Yeah, the Legendary blog post left me without a lot of hope. It seemed to describe a long process of “do exactly what we tell you, no choice, no options, PLAY IT OUR WAY.”
That seems to be the opposite of fun to me, and the opposite to the first three years “play it your way” promise. I really hope they clarify all this that you will have actual options, and not be forced into specific lanes if you want specific rewards. There are plenty of activities that I absolutely love in this game, but there are also plenty of activities that I want no part of, and I don’t want the game telling me that I have to do a little bit of everything if I want certain rewards.
Again, you are taking the quote out of context again and again. This is the 7th-8th time I counted. The play it your way has always referred to play the class you want. It was never meant to be do whatever you want we hand you the same reward anyway. It couldn’t be taken out of context worse than this. Goodness. Write honestly. Don’t misrepresent the information for your personal gain agendas.
“The play it your way has always referred to play the class you want.”, really? You think that being able to play different classes in a MMORPG is that much of a draw that it would justify making it a games main selling point?
“Honestly” speaking the new system is a grind (defined as engaging in a repetitive task over and over for some gain or reward), its not the worst grind out there but calling salt sugar doesn’t make it any sweeter. There’s no point in faffing about on that point, besides depending on how grinds are handled they aren’t even necessarily a bad thing in gaming.
I think this particular change is so-so, it’s not outstanding but neither is it terrible. There are positive developments and negative developments. The main negative development point for me personally is this recurring idea of pushing players into content they do not like by hiding desirable rewards that are exclusive to that game mode. Rewards that are not merely cosmetic but have real advantages over anything comparable that can be attained in other ways.
I acknowledge that there are many factors in developing and refining systems that limit what you can do within a specific time frame and in a specific area of the game *bold*but*bold* Anet courted a diverse player base, they went out of their way to do this, why should they be any less beholden to part of that player-base than others if the numbers make it viable to do so?
Well they are sticking true to their promise of what legendaries should have been. If you feel like you don’t want to play a certain part of the game than I’m sorry you do not have mastery over every aspect of gw2 and thus should not be legendary. Old legendaries will still be a status of your gold, but new legendaries will redefine legendaries (I hope) to prove that a player has ventured into and conquered various aspects of the game.
I don’t think you understand the meaning of grind. Being required to do something you don’t like does not equate to it being a grind. In fact with this mastery system legendaries will be more legendary than just a status of how much gold you have. If you want you gold based legendaries feel free to craft the old legendaries they will still be available. But pls don’t try to change this new meaning of legendaries to be another gold grind fest.
I don’t see how anet thinks dungeon rewards are bad, I mean most of them only give 1 gold. And the most is 3 gold from Arah, what they need is to fix lupi os so everyone can’t just go in os lupi and get 3 gold. Here I was thinking they would buff the 1 gold from some paths to 2 gold or something. Seriously dungeon rewards are already so Low.
They should recode it so that you can reskin the speargun legendary over a rifle or the trident over a staff:D but you’ll still be able to use them underwater, I think that makes it fair to the people owning those weapons
Owning a legendary definitely doesn’t mean that a player is good at the game or in any way legendary in talent. They are not top players and they haven’t “won the game.”
That is why anet is trying to redefine the meaning of legendary to make them truly based on player skill lvl. Anet did the 1st batch of legendaries wrong and now most people feel entitled to have them handed to them on a silver plate. If you want the legendary armor you’ll just have to do raids that’s what anet set the bar as.
Omg the pistol
Nothing to be in a fuss about IMO, it’s not like they were late donating organs to a patient or something causing his death. It’s just a game, if they’re releasing it late it means it probably still needs some polishing and stuff. Better than being sold a broken product.
I totally agree with this. For too Long the prestige of legendaries have been in the gutter or gold and luck. It is time for legendaries to be truly legendary and only be obtainable by those who live up to that name.
Furthermore raids as Anet has said will be harder than fractals and I would assume fractal 50, so if you don’t have any ascended at all it means you haven’t attempted fractals at all. So why all of a sudden you wanna jump from no fractals to raids? I understand that maybe you don’t like fractals or that there is no incentive to you that you want from fractals, if that is the case you are very well able to attempt raids in exotics or full ascended if you got it without doing fractals. But here you are complaining how you are unhappy that other people get to use ascended in raids. Don’t you find it a little ridiculous? If people have ascended it means they took the time and effort to get them so they have the right to use it. If you don’t have it yourself you are free to run raids in exotics no one is stopping you.
Also ascended has been out for so long now why is it only now that people start not picking over it, it should be a recognized tier that people want to get just like how rares are to exotics it’s what exotics are to ascended. Not to mention that ascended doesn’t even give as much of an increase in stats from upgrading from exotics.
You technically you’re looking for a group with ascended armor players to carry you in exotics in raids? Firstly there will probably be many groups willing to let exotic players join regardless of their armor tier. Secondly if you can’t find a group you can always create one yourself and invite other players in. Thirdly you can also always do raids with friends and your guild. You assume a lot about the general community by saying ascended players probably won’t invite exotic players into their party. I’m full ascended but when raid launches I probably won’t care if you’re in exotic or ascended.
Hmm but as physical Mage stated he doesn’t trait in SD:/ hmm its a mystery! Oh and the past 2 days during the grawl fractal when I threw the elixir that cast a random wall skill nothing happens sometimes too. But the skill gets used up, I don’t know if it’s just that the wall animation is missing or I’m lagging or not. It is really noticeable too when the elemental boss does his shell thing I threw my walking elixir on multiple occasions it seems to just disappear and my skill get used up. I dunno if any of you have experienced this.
Oh yes I am traited for SD! That might explain it being there is an animation for SD after all and that I do cast flamethrower napalm after using a tool belt skill:D thanks guys! Sadly I’ll just have to deal with itXD because sometimes I really want to be precise with my aoes and can’t afford to use the instant cast XD I do use insta cast on every other class though haha but engi has too much game changing aoes for me to risk it, because of dept perception and allXD well now that settles it than, hope they might be able to fix it someday to make it so that SD doesn’t mess with my rotation, until than I’ll just be patient.
That’s why I said MOST people, not ALL people, I understand when some good players want a fast run or when they are too tired. I’m referring to the many lfg pugs I join who make elitist req and when I join and run with them they are not very good themselves. It’s just a personal observation, don’t take it personally, if you think you are one of those who are good than you are not the ones I’m talking about. After all I didn’t make an absolute statement by saying ALL people did I? Or maybe I should go ahead and rephrase myself MANY people IVE seen. I’m sure you have also encountered these kinds of groups I’m referring to. People who req guards because without one they would die or people who req other dps because when you run a dungeon with them they can’t really output that much themselves. Don’t take my personal observation as an attack towards you friend.
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Look the only thing stopping you according to op from running raids in exotic is human nature. Well that’s a lame and huge assumption. I’m almost full ascended and only 1 piece off which I’ll probably get before raids, and if I create a party I won’t limit members to only ascended. Full exotics? No problem come on in as long as you can pull your weight (which shouldn’t be hard considering only knowledge of your class and the right build matters). Even if you die in exotics I won’t judge it based on your gear I would judge it base on your skill lvl, I won’t be going around saying oh you died because you didn’t have ascended. If a fully geared ascended player dies ill still say he sucks regardless. Don’t make the huge assumption that it is going to be full on ascended vs exotic wars in raids. People like me won’t really care, I won’t even ask you to ping your gear because I like to trust my party members. At most I would ask you what build are you running that’s all. Pls stop with this human nature bullkitten don’t assume things about the entire community. I’m also sure there are many others who feel the same way I do and won’t discriminate against exotics!
What game are you playing? Sinister engi for pve dungeons and fractals. Go into pvp click on play now, enter hot join step out of base. Look around find someone, engage, did you see conditions on you? Did you die? I think you’re lost friend you must be playing a diff gw2 from the rest of us.
Baby quaggan and mother quaggan?:o that would be challenging:c I don’t know the Quaggan speech:c it would make for a hilarious convo though!:D
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Wow impressive! You must be one of those babies with rank 80 pvp all champ titles, soloed every solo able dungeon content, fractal 50, all legendaries in game, one of those guys with super high wvw lvl, and above 28k AP! Truly impressive!
One day Mother was playing with her Baby and his few friend at the park.
After playing for awhile a conversation between Baby and Mom occurred.
Baby: Mom! I’m tired! I can’t run anymore!
Mom: That ok sweetie you can just walk.
Baby: But Mom I want to run!
Mom: You can do that too sweetie, just rest for abit or push yourself if you want to run.
Baby: But Mom I don’t want to rest and I’m tired! I just want to run!
Now Mom looks puzzled and wonders why Baby wants to run so badly. So she asks and baby replies.
Baby: Mom because all my friends are still running! And I want to run with them! I don’t want to walk!
Mom: Oh Hun you can still catch up to them if you hurry up now. If not some of your friends are also walking, why not you walk with them?
Baby: No Mom I want to run! I don’t want to walk! Mom make it happen!
Mom than tries to explain to the Baby.
Mom: Honey it doesn’t matter if you walk or run dear, we are all going to get some ice cream after this anyway! You can walk or run there it’s ok.
Baby: No Mom I want to run! Make it happen now! Or make everyone walk with me! MOM do it!
That’s my take on people complaining about ascended being a recommendation for raids. Even though you can do raids in both exotics and ascended I don’t understand why people complain.
Running – Ascended
Walking – Exotics
Mom – Devs
Baby – Players complaining about ascended.
Ice cream – End of the raid and raid rewards.
Babies friends – Other players.
Keep in mind that walking babies and running babies almost result in the same speed eventually. Some babies run faster than others and some babies walk faster than others run. It’s quite accurately represents exotic/ascended it doesn’t matter if you run or walk, at the end of the day you might be able to walk faster than another who is running because the difference between babies walking and running is so small. At the end of the day you’ll still get your ice cream.
Ps: let’s just imagine babies can run.
Ascended now is hard to get? Pls where were you when ascended first launched. As someone who just came back from 2 years break and only been playing 1 week I can tell you ascended is way easier to get. I even got 1 weapon chest from pvp the other day. Also fractals drop ascended armor at 10% at lvl 50 I might be lucky but I’ve already gotten 2 this week and that’s 1/3 done. Nike so you’re saying the small % bonus that ascended gives matters in raids and that as you ‘raid leader’ you will want every % that counts? But I don’t understand are you for or against ascended? If you’re against it than as a ‘raid leader’ why not just start your own raid with a full team of exotic players? I’m sure it is very possible if you have a good team comp and players. Raiding with both ascended and exotics will be possible IMO so why not just raid how you want? You’re saying you’re against ascended because it gives a small % stat boost that you cannot get easily and because of that you totally won’t do a raid in exotics as you can’t be at max efficiency? What if the devs didn’t even mention anything about ascended in the 1st place? It would just be another hard dungeon and everyone would have no issue with it. From what I’m seeing now all the people complaining are just using raids as a topic to get their lazy kitten some easy ascended. Raids are just raids do it in ascended or exotic no one gives a kitten , if you wanna get a small stat boost get ascended if you don’t just use exotics. It’s just a big dungeon. Why should Anet make ascended easier to get just because of raids? It’s not like they implemented any gear gates or anything which stop you from even entering. It’s like saying oh they should make exotics even easier to get then they are now because rares are inferior in dungeons. You can still do dungeons in rares can’t you? No ones stopping you. Stop using raids as an excuse to make ascended easier to obtain than it already is. If you don’t wanna get ascended than use exotics! Geez! What’s so difficult to understand about that?! It’s like explaining to a baby! Baby: mum I’m tired! I can’t run anymore! Mum: honey it’s ok you can walk Baby: but I wanna run! Mum: than just rest or push yourself to run honey! Baby: but I’m tired! Why isn’t running as easy as walking! I don’t want to rest! I want to run now! That is what I feel like when trying to reason with all you people complaining about raids and ascended, running being ascended exotic being walking, if you run or walk you still reach there at the same time! And not even that much faster because running babies and walking babies almost make no difference!
You know all those people against this idea and saying you can swap from the hero panel probably don’t main engi or ele or haven’t mained it long enough. They don’t understand our plight.
If you are not smart or can’t study hard enough to go to med school to become a doctor than you can’t be a doctor, there is no alternative route. If you are not skilled or can’t persevere hard enough to do raids in exotic gear than you can’t be legendary. It’s that simple there no alternative. Legendaries have for too long been meaningless and skilless to squire which diminish the term legendary over time. Well to be legendary you gotta have done all sorts of stuff in the game including top tier pve I.e fractal 50 for example. Do you guys know what legendary means? It means you are the best the top you have conquered the game, it is not just some shiny skin you can buy of the tp. In this case if raids are as hard as Anet makes it out to be so much so that they have decided it is what the player needs to become legendary than so be it. All you entitled people complaining how hard it is to get ascended and such don’t deserve a shot at the legendary armor because legendaries are supposed to be legendaries. Who knows Anet might even add legendary armor to the pvp loot table for pvpers. Raids according to Anet will be the hardest pve content, to get your legendary you gotta finally work for it. Anet has finally don’t legendaries right with legendary armor pls don’t whine and diminish the value of legendary armor just like what legendary weapons are now, worthless.
Those who don’t play engi as main will nvr know the pains. Swapping to shield pistol for some areas and picking up loot than swapping back to rifle only to have your loot you picked up fill up the 2 slots meant for the pistol and shield. Or salvaging halfway only to suddenly see a prompt are you sure you want to salvage your exotic shield. Yeah you guys will nvr know. They should at least give us some place special to put our weapons some place safe. I always feel a sense of insecurity leaving my weapons floating among the junk whenever I switch between rifle and dual wield.
You know how as an engi you have to switch between many skills to chain combo fields and attacks together? Haha I would always be chaining not halfway and then suddenly be like where’s my flamethrower firefield, kitten it didn’t got placed down again! It’s like when you click to place it but it just stays in its green clicking form as if I can’t place it down.
It just plain doesn’t work and I have to click to place it down again lol, and I don’t think it’s my internet or hardware problem because for literally every other aoe skill like grenades and mortar placement I have not faced the same problem. It is only more noticeable on flamethrower 4, it just happens a lot and I’m wondering what I doing wrong or if it’s a bug.
Ok I just got back to the game after 2 years, been playing a week on my engi and on more occasions than I can count sometimes when I try to place down my flame throwers 4th skill it just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t get placed down when I click on the spot. I’m using the normal option for aoe field placement. I dunno if it’s lag, a bug, or some personal problem with my clicking of the skill placement. I don’t experience this with similar skills like mesmers focus 4 or any of the other Aoe fields eg mortar fields. It’s only the flamethrower 4th skill that does it, sometimes I will think it’s lag and wait awhile but it doesn’t activate and I’ve got to click on the spot again. It really messes up my lift stacking strategy when that happens. I also realize it’s sort of a tangent placement around my body, is that why that happens? I dunno will someone pls explain or share if it ever happens to you too.
You don’t play hot joins with the goal of winning as a team lol. I had experience once when someone whispered to me ‘all you other engis that are not rank 80 gtfo! Hot joins are for rank 80s to get their dailies’ I was loling so hard because I have been rank 80 for 2 years now but I was testing a new engi build trying out diff ways to power burst with scholar runes. He than went on to spectate me and said how can a rank 80 be running scholar runes lol. Sometimes I wonder what happened to all the real pvpers the ones who don’t run meta builds, the ones who create new builds and try to make em work. Nowadays everyone and their grandma is a rank 80 and they think they are so pro. Ranks are so easy to get now sometimes I just wish they revert it back to the old ranking system at least there won’t be so many rank 80s around.. I remember when I got shark it was such a big accomplishment now it’s like meh. Tldr: hot joins are to practice and test builds:D Ps if you see someone using a dolyak finisher maybe it’s because he likes it.
Up down left right conditions are flying everywhere.. Not condi meta yeah right, if this is the furthest from a condi meta than pls tell me when was the closest lol. Do you know why condi meta breaks pvp and is worst than power meta? Because to counter condis you need to change traits and utilities to counter em, but to counter power you can keep whatever traits or utilities you’re using and just change your amulet depending on how much survivability you want. That’s why pvp is so broken now, yeah it’s easy to counter condis if you are using those builds but not everyone wants to run them. I’d rather power meta over condi meta any day that way I can run whatever class with whatever build I like.
Most people who kick you are just bad. As an engi who min maxes my dps and being able to stealth might stack and use a ton of other utilities I don’t mind running with subpar players because I know I can dps carry or utility carry the weaker members and still achieve an above average run. Every class can min max their dps and usefulness that’s why you see it is possible for people to solo or duo dungeons with above average times. People nowadays who ask for wars guard mes exp 80 meta builds and all kinds of elitist req are just bad imo. If you are good you should be able to dps and utility carry at least 2 or even 3 weaker players. Than again not everyone is like that:D many people (like me) don’t really care what builds or what lvl you run^^ as long as you have a good attitude and have fun I’m willing to carry you.
We are all vagabonds and workaholics in gw2, we spend our time roaming the world and slaying our foes only for the occasional chat in lions arch. It’s a world of no sleep nor rest. No one knows where we come from for we just magically appear as adults in a time of peril. Who is my mother? Who is my father? No one knows… It’ll forever be a mystery…
If you don’t want to get ascended than you do it in exotic with a 5% stat disadvantage, nothing more nothing less.
As someone else mentioned you don’t do it you don’t get it. You don’t do pvp you don’t get fancy finishers, you don’t do fractals you don’t get fractal skins, you don’t grind gold for legendaries you don’t get a legendary, you don’t do dungeons you don’t get dungeon tokens, you don’t do raids you don’t get the raid rewards. There’s nothing else to it, if you want it go do it. If you don’t wanna get ascended than do it in exotics. What’s all the complaining about?
Back when you needed to use the trait reset man to reset your traits dungeons were also easy lol being able to change traits doesn’t make dungeons easy, dungeons have always been easy since the beginning. If you think that dungeons are easy now it means that you’ve gotten good.
1st have more faith in the gw2 community, you will be able to run with exotics all you want, there will be groups who don’t really care. Not everyone is a kitten you know? Of all my dungeon and fractal runnings maybe only 10% of the groups I meet are kittenes. 2nd ascended doesn’t take 1 month of GRINDING, it only takes 10 mins of crafting a day. If you want to bypass the time gate spend more gold. The majority of players with ascended all went through the same process to get theirs why must the devs make it easier to obtain just because you are too lazy to obtain yours? Furthermore if it takes 1 month to get ascended why didn’t you start 1 month ago? You would than have your ascended by now and won’t be here complaining. Everyday you spend complaining and refusing to start on your ascended it adds 1 day to that month. I’ve now only been playing a week since I got back and have swapped 5 of my exotic armor with ascended. The only thing I do to achieve this is to spend 10 minutes crafting bolt of damask when I log in and do 1 fractal of the highest I can do. That is all 1 hour and 10 mins and day. Ofc I have a reserve of a few gold to help me craft that bolt of damask. You don’t really need to GRIND for it.
I think people just adopt it from the good old hambow days and naming everything like that since:D Also OP probably only plays/played meta builds and now that the community has decided gs axe shield is meta he’s like WOAH its OP! I mean gs axe shield was always good fun even back when pvp was a chore to rank up.
I think it’s a very good idea:D
Even if you don’t have 1 hour on some days just log on for 10 mins to craft that bolt of damask using your reserve gold it’s easy. Crafting 24 damask instead of buying 24 will save you about 96 gold because I believe the tp sells it 4 gold more expensive? Yeah just log in 10 mins a day to craft bolt of damask. If you got time to spare, don’t do dungeons, don’t do pvp, don’t do wvw, don’t farm champ trains or world bosses. Just spend your first hour doing fractals to up your fractal lvl before doing anything else! If you want ascended you gotta just prioritise your 1st hour of gameplay to fractals.
Oh come on… Those of you who keep insisting that ascended is soooooooo difficult to get are just being ridiculous. Let me ask you have you tried getting it yet? Have you tried doing a few guild missions to buy your first ascended ring for fractals above 10? It doesn’t take that many guild missions you know… I’ve only done a couple of guild missions less than 10 probably in my 3k hours of play and got my 1st ascended ring to start out… And guild missions don’t even take Long maybe 30 mins tops. Have you tried doing fractals? You can also buy rings with fractal pristines and up your ar. You don’t even need that much ar to do the lower fractals and it would give you rings and pristines daily. And 75 hours for a ring? Don’t fool yourself, fractals only take 1 hour or 1.5 hours on average to worst that’s like 10 hours for a ring.. And on the way to 10 hours you will also get a chance at rings and gear! To craft a bolt of damask a day you just have to spent like 10 minutes and about 10 gold to craft it Everyday, just do it as soon as you log in it will save you a lot of gold in the Long run. Where do you get 10 gold a day you ask? Well you can farm 10 gold from sw or dungeons in about 1 to 1.5 hours. So to get your ascended you just have to technically spend 2 hours a day playing. If you can do that at least try to craft your bolts of damask! If you’re telling me you can’t even spend 1 hour a day to complete your daily and work towards your ascended than I gotta ask you… Why do you wanna do raids? What are you doing when you log on to gw2? Just remember 1 hour a day to get 10 gold to craft bolt of damask. That’s not a lot lol, those saying ascended is Super hard to get pls tell me what you do when you log on. If you wanna rebut my opinion pls tell me what you do when you log on, maybe I can help you. Trust me 1 hour a day for 1 week will get you almost 2 ascended armor pieces… 2 hours a day will get you the ascended trinkets and gear even faster from fractals. It’s seriously not that hard and you don’t need any luck to do it. You still have about 3 weeks to craft ascended for raids that’s like 1 hour a day for 3 weeks! I guarantee you will get a full set of ascended gear by then. If you can’t spend 1 hour a day than you just gotta play a little longer. 1 hour a day for 3 weeks is only 21 hours mind you.
I just came back after 2 years and put together this heavy bunker build for spvp conquest point holder:D it has great condi cleanse and lots of heals and blocks, plus it’s very tanky^^ you will hold points like a champ! Easily 2v1 depending on the OPness of your opponents class. The builds only weakness is stun trap ranger because they stun and apply condi, or technically any class that stuns and applies heavy condi. Normal stunner like hammer warrior are no thread because they can’t burst you down even if they stun you, and heavy condi classes also cannot burst you down without stun because you can cleanse:D sigil of purity and energy with pistol shield, Dolyak sigil if bunkering on your own or mercy sigil if holding points in groups:D enjoy being an annoyance! The purpose of this build is to hold a point with your team Color on it and to stall at least 1 person, the more the merrier:D don’t bunk opposite coloured points unless you are bunkering 2v1 if not its just a waste of time because you can’t kill anyone with this build haha. It’s good for courtyard too to rush into enemy lines to break the group! Utilities healing turret, bomb kit tool kit and that elixir that converts conditions into boons and supply crate! Have fun bunkering:D traits are alchemy tools and explosives if I’m not wrong ! Just pick all the most tanky ones
So people complaining want the raid reward skins for free? Lols this is just ridiculous, everyone and everything has a purpose in life. The raid reward skins were created to be raid rewards. If it would be given out for free it might as well not exist. So you want all skins to be available to everyone for free? I’m not one to complain, I’ve been pvping since the launch of gw2 and believe me it was not as rewarding as it is now.. Are you suggesting you want raids to have no rewards? How can challenging content be rewarding without an exclusive reward? It’s like the legendaries now the people have been complaining about, it’s not legendary if everyone and their Mom has one because people can buy it with gold. They shouldn’t have called the raid rewards legendaries than people wouldn’t complain so much, just call it raid rewards. And again what is with people saying ascended gear takes months and months to obtain? They must be playing a diff game from me because on Monday I got an ascended weapon box from pvp on Wednesday I got armor box from fractals and just today I got another weapon box. In that time I’ve crafted bolt of damask Everyday and crafted a piece of ascended chest piece for cheap. Not to mention the tons of ascended rings I got. What game are you playing that ascended gear takes months and months to get. Maybe you’re not playing the game at all?
So what exactly is it you want? The devs made raids. Ascended gear is recommended not compulsory. Even though it’s not compulsory you complain that human nature will make it a requirement. So you refuse to get ascended gear. You refuse to find friends willing to do it with you in exotic. You assume everyone is a kitten and will require you to have gear checks. What is it that you want? If you have a problem with everything and everyone than maybe you should ask yourself are you the problem. It’s a game! Raids have a difficulty which recommends ascended! Stop being a kitten about it, if you don’t want to get ascended gear, don’t get it! Find a group willing to take you in with exotic or get some friends, or don’t even do raids at all! Stop asking for change to suit your own wants. If it’s that bad just imagine the devs didn’t recommend ascended gear in the first place! Than you won’t have to worry about it. Pls don’t be a baby, you say you are not asking to have stuff given to you for free and yet you cannot adapt and work for what you want. Come on raids are not breastmilk! It’s carton milk you have to go to the supermarket to buy!
Come on ascended is not hard to get, I’ve gotten ascended from dungeon drops, from pvp chest, from fractals. I’ve only nvr gotten it from world bosses because I don’t do any of them. They are practically thrown in your face! Why are people complaining about it! If you don’t even have 1 ascended piece you probably are new or haven’t been playing the game.
I don’t get what people complaining about ascended gear are complaining about. 1. It’s only a small increase in stats mainly from trinkets and weapons. 2. It’s really not that hard or Long to get as some have claimed (114 days or so is just not true) unless you decide not to do any kind of challenging pve other than grinding world bosses and crafting. Come on you can get ascended armor and weapon drops from high lvl fractals, and to do fractal 49 you don’t even need 1 piece of ascended armor, just trinkets and a weapon. If you haven’t done to some extend or have no interest in fractals the past 3 years who are you to be complaining about raids? Raids will be harder than fractals FYI if fractals wasn’t your thing raids probably won’t be either. 3. Even if you don’t do fractals Its still so easy to get at least ascended trinkets and a weapon or 2, than just mix in exotic armor, the armor itself doesn’t give a significant increase anyways. It’s won’t even take that Long probably 1 to 1.5 weeks tops? If you have done even lower lvl fractals any above 10 you will also get ascended trinkets. Again raids will be harder than fractals, if you haven’t even done fractals above 10 I don’t think you should be complaining about raids. 4. Raids are not for people who just grind gold from world bosses or farm silver waste 90% of their game time, raids are not for everybody, they are gw2’s endgame content. If you think you are entitled to have raids served to you on a platter you are being ridiculous. However for most people if you have at least attempted to casually do fractals above 10 you will have at least a few ascended trinkets and you can fill in the gaps with pristine relics. 5. Those saying you will need multiple ascended sets or for different instances, I just wanna ask how do you know? You can simply bring 2 exotic sets and a main ascended set for the challenging parts. For example bringing zerker exotic for trash mobs. Tldr: If you complain about ascended you probably have not done much pve in gw2 or are totally new to the game, which means you shouldn’t be complaining. Seriously ascended is no big deal, I myself have only 3 ascended armor pieces crafted which took 12 days to get 12 bolts of damask and about 70 gold in all. Trinkets and stuff from fractals or guild commendations. I’m casual but I do my fair share of pve and I work to do more challenging content. Don’t expect raids to just be handed to you on a plate so you can get your tasty raid rewards. It’s insulting to other pvers who actually put in effort.
Who cares about conquest Lols been conquesting for more than 2 years now, action pack awesomeness pls something between wvw and spvp not as large as the former but not as small as the latter
so after awhile pvping I no longer care about points or wins or balance, I suggest to pls implement a sort of nvr ending 10v10 or 15v15 for a NON STOP ACTION PACKED adventure! Maybe the game mode will have objectives to prevent zerging like the catapult from battle of kyhlo or the cannon from the raid on Capricorn match Lols. The purpose people join will just be to kill others aww yis! Some might say that’s where wvw excels in but wvw often doesn’t give me enough action where I don’t lag to death in 30v 30 battles or get holed up in a castle. I give this suggestion because from my pvp experience many people just like to kill people no one cares about objectives! Me being one of them ty for reading
You have played 8000 matches and still have not reached enlightenment of the way gw2 PvP works, probably a slow learner. A hint (build wars 2) you can’t play 1 class and expect to win all
Oh yes I agree great sword mesmers are turrets weakness too lols, BTW I’m not supporting nerfs of any kind or balance of any kind, I find OP classes are a bound to be in games and there will NVR be 100% balance
Maybe OP is not the right word to use in gw2 as it can’t be defined, but an OP class to me would be low skill high reward and needing high skill to counter low skill, and in MY own opinion turret engineer is one of them. Sure I get beaten 1v1 once in awhile but it doesn’thappen too ooften, when I play a build knowing I don’t have to worry about majority of classes who attack me and am sure I can win with 1 hand holding a cup or coffee to me that’s OP. But that’s all just my opinion