You’re honestly complaining about L.A. and the Achivements being clutter??
Get out into the zones that are being invaded and get a peep at that crap if you want something to be Confused & disenchanted by. No really do right now and gaze at the future of this game. 200 people Clustering over the same fire spewing Terminator robot while a My Little Pony cackles at just how dumb all these FPS clogging Farmers around you are for not even trying to complete the Event properly.
Then go into any other zone without an invasion and watch the tumbleweeds collect.
Better yet try to find a Temple that’s actually being completed…
It’s not really even mildly entertaining even when you are Contributing and dodging and staying alive while everyone else around you goes * splat *. It’s a grindy war of attrition usually with mobs that have “artificial difficulty” through too much CC which does NOT create interesting fights. (it just makes you crutch on stability/guardians)
..I’ve got nothin here.. I woke up today with an awesome train of thoughts and knew exactly what I wanted to do today. But now I don’t even know where I am. What just happened??
Also, I, and my guild, noticed today that some of the spawns on the final assault seem to have changed. Any info on that would help too!
Veteran Subjugators: http://youtu.be/BfnKq_PlXUc
There’s 3 or 4 that spawn in the first 5 Ambushes on your way to the Switchback
(and one of them spawns randomly on either side of that turn).
That skill’s casting time is either 1/2 second, or 1/4 second. So you either have to chain stun them, or intercept them the second they spawn at 1 of their 2 random spawning locations. If they spawn North of the route then usually you can get away with letting them summon the wells on you. If they spawn right where the pact NPC’s will see them, it’s pretty much GG unless you have multiple players all chaining CC on them.
Also: don’t let people put speedbuffs on the Pact NPCs, that just makes this whole issue 4x worse. The best thing you can do in my opinion is convince everyone to stop running Nuking builds and take CC instead and prioritize the Vets. You WANT the minions to keep the Pact NPC’s busy so you have time to kill the Vets before the Pact gets close enough to possibly die in those Wells. So basically: Don’t rush them… :p …the ONLY minions you have to worry about nuking super fast are the Nobles who only spawn once in a large wave
No one should be getting downed at the start of phase 2.
I call total bullkitten on this one. The switch to Phase2 can result in a trainwreck of random things all going wrong at once and the guy who dives on the grubs to prevent multiple stacks is a HERO, not a rookie. A any decent team can even Rez him later on if needs be. The only real mistake in the transition to phase2, which I’ve made a few times I’ll admit, was not saving up a Dodge for it while also not running Endurance Stew…
Of course if you range then you shouldn’t get downed at the start of phase 2.
was that sarcasm? hard to tell and you have a much better chance of living by standing directly under him at the beginning of phase 2
I’ve done both methods with Sky several times…. sometimes everything goes right.
Sometimes there’s a panic & one or the other gets downed (But never both of us at the same time which is frankly all the skill really needed to ensure a successful enough fight)
No one should be getting downed at the start of phase 2.
I call total bullkitten on this one. The switch to Phase2 can result in a trainwreck of random things all going wrong at once and the guy who dives on the grubs to prevent multiple stacks is a HERO, not a rookie. A any decent team can even Rez him later on if needs be. The only real mistake in the transition to phase2, which I’ve made a few times I’ll admit, was not saving up a Dodge for it while also not running Endurance Stew…
When they needed money in Gw1, they planned more expansions. Any MMO, you can tell when they’re desperate, is when they put out more expansions, especially excessive triviality or powercreep ones …. which can actually go in BOTH EXTREMES if you look at the last WoW expansions.
Meanwhile this studio is admitting up and down that they haven’t even given serious thought to any expansions yet. They were actually CLOSER to knowing where they wanted to go with expansion scheduling 2 years ago. You know what that’s called? It’s called financial freedom. They already sold 3 million copies of this game. It took them more than 2 years to sell 3 million copies of Prophecies & Factions combined. And on top of that, they’re also getting a lot more Microtransactions than the first game got in its first couple years.
So no, they don’t NEED money. That’s a lie. Stop misrepresenting the truth plz, to justify whatever it is you’re attempting to justify…
Try back in a few months after they’ve made good on their promises to re-instate most of that Temporary content that you missed. …Most will will be coming back in the form of Fractals which you don’t actually NEED ascended gear to participate in (unless you intend to actually speed-run/farm it multiple times for higher level rewards).
In that case, you would need to start practicing all the existing missions in fractals so you’re familiar with them and thus not a “Burden” to the more experienced players who risk ‘Pugging’ them. (you can’t PICK which missions you get in Fractals, all 3 or 4 are assigned randomly when you enter).
I’d prefer to see some of the key MATERIALS / recipes for it tied directly to Karma more than to money or laurels or some other BS currency that we don’t need any more timegating on. …especially if the Items you bought with Karma were scattered throughout the world like a Scavenger hunt that could only be bought when you completed a series of Dynamic Events. ….And honestly this is Anet’s last chance to make DE’s relevant once more. If they don’t do something soon, then most people will give up for good and all that will be left are the MinMax farmers & status chasers.
Tax on gem Purchasing is absolutely necessary, infact it should really be 100% of the 30% levy…. What makes absolutely NO SENSE, is the tax on exchanging Gems back into game Currency. There should be no tax on the exchanger at all. …thus more would actually start exchanging their RMT Gems for Gold, get a lot MORE gold, and eventually everyone would be a bit happier with the outcome. ….well everyone except for the illegal 3rd party blackmarket gold-sellers who currently have no Taxes to pay because they do it all under the table.
Well #1, you need an Exploration buddy. The Buddy system is VERY important for certain map completion objectives.
But the other thing I wanted to say…. is if you think this is bad, you should try Planetside2.
THAT GAME literally gave me an Ulcer. And I don’t mean “oh it p***ed me off really bad”, no I mean 2 different doctors, 1 internist, and 1 psychiatrist, both diagnosed it as stress induced b/c blood tests showed no biological causation or preconditions towards it. And the only “stressful” thing in my day was that game. I quit it immediately and played GW2 to relax for a few months and now it’s in remission. Yes Gw2 can have some frustrating points in it. But it’s not the worst, not by a long shot. And if you stop what you’re doing and take more time to re-evaluate your strategy and daily routine in it, or just plain old ask for help…. it can actually be stress-relieving.
It’s all in your approach :\ …(yet another reason for the buddy system, constructive socializing like the buddy system is very helpful therapeutic usually)
It was poorly thought out, full of stuff nobody wanted, and probably angered more people than it delighted like a vast majority of the updates they’ve put in the game this year.
It’s kitten perfect.
Yeah I could see this perspective too… I don’t think they would have made a WvW Matchups forum if they were totally against Fights, Drama, Emo, Rants, and Disappointment in general as a form of entertainment / timefilling.
This is not inflation. Everyone is buying gems to buy the limited time items (eg. everlasting mining pick) that are returning to the gem store. The price increase for gold -> gems reflects the increased demand, not inflation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
I swear 99% of people who post about inflation in the economy have no idea what inflation means u.u http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
Inflation is a problem when it affects staple commodities unfairly for the disadvantaged, IE: when any kind of large disparity in incomes is the standard. Though it’s also a problem for anyone who’s trying to keep their “savings” in a single currency. IE: their 8 months of hard work is now only worth 1 month of a Champ Farmer’s effort… (which is only worth 1 hour of a proficient Market flash flipper’s efforts).
And yes, staple commodities have been soaring lately and I’m not talking about ectos. Ectos & Gems have actually been undervalued for a very long time according to my observations. Staple commodities would be things like … Carrots, Chilis, Rosemary, Garlic, Cotton, Mid-level Woods, Gold Ore, Silver Doubloons, Lemongrass, Vials of Blood, Rare Greatswords, Ori ore, etc… Luxuries like precursors or other high price items aren’t the thing you look at when figuring out whether the market is beginning to exclude new people from the game. But these other things ARE, and they had been trending very irresponsibly ever since COF became the gold standard meta.
They actually deleted the last thread about this. No explanation, just moved it to “Trashcan”. I find it odd that this one is red-underline upvoted (I don’t think that means a post is popular, I think it means an actual employee anonymously upvoted the post).
In other words: I believe this is an issue that Anet itself is torn over. Their Marketing / Business people who’ve had all the sway all year long want to ensure that no one gets a roll at the minis that typically require a cash shop purchase b/c then the people who payed real money for those would be put off by it and less likely to pay more money in the future. And the oldschool designers meanwhile were probably just as enamored with the Gw1 system as the rest of us, probably more so.
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Me… personally?? I just wanted some godkittened CUPCAKES
So entitled we all are, i hope they don’t give us anything next year.
Spoiled kids.
I actually said this before the last thread was deleted, that I would have preferred to NOT GET ANYTHING AT ALL, over this slap in the face that we got. But I do take issue with you using Spoiled in a Negative connotation. Gw1 spoiled us in a wonderful way…. a logical way. And I’ll not sit idley by as you attempt to besmirch that. You are either a troll, or a total disgrace to this community if you think you can scapegoat such poor judgement by attacking the very game that made this sequel possible.
What’s to discuss? It’s AP. You can’t trade the items or the points themselves. It’s all self contained and there’s already been tons of debate in the Dungeon forum about how reliable AP is for qualifying anyone at any given skill tier. It’s pretty much meaningless and the only mistake anet made was in having a “leaderboard” based on it in the first place
Well if we’re gonna be serious… that number was at peak of production where atleast 80 of them were artists and another 50 were some sort of “strike team” handling all the logistics of Beta… (and right about now is when Reggie usually corrects me just to score a few more points)
PvE: a bunch of Nexon transplants + Hrouda to do all the actual building
WvW: Devon Carver and Habib and…thats’ about it.
sPvP: well obviously their entire Balance team who don’t do any other modes.
Bugs: umm lol … Depends on character race and whether the bug is in LS, or Orr.
PS: is this a speculation thread? I feel like I’m being entrapped here while just making satire
I’m still leveling a mesmer just to help people with JP’s.
A lot of people won’t accept the help. But not everyone has a perfect rig or control scheme either so at some point they also recognize that it’s not even that “pure” of a test in “Skill”. If the OP wants a really pure test in skill, I’d ask what he’s even doing here in this game?? Go play some hardcore Steam platformers or Tribes or something if you want some sanctimonious monopoly on jumping achieves.
Anyone looking for map completion-
NSP does a full sweep through Arah>Grenth>Lyss>Dwayna>Balthazar>Eye at reset tonight. I’m not sure how many people will be there today because loot is meh, but we can usually do it in about 2 hours.
This too has also been quickly falling apart. …with barely enough people showing up any more to do Melandru while Grenth has failed multiple times (we never used to fail Grenth unless someone pulled aggro on priest and then stood directly on Jonez).
The people who stopped showing up b/c they thought farming Aetherblades was more important, are going to be in for a surprise when they try to return to ye old 5:00pm reset, …and just see an Empty Meddlers. …No banners, no one chatting, no omnoms…. just a few AFK’s and that annoying NPC who won’t shut up about Maak.
Well regardless of the OP’s personal reasons for creating the thread.
The point stands: http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html
Completion of the events themselves is at an all time low.
…And yes, this IS because of several….. SEVERAL … things Anet did wrong recently and still hasn’t explained. Even after getting that Josh guy in the bug threads to whip that forum back into shape, they still haven’t addressed ANY of the threads affecting Temples there.
They’ve basically put Orr in stasis now b/c their recent experiment with it totally BACKFIRED. I don’t blame them running away from the problem now considering what a mess they’ve made of it. It’s going to a lot more effort now on their part to bring back the people they’ve recently driven away from it.
Ohh what was that one guys name, Alpha something, always insisted on creating the instance and being leader. Funny story, good times were had by all…. Boy he and the OP should get together and give everyone involved a nice little reality check on why this can lead to more problems than it solves
Most of that of course probably has to do with politely asking for help rather than starting off by pointing fingers at the content. Maybe other people will take notice of that dynamic.
Obviously no one in this thread has faced the new Vet Subjugators or Champ Corruptors yet… (one insta-summons 6 massive unblockable wells at a time that deal 2000dps… the other is basically Lt. Kohler on Steroids)
don’t tell me I missed the point.
…When You don’t even know that a WvW dev already admitted that their 5 target limit is also a Technical Server performance Limitation that they’d like to address but just can’t at this time… IE: Zerging is basically an exploit that they can’t fix yet. There was never anything intended about it. And if they were to really start scaling Event Difficulty everywhere else like they’ve done in Orr, you’d see a lot more people QQ’ing that zerging was ruining their current super easy farming
Wouldn’t mass farming bring the price down since supply would be so high?
There were supposedly a lot more T6’s dropping on the first day than was actually intended … which immediately got patched (funny how certain bugs people actually like get rushed to the front of the line for patching while some very unpopular bugs that have been around since Launch still haven’t been Fixed)
They’re so difficult now that most people have rage quit them for good.
If Anet ever did the same treatment to every other piece of open world PVE, you’d see everyone move to WvW like people who PVP’d in Dota2 b/c its bots were too hard.
cool, hope it’s game-wide … can’t ever go around admitting that people actually play differently too in each Game mode and what might be underpowered in one is OP in another…
Take the Silver (money) out of Champ Boxes and replace it with more Karma that people can use to buy things for their Home District, like “Growing” more of their own Nodes for things they really want. There’s absolutely no reason to have instantly-Merched Green Items and up to 7 Silver in every Champ box that can be farmed endlessly. If Anet’s gonna timegate our Dungeon rewards and everything else that’s worth a d***, then they have to timegate Inflation too.
Watching it made me acutally more kitten ed.
I think It’s time to move to PvE since that’s all they do in “Guild” Wars 2.
Bad idea all we’re getting there is more meaningless currencies to zerg for.
All of the actual “Balancing” is being done for some pvp Minigame no one even plays
People that zerg want stronger enemies. They want the loot drops. You get better loot running in a zerg, therefore the game supports zerging over not zerging.
You don’t need more than a dozen ppl to spawn a Champion in most events.
Ppl zerg because they know it makes the Champion die a lot faster and hit it’s maximum targets per attack limit too, making it actually a lot Weaker, not stronger
I don’t really get what youre trying to say. What else are players going to do?
Btw there are plenty of non-grinder/farmer classic mmorpg players. They played the game, levelled up, played dynamic quests, played the personal story, completed a bunch of dungeons/fractals/jumping puzzles/guild missions, maybe got map completion, tried some spvp and wvw (and presumably didn’t like it or preferred other pvp games, or they would still play). They all have either quit or just log in for a short time every few weeks to check out new content. I would guess the majority of players fall into this category. Any player which plays longer is either pvp player or grinder (grinder because clearly they would be repeating content they have already done a LOT of). I would like to say i fall in this cateogry of “players who have basically stopped playing” but lol no i am a qqer, and i doubt most of these people bother posting on forums.
Some of us were repeating stuff like the Temples once every day.
And all together, they filled up a nice 3 hour chunk of time while still being difficult.
They brought a huge portion of the server together as a community…
…well, until these last two updates sapped everyone’s will to keep doing them.
The head commander had been doing them since December….
…December
And now these completely unexplained actions by Anet has brought to an end something fun that no amount of “repetitiveness” ever could…
I honestly wonder if Anet even cares. It’s hard to believe they wouldn’t seeing as many of the participants were from one of their Main guilds ever since Gw1. So they were atleast aware of it… So there must be soemthing else going on that’s preventing them from talking to us Frankly about it.
Melee’ing Lupi? Sure… that’s enough.
Kohler? Some days more than others.
Howler King? ….shoop da whoop?…. (It’s his constant ADDS that keep it interesting)
S-Alpha?? Hell no he needed a kitten rework LAST YEAR
Every single “final boss” in Arah …maybe even including Stargazer? … ZZZZzzzzz
Fractals? … sorry I don’t farm infusions. Chris Whiteside took a huge wrong turn there.
What’s her name in the Aetherblade retreat? LOL, only thing that killed me was when I accidentally Wasped backwards off the cliff behind me.
In a nutshell?? …less Artificial difficulty, more Depth & tricky AI plz…
Making him use the Firy blast more often would only make us take one more interrupt or make the guardian use his elite to refresh aegis for a third one.
Well yeah you guys sure…
but you’re totally overselling the average PuG’ers mastery of interrupt timing
Do you do this for fun Burnfall? You are a bad troll.
Standing up for what is wrong, make me a troll?
Well when you put it like that…. heck yeah
But seriously, Anet sucks at Stealth balance. They’ll put Diminshing returns on everything else under the sun and give every other class 2 seconds of Stealth at most. But thieves? Lol… what’s exposure???
but anyone who paid attention to Guild Wars 2 manifesto, or current videos about the dynamic event system, will be confused on why most players are chasing rifts and ignoring the other events in the area.
I’m pretty confused by that myself.
The first thing I said to myself when I went to these clockwork invasions was:
“What? ….this doesn’t feel like guildwars. Why is that??”
DEs were dead a month after release. Champ loot didn’t kill them.
1 month ago, I leveled a ele from 1-70 by doing hearts/quests. After queensdale, I saw less than 10 people in the world, total, for almost 2 weeks time.
At least I see people in zones now, even if they are just killing champs.
They took away every form of farming. People complained about empty zones. They add reasons to kill champion mobs, people complain. If they Nerf champ loot again, empty zones.
Halfway agree… halfway disagree. Yeah there wasn’t many people doing chain D.E.‘s, but now there’s even less. Though there was NO ONE ever doing Champion “Group Events” in the mid level Zones (and despite the Champ changes, that’s still the case.), especially most Underwater champs. The problem is what’s in the Drop Tables of the Champ Boxes. If it’s super easy to kill (queensdale champ) and adds up to be More gold than a regular Event provides, people will farm it nonstop. It needed to be things that had Saturation points. …fine crafting goods, thread, herbs, etc… No bonus silver. Your bonus comes from completing the D.E. and if those rewards need a boost, then Anet will need to add even more D.R. mechanics to deal with the Queensdale zerg who was already Zerging events even before the Champ loot update.
Can’t stack Lyssa Priest…
Can’t stack the Iron Forgeman
You wouldn’t WANNA stack the Destroyer if he used Firy blast more often….
And you definitely don’t stack Champion Jesters…
Anet already solved this, they just weren’t consistent.
I think all Contest Rewards SHOULD be account bound.
Otherwise it will just be a repeat of the Kanaxai Mini that in cases was being blackmarketed for 1000’s of real $USD
This solution is basically the “If I can’t have it then no one else can”. Yeah it’s petty but atleast it’s fair to everyone unlike “Only the richest abusive Flippers can afford it”.
Some weapons just don’t belong on certain Classes. Rangers especially should never get Rifles b/c it just exasperates the average Ranger’s Bear-Fueled inadequacy & laziness.
Some people already think that giving Guardians- a -staff- was possibly the biggest mistake that otherwise overpowered & perfect class ever had happen to it.
and don’t even get me started on thieves…
Then there’s other things that are just plain No-Brainers. Like giving Engineers Maces with more creative Tool Skins. Or giving Ranger a mainhand Torch so they have another 1-handed DPS weapon that doesn’t routinely cause them to leap backwards off cliffs. Then there’s weapons that still need to be Built… such as Polearms so that Necros and Guardians and Mesmers can have Scythes and WarStakitten and an interpretive dance partner.
…me personally, I won’t be happy till I get a Dead Quaggan on a stick to swing around…
Also: Why the kitten is the Plural Form of Staff …. being filtered on this stupid Forum?
Stakitten
Stakitten
Stakitten
Stakitten
Stakitten
E) Because it’s standing in the way of us Completing the Event / Temple Chain
…I don’t even open these stupid boxes, they’re just piling up like those lame Tickets I’ll never use (yeah I watched videos of someone fighting Liandri… Watching someone play “Papers Please” was honestly more entertaining.)
