Guild Wars 2

Both Tera and Aion are Korean MMO’s. Koreans care about fashion and aesthetics literally more then the game itself.

Combine really fashionable character models and hair styles with really fashionable clothing add in some super insanely grindy game design and you got yourself a hit korean MMO.

Shiyo.3578:

Conncept.7638:

“Conquest is a fun game mode that rewards tactics and encourages build diversity.”
- Said by the team of five bunkers

Bunker spec doesn’t even exist anymore, is this a post from the past?

Every competitive spec of engineer would like to say Hi. They’re all bunker specs.

First I’m going to assume you meant Precision.

Now the only time I can see this being used is soloing, if you want more health.

Otherwise you’d use Beserkers, or in the case of Teq where you can’t crit against him anything else like Soldiers that doesn’t have precision or ferocity.

Seera.5916:

heartless.6803:

on launch but keys and chests were extremely common drops in the world. In one sitting i’d usually get one or the other or both.

They only became rare when they added things like, the hair contracts backpack items, and skin tickets. Before nothing really could be sold besides armor dye so the chests were common to obtain and easy to get keys.

I don’t like how it is now, they made them harder because of the rare valuable items but didn’t adjust the other contents to not be meaningless dribble items.

I personally haven’t seen a drop in the drop rate of keys.

Keys, short of the few guaranteed spots you get keys, are part of the loot table. And as such, subject to RNG. Which has a tendency to show streaks in the short term. Unless you tracked upwards of a hundred thousand drops, accounting for any boosters you may have to magic find where appropriate, there’s no way to really know if the drop rate has gone up or down since launch.

There is in knowing I haven’t seen but like 2 drop total since NPE when I came back to the game. I know they went down, I didn’t have magic find at launch that I did now and I got way more then I do now with my 100% magic find, which is a total bullkitten stat btw.

on launch but keys and chests were extremely common drops in the world. In one sitting i’d usually get one or the other or both.

They only became rare when they added things like, the hair contracts backpack items, and skin tickets. Before nothing really could be sold besides armor dye so the chests were common to obtain and easy to get keys.

I don’t like how it is now, they made them harder because of the rare valuable items but didn’t adjust the other contents to not be meaningless dribble items.

Basically the highest valued thing from the chests is a Contract for a hair stylist. It’s valued at give or take around 1400g. It’s only obtained from the chests and nowhere else.

Other then that, tickets and scraps are the only things to generate money.

LostBalloon.6423:

Sagat.3285:

heartless.6803:

micmartin.7465:

Well I am done giving my opinion about balances. ANET created this support unbalanced years ago. Like the symbol of swift nerf which made us the group swiftness (bleep) and just slower when running solo.They have utterly failed at balancing the offensive lack that guardians experience but hey we never have been the killers and I accept that…seriously someone in here wrote that ANET has been trying to resolve our offense…with what spirit weapons OMG lol lol lol yeah I would be better with a level 1 grey greatsword/butterknife skill or better yet increase burning of 1 second cause that will make a difference in WvW with all the extra fire and/or condition removal. I could waste a lot more time on this but I already wasted enough. I will continue to be the (bleep) and say THANK YOU ANET!!!

The main problem with guardians is also the main issue with necros. The basic fact is, the condition system blows chunks and needs to over overhauled completely.

Having one burn per target is what kills guardians damage. There is no stacking of burns just stacking duration, which hur dur doesn’t help when they die in like 15 secs. They appear to be changing how conditions work but if you have a reliable way to generate condi immunity (whatever its name was) then that pretty much negates the entirety of the guardian class as the bulk of their damage revolves around a not so well thought out burn mechanic.

I’m still hoping the guardian specialization is something that focuses on pure offense and actually can kick some kitten .

Man you got me hoping burn stacks in intensity now instead of cover condis I was already hoping condi for LB with hexes like an improved version of GS #5. Need more info tough.

Have you guys not seen medi-guards in spvp? …

Medi guards also give up literally all of what make guardians desired for the sake of damage that is lower then warriors, thieves, elementalists, engineers……..They’re strong for guardians but they’re not strong in itself. They’re really easy to country and very predictable as they give up literally all of a guardians defense.

inc more hammer warriors. Spam through that stability stacks.

Sagat.3285:

heartless.6803:

micmartin.7465:

Well I am done giving my opinion about balances. ANET created this support unbalanced years ago. Like the symbol of swift nerf which made us the group swiftness (bleep) and just slower when running solo.They have utterly failed at balancing the offensive lack that guardians experience but hey we never have been the killers and I accept that…seriously someone in here wrote that ANET has been trying to resolve our offense…with what spirit weapons OMG lol lol lol yeah I would be better with a level 1 grey greatsword/butterknife skill or better yet increase burning of 1 second cause that will make a difference in WvW with all the extra fire and/or condition removal. I could waste a lot more time on this but I already wasted enough. I will continue to be the (bleep) and say THANK YOU ANET!!!

The main problem with guardians is also the main issue with necros. The basic fact is, the condition system blows chunks and needs to over overhauled completely.

Having one burn per target is what kills guardians damage. There is no stacking of burns just stacking duration, which hur dur doesn’t help when they die in like 15 secs. They appear to be changing how conditions work but if you have a reliable way to generate condi immunity (whatever its name was) then that pretty much negates the entirety of the guardian class as the bulk of their damage revolves around a not so well thought out burn mechanic.

I’m still hoping the guardian specialization is something that focuses on pure offense and actually can kick some kitten .

Man you got me hoping burn stacks in intensity now instead of cover condis I was already hoping condi for LB with hexes like an improved version of GS #5. Need more info tough.

Yeah they need to do overhaul to the condition system, it is one of the reasons that zerker is so meta. Plus to condition damage is such a worthless stat for nearly everyone and plus to healing is taken by literally nobody. They need to sort out the systems to make it so people don’t go and stack power and zerker builds.

crochip.2389:

I won’t be sure until I see how it will be implemented in full, but so far i like it.
Like xyonon said, it offers more counterplay by having stacks instead of flat out immunity to cc, and more counterplay is always a good thing.

That is true and would be great if they totally balanced things out.

Guardians have the lowest health pool in the game, and some of the lowest base damage because of all the defense they get. One of the strongest aspects of that defense is stability which they have in massive amounts. Nerfing stability nerfs a large portion, if not only portion, guardians are taken to anything competitive in pvp. Nerf that without buffing other aspects of guardians makes them a worthless class to have as a whole.

micmartin.7465:

Well I am done giving my opinion about balances. ANET created this support unbalanced years ago. Like the symbol of swift nerf which made us the group swiftness (bleep) and just slower when running solo.They have utterly failed at balancing the offensive lack that guardians experience but hey we never have been the killers and I accept that…seriously someone in here wrote that ANET has been trying to resolve our offense…with what spirit weapons OMG lol lol lol yeah I would be better with a level 1 grey greatsword/butterknife skill or better yet increase burning of 1 second cause that will make a difference in WvW with all the extra fire and/or condition removal. I could waste a lot more time on this but I already wasted enough. I will continue to be the (bleep) and say THANK YOU ANET!!!

The main problem with guardians is also the main issue with necros. The basic fact is, the condition system blows chunks and needs to over overhauled completely.

Having one burn per target is what kills guardians damage. There is no stacking of burns just stacking duration, which hur dur doesn’t help when they die in like 15 secs. They appear to be changing how conditions work but if you have a reliable way to generate condi immunity (whatever its name was) then that pretty much negates the entirety of the guardian class as the bulk of their damage revolves around a not so well thought out burn mechanic.

I’m still hoping the guardian specialization is something that focuses on pure offense and actually can kick some kitten .

If things get balanced right then it can be a very good thing. Currently guardians are too strong in global support due to many Stability group generators. Which make them a must have for groups. Limiting the potential of stability and spreading it out can help lower them in terms of support which can bring them up in offense, as they are very very very struggling in offense department and ANET seems to be trying to bring that up front for them.

Depends on if you want large scale WvW then, join TC black gate or ome of the big ones. Conversely some people don’t like that super large scale and like smaller more tactical feeling servers in wvw.

It literally only effects WvW.

I think stability is really really strong. Though the changes will undermine a lot of the strength of guardian skills and make them well nearly worthless. I really hope they go through and adjust some of them for potency. Stand your ground sounds like it’s getting a major neutering.

Though it begs to question, new stability does the stack get removed and clear you from a current CC? Like Teq tidal wave, if you’re currently knocked down and use stand your ground does it still consume and work? Currently it acts as a stun break because it provides immunity.

My guild has a 100% rep requirement, but really the only other guilds anyone is in is [TTS] and really most just swap rep for teq when they do it and swap back, not a huge deal really.

I wish I could replay season 1 I never did it, and wasn’t around for it. I was delaying on season 2 because I didn’t want to just jump into the second book without reading the first.

I did, and didn’t understand what was going on at first. Who the people are or really anything that was going on.

If you stay out of pvp in all aspects yeah it’s a pretty swell community. The reasoning for it is the lack of real progression. There isn’t any real progression, everything is just skins really. Sure you got exotics and legendary’s but lets face it, they’re not THAT much better. People don’t feel forced into some inane gear grind. So the community does whatever they want and get along.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Totally broken, A for effort though.

Player hides inside enemy keep > pops commander tag > entire zerg insta ports to him for a free cap.

Limit each team to 4 commanders, once activated they are unable to be unactivated unless you leave the map entirely.

Commanders are visible to everyone, dorito is seen to all players but only appear on minimap to allies.

Make commanders similar in loot drop to siege lords so there is hefty incentive and desire to kill them.

They now become the single source of battlefield movement and the single highest valued target to everyone else. Just like any form of military transit.

Fermi.2409:

I had 1.5g after buying Dawn. Although I hate being brings, it really wasn’t a big deal and I’d definitely do it again. Making gold is really easy, especially when you don’t really spend any of it.

Mind sharing your wisdom then smart guy? Highest I ever had was like 275 because I sold 2 black lion ticket skins at the start of the chinese new year.

Lazaar.9123:

People would just use it to assault a keep with endless reinforcements until the enemy gave up.

Great, make commander’s visible to enemy factions and give a major bonus to killing them. Let them become enemy target number one. High gain, high vulnerability. It’s a trade off I’d like to see.

Pockets.3201:

People would abuse the crap out of this.

How if it’s limited to maps, you’re not going very far. It’s no worse then being ported to a dungeon only if you’re in the map.

One of the single most annoying aspects of the game is first time travel. Going around and discovering the entire kittening world is a huge major gigantic pain in the behind. So what they put in something that can be used to make it less of a pain.

There is entire zones I’ve never set foot in and world bosses I’ve never done because I have not a kitten thing discovered on that entire side of the world.

Something besides the stupid worm tunnels needs to be added to actually get to your group in edge of the mists.

I’d rather buy, Dusk and Dawn and make them myself and then sell eternity.

The first precursor I get to drop I’m making and selling on the TP regardless of what it is.

Khisanth.2948:

This would be an extremely broken mechanic.

Anything that makes WvW easier to go into. Group based pvp with no way to rejoin your group is a major gigantic pain in the kitten . There is many times when I join an edge of the mists see the commander on the other side of the map and decide it’s not worth trying to get there. Leave and try again in 5 to 10 mins.

There needs to be some kind of way to get around the map. A teleport stone on key places, something. Anything so that when I join I can get to where the group is in some reasonable amount of time.

I’m getting kind of fed up joining a WvW or an Edge of the mists and the commander is on the complete other side of the map without any way to get over there. You run halfway there encounter a zerg and die and have to start over. Can we get some better movement abilities?

This has little to no effect on pve side of things, most people have the waypoints near things anyway but those that don’t have no real way to get to things like boss encounters.

So can we get a teleport to commander if on the same map?

Revanants will eat wellmancers alive. Maybe, just maybe, adding some of these abilities to less desirable classes will make it so Spvp isn’t 4 engi’s and a ele versus 4 engi’s and an ele.

The meta needs to be broken.

Loads of things have slow, it’s called chill. It does literally the same thing as chill only without the movement slowing effect. Both increase the cooldown of abilities.

Stubie.5834:

I thought necro had very high single target dps. It was there lack of group support that made them not desired in group play.

They’re low in damage as the basis of their class relies on Conditions which are sub optimal to power based builds. There is a lot of issues with condi based builds just not being as good at all. They’re not useless don’t get me wrong just not as high as power builds with zerker gear.

Now HoT with necro specialization and greatswords may change everything.

Rainmaker.7594:

Unless something changed and I missed it, warrior is not top tier dps. It’s just the easiest class to play. Meta engineer (3 kit) is the next best dps after ele and thief.

Community in game LFG like to think it is.

Though to be honest it doesn’t matter at all about dps rankings as all instances minus high level fractals are stupid easy anyway.

Warrior is higher then both ele and thief. So there is that.

After those 3 it’s a toss up, but I know which isn’t there. Necro’s cause their last.

There isn’t a reward for winning either. You get nothing unless you win 10 of them. So because of that leave the instant it doesn’t look achievable and try again. Rinse and repeat. It’s an alright event activity, not my taste as I hate twitch fest games, but it becomes a grind quickly.

It’s an ingame holiday event, not a recurring story. Pvp had seasons and tournements and wvw seasons etc. There was plenty of recurring events for pvp.

Wintersday had tons of both pvp and pve. This lame event doesn’t have anything except envelopes used to resell on the TP to make some money.

Yeah I won one, even got top player kills in it. Didn’t get kitten for winning. It’s not worth that noise. Daily has you win 5, screw that noise. You don’t get crap for winning and the only thing for winning 10 is a thing that lets you……buy more envelopes. Not even get them, just buy more.

It’s still a sucky thing, not to mention not awarding the Ram tokens at all for winning.

It’s too fast paced and no real instruction is given to it. You get tossed in there and 7 secs to figure it out.

So far this is the absolute worst event in an mmo I’ve seen.

Envelops cost INSANE amounts of gold. I have 38g and thats the highest I’ve ever had. I have absolute kitten luck and never got so much as an exotic drop let alone precursor.

The pvp is horrible. No instruction given at all. No way to know what the abilities are or what they do. You randomly unlock one and have no clue how it works. It’s such a kitten twitch fest crap.

There isn’t anything worth doing in this crap event with literally no information given what so ever. It doesn’t even tell you it’s in kittening DR! I had to read this to find that out.

The core marketing strategy of any mmo is hypeing.

What I’m saying is there is no viable reason to get upset at specializations. Considering we know literally next to nothing about them.

We do know, that it’s not a permanent thing. If you hate the idea of druids, fine don’t be one stay a ranger. Fine with me. There will be times that a druid will be awesome and times when it won’t. It may appeal to some it may not others. It’s something different and new which is really needed.

Here’s what we know about specializations:

• They are going to exist.
• One may or may not be a druid.

Thats the complete list of things we know about them.

They mentioned they change the profession skills all together. For engi’s we may see a removal of kits or turrets to get something else, like those floaty orby things. Mesmers may lose shatters to gain a new mechanic.

TLDR: The hype train just left station and you’re already complaining about the destination?!

I get emails like that all the kitten time. I promptly ignore it, because the game wouldn’t shut my account down I’m a casual.

They’re always the same match ups now. You’ll always go against those servers now. I believe they got rid of server ranking in wvw.

The problem isn’t the casuals playing how they want. The problem is the upper try hards who get annoyed at casuals. They’re always the problem in every mmo. The elitist try hards get annoyed that everyone else isn’t following the max dps build variation and because of that they’re seen as inferior.

There is a small handfull of time gated events, and for the most part you can do the entire game in whatever gear you have.

Now builds are indeed extremely problematic right now. There isn’t enough ingame support that teaches how builds work and how to come up with better ones. The whole trait unlocking thing means new players just use whatever ones they have unlocked rather then ones they should be using. It’s an absolute mess and needs re-evaluating.

They did mention that you remove some abilities/traits/and profession skills in a specialization.

I’m hoping we see more specializations down the road in the form of recurring updates like living story. So you can get a non-support based guardian for once and go full damage or go for a full ranged specialization.

Who knows, time will tell.

Considering necro’s are getting greatswords I’d say thats a clue to them getting a viable power based build.

The class addons seem to be about giving classes something they were lacking before. Rangers getting druids and staffs I’m thinking is a way to give them some viable support based skills.

Don’t worry too much about pve viability, because it really doesn’t matter.

Spvp though: one word: ENGINEER!

I wouldn’t say that revanent is going to be overpowered as much as people aren’t going to know how to fight them or as them. There is very limited release of them but they kinda sound like a melee plate elementalist. Swapping in and out of incarnations so they may have a steeper learning curve then most.

I remember at launch talking to the speed boon people to max out my Charisma, which didn’t do anything at all.

Then they removed it, but still didn’t remove it entirely. Now it makes less sense then before. You get an option on the character creation, and you get options in a few NPC dialog but thats it. It’s not on the Hero page, its not listed anywhere at all. But remains as options to be selected but leaves people to question it’s very existence.

The problem with wildstar’s endgame content was that it was too hard. Unnecessary challenging content isn’t fun for the general crowd. There is a very very small fraction of players that enjoy it, but reality is that faction isn’t large enough to pay overhead cost of the game.

Alternative end game is the best course of action for an MMO. Having multiple paths of accomplishment is good for the general health and well being of a game. Fractals being one of the best examples of this. Scale-able content that offers diversity in challenge while not ending up a necessity. Because reality is, if fractals 50 offered the same look as fractals 1 the only people doing fractals 50 is that very very small percentage of people that like challenge. Most wouldn’t do it, because it’s not fun to most people.

The issue with harder content, like 40+ fractals, is that it requires substantial gear for it. The issue with content requiring said gear is that the gear itself is a massive long grind. Majority of the game has a horizontal gear progression with a steep incline at the high end. Going from exotics to ascended is a massive grind. Legendary weapons take a lot of time and effort.

Which is why you don’t see a whole lot of it. To be honest I’m hugely glad they don’t. It puts less focus on raiding, and other content as the “thing” to do.

Honestly ignore that whole, only blank classes are viable crap. People say that because those classes can clear an instance in 7 mins instead of 10 mins. OOOOMMMMGGGGG hold the presses, three minutes is a game changer!!

Everything is capable of doing everything. Ignore meta builds, they don’t apply to the general public.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Elegy.2159:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I agree. Asura females should have breasts, and charr females should have 6.

I would legit quit playing either of these races if this happened.

But it would be biologically accurate. Asura are “humanoids”, so they most likely have the same necessary makeup as most living “humanoid” things. Charr are feline, and most have 6 nipples.

Actually Asura more resemble creatures like Skritt or dredge. Both having a somewhat gender ambiguous look. Not biologically accurate but whatever it’s a game.

The entire game economy is based around legendary weapons. Gold farming methods, crafting profession choices, instance clear speeds all revolve around getting precursors or crafting legendary weapons.

Basically the only way to make any decent amount of money is the following options:

1) Flipping seasonal items in off season
2) Playing the TP
3) getting lucky and getting a precursor.

Beyond those three methods, there isn’t a single reliable way to generate decent income. I’m saving for a commander tag, and it’s going pretty hard so far. But I also don’t do a lot of pve, so it’s slower for me then normal. Just wish there was a better way to get the greatsword precursors. The cost is what drove me away from even attempting to craft one. Why work all the way and be held back by a 1400 g item? It’s better to not even bother trying until I maybe, most likely not, get lucky and get one myself.

I don’t want drastic sweeping character model changes, would just like some options on gear choices.

Mainly the sweeping inconsistencies with outfits. Some use male model, others use female model. Winter outfit uses female model, halloween event ones uses male model. It just seems like there wasn’t much work or thought that went into it. It strikes me as lazy art QA.