Guild Wars 2

Mrbig.8019:

DiogoSilva.7089:

Well, to be honest, I don’t think ele glass cannons are that strong. In fact, their bursts are very unreliable, it just so happens that builds with berzerker amulet have now more room to breath and do their stuff.

I don’t see what is the problem of a profession having two viable builds instead of one. Is that some kind of luxury? I know some professions have been or are at a worse state, but there are also professions that have 2-3 viable pvp builds. This is, what, the first time that players who want an offensive elemental spellcaster in pvp have the chance to use it without being terrible bad?

Can’t you see the problem here ?

Eles were already dominating with that kitten bunker build with S/D;

now, since quickness can no longer punish “mistakes”, eles can start running mixed offensive builds ( zerker builds are not optimal when the sustained dps version of the ele is so strong) going X-X-X-15-30 or X-X-X-20-30 with valkyrie and arcane utilities, or S/D with zerker, make 4 eles teams and demolish everything in their sight, refulling into seconds and ressing each other NO STOP.

On my DPS ele ( 0-20-0-20-30 with valk ammo and arcane utilities), a dps combo ( switch to air, RTL-updraft-burning spedd + arcane blast-wave+ ring of fire + fire grab) can easily deal around 15 k damage AOE, and i’m talking about a TANKY DPS.

Now there’s no way to punish ele stacking, we’re in the new ele meta, where a 4 eles team + guard can not only be viable, but competitive and , probably, unbeatable.

I don’t want to speak for him, but I think you are going beyond the scope of what he is saying. He isn’t rejecting that or denying that bunkers are not an issue. he is simply saying that elementalist that don’t want to run the cheap-O-bunker build now has a chance to run glass canon.

Without a fear of nearly instant unreactive death, ele can trade some survival to damage.

Any dungeon armor skins or it is still that crappy kittenty karma gear, a lot of sane people have come to loathe?

Kwll.1468:

Custom Arenas that you have to pay for will ultimately be a giant flop. Mark my words.

If it fails, it simply proves that they were right not to invest too much into it. If they can’t monetize it, then really there is no point focusing resources on it.

Torqky.3682:

Not debating it needed a nerf. It was blatantly overpowered for how long? They finally nerf it because it was beginning to effect pve and possibly wvw with the new progression updates allowing for siege might making golems plus timewarp too strong. Anybody seen the pve threads crying because people are farming CoF speed runs with 4 warriors and a mesmer and they arn’t invited because they are X class? They need to seperate PvE, WvW, and SPVP balance but they don’t have the resources for it

Like they said the reason for nerfing is pointless, the simple fact is it was OP. Once you understand that, it doesn’t really matter the reason they changed it NOW.

Another reason could simply be that, they finally had the guts to admit Quickness was a bad mechanic from the start.

kubetz.3058:

It looks this patch is dedicated to engineers, but I think they deserve that.

Some love for S/x and I hope they will continue to work on that weapon some more on that in the next patches.

Quickness was nerfed which is affecting elementist indirectly. Some professions will be less bursty which is making them bit less dangerous and will give eles more time to react. I’m pulling this out of my kitten, but it also made eles bit more comparable with some other professions as their burst got toned down so they are bit less ahead in that area.

It affect the elementalist even more so, if you are one of those people that run bunker. You don’t have to worry to much about burst taking you down.

This patch is a huge nerf to thieves. They can’t burst me down and they have to can’t instantly go back into stealth.

Valik Shin.9027:

Shadow.3475:

Yes and Arenanet sad we can not make map any bígger.

This makes me sad. If
This is as big of maps as they can make that is poor design

I am so glad you are not a designer, I would pity the people that work for you or buy your products.

If you are looking to make a BIG difference, come to Sanctum of RALL. To us in this server, YOU WILL be appreciated and YOU WILL make a big difference. At the bare minimum, don’t bother with JQ, those guys don’t need anymore SEA guilds.

swinsk.6410:

It’s pretty funny. Yes, I have found tornado to be utterly useless for the most part except for this.

I wish arenanet would do something about tornado, I do like using it because it is a “fun” skill and it allows me to after a zerg v zerg to clear out so of the half dead players.

mbh.8301:

Honestly, all areas should be like this so that all players can experience an active zone no matter where they go. I shouldn’t be surprised to see another player when I’m off doing noble quests.

Also; this is how the district system worked in gw1 for towns.

ya, that isn’t what i am suggesting. If I wanted to play a game like that I would totally be playing gw1.

I am speaking strictly world bosses, I actually like other players whenever I am doing something “noble”. I am suggesting an open instance for bosses because it will allow everybody to participate while keeping the content from breaking apart as the result of too many players.

i am not talking about bringing back gw1 diablo based system nor i am wishing for something that wont happen.

Instead of having all the bosses out in the open and prone to extreme lag and the other issues related to that, why don’t all future bosses be in an instance or to be more precise an open instance.

In this open instance everybody and anybody can go into the instance and if the instance reaches the maximum amount of players a new instance is created. This would allow for a more controlled environment and less lag. The lore could be created that the boss decided to teleport all it’s victims to another dimension and blah blah.

Ofc the whole map would be notified so that nobody misses it and the instance will stay up as long as the boss is not dead.

We need dual pistols nothing says caster like a caster gun from outlaw star. Seriously, make it happen.

Naga mouse.
1-10 (skills)
shift 1-4 attunement
11 weapon change for (non elementalist)
12 techanically dodge or I don’t remember
V for dodge.

DeathPanel.8362:

silvermember.8941:

DeathPanel.8362:

silvermember.8941:

stof.9341:

Red Falcon.8257:

they probably also partecipated guild missions

Not really. And even if he was ikittenerg guild, how will a level 20 player participate in a guild mission that sends him into Frostgorge Sound or Fireheart Rise ?

Edit: wth, since when is the three letters N A and Z censored and for what reason? XD

The question is WHY would a level 20 character be concern about Level 80 gear?

BTW I don’t agree with ARenanet stance on forcing players to join guilds to get gear, I wish the was another method to get rings, because I certainly WONT ever ever join a guild. Guilds change the way, I play games and I don’t want to be bound by anybody other than myself. And I wish I could craft them even if they require a lot of work or reasonable work.

For the 50th time, you are NOT forced to join guilds to get those items because you have the option to get those SAME items from the laurel vendor for laurels/ectos.

I do know that, but it cost me less laurels or time and stuff. I would rather they be other ways to achieve them that doesn’t screw over or at least push you into joining a guild, which is really my problem.

Wrong. It does not push you to joining a guild because you have an alternate way to get the item.

You are simply complaining because the alternate way is not kitten easy. It has nothing to do with guilds. You would be here complaining regardless even if the only way to get it was through laurels and ectos.

Exactly as Jornophelanthas.1475 said. (btw I am a guy).

My issue is it unfairly reward guilds over the individual. If the was another way that took the exact amount of time or even comparably closer amount, I wouldn’t care. The current system punishes players that don’t want to subjugate themselves to a guild. I don’t want to be in a guild, my days in a guild are done.

If it cost 100 ecto and 100 laurel and everybody had to pay for that amount even people in a guild, i wouldn’t complain at all. As long as it is equally punishing players in a big or small guild, but the system doesn’t do that. I hate that. Obviously, i am not gonna join a big guild just go get kittenty earrings, my hope is that eventually Arenanet will figure out what they want to do and do the right thing.

Avatar.1923:

problem with gw2 isnt the engine so much as what they do with it.

its a thempark; embrace it.

What exactly does that have to do with anything. The people that play guild wars 2 are under no illusions that it isn’t a themepark. Now if only sandbox players could stop QQing and go play all those great sandbox, games and leave us UNENLIGHTENED folks here.

DeathPanel.8362:

silvermember.8941:

stof.9341:

Red Falcon.8257:

they probably also partecipated guild missions

Not really. And even if he was ikittenerg guild, how will a level 20 player participate in a guild mission that sends him into Frostgorge Sound or Fireheart Rise ?

Edit: wth, since when is the three letters N A and Z censored and for what reason? XD

The question is WHY would a level 20 character be concern about Level 80 gear?

BTW I don’t agree with ARenanet stance on forcing players to join guilds to get gear, I wish the was another method to get rings, because I certainly WONT ever ever join a guild. Guilds change the way, I play games and I don’t want to be bound by anybody other than myself. And I wish I could craft them even if they require a lot of work or reasonable work.

For the 50th time, you are NOT forced to join guilds to get those items because you have the option to get those SAME items from the laurel vendor for laurels/ectos.

I do know that, but it cost me less laurels or time and stuff. I would rather they be other ways to achieve them that doesn’t screw over or at least push you into joining a guild, which is really my problem.

So you did only 60 attempts and somehow expect a precursor from the mystic toilet? On the spectrum of attempts yours is pretty LOW.

Anyways, as much as I want to feel sorry for you I wont, because we know that eventually thwy would be a 100% method to get it and if you can’t wait for it, don’t complain when you get screwed over.

stof.9341:

Red Falcon.8257:

they probably also partecipated guild missions

Not really. And even if he was ikittenerg guild, how will a level 20 player participate in a guild mission that sends him into Frostgorge Sound or Fireheart Rise ?

Edit: wth, since when is the three letters N A and Z censored and for what reason? XD

The question is WHY would a level 20 character be concern about Level 80 gear?

BTW I don’t agree with ARenanet stance on forcing players to join guilds to get gear, I wish the was another method to get rings, because I certainly WONT ever ever join a guild. Guilds change the way, I play games and I don’t want to be bound by anybody other than myself. And I wish I could craft them even if they require a lot of work or reasonable work.

Asglarek.8976:

Jski.6180:

StormageddonBK.9842:

Lexandro.1456:

I read that piece and it actually said that culling would be “player controled” iirc. That means its just a slider or setting in the game now. High end systems can push the slider out and get less noticable culling or possibly eliminate it.

A LOT of people are still going to have culling issues, now though Anet can say its all their fault since they give you the control over it.

If this turns out to be true then I’m done with the game. How can ESOL have a mega server with so much more players and no culling reported? Sadly GW2 is not giving me a reason to stay…

I have yet to see ESOL mega server deal with culling of there own so lets see how that works out (i have a feeling its going to be there too btw).

ESOL developed a brand new 3d engine, ANET just tweeked the GW1 3d engine which was never designed to fill large amounts of polygons.

There is nothing wrong with being excited about a game, but you haven’t actually played the game NOR have you seen the game in action. If you are excited about the game, great but don’t act like it is better or will be better UNTIL you have actually played the game.

Besides culling isn’t exclusive to gw2, it also happens to planetside 2 as well. The alternative to culling for the majority of MMO players is a really big drop in FPS like we used to experience in aion, well essentially you had to turn off all player models and leave only player names.

added: read my signature it speaks the truth.

A lot of people are not getting this, but the lag from dragon fight is caused by people server hopping to kill drag for nearly 100% change of rares.

Personally, the only way to fix it imo is to make it once per account per meta boss per reset and then bump up the loot the exotic, to minimize server hoping. People with more than 2+ characters are going to be hoping to maximize the boss skills.

Another possibility is the reduce the amount of people on the maps with popular meta events, but I still think the my first idea is better and rewards players for killing the dragons and makes it worthwhile.

added: another possibility is the synchronize all the bosses on all the NA/EU server, as to minimize all server hoppers like me.

Until, then I personally don’t mind hoping servers for a good chance for rares. Actually, the game has devolved into me doing just that, sadly.

pwain.4678:

silvermember.8941:

Five words: I am quitting the game. Refund time kittenes.

Mama, they nerfed my class. They are bad

QQ

Not before you tell Mommy, how you made a funny on the Guild wars 2 forums.

If you were not smart enough to figure i was joking, surprise I was joking.

Let’s see what tomorrow has instore for us before saying D-D or go home. Maybe tomorrow they completely cripple the D/D who knows.

The problem with raids if once you put it, you have to keep supporting, which takes away content from everywhere else just to please a very small percentage of the population.

The second problem with raids is that, they are generally attached to rewards that force people to do the. Some might argue to make it cosmetic, but from my experience the type of people who raid WANT some incentive and cosmetic gear isn’t going to do the trick. This eventually leads to raids not being used. so now you have content designed for a very small fraction of the population percentage wise (based on WoW an estimated 7 to 10% are raiders), take away all the gear and you ended with an even smaller percentage. The question becomes it is worth it to dedicate resources for content that a very small population is going to play?

Personally, I see it as, most of the people that like raids aren’t going to leave WoW to come raid in guild wars 2 for non leet gear, so why bother wasting resources that could be used for content that many more would enjoy.

They are not gonna do it because linux is not that popular. Steam is only doing it because they are afraid, microsoft is going to crush their main source of income. I don’t think steam will be successful in what they are attempting to do.

You should google how to play your crappy music taste into guild wars 2. There are officially supported methods to play whatever crappy song you enjoy in guild wars 2.

Just messing with you about the crappy music taste.

Tigerpaw.2319:

Fingers crossed for E3 announcment

They don’t go to E3. And they even said they are not working on it either. I remember in guild wars 1 (specifically guild wars 1), guild halls after the initial parade became dead. I doubt they are going to dedicate resource ATM to something that has no lasting value.

Its only a level 4 toon it doesnt take long to lvl. Just delete, but from what I read recently I think you can do that., but they were not sure

Given how lackluster the cash shop is, I doubt Arenanet cares about making money until they can stabilize the game.

But seriously, they don’t have to design new armor just put over some of the most popular Gw1 armor. Ofc, the issue might be how to redesign them for other racist but seriously their cash shop sucks in terms of cosmetic items.

Way to fail, Arenanet.

Leamas.5803:

silvermember.8941:

In PvE, I agree but then again there is no PvE game (MMORPG) that require you to use your brain. The only difficult thing in EVERY PvE game is either level difference and not having the right gear. Everything else is mindless button mashing.

I disagree. If the NPC enemies are written well, with enough randomness build in their algorithms, PvE can be very good and require you to actually think and strategist. GW2 also included PvE elements that requires pure agility and control, jumping puzzles being a prime example.

well I guess there is a difference in skill between me and you. Most “hard” bosses have cheap mechanics, sort of like “SNK boss syndrome”. And btw there isn’t an IF hardly any mmo bosses have a brain or are smart, just cheap tricks.

Assyrian.4827:

Hawkian.6580:

Assyrian.4827:

Finaly someone who realy understand what is wrong with GW2
+1.

I don’t expect this to have any impact on your view, but I want to make a brief point…

While EasyModeX is more than entitled to his complaints and you’re more than entitled to agree with him, my fervent hope is that ArenaNet does not listen to or alter the game around them.

Changing the game to accomodate the things that bother players like you would be unwise from a developmental standpoint- counterintuitive as that might seem. I stand with the overwhelmingly content silent majority playing this game, and who will continue to do so- it makes much more sense to design based around what they want, retaining them and me, with the unfortunate tradeoff that players like you might get frustrated enough to abandon the game and move onto something else.

It sucks to have any player stop playing a game because they want it to be different, but it’s important to understand the sort of dynamics at play here.

For a game to be fun you need to use yor brain.
In GW2 I don’t need to do that, the only time I do is to dodge the red circle.

Obviously you don’t PvP, so ofc you would make such a ridiculous statement. Ironically, dodging the giant red circles is more than what most games would require from the player.

In PvE, I agree but then again there is no PvE game (MMORPG) that require you to use your brain. The only difficult thing in EVERY PvE game is either level difference and not having the right gear. Everything else is mindless button mashing.

MaRko.3165:

silvermember.8941:

I was there in orr when after the 5 day when people just grind and grind and did orr and CoF for hours straight.

Egads man!! (LOL!!) It took me almost 2 months of 2-4hrs a night to make it to Orr! (man I must play slow….. )

I think that the developers may have under estimated how quickly players can run through content. I think the ever lower drop rates will slow things down as well as if they rework the dungeons there will some delay as while players figure out the new mechanics. The new ‘guild quests’ sound interesting for those players and this title appears to have a dedicated development crew behind it that are devoted to making it better. I still think that crafting ought to be supported more and voice comm while in a dungeon instance would not be a bad thing.

IDK, I typically play through a dozen or more titles a year. Its very rare that a game will ‘grab’ me for more than a month. GW2 was one of the few that did.

(BTW: I like your sig….. too true….)

I play multiple games as well. I don’t believe in dedicating your life to only one game. variety is the spice of life, with so many greats why only play one game.
As a result of guild wars 2 have a backlog of 10 games and after I get over my “dungeon phase” I am going back to other games (right now I am playing fire emblem).

My sig is from years of watching MMO players make that mistake. They get excited about a game, call it the greatest thing since slice bread, once they play it they praise it more then after they play enough of it, they complain how it was disappointing. Now usually, its not a problem until you realize instead of admitting that they dreamed up or hype the game in their minds and move on, they stay and QQ all day long. The worst part is, they don’t learn and will continue the cycle.

yan.9513:

DanteZero.9736:

Yan, we’ve known for years that EotN would grant us rewards if we filled up the HoM. We had years to work on it. Your first post has me wondering, what prevented you from getting EotN in the first place?

Probably because I give up for a time from GW1.

I went back to playing GW1 like 6 months before the release of GW2 and was expecting ArenaNet would consider giving something for older players not by buying EoN.

They should reward everyone like other publisher does.

The question is:

What makes ppl with EoN better than others? (if you consider HoM a reward)

Why they didnt reward everyone with GW1 GW Faction and GW Nightfall, not saying should be Hall of Monuments. (if you consider HoM a paid feature)

And plz less fanboys some ppl advocate ArenaNet like majority shareholders.

Just because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t make them a fanboy. I will defend the right of ferrari to charge whatever they want for their cars not because I like their kittenty cars but because is not require, not mandatory and a cheap kia can do the job as well.

Your original premise was dumb, don’t act surprise that some people are not supporting you. also at EoTN it was said that you will be storing your achievement and it will carry over via the EoTN. so really the only one to blame is yourself.

Ignorance is not really an excuse, well I guess it is in this age of first world problems.

Avatar.1923:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/02/15/camelot-unchained-aims-to-be-unattractive-to-gold-sellers-and-fa/

thats the future, and gw2 is a tiny step in that direction.

farmers and compusilve looters and all this bunch, are killing mmos slowly.
ultima online was right.

lets get back to the root of a virtual world.

Hype don’t you love it. You havent actually seen it in action and yet you come here and proclaim or try to imply it is better than something out there.

Beside it is from Mark Jacobs, instead of being excited about something nonexistent or haven’t actually seen in action how about you wait and see.

Btw you should read my sig.

Frega.9247:

An MMO with a subscription is meant to stall you. GW2 shouldn’t have to do that.

Some sub MMOs aren’t even as a pain in the kitten as this one.

Guild wars 2 did nto stall you the first few weeks and you know what happen. A lot of people burn through the content, got everything THEN turn around and complain how the game had very little content. I was there in orr when after the 5 day when people just grind and grind and did orr and CoF for hours straight.

Reality is that given perpetual nature of MMOs, they needs to be a reason to slow/stall for from achieving everything. Arenanet mistakenly thought people would play for the sake of fun, but if you read the forum long enough you would find that it isn’t true.

Just to add unlike single player gamers, MMO player feel that an MMO game should be able to sustain their 8 hours a day play styles forever and unless you can find the algorithms to generate infinite content, stalling via grind and a combination of RNG and limted tokens is the most effectieve method.

Games with monthly sub do this by making raids and sometimes putting a 1 week timer and then having you compete against other player when something you need actually drops.

MaRko.3165:

Leamas.5803:

MaRko.3165:

When it comes to ‘loot’, I think there ought to be more raw materials dropped then finished items. This would energize the crafting in the game. ‘Rare’ and ‘Exotic’ items need to be just that – rare and exotic – the drop rates for these things ought to be poor.

This would be a first step in helping crafting, but they also need to bring prices down in the TP so that crafting is worthwhile. Currently for many, or perhaps a majority of craftable items, it’s more profitable to sell the mats and buy the item you want, especially if those mats are one of the required items for legendaries.

With the exception of a handful, most exotics require ecto…where does that ecto come from? Mostly rares since I expect most people sell exotics and just buy ecto with the profit. No rare drops means no ecto, unless you craft rares specifically to salvage (I once heard this might be considered an exploit), or buy them. At 15 T5 mats to make one rare, it can take quite some time to farm with these drop rates. Since it’s been nerfed it’s only a small chance of getting ecto from the rare. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten ecto from a salvaged rare, even before the nerf and I used to salvage lots to recover upgrades. The 7 ecto I have all came from 3 exotics I salvaged to get the upgrades back.

As for exotics that do not require ecto, say the lodestone weapons. Well, lodestones drop so incredibly infrequently that it could take many months of farming, more, if you’re unlucky like me, to get the 30 lodestones required. While I have unsuccessfully tried farming destroyer lodestones, in approximately 600 hours of play, I have never had a lodestone or a core drop of any kind…ever. You’re more likely to gather the ~40G required to buy the mats long before gathering 30 lodestones…which is fine I guess, unless your loot drops are so bad overall that it takes several days to make one gold. Then, unless you have the level 400 crafting skill, you still need to find someone you trust to make it for you.

Thats sad really. I had a blast with the crafting in Skyrim. Not only were mats easy to find but you could make items WAY more powerful than what you could purchase or find in the game. This was the underlying incentive to get into crafting – better gear!

In GW2 its cheaper to just buy what you want rather than make it. There’s no incentive to make it yourself as the items you craft are just as good as drops.

Personally I think they should just remove Legendary weapons from the game or have them be very rare drops like “Final Rest” is. I can’t belief how many people are ‘grinding away’ for the mats/precursor just to have one.

Monday night or Tuesday I’ll be playing Crysis3. While this game was ‘fun’, I’m not quite sure I like the inherent limitations and mechanics that the MMO genera offers and those presently out weigh the positives.

edit

If you had actually search the forum you would find the answer to your question. Anyways, some of the things for got moved to march and we don’t know much of what is in the February discussion and nor their implementation, so to answer you question: there is no answer because bigger than oct, nov and december mean different things to me, you and to them.

Based on your writing style you are trying to stir up the works, so no matter what answer one provide it wouldn’t be sufficient to you.

I think we should have some more skill synergy, but given that it is an MMO, I realistically don’t expect it. If I want an extremely deep combat, I go play console/PC varients because they are designed for people like me, now given that MMOs are design to pull in everyone including people that can’t handle real combat or WoW players, I am not expecting it.

Hawkian.6580:

Raine.1394:

I actually chose my words carefully and said what I believe to be the truth. Name me a grindy game where you grind thirty days to get one item in one slot. I now have 8 level 80 characters. To have them equipped with max level gear, that’s what, eight months for one slot out of how many slots are we grinding gear for?

Should I respond to your “you don’t really need the item to play the game” here or should I wait your you to state it?

First, you understand that costing 30 laurels does not mean that you have to play for 30 days, right? People who have attained every laurel so far will able to get theirs tonight after the daily- that’s 18 days.

Second, there’s an extreme assumption that eight months from now, the only options to get ascended amulets will be the same as they are now, and that obtaining laurels will be possible only at the same rate they are now. I don’t know why you’d think that. Ascended gear has only been made easier to get over time already. This trend will continue.

Third, the language you used really implies that an Ascended amulet is the only type of item in the game that can occupy that slot. Surely you will agree that you can obtain an exotic amulet in less than a day, correct?

Fourth, I would appreciate your response to the speculative point you offered. I have yet to see a compelling answer for it and I wouldn’t mind hearing your perspective.

They did it by doing monthly which gives 10, but he doesn’t want to do the monthly because he hate dungeons. to some degree I agree, but 5 dungeons can be done in 2 hours which is what I did and found them fun enough to now actively trying to do them every day. I had avoided them since release.

The only problem with dailies is that it is currently the ONLY way to get laurels, now if we could get them by other means then the dailies would become less mandatory and more fun. Instead of logging in and playing and I m logging in to make sure I get my dailies, which is sadly bringing back memories of aion and fort defense.

It always good to realize when something isn’t meant for you. Now if only people did not feel the need to be validated by making a post on forum. But I suppose MMO are a very emotional thing for some people.

I think i m going to start making emotional post whenever I finish playing a single player game.

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Not spending insane amounts of gold for armor that will not give me better stats than created exotic armor at much more affordable costs.

Thank you but, pass on the Cultural until the whole set comes down drastically in price.

Sadly you missed the point of cultural armor. IT is not there for everyone to have. It is there for the people who want to spend 120g on armor purely for the skins. If you are not one of those people then don’t worry about it.

Personally except for the human t3 leather, plate, buying the full set for human cloth is a waste and it is better to mix and match (speaking from the prospective of humans only).

Gambling is illegal in certain regions in the world, given Arenanet cash to gem to gold transaction, that would make it super illegal.

My elementalist. She has everything I want in a woman, no personality, wears sexy dress, does whatever I tell her to do (except target things in front of her face)can make me sandwich and has long following black hair.

Or my charr guardian, cuz charr as awesome.

Raine.1394:

Mackdose.6504:

Raine.1394:

They have shown the ability to make huge missteps such as the addition of vertical progression. We saw it empty the open world, fragment the community, and introduce, perhaps, the steepest grind for gear in the history of gaming. 30 days for an amulet. Really?

Steepest grind in gaming history? Really? Really?

Come on, you and I both know that isn’t remotely close to being the case.

I actually chose my words carefully and said what I believe to be the truth. Name me a grindy game where you grind thirty days to get one item in one slot. I now have 8 level 80 characters. To have them equipped with max level gear, that’s what, eight months for one slot out of how many slots are we grinding gear for?

Should I respond to your “you don’t really need the item to play the game” here or should I wait your you to state it?

Let’s assume they are not going to add more ways to get laurels which is not true. 30 days isn’t that long to get 1 piece of loot, just from casually playing.

Also all comparison should be done with 1 character because at any rate 8 character is more of a personal choice and not the average.

Anyways, when you run an instance for 2 years and not get a piece of REQUIRE armor, come back and complain. Amulet on the other hand are things you can just from playing the game naturally, very few games ever allow you such a thing.

This isn’t a political debate where hyperbole wins point for your base.

Dhuum was supposedly a cruel and unjust god. So the whole mechanic of guild wars 1 or 2 of rezing would be out of business and perma death will be in. I don’t think a lot of players would enjoy perma death.

Anyways to support Dhuum death is absolute, Arenanet made the Avatar that bans players in game Dhuum.

Guild wars 2 is unfortunately extremely forgiving when it comes to crafting. Being ignorant of mechanics is not their fault. You can have multiple crafters with different crafting and it is extremely easy to level it as well.

Omniderad.2713:

so is it wise to just sell most of my materials then? unless i personally need them for myself?

Probably. Actually, if you are 80 is better just to gather orr and selling them.

NatureBlade.7910:

Masamoon.3864:

“Do I want pixels that look pretty but have the same stats as other exotics or not.”

Comes down to what you like. Farming in this game isn’t that hard.

I can make 7g an hour if I pve normally. 7 * lets say for examples sake 8 = 56g / day

56g * 7 = 392g

392g * 4 = 1568g

You can make most legendaries in a months time if you farm that much a day. Some people are actually willing to do that, too. It comes down to do you want to effort for something pretty.

Or you can just buy it with gems. Gems = Easy Legendary no effort required, just a credit card.

Really, I hope you have about an upwards of 1000 dollars just lying around waiting to be spent on pixels? If you are willing to use a CC on pixels, nothing was going to stop from them from buying third party gold to get legendaries like in other games.

Crafting is not a profession in guild wars 2. Profession is the class you play. haha.

But seriously, unless you find a niche market, crafting in guild wars 2 is not for making money. It is to provide another method for people to level or make gear for themselves. Nothing more and nothing less. Just think how easy it was for you to level it, now imagine everybody being able to do that.

Trakarg.2095:

Arheundel.6451:

Trakarg.2095:

If my PVE healer/support elementalist gets broken due to sPvP bullkitten I will be extremely frustrated. A-net, if you nerf the elementalist healers, nerf the base values and increase the scaling with healing power.

Guess you will still be able to support your team with regen and small team heals, but the large aoe healing will be toned down, you can still play power ele with 20 fire , no I’m not joking, you can dish some serious dmg with the right power spec and still be moderately survivable

Right. I should have to completely re-gear my elementalist and respec him because A-net’s balance decisions are bullkitten.

Welcome to ALL MMOs. If they nerf or change a class, your really have 3 choices adapt or quit or play another class.

Nobody like for their class to be nerfed but it is one of those things you either deal with it or don’t.