Wow, I hope they don’t make AC harder, a couple of friends and I were just starting to get comfortable enough with P2 that we hoped to convince our other friends to take another try at it after repeated tpks led them to quit dungeoning a few weeks back. They need something that is at the easier end of dungeons to let people get an introduction to them.
Explorable modes are not for you. yes indeed they are making it harder(really just adding more mechanics in), as well as many champion mobs in the game. here’s a little example of something that likely should not have shipped.
from the wiki for the champion giant at nageling: The giant may take up to 20 minutes to defeat. He has 4 different skills.
the lack of mechanics on over half of dungeon mobs is why people who forgo learning to play their own character are clearing explorable modes. Nothing in AC should be too hard after a few runs. compared to any competing product the game lacks sorely here.
what is a big problem is that Anet seems to be shorthanded on programmers and engineers compared to artists, so when the backlash hits after all dungeons are remade as they should be eventually, there will be no new rewards system, no fix for story mode’s one time reward and no new mode for the least common denominator to play through.
strifey is right, specially about Axe/Mace warriors. EVERY time i PUG, at least two people say “wow, this is the fastest i have ever done this” or some variant of that. factor in my CC with my hammer swap….things like scavengers in AC are nothing.
Groups of 4 heavy classes go through anything quickly and painlessly. mesmer is the ideal class to round it out. they bring even more group buffs, huge spike in support DPS with time warp, group mobility, condition removal, projectile reflection as well.
hello new players to guild wars 2. bags use to drop 100%, people farmed the first mini boss/boss for em and like the next day it was changed. the end.
the big offender in Anet’s mind was the good old Arah token run(use to kill crusher/hunter and reset. first for tokens in the beginning, then for bags later).
shouldn’t have kittened with it just because lvl 80’s were getting some silver from it. at the same time it was helping lowbies and new players get a kittening group.
they should have public dungeons. don’t know why there’s only one, and it’s tiny. i ain’t talkin jumping puzzle neither. an actual dungeon area that’s public.
also font of rhand sort of counts, but i would rather they not be hidden by events, just there.
IMO ban kicking unless somebody has been disconnected or AFK for more than 5min (or maybe shorter) . Kicking can be abused too easily if you just let players freely do it. If you have a bad player in your group you should rather communicate and try to fix problems that you have.
If you can’t kick in dungeons, you’ll have trolls thatll harass your party and wipe you repeatedly and you cant do anything about it.
yep, just like in WoW. don’t get too upset at the mention, but it’s a kitten good example of how the change from a free kicking system like this was mass exploited. you should be able to kick unlimited with minimal voting and even during combat. no exception or trolling will ensue.
ever since they made that change it has literally been a career for many players to grief their dungeon groups.
Stop forcing people to play how you want. Let them play how they like. Its one thing to mention it, suggest and if they want to, they can. But insisting as you did and trying to “convince” the thief to use smokescreen is not right
if anything it should limit the entry to characters of the dungeon’s recommended level…but even then i often take people lvl 30-34 into AC exp. no issue. lvl 76 in arah, 41 in cm exp, etc.
rewards. that’s how you do it. fix as many exploits as possible, and reward a harder dungeon more. also a supplementary(but not too robust) reward for clearing a dungeon entirely.
^ yea, which is why it’s better to push for a useful change in one skill rather than hope they actually give enough kittens to redo all the burst skills and class mechanic.
you feel insulted by my pointing out you can’t make an argument? too bad, your reasoning is indeed bad. also, the guys who rush to post “it’s fine” to counter every simple suggestion made are indeed trolls.
your posts are the weakest form of debate on display today. reminds me of a proposed change i made for tthe damage on certain spear and harpoon skills in the first few weeks. the “it’s fine” trolls rushed in. not much later they buffed those same skills. ditto for signet of the hunt on rangers
keep it up. the current form of berserker’s stance is a holdover(like many skills and traits) from alpha when adrenaline actually DID something for the class(increased damage output the more you gained). it needs to change.
pretty much the worst argument i’ve ever seen right there. 30 crit dmg for 10 seconds is overpowered. really. fury and retaliation are already up all the time in group content.
and by adrenaline heavy you mean you have no point and don’t know how to argue one. you can fill your adrenaline bar fast enough to use two burst skills back to back without berserker’s stance. plus any “adrenaline heavy” build is basically a DPS burst build. no room for that garbage on your hotbars over taking FGJ, frenzy, EP, BC, SiO, OMM, BoD, etc…
but hey, keep on “it’s fine” trolling. you’ll be dancing to a new tune once they wise the kitten up and change it.
fellow warriors, post if you agree. right now the skill is pretty pointless for us. very, very redundant. my proposal is this:
- effect = Gain Fury, Retaliation and +20% critical damage
- duration = 10 seconds
- cooldown = 30 seconds
yay? nay?
Isn’t that uhm.. a bit overpowered?
completely…. lol
Honestly if they just decreased its Cd to 15 seconds base it’d be completely useable for addren. heavy builds. Especially since it would give us a reliable way to maintain vigor with the Vigorous Focus trait.
you’re joking right? “adrenaline heavy builds” no such thing that doesn’t already fill the bar without this skill.
Kill shot build = take Furious trait and/or healing surge.
hammer build = take Embrace The Pain
axe build = Sharpened Axes
any build where you go into Discipline = inspiring shouts
any build where you have 30 in Arms = Furious.
you fill the bar up by the time any burst skill is off cooldown without these traits anyway.
fellow warriors, post if you agree. right now the skill is pretty pointless for us. very, very redundant. my proposal is this:
- effect = Gain Fury, Retaliation and +20% critical damage
- duration = 10 seconds
- cooldown = 30 seconds
yay? nay?
Isn’t that uhm.. a bit overpowered?
have you thought about what you said before saying it(nope)? banner of discipline is far more powerful than this. this stance affects one person(you) for 10 seconds. the banner affects 5 for a minute.
the bad utility skills i this game are so kitten that when a good one is proposed it looks “overpowered”. they gotta fix this kitten up fast.
Anecdotes are worse than useless for trying to track alleged changes in RNG as people will only ever comment when things are going poorly. Of course all your anecdotal evidence is from people having poor luck, they wouldn’t ever bother to comment otherwise. It’s like interviewing people leaving a bar and freaking out that almost everyone you talked to had been drinking.
This pretty much sums things up. People rarely comment when something is working properly, and usually only bring things up in a positive light if there is a discussion about it and they feel provoked to do as such.
For instance, we recently made it possible to join and reconnect in fractals. Prior to that patch there would be a new thread nearly every other day about how bad fractals were because of disconnects, and those threads would be the most popular. But since fixing it there hasn’t been a single thread about it, or any comments. It’s just the general nature of people to happily enjoy things instead of taking the time out of enjoying something to exclaim that you are enjoying something.
Thats true, but why now? why only after patch ppl start to complain about the loot!?
Or those ppl want to complain about anything or something is really wrong
haha, “why now” nothing.
OMG patch nerfed loot! is a hallmark of MMO’s since 1998. every single game wihtout exception, even mere maintenance patches.
the current system is the best option. minimal input from the group is required. sometimes you need to be rid of someone toxic, and you need to be able to do that.
keep the current system as is. you don’t want some kitten ruining the group and not be able to be booted easily. those getting trolled(the ones who are telling the WHOLE story in the first place and are innocent) suck it up and move on. be glad that you can also kick the raging dickheads and other unsavory characters.
i understand, but the creator of this video really wants to be heard. i thought that i could ease his mind a bit since he thinks Anet is sweeping his topic under the rug. didn’t work though.
no one ever runs to the forums after this kind of run. but oh no elitists is everyhere yo, dis guy left da group cuz da group wasn’t to his liking yo! he hav no right omg!
my personal feedback: big improvement overall. i can actually see the enemy and my allies in a huge battle. however i would also like to present some feedback to the contrary:
there are some people who do not see the change as an improvement at all, some think it is worse. i can’t really agree from my own experience, but there was a video posted about it and i thought i’d share.
could have avoided all this kitten if they simply reward full clearing a dungeon path with extra kitten. oh well.plans and blah blah. kittening great after playing WoW from launch i try out new games and have to wait THE SAME amount of time for the devs to get their kitten together and/or do the sensible thing.
people speed clearing CM story in ten minutes? kitten up story reward for everyone who will ever touch GW2..and overtune the dungeon to the point where something like 7% of dungeon groups run it and it’s not possible to complete at level.
itemization is kittened up and certain stat sets aren’t even available from fractals, vendors and crafting? oh well!
ya, systems that depend on other should not be put in until it’s all in place. fractals were nice but that way they handle death works because fractals are not wall to wall silver kittening mobs.
fractals itself should be capped at 30 because the items required to run it as intended past that point don’t exist. clearly you need ALL ascended gear infused if you’re meant to run the higher levels. that gear does not exist and those tiers should not exist until it does.
i have no real sympathy to pugs and skippers and all that, but we can all agree that they should have overhauled many things like the average mob and waited till the full dungeon revamp was done to change it. now we’ll get incremental yet annoying changes.
