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After patch, Ele's still kitten

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If you were paying attention to devs, they never promised anything this patch. I know that rangers are getting some help next week as to whether the elementalist are, well we will just have to find out then as well.

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Ring of Earth

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OP, I felt the same way. I was like getting kitten about this suppose cripple and it took me a while to realize it was actually ring of earth (did not know about this skill sadly).

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Ride The Lightning Stealth Nerf

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@Moose Rooster.4927

So that was the only thing making you play the elementalist? One buggy worthless skill?

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Why can't we have costume makers?

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Because this isnt guild wars 1? IF you want to go play guild wars 1, I hear it still up.

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Why Magic Find is a Poor Mechanism

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The game has become a pay to win game. I paid 50 pounds for a game that ended up being pay to win, like so many I used to play and abandoned since I am not going to put my life savings into a pay to win game. There is no skill at all involved when you see someone with legendary weapons who put thousands of dollars into gems to get gold and then just buys all the ingredients and makes his legendary. I am sorry, but this game rewards deep pockets not skill. Bye bye crap wars.

But seriously, do you even know how much money it will cost you to get legendary if you were to do a gem to gold conversion? Assuming what you said is even true, that doesnt explain how they got karma, 100% exploration, dungeon specific gift and the gift of battle. I guess you must really hate it when people have more time to grind than you.

Magic find is not really a bad stat nor is it really a good stat either. It is only perceive as bad if you are trying to competite with another player, but why should you be doing that in the first place? Having MF isn’t going to significantly reduce the amount of time needed to get stat parity which guild wars 2 is all about. If you are ttying to compete against everyone like its WoW then you should consider the possibility that you don’t understand the concept of the game.

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NEW Elementalist bugs and glitches thread

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@Buzzkill

The point of the thread is to simply post things that might be bugs NOTHING MORE and NOTHING LESS. Acknowledging them is irrelevant and serves not real point. The goal is to direct them to the issues.

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Mithril Ore - 1 day respawn, what?

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@TravisTrout

If it is that way then report it as a bug. BUT the 24 hour spawn time was for only ori and orian. I still get a couple of ori respawn every 5 hours (although I dont activeily check) but it is their intention.

In the future if something doesnt match the patch notes assume its a bug and report it. That is the whole point of being a bug.

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Arenanet you have failed!

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Maybe you shouldn’t have joined a guild full of dbags, LOL. We all know the ele needs some help but until then maybe you have considered rerolling to another class while you wait for the eventual buff. It not like leveling a character is any difficult.

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Major UI problem

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What you deem as high priority isn’t necessarily the same thing for Arenanet. They have said that they will down the line introduce multiple sets or builds like in gw1. Soooooooo, you pretty much have to deal with it until it eventually comes out and that was directed to the quote above me. (reply sometimes breaks).

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This game's business model was hype

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Guild wars 2 probably will not meet a lot of people’s expectations, but I am not shocked either. A lot of people over the years build it up in their mind as the best thing ever. For me guild wars 2 is a great MMORPG and it did for the most part what it set out to do.
Of the people that seem to complain at either those that were guild wars 1 players and love gw1 for what it was but never understond it is, WoW players looking for their next “WoW with a better graphics and different lore” (basically something exactly like WoW but not WoW but WoW) and there isn’t anything wrong with that; unfortunately, you should have better research the game or LISTEN to what the developers were saying and showing and not some random internet person telling you how to think.

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Bored beyond measure?!

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1. Guild wars 2 is not guild wars 1. Guild wars 1 had a lot of useless skills, in life quality is more important than quantity.

2. guild wars 2 has no sub and it just like every other game you buy for 60 bucks. You play and once you stop having fun you move on. And if an expac peaks your interest you return or not. That is how guild wars 1 was set up

3. if you are not having fun QUIT.

Also your last statement is stupid because it was designed to not be a sub game. A lot of the systems in place are based on the idea of not wasting your time. if guild wars 2 was a sub based game, it would be a lot different than it is or it would be WoW with dynamic event so your last statement is moot. And if you want to show your disappointment dont buy the expac.

Tl;DR if you are not having fun quit. Only mmo players seem to have this weird obsession of playing a game they hate. Sane people will quit doing boring things, if their objective was fun.

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ATTENTION: 36,000 Mithril Ore + 18,000 Elder Logs +22,500 Large Fang = 1,500 Level 80 RARE Greatswords........ + Mystic Forge = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

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Theres no grinding in gw2. What a joke.

Unfortunately for you, arenanet never said they wont be grinding. Actually, legendaries were added to the game BECAUSE people were whining how guild wars 2 has no grind.

Arenanet HAS said they wont force you to grind to level and to get the best gear statistically and those all true. if you look at guild wars 1, Arenanet has always placed a huge amount of grind on getting rare skins.

Soooo, while a few people might agree with your sensationalist post, unfortunately, in this case ignorance is bliss.

ADDED: OP you could have sold those weapons to get enough money to buy dusk and still have case to roll around. If you dont like to gamble in real life dont gamble either in a game. And stay a way from vega. BTW I sympathies with you, but I nobody really forced to do something like that either.

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The Precursor Side-effect No One's Talking About

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It’s supposed to be lengendary. People are not supposed to be running around with this by the dozen. People are so self entitled these days.

But luck based success is the very opposite of legendary.

Some guy could throw in four swords and get the precursor on this very first try.

Wrong, a lot of “legendary” ( if there is such a thing) is dependent on factors beyond one’s control and thus can be tied to luck which is another form of RNG.

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Here's the thing about "getting" a legendary, give or take 3 years.

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A lot of things in life involve LUCK which is the real world equivalent of RNG. Everybody works hard to be rich but not everybody will be rich. The point being life isn’t really fair. Someone will get their dusk or precursor after 50 attempts and some will get it never that’s how life is. Just like millions will buy the powerball and only one will win, is not fair but that’s just life. Same with tens of equally qualified ppl will apply for job but only one will get it and it is usually for reason beyond skill aka luck.

Making the precursor Weapons RNG, significant cuts the amount of people getting it and therefore making it legendary. Even in the real world alot of things we use today is the result of luck, it just happened by accident.

Why bring the real world into this. This is supposed to be a game, full of art and ideals. Why twist it into the corrupt POS that 90% of real life is? You wanna know something? Most people don’t want to deal with RL-flavored issues when playing a fantasy game.

Or to put it another way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-NgefsLyg

THIS IS SO FUN RIGHT. SO SKILLED. DONT YOU FEEL SPECIAL AFTER DOING THIS AND GETTING YOUR PRECURSOR?

I don’t make a habit of watching videos random internet ppl link, so I wont bother. I was just making a relationship between RNG and LUCK, nothing more and nothing less. The point being sometimes you need a little luck to achieve big things, in this case you need RNG.

Also, there is no SKILL or very little skill in an MMO so your last sentence is silly to me.

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Downed state just isn't a fun PvP mechanic

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Yeah, I don’t have too many problems with it in WvW but it’s annoying as hell in sPvP.

But I think you make a good point in that it’s detrimental to skillful PvP play.

Except for some classes have crappy downed state skills, it is not detrimental to skillful PvP, anybody that believe that is not thinking correctly. The down state adds a layer, it makes the player ask themselves, do i really want to risk dying to finish off said player or do I want to finish him off but take a lot of damage if said player counter attacks and thereby put myself at risk.

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When do we get individual server forums?

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There is no real reason to have a individual servers it has no real purpose in THIS game. Unlike in other MMO except for WvW, everything is global in a sense, so if you get a server forum what exactly will you talk about in it? Except for bugs, etc there really isnt any real reason to have one.

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The Precursor Side-effect No One's Talking About

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It’s supposed to be lengendary. People are not supposed to be running around with this by the dozen. People are so self entitled these days.

The WoW generation.

The funny thing is if they were to change it and it became easier people will complain how ez it is to get legendary then they will start whining how guild wars 2 has no endgame since everything is easy to get.

Its a sad sad cycle.

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No 'Skill' Required for Legendary Acquisition.

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There is no skill in any video game in my opinion. You really can’t test skill because at some point, the will be guides for people that don’t have the necessary “SKILL” (LOL) to achieve whatever objective. In video game all that matters really is how much time you have you can achieve anything in a video game by virtue of time.

Also legendary has nothing to do skill BTW, its designed to force the player into doing EVERY aspect of the game.

Then please explain those so call “no skill” can earn 500k a year playing sc2 or dota 2 tourney.

Or those who in pro team for FPS and earn crap load of money.

Even if you invest the same amount of time as they are, I doubt you can generate that much income from playing video game.

Maybe, the guy/team won tournaments that have cash prizes? The point being money has no relationship to how much skill is required all it says really is that they won a cash prize. The person that won the powerball, I am since said person won a lot of money, surely he must be skilled in life, right?

as for your last statement, whose to say I couldn’t. You don’t know me enough to say it. Also, just remember that lot of these things are dependent on how long someone has been expose to Dota or even FPS game.

However, i will admit that my statement was a little absolute so let me pull it back a little. Very few games have anything to do with skill.

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Here's the thing about "getting" a legendary, give or take 3 years.

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A lot of things in life involve LUCK which is the real world equivalent of RNG. Everybody works hard to be rich but not everybody will be rich. The point being life isn’t really fair. Someone will get their dusk or precursor after 50 attempts and some will get it never that’s how life is. Just like millions will buy the powerball and only one will win, is not fair but that’s just life. Same with tens of equally qualified ppl will apply for job but only one will get it and it is usually for reason beyond skill aka luck.

Making the precursor Weapons RNG, significant cuts the amount of people getting it and therefore making it legendary. Even in the real world alot of things we use today is the result of luck, it just happened by accident.

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Anyone know why warriors have twice our base health?

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I think we can all agree that Arenanet has no clue what they are doing with respect to balancing the elementalist. I think original the elementalist (during Gstar with karl playing) was a little too strong so they nerfed it and forgot to adjust it. And we all have left is the thought of karl playing it during Gstar and the hope that at some point down the line within now and infinity or december 21 when the world ends, arenanet will come to their senses and fix this really weak class.

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No titles for crafters?

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@zao – I wrote that 4 proffesions costed me 12g, so one is about 3g. I didn’t write: Artificing costs exactly 3g.

Using a combination of bought and personal mats a ratio of about 2 to 1. Artificer cost my approximately 40s, that is after NPCing all the products.

So crafting does not deserver a title, unless it for having all 8 crafts on an account.

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No 'Skill' Required for Legendary Acquisition.

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There is no skill in any video game in my opinion. You really can’t test skill because at some point, the will be guides for people that don’t have the necessary “SKILL” (LOL) to achieve whatever objective. In video game all that matters really is how much time you have you can achieve anything in a video game by virtue of time.

Also legendary has nothing to do skill BTW, its designed to force the player into doing EVERY aspect of the game.

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How can crafting be made profitable?

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Guild wars 2 doesn’t run on the idea of getting better stats from crafting or instance over any activity so that is automatically a horrible idea.

Short of making recipes that require a lot work like legendaries, there is no real way to make crafting worth making money off from. Also I doubt they will ever make legendary precursors craftable since that will effectively destroy the purpose of the Mystic forge.

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So normal players/players that do not know exploits before they are nerfed does not have a chance to get legendary...

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First of all its not really an exploit, whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. For it to be a bannable exploit a player the activity should be obvious and unfortunately for you, it wasn’t really obvious. The MF is a mechanic people were still learning about and it was designed to have some mystique about it, so the people using the godskull trick are not really exploiters because you cannot honestly expect them to know about the Mystic forge mechanic, since they is no frame of reference, unlike the karma exploit.

Honestly, I hope arenanet doesnt change it because people don’t have the patience to eventually get it. You cant always have what you want when you want it, if you have an issue making it Maybe consider getting other parts of the legendary you seek THEN buy it at some point when the price drops. Or keep complaining eventually Arenanet might change their minds.

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Not as much fun at 80 …. Elite \ Champions no Drops?

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Unfortunately, most encounters such as killing a champion mob aren’t fun or challenging enough to do w/o reward.

Why would I WANT to slowly kite a champion mob for 10 minutes til it’s dead, it’s not hard, it’s not rewarding.

The “do it for fun” argument holds absolutely no water lol.

It does if you are playing a game for FUN. I know its a tough concept to gasp. And if you are not having fun, then don’t do the mobs. You know what sane people do when they are trying to have fun and the current task is not fun? The quit and go do something else, in this game quitting would mean you go fight another mob or do something you genuine enjoy.

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GW 2 PvE Discussion [Merged Threads]

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Just to add a HOLY trinity does not make a game difficult. It just makes you dependent on other players. In most cases when you die, well when I died it was more because someone did not do their job properly and that just frustrated me, it did not make it harder.

The holy trinity is just adds an artificial difficulty to any game. It’s like having a test designed for with a calculator in mind and making people take the test without a calculator, The test really isn’t hard you just did not give them the tools needed to solve the problems as intended.

I think you’re inaccurately attributing GW2’s new “trinity” as being solo-centric- which it is not. Regardless if you die in a dungeon encounter with a Tank/Heal/DPS trinity or a Support/Control/DPS trinity, the responsibility still lies with you and the team. Last I checked, dungeon content is not solo-able, so you are certainly still “dependent on other players”

I never said or implied guild wars 2 is solo centric becaue for dungeons clearly it isn’t. I am saying that, I don’t need player A to only be tank or healer or DPS. Everybody has a chance to play ALL roles. In a trinity game, if my tanks sucks I am screwed until we kick the tank and get a new one, if my healer is bad well same deal. In guild wars 2, if we are dying because we cant stun or blind or whatever the mob, chances are one of my skills will have one of those control.

Guild wars 2 allow for more on the fly adjustments, it actually requires you to put in more thought than any holy trinity game. Guild wars 2 makes each player active participates, while in a holy trinity I don’t worry about anything outside my scope. So if im a dps in a trinity the only thing i really do is blindly spam my preset rotation, same with healing etc. In guild wars 2, I have to at least make more of an effort to do more than one task.

Also the last quote was just my bias against healers. I hate healers, most of them tend to suck anyways.

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I think guild wars 2 is challenging to some degree and most of the people that might say otherwise except for the gamers that play DMC, Batman AA/AC, GoW etc guild wars 2 wont be challenging because we are used to far worse.

I have a couple of theories on why a lot of people here are claiming guild wars 2 is easy:
1. They are playing an OP class. Try playing guild wars 2 with the current elementalist then come and say guild wars 2 is not challenging. Guild wars 2 right now is ez if you play every class short of the ranger (to a lesser degree) and elementalist. Right now, you can get away as a warrior or guardian and even a memser with tanking mobs even in orr, try playing an elementalist and see just how far that will get you if you don’t actively participate in the fight.

2. They dont know what challenging actually means. A lot of people seem to sadly associate dying with challenging and those are not related. Challenging in a game just means that you have to think about your actions, it doesn’t mean you die a lot. It means if you don’t plan well during the fight you will probably die. Hard like someone correctly said is when the boss cheats kinda like all those 90s arcade bosses especially SNK boss hence the term SNK syndrome.

I think that Arenanet really needs to nerf all class to the level of elementalist or buff all the other classes and bring the mobs to the level of warrior but I doubt that will ever happen.

I had zero problems leveling my Elementalist. You just push more buttons.

It’s kind of the same argument of challenging versus hard.

Elementalist is just “hard” not "challenging, in the sense that you just need to press more buttons than other classes to accomplish the exact same thing. It’s not actually harder, it’s just annoying. And yeah, they’re squishy, but so are Thieves.

I wasn’t talking about leveling. When I was leveling my character it was pretty easy. actually I was in orr/straits at level 69ish. trying to ram my way to 80. Spend some time in orr fighting at least 2+ mobs not dynamic event mobs mind you because they tend to be on the ultra easy side. I mean regular world mobs.

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Does GW2 have the content to keep a large player base?

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Want another example, look at what is going on over in Blizz-land. A few months of pandas and they’ll be back.

I doubt that. People went back to WoW because they have actual content and things to do. GW2 is pvp based. The ones who left to go back to WoW likely are pve’ers. I went back to WoW and am loving the expansion and new things they have to offer. The new raid isn’t horrible either. Still not as good as any Vanilla or BC raid or even Ulduar, but better than Cata which is what I was looking for.

PvE’ers won’t be coming back to GW2 any time soon. They may play this still here and there like in time I likely will play a little again. As you put it, the beauty of it being a life time sub.

But the new farming/cooking system is pretty cool Blizz added along with pet battles. A lot of people left during Cata as I did also and will admit I was missing the game but Cata was just sooo bad. So this fresh expansion is bringing people back. Heck there is still a 30+ min que on my server and it is already 2 weeks old.

Going back to WoW shows the type of MMORPG players they are. There are some players that want carrot on the stick and they are other players that do not, like me. I played guild wars 1 first so i m used to not relying on the carrot on the stick to enjoy the game. WoW does not have more content, it just has more ways to get you to keep paying a sub fee for it. I mean, does it make sense to have a 1 week CD on an instance? To some people apparently it does, even though they are paying 15 bucks a month. A sane person will tell you there is no real reason to have 1 week long CD on any instance but what do I know.

Most of the people that want back to WoW or need an endgame fortunately only represent less than 10% of WoW population that is why Blizzard goes into great lengths trying to convert the other 90% into the raiders because once you get them, they keep paying and they end up making money off them.

Guild wars 2 has no sub fee, it just like buying mass effect, madden, CoD, BF3, assuming mmorpg player play those games do they suddenly turn around and whine how there is no carrot on the stick for them to keep playing? If you are looking at guild wars 2 like it meant to replace WoW then you are looking at the wrong game.

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Not as much fun at 80 …. Elite \ Champions no Drops?

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100% chance for a rare on champions would be a good start to making people want to kill them.

Champions should be something you want to do because you want to test yourself, if you are doing it for any other reason then don’t. If you need incentives to do in game content then you should really consider doing something else (not an absolute statement).

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Not as much fun at 80 …. Elite \ Champions no Drops?

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Gear progression is not the hallmark of an MMORPG. Gear progression exist solely to get people to keep playing a game they would have otherwise stopped playing months ago.

People keep bringing up gear progression… that’s not what is being asked for in this thread. People are asking for random rare drops from the champions that are scattered all over the world that literally drop nothing most of the time.

It’s like playing a slot machine. Most of the time you get vendor trash, but every now and then you get something that you can sell for a couple gold on the Trade Post. It works like that now, somewhat, but only on random mobs. (I pulled an Abyss dye off of a Moa.) IMO, those rare drops should come from champions, with a very small chance to drop in world.

Guild wars 1 had something like that and it resulted in people farming them, A LOT. The thing you seem to be forgetting is once you give certain mobs rare loot, people will start farming them and we end up with a system very similar to quest mobs. Actually it will be exactly like quest mobs and it will make the problem surrounding those 3 DE chains in orr punks.

Also my statement was just a statement based on post on this thread not the op.

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Just to add a HOLY trinity does not make a game difficult. It just makes you dependent on other players. In most cases when you die, well when I died it was more because someone did not do their job properly and that just frustrated me, it did not make it harder.

The holy trinity is just adds an artificial difficulty to any game. It’s like having a test designed for with a calculator in mind and making people take the test without a calculator, The test really isn’t hard you just did not give them the tools needed to solve the problems as intended.

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I think guild wars 2 is challenging to some degree and most of the people that might say otherwise except for the gamers that play DMC, Batman AA/AC, GoW etc guild wars 2 wont be challenging because we are used to far worse.

I have a couple of theories on why a lot of people here are claiming guild wars 2 is easy:
1. They are playing an OP class. Try playing guild wars 2 with the current elementalist then come and say guild wars 2 is not challenging. Guild wars 2 right now is ez if you play every class short of the ranger (to a lesser degree) and elementalist. Right now, you can get away as a warrior or guardian and even a memser with tanking mobs even in orr, try playing an elementalist and see just how far that will get you if you don’t actively participate in the fight.

2. They dont know what challenging actually means. A lot of people seem to sadly associate dying with challenging and those are not related. Challenging in a game just means that you have to think about your actions, it doesn’t mean you die a lot. It means if you don’t plan well during the fight you will probably die. Hard like someone correctly said is when the boss cheats kinda like all those 90s arcade bosses especially SNK boss hence the term SNK syndrome.

I think that Arenanet really needs to nerf all class to the level of elementalist or buff all the other classes and bring the mobs to the level of warrior but I doubt that will ever happen.

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Not as much fun at 80 …. Elite \ Champions no Drops?

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Gear progression is not the hallmark of an MMORPG. Gear progression exist solely to get people to keep playing a game they would have otherwise stopped playing months ago. And unfortunately they don’t do it for the players benefit but for the as a way to make money.

Not to say they should change the rewards because nothing says FU than having to loot a big chest and getting blues constantly.

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Mystic forge glitch? Unintentionally suffering from DR.

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I guess RNG is now DR.

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I'm leaving GW2 for now, and this is why it matters.

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Ya, the elementalist damage is low compared to every class except the ranger and you know what sucks even more for me? My first 2 characters are an ele and a ranger, but you wont see me quit no. And you know why? because those 2 classes are not going to be forever weak, in a few months or weeks is going to be a distant memory.

Did you just seriously say it’s low compared to every class except a ranger? A ranger may have low damage attacks, but they attack at least 5 times faster than we do with a bow.

The ranger has more survivability so it does more damage overall by default. But the Shortbow is a single target dps weapon, so I dont really see the point you are trying to drive.

Also l2read I did not say that the elementalist is higher than the ranger and I just implied they both suck. THE END.

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silvermember.8941

Welcome to the first few months of an MMO’s life. I am sorry that Arenanet isn’t focusing on YOUR specific needs. And I hope you have fun where ever you might end up in. Also I have to say that topics like these are extremely common whenever there is balance in involved. Anyhow, in the future I highly recommend you avoid playing an MMO in the first few months if you cannot deal with the possibility that your favorite class is not a priority.

Ya, the elementalist damage is low compared to every class except the ranger and you know what sucks even more for me? My first 2 characters are an ele and a ranger, but you wont see me quit no. And you know why? because those 2 classes are not going to be forever weak, in a few months or weeks is going to be a distant memory.

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This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.

disappointed players

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I am the only that has notice a certain pattern here? Whenever you read a topic about how “guild wars 2 is not like very WoWlike (topic A)” or “how guild wars 2 is fine the way it is(topic B )” there is always the SAME posters flooding into the topic agree (Topic A) or disagreeing (topic B ). Honestly, you start to wonder why the bother on a forum for a game they clearly do not like, or maybe i m just seeing what I want to see (unlikely).

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Massive Pre-cursor scam posted Reddit Dev reply appreciated.

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What will the dev say? That stop following random advice on the interweb. Honestly, that is quite brilliant, it is only really bad if it happened in game IMO. The developers cannot control the actions of people, outside their game and outside their realm of control which only spans to include official forum, wiki and in game.

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Potionmaking: How to level Artificer 1-400

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silvermember.8941

Ty for posting the guide and thanks to the original author. Leveling it from 1 to 400 wiht a combination of bought and owned mats technically only costed 40 silver, way cheapter than leveling the other 4 mats I currently have.

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300g GS = nothing, 15 war horn + mystic Forge stones = Legend

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@RavenDeBlade So you are mad because you have to grind for something that was designed specifically so you have to grind (should you choose to) to achieve it?

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True open world PvP

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Lore or not, griefing or not, be aware that many, MANY people chose PvP servers in WoW. When I say many, I mean at least half of the 14 million player base. People LOVE open world PvP, even if you don’t. If you found your refuge in GW2, it’s also one of the main reason people avoid that game or get bored of it quickly.

Blizzard already came up with a solution – offer people both PvE and PvP servers – to each their own. I wouldn’t mind BEING ganked or BEING griefed. I wouldn’t mind getting attacked during a DE. How things are at the moment – the GW2 is a drag, a bore, a care bear paradise which I am starting to despise.

ANYWAY, I only asked for an explanation for the technical aspect of the problem, it wasn’t an open invitation for the fan-boy community to flame and go berserk. Calm down.

14 million players? really. Except for the fact that its only 10 milllion. And of that 10 million players only about 3-4 million of them are WESTERN players, so how exactly would you know if half the base is rolling on PvP servers.

Also guild wars 2 will never have OPVP because WvW was designed as a compromise to appeal to the people that want PvP in a more open world setting. A wise man once said you can treat WvW as an OPvP zone and if you have issues with that it just means you suck, btw it was a developer that said it.

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In my opinion, this game lacks challenge

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silvermember.8941

Guild wars 2 is an MMO as such it has to cater to a large audience. A significant amount of the MMORPG audience are not really skilled gamers. The might play MMOs but MMO tend to be easier than their single player counterpart. As a result the open world stuff has to be doable by everybody in the casual players, that is why dungeons exist in theory.

Now, if you find dungeon easy there is nothing much that can be done for you except artificially increase the difficulty for yourself. This is because as stated above they have to appeal to a large number of player not just you.

Personally, I don’t play MMORPG for their difficulty because they will never ever be difficult, hence why I usually play single player game for my difficulty fix. MMORPG are just watered down version of single player games, since unfortunately you have to appeal to a non gaming audience.

i haven’t played WoW before but watching some of the so called difficult raid, they seemed pretty tamed downright easy to what I did in Aion.

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Oct. 1st Elem updates

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silvermember.8941

A customer is always right!

Anyone who has worked in customer support will tell you this is almost always wrong.

Wrong, the customer is always right. Reminds me of the time I saw a guy complaining how subway did not have pizza subs because he saw a commericial saying get what you want.

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Could we get a real definition for Magic Find?

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what ever mf is, it is a waste of gold for sure with this stupid dr in place

Ya, you are wrong but thanks for playing.

MF is not useless unless you decide to let DR kick in. For me I do multiple zones and so i never hit MF and I still get drops.

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Oct. 1st Elem updates

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I guess I’ll park my kitten ele and spend more time on my faceroll thief.

And you should do that, nobody will stop you from doing that. It is a relatively free world afterall.

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Bug or just Highway Robbery

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When you gotta potentially thousands of players trying to buy an item, chances are someone will beat you to a “deal”.

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no longer able to buy crafting tools with karma?

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silvermember.8941

It wasnt intended in the first place, to answer your specific question.

I do however wish karma had more usefullness short of legendary and crappy karma gear.

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I think it's time to break Titan Alliance

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I totally agree, TA should totally disband or move to another server. As someone who played aion for 2 years, I can honestly tell you that eventually all these winning become boring. I was in a guild called sunshine, and we pretty much dominated everything.

Eventually, we had no real competition for anything because we had beaten the spirit out of the asmo.

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Oct. 1st Elem updates

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@DaedalusDragon

Yes my post is the unnecessary noise, whatever helps you sleep at night. You can kitten and moan all you want, but the reality is that the elementalist is no more special than any other class in the game.

No reasonable company enjoys seeing their consumers mad, but at the same time, companies need to priorities issues. Unfortunately, fixing bugs that affect EVERYONE is more important than anything else. Whether you agree or not is up really up for discussion.

Finally, I’ve played enough mmo to know one thing, threads like these are common. The is always someone crying how their class is weak and demand instant action, unfortunately for those individuals the world does not match to their tone. Nobody likes playing an inferior class, the difference however is I accept changes take time and deal with it until its eventually fixed.

Just to add, having blind faith in a company (except for amazon.com) is gonna end up with you being disappointed. Companies have priorities, we might not like it, but you certainly have to deal with it and hope next time it does not happen or not. We all hope to be customer #1, but as you grow older you will learn, that you are not as special as you think you are.

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silvermember.8941

They took five minutes to nerf us and wait months to fix us. Ridiculous. If you don’t like this thread then don’t respond. You aren’t going to change me… I’m WAY too stubborn for that.

Unfortunately, the world does not revolve around you. You can try and make it all about you, but all you doing is making unnecessary noise. But I suppose based on this post, you don’t really care what anybody things, so my question is why should they care what you think? (oh i m gonna quit, is not a valid response since they already go your money haha).

As u know im pro. ~Tomonobu Itagaki

This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.