Well a full HB does the most dmg, combine that with axe-mace for sustain dmg as soon as HB ran to it’s end.
Never use axe ‘5’ the dmg is crap.
For single target dmg, maybe greatsword – riffle the most dmg?
You want to have adrenalin at 100% most of the time, using a weapon set that has a “usefull” burstskill would mean you have to either waste potential in not using the burstskill or wasting the 12% more dmg you get for having 100% of your adrenalin up. That is one of the reasons people use GS + Rifle and not GS + Longbow.
If they want to make hard dungeon, they should put it on a timer. So people know that the hard dungeon is serious and not suppose to be run in pug. Since the same people are locked up for the dungeon and they can only do it say once every few days.
You know what your problem is? For some reason you think that 5 man Dungeons are supposed to be easy and everything with more players involved should be difficult. This is not WoW or other games that allow such big group of peoples, this is GW2. There is nothing above 5 man groups for instanced PvE and that’s why 5 man dungeons can also be hard.
especially when you have events which require the whole party to perform a task simultaneously, for a pug group ~ this doesn’t work well at all.
Why? Counting down is to complicated for pugs ? I don’t think so.
So stop putting mechanics like this in game unless you actually stress test them to perfection, any mechanic that requires a high degree of accuracy/timing whilst underfire is in the realms of hardcore raids, and not dungeons.
Oh haven’t you noticed it? The game has no “raids” the dungeons are the “hardcore” part of this game. Most of them are sadly enough way too easy.
P.S – are jewelers just pointless now since all the acension gear is jewelry? Also Devs if you want a quick lesson in Spvp with no restraints I am sure my guild will fight ya with all level 1’s. :P Working as intended.
They will implement crafting recipes for ascended gear, the only question is when.
The jump from getting your exotics to legendary is too high, with the MF and its RNG lottery and the DR so grinding mats is harder I think they should have added some layers in between.
Too late now.
Well, they are trying to do that right now with the ascended gear. But by the looks of it the last item type that gets ascended are the weapons.
How many PvP/WvW related updates were there again?
It doesn’t matter don’t you understand it? A.Net hates : PvE, casuals, fun, physically disabled people (JUMPING PUZZLES!!?!), GW Veterans, PvP, WvW they basically hate everything. A.Net is the impersonation of hate!
It’s very difficult to argue that GW1’s grind is worse than GW2’s, or even comparable.
It was just flat out worse. Getting “perfect” gear is so simple in GW2 right now. Salvage some rares, craft your exotic stuff. Do every day Level 10 fractals to get the daily reward and do the dailies to get laurels.
You could play GW1 without perfect equipment, yes. But you’re living in a fantasy if you think that GW1’s perfect equipment was in any way nearly as much of a grind to obtain as GW2’s is.
No you just didn’t play the game at release.
And you pick and choose what era of GW1 you compare with to attempt to make your point. There were no faction required skills at release, or in Prophecies.
Oh yeah gearwise Prophecies until Fractions and for the rest you can take the whole game even after 7-8 years.
The no-res-while-in-combat mechanic has been around for a while now, and I was wondering what people think about it now that they’ve had the chance to experience it in practice.
Basically, what’s more fun to you: running back from the waypoint, or laying on the floor waiting for your team to beat the boss?
It’s very difficult to argue that GW1’s grind is worse than GW2’s, or even comparable.
It was just flat out worse. Getting “perfect” gear is so simple in GW2 right now. Salvage some rares, craft your exotic stuff. Do every day Level 10 fractals to get the daily reward and do the dailies to get laurels.
You could play GW1 without perfect equipment, yes. But you’re living in a fantasy if you think that GW1’s perfect equipment was in any way nearly as much of a grind to obtain as GW2’s is.
WvW sucks – may as well call it ZvZ
sPvP sucks – people don’t want to play 150 hours to get the gear they want in PvE, then
play another 150 hours starting from scratch again, looking like a lv 1 noob.
only good PvP is the [sometimes, when youre not being mesmer camped] small scale PvP that happens in the jump puzzle in EB.
Just give us Arena mode where we can 1v1 or 5v5 or 3v3 or GvG WITH OUR CURRENT GEAR, maybe even knockout tourney style.
You realize that those people might had other classes already and thus only missed a Warrior/Thief/Mes in their team?
Some people like to have say 1 guard 1 mes 1 war 1 rang 1 nec, to have a team of unique classes that won’t “overwrite” each other’s things, i.e. two necros is redundant.
For a variety of reasons, I stopped playing often back in october, and had completely quit in november. Now the heavy work season as lifted, family time during the holidays is over, and I find myself with some free time.
Why do people even want to join those pug speedruns? No one exchanges a word there except when you do something wrong and everyone leaves the group after the run without sayhing anything. I was in one of those groups and I seriously thought they were bots because they didn’t react to anything.
Besides that, A.Net should really give mobs and bosses more mobility, just let them dogde once in a while.
1. Flameseeker Prophecies
2. Gift of Battle is the only Gift I have
3. Some t6 mats, 125globs, 46 lodestones and the precursor
4. I have 100g on my bank + the skin of the grinning shield
Really? I don’t think so. The majority of people didn’t even manage to grasp the simple idea of combo fields 6 months after release. We don’t need more skills to confuse them even more.
Could you please stop praising the gear system from GW1 to heaven? Because it was a much more worse grind than we have now at the beginning.
Gear was relatively cheap in GW1 but the superiour Runes were next to impossible to get for “casual” players, same thing goes for the weapons with the best upgrades. Without the griffon, minotaur, uw farmruns no one would have been able to get that stuff in a short matter of time.
lol wat.
The best gear in the entire game was purchasable for 5 platinum, which was a relatively cheap sum to obtain. I could do that overnight in my prime as a GW1 player. All elite armors and weapon skins were truly optional in that they didn’t provide a lick of better stats, only made you look cooler.
Yeah, no, GW1’s grind was much smaller and was actually truly optional. You could get the best stats in no time flat and sit on them if you wanted (and I did for quite a while). But GW2’s grind is neither of those things, you must grind in order to have the best stats. I don’t like people “worshiping” GW1 either but let’s be honest about what is really going on, here.
Maybe we played different versions of this game but when I played the max armor was at 1,5k each piece (5pieces = 7,5k) and a rune of superior health was at around 100k, same for the sup rune of absorb. . Getting a req 9 weapon with 15^50 was relatively easy to achieve due to collectors but putting upgrades like + 30 +sundering vamp or zealous on it was a pain in the kitten because those upgrades were so expensive ( back in the days you couldn’t choose which part of the weapon you salvage it was luck based wether you get the +30 Health or 4 Woodplanks). But hey there was not only a gear grind but also an achievement grind because some achievements improved your stats too, for example Luxon, Kurzick/Lightbringer or Treasurehunter. People seem to forget all of this horrendous grind we had in GW1 and I don’t know why.
Sure, you could play without perfect equipment but the same goes for GW2, right?!
those people who are “bad” at the game and still insist on using MF Gear even though they get grounded by every mob in a dungeon are just flat out stupid and stubborn and don’t want to contribute anything to the group. Those are the people who play warrior with GS and Rifle and 5 Signets in a GROUP!
No, those are Berserker Warriors and probably deal more damage than the other 4 party members combined, given that there aren’t any other Warriors in the party.
Yes, some people suck at it and should play a support Guardian instead, but stop generalizing because there’s a lot of people who are good at it and don’t die more than average.
Berserker Warriors use 5 Signets? Last time I checked the “optimal” build was using shouts, the warbanner or signet of rage.
MF doesnt effect whole party in this game? seriously?
Are you guys for real??
I know im new but wow that is some epic design fail on so many levels…….
No it is not.
Once again the problem lies in the community and not in the game design, those people who are “bad” at the game and still insist on using MF Gear even though they get grounded by every mob in a dungeon are just flat out stupid and stubborn and don’t want to contribute anything to the group. Those are the people who play warrior with GS and Rifle and 5 Signets in a GROUP!
This is the first big meta event a lot of players will see. It’s OK that it’s not Lupicus hard.
There should never be a lupicus hard Event in the Open World, just imagine the outcry in the forums about how A.Net hates casualplayers and all the “this is NOT fun” topics.
So right now i have a serious issue. By now we already know that GW 2 alienated most of the GW 1 playerbase.
I wonder tough and i might get a ban for wording this so hard. What the kitten went trough the dev teams brains, when they implemented better gear that you cant get for a certain time period.
The charm of GW is and was that you could swap builds on the fly. Here? Oh you want to use the best gear with your build? Well you have to farm for at least 20 days now. And nope cant get it faster because there is a limit on how many laurels you can get per day. So if i grind an amulet for 20 days and at the end i want to swap my build, well guess what another 20 days, lets not even think about gearing a second character. I wouldnt mind it if those were only items that looked better, but no, these are items that have plain better stats.
I never really got into WoW because of this gear threadmill, but atm, it feels like it would be better to go play WoW as they handle the threadmill better at least.
Could you please stop praising the gear system from GW1 to heaven? Because it was a much more worse grind than we have now at the beginning.
Gear was relatively cheap in GW1 but the superiour Runes were next to impossible to get for “casual” players, same thing goes for the weapons with the best upgrades. Without the griffon, minotaur, uw farmruns no one would have been able to get that stuff in a short matter of time.
I have a feeling that you are playing the wrong genre. MMOs are all about playing with other people. You may wanna try out some great sRpgs like The Witcher 2
Redundant argument. MMO simply means “massively multiplayer online”, i.e. many people playing the same game on the same servers at the same time. It does not mean having to play as a group 24/7.
Yeah but if someone doesn’t want to play the multiplayer aspect of the game why not just playing an offline rpg?
Level 80 with only 3 gold? How did you manage that? I just finished leveling my ranger and he has 10g while he bought t2 with the gold he made.
You should complete maps especially the 70+ zones.
They shouldn’t have made them unlocked automatically, and from what I’ve seen, they’re in pretty much worthless locations anyway.
I just wish they would stop adding zones into the game and not including them in the map completion. Southsun didn’t count, these two new POI don’t count. Come on Anet, I like to explore, that’s why I have 100% map completion… If it doesn’t count I have no reason to go there except for the OCD part of finishing everything.
I don’t need the reward each time, just make them all count.
“OOH, I don’t have 100% on this character anymore, time to visit some places!”
The southern point in the cursed shore is pretty interessting lorewise, imo.
