The devs don’t make content only for people to skip. Nonetheless, all content gets skipped, or do you believe that everybody is really doing everything in the game. The idea is to make enough content that everybody has something they will enjoy doing, and can skip the stuff they don’t enjoy.
I don’t mind you saying that the notion as you put it is foolish. It was, after all, your notion, and nowhere near what I wrote.
You are right of course in that content do get skipped, like speed running dungeons. My sentiment there is simply that people, some of them, just can’t get into the content, despite them wishing to do so, due to insufficient time or opportunity. It’s one thing if people skip because they want quick rewards, or they are bored or uninterested in doing a content, because thats their choice. but if they want to and they can’t… well i just feel its better for devs to actually pace it so that the most number of people can partake in the content. Or, just make it permanent :P
I don’t think it can get worse than already is.
Spending hours farming regular coffers and opening them hoping to get a ticket is grinding.
Doing some (different and hard) tasks for some npcs in chain and getting a ticket after finishing it is not.
I agree. The ridiculous luck/randomness factor is getting out of hand, to the point that i DREAD that they might make new weaponskins that i would actually be interested in. I’d be raging mad as hell if i see some mouth watering weaponskin put behind similiar rng.
Yes doing different, challenging tasks is a better option though i foresee the debate would then move to the subjective nature of the difficulty threshold. but i spose that can be mitigated by multiple achievement choices where we can pick ones we are able to do, as is the case with some LS elements now.
ps- thousands of coffers→ 0 tickets, bought a few rich coffers (using gold) just to test→same result as normal coffer. i regret giving even this miniscule support to the matter.
My personal preference would be Kralkatorrik first (crysal desert, such a mysterious place
), Jormag (because i like norn) followed by Primordius (also an asura fan, plus might give info on dwarves).
Darkace said my main complaint.
Don’t forget the Elder Dragons.
I read the books. I want to kill the Elder dragons. Fact is no GW1 player wants to stay in Tyria forever. We want to see what has become of Elona and Cantha.
My suggestion. Start advancing the main story. Do NOT wait for an expansion to let us take out another Dragon. Use the Living world to advance the story and then when you add permanent content let it be the next area where we will take on another Dragon.
in regards to “story”… you just said exactly what i was thinking
I opened over 4k of the regular coffers and didn’t get a single ticket, but I’m usually unlucky so I’m not really surprised x)
I’m ok with skins being rare, but being rare because they are entirely based on RNG is not that good IMO… I would like it better if they were rare because it would take a lot of effort to get them and, since they are acc. bound, only people that really worked hard for them would have them. That would be awesome.
beware with saying ‘a lot of effort’. some might take that as either a request for grinding or would say that going thru the silly RNG as effort hehe but seriously, yea agrees with this.
LIMITED EDITION ITEMS
What i liked about GW1 was that even super rare stuff were still available somehow to obtain. Lately in GW2 iam seeing the trend of special items droping during events and then gone forever. I know you want to keep them special for the people that participated in this event but thats what achievement rewards are for right? Why not keep them in game as a super rare drop for special areas and bosses only? If someone wants to grind for along time to obtain them why not let them? Spending so much time designing items and them taking them away sounds such a waste. For example keep the Karka, Reed Drake etc. miniatures as a super rare southsun only drop. Or if the molten alliance dungeon comes back as a fractal keep that awesome looking jet back as a rare drop from that fractal only! That will keep them super limited but still available to the world of Tyria.
Ohh if only they’d do this I’d feel less angry at missing out events knowing theres still some hope to get stuff …
I was about to put up a post regarding the steampunk weapons. some are really quite awesome and i’d really love to see em available. always have been fascinated by steampunk
That said, this worries me too. The RECENT weaponskins are gated in acquiring them by a .. YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF MECHANIC. I have yet to be able to get even one while ppl all over seem to finaly strike lucky. but its fine coz i dont really care for the current one, but these steampunk weapons..i so want…. so if its similiarly gated… well im gonna go berzerk.
My top 3 issues with this lovely game
1. RNG, especially on temporary contents.
2. Temporary contents, especially ones with wonderful experiences and rewards that makes the ppl who would like them but happen to miss out (due to real life stuff or such) just wanna ragequit :P
3. primacy of berzerker gear/builds. seriously, im kinda bored at the whole dps dps dps and l2dodge thing. need to change this somehow. i dont fault the players fully, because… well its a reaction to the existing contents
Lag does cause an issue. Especially with the steam launches. But my mosy annoying experiences come from players (stating a reason, not blaming… much :P ) Must have did it early because there were too many people there. There are parts i cant even see myself nor the platforms i need to jump on. too many ppl spamminh speed boosts that i misjumped way too often.
But push aside all those concerns, taken simply as a JP, i so love it.
I just tried the new dungeon for the first time last night with a few other first-timers and one person at least who did it before once, and first off let me say… we didnt finish it. We reached the last boss ( and in fact was almost at the end of that fight), tried a couple of times… no, scratch that… we tried a LOT of times, but we had to call it in the end because ppl had RL stuff to handle.
Where the group mostly died is at the last cannon phase when fighting Mai, and let me tell you after that she aims to punish ppl rez-ing others severely. Most of the time 2-3 of us would be downed in that last cannon phase leaving me(warrior) and another guardian usually left standing to try rez the rest, which is tricky.
Spent hours in there, and didnt finish so I’m just gonna say this….
This dungeon is just awesome! Seriously. Like my guardian friend told us, it really really does push you to further understand ur own character, and despite the loads of wiping, i found that im eager to keep trying. I got 12 achievements already for the mini, but really i dont care. i wanna try this again. and again.
it’s a shame that im seeing so few requests to run this dungeon, it was a bit hard getting groups for it (most ppl did it early, but i opted to do it on weekends) and not many want repeats. I dunno, there are dungeons that i swear im just fed up of doing despite not being as hard, but this one makes me feel like coming back for more. hoping to see more of this kind of stuff, really!
See for you, I would say the RNG was working reasonably as intended. Pretty much what one would expect from this kind of system. But when people spend hundreds of hours farming or tons of money/gems and never get anything to show for it repeatedly and it’s always the same people, something is wrong. The same applies in reverse, those who spend little time farming or just a chance toss of gems into the hat and wa-la they get the magic golden ticket…every time… I have offered to let the devs play on my account as long as they need to to determine what I’m saying is true, but that’s not ever going to happen. I participated in that 100+ page thread about the bad drop rates but it went nowhere. We did get some better crafting mat drops, that’s about it but pretty sure those are on an actual fixed loot table, not the RNG machine.
Maybe it is working as intended for me, but i still say it’s one kitten poor implementation anyhow :p Down into the Aetherblade contents, dragon bash still around and no ticket still. not that i really want it, which is abt the only reason and not fuming like mad yet I’d mind RNG less if it were a permanent content, like precursors… yeah, id sure mind that less…. id still be a bit buggered by the system… but less so
heh thanks for the reply people! most helpful!
not that i wanna be a pessimist, but it does seem unlikely it will last even after the event. The sets are themed to the event so to speak. I dunno if the previous sets were themed to the specific event but it seemed to me more like an overall GW themed thing rather than for one specific event. That said, a number of cool stuff are being sold for 800, im guessing this will continue. No, i wont complain incessantly over it though. I got what I want. they didnt RNG it. so i am content.
I bought Krytan armor and used only chest piece, the rest is sitting in the bank. Do I care? No. Buy the whole armor and stop crying.
Hey i did that too!
But on the matter at hand, its no big deal really, i dont mind it as it is now BUT i do still beleive that if there was the option to buy it piece by piece, itd be nice. Id certainly like it. However i am MOST grateful already it is not RNG.
The metal piece on the legs have been known to stretch like rubber haha seriously i dunno if there ever was a time it didnt do that, but it seems most obvious if u sit down or such.
Just chiming in for another “Less RNG!” call. Seriously. Less RNG. It’s really annoying.
Also, agrees wholeheartedly for permanent content. come on, i can only do new content at SPECIFIC period of time only and then cant do it anymore? No, don’t say “you’ll get another new content after that!” because that just doesnt work. to clarify: I may enjoy content A over the newer content B, or that I didnt had time to do content A when its out, and now only content B is available. so really permanent is good.
And originally all those better, rarer skins could have been acquired through consistently working towards them, without any significant RNG presence at all (with all those things you have mentioned before – dungeon tokens, karma, gold). Fractal skins were the first deviation from that path (and it’s not accident that the whole game direction changed at the same time, into far more grind and RNG reliant one).
Very much this. thanks for stating I am really dissapointed to see the direction change. Then it was all if u see a particular set/item u like, u work towards it and in time u eventually get it. the challenge was probably in getting groups for it (ie: want the SE armor skins sets, need to find ppl for a dungeon not so many ppl run :P ). The new skins is all u run around hoping to get lucky. or rather run around to get boxes (which is chance based as well, though the recent one not so bad) and hope u get lucky when opening them
Honestly if they add them in via the Gem Store similar to the way they added in the Krytan Ranger/Primeval Warrior/Profane Necromancer armors that would be a fantastic step…
I refuse to spend real money on RNG boxes to get anything, however I will spend money on armors that are directly bought. At least that is… Armors that I like, lol… I definitely would have bought a ticket for the Dragon Staff Skin and the Shield skin, had they been given as a ticket and not a drop out of an RNG Chest, but… Seems ANet didn’t want my money in that one… I will continue to refuse to buy RNG Chests, and will further support actual skins.
My thoughts exactly! Really hoping direct gem store purchase! (will be working xtra to get extra cash to buy it! )