Try it and find out
Agree %100 on all counts. This dungeon is improving, but it’s still broken.
If paying a subscription meant they’d stop nerfing gold making activities in order to protect the precious gem shop, I’d be all for it.
I actually play games specifically to avoid drama.
Yeah, that 5 whole silver you get for finishing it really throws the economy out of whack.
I hear Onyxia also deep breaths more this patch, can anyone confirm?
The problem with COF isn’t the speed run itself, it’s that the reason why it’s ran so often is because dungeon running is really one of the only ways to effectively grind for gold, and COF p1 is the easiest one to do currently. There really isn’t any other way.
Even if they did nerf it, people would just find the next easiest dungeon and run it all the time.
What they need to do is put back in effective ways to make loot BESIDES this one path of this one dungeon. But considering their track record of nerfing any way to make money, I don’t see that as likely.
Random loot is random. Onyxia also does deep breath more this patch.
Sounds like a PC problem. Are you overheating?
Sorry, I don’t mend to sound rude or elitist or whatever, but there’s no law that says that Anet needs to create content that can be completed by %100 of its player base. There’s plenty of content for you to do; if you’re that casual that you’ve completed all of the content in the game except for FOTM 5+, I suggest trying to improve your game play.
Other games aren’t held to this standard, so why should MMOs? You think in a Madden game, if you can’t beat the PC you’re going to win the Superbowl and see the Superbowl winning cut scenes?
A lot of us (based on people I’ve talked to in-game and posts in the forum) believe the game is, in effect, still in Beta; that is, it was rushed out the door with inadequate testing. There are far too many broken mechanics and other fundamental issues to even be considering for a moment any kind of expansion…
…not that I see them fixing any of the bugs; not even the most obvious bugs…
Such is the case for any complicated software project. Software products like GW2 are never “done”.
This may come as a big surprise to you, but not everyone likes PvP..
Shock, awe, and gasp
You’re welcome to buy me a new PC so I can get more than 5 FPS on the WvW map
Aggro meters will not work because there is no single number that represents a mob’s aggro like in old games like WoW or EQ. The AI in GW2 is much more complex than that and it works differently for different mobs/bosses too.
Not quite sure. While there are certain actions that will bump you to the top and keep you there, it still feels like there is some kind of general aggro score in there.
You’re missing the point though, even if there is a “score”, there are too many other factors that effect aggro besides who has the highest number… meaning any type of tool to measure it is completely useless.
Successful PVE is more about survivability and utility, not standing there mindlessly casting fireball.
What? No class can “tank”… that’s what they mean by not having a trinity. No class can “heal”, etc. No one ever said all classes would be equal. A warrior might be more durable, but they cannot be a classic “tank”.
There’s no subscription fee. Why are you even asking? Just play for awhile and see how you like it.
Nope. They need to up the rewards for WvW. All I ever get out of it is a repair bill and not much else. Also, it’s painfully frustrating the amount of running required.
If you’re not Altruistic Healing, you’re doing it wrong.
It’s general best to read about the game before buying it. No holy trinity is a very conscious design decision, and has been there since the beginning.
These concepts are so old I can’t believe they exist at all in any modern MMO. WoW made these mistakes and fixed them. RNG does not work!
Previus web page, search history ect ect.. whatever.
See if i care answering more usless post.
That’s not data mining, in the slightest.
Data mining is looking for patterns in large data sets. It’s discovering NEW information in a given data set. It’s not finding existing data.
A simple “NoScript” type add-on is all you need if you’re that worried. In the mean time, the website is a great tool until ANet does finally create a LFG tool in game.
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“I have 3 rings so it’s not a problem for anyone else”. Sorry that is flawed logic.
Those problems you listed are pretty major problems too, fyi.
Please elaborate instead of just stating things.
First of all, about the 3 rings, it’s not what I said. I didn’t base any statistical findings on my one sample size. Hell, I haven’t really said at all how many times I actually done the daily. Of course, there will be a few unlucky players who it will take 10+ tries to get a ring. But guess what, you can also craft them!
You can craft rings? That’s news.
I’m assuming you mean the back pieces, which yeah you can craft for 50 ectos (assuming you get a vial drop, yay more rng). That will get you up to level 19. If you want to progress further, you need 250 more ectos (good luck getting that, oh plus another rare drop) or a ring drop.
You can try to make excuses all you want, but the system is broken.
You’re right in that fractals look good on paper. But the problems they have, and they are massive, are completely game breaking.
Do you even know what data mining is?
“I have 3 rings so it’s not a problem for anyone else”. Sorry that is flawed logic.
Those problems you listed are pretty major problems too, fyi.
I’m sure they will. They need to fix fractals first before adding more though.
They have nothing to do with the design of the game.
But it IS their job to check for bugs, y’know, assure the quality.
Yes, and ring drops are not a bug, they’re a design flaw.
There’s no such thing as “PVE” servers. All servers are of the same type.
If it is any consolation I am on scale 22 and have accrued over1600 fractal tokens and not yet gotten a ring either. It is RNG with the Jade Maw.
We are exploring alternatives to the current system.
This. Is. Awesome!
NO ITS NOT. This shouldn’t have been like this in the first place!!!!! Proper QA would have shown that the RNG SUCKS! Not surprised after seeing the dungeons in this game especially CoF.
Don’t you blame this on QA :P
They have nothing to do with the design of the game.
Increase the rewards in other parts of the game, WvW, sPVP, exploration, etc so that we don’t need to do dungeons at all. Make them an optional path of gearing and getting gold, like they should be and were originally designed to be.
That’s the real definition of “grinding”. It’s okay that something takes a long time to get and is expensive, but I should be able to acquire it doing what I want to do. I shouldn’t be forced into doing something I hate in order to progress. That’s the definition of grinding.
Please tell me an RPG that doesn’t have all of the problems you listed? You sound like you just don’t like RPGs.
Having just purchased the game and currently waiting for the download to complete I find this post rather depressing. It sounds like a re-run of Warhammer. Also, I was under the impression the group events scaled in dificulty related to the number of participants.
Yeah you don’t have 50000 people running around the level 1-15 zones like it’s launch day, but they aren’t exactly ghost towns either.
Hey guess what? All of the content in the game before ascend gear, you can still do all of that. The extra +2 power you get on an ascend piece isn’t going to matter.
You’re complaining about lack of content in one of many aspects in a game that’s 3 months old? That’s the beauty of MMOs, they offer a much wider range of content than just 1 thing over and over. Try something new if sPVP is stale for you.
Sorry, you can make excuses and calculate %’s and probabilities all day long… any % less than 100 and the system is BROKEN.
Yes I have to say you are right. But things are getting worse since the lost shores patch.
As far as I was concerned, lost shores was the final nail in their coffin. After they made my level 80 exotics obsolete, there was no turning back. I deleted the characters and uninstalled the game.
Since lost shores (or the final insult as I like to call it) I haven’t even been mildly tempted to play again.
If you love grind ( I do not) there’s lots of Korean grinders out there that are way more fun anyway. The joke’s on them, because they’ll get no cash shop purchases from me now.
The “final” nail in their coffin? lol
1 content patch and game = dead? Yeah right. And exotics are obsolete? Good job trying to find an ascend chest piece.
It’s not always QA’s fault. Software development is a complex process. If you found a bug within a few minutes, you can bet almost always QA did too. However, QA can’t fix the bugs.
you don’t QA after RTM. You QA before RTM.
Did you read my post in its entirety? The bugs were probably mostly found, but not fixed before the release. This happens, especially in a scrum development process, like an mmo.
They’ve already acknowledged this as a problem. It’ll get fixed.
Just because bugs are in the game are not the fault of QA. The bugs probably were found, but either weren’t fixed in the release build, or the fixes didn’t have enough time to be verified, or some manager decided the bug wasn’t game breaking enough to delay the update.
It’s not always QA’s fault. Software development is a complex process. If you found a bug within a few minutes, you can bet almost always QA did too. However, QA can’t fix the bugs.
Had several dc’s with party members and even 2 game kicks that was party wide in the Charr fractal. I can’t believe this hasn’t been fixed yet or atleast given us an update on when it should be…
Never have this problem ……
And we’re talking to people that are above lvl 2 that actually play fractals. It’s a blatant lie if you are past that point and haven’t seen this occur.
I do fractal runs every time I play and go way above Lvl 2 and not once have I nor any of my party members have DC’d or kicked. Join a guild, it will save you time. Hades Death Crusaders is an awesome one. Located in Borlis Pass.
Then you’re just lucky. Guild members can disconnect too.
About 2 weeks, no ring, no progression. I guess my time isn’t as valuable.
Why would people think this game was dieing when the servers are packed? They have already stated that GW2 has surpassed all expectations from a selling point. Not to mention that the jan and feb updates sound great and will get even more people to play. Game is going to be well funded for a long long time.
Because they want to complain about 1 thing, so therefore the entire game is doomed. People are still saying that “this patch will kill WoW”.
These aren’t just bad luck or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s no such thing as a completely random loot table algorithm, people suggesting that really don’t know the inner workings of mathematics in their current state. Mathematically, we have been unable to produce an equation that is completely randomized and they definitely do not use such algorithms in games like these, so when it comes to loot there is always a manipulation of +-. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about.
While it is true that computers can’t make completely random samples, the number of iterations you’d have to go through in order to prove that it’s not random is much, much, much higher than any 1 player could ever sample. Even then, it’s still mostly random. What people notice is when the ’s actually change, i.e. going from a 50 probability to 25%. To blame the dye roll on the lack of “randomness” that a computer is able to achieve doesn’t mean very much.
I give this game another three months before NCsoft realises there’s something wrong and cuts funding to it. After a year, it’ll be on life support. By its second year it’ll go the way of CoH.
It’s kind of funny that you made the comparison. CoH struggled with subscriptions specifically because they had no vertical progression.
While it’s true that maybe 15 years from now, there won’t be a GW2, if you think any company is going to immediately trash a mostly good product that they spent millions developing because a few kids don’t like 1 thing about it, you’re living in a fantasy land.
No more WvW in monthly then.
WvW isn’t a “huge” aspect of the game, it’s 1 aspect of many.
It’s a mechanic that’s a decade too old and completely not fun. They need to fix, asap
Also in the same boat.
2 weeks of daily chests, no ring, can’t progress further into FOTM. THIS IS NOT GOOD DESIGN
Everything was awesome until Fractals. RNG gating mechanics for progression are not fun.
That “higher number” from the ring is the agony resists, it’s needed to progress. I don’t need anything else to progress but this one stupid resist for a ring that won’t drop.
we have identified a problem with our higher scaling chests that we are working on.
While you’re working on that, increase the drop rate for rings in the 10-18 tier.
I sure would love to progress further in FOTM, but this gate is just not fun. Almost 2 weeks of daily runs with nothing to show for it.