The adventures are great and there are many other ways to get your mastery points.
Even then, if you can’t get at least silver after a couple of tries, you really should consider stepping up your game.
you will not get to mastery lvl 161 without doing most of the adventures/nightmares
If what we got in Hot is the direction anet are taking the game then im out.
way to grndy and far to little rewards.And 2 weeks on lfg and gw2community ts
only to notch up more than 20 straight fails at a broken TD meta.The epax has brought nothing but anger and frustration in to what was a pretty relaxing and chilled out game.
so people you ask in games opinions matter more to you than the thousands of posts on these forums?well each to there own.
and were exactly are you getting the opinions of the majority of players from?
MASTERYS ARE A PROGRESSION SYSTEM?To what exactly? i grind ed myself to lvl 161 and progressed to TD were iv failed 17 times on organized maps with gw2community
We got mastery and they are the game there is nothing to progress to.So dont kid your self ,your mastering a kitten ton of xp and mastery points and there is nothing to master them for,there is no game.just masterys. and at this point i must say having realized that i really do not like anet or there dishonesty..Your sentence doesn’t make any sense I don’t understand what’s your point.
makes sense to me.maybe you talk different were your from.
it looses its shine when you been there 2 weeks and failed the gerent meta over and over and over.trust me.
its mastery’s and you mastered your xp bar. time to move on and master something else.
At this stage i would not trust anet to boil an egg.first big content release in years and they screwed it up.ye you got 1% going oh great we got raids,but most are saying this xpac is a mess.you grind mastery and master nothing but the ability to fail over and over and over at meta events that were never tested properly and were not fixed in-spite of community uproar.
MASTERYS ARE A PROGRESSION SYSTEM?To what exactly? i grind ed myself to lvl 161 and progressed to TD were iv failed 17 times on organized maps with gw2community
We got mastery and they are the game there is nothing to progress to.So dont kid your self ,your mastering a kitten ton of xp and mastery points and there is nothing to master them for,there is no game.just masterys. and at this point i must say having realized that i really do not like anet or there dishonesty..
Do you regret pre-purchasing HoT? YES
its a bit like dear anet your game sucks since hot please fix it before you all lose your jobs and im very sad.
and when you got a complain and send in a ticket to support they always tell you to go to the forums and post it.
your xp bar stops filling up.so ye xp does nothing.
are you people mad? why do you think they make the achievement point back skins most will never get close to so great and the legendary back items so dam ugly? this game is not about grind its about getting your credit card out.look at the ascended armour skins,thats another reskin job.
I’m really bored with these kinds of Post. There’s so many Posts about the lack of ppl in new maps. Why don’t you keep searching on LFG to find a good map and join ? didn’t you play SW when it was just released ?
Your bored with these kind of posts.im bored with siting on ts all day and searching lfg to find someone attempting gerent meta in TD.So unless your not in the eu or are using a different lfg your talking out your kitten my friend.
This game was better before the expansion,i have spent the last week trying to get the TD gerent event done.probably clocked up twenty fails including around twelve on gw2community ts. Now its rare to even see attempts at the TD meta as every one is sick of it.There were obvious problems with this a event and anet are to dam slow at fixing them.
i have no intention of banging my head against this kind of contents repeatedly but i also do not see how its good business to lock out the vast majority of paying customers.
Why should players like me who only play one character be at a disadvantage?
The mastery system should have been separate from achievements,not another layer on top.
There definitely needs to be way more ways to get mastery points,forcing me to replay the story on different classes ect is bullkitten and some of these adventures are just undo able.
im mastery lvl 140 with xp bars full just waiting on the mastery points it looks like il never get.More and more players are going to run out of points to spend long before they run out of xp to grind.
Considering how hard it is to get mastery points and the time it takes,i find iv been screwed over buy adventures not giving out the mastery points.got gold in salvage pit and did not get the mastery point for silver.
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didnt see that one coming but 64 bit sorted the crashes for me.thanks anet.
The 64bit has fixed my crashing issues,done DS 3 times now on max settings no crashes
thanks anert.
ran dragon stand twice since 64bit and at max settings no crashes before this i had to do it on lowest settings and still crashed.thanks anet you made my day,now i can enjoy this great expansion at max settings.
thought having setting at best performance had fixed the crashing issue but i crashed twice in dragon stand last night.you took our money for this,now be so kind as to supply us with an expansion we can actual play.
shouldn’t be a matter of possibility of a refund,they sold us a game that does not work.
do we have no consumer rights when it comes to games like this?
setting it to best performance stops the crashing for me also but i have no intention of playing the game like that longterm.fix it or refund.
i want a playable game or a refund.totaly sick of this crap
just turn settings down as low as possible.game looks like crap but it does cut down crashes.
dragon stand is unplayable,i was in a group of 5 last night 4 of them crashed and could not get back,i crashed 30 mins latter and also could not get back on the same map.this is a disgrace.in any other industry anet would be out of business. Pay for a high end pc and have to turn settings down to play this untested junk.fix your game anet or start with the refunds.
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Im 64bit and am crashing at every meta event i try in hot. even turned settings way down and it changes nothing,im back in the silver wastes as in its curent state this expansion is unplayable.They sold faulty goods but if i want a refund i loose my account.
Seems to me to be a fair review.if they do something about the crazy amount of xp needed for masterys and fix the constant crashing thats making meta events unplayable this expansion could be salvaged.
There are just some things that need to be changed with HoT. Be warned, I’m not going sugar coat this post. This is just how it is.
1.) Content designed for groups only, leads solo players to believe its too hard. For them it is.
Difficulty for the new zones needs to be toned much lower. The majority of the player base are casual players with limited time. This is especially true for tangle root.EDIT: I want to point out that difficulty is not just the problem. Having a hard game is one thing, and to an extent that is ok. But HoT is meant for groups, its hard because THE ENTIRE EXPAC was designed for a 5+ man group. People going at the game solo or leveling at their own pace are going to come up against unfair situations where they will just get their face pushed in because they are traveling alone. This is not an issue of difficulty at this point, but impossibility.
There is no disclaimer in the game that warns you about this. Solo players are and will be punished in this game and sometimes that is mistaken as “difficulty.” This type of design is bad design, because solo players are a large segment of the playerbase. Sometimes players want to grow at their own pace and don’t want to be held back or left behind by other players. Grouping brings its own set of social rules and sometimes can greatly extend a player’s time to complete an objective to far more than they have to play.
If you want hard content, go play the raids or high level fractals. This goes for grouping. Some players like to group for GROUP content, but want to level at their own pace. I don’t want to sit there for 15mins with someone who is bad at jumping puzzles waiting at the boss while they take forever to complete it, do you? HOT forces these situations.
So read the above, please don’t assume my gripe is on difficulty alone. The issue is more complex and needs to be addressed.
2.) Hero Point difficulty needs to be toned down
People don’t like the personal progression of their hero tied to groups or requiring friends/begging for help. Some of these 5 man hero point bosses that ares gated behind mastery requirements and/or jumping puzzles need to go or be nerfed to hell. Having hard content is fine, having that hard content gating players from personal growth towards their elite spec is not cool.3.) Ranger Pet location for some pets needs to change
Rangers already cried bloody murder over this. Pets that impact your playstyle by a large margin should not be locked behind 3 hour pve events. What about WvWer’s who will NEVER gain access to these pets due to how horrible their acquisition is?4.) Mastery system needs a review
The system is a total and catastrophic failure, forcing people to grind in silly ways just to do the content they like. Example is fractal mastery and people being unable to get enough agony resist because the fractal vendor with +7 infusions is tied to a generic experience bar and they didn’t grind out enough CoE P1 to get it. This system is so monumentally bad (starwars NGE level of bad), I have no idea how to “undo” the damage it wrought.One way I can think to improve the mastery system is to tie mastery acquisition to a specific achievement instead of an XP grind bar. For example, fractal mastery can be tied to completing fractals. Pact mastery can be tied to completing group events.
The idea is to advance players in masteries based on the content they do, not to lock them out of the content they like with a mindless grind and XP bar. Imagine fractal players, who have to sit there and farm CoE p1 just so they can do higher fractals? That’s silly. Who thought of this?
5.) Rewards need to be better
There just needs to be better rewards to incentivize players into doing content like Dragon’s Stand and Tangle Root’s meta. Sitting there for 3hrs for a box of greens is not going to cut it anymore. Even the professional reviewers ripped the game for this. Rewards suck, they have always sucked. Now that content is harder and takes more time, that needs to change. It’s silly how many people are in SW still chest running because the HoT rewards are so terrible.6.) Dead content needs to be put into a incentivizing rotation
Do you see people in dry top? I don’t. Good luck getting mawdrey or amberite weapons now. Something needs to be done to funnel people into dead zones to complete the meta. Make a weekly quest with a good reward and have that quest go and complete the meta for these zones to get players to do this content.7.) Get a better balance team
Everyone can agree, it took the balance team forever to get game balance decent prior to the new specialization system. Even since then, its been a nightmarish mess of failed tournaments and low twitch views in PvP. Classes are so horribly imbalanced in PVP, PVE, and WvW. Certain classes just suck at certain content (like thief outside of D/P).8.) Get your class roles and visions straight
WTF is going on with healing? You state how zerker meta won’t cut it, introduce healers, then fill the game with timed bosses that enforce even more zerk? Whhhhhuuuuuuuuttt? I just head desk so hard looking at this.9.) Your communication with the community/fanbase sucks, fix it
Alot of players didn’t see these sweeping changes coming and weren’t warned about the difficulty or the 400 hero points. If you told us about the 400 HP, we could have told you it was a s——-y idea to begin with. Communication and morale is at an all time low. You guys rip entire systems out of the game and barely give us notice, leading to so much wasted time and progression. Like look at all the guilds that whose contribution points became useless because the announcement was made so late. Was anything learned after the fractured update?You need a public test server. So much of this stuff can be fixed with simple community input. Instead you hide everything from us, like we are some sort of evil gremlins that will steer the game wrong with our protests. It’s better to hear it from us early and be open; rather than watch the professional reviewers tear HoT apart like they are doing now while are all going “we told you so” or “we could have helped.”
Agree 100% the games a mess and need fixed.
5 times out of 6 i have crashed right at the end off dragons stand in the last two days, that’s 10 hours totally wasted plus the xp lost on the boosters bought from the gem store to help with the mastery grind.
twice yesterday i got a game crash in dragon stand when motormouth was at 5% health.
then a network error when trying to get back on the right map and from the anger and sudden appearance of tags on a map with no meta progress it looked like the whole map crashed.
i paid for the expansion, maybe over paid, now to lesson the horrible grind i pay again for xp boosters. i suspect this was anets plan all along with masterys.
your grinding millions of xp for features other mmo s give included in the price of the expansion. this is a sick joke at players expense we paid for the expansion then need grind out 11.4 million xp for auto loot and pay again for xp boosters to lessen the grind.
You get the mastery points then you need grind out millions of xp to use them to unlock features you payed for when you bought the expansion. Anet take us for fools and next expansion we might get to unlock the ability to use mounts for 100million xp. plus the cost of the expansion.
Are you saying you want more grind than we got or less? because i hate the mastery grind system.
its still just a grind fest. features that should have came included with our purchase of hot like auto loot and gliding ect being passed of as masterys we need grind millions of xp to unlock.maybe they will add mounts next expansion and we can grind out the mastery to use them. 2/10
What has auto loot got to do with character progression? in my opinion auto loot should not be locked behind this mastery fiasco aka grind.And crafting does not give xp for masterys. Is this system not realy about selling the xp buffs on the gem store no one bought before HOT?
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What is this madness? Are players honestly going to grind out 11.4 million XP for auto loot? that should have been a feature. We buy the game and then spend weeks/months grinding for the privilege to use the features in it.
i think anet might have under estimated how thinly spread the population would be with so many events going on at the same time over the different maps.
the constant crashing is driving me nuts.cant make progress on any meta events in hot.
i have went from maybe once a week crashing to 5-6 times a day since hot launched.
Anets change in direction from no grind to excessive grind has been a big disappointment. I just cant get my head round this big change in philosophy.
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Anet send this patch to millions of players and its kittened then they tell us its going to CA if this was a fast food burger chain we would be looking at a kitten load of corpses.
i have tried it all ways and none work maybe this is some perverted time gate
found a fix!
choose 13….then re-choose 14….char select…log out….log in
does not work
They patched game and its still not fixed. how many Anet employees does it take to fix a light bulb? you keep people waiting all day only to screw up again.
How bloody marvelous i almost finish the most horrid grind in my life and now its no longer needed.And no chance il get that 5mill xp back to spend on the mastery i want.
Way to go ANET stick it to the players who actually done the dam grind you expected of us.Here is your ice cold beverage and a toast from ANET !
They force me to grind 5mill xp then have a little meeting and come back and laugh at the players dum enough to do it.