Guild Wars 2

WolfOwl.3968:

If they do come out with an expansion, and Gamestop gets another of it’s infamous pre-order bonus items, I’ll kick a kitten.

I’m sorry but I have to report this and call the police. I hope Anet can cooperate and prevent this from happening.

staff guardian is probabaly the best for tagging monster. Just spam 1.

I believe if you search google most will say guardian or engineer.

For speed run dungeon warrior or mesmer.

Flissy.4093:

Yes, but is very situational.

1) Ranger – period. Broken/useless profession, this is not news. Players need to be discouraged from playing this.
2) A second Necro/Engineer. One of these hogs the condition limit themselves, having another is a big drain. I will, however, ask the Necro if they are a power build before removal.

I often kick others for weapon choice as some are objectively bad, but thats another story.

ya I just use berserker for my engineer. And for necro I use a hybrid build so I won’t hog too much condition.

Thief have been the probably quickiest class for me doing map completion and personal story.

I’m wearing full berserker and I just use pistol whip, with malice signet, and 30 point in vitality trait with healing when using initiative. On top of that use some healing sigil. And just prawl through everything. You never die because you regen like crazy.

Either that or I suppose condition build with caltrap and spam death blossom for evade.

Dattebayo.2817:

i just expected way more…especially nowadays at the level of World of Warcraft is at, Raiders, Rift….i mean i love GW2 story/questing/leveling its just the dungeons…

ya I felt the same way. I dont think they put alot of thought in dungeon. It definetly not on par with the other games you named. But I can say many games have sub par dungeon too, so I wouldn’t call it the worst dungeon game out there.

Someone made a poll a while ago asking if people care about dungeon more or open world more. And basically most say open world. So maybe Anet just didn’t put too much thought in dungeon because most players want more emphasis on open world anyway.

Dattebayo.2817:

also whenever i run dungeons i dont see the health of monsters in numbers(not like that matters) also i don’t know if im doing effective DPS…basically im pretty clueless to the things i do….

you can check your combat log. But there is no damage meter so hard to tell your relative dps to other people.

And melee do “much more dmg” compare to range. So that is why people melee, more risk = more rewards.

Rockoe.6827:

Healix.5819:

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The likely route is to simply add new tiers of nodes and new tools to complement new or existing crafts. Since they came out with a full set of unlimited tools so quickly, I’d even expect to see an expansion announcement within the year and probably a tri-pack in a few months.

I pray this does not happen. It was advertised as a limited time only purchase and thus why i purchased it. It it were to be sold again later I would be very unhappy.

ya but nothing stoping them from adding ice shard pick and rainbow unlimited sickle.

The reailty is no one really know. I doubt they’ll break their promise of limited time purchase. But there’s always work around.

I’m on sea of sorrow and that is an unofficial oceanic server. So you’ll see people 24/7. Used to be in tier1 wvw untill every guild jump ship to another server. So the server is no longer as full as it used to be.

Tarnished Coast might be an oceanic server too. Might be in higher tier wvw.

Facepunch.5710:

Spiral Architect.6540:

Read a book. Take a walk. Learn another language. Write a poem. Pet a dog. Dance. Ride your bike. Bake a cake. Volunteer somewhere. Fall in love.

There’s lots to do after 80.

I’m not trying to pick a fight, but when people like the OP post topics like this, they shouldn’t be treated like they have no life outside of the game. I have the same question as the OP and I have other hobbies, I’m married and I’m working on my PhD. I have a life and I’m not looking for advice on how to live it. What I am interested in are things that I might do to renew my interest in this specific hobby of mine. So why is the assumption often that we do nothing but play GW2 and need to get away from that?

If I take your advice and go outside for a walk, what will that help the next time I sit down to play GW2 for a couple hours and am looking for a fun way to spend my time in game?

I apologize if this comes off as hostile, that’s not my intent, I’ve just seen this reply several times now to threads like this one and I think it comes across in a really condescending way every time I see it.

I think you take it too personal. Maybe if you can’t find anything to do, there is nothing left to do. Except to move on.

I would have just suggest you to find another game. I just didn’t say it because the GW2 staff probably won’t be happy I make suggestion for people to stop playing their game on their game forum.

ya, really don’t like that reply. Basically they want people to buy them but don’t want to promise people anything.

And I’m not sure Anet is happy I said anything negative about them, especially when it come to cashshop.

I’m quite scared to post things on the forum, to be honest.

I browse through all the reply from Colin and found it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Molten-Alliance-Pick-Sickle-and-Logging-Axe

munkiman.3068:

laokoko.7403:

Ryuujin.8236:

Khisanth.2948:

Ryuujin.8236:

The tools explicitly state on them “unlimited uses, can harvest all ore/plants”, changing that would amount to false advertising if they were to take your money and then change the items functionality.

That is not actually true. It says it has unlimited uses and that it is equivalent to an Orichalcum sickle/pick. If some resource ends up requiring a tool higher than orichalcum then these are also going to fail.

The description before you soulbound it says equivalent to ori sickle/pickle. It change after you soulbound it.

There’s really no confirmation from Anet. So that’s why people are skepticle.

There was, i just can’t find it at the moment. It was about the mining pick and someone saying the same thing about new ore nodes. I think the quote basically would say they had no intention of added a 7th tier of materials.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Molten-Alliance-Pick-Sickle-and-Logging-Axe

Someone said on the BLTC forum that Anet have no intention to add in another tier of material. So the infinit gathering tool will be able to gather all material, present and “future”.

I try to confirm it, but can’t find the developer’s reply. Does anyone have a link for it, or confirm they have seen such a reply from the developer?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Infinite-Gathering-Tools-Trickery/first#post2131364

did everyone get a black lion kit? I’m not sure i got one.

^ ya I basically see very little things that people would want to trade gem to gold with.

Anet probably want the gem price to be sky high. So less people will be able to trade gold for gem and have to use real money instead. I mean every mmorpg is trying to cash in somehow. And GW2 is trying to cashin someway since they don’t have a monthly sub.

If you have gold, it shouldn’t be too hard to find people willing to port for money.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

Not needed and if it ever is implemented then Anet seriously failed in their key objective which was to make an MMO that wasn’t gear dependent, period. If this happens, there will be a mass exodus of many players who came here to escape that whole elitist mentality.
P.S. in case anyone doubts the end result, how do you suppose sites like “elitistjerks.com” came to be.

As far as I know, there are so many more “rage quitters” in this game. People in this game are more elitist than other game I played.

Oh, I never die so much in this dungeon. You guys sucks. Rage quit.

Pandemoniac.4739:

laokoko.7403:

Because there is no such thing you suggested so people pick the next best option. There is no dungeon ratting and there is no experience ratting.

There’s no such thing as /inspect in GW2, that’s not stopping folks from asking for it. My point is that there are more effective ways to get to the end goal of quickly selecting folks for a dungeon speed run.

Many other game does have “gear check option”. But I can’t think of any game that have “dungeon ratting check”. So people just think gear check is a common thing in mmorpg.

I make alt.

and ya, I don’t think there’s too much to do after.

Pandemoniac.4739:

I have to ask the folks that want /inspect as a tool for putting together groups, which player would you prefer? The one in all level 80 berserker exotic with the so-called optimal build that has never run the dungeon before , or the one with less (in your opinion) optimal gear that has run this particular dungeon hundreds of times?

I think the folks that want /inspect for PUG selection are asking for the wrong feature. You should be asking for some sort of “dungeoneer” rating not gear inspection. Maybe you should be asking for badges that indicate how many times a player has successfully completed a particular path of a particular dungeon, with some supplemental badges for doing it quickly, and doing it without dying etc.

Instead of asking players to ping gear, you should be asking them to prove they have some number tokens from that dungeon. Other than having an inspect to find out what skins someone used (you should just ask them though), the whole point of wanting inspect is to select players for fast dungeon runs, right? Wouldn’t experience matter more than gear? You can buy gear, you can’t buy a badge awarded for some in-game achievement.

Because there is no such thing you suggested so people pick the next best option. There is no dungeon ratting and there is no experience ratting.

There is just the achievement point.

Star Ace.5207:

laokoko.7403:

Mirta.5029:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Do you also try to stop people in the street from looking at you? No? Why not? They’re invading your “privacy” just as much. They certainly didn’t pay for your life! I don’t see you asking for the ability to just blank out your character so others can’t see it. Why not?

Did you know that in many societies you’re not legally allowed to hide your identity in public? Are you going to make an uproar and fight against that? No? Why not?

When you can answer that you’ll understand why your entire argument is simply dishonest bullkitten.

How many people that I pass trough on the street are able to know what level of education do I have, where I work and what my age is? Imagine if we had a tool to just scan all of that extra information. Now imagine if we based our decisions on that information. “No sir, you don’t get to buy this newspaper, you work as a salesman and we want our newspaper to be prestigious. Come back and ask for it again when you’re a bank manager at least!”.
“you are very attractive, I would talk to you and get to know you but this device says that you’re 25. My ideal age range is 20 to 24. You’re over the limit. Sorry”.

No one give a rat about your level of education on the street. But if you want to try out for a job you need a resume.

The only reason “I” care about other people’s gear is because I have to group with them.

It doesn’t mean you need an inspect tool to achieve this, though. Just form your usual LFG supposedly “leet” groups. There are many like you who will accommodate you, and others will see the exclusivism in your post and just avoid your group (no offense, you are entitled to play whichever way you want.) Why some people believe they really “need” an inspect tool evades me, since you can still play with “pro-gear” equipped players just as well right now.

Making it “convenient” for the few is not worth sacrificing the whole community. It simply would affect everybody in the long run, whether they care or not about the way you play-CoF 1 being pocket evidence of this.

I don’t know why you think those people are the bad guy. It is usually the other way around. People form those requirement group and people dont’ meet those requirement still join.

I’m not even about kicking people. I hope to know people’s gear before hand so I know to quit the group if I think the group is terrible. But really those achievement points already shows that.

And dont’ look at me funny. Because as far as I see, there are far too many rage quiters in dungeon group. I know so because I ran many pug dungeon.

Mirta.5029:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Do you also try to stop people in the street from looking at you? No? Why not? They’re invading your “privacy” just as much. They certainly didn’t pay for your life! I don’t see you asking for the ability to just blank out your character so others can’t see it. Why not?

Did you know that in many societies you’re not legally allowed to hide your identity in public? Are you going to make an uproar and fight against that? No? Why not?

When you can answer that you’ll understand why your entire argument is simply dishonest bullkitten.

How many people that I pass trough on the street are able to know what level of education do I have, where I work and what my age is? Imagine if we had a tool to just scan all of that extra information. Now imagine if we based our decisions on that information. “No sir, you don’t get to buy this newspaper, you work as a salesman and we want our newspaper to be prestigious. Come back and ask for it again when you’re a bank manager at least!”.
“you are very attractive, I would talk to you and get to know you but this device says that you’re 25. My ideal age range is 20 to 24. You’re over the limit. Sorry”.

No one give a rat about your level of education on the street. But if you want to try out for a job you need a resume.

The only reason “I” care about other people’s gear is because I have to group with them.

I actually think the opposite. Gem price are through the roof because there are no money sink.

You need people to buy gem and trade for gold to make the price lower. I’m not sure there are many people doing that. Beside legendary and tier 3, I don’t see many people trading gem for gold.

Other games I played using similar system as GW2 have much more gold sink. So more people are trading in their gem/diamond/ruby/pearl/oriharukon(whatever currency) for gold.

munkiman.3068:

laokoko.7403:

Ryuujin.8236:

Khisanth.2948:

Ryuujin.8236:

The tools explicitly state on them “unlimited uses, can harvest all ore/plants”, changing that would amount to false advertising if they were to take your money and then change the items functionality.

That is not actually true. It says it has unlimited uses and that it is equivalent to an Orichalcum sickle/pick. If some resource ends up requiring a tool higher than orichalcum then these are also going to fail.

The description before you soulbound it says equivalent to ori sickle/pickle. It change after you soulbound it.

There’s really no confirmation from Anet. So that’s why people are skepticle.

There was, i just can’t find it at the moment. It was about the mining pick and someone saying the same thing about new ore nodes. I think the quote basically would say they had no intention of added a 7th tier of materials.

if someone have link to the reply from developer. that’ll be nice

I checked the post with developer reply in this forum for up to 2 month. DIdn’t see a reply suggest what you said. Maybe it’s on a different forum.

lookitsandrea.8531:

laokoko.7403:

lookitsandrea.8531:

Scrambles.2604:

lookitsandrea.8531:

Scrambles.2604:

Ordika.9513:

Scrambles.2604:

Ordika.9513:

Also your strawman about chat, I have a fix for that. Create a Party/Guild only chat box and bang, no more insipid and inane chatter.

it goes both ways. Only group/play with guildies, friends, peers…avoid speed runs, try not to hang out with jerks. /inspect becomes a non-issue,

Beyond that— IF someone has the audacity to criticize you gearing then—1) Take their advice!!! Maybe you don’t know everything and your experience in-game will improve with an optimal gear set. 2) Have the gorram self-confidence to stand up to them and defend your gearing decisions!! It’s your character and (hopefully) you built it that way for a reason.

Well then I will leave the argument at this:

You want this really badly because you don’t like being ignored when you whisper someone. Well grow a gorram pair of underpants shinnies and except that people will be rude and ignore you

You can’t tell me to grow underpants (which i can’t imagine is possible) and try to leave the argument at that.

The reasons for wanting /inspect go beyond having my msg requests ignored, and the reasons for not wanting /inspect are baseless and perpetuated by fear of the boogie man of MMOs…the dreaded….Elitists….

I’m not afraid of Elitists. I honestly couldn’t care less about them, nor have I even ever had bad experiences with them (was that a complete sentence?)… Rather, for me, it all comes down to the simple: I want to play my game the I way I want to play, which means people can mind their own business, trust that I can play my class, or just ask me if they are curious about my gear. :P

If you really feel that way, then i don’t understand why you would advocate against an /inspect feature. Despite the rhetoric on the forums, my experiences in at least 4 other games with /inspect features have never yielded any negative consequences as a result of the /inspect feature.

/inspect feature won’t force you to change anything about how you play the game. In fact, it might even end up improving your experience.

It may negatively impact my gaming experience if I struggle to find a group to play with because they don’t find my gear or play style up to their standards. And it doesn’t matter whether their opinion matters to you or not – if I can’t find a group (I am not committing to a Guild at the moment) to do a dungeon with, then that aspect of the game, something I want to play, is not currently available or becomes more difficult to achieve. For new players, this could absolutely ruin their gaming experience if they are unlucky enough to only run into these kinds of players.

Others should be able to play how they want. If they want an inspect, then I say have it. But let me disable it. Circles, circles. :P

So you want to play whatever way you want. But other people can’t play whatever way they want which is not to play with people with subpar gear. I get it.

I’m not sure where in my post I said anything about players having to play with others who have what you consider to be sub-par gear? I said if they want an inspect feature, I certainly will not say no to it… Rather that I want an option to disable it for me, and others, who don’t want it while those who do can keep it. If someone won’t tell you what they’re gear is, what’s stopping you from just not playing with them? You have the choice to kick someone out of their party just like I have the choice to not share my gear details with you.

I didn’t read everyone of your post. So basically you want gear inspect but make it an optional feature so it can be enable/disable. I just jump in on the discussion without reading through all those pages. Sorry.

lookitsandrea.8531:

Scrambles.2604:

lookitsandrea.8531:

Scrambles.2604:

Ordika.9513:

Scrambles.2604:

Ordika.9513:

Also your strawman about chat, I have a fix for that. Create a Party/Guild only chat box and bang, no more insipid and inane chatter.

it goes both ways. Only group/play with guildies, friends, peers…avoid speed runs, try not to hang out with jerks. /inspect becomes a non-issue,

Beyond that— IF someone has the audacity to criticize you gearing then—1) Take their advice!!! Maybe you don’t know everything and your experience in-game will improve with an optimal gear set. 2) Have the gorram self-confidence to stand up to them and defend your gearing decisions!! It’s your character and (hopefully) you built it that way for a reason.

Well then I will leave the argument at this:

You want this really badly because you don’t like being ignored when you whisper someone. Well grow a gorram pair of underpants shinnies and except that people will be rude and ignore you

You can’t tell me to grow underpants (which i can’t imagine is possible) and try to leave the argument at that.

The reasons for wanting /inspect go beyond having my msg requests ignored, and the reasons for not wanting /inspect are baseless and perpetuated by fear of the boogie man of MMOs…the dreaded….Elitists….

I’m not afraid of Elitists. I honestly couldn’t care less about them, nor have I even ever had bad experiences with them (was that a complete sentence?)… Rather, for me, it all comes down to the simple: I want to play my game the I way I want to play, which means people can mind their own business, trust that I can play my class, or just ask me if they are curious about my gear. :P

If you really feel that way, then i don’t understand why you would advocate against an /inspect feature. Despite the rhetoric on the forums, my experiences in at least 4 other games with /inspect features have never yielded any negative consequences as a result of the /inspect feature.

/inspect feature won’t force you to change anything about how you play the game. In fact, it might even end up improving your experience.

It may negatively impact my gaming experience if I struggle to find a group to play with because they don’t find my gear or play style up to their standards. And it doesn’t matter whether their opinion matters to you or not – if I can’t find a group (I am not committing to a Guild at the moment) to do a dungeon with, then that aspect of the game, something I want to play, is not currently available or becomes more difficult to achieve. For new players, this could absolutely ruin their gaming experience if they are unlucky enough to only run into these kinds of players.

Others should be able to play how they want. If they want an inspect, then I say have it. But let me disable it. Circles, circles. :P

So you want to play whatever way you want. But other people can’t play whatever way they want which is not to play with people with subpar gear. I get it.

Scrambles.2604:

/inspect feature won’t force you to change anything about how you play the game. In fact, it might even end up improving your experience.

It will change how they play their game. They might not get into some parties unless they hide their gear.

Their meaning of play whatever they want means to force people to play with them. Eventhough those people don’t want to play with them.

Ryuujin.8236:

Khisanth.2948:

Ryuujin.8236:

The tools explicitly state on them “unlimited uses, can harvest all ore/plants”, changing that would amount to false advertising if they were to take your money and then change the items functionality.

That is not actually true. It says it has unlimited uses and that it is equivalent to an Orichalcum sickle/pick. If some resource ends up requiring a tool higher than orichalcum then these are also going to fail.

The description before you soulbound it says equivalent to ori sickle/pickle. It change after you soulbound it.

There’s really no confirmation from Anet. So that’s why people are skepticle.

quite common, very annoying. The main question is what is Anet’s view on this.

Stone.6751:

I’m not sure what people exactly want in terms of gold farmed per hour/day or what they want to do with all the gold. Regardless, if the amount of gold in the economy was to increase because of people’s ability to farm it wouldn’t cost of everything would just rise along with the increase in gold supply?

That is “if the amount of gold increase”. People farming those dynamic event increase the amount of material. And price actually falls.

The dungeon runner is the one increase the gold supply.

I understand what you are saying. Basically GW2 profit don’t necessary goes back to the development of GW2. It might be to other NCsoft games.

But you also need to understand capitalism. If GW2 is making money, NCsoft will want to keep it that way and put in the money to make GW2 a better game. That is if GW2 is making money.

There are quite a few mmorpg closed by NCsoft and we know why, they arn’t making money.

Jaall.3420:

The issue being that I’ve played a lot of mmo’s and most of them with the same tools as WoW have been taken over by this jerk-like attitude, and usually originate from these tools being introduced. Like I said I agree the community is to blame and this community is a lot better but anyone here against such tools has a right to be against it given what it has done to other games.

I dont’ know how wow is now. I played it too long ago. But I always felt the dungeon community is alot worse in GW2 than any other game.

The reality is when you mix veteran with new people nothing ever come out good. Take wow for example, you start with normal dungeon, after that you do heroic, after that you do raid. So chances are veteran players wont’ be mixed with new players.

In this game a person who run a dungeon 1000 times could be group up with a person who never done dungeon before. So what end up is alot of elitist, rage quiter, new players want to get carried.

If you meant to tell me other game have a bad dungeon comunity, I have to disagree with you there. I actually felt GW2 have it much worse.

I actually failed a few low level fractal because no one knows what to do. Granted if I’m a better leader it probably won’t be that bad. Marsh and dredge fractal is pretty bad if no one knows what to do.

Dungeon is becoming a farm spot for players. Some people run them everyday. The truth is they dont’ want to get in a 2 hour group when they can get in a 30 minutes group. That is especially true if you run and farm it everyday.

I actaully don’t run fotm because of how bad pug can be. So I’m stuck at lvl19. I thought about grind fractal level, but just give it up. Having to go through bad pug everyday is not fun.

I thought about getting in a fotm progressing group, but everyone in a progressing group is already high level. The truth is I already did alot of fractal, I believe I have the 400 fractal complete achievement. I just dont’ see the point of doing more.

Vayne.8563:

Honestly, do you really think any MMORPG doesn’t have the same exactly problem? Everyone wants to be on the busier server. Anet made it possible with guesting for that to occur. I’m not seeing the same problem you are.

I said what I said. I didn’t say what you said.

I hope the “do you think” dont’ mean me, because I didn’t say anything beside what I said.

Kichwas.7152:

If there were dead servers they might do something, however if you look on the realm status for choosing a server, they are all at heavily impacted. We don’t even have medium servers, let alone light or dead ones.

Perhaps OP is playing out of sync with their server’s peak time, or simply lacks good social connections.

I think they just name all the server very high so it’ll stop people from evaculating the relatively low server. Which will just make the situation worse.

The population of the server is very subjective. But the thing you can’t denial is some very high population server have “much more” people. Maybe that’s why those people on lesser server are complaining. They want to be like other server too.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Why is it JUST CoF p1 that ANET allows to be farmed and not ALL dungeons/paths? Anyone have insight/thoughts on this?

There are actually a few dungeon path that you can do in 6-8 minutes. And some other in 10minutes.

But there is other factor such as cof give berseker gear, 70 rare which can be salvage, slightly more silver per run than some path, and is easier so pug have less chance to fail.

You can farm other path too, but why bother farming 5 gold an hour when you can go 6 gold? (those are just made up number, but you get the point)

If there’s a balance problem, there’s probably nothing to fix except the balance problem. Which at the current state, it’s probably too late, unless they want to do some major overhaul.

And I’m not just talking about dps. I’m talking about making theif as tanky as guardian.

@Rfreak

Your right there is a balance probem. Your right cof is much easier than other dungeon path.

What I’m saying is your solution won’t fix the balance problem except make the dungeon harder which would affect “normal” player more than those speed run groups.

Check your screen shot on what? It’s just a screen shot of cof lfg berserkerk warriro only.

Seriously what are you tryign to prove?

What I’m talking about is “balance” here. Which is the main source of the problem. And you know it’s not that hard to change from a berserker warrior to a defense warrior, just some quick gear swap. You know that right?

Making things harder just punish the normal player. THat’s what happen to AC. Do you think Arah is easy? people are still doing speed run in berserker warrior gear, maybe swap in a guardian. That’s it.

So are you talking about cof being too easy, or are you talking about warrior being unbalanced. I dont’ even know which one you are talking about.

@ Rfreak
your part mention nothing about warrior. Arn’t that what you are complaining about?

Every class can skip the mobs, and every class can run downstair. And I can pretty much do the Builder part 90% of the time without a mesmer. You are just forcing premade group harder and more new people getting kicked.

Rfreak.6591:

@beren.6048

It’s not that people farm, they actually exploit but I’ll leave that as something fixable, what I wanted to say is that parties that require certain classes shouldn’t even exist in this kind of game, not to mention the farm itself.

So are you telling me guardian or engineer exploit too, because as far as I know they farm orr event much easier. The only difference is there is no gwlfg list to scorn them.

The problem is they take away trinity. Unless every class are pretty much identical in every way, some will always stand out in certain situation. They prety much need to make every class almost identical to avoid balance problem.

If warrior/mesmer can do it in 6 minutes. I’m sure every class combination with a mesmer can do it in less than 8.

You are only dps check in 2 place, even if your dps is 3 times slower than warrior, it should only take like 20 second for slave driver and 1 minutes on last boss.

The reality is most group dont’ have 5 people spec and geared in max dps that is why all the pug are “much” slower. Not saying warrior didn’t do it much faster but if more than anything gear/trait/experience is what turn most pug in to a 15 minute run.

Arnox.5128:

You know, I can’t believe this game wouldn’t be doing well. You check the NA world population counts and it’s right there. Either Very High or Full. Yeah, this game’s definitely dying…

I have seen some pretty dead game with quote on quote “high” population server too.

And full just mean they don’t want you to trasnfer there.

I’m sure GW2 is doing fine. Without a subscription it isn’t too hard to hold on player.

But those high, very high population on server list don’t really show anything. Only thing it show is full server have more people than other which isn’t full.

I’m surprise every server is very high. Maybe some of them shouldn’t be called very high.

If you are so good at lvl70 already, just imagine how good you’ll be when you are lvl80, full exotic, max traited, and more experienced.

I’ll wait for you to be lvl80 and group with you…

(ok that sound sarcastic, but you get the idea, the I’m low level but best player in the world won’t get you that far)

By the law of chance, I’m usually better of picking a lvl80 person with high achievement point. They are usually better, not always better, but have a higher chance of being better.

I can honestly say by grouping with a few of them, that a group consist of low level people, with no achievement point usually don’t do so well. At least in comparison to other group.

Bread.7516:

I think the issue here is that this is just not your type of game.

If we were to speak opinions then mine would be that AC is fine and id rather not let it (or any gw2 content) be turned into your type of game.

I don’t know what’s with the my type and your type of the game.

The truth is if you actually do alot of dungeon, and is grouped with inexperienced people day after day, you get frustrated too.

And if you are an inexperienced people without people to carry you, you’ll probably be like the OP complaining about dungeon too hard.

AC isn’t hard if you just want the dungeon master title. The hard part is farming AC. It’s inefficient. Unless you are in a premade group of people. Which make everything so much easier.

I think it’s the part where skipping is “skill” since it’s not easy to do. And skill should be rewarded. That’s what I think.

And I’ve seen bad group spending hour taking the boss down in AC. So that’s why they are glitching. Maybe it’s not worth for you since you can do it easy anyway, but certainly not for them. I actually joined a few AC run where people are on last boss, and they say they spend like 1+ hour on the last boss.

I know what always work. Leave your party and join again. almost always fix it.

Ya I mean you probably punish the normal player more than anything. They actaully made DR more linient from last patch.

I actually have a better idea. Start with 60 token, 20, 10, 5, after that loot get nerf too.

That is probably what fit more in mind with Bri’s complaint.

Not saying I support the idea. Just saying it probably fit Bri’s vision more without punishing normal player.

Uther Deathhand.1570:

laokoko.7403:

I don’t mind if they do some DR like you can’t repeat the same dungeon path within a 1-2 hour period. You have to be forced to do other activity or you have to do other dungeon path to reset the DR.

But I don’t like the idea of just punishing people who have alot of time on their hand and play all day.

You do realize that your post is completely contradictory right? Your second point you say you don’t want to punish people that have a lot of time to play all day but in your first point you ask for a way to punish people that want to play all day. If i want to play a certain dungeon all day( say i want to get my flaming weapons from AC why should i have to wait 2 hours before i can do the dungeon again?

Well you play all day. You probably at least can run the dungeon 4-5 times.

In Bri’s case you can only run it once. Mine is at least better than Bri’s case right?

Slither Shade.4782:

Even so after a couple times its not too hard to do it legit either. Just a bit of practice.

That’s the point. If I do AC everyday and have to play with people “who need practice” everyday. It is really frustrating. That is why people rage quit.

Spend 1 hour donig a path so people can “practice”, just to meet some new guy the next day “who need practice again”.