Every single one that goes for the raiding end game? Are you new to MMOs?
You probably dont’ actually raid. Every raid game have a cool down of 1 week. You can’t even spam them like you do in GW2.
Most raid game in a few month you can already get a full set of gear. And you only need to run them like 4 times a month.
What is the last game you raid in that you run 50 times and it dont’ give you “anything”. 50 times is like a whole year of raiding which dont’ drop anything.
You really think they’re just gonna drop that stuff the first time? No MMO has ever done that, challenging content or otherwise. In fact, challenging content is more likely to have RNG because that’s the only way to keep the item rare short of designing content that only 10 or so people can complete, ever.
Maybe you should realize the aetherblade weapon have less than 2% chance of dropping.
A group would be lucky if they can run it 10 times and it drop for “someone”. Even if it drop it wont’ be for you. And even if a weapon drop it probably wont’ be the weapon you want.
Which mmorpg have people run the same “hard cotnent” 50 times on average for people to get “something” they want. Hack which mmorpg have people run the same content 50 times.
You mean TA aetherblade and wurm?
Probably because the reward is terrible.
But it’s exactly the type of reward the challenge junkies are asking for. It is account bound, unique, and rare items that can only be obtained from that content.
Many of my aetherblade pug take 3 hours. Wurm take me 1 hours including prep.
In the same amount of time I can make 30 gold and Anet is giving me 1.5 gold and 60 token for aetherblade.
I can do teq in 15 minutes without needing prep, and getting 20k karma and 4 champ bag and 1 gold. Anet is giving me even lesser karma for worum.
You act like the rewards is going to be so amazing for the new challenging content. Most likely it is same as fractal in which people QQ about the RNG and complain about how the reward is crap.
edit: fractal is decent now since you can change ascended stats. Before that people have been QQing on the dungeon forum for a year on how crap the reward is.
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This thread can be summed up as “I’m a casual, i don’t want you to have hard content because i won’t want to do it.”
Actually most of them is ok with other people doing hard content. They just dont’ want those people to get exclusive rewards.
Consider those exclusive rewards wont’ even be created unless anet make those hard content, i’m not sure how it affect them.
There is a thread every other day saying “X is too hard”, or something along those lines.
I highly doubt a majority is asking for more challenging content. I’d also like to remind you that ANet has put in challenging content several times, and most of that content gets abandoned by all but a small few until that content is made easy by some change.
You mean TA aetherblade and wurm?
Probably because the reward is terrible.
Kind of like how fractal are. Even though all those give exclusive rewards, they have to deal with RNG.
People rather do the easy content which give guaranteed and better rewards.
If all the rewards is removed from the easy content. You wont’ do it yourself. At least not repetitively.
My point of view is it’s ok the reward isn’t exclusive. But it should be as hard in terms of effort, so people are still willing to do the hard content. But there are alternative path, which while isn’t about doing hard content it is as hard in effort.
Then why are you arguing with me? Because as I’ve said, what I’m for is people being able to do the content they enjoy to reach the rewards they want.
My impression is you are saying other people is wrong.
No one is wrong. Everyone is just expressing what they want.
I’m not sure what you want is the popular opinion though. And Anet most likely will choose what the majority wants. And judging from what Anet is doing to pvp ladder(exclusive pvp rewards), I’m not sure if Anet will give you what you want.
If more people voice the same opinion as you. Anet will probably accept your opinion. Kind of like how ascended trinket is added in laurel or Anet making guild mission easily doable for small guilds since many people voice their opinion.
Have you not read a single thing they’ve been saying?
why are you arguing about everything to me. I’m not him nor I am you. I’m expressing my point of view. Other people not me are expressing theirs just like you are expressing yours.
My point of view is it’s ok the reward isn’t exclusive. But it should be as hard in terms of effort, so people are still willing to do the hard content. But there are alternative path, which while isn’t about doing hard content it is as hard in effort.
And you can always get the rewards you like from doing easy content. You just want to get all the rewards you want. And if other people can get it, you can’t, it bothers you. Which I dont’ understand why. It’s not like you have every legendary in the game(at least I guess you dont’).
But what makes the reward crap if there’s an easier way to get it? This is what I don’t get. This is what I don’t agree with.
If you think it becomes a waste of time just because of that, then your FULL ATTENTION is clearly towards the ITEM and NOTHING ELSE.
you are the one who is talking about rewards this whole time.
you are the one that want to do “easy content” to get the rewards.
maybe that question can be returned to you. You are not too different from other those you pointed at.
I never said Anet should make the rewards exclusive to hardcontent. I’m only saying why people are thinking the way they are thinking.
Anet can also put the rewards in easy content, but hard in another way. Kind of like ascended trinket or ring which you can either get from guild mission or fractals, but you can also buy from the vendor. It is just really expensive and time gated. So you still need to put in the effort to get it.
The rewards is no longer good if there is a easier way to get it with less effort.
Why not? Why is the reward no longer good? Why do you care how someone else got the reward if what you want is to tackle hard content for that reward and that hard content is what you enjoy and that hard content is available? How does someone else’s journey impact you?
dude, no one care about how other people get their rewards. What people care is the reward is crap if they have a easier way to get it.
A 10$ an hour job looks like crap when you can get 20 or 30$ per hour.
and everyone wants to get a fun job which pay good. Just like everyone like to enjoy their content while they get good rewards.
You want the samething too. You just enjoy easier content more.
And if this game is really a game of skins. Why would I want to take so much effort doing hard content. While I can get the same thing half afk in silverwaste much faster.
From what I’ve been told, because people supposedly enjoy hard content.
They do but mmorpg is a game of grind. After they complete the hard content for the first time, they won’t felt like going back and do it again if there is no rewards.
Everyone was doing TA aetherblade when it came out. But as time pass, very few people are still doing it. The reward is just not worth the effort.
Just like if silverwaste rewards is removed, the zone would be empty after the first month.
and maybe people like good rewards as well as hard content. So they want to do the hard content and at the same time get good rewards for it. The rewards is no longer good if there is a easier way to get it with less effort.
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I’m still not understanding how your journey suddenly becomes worthless because of how someone else decided to go on their journey. Why does how someone else obtains an item effect your journey? Your journey is the only one that should matter to you.
Maybe because everyone is different. Just like you for some reason think this is a game of skins, and not everyone think that way.
And if this game is really a game of skins. Why would I want to take so much effort doing hard content. While I can get the same thing half afk in silverwaste much faster.
It’s like me asking you why you would spend time grinding for skins. Doing content like mining, or farming silverwaste chest. You wont’ do it yourself if all those rewards is removed.
I guess I was lucky.
Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….
I doubt it. You most likley make your money from TP or selling dungeon, that’s why you are short in spirit shards.
Since you should be short in gold and not spirit shards.
I’m short in spirit shards too but that is only because I make most of my money from TP. For other activities I gain more spirit shard than I do money.
I have the same problem. I just give up.
Make sure you install the latest driver. If you aren’t very good at computer, get some tech person to help you.
If all fail. The best thing you can do is wait for the next driver and hope it fix for you.
I think Nvidia are fixing their drivers now. But I dont’ know if their be able to fix for you. Since they are mostly try to fix their SLI problems. They didn’t talk much about fixing memory leak or Vram problem.
if you are using amd check amd site, if they didn’t address problem about the driver, I’m not sure anyone can fix for you.
if windows 7 works. You can just use it. And wait a while before trying windows 10 again. Consider you have 1 years to upgrade if that is what you are doing now.
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A. Wants to have fun doing content they enjoy, and get rewards exclusive to that content, so that people who don’t enjoy that content either have to do stuff they don’t enjoy, or never get that reward.
B. Wants to have fun doing content they enjoy, and get the rewards they want, without negatively impacting anyone else’s play time, because they can do the content that they enjoy instead, and also get the rewards they want. Everybody wins.
They are not equivalent positions.
The rewards they get is progression. Not everyone play for skins. I dont’ do 400 fractals for the skins, I do it for the journey to get the skins. Aka collecting them.
After Anet make the change of fractal skins being sellable for pristine relics, I stop going back to fractal. I already have everything. Which is just a bunch of skins I don’t really care about.
I’m not saying you are wrong to voice what you want. I’m saying you are wrong as it does negatively impact some group of players who won’t be having as much fun, because the challenging content stops being rewarding.
To me every reward in this game is pretty pointless. The most rewarding thing is the journey and progression.
and I dont’ have a problem if the hard content rewards isn’t exclusive. But it should take even more efforts in terms of time gates or time invested if it is obtainable in easier contents. Else it is kind of pointless for people to do harder content.
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It’s a product of a generation of gamers that is only in it for the rewards. As opposed to people who want a good game and a good reward.
I agree, which is why hard mode content should not be about getting some fancy exclusive reward, it should be about doing the content because you enjoy it, and then receiving a quantity of loot appropriate to the time and effort invested, but nothing that cannot be gained elsewhere for equivalent time and effort.
Same thing could be said to you. You should play the game for fun. Not for some skin or mini you dont’ even care about. And only care because other people have it.
It only coast slightly more to buy from TP directly. The only item you probably save money is from damask.
You can try asking your guildmates or friends to craft damask for you.
You can also sell damask everyday after you finish with your set. So dont’ make much difference if you buy now and start selling damask everyday after you are finish.
You can get better skins else where anyway. Like you can get legendary instead of fractal skins.
And most likely in due time, people will start selling the hard content like they are selling fractal anyway.
And everything gives unique rewards, regardless of hard or easy. The new pvp ladder will also start giving unique rewards. I dont’ see why a content shouldn’t give unique rewards just because it is harder. You get unique rewards from doing cof path 1 right? Or SW?
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The reward most likely is just some skins. In which most of it’s prestige comes from being hard to get, not because it even look that great.
Take for example, while I like the fractal skins, I think chaos skins look much better. But I still like fractal skins more because it is harder to get.
did you guys upgrade to windows 10? That’s what seem to be my problem.
my problem is on windows 10 with gtx 750 ti. My framerate occasionally goes to 20 fps when I logon. (it’s usually 80 fps). And the problem is fixed if I relog. I think another person with the exact same card report the same problem as mine.
I just give up and stop trying and use my old computer with my old OS. I’m not technical enough to fix the problem. And it’s likely the problem can only solved by Nvidia for my specific card and OS.
Saying you are short on spirit shards is like saying you are rich in gold.
I usually make more spirit shards than I make gold. Besides TP, t6 farm, selling dungeon, you should gain spirit shard faster or roughly at the same rates as you progress your legendary.
you can try just buying the legendary if you have much more gold. or buy a few legendary and craft a few.
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Pretty much every boss in the games have been soloed. You can check youtube. Probably except cliffside last boss.
So everything in the game have been soloed. The other stuff probably require you to have multiple account.
For example, cof path 1 would require you to have 5 account to solo it.
But the thing is it is really hard for people with slow reaction time. I give soloing dungeon a hard try, but in the end I just give up. My reaction time is just too slow to do it.
Depend on the agro of the mobs. Some times it is really easy, just do the samething and have the guardian run the far side.
Since guardian have shelter, block elite, retreat, stability, protection/regen utility. f1, f3. So the guardian can pretty much run in and run out without problem.
Some times it dont’ work so well, since the mobs keep following you all the way to the other side. I’m not sure how the agro works, it’s usually a 50/50 if I can do it easily or harder if mobs follow me.
You should just craft it. You only have like a 15% chance to get an armor or weapon box. Even if you do silverwaste you are better of crafting your own.
But if you really want the fractal skins, I suppose its a decent deal.
I think there’s some problem with Nvidia card running on windows10. Not all cards, but some do.
For example, there’s only complain on Nvidia cards and not AMD. Eventhough Nvidia have like 65% market share now. And people only complain about the new drivers for windows 10, not the same drivers which is used on windows 7 or 8.
And for me the problem isn’t a constant low fps. My problem is the fps is low only “sometimes” after I login, and stays low until I logout. Which is most likely a vram usage or memory leak issue. I think some other people have express the same thing.
I dont’ think it is fixable on our end. If you check Nvidia forum, there’s heated complain about there new drivers. And most of the complain is on windows 10. Eventhough there’s always complain on Nvidia forum, it is pretty heated lately.
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People are discussing queue time in another thread. And how solo queue is removed because of queue time in team queue.
If queue time is a problem. Can’t Anet just give people something to do during queue?
Like give people the ability to duel each other when they are waiting etc?
Below is the driver I tried. I even tried windows 8 driver, but it still won’t work.
355.60
Aug 13, 2015
353.62
Jul 29, 2015
347.88
mar 17, 2015
345.20
feb 24, 2015
347.09
dec 23, 2014
347.52(??)
I recently have some graphic card problems so have been getting unstable fps.
For some strange reason when my fps is bad, my ping is higher. Which technical dont’ make sense, since the two isn’t related. But thinking about it, if you have 20 fps, that is like a delay of 50ms.
Ironically when my fps is good I have 200ms. When my fps is bad 15-20 fps, my ping is 250-300.
I tried just about every driver. With no luck.
I can’t even use windows 7 or 8 because my computer comes with windows 10 and I can’t downgrade.
I’m currently using driver 347.88. Some people suggest it is a bit more stable than the other release. I still get fps problem time to time, but usually if I relog a few times, I’ll get lucky and get good fps.
I have the same problem. Need to keep relog and hope to get lucky and get good fps.
The good thing is if I logged in with good fps, it usually stay untill I log out or change character.
They could also try this for a week to see how many people actually prefer SoloQ over Ranked and make their decision based on that
They had separate solo and team queue but most likely removed it because team queue times were too long.
How about the solo queue time, is it long too?
I have fps problem with windows 10. You should check Nvidia forum and see the outrages.
I just hope to have a stable game I can play. Which I can’t even do that now.
If it is a queue problem, I suppose there is no way of fixing it.
I don’t get why people keep saying they dont’ like solo queue though. You don’t need to play it. Let other people who enjoy it play it.
Just like I don’t care about 5team vs 5team fight. So I dont’ play it. Now I don’t even want to pvp because there is only 5team vs 5team.
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You need 3 task to complete the daily. There isn’t always 3 easy task.
take for example capture a point, it is really easy to do.
I never did catpure a point daily before just because I dont’ want to disturb pvp players. Untill recently I spend 200 gold on my own arena to do dailys. I dont’ know about the pvp daily arena before.
I like to solo queue. Just like I enjoy doing pug in pve.
If solo queue is so unimportant, I guess I wont’ be pvping much.
You dont’ want people doing daily AP to join your rank or unranked game.
Those are the types of people who would left after they capture a point or start losing.
No thanks. Solo Queue was just a glorified hotjoin. This is a team game. If you can’t make the effort to form a team for whatever reason, you should be at a disadvantage against those that did put in the work and effort to get a team together.
What you should instead petition for is 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 arenas if you’re looking to show off your individual skill. 5v5 matches are not the place for that.
I don’t understand the logic in it. If you are a team. Why would you want to fight against a bunch of solo queue players?
and if that’s the case just remove solo players from rank arena. Rank should be team only.
you want people to join your match and leave immediately after they capture a point?
I don’t think you want those people in your match. That’s why it is a good idea to have daily arena.
My opinion there isn’t even many new people in hotjoin. Most are daily farmers and serious pvpers who try to get better.
I have no idea. I don’t know much about CPU. The thing is GW2 don’t really require that good of a computer to run. I have a pretty cheap computer before and I can run 3 GW2 client smoothly.
But I suggest you don’t use windows 10. Since I’m using the exact same video card and have fps problems. Some other people have express the same thing using the 700 or 900 series. The Nvidia drivers on windows 10 don’t seem to be really stable right now. I would suggest you wait a while before upgrading to windows 10.
I tried using an older driver 347.88 like someone suggested. But it don’t help. I switched back to the newest driver.
It’s kind of weird that the problem happens only sometimes. The only suggestion I have is try to stay out of divinity reach. Usually my problem started there. And only way to fix it sometime is restart my computer.
Are you using windows 10?
I have the same problem with Gtx 750ti. If you search around other people have the same problems too.
Some people suggested you either use older driver or switch back to windows 8 or 7. I tried older driver but didn’t fix it myself.
Really nice. Hope it shows people that other class are pretty decent too.
Wish someone could make 5 necro run video with decent time to show people they are not that terrible.
Thanks for all the reply. I’ll give it a try some time later.
Haven’t have a chance to try again, since was mostly farming pristine relics recently on alt account incase Anet nerf it.
I don’t know how people get all those money without getting champ bag.
You can aim for 6 spirits shard a day which take just daily and farming 18 champ bag. And you can get a legendary in 60 days.
It’s just expensive. The price didn’t change much compare to 2 years ago.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/30687
You can actually buy it cheaper now because gold to gem ratio changed.
You’re saying healing power should give more benefits “ontop” of helping people survive better? Which I think is wrong, because you aren’t suppose to reward people playing bad.
No, I’m saying having high hitpoints should give more benefits, so losing them by playing badly is in no way beneficial to you. If you are good enough to not lose any HP to enemies you should IMO be allowed to spend the HP to get bonuses. That way a healer provides just as much benefit to a good player as a bad one.
The reality is healing power helps you survive much much better. So anyone with high healing power is really hard to die. Dont’ you understand?
So unless you remove healing power and don’t make it heal better and call it special benefits. It’s always like rewarding people to play bad.
I’m only talking pve here. I think the problem is rewarding healing is like rewarding people to play bad.
I watched a solo video of fotm49 bloomhunger, and the person is playing with 0 ar. I also remember some other videos of people doing fotm with 0 ar. The thing is those people don’t even get hit once.
Which bring back to the problem, the only reason you require healing is when you play bad and miss a dodge. So your saying healing should be buffed because the person play bad already. Besides I think the reason why healing isn’t needed is you can already heal yourself really well with no point in healing power.
and back to your original topic. You’re saying healing power should give more benefits “ontop” of helping people survive better? Which I think is wrong, because you aren’t suppose to reward people playing bad.
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i managed to get pass the 4 champ using bear bow, not that I’m proud of but got stuck on old tom.
I saw a couple of video of people soloing, one is with theif just standing in the middle of old tom and spam pistol whip.(does it still work)?
And another is a really skilled engineer. I doubt I’ll ever be able to do that.
Any other people experienced with it and can give some pointer? Maybe use healing gear ? since the poison is too much?
Is that actually data or made up number. Since I remembered roughly getting 46 from 250 bags a while ago.
If I farm more bags, I’ll put more data.
And I think the average for legendary is 350 not 450. So unless you are very unlucky, and maybe you are, you shouldn’t need 450.
edit: I only have 68 bags. Opened those and got 11. I can’t find any recent data on youtube except people saying the number didn’t change much. My experience is the number havn’t change. Your number seems off. Try confirming with other farmers.
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Hello i’m here to let you know that, when you’ll purchase the game.
- 90% of the time WvW game mode doesnt work (6 second skill delay OR 150+ ping) which makes the game mode unplayable.
I think you are exaggerating. Many of the pro dungeon soloers live outsides of the USA, and they have higher than 150 ping, and actually usually 300 ping. They don’t have any problem.
Your 6 seconds skill delay most likely dont’ have anything to do with the 150 ping. For 6 seconds skill delay you need 3000 ping.
And I find pve to be half decent. Only problem is there is no penalty for dieing, since downed states, or even full death means people can simply res you.
And I actually dont’ have a problem with lag in wvw and I live in oceanic zone. I have skill delay problem from time to time. But usually the connection problem is fine.
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