Guild Wars 2

Alarox.4590:

vespers.1759:

they go down just as fast as any other class… wow 2 aegis’ block 2 attacks regardless of whether they hit for 2 dmg or 25,000 dmg.

*when a guard gets swarmed they go down. i think a lot of people tend to exaggerate on the forums. *

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The Guardian’s survival comes from being able to take small amounts of damage over time and heal, or quickly block a few big hits. For example, the function of Toughness and Altrustic Healing is to take small damage over time, and the purpose of Aegis/Blind is to negate those few big attacks. That being said…

They are NOT damage sponges. If you get caught without your cooldowns (and don’t use them wisely when you have them), you will not be able to stand there and /dance without falling on your kitten

yup, once you’ve blown your skills and the boss is still on you you’re in for a bad time. sometimes certain bosses just don’t let up and it’s mighty hard to stay alive.

there is a distinct lack of emotes.

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you get money and it is easy. i run story when i can’t find a group for exp.

they go down just as fast as any other class… wow 2 aegis’ block 2 attacks regardless of whether they hit for 2 dmg or 25,000 dmg.

when a guard gets swarmed they go down. i think a lot of people tend to exaggerate on the forums.

want to hear a joke?

logan thackeray.

lololol most useless NPC ever created.

and you get double the number of skills to use. why are you complaining?

1. removal of commander system in favor of a real partying system.
2. less zerging.
3. enemy names.

Elthurien.8356:

Eddie.6701:

The rewards aren’t worth the time.

Honor tokens need to drop for every kill you get. Then just raise the cost of WvW weapons, and armor. If I’m going to do WvW for 10 hours, I expect to get an honor token for every person I kill, not 5 over the span of 10 hours.

It takes a week of AC clears (90m each) to get a full soldier set from Ascalonian Catacombs. The same stats that are on the WvW gear and yet it would take an unfathomable amount of time to get the badges required for the WvW set with the same stats. Ridiculous.

90 minutes an AC run? ouch that’s slow. I agree that the wvwvw armor is a pain to get. just trying to get the shoulders alone at 229 badges was a grind and a half. they are supposed to be a special kind of gear like t3 cultural, but they look incredibly plain. at least t3 gets you a nice set of gear.

wasted.6817:

vespers.1759:

give us a party system and change the mini map and banish the terrible commander system.

I was just thinking that. As it stands now, if u join alone, u pretty much forced to follow this commander zerg, or run some bunker build and roam around alone without any particular goal, while SO much can be done in WvW with good 5 man party. Maybe they should enforce party requirement in WvW, so WvW would become more structured, like AB in original Guild Wars.

i would like to see 25 man parties in wvwvw and i wouldn’t mind being automatically placed in a party when entering wvwvw. at least you’d start with something. it would make it easier to see how everyone else is doing with regards to conditions and dmg even though you can’t really target a specific person anyway.

less commander spam? i don’t see a problem here.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

Yamiino.1827:

I agree with the commander thing though, commanders should be earned not bought.

How do you plan earn it? Kills? As far as im concerned, a commander is a walking rally point, not a better player. They help coordinate large groups. Do you think every random person will spend 100g?

eventually they’ll be a lot of commanders running around. there’s already a bunch of commanders running around.

i think the whole concept of having a random person try to lead a zerg is ridiculous. give us a party system and change the mini map and banish the terrible commander system.

give people the tools to organize themselves instead of throwing them in with nothing but a blue dot. you basically need to follow the blue dot or else you lose everyone else and that’s just broken as far as i’m concerned.

and then of course there’s the attitude that comes with the blue dot that is blown up by having people actually follow you regardless of what you do. most commanders have a hell of an ego, and most commanders are just bad.

it’s january 1st and i’m 51% finished. it is really rather reasonable imho. the only lenthy one is the jumping puzzles but consider that with 3 alts you have 4 wvwvw puzzles, and 3 in LA. that’s 21 jump puzzles discovered in about 20 min. you need 30 total in a MONTH.

why would you even consider that they would scale? i will quit this game if they do. you crafted a level 80 item just like any other level 80 item, regardless of how much it cost. it was your choice to make it. if it scaled it would be a huge middle finger to everyone else who would need to get new high lvl exotic weapons.

transmute the skin if you want, but leave the level alone.

commander is a broken system. makes everyone visible and voila, no need for the stuck up 100gers that feel the need to tell me what to do.

it’s extra annoying because everyone mindlessly follows the blue dot as they have no other way to organize themselves with a total lack of a decent partying system.

will it never end?

Yaki.9563:

vespers.1759:

staff 4 is a full heal every 15 seconds.

Full heal for you (with lots of ppl standing around you), not for other players. That’s not particularly useful.

yes and it gives them 420 power and 420 condition dmg. it also allows you to survive, which means you can res/buff people constantly without much fear.

idk why you would want to heal in a dungeon. the loss of DPS is a huge hit for the return on the heals. imho you rock as much dps as you can whilst still staying alive. i don’t appreciate having one member hitting 300s and healing for 2k on his f2. just give me someone who can dps and the fight will be done before you need the healing.

but, wvwvw on the other hand, is where healing is magical. everyone around me is getting torn up outside the walls and i just stand there. staff 4 is a full heal every 15 seconds. mind you, you don’t really do any dmg either, but it’s not like anyone notices in zerg v zerg anyway. you can give some buffs and revives without worrying about arrow carts etc… because they don’t do anything.

wvwvw is in desperate need of mounts.

zerg v zerg is totally boring. —> zero skill.
map is too big and travel is too slow —> die and spend 8 min getting back
armor repair costs —> after spending 8 min running to my destination only to be insta killed in a zerg v zerg i don’t appreciate paying for it. add insult to injury.

my ranking is this:

mesmer
thief
guard
warr/necro
ele
ranger
engi

tier 3 human medium armor is something even a street walker wouldn’t be caught dead in.

am i the only one getting the dyes on multiple characters? for the past few days when i find a dye and open it on one character and it appears on my other characters. the ones i unlocked before are still only on one character though.

wow what?

turn on profanity filter. if you have it on and they are avoiding it by changing the layout of words then can be banned, but otherwise it’s all on your end.

i noticed this as well. i have an 80 necro and 80 guardian. i remmeber charging into 4 enemies on guardian with a GS and having no problems, and even necro was not too bad.

i rolled a warrior hoping for better defence than necro because of the heavy armor but so far i’m not nearly as tanky without DS and the blinding well.

i think warrior has much better DPS though (berserker vs berserker).

i agree, and also a face change station.

I’d like to see a change to the way transmutation stones work. as it is now, the transmutation overwrites a piece of gear. I find this incredibly annoying. When I work for hours and hours and hours to grind my gear in dungeons and wvwvw i don’t want to lose it when i want to change my appearance sometime down the line. I either have to fill my bank with useless gear I don’t want to use, or lose it completely.

When we already have the stats we want, why should we be forced to give up an older set when we want a change? I would like to see a system where transmuted armor becomes a skin that can be placed over current armor without rewriting it.

Now if the logic behind the current system is to sell transmutation stones, then create a new version or something that adds this feature. I don’t mind if it costs a bit more, and if the costume pieces still take up a slot each in the bank, but as it stands I am highly unmotivated to spend time getting these things.

I think this game is good, but it has been my least played MMO ever. When i start an MMO i expect to play it for months if not years. I have about 250h in this game and i keep trying to find things to do but i’m failing. i haven’t logged in for more than 30min since the lost shores. i have done 100% map and i have 2 80s. i don’t feel like grinding dungeons for gear with the current ridiculous transmutation system, WvW is garbage after the first few hours of mindless zerging. i could do jump puzzles, but after you finish them all once, they are just frustrating.

the only thing stopping you from getting everything the second you hit 80 is gold, and maxing out things like bag, bank, gear, dyes, etc… is just a huge grind in orr/dungeons.

what else is left? the game was great while leveling, but once you reach 80 that’s pretty much the end. i wouldn’t mind a gear progression that was fun. some dungeons that are FUN and not cheap 1 shot scenarios would be great. i don’t want to grind fractals over and over and over for my gear either. i would get full exotics but then i have to ask what the point is… i can do dungeons in rares easily and wvw is such a mass spam fest that it makes no difference when 20 people are hitting you.

anyway, the game is good but it needs work to be great. a system of progression with early dungeons requiring basic gear and harder ones requiring exotics would be great, but it means increasing the stats on the gear.

giving everyone in wvwvw full exotics would solve that problem. gear progression in PVE while keeping PVP on an even playing field would be great.

with all the available lore i don’t understand why these events all need to be slightly altered versions of christian holidays. this is a world wide game. can’t we have holidays celebrating each race/god/battle instead of having halloween and christmas and (probably) easter?

i get enough christmas bombardment during the holidays. i don’t need anymore of it in a game that should have its own holidays and avoid real ones. i usually really love ingame events, but i probably won’t log in for this.

i should add i already have 100% map on my first character and a second 80 that i played through the maps i like. i’ve done the exploration portion of the game. i’ve played the dungeons several times as well.

wvwvw is not what i want in pvp. i’d love to see the addition of arenas for casual 1v1. i don’t find zerging enjoyable in the least. i love open world pvp, but not the way it turned out in this game. i prefer smaller scale battles than the 30 vs 30 spam fest outside keeps.

well LA is free to go to, and has all the portals. it’s sad because the other cities are awesome. rata sum is my favorite area in the game, but beyond the eye candy there’s no reason to go there.

i won’t write a novel, but I haven’t logged in since the lost shores event launch.

i have 2 80s, and was working on getting them geared in full exotics, but then i had to wonder what i was gearing them for… I can already do the dungeons to get the exotics in greens and yellows, i can WvW fine in yellows. there’s nothing to do once you get the gear.

why am i bothering to farm all this gold for stuff that i can’t use for much of anything beyond WvW (assuming it isn’t a mass zerg where egar doesn’t mean anything anyway).

now i like gear progression in PVE, but i have no desire to do fractals over and over to get the next gear tier…. and then have nothing to do when i get it.

anyway, I was loving the game and playing everyday (250h in 46 days) until overnight my interest tanked.

dalendria.3762:

vespers.1759:

i do like the PVE a lot, but i’ve done it twice. WvW is fun but needs changes to prevent it from getting stale and balance it out a bit.

I want more PVE content to keep me coming back and keep me entertained. i have grinded orr, for my gear, but why bother to grind for gear that i can’t really use?

games use gear grind because constantly coming out with new content would be insanely hard to do. grind keeps people playing as they make more.

maybe they advertised no gear grind, and i guess lots of people care about that. it doesn’t bother me though.

Thanks. I do see your point.

In my opinion, they should have come out with new content including new skills instead of a new gear tier. But I do agree with you that it is challenge to make constant content updates. I would normally say that may be the problem here except they kept GW1 going without gear grind. And managed to even get new box sales out of their player base. Maybe they should have used that content update model here in GW2. That is what is so frustrating about all of this. It is not like Arenanet does not have prior experience in making horizontal progression work. Moreover, they have all kinds of historical trending data.

Personally, I think they should have beefed up the Cash Shop to entice people to buy in it. Even with a smaller number of concurrent users, they could have had a nice revenue stream. Adding a gear tier is not going to guarantee an increase in cash shop sales. Unless they have some yet to be disclosed “pay to win” items they plan to add that tie to the new gear tier and dungeon.

i haven’t played GW1 so idk how they kept it fresh for people.

i do agree that the gem store needs some changes… it’s way too expensive for me right now. i’m not going to buy anything from it. it also has very little selection. I wouldn’t mind seeing more costumes and mounts.

the problem is where the line is drawn on the gem store… people already paid 60$ for the game, so i could see them being annoyed if they loaded up the gem store with all kinds of crazy items.

if they added arenas i’d be a happy camper. some of the best times i’ve had in mmos have been at pvp arenas messing around.

i do like the PVE a lot, but i’ve done it twice. WvW is fun but needs changes to prevent it from getting stale and balance it out a bit.

I want more PVE content to keep me coming back and keep me entertained. i have grinded orr, for my gear, but why bother to grind for gear that i can’t really use?

games use gear grind because constantly coming out with new content would be insanely hard to do. grind keeps people playing as they make more.

maybe they advertised no gear grind, and i guess lots of people care about that. it doesn’t bother me though.

t3 human medium armor. YW.

Ballistic.4531:

vespers.1759:

Ballistic.4531:

vespers.1759:

lol “game in crisis”. it is hardly in crisis. every game forum on the planet is a hive of scum and villainy when new content is released.

gear treadmill =/= content

well if a new zone and dungeon and is not your definition of new content you’ll never be satisfied.

I never said other parts of this patch aren’t new content. I said (and I’ll repeat)
gear treadmill =/= content

vespers.1759:

i want a gear progression in endgame because there’s nothing else to do, and honestly, if you find this “gear grind” hard then you would die in almost every other MMO out there.

This game has been made without an end-game. The whole game is an end-game. Remember that? And there is plenty to do in this game.
And no, I won’t nor I did die in other MMO I played, but I came to this game so that I don’t need to grind, and so that I could have rest from all the kittening people in other games. Guess I was wrong. DPS and Gear meter thread. Check it out.

my point is that you target a slight gear grind and ignore everything else they added in the patch.

as for the whole game being endgame… idk how you can say that. i have 2 80s, i’ve got 100% map, i’ve done all the WvWvW i care to do, i’ve done almost all the dungeons i care to do.

what’s left to keep me coming back? I get full exotics, but then i wonder why i even need these exotics. what do you do with them? there’s no content to use the exotics in beyond pvp and dungeons.

Sprawl.3891:

vespers.1759:

Ballistic.4531:

vespers.1759:

lol “game in crisis”. it is hardly in crisis. every game forum on the planet is a hive of scum and villainy when new content is released.

gear treadmill =/= content

well if a new zone and dungeon and is not your definition of new content you’ll never be satisfied.

i want a gear progression in endgame because there’s nothing else to do, and honestly, if you find this “gear grind” hard then you would die in almost every other MMO out there.

new zone with no incentive to play in

… so any sort of vertical progression is BAD but playing a new map for simple fun is also not good enough.

what do you want?!

Ballistic.4531:

vespers.1759:

lol “game in crisis”. it is hardly in crisis. every game forum on the planet is a hive of scum and villainy when new content is released.

gear treadmill =/= content

well if a new zone and dungeon and is not your definition of new content you’ll never be satisfied.

i want a gear progression in endgame because there’s nothing else to do, and honestly, if you find this “gear grind” hard then you would die in almost every other MMO out there.

it’s been 2 days settle down. google/map chat/gchat what you don’t know and then go and do the new content. if you can’t find a group for fractals with the constant spam then you’re doing it wrong.

help yourself a little.

I agree. Gear grind in this game is not hard, and I will max it out, but i like the idea of skill based PVP. i guess the people that disagree just want to roflstomp everyone? where’s the fun in that?

i don’t have any problems with gear tiers in PVE and in fact, want them badly, but PVP should never rely on gear. give everyone the same stuff and see who is actually good when they don’t have an advantage.

At this point i’m not bothering anymore. the directions are extremely unclear and most of the events seem to be bugged. i follow the directions in my mail and go to the locations they specify only to find nothing there. I guess the events only happen at certain times, but there’s no way to know when so it’s just a waste of time/money to get there.

The opening event was so incredibly laggy i just left and i have been stuck in overflow since it started. then there’s the LFG spam that makes lion’s arch a nightmare.

Anyway, I do appreciate new content and i would very much like to see the new zone, but i’m not bothering with the event.

don’t worry mate, nobody can see the red circles in the melee anyway.

endgame content.

“LFG fractals”. this is worse than any gold spammer. there needs to be a system put in to get rid of this…. lion’s arch is torturous.

Onshidesigns.1069:

mulch.2586:

Umm… then why would I grind fractals?

I kinda actually do want something to “work” toward.

I can see that ascended gear really isn’t going to matter much, but at least it’s something.

Work?
This is a game. Do you also want to work while playing your alts?

not sure if trolling or just clueless.

i would like wvwvw and spvp to remain exotic only, but have a gear treadmill for PVE and the addition of real bosses that require better gear and skill.

keeps me coming back.

GRIM.7326:

Everyone is spamming for “Geared” groups and nobody wants to go with you if you don’t have the gear.

i’m sure that their systems for checking are very effective without inspect and the existence of transmutation stones.

Every time i change zones i get another one of these letters sent to me. I’ve got about 9 of them in my mail atm.

more content is a good thing. new weapons and something to do is going to be great.
not sure how infinitely scaling gear will work, but i’ll withhold my panic until i actually see what it’s all about.

does this mean guardian f2 is now ruined?