is it safe to say that u guys have clipping problems with just about everything? this isnt small stuff either. here’s my lowbie sylvari female. the sword seems to be coming out her bum, but besides that, the blue pants are showing through this low level purple skirt item:
yep, hammer 1 combo is just fine. if they buff the speed a little, i wouldnt complain i suppose. thing is, hammer has such nice burst and unbelievable soft CC, so they run the risk of making it OP.
the hammer is excellent and i dont know why theyre buffing it. i played a shout hammer/staff guardian in beta in t/spvp, and found the spec to be highly effective. oh well, wont complain about the buffs i guess.
grenade kit is not weak in pvp. i run a rifle build with elixirs U, S and X. elixir U + grenades + 30 points in explosives = point annihilation. grenade kit is worth it JUST for the F1-4 ability, let alone the bleed and chill grenades.
please spend more time with it before calling for sweeping changes.
The state of the game is very acceptable and you will accept it. It’s a brand new mmo so lots of bugs which will get ironed out in a month or two. Enjoy what you got, or leave i guess
thats the right idea, and in my opinion the best way to go about this. ramp up the DE difficulty to higher levels, each time there is a win. even if the event is insanely difficult, at least it will bring some variety to each map.
as things stand right now, we are literally seeing just a fraction of the DE’s. the same ones that repeat over and over again after we win!
ALL leather “coats” (not jackets) have clipping issues on the human male model. the pants show through (thighs and bum) as the character stands or runs.
the shoulder pads through which the human long hair clips are the Stalwart’s Shoulders from the pvp models. the coat i use in the example is the Seeker’s Coat, but all coats behave the same
lol there’s SO MUCH to do at endgame, i dont know what to do first. did you beat each dungeon in explorable mode? did you beat even ONE?
remember, GW2 wasnt really made for powergamers. so feel free to leave and come back in a few months. it’s no one’s fault you devoured 300 hours of content in 3 weeks.
Title says it all. I see a lot of post regarding players not happy with the game because they are bored already. Like I stated in another post, I just turned level 30 and have played the game each night since release.
I think some of the people who are already bored with the game because they are level I
80 with nothing to do maybe need to re-evaluate what they are doing with their lives. If you find your sole enjoyment out if sitting at a computer all day playing video games, it’s unhealthy, it’s an addiction…
I love the game and find there is a TON of stuff to do and that ANet shouldn’t worry about the longevity of the game when we are only a month into the game.
Anyway I hope the dev’s don’t get fear mongered into “rushing” out new content because some people are letting games control their lives.
I am off my soap box now, flame away.
thanks for this post. im in the same boat as you, i just cant believe the rate at which people are devouring this game. i played in all BWE’s and stress tests, and started on the 25th, so i knew what i was doing. ive been playing pretty much every night after work and more on weekends. yet, i only have two lvl 30’s. it’s unbelievable to me how people can already be lvl 80, and actually have the nerve to kitten and moan about “no endgame”, which to me seems so far away. i would classify such individuals as addicts. pure and simple.
They need a strong overhaul, and it scares me that there are NO DEs similar to the one I described above.
relax. DE’s dont need any kind of overhaul. they need to scale better so theyre a lot harder for larger groups. this way, they can fail and we can see the other branches of the events.
i was afraid end game content might be a mess. tbh, small price to pay for playing gw2 this summer. lucky for me, i wont get to endgame for at least another couple of weeks, maybe a month. sucks for the power levelers though, their experience may have been ruined. hopefully this is fixed by the time i get there =)
One of the posters suggested ramping up the difficulty of an event for the subsequent cycle, if that event is won. Difficulty increases until the event fails. This is how we can see the other half of the de content, and this is what needs to be done. U guys are asking for complete redesigns of the encounters and that’s just not gonna happen. I like De’s just the way they are. We just need them to scale lot better. That’s it.
Large bosses need to get aggrod by the ranged dpsers. The boss should proceed to chase and target those players with increased frequency of attacks to at least force some dodging.
On my (human) engineer, pants clip through all long coats as it sways back and forth. Clipping occurs posteriorly and anteriorly around the hips, thighs and bum.
Facial hair clips through all masks (especially the large beard).
Long hair clips through tall leather collar shoulder pads.
Well the problem with your suggestion is that gw2 is supposed to be “endgame all the way through”. While the final zones should be the most challenging, this should not make the difficulty of all other De’s trivial, which it is currently.
cant comment on end game, but at lvl 30 i can melt any mob up to 2 lvls higher in one ability cycle with rifle/grenades. specced for power. does significantly more dmg than my sword/torch/consecration guard did at that lvl.
these threads should be read with caution. i dont think many people know how to maximize their prof yet.
that saying doesnt really apply to GW2. every prof can spec for condition damage, sustain, support, or burst dps. engie can do them all very nicely. currently playing a burst engie with lots of success in pve and spvp
naga is a piece of garbage. g9x, or any logitech mouse ftw.
just curious, why do u need so many buttons? F1-F4 are easily reached with the left hand. kit abilities replace 1-5. i use my mouse buttons only for the utility/ult skills 7-10.
that can be alleviated by keeping the burst dps of the boss the same, but increasing the AOE’s frequency, or spawning more adds.
for the events that dont have big bosses, adds simply need to get tougher and hit harder as more players enter. most of the centaur DE’s are absolutely trivial. i havent died in a DE so far (lvl 30).
yes, unfortunately, dynamic events are nothing more than quests in disguise.
But the system can become something more….a.net has to do something fast, because they only have peoples attention for a little longer. If it doesnt get more interesting i know im out…
oh please, don’t be silly with the doom and gloom. they may have your attention for a short while, but there’s enough content for most people to keep them happy for at least a few months. ANet has got nothing but time. they released the most polished and “complete” MMO ever made, they already got their money back (and then some), and they can take as long as they need to enhance our experience.
i feel content dropping $60 just for WvW. that on its own was worth the money. if you bought the game just for DE’s , then you may be disappointed until they ramp up the difficulty and fix bugs.
what we got is just the bare bones start. DE’s are gonna be perfected, expanded upon, and ultimately huge down the road.
My takeaway from this thread is that GW2 endgame isn’t what everyone expects it to be… which is exactly what the devs just got done saying would be exactly the case. I’m confused that when they said the game wouldn’t play or feel like the current generation of MMOs, that as many people as are seem to be upset that the game isn’t like what they’ve been playing. If the endgame isn’t standing around waiting to get 10, 25, 40, 50 or 60 people in one place to do a three hour run through an instanced dungeon with the intent of only 3-5 of those people to get some uber-awesome drop that is part of a set that may require hundreds of runs to get then there is no endgame? If you blew through the content at release expecting there to be thousands of hours of grindy endgame, then the loss is yours. The game is exactly what ti is supposed to be, and it will continue to be exactly that.
No, what you should take away from this thread is that the devs are claiming that DEs at higher levels are challenging, throwing stuff at you, and actually making you try, when they’re not.
uh no, the article has absolutely NOTHING to do with what you just said.
So I just read that article, and I’m kind of shocked.
dude, the whole point of the article was that Orr ISNT the entire endgame. once u get to Orr and finish it, u move on to the rest of the world (lower level zones) and complete the content youve missed. or you level crafting. or explore.
Engineer is only 30 now, but his damage and survivability are kittened compared to my Guardian at the same level. The Guardian’s ranged scepter damage is better. Not sure how that should be possible?
absolutely, entirely, wrong. i have a main guardian and my rifle/elixir/grenade engie surpasses him damage-wise. less utility though.
the engie is an AMAZING prof. its cool, steampunk style aside, the engie can do plenty.
i do huge dps in pve, specced for burst dmg, rifle and grenades. same in pvp, with Elixir X as my elite. tons of support, area denial, burst and survivability.
great, but can you also look into real problems like poor DE scaling, DE’s being bugged out, and us not seeing the other half of DE content because none of them ever fail?
Why not just have the difficulty rampup branch out with the chain when its starting to go the other direction – such has going a step further down in difficulty everytime players lose an event, and then heads the other direction – that way the difficulty won’t be entirely removed and otherwise be pushed back from the players right away, or atleast not as easily.
So if I am understanding this it will go like this.
server reset DE set to Dif 1
win set to 2
win set to 3
….
win set to 12
lose set to 11
lose set to 10
win set to 11
and so on?
See, to me this will just mean that it cycles two events rather than 1. When #1 gets to difficulty 11 where people fail, it goes back down the chain to #2 at difficulty 10 where people win, so it goes back to #1 at difficulty 11 so it goes back to #2 at 10….
If they were to implement something that works on a simple win/loss counter, I think it would have to only change difficulty at the extreme ends of the chain. ie if an event can lead to 2 different events depending whether it is won or lost then it doesn’t have any effect on difficulty. An event that can only lead to a different event if it is lost will raise the difficulty of the whole chain each time it is won, and an event that can only lead to a different event if it is won will lower the difficulty of the chain each time it is lost.
I’d still prefer something more sophisticated, but again, I imagine that the above is technically challenging enough!
I agree (That quote as me is actually a misquote) Which is why I proposed the “total win wipe” in my previous post.
Lets face facts here. Players want to win dynamic events. This is why so many metas remain locked in total victory mode all the time. We don’t (and shouldn’t!) play to lose.
Any sort of gradient difficulty will still result in a repetion of a limited section of the whole chain. With the “wipe” event you’re just keying in to the fact that players are doing extremely well in a zone and resetting the chain whilst simultaneously giving the players that did so well a special “armageddon survival” zonewide event that serves to really shake up the monotonay of the zone.
This wipe event is intended to drive off players who don’t want to have a bit of challenge in the DE’s for a while, spreading them to other areas of the zone, reward the players who decide to stick it out to the bloody end well, and most importantly, reset the meta to a total devastated/enemy has won situation so that the next players through the zone or the players that fled from the wipe event have the opportunity to really feel they’re making a difference.
Event chains are going to repeat eventually anyway, that’s the nature of a finite system, but the wipe event idea is intended to make the instance of inevitable showcase the world changing power of the event system and ensure that the entirety of event chains have a chance to actually happen.
In zones where people aren’t constantly easily zerging “defend the win” events the system is working as intended already so why mess with that? The wipe idea just stops the dynamic event system from becoming a static system of “defend all these things over and over” by shaking it up if the chains become stale and repetitive.
this would work beautifully (in theory). hope ANet tries something like this…very soon. DE’s are a snoozefest.
I always quest higher than my level. Usually 3-4 levels above. XP is better and tactics are required and its a challenge to go 1v1 and live. If the game is too easy for you…step up your personal game.
My warrior does the bridge DE at level 18…though that requires pretty much total ranged attacks. At that level in that DE, to melee is to die immediately.
off-topic. this thread is about DE’s. even if youre level 18 doing a lvl 22 DE, the zerg will allow u to faceroll through it.
the suggestion u and the above dev give applies to hearts and personal story. not to DE’s.
They couldn’t be tested during the BWEs since no one exactly mega rushed to lv70+ to get in there and test them out, and now we’re suffering the consequences of not having the option to roll high level characters to test high level content, that seems to be where the majority of the bugs are.
unfortunately this seems to be the case. URGENT action is required to fix bugs and tweak scaling in almost all DE’s. sadly, im doing most of my leveling through personal story and the hearts, only to occasionally faceroll some DE that pops up with 50 other people.
Brisban Wildlands, reviving and escorting the two little skrits. u revive them and they just stand there attacking everything instead of going back home.
i lost track of how many DE’s are broken (im only lvl 25). maybe 8-10 so far.
edit: half of Brisbane Wildlands is bugged as well lol. from DE’s not activating, to infinite bandit spawns that yield zero xp
theyre not too “dynamic” currently because people are facerolling through them. we’re not seeing the branching events that arise from failing the opening DE. it’s not an issue with design/content…they need to fix scaling..asap.
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On top of a large amount of free bonus content, we will be expanding on offerings in the Black Lion Trading Company going forward, as well as be doing large-scale expansion content down the road.
We’ll cover a lot of the details on the kind of support and plans we have in place over the next month or so on the Gw2 blog and with our press partners.
We do appreciate that you’d like to buy lots of new content, but we’d prefer to give a lot of it to you for free, cause that’s what we think a responsible MMO company does!
awesome. will you guys be looking into the scaling of DE’s? right now, people are facerolling through most of them in larger groups. resultantly, we’re not seeing any of them fail, thus missing most of the hard work you guys invested in the branching events!
right now the #1 priority for ANet (even higher than the hacked accounts imo) should be DE tweaks. this amazing, touted feature is an absolute snoozefest when done in a larger group. not to mention that we dont get to see most of the content because the opening DE never fails.
yep, there’s an issue with the scaling of this event, but unfortunately it’s not the only one. last night i did a DE in Metrica, defending some lab from Inquest. there were about 25-30 of us. the Inquest spawns were melted before they even made it to the ramps of the lab.
im very disappointed by the difficulty of most DE’s so far (lvl 30). while i did no buy this game for the PVE, im finding myself more into the hearts and personal story (because DE’s are either bugged or trivial).
Actually I feel the opposite. PvP seems just about perfect to me, and pve (especially De’s) requires a lot of improvements. Still having a blast leveling though.
I like the staff in both pve and PvP. You know that #2 is near-spammable and that it goes through targets, and that the symbol does respectable aoe damage? Staff is actually excellent for kiting and does above average aoe dmg.
Scepter is effective, there’s no denying that. Especially with torch. I personally greatly dislike it due to its visuals. I’m bouncing tennis balls at people, and raining tiny little fists down lol. I hops the visuals are reworked and that smite gets symbol status.
