident that people’s experience in the LFG tool will be better over time, as the community learns the dungeons. But right now, coming from a frequent GW2LFG pugger, I think i’ll continue to use that site for nwo.

The fight itself is very easy.

It’s trying to deal with all of the artificial difficulty that’s hard. Lag, overflows, afk people, dumb people… etc

It wasn’t very rewarding.

You’re basically at the mercy of your server. All depends on how many people you have, and how much effort they put forth ( a lot of times none, since they’re AFK/dead ).
The strategy isn’t hard at all. It’s just frustrating watching the first shockwave go out and a dozen people die. . .

I’m sure the people that love this update are the ones that instantly get into their servers and defeat Tequatl during primetime.

I would be very suprised if people loved this update if they tried to get into their own realm after spending dozens of hours on overflows or played at weird hours.

No…

I know Arena Net’s heart is in the right place – making difficult content. But so much of that is artificial difficulty: lag, dying because of lag, overflows, most specs/gear are useless, afkers, trolls, spawn timer, guesting (either commanders guesting off, or people guesting in looking for a kill)

All of these are a huge barrier to fun. This fight would have so much more potential/longevity if it were instanced and tuned for a full squad. But I know the community will have none of that because they’ve either killed him already, or say “This isn’t WoW”.

I probably will not do this fight again once I get all of the achievements here. The amount of time that I’ve spent attempting him does not warrant an ascended weapon or mini pet.

Well, if this content isn’t for everyone… I guess this caters to people to that can wait all afternoon/day to get out of overflow just to get a chance to kill Tequatl which only has a small chance of dropping anything useful.

I’ve probably waited at least 20+ hours since launch in overflows just to get into my main realm. Most times I’ve gotten in during off-peak hours where we don’t have the competent crowd around anymore (IE the realm killed a few times and everyone logged off)

It’s one thing to have challenging content that brings a realm together. It’s another to implement it kitten poorly that angers a good chunk of the playerbase.

marnick.4305:

Xista.7391:

I’m in the Beta, but haven’t yet joined a group. Seems to function just as the devs wanted – anyone can join. It’s hilarious because I saw a group that was “Looking for more zerk warriors” fill up with necros and thieves.

As funny as it might seem at first glance to ruin speedclear groups, in my opinion it is griefing just as much as going to a fotm10 relaxed run with a zerk mindset. This has to be fixed.

The function of the new LFG tool is to find groups as fast as possible, which it seems to be doing. It’s not there to find specific comps to do dungeons. If people are looking for all zerker groups, I think they’ll have to look elsewhere to form groups.

I’m not stating this as a good/bad thing. This is just what the devs intended. I guess you could call it griefing, but it’s nothing that’s reportable. It’s just rude as I think it would be common courtesy to not join those groups.

Amadan.9451:

a queue system was too much? is it still like lfg.com but in game?

Pretty much. Except you can hit join on any group and immediately be in their party.

You can also click merge to pick up others that have posted for the same dungeon. IE a group of 3 can merge with a group of 2 with 1 click.