I still like the temporary content, it really does make it feel like a living world. So I miss something one month or two months, big deal, there’ll be something new to do next month.
ANet is trying to cater to players who say they want harder content. Pity that demographic does not seem to be actually using the content that was supposedly developed for them.
Unfortunately, like in dungeons, they made things ‘more annoying’ instead of ‘harder’. More rewards would help too, 2 rares, a blue and a karka shell is garbage compared to a rare, a good possibility of 2 rares, a decent possibility of 3 and a bunch of masterwork/fine stuff that you get on a regular world boss.
Yeah after doing the event a couple times and dying trying to get there a couple more I gave up on it. Two rares, a blue and a karka shell are not worth the trouble considering I usually pull an extra rare on most meta events anyhow. Whoever said it before was right: The only thing that made Southsun interesting and fun was the 200%MF and the Instigator events. Since those are gone the island isn’t fun OR rewarding enough to bother with it.
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Nah, this is really awesome. I don’t care about skins or looks at all, just having new stuff to do every couple of weeks to keep the game fresh is really fun and I like it a lot.
Thing is, it’s not about skins and looks. It’s about content that makes sense, and works well. Just having, “stuff to do” isn’t good enough if that stuff is buggy, or lacks depth/coherency.
Think about it, how many bugged/exploited events have been released since Flame & Frost? The only explanation I can think of for the high number is a lack of proper testing.
If they are pumping out content, yet don’t have the time to develop it correctly, then its frustrating and time consuming.
Actually that makes it kind of fun in my opinion. So I had to wait a couple days to get the holo wings, not a big deal. Do I think lighting 50 effigies is stupid? Sure, so I’m not doing it…once again, not a big deal. Do I think the karka queen isn’t worth the effort that it takes to get her to pop? Nope, not at all, so once again, not doing it…but the overall effect is very cool and it’s what’s going to keep me playing for another month until Shadowrun(hopefully) comes out.
Nah, this is really awesome. I don’t care about skins or looks at all, just having new stuff to do every couple of weeks to keep the game fresh is really fun and I like it a lot.
If this was done properly, there would be no confusion. This is a game, all answers should be IN THE GAME, not on any website. Also, the game has so many bugs, that your first assumption on being stuck is that something is broken.
As a 15 year veteran of the IT field, I can tell you that at least 50% of people cannot follow clear, step by step directions unless they have associated pictures. A good 70%+ of the US population is functionally illiterate.
What I’m saying is that the people asking what to do in map chat just can’t read at a level that allows them to function properly, and no amount of hand holding will change that.
what i hope, since was promissed to come soon enough is:
-lfg tool , not a moment too soon
- improvment in lag and culling aka “tha end of pve culling!” since has ben “not volountarly” spoiled
- the end of “beta” for custom arena
-class balance
and these can be quite realistic expectations.
there can be:
-loot revamp!! as promised by colin “sometime this summer” but don’t hold ur breath
-the s@#][ hunt, that word u cannot say without flames coming dow from the sky
-areal toal split of wvw pvp and pve
thee are unlikely but still possible imho.
and then the third category, i call “leve your hopes”
-MOUNTS, no i’m pretty sure we ain’t gonna get them
-he end of rng boxes
- reintroduction of trinity
-the end of dailys
-locker for skins like pvp
-increased stack size for current collectibles
-dungeon tokens collectible tab or tokens “virtualization”
these are NOT likely to happen because most of them will reduce real money income or gold sinks or a enormus remake of the engine..
then we can switch off speculation mode..
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwww:
i red something from colin saying that they could be working on a method to lower the price orincrease drop of lodestones in general.., that was in the t6you think we ccan expect a similar trick soon? now sell sell sell sell sell
trolling and specultion of lol.
I’m with you on a lot of this but I’m not seeing why everyone thinks ‘the trinity’ is such a good thing. I’m not an MMO player, I played MUDs, and we never had a ‘trinity’. A system based totally around three types of classes is really boring and static. The way GW2 did it is great, IMHO, except that better healing options are needed for every class.
Wow, ok I guess you definitely are too good for this game…running all the dungeons solo and complaining that they’re not long enough. I’m glad it’s not geared to people like you, it would be 0 fun if it were.
Well, I do it almost exclusively through crafting, however I have so many materials from playing through the game so far that I rarely spend a dime to level them. I avoid cooking because that is the one craft that I don’t have an over abundance of materials for, but if I need to make up some levels at the end I just go through enough of the personal story to hit 80 (usually no more than 4-5 quests/missions).
Cooking costs about 3g to fully level if you have most of the map unlocked and the right guide. Oh and a few hundred karma for the various sacks of stuff.
when I go see the new Hobbit movie in the movie theatre, you better believe I’ll take my boyfriend.
Please don’t, all it is is a cynical attempt to fleece stupid amounts of money from the public. If we all stop supporting it, maybe it’ll stop and we can all go back to watching the cartoon movie, which is a perfect adaptation of the source material.
Oh and also this is a video game, and an MMO at that…
There’s several reasons bugs occur in the first place: Poor code, QA lacking, …
The main reason is that the bigger and more complex your codebase gets, the more bugs will creep in. GW2’s codebase is giant and highly complex, there will be many bugs no matter what you do to try to stamp them out…because human beings aren’t perfect coding machines. Trust me, I’ve seen way worse in high end, multimillion dollar business systems.
Tbh and we all know this, they wont fix anything, its all about getting you to spend your money in the tp on gems fact. Iam just like all the rest of you waiting for the next set of mmo’s to come out untill then ill have to put up with there incompetence, O and ofc dont forget not to put real money in2 there tp ;D if you want to make them understand stop paying them.
Hahaha guy who can’t spell or use grammar calls people who can actually program things incompetent. Gotta love the internet.
Though holy carp it’d be nice if they would know what’s actually in their code…
I don’t do any of the regularly but I’ve never gotten better than a Masterwork from one. They seem to have about the same drop rate for rare or better that the meta event chests did before the changes.
, put up with AFK players in Dragon Ball, and now I have nothing to show for it.
Nobody forced you to play Dragon Ball. I realized it was lame after a few games and gave up on it, there were obviously going to be enough of ach’s to get 10 for the wings without doing any Dragon Ball at all.
Best looking area of the game and once you know where the keys are it’s cake to get through. None of the JP chests have a good chance of anything good.
This game is impossibly easy, even when you don’t have power-ups. It’s about staying with your team and moving/dodging more efficiently than your opponent. I’ve won about 80% of the games I’ve played (around 70-80 games).
I attribute it to my gamepad though. I use a Razer Nostromo game pad to play with, and it does give me a bit of a movement advantage with the thumb stick.
Yeah since there are no marks on the minimap for where your team is, staying with your team is pretty close to impossible. Also there’s no description of the powerups unless you mouse over them and then as you’re reading you’re dead.
I’m glad I don’t play GW2 for the mini games, there’s not a single one that works well with the engine they’re using.
Half the fun is figuring out what’s going on. Too much hand holding these days…in the MUD days they wouldn’t even announce additions smaller than a new continent, it was up to players to find it themselves.
Plus getting one blue and one karka shell from the big chest is total BS. I have a decent chance of pulling 2+ rares from other big chest metas PLUS other stuff to sell/toss in the Forge.
So you don’t like the Karka Queen meta because the RNG doesn’t treat you as nice through it than with other events.
If you want to look at it like that, sure. I don’t think I’m the only one either.
The boss unlocks a merchant with awesome stuffs, right? Well the longest I ever got to stare at those stuffs was 1 minute, because then a point got contested again.
I never even saw those merchants, the only time I took time to look for them is when the karka horde spawned directly on top of me.
Plus getting one blue and one karka shell from the big chest is total BS. I have a decent chance of pulling 2+ rares from other big chest metas PLUS other stuff to sell/toss in the Forge.
you get two guaranteed rares (can even be exotics) though.
I know, but I as I said you have the guaranteed rare PLUS a good chance at at least one other rare from any other big chest event(many times I’ll get 2 from the big chest), and a bunch of Fine/Masterwork items also. Those can be exo’s also and the exo’s from the other events are worth more than Settler’s stuff. Contrast that to 2, admittedly guaranteed rares, but only one karka shell and one other item…pretty lousy for the work you have to do.
Haha yeah nested quotes don’t work right on this forum past a certain number of them it seems…
Getting Rickrolled by a horde of karka the first time I did it REALLY turned me off of the event. I did it a couple times after that but honestly by making this a ‘challenging’ event they dialed the ‘fun’ quotient too far down for my taste.
Plus getting one blue and one karka shell from the big chest is total BS. I have a decent chance of pulling 2+ rares from other big chest metas PLUS other stuff to sell/toss in the Forge.
while the fireworks last for about 5 minutes, you need to be present during the finale of the event when the dragon is defeated (and dives into the sea)
That’s weird, I got the ach and the helm but the dragon never moved…?
More and more I am experiencing this habit that the community has to despise people who claim to be skilled for this game.
Try it: go to LA, and say that you are a good player. (Note: I am not saying I do it. This sentence is for rhetorical purposes)
People will instantly tell you that you lack humility, that you are an elitist, that you are despicable etc; for no reason.
People do not want to see or be aware of the fact that some players can be more skilled than them (no boasting, just statement of skill). The community seem to believe that they would be better off without such players.
It appears as if the community would like to stay bad and play only with bad people.
It is also the same on the forums.
I believe this is not benefiting the game in itself because it promotes stale and boring gameplay additions rather than diverse and challenging content.
As a comparison: when you play football as an amateur you play it for fun and you dream of being as skilled as the players of international level. In GW2 the ’amateurs" have no such dreams, worse: they do not want to face the fact that being better is possible.
With all due respect, why the discrimination?
Do this: Go to the middle of NYC and scream about how you’re the best at Guild Wars 2. See what kind of a reaction you get.
Seriously, would it have been so difficult to just force nighttime in la when it’s 20:00 IRL? Waiting for some arbitrary schedule without notice is unfun and stupid.
That’s what I figured would happen, it’s the logical way to do it.
The firework event cycle (them happening every two hours) was started at 9:00 AM PDT. The event itself is tied to the ingame time and will happen at dawn (ingame). So your fireworks might not have happened yet, as it is not dawn ingame.
Apologies for us not communicating this more clearly. But the fireworks will happen every two hours over the course of the weekend, so plenty of time to marvel at them and get the achievement.
How long does the day/night cycle even last in game? I figured since you say the fireworks will happen every 2 hours that the cycle is 2 hours? I never even notice because the differences in lighting are so small and I hardly ever have the skybox in my view because of the way the camera works.
Yeah I felt bad after I did that the first time on my necro, started just throwing down 2 staff skills to tag them but not full out blasting them so others could get hits in too.
I like the leeches, they’re the only characters I can actually kill. It seems like I can hit someone the same amount of times they hit me and yet I always die…
I’m soloing the ones in Wayfarer with my lv 20 warrior in lv 10 gear without much of a problem, but the invuln is annoying and why do they sometimes wander off and fight Dolyaks like 1000 feet away instead of attacking PC’s? It’s weird…
Yeah I got 3 wins in less than an hour and with only a loss of like 50s, but man was it BORING and not fun in any way.
Only reason I even did it is because you won’t get me to play 20 games of dragon ball with a gun to my head, never mind actually WINNING 20 games of dragon ball…I’m not some kind of completionist but I’d like to get the wings…
You’re going to stand there for all that time just to get a mini? Man it was boring enough standing around betting on the races for like a half hour-40 minutes to get 3 wins for the ach, and I only did that because I’d like to get the wings and there’s no way I’m playing 20 games of dragon ball never mind winning them…
