Guild Wars 2

GoldenTruth.2853:

champ.7021:

The new one looks boring as hell and it only took the devs 30 min to finish meaning for pug groups it will take 5 min + 7 min of watching the unskippable npcs talking scenes.

Someone didn’t actually watch the stream >.>

I did all of it ill go back to watch it in case i missed anything but it seemed really boring. The worst thing was that puzzle part. I dont know about you but i like difficult bosses not difficult communication with members of my party especially those french guys who somehow keep finding their way into my parties.

Vayne.8563:

And some of the stuff, like SAB is recurring like a festival.

so its temporary? Spring comes every year, doesnt mean its permanent
the new dungeon path took over an old one that was fun. The new one looks boring as hell and it only took the devs 30 min to finish meaning for pug groups it will take 5 min + 7 min of watching the unskippable npcs talking scenes.

Red Falcon.8257:

Disagree on ascended blamed on anet since it was the community to cry for a treadmill in september/october, little to do about it since players would complain without.

Funny how they listened to those treadmill hamsters instead of the whole community of dungeoners who asked for bug fixes and new challenging content (inb4 someone says tequatl – are you joking?). Anet made an easy decision to lengthen the games life and then cited the people who wanted a treadmill as the reason.

TA F/U should not have been removed
That mesmer boss in the path was so much fun to fight. I know the last boss wasnt much fun but they could have just fixed that instead of destroying old content. Why is Anet making everything just deletable?
Changing the world doesnt mean destroying it and if you have problems with the lore why didnt you take out u/u. Oh i know because bads never complained about it.

Cant we just agree that even if rng is random that doesnt necessarily mean its fair. I know they say random is fair because statistically no one has more chance than someone else to get an item, however at times it is disappointing to see that throwing in 400g into the mystic forge yields no precursor for me, but for other 400g yields two. I dont mean to dispute the system and say it is incredibly flawed but (this is if it is not already in place) they need to implement a system in which one’s “luck” is bound to the account meaning that if you go to your 1000 enemy or something like that you will for sure get an exotic. The journey to that 1000 kill might not be filled with exotics or rares or it might be but the main point is that you have some sort of guarantee. You can already see the impacts of the rng system on the price of precursors.
Just me two cents

it would be nice if people who bought a self style / makeover kit in the last two weeks got a free one. It would be like how they gave free kites to people who bought gems that one month

it says gw2 doesnt havea grind in the review. clearly theyre basing this off of when they first played it months ago

Oxxy.7068:

I’m watching the Dev’s video right now, you can’t skip cutscenes, which means you’ll probably waste 10 minutes worthy of doing something else listening to npcs that you don’t give a crap about. YESSSS. At 16:50ish he says “even our lovely group of coordinate people is having difficulties in keeping something alive”… and then i realize they’re killing normal mobs and no one pulled them together to allow cleaving, and he’s using scepter+gs mesmer… and now i’ve closed the video, what a bucket of kitten.

edit: here’s the link in case anyone wants to acquire brain cancer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVtyFap1Uc

In the video he says that their dungeon philosophy is to either teach you something or give you a payoff of what you already know….so then why did they take out f/u

so i guess dungeons are part of the dying world now…
this is a sad sad day

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Where would Cantha be located on the map?

they can do what they did in gw1 which was to have a separate map which you traveled to by boat or something. It was like you took a ferry to get to cantha. That way they could add worlds like cantha and elona without muddling up the map

wait no wall of text? how can this be op.
jk
anyways this wont happen, it should have but it wont because as we all know ascended weapons arent for fractals there for the grind. I like this idea and i think most people do but anet doesnt really go back on significant decisions they make.

inb4 someone gives a list of things they changed: thats great hope at last oh lord hope at last

People always say that you dont have to rush to the lvl cap because….something
anyways at lvl 80 theres tons and tons and tons of stuff to do.
you can go for a legendary or an ascended weapon if you are fine with the grind
you can master dungeons which is really fun
you can explore the world (map completion = gift of exploration = tiny part of legendary)
you can spvp which is really fun
you can wvw which is also really fun
you can make challenges for yourself – solo content and things like that
you can make an alt and experience different classes
you can do…i hate to say it…LS
etc..
this list might seem short but it really isnt if you look at how much there is to do in each of the thing i listed.
Also its fun to waste time in gw2. When i have time on weekends i spend maybe 30-40 min talking to peeps in la

uh oh i cant see the thread….
anyways i did read it earlier and i agree wholeheartedly on most of your points. Many say that dailys can be done by just doing anything in the game and that is true sometimes, however for me i log in everyday and do one run of arah or all of ac. For the last month and a half i have only gotten 16 laurels….(monthly + 6 dailies) its kind of sad actually.

This wont happen but it is a good idea. How will low population servers ever be able to compete in wvw.

i didnt read the whole thing i just skipped to the part you said master of agility and decided this was a bad idea.

omfg lol

/15

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Popularity? I have something like 2000 subscribers which isn’t that much compared to the “popular” Guild Wars 2 Youtubers, and that’s mainly because I don’t make videos talking about how great the Gem Store is and how to casually do jumping puzzles while my guild of mindless catfish send me materials to make Eternity. I wasn’t out of line, either. You demonstrate over and over that you have no idea what you are talking about and then try to play it off with childish insults.

you know if you streamed champion farming in frostgorge sound you could get 100,000 subscribers easy

aspirine.6852:

I’d rather fight him again than any dragon……

that guy was pretty crazy looking. the funny thing is that there arent even that many dragons to fight in gw2 lol. Id rather have cantha than more dragons.

this is gw2s double rainbow

great sab sucks so what should anet do…you forgot to add in that part. I used to think sab was bad too but this time around with the harder mode there was a real achievement in it.

sab trib mode was frustratingly fun. I want to see a kid play that without raging and breaking his computer.

gold would be nice. I mean not every dungeon needs more gold i just think certain paths should have more. p3 arah should have 2g, path 4 should have 4-5g just because of length. Ta f/u should be 1.5g-2g etc…. its kind of boring how every dungeon but arah and ac are 1g even though ac isnt too bad.
apart from that karma needs to be given, as well as ascended weapons and armor in exchange for tokens.

Farran.3607:

That’s not “fair,” that’s “entitlement.”

I dont know about everyone else, but i personally think that if you spend more hours than someone else you should have more loot. If thats entitlement then whatever, i call it common sense game development.

I mean what is this…the tea party??

Rama.6439:

Lucky with RNG? There shouldn’t be any Luck when it comes to RNG. If certain players are getting “lucky” then the system is flawed. Plain and simple.

There is no luck in random.

especially not computer generated random because thats controlled. getting lucky should be confined to daft punk and not in gw2

for example one person in my guild has pulled 3 precursors with just random rares from world events. others have spent 400g and havent gotten one still

If you’re zerker i dont think running these paths are too bad. Maybe duo will take some time but its definitely more fun and probably easier than a pug group. I didnt say all paths anyways i said you can do paths in those dungeons. I didnt mean all
As for AC p2 you can do the traps part by one person kiting and making sure to run over the same trap, that part would take a long time though compared to with 5 man group. However the final boss isnt too bad watch wethospus video.
AC p1 can be done as well with flame embers and stuff.
I mean im not saying it will be easy and they probably should add some three person stuff, just if you want to duo or trio you can try and it is fun. Best thing is to get two pugs and if theyre bad just finish the rest of the path by yourselves without waiting for them XD

you can do dungeons just not every path. if you’re mesmers u might be able to do it with 2 people because you can use portal/blink to do it. I think ive done it before in the harpy fractal.
Anyways you can duo/trio arah, ac, ta, maybe cm, hotw, and se
I dont know if you can do them all just from what i remember you should be able to do paths in these dungeons with less than 5 people.

Father Grimm.8467:

I run in MMOs with two friends one or two nights a week, communicating over VOIP. Sometimes one of us can’t make it, so it’s a duo.

We are constantly vexed by game designers rigidly aiming content at either one or five players. We tend to level slowly and with many alts, checking out as many of the maps in the game as possible. Often we’ll try to outlevel 5-man content in other games so that it’s manageable by three.

We haven’t tried dungeons or fractals yet, and our characters are nearing 30. Are either of these types of content viable for three characters leveling up? Is there anything else to explore in the game other than solo quests or jumping into random group events?

Typically, games end for us at max level, when the content is aimed at gear grinding for groups or raids and is very unmanageable for a trio. We’d like to find ways to enjoy GW2 that meets the Goldilocks test for a group of three – not too hard, not too soft.

You can do dungeons in groups of three or two if you try

What? you think that by level 80 you should be able to get bis gear. Thats not how it works. Stop acting entitled!!

Just keep at it. When i was new to arah i hated it because it would take so long. But after a while it will become alot easier. Also if you’ve already done p3 before and you have enough experience (you know what happens at each encounter and know lupi well enough) then you should be able to handle experienced groups. They dont really mean pros when they say experienced, because if they did the groups wouldnt be so bad.

OP, that was good.

Remember what happened to final rest, where it wasnt dropping enough or it wasnt dropping from the right boss. Then Anet “fixed” it and it dropped a crazy ton.

Aaaah those great stories of RNG failures

IndigoSundown.5419:

Oh, come on, Vayne. The Communist Manifesto? That was doomed from the start. ANet called it a manifesto, so that’s what people still call it. Because, as you’ve told us so often, terms are important. It was really a marketing document.

Actually im not even sure if Vayne knows how good of a point he made. Maybe he does.
Anyways the communist manifesto wasnt doomed from the start the problem was they tried to use the idea on a large scale which wouldnt work. In small communitites (i.e. small businesses) communism works well.

In a similar way the ideas anet wanted to implement would have worked in a smaller game with a more homogenized playerbase, however with many players, like that guy who made the post that he has nothing to do without a gear grind, it doesnt work out so well.

…thanks alot, anet just had a meeting deciding when to release the next tier of weapons.
You can also test out your skills thats a goal or go for multiple legendarys. I know people (there not good at the game though lol) who have every legendary their character uses on a regular basis.

If they raise the level cap that will actually be something i might quit because of. I doubt they will though. Although i doubted they would do most of the things before so…..

Coffee.7058:

champ.7021:

Coffee.7058:

If you don’t like it, don’t play it?

Is that a question? or do you always even on forums speak with upspeak

They might not teach this in your school so here’s a link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

what is skooolll? why u bring that rehtorik into dis forum

Coffee.7058:

If you don’t like it, don’t play it?

Is that a question? or do you always even on forums speak with upspeak

Vayne.8563:

I still say that any one of you, given the same situation, might have ended up doing the very same things Anet did. It’s so easy to be a back seat developer.

Its very difficult to prove this, since we dont know all of anet’s intentions. This is a very invalid assumption

maybe anet titled it a manifesto so that if they didnt follow up it didnt look so bad…. they could just point to communism and say “that didnt work out either!!!”

darkace.8925:

I hear what you’re saying, TC. You don’t like the Living Story, and so you skip it. You do the things you enjoyed when the game first released. But here’s the important question: how long can you do those same things before they grow stale?

That’s the rub. If every resource ArenaNet can muster is poured into the Living Story that means those of us who don’t like it will never see new content we enjoy. Eventually – no matter how great it is – the old content is going to lose its luster. So that leaves us with our fill of the old content, no desire to play the new Living Story content, and no prospect of new old-style content that would have been delivered via formal expansion.

In other words, those of us who don’t enjoy the Living Story have nothing to look forward to. The game is going to stagnate. Where more traditional MMOs release major content updates and expansions to combat stagnation, those of us who don’t enjoy the Living Story content are left with nothing to inject fresh air into the game. That’s a recipe for an ever-shortening desire to log in.

Hopefully the “big project” they’ve claimed to be working on behind the scenes will be something akin to a full-fledged expansion; but given the way the developers have failed to deliver on so much of their Living Story hype, I’m not holding my breath.

Ive been holding my breath for cantha since release……im dead

lol i thought having legendarys soulbound or ascended stuff soulbound was bad. But level 20 gear, dang thats just terrible.

On the topic why did you spend 3g on gear for a level 20? it costs me maybe 30s max

Galen Grey.4709:

I am leveling artificer up as well.

But really its not so bad, what I do is 15 mins of gathering gets me the wood and ore I need. Then go to do a world event or two, sell the rares and use the profit to buy the ectos (sometimes I refine the rares directly but generally its cheaper time wise to just sell and buy) and craft 1 exotic or two that will get you up a couple of levels!

Until i see an ori node in every dungeon im going to say crafting to 500 is bad

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Copy-pasted from my Guru post just now:

Did a quick check on DPS in builds switching precision for the major stat:

Without any buffs:
20/30/20/0/0 GS guardian: Berserker slightly better
10/30/30/0/0 sword guardian: Berserker moderately better
30/0/0/10/30 axe warrior: Berserker moderately better
30/0/0/10/30 grenade engineer: Berserker slightly better
20/30/5/15/0 sword ranger: Berserker moderately better
10/30/0/0/30 sword/pistol mesmer: Berserker slightly better

With all possible buffs:
20/30/20/0/0 GS guardian: Berserker slightly better
10/30/0/30/0 sword guardian: Berserker much better
30/0/0/10/30 axe warrior: Nearly identical, Berserker slightly better
30/10/0/0/30 grenade engineer: Nearly identical, Assassin slightly better
20/30/5/15/0 sword ranger: Nearly identical, Berserker slightly better
10/30/0/0/30 sword/pistol mesmer: Assassin slightly better

In general, any disparity is because the class in question gets some degree of bleeding on crits, and bleed scales better than direct with more might since you have a lower (read: no) condition damage stat. Otherwise, we’re talking a difference of often less than 100 DPS out of 10k+, so it really doesn’t matter. In general, Assassin’s is probably better just because it crits more, unless you are a class like the guardian who is liable to go way over the crit cap on certain weapons.

Morrigan.2809:

As for people linking the LS to the gemstore- all I can say is i have yet to buy anything from the store because of the LS.
I buy stuff I want, when I want it

Its not that LS makes you buy stuff its that its an excuse for Anet to add more things i.e. RNG dye packs, Infinite Continue Coin, Boombox etc…

Farran.3607:

Sorry, Rabbit finisher is still best.

You just got owned by a rabbit.

This is why if you have phoenix you shouldnt use it because the person you kill will be like, well duh i died he was rank 70.
with rabbit there like wtf i suck

Yeah ive kind of moved to your side of the argument that we shouldnt keep bringing up the manifesto because thats stupid as kitten. But that doesnt mean we shouldnt ask for less gear grind we should just stop saying Anet lied because if you say that they are less likely to listen and even less likely to change because that would prove they were lying.

The whole communist thing was me nickel and diming

I would go into it more but that would be for another time. I know cuba has problems but i think there are many good aspects to it. I havent looked into it that much recently that documentary was a couple years old, but i think that it showed a much needed perspective of cuba as most American articles and such, although not entirely wrong, usually paint a negative picture of it.

Go onto gw2 wiki and look up named armor. it will tell you which name corresponds to which stat. I think nika’s armor is berserker in case thats the stat you want.

yup the dye on my belt looks weird throws the whole look off

Please let us preview multiple weapons its hard to tell what mace goes well with my axe without having to buy it

Vayne.8563:

Did the Communist Manifesto live up to what Karl Marx wrote?

Yes the communist manifesto lived up to what karl marx wrote…because he wrote it lol
im guessing you were trying to say “did communism/communists live up to karl marx’s ideals” the answer is no because his ideology (although the communist manifesto is titled communist) was actually marxism, while communism was more of an oligarchical marxism (in a way or rather a monarchy) and they didnt fully get rid of classes.
Also you shouldnt judge communism solely on SU and other countries. In cuba it actually works quite well although they claim they are socialist. I forget the name of this documentary but oliver stone went to talk to castro and some of the things you see are quite unexpected, in a good way.

yeah i know about next week’s “dungeon”. All the past ls dungeons seemed boring (never did molten facility but i watched strifes video and i could hear it in his voice how painful it was to go through it). Also they still havent fixed any of the bugs in the paths or revamped encounters.

Thats not the point. Just because its a minority thats speaking out doesnt mean their arguments arent valid or that the general population wouldnt like those ideas. The general population from what i have seen dont care what comes out just that theres something new to do (thats not a dungeon because for some reason people dont like dungeons and neither does anet).

Mesket.5728:

You can ask me, you know? You don’t need to be a Sherlock to realize I’m reading this forum. Try not to have the same childish attitude many kids have in this forums.

I use zerk as well, but don’t consider myself part of a minority like other delusional people here. Zerk is in fact the most common build. So, kind of the average joe player you can encounter.

Oh ok thought you were saying its a bad thing. The minority are the people who are great and use zerk armor (not me).