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I do wonder if I’m the only one that feels this.
You are not alone. I feel exactly the same way.
I always feel like I am missing out on content. I did take a 10 month “vacation” away from the game and there is no way I can ever experience that lost content or win those rewards. And now, whenever I do log in (nearly every day) I feel like I have to do the LS content or miss out on it and that means I don’t spend time with my online friends, my daughter (who plays this game), doing dungeons, character progressing. I do not like the feeling that to do these other things I have to pay the “cost” of not doing LS stuff. It is really turning me off to this game.
What does “professional” even mean? Do I have to be paid to play the game to be “professional”? What is the difference between “hardcore” and “midcore” (I confess, this is the first time I’ve heard of “midcore”). It’s hard to do a sensible survey like this if we don’t define our terms.
It is a construct, built to hold back the most terrifying of things.
A dimension which contains beings of great malevolence, total disregard to every life form in this space.
It is Gozer the Traveller, he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb!
The Asura tried to communicate with this being using one of the first Asura Gates.
They quickly learned that it was a mistake. One of great consequence.
All of their magic and technology could not kill that which was eternal.
That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.
So they sealed up that dimension, but someone had to go and peek through didn’t they?!
Congrats, we’re going to be destroyed by a giant marshmallow Quaggan.
How about giving credit to the (at least) two quotes you plagiarized?
I’ve only spent the original cost of the game, the price of two bank upgrades because the bank size we start with is ridiculously little, and a makeover kit which I do regret.
So I am in Kessex waiting for “buffed” Krait champions to spawn so that I can work on my Living Story halloween achievement. I am “pinging” the nearest way point in chat and then chatting whether or not the champion is buffed as a service to other people in the game wanting to work on the same achievement. I did this a few times and I got my chat suppressed.
This is ridiculous. Anet, it’s the little things like this that turn people off (well, me anyway) by this game.
I understand you are trying to deal with problem people, but more often than not it is the innocent playerbase you hurt. There are other examples of this sort of thing but you get the point.
I have three 80s so three “alts”. Because I don’t have a “main”, I don’t really consider my alts as “alts”. I tend to go back and forth on my characters. I’ll play my thief for a couple weeks, then switch to my necro when my thief gets dull and say to myself “wow, necros are so cool” and play the necro for a couple of weeks before it gets dull and then I switch to….
I think it is people who try to play the game in the trinity style who tend to claim that the trinity is good or needed; people who try to use tactics that work in a game that supports the trinity. I am thinking, for example, speed runs of any kind. But if you slow down, be more thoughtful of how you approach an encounter, then the dps/control/support scheme we have works very well. But if you have the farmer mentality and try to speed clear stuff, then it doesn’t work.
Seems to me coming on to the forums to write down what you do and do not like is not terribly effective. Your in-game activity is what matters, like real world money. In the real world if you don’t think something is worth $X, you don’t buy it. If enough people don’t buy it, the merchant changes the prices. In a game such as GW2, if there is an activity you don’t like, then don’t do it. If enough people don’t do the activity, ANet will get the message and change its ways. So “vote with your feet”. I don’t much like LS, so I don’t do it very often. End of story.
I only have problems with folks that are going out of their way to spoil the train. Otherwise, just move to the next champ and life goes on. I still recall when a small party politely asked the Icezerg in map chat if they could tackle the Champ Quaggan on their own without interference. The response was nothing but positive and folks cheered them on and wished them well. And yes, we just bypassed them and let them have their fun/challenge.
If someone, or a group of someones is simply playing along why should they have to ask the zerg for permission to simply play? They have as much right to do the content as the zerg.
To me, this is like having to ask your spouse if its ok to sleep, or to eat, or to use the bathroom. You shouldn’t have to ask permission to do something that should be considered as part of the natural order.
Because if you know there’s a train that usually kills a champ, it’s polite to ask first. Polite, ya know, the whole ‘treating people how you’d like to be treated’ thing?
I don’t think politeness has anything to do with it. You don’t need to ask for permission to kill something in the game because someone else (or a group of someones) might come around and want to kill it.
If people want to run a train, that is their choice. But that choice is not binding on anyone else. Making choices comes with a certain degree of implicit responsibility. The people in the train need to take responsibility for the fact that one of the creatures they might want to kill will be already dead; that’s the chance they are taking and implicitly agreeing to.
I’m leveling a new alt I started yesterday and have been playing in Qdale. On my server there is at least one player whose sole reasion for playing the zone is to derail the train. He makes no bones about it. I don’t know if it’s simply opportunistic trolling or whether he’s out to save the world from champ trains—same difference. snip
I approve of that. I might have to take up that banner too.
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The timer is bad because it’s unrealistic. Why should she just fly away all of a sudden? If that’s the case, then didn’t we win? Didn’t we repel her? She should stick around until she’s killed, or she accomplishes some goal (such as wiping out the megalaser and the batteries and/or all the turrets). snip
If undefeated, the dragon destroys all the laser and batteries and turrets. So she does accomplish the goal. Then she goes home.
I would totally roll a grub, but I’d think a Krait would be more likely as a new playable race. But could you imaging a zerg of grub players? That would be pretty awesome.
Orr is ridiculous vis contested WPs. I understand why it is so but the fact that there are few people in zones means the WPs stay contested for a long while. I couldn’t buy my exotic armor when turning 80 on my server. I had to “guest” to another server that had the WP and Temple I needed in an uncontested state. That is why sites like the following came into being, to deal with this situation: http://us.gw2stuff.com/en/events/us
I’ve participated in a Teq kill about 80 times and all I’ve ever gotten are a few exotics. I keep hoping for the ascended box, but I have not been so lucky yet. As I will never, ever craft an ascended or legendary anything (because I hate grinding), I see this as the only way I will ever have an ascended item.
sadly fighting him over and over can only become grinding in it self which is far less tangible than crafting.
True. BUT, I get all those greens and blues which I can break down for luck essences and then there’s all that karma! But you make a good point. It could be seen as a gind. But I think it’s a fun fight and I like beating the hardest thing Anet can throw at us (so far) so I guess that compensates for the “grind”.
I’ve participated in a Teq kill about 80 times and all I’ve ever gotten are a few exotics. I keep hoping for the ascended box, but I have not been so lucky yet. As I will never, ever craft an ascended or legendary anything (because I hate grinding), I see this as the only way I will ever have an ascended item.
Other than the wait time, I think the Tequatl event is excellent as-is. I like the fact that it requires a high degree of organization of a large group of people to be successful and even then it is still a challenge. I think Anet scored a home run on this one and deserves to be publicly recognized for it.
It does not necessarily require a guild, but having one seems to make things go smoother. The reason why I feel like a guild makes things better is because there are actual consequences to bad behaviour if you decide not to participate constructively… namely, getting kicked out of the guild. At least, that’s what happens in TTS.
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I may still be in the ‘honeymoon period’ but so far I find GW2 rich, varied and fun. Obviously everyone enjoys different things but I’m surprised that so many people have so many complaints, as I’ve only found a handful of annoyances in the time I’ve played so far.
This thread seems to have attracted a lot of drama queens: “I will never buy an Anet product again”, etc. We’ll see.
This game has, as you say, a handful of annoyances. As for myself I will be moving on to other things as soon as they are available. I play this game because a) I loved GW1, and 2) my daughter plays it and I like bumming around with her in Tyria. I am not “serious” (lol) about this game and I doubt I ever can be.
I’m playing GW2 to keep me busy while I wait for TESO. If TESO is bad or not worth the subscription I’ll probably come back to GW2. I am put off by the lack of bug/balance fixes, stuff like no ability to easily swap gear, even not being able to keep a mini in my inventory when I use the option to send collectibles to my bank, etc. Stuff like that which we have been talking about for over a year now. But I don’t feel that AN is under any obligation to tell me they are going to do these things in advance.
But really, does ArenaNet have any obligation to tell us what changes they are going to make? Why does the community feel so entitled? Does it really matter? I mean, you are likely to move on to the latest and greatest game as soon as it’s available anyway regardless of whether AN tells you about upcoming changes in a more definitive way. Or are people just looking for something else to complain about?
I can’t even use most of my utility skills because I’m old and slow. I usually just use the passive skills in those slots and never accept an invitation into a party because I don’t want to get chewed out.
That’s me all over. The not-joining-party-for-fear-of-being-chewed-out part. Not the chewer. Same reason I don’t do dungeons any more. Sad that people have to be so mean spirited and competitive in PvE.
I really like levelling alts. In fact, that’s pretty much all I do. I have yet to run a dungeon and I avoid LS (basically cuz I don’t like it). Two 80s now and one getting very, very close.
Oh, and I should say I don’t know how many times I’ve accidentally hit the ‘~’ key (when trying to press ‘1’) and swapped weapons when I most certainly did not want to swap weapons. Yet another reason to prefer the mouse over the keyboard. I guess I could look for a key remapping option (is there one?) but haven’t. I guess I would move it to left ctrl.
I remember when Total Biscuit brought this issue up on his video cast during beta, saying it needed to be toned down.
I quite agree.
And unlike other games, there is no way to turn it down to a reasonable level or off.
Guild joke since beta: apparently ANet believes the “skill” required by players is finding the target. :p
Hrmmm. For me the skill is finding the mouse pointer. I waste so much time moving my mouse around trying to find the pointer.
I often keep my mouse centered mid screen, and move MYSELF and double tap to put down circles for that same reason. Ridiculous way to play when my screen is a blur of particle effects. (see my post directly above.)
The thing is I prefer to use the mouse to activate the utility skills (the ones on the right side) because I tend to use a combination of the keyboard + mouse to move around and change my point of view. As a result I can reach the 1-5 keys easily enough but for anything else I want to use the mouse. And as soon as I do that I tend to lose the pointer. If the pointer was just more visible (larger, colored red or something) and never ever disappeared, then I think I would be happy.
I’ve played this game since release. I tried WvW for the first time a few days ago. I was appalled. It should be called ZvZ. Two massive groups of players running around and when they meet, unbelievable lag and prayers that my AOE spells go off before I die. Needless to say I won’t be going back to it.
And yes, class balance is the one thing I am actually hoping for and have been hoping for since day 1.
I finally, after a year, got my warrior to 80. Why so long? It is boring as all heck to me. Yes, it is obvious to me that it is more powerful than any other class I’ve tried (thief, necro, ele, and guardian, not yet engineer) and I hardly have to switch up my skills all that much. But it is not fun for me because it is rather easy and frankly I don’t want to contribute to the over abundance of greatsword-wielding warriors you see running around everywhere (my war dual axes, the true weapons of a Norn warrior ). Anyway, I’ll stick with my necro and thief.
Our guild has about 40% under 21 so I would say that more adults play GW2 but more “mature teens” play GW2 VS games like WOW
lol, I beg to differ. I’ve been kicked out of more dungeons than I can count by little teenagers in GW2. Let me give you a comparison. I’ve played WoW since the beginning of it’s existence. I’ll just say 8 years. I was only kicked by a teenager twice in WoW, and he was extremely immature. Fast forward to Guild Wars 2, and I’ve been kicked over 30 times. 20-22ish of those were teens.
Let me get this straight. You’re getting kicked, constantly, and then poll the griefers for their age? You really should stop making up stories, you’re not good at it.
It’s not an exact number. I’ve counted the number of times I’ve been kicked, yes, but 20-22ish is just a guess. I always ask the age of people in my party because it’s a bad habit I picked up in WoW before raids, but I do not make a poll. Relax, take a deep breath, and please stop pointing out other’s when you do not know the entire story.
Actually I now know most of the story as I’ve gone through your post history. I found so many discrepancies between your posts that I’m dizzy. You exhibit one of the most common forms of immaturity, habitual lying. There’s really no point involving oneself in a discussion with someone who so easily refrains from truth.
Umm, alright. You show your immaturity by going through my post history and trying to put together a story. There are absolutely no discrepancies in my posts, just pieces of the story that you are missing and refuse to believe apparently. As hard as you may try, you cannot put together any of anyone’s posts and create a story for yourself. I don’t even know where you’re coming up with this, kid. I don’t like white knights. Goodbye.
Gotta say, you definitely sound a bit immature, but desperately trying not to. This is from a completely separate, objective bystander perspective. I think it’s mostly because of the asking people’s age before you start playing with them story. Just sounds…..convenient…
I’m sure it wasn’t intentional and I still think you’re a cool person.
In all fairness, I have encountered PUGs where someone will ask for everyone’s age. I’ve always thought it rather odd so I usually just don’t say anything. So these people are out there but not many I’d wager.
At 50, I would rather be in your top end zone than any other. I started pencil and paper gaming with D&D1, and have not stopped since. This game is a direct descendent of those ancient games. It retains the social aspect, and my guild is 5 close knit, yet independent players. We have some other casuals, but it is usually just us.
We enjoy talking as we do our own thing or getting together for something challenging.
I’m 50 and started out with D&D1, the white box, Chainmail,… Can I join your guild?
Alright so I guess a little back story on my part. I am 18 at the moment. I have been playing MMORPG games for a very long time. (since maybe 13 years old)
Through that time I have met the majority of the people on each game who are aged from 13-22 years of age.
From my history I have been completely oblivious to the fact older people (30-50) play. Which, don’t get me wrong I don’t care who plays and I’m glad everyone of any age plays..xD Its a very cool thing to see that actually.
It’s just..what about this game in particular makes teens the minority? P2P?
Are they the minority in this game? Do you have any sources to back that up? I don’t doubt it, but you can’t just assert it as true. Is it possible the gaming demographic has gotten older and maybe there are more of them than there are of you? According to wikipedia the majority of players are older than you:
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Stopped reading right there.
I’ve successfully killed him dozens of times with the TTS guild. We do it every night, multiple times. It is a great source of karma and items to get luck essences from (and sometimes even exotic items). So “no one” is a bit of an exaggeration.
Nothing should ever require more than 250. It’s all you can stack in the storage dedicated for this purpose. Unfortunately ANet do seem to have fallen into the lazy content style of adding grind. Forcing players to grind twice as long for an item is not the equivalent content as doing two different things for half that effort, but why add two things when you can be lazy and add one?
In order to get the Halloween bag, I am told you need 15k candy corns (far more than I am willing to try and obtain by the way). Anyway, given that stuff only stacks to 250 in our inventory, you need to make sure you have 60, SIXTY, free slots in your bank otherwise you will not be able to hold this mountain of candy corn. 60 … (facepalm)
I want to know how “normal play” and 15,000 candy corn for a bag, 20,000 for a miniature are related beyond “Most of you are serfs working in the fields for your Trading Post betters”…
Really? I have not yet checked out the price for the bag but I was hoping to get one. But is it really 15k candy corns?!? I’ve spent four hours in the labyrinth and have accumulated fewer than 200 candy corns. How can that bag be obtained in any way other than grinding short of buying candy corns? According to my calculations, grinding out 15k candy corns would take on the order of 300 hours or 12.5 entire days.
1. Sell your candy corn.
2. Buy a 20-slot bag from the Trading Post.
3. There is no step 3.
lol — “there is no step 3”
I’ve been in the labyrinth for 5 hours maybe and have roughly 500 corns. I thought that was pretty good as far as corn gathering goes.
You can use “overflow” to your advantage. After you farm all the nodes in the labyrinth, log out then back in (F12). Chances are you’ll be in a new overflow and therefore have access to unharvested nodes. I expect this to be less viable as time goes on and there are few overflow instances due to less player participation.
Hmm. I guess my corn gathering skills are sub-par or else I just like doing things in there that are less conducive to corn generation. Still, taking advantage of the overflow system seems a little like cheating to me.
I want to know how “normal play” and 15,000 candy corn for a bag, 20,000 for a miniature are related beyond “Most of you are serfs working in the fields for your Trading Post betters”…
Really? I have not yet checked out the price for the bag but I was hoping to get one. But is it really 15k candy corns?!? I’ve spent four hours in the labyrinth and have accumulated fewer than 200 candy corns. How can that bag be obtained in any way other than grinding short of buying candy corns? According to my calculations, grinding out 15k candy corns would take on the order of 300 hours or 12.5 entire days.
1. Sell your candy corn.
2. Buy a 20-slot bag from the Trading Post.
3. There is no step 3.
I guess I will lay off the labyrinth now and other related things. Thanks.
I want to know how “normal play” and 15,000 candy corn for a bag, 20,000 for a miniature are related beyond “Most of you are serfs working in the fields for your Trading Post betters”…
Really? I have not yet checked out the price for the bag but I was hoping to get one. But is it really 15k candy corns?!? I’ve spent four hours in the labyrinth and have accumulated fewer than 200 candy corns. How can that bag be obtained in any way other than grinding short of buying candy corns? According to my calculations, grinding out 15k candy corns would take on the order of 300 hours or 12.5 entire days.
I welcome these changes. I welcome the harsher treatment of those who clearly insult others or the product of other people’s work or who make accusatory claims.
I do worry about there being a very fine line that might trip people up. I know I accidentally crossed that line long ago when I said that I thought someone was trolling… got an infraction for that. I guess the correct thing to have said was “I think so-and-so is deliberately trying to start an argument”, but I’m not sure actually. People saying deliberately inflammatory things is a problem on forums due to a lack of accountability and as such I do think it is of value to point it out when it seems to be happening so that others do not get hooked into a fake argument.
But anyway, I look forward to a more respectful forum.
Stick to your warrior…. but if you have to make an alt, pick a Guardian. All of the other classes besides the Guardian/Warrior are complete garbage right now.
Because crafting for me is no fun when you have to kill half a forrest and mine more than the 7 dwarfs to get one lousy item? With 8 chars this is going to take me longer than I live.
Hire the dredge to do your mining…and all those loggers in queensdale to do your chopping…
Maybe you should play each character more or play fewer of them. If all you do in this game is max gear your chars then retire them to play an alt, I don’t really have much sympathy for your difficulty in getting ascended weapons.
So much for GW2 to being alt friendly and so much for the community in GW2…both apparently suck according to the above poster…
It’s not alt friendly if you insist that you must have ascended weapons on your characters. It is alt friendly if you, like me, don’t give a rat’s kitten about ascended weapons because you would rather play the game and have fun.
I’m not sure I’m following. What would be an example of a game which is not pointless? I’m playing games because I think its fun. I have no interest in grinding for legendaries etc. For me, the main problem in this games is that most people I run into are only interested in dungeon speed runs, champion trains and other such nonsense.
^This. The problem is with the above mentioned part of the community. For them, the game is about loot and nothing else.
Why? Maybe they want to be the most tricked out for PvP. I don’t know. If it is PvP, then I think ANet should just make PvP gear only work in PvP and promote everyone who enters PvP to lvl 80 and allow them access to only a pre-defined set of gear. That way everyone in PvP is on a level playing field.
SAB should have never been introduced in the first place. It totally does not fit in with the GW2 theme. If it was a one-off, like when player characters were all turned into stick people in one memorable GW1 event, then it would be forgiveable.
I enjoy the story. It is not a very good story, but I still enjoy doing it. I think the game is a little better because of it than if it did not exist.
I would gladly pay for an expansion. But I’d like to see a pull back on the frequency of LS and, most of all, put attention into fixing bugs and classes.
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… getting an attitude and deciding to ruin the event for everyone else is much worse than reporting a couple of people for abuse. It’s the mentality of “They hit me with a stick so I am going to hit them with an i-beam” and it’s just as reprehensible as the original offense, which in truth would have affected me about as much as a gnat.
Screenie the chat, make a report, and then talk to a guild officer and tell them what happened. Then go back to playing instead of carrying the grudge to the point of becoming as much of a kitten as the person who hurt your feelings.
^ This. Don’t become part of the problem and act out like a child. Just take responsible and reasonable action and move on. It’s just a game afterall.
). Anyway, I’ll stick with my necro and thief.