Not really sure, since i only play on my thief (thank god, otherwise my ocd to get max gear would drive me crazy) im going to wait a week or two and let others waste cash/time to figure out what is best
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
LOL, anet has been adding sources for ectos in the bucket loads the past few months. Zerg here, zerg there, now go zerg here and there, now back here. Zerg zerg zerg zerg. There needed to be an ecto sink.
Not only that, it will bring players back to meta events for those guaranteed rares.
Dont worry, ectos will even out at about 33-35s. Where they should be.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
What concern me the most is that every time there is a way to make Gold in this game, something you can farm, exploit or not, they nerf it. I run my dungeons, which take 2 hours then I’m left with nothing to farm, they nerfed my karkas, then Orr, then CoF, then Deadeye and we are left with Invasion handing out an average of 4-6 gold an hour while the price keep getting higher…
Well that is a whole different issue.
Risk vs Reward in gw2 is fundamentally flawed atm
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
1. Ectos shoot way up (as they are now)
2. Everyone goes crazy on the 3rd crafting exotic gear
3. With the extreme amount of exotic gear now on the market, the prices crash
4. People buy this gear and salvage it for the dark material AND also get globs with it
Anet set this up very well. After the first week or two we will see globs settle around 35s ish (my educated guess) with the cheap exotics sitting at around 65s ish.
My recommendation to the masses. WAIT 2 WEEKS. You will be 1 weapon behind but you will save A TON of gold. People will figure out how to do everything the most efficient way for you. In the time being, go gather all those other mats from dungeons, wvw, jumping puzzles, temples, meta events or whatever suits your fancy.
Who knows, you may even get a weapon to drop for you in the first 2 weeks anyway
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Such a horrible move for the game. So disgusted right now. Done.
This gives me a good opportunity to continue playing some other games.
Why? Everything in this game is either given to you or you are hand held all the way there.
IMO the only way to get ascended weps should be fotm 48.
Enjoy that mindless, repetitive grind, then. No reason to engage the brain. Just do the same thing…48 Times.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Fractals are the 2nd most brain engaging thing in the game (behind pvp). Yeah there is only a certain amount of fractals in the game but thats only because anet refuses to add to them and instead preferring to add more boring zerg content. NOW THAT IS MINDLESS.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
“First off, crafting is not the only way to get Ascended Weapons! Anywhere you can get an Ascended Material drop or an Ascended item drop there is also a rare chance that you will get an Ascended Weapon chest that allows you to choose which weapon type you want from within a stat combo”
There is only one place where ascended materials drop. FRACTALS (and prob WvW). Unless they add them to dungeons or Queensdale. Which they will probably end up doing because people will complain fractals are to hard. Even though at lvl 48 they are still a breeze :/
Assuming you get an Ascended drop in the first place, what will the likelihood be that you will get the stats you want? Of the Exotic weapon drops I’ve gotten, all but a couple have Healing Power as the main stat.
Regardless, good luck and have fun. My cynicism is not aimed at you, but at ANet.
If you are going to kitten at least do so informed, they said that you get to CHOOSE what stats you want once you get a drop. CHOOSE, so you will get whatever stat you want.
Now what you should be shedding tears over instead is what weapon will drop, you do not know if you will get the weapon you want once you get a drop. Now start crying about that instead please.
That feeling when you get a fractal wep skin that you can use >
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
and I quote "First off, crafting is not the only way to get Ascended Weapons! Anywhere you can get an Ascended Material drop or an Ascended item drop there is also a rare chance that you will get an Ascended Weapon chest that allows you to choose which weapon type you want from within a stat combo.
NOT just fractals – champs, JP’s, WvW, mini dungeons, fractals, dungeons, etc.
Not just fractals? I have never gotten anything ascended that wasnt in fractals or WvW
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
“First off, crafting is not the only way to get Ascended Weapons! Anywhere you can get an Ascended Material drop or an Ascended item drop there is also a rare chance that you will get an Ascended Weapon chest that allows you to choose which weapon type you want from within a stat combo”
There is only one place where ascended materials drop. FRACTALS (and prob WvW). Unless they add them to dungeons or Queensdale. Which they will probably end up doing because people will complain fractals are to hard. Even though at lvl 48 they are still a breeze :/
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Who else is excited for this?! Spending a kitten ton of money and being time gated for 2 weeks is great and all (/sarcasm) but they finally did it! A reason to run the high end pve content!
THANK YOU ANET! Much love <3
P.S. To all you zergers who are whining because you cant be spoon fed or just given the weps, ZIP IT!
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
You guys dont have to wait 2 weeks. Go into fractals and there is a chance a chest will drop that will let you choose your wep and stats. Finally a reason to get back into fractals!
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
“First off, crafting is not the only way to get Ascended Weapons! Anywhere you can get an Ascended Material drop or an Ascended item drop there is also a rare chance that you will get an Ascended Weapon chest that allows you to choose which weapon type you want from within a stat combo. And lastly, there is a new collection tab for Ascended Crafting materials that includes all the new materials and gives you a little peak at the additional materials coming later this year.”
Fractals were not mentioned… but mist essences count as “ascended” material perhaps? EVERYONE, BACK TO FRACTALS, GO GO GO!
This is how i read it. If it is true (and i dont see why not) it provides a non time gated way and sorta a fractal rewards revamp. That is until everyone has their ascended weps and then fractals will die again LOL
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Zerg is more fun for me. Also, it can be increasingly more challenging if you push yourself to face the champs head on. It’s up to you sit back and spam 1 or push!
Ill give you 4/10 for using “push yourself”
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
1. The game title is called guild wars, but i don’t see an single war between guild nor a reference towards guilds fighting. Whats the point of the game being called Guild Wars if guilds don’t fight there is no halls! no teams! and you can only have 5 people in a party?
thanks for bringing up the original Game…. this is the second part yet not that many references were made when it comes to guilds.
Also those stories are not in the game they are on website that are associated with the game. I dont have to time to search for this when I want to spend my time in game and play.
Also they can also consider Daily Wars 2 as a title.
LOL thats what i do. Log in, Do my dailies, do my daily dragon by guesting to a server, then log out.
I did start to do the living story stuff until i got to the part where it required you to do 5 invasions.
Thanks, but no thanks.
As much as i LOVE zerging (/sarcasm), ill pass.
Edit: if my guildmate needs a fractal run ill jump in that sometimes.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
The skin shown on the SAB preview page (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/september-03-2013/) along with the Ascended Weapon description is a new one, if I’m not mistaken. So I assume that’d be the Ascended Rifle, which means all the others will have different skins as well.
I feel like they will all be the same (like pearl) but they will add a bunch of new ones to the forge (so people can use their Sp’s) and then some to fractals. along with making current fractal weapons ascended.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
The problem is 95% of the population is capable of farming the max cash per hour in a zerg.
95% of the population should not be able to do that. By all means keep zerging an option BUT it their needs to be ways to make better money that only the top 5-10% of players can do.
Honestly I would be ok with having elite content that paid out the same as zerging because that is what i enjoy. I just feel like spoon feeding everyone max cash per hour ruins the economy.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Using the excuse that you havent played for them to stop is very smart BUT this game is in DIRE need of permanent content. Non Zerging afk mindless content to be exact.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Because casuals are the main demographic in MMO’s today. A lot of the veteran MMO players are aging, and have families and careers.
This is a huge part of it. Those of us that have careers and families simply can’t play several hours every day, and that prevented us from fully enjoying games like WoW that are designed at the end game to cater to their hardcore player base.
I think the truth of the matter is even with games like WoW the majority of the players don’t get to experience all the end game content, although a lot of them may actually set foot in it from time to time. One of the best features of GW2 to me is that if I have a few weeks where maybe I get an hour or two to play each night at best I am not so far behind I can’t play with friends who were able to play longer hours.
I completely understand this. Im studying to become a materials engineer and working 30 hours a week but even i really want anet to throw us elite pver’s a bone or too.
There hasnt been anything since fractals, and fractals are a poor excuse at a traditional “endgame”.
I dont want to switch mmo’s to get elite endgame. I have been part of the GW’s world since the very beginning so many years ago.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Ok, people are bashing the OP – but a core philosophy of Anet was always that best-in-slot gear should be simple to get. Skill is supposed to outweigh gear. As it stands, the WoWgrindboys have agitated for a gear treadmill, and are being rewarded with one, at the expense of everyone who doesn’t live in the game 24/7.
Huh? Anet was forcing people into one alt and build wayyyyyyyyyyyy before ascended gear came into the picture.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.
I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.
What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.
Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.
And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?
WvW.
Like you said, Fractals aren’t harder, just more annoying and takes longer which is why I don’t do it.
And WvW is 90% zerging, where having ascended instead of exotics really wont matter.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
What do you guys run as weapon sets? I find myself using d/p + short for bosses (unless im really feeling lazy ill run p/p and afk auto attack ) and then s/p + short for trash mobs.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.
I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.
What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.
Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.
And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
Why is the new salvage kit account bound and the unlimited tools are not? I am a player that switches alts about every 2 months or so and i would really love to bring my tools with me. I mean i payed $10 each for them and i would have to spend another $30 to get another set? Comon’ Anet. I know you arent that desperate for cash
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
No. They have given absolutely nothing to us elite pver’s. They didnt post on the dungeon forums for months until CJ finally posted something on the TA sub thread, smh………. As the game stands its almost mindless.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
I can agree with you but thats because farming in this game is brainless. Now if their was some elite pve that was extremely difficult but rewarded you really well then i wouldnt agree with you.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.
I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.
“If you want to get rid of “zerk” you have to make content
hard enough to make them cry, not just rivers but oceans."
