Guild Wars 2

1.Plenty soloq player can get to ruby or above if they are good. Plenty have done so.

2.Get a guild dont raid with pug. Use reddit lfg to find one.

3.DS empty at night? We must be playing different games cuz all I see there are zergs farming .

Wait how is it possible that you been in a map for 3 hours and did not complete meta events?

You do realize that csgo is fps and doesnt require much work to be balance right?

On the other hands GW2 has thousand of traits and skills, how are these two even comparable? It’s easier said than done, balancing in GW2 is harder than you thought.

Just wait until you reach champion points part. If people thought mastery was grindy, try ESO champion points, It drove me insane.

Excludee.3850:

I love the use of the term, “new technology” used to describe an animation applied to the skill bar for revenant swaps. As if it’s some amazing breathrough or something.

Anyways, someone should develop a plug-in for Chrome that blocks Vayne’s nonsensical forum posts. That’s some “new technology” I could get behind.

Vayne provided constructive comments with well written paragraph. Instead you straight up attack him, thats really mature right there. Devs need to devolop a tool to block people like you.

LoL, all the people missing the point of thread and just bashing on the game for no reason even if its not even related to thread.

OP rank is way ahead of player population. Right now only a handful of players got to diamond of course he would get long que. Most people are still in amber and emerald.

What? Thats not possible, there must be more to the story than that. I dont think your friend is telling the truth.

logan.5846:

azizul.8469:

i’m not sure why people are angry when there is a new gem store item for sale. they have to make money to pay salary, bills etc. just ignore it if you don’t support purchasing gemstore item.

I can’t imagine why people would be getting upset at the gem store getting more content than the full price expansion. Makes no sense at all!

except it doesnt?

Goldberg.4831:

Chrono.6928:

warbignime.4610:

No, first dungeon is dtill rewarding as long as you trade your token and salvage. Second liquid gold hurt gold to gem rate way too much. Third dungeon reward you way too much liquid gold for the skill and effort involved which is nearly 0. Actually I think the current liquid gold is still too much.

Gem rate? No it didn’t. Not all dungeon paths are easy mode like cof 1,2, ac 1,3. There are still quite a few which people don’t even do for the most part except maybe once to get dungeonmaster. If anything they could not get rid of the gold reward but instead make the fights more challenging on the easier paths. Or smarter enemy AI to where people can’t just stack behind walls.

Please support what you say with facts and not useless opinions. Your argument is so bad and poorly worded I’m pretty sure you’re trolling.

He’s trolling or oblivious, I can’t tell. I can tell you most of his post are over exaggerating or just plain made up crap.

Was liquid gold hurting the economy? NO.

Was liquid gold hurting gem sales? NO.
Does Anet think it was, it definitely looks that way. IMO it is backfiring. I ran dungeons because I enjoyed the content, the gold was just a bonus.

Gem store purchases before HOT = ALOT

Gem store purchases after HOT = 0

Gem store purchases during the holidays = 0

Bring back dungeons.

Liquid gold does not hurt the economy? Do you understand how liquid gold works? See for example there are total 10k gold on market and 10k worth of mats, with every tp transaction the amount of total gold on market decreases because of transaction fee. But with dungeon reward aka liquid gold, the total amount of gold on the market increases there for cause gold deflation aka higher gold to gem rate.

OMG Anet added gem store cosmetic that no one need unless they want to. How dare they profit off of their work.

Manasa Devi.7958:

350 gems for minis that used to be in-game rewards. Huh.

There are also a few hundreds other minis that are in game reward. I dont see how this is a problem, community is getting crazy. They been doing this since beginning and its just cosmetic, if you really want it you can still trade gold to gem, also remember there are other reward coming with wintersday too.

Add a few cosmetic in gem store=milking money? Man you guys really should see what other mmo are like.

100% agree with OP, I find raid to be less about Skill and Gear. Its more about determention and willingness. If you are willing you eventually learn and beat the raid. The only thing stops you from beating the raid is your self. If you are not Willing, you are just not getting through its that simple.

sword,dagger and shortbow basically thief, hell yeah.

It does, when you raise to higher rank and your skill level does not match the rank you are in you will stuck there or drop down. Unless you get better and carry your team then you would just be stuck there, that is as far as your skill ever goes. Just like most games with rank like dota and lol.

Soa Cirri.6012:

HighGuy.2794:

If you already bought the core game then the expansion isn’t even close to being worth its current price tag.

I got thousands of hours out of GW2 core. You can do the entire HoT story in a day, excluding the grind required for masteries. The (four) map metas get stale after two or three successes. I did most of the HoT content in a week and then went back to the core game content.

What you gain access to are a half-dozen, quite frankly, mostly ugly armor and weapon skins that can’t be bought off the TP.

You also get the elites and the Revenant. If you want to be playing the absolute meta, especially in PvP, you will need these, but then you’re paying $50 for a class and eight trait lines.

Up to you.

You can also compelete core game story line in a day and their quality are terrible, whats your point?

Stop slap word grind on everything you dont know what grind is, you can get to madtery lv60 ish literally without doing the same events twice plus advantures and explore of course. If you call this grind you should try other actual grind games.

Armor are ugly are your opinion others may find is most good looking armor in game, its subjective.

You did HoT in a week? So I belive you done all the related achivement and collection? otherwise I can do core game in 3 days or less.

HoT is a blast, it’s different from the usual press 1 to win content we faced in GW2, thats why alot of people complain daily on forum, because they are unwilling to learn and change. If you want to ask these kind of questions forum is the worst place. Majority of people here dont like the game because there are not much reason to go on forum other than complain. People enjoying are playing the game , you would get different answers if you just ask in game.

Well its not hard time gate, you get it faster if you can get to higher league so…

Umm that would take away whole point of raid. They are meant to be hardcore content, if you want an easy mode of raid then we also want hardcore version of dungeons.

I find raid to be less about skill and stats, more about willing. If you are willing you will play better, as long as you are willing you eventually beat the raid. If you are not willing to put in time and effort for the content, you are not going to get through it’s that simple.

OP your level of entitlement blew my mind. And that’s saying sonething since I read lots of forum.

yes of course, old content was still there so there you go.

Can I have your stuff?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Evan Lesh.3295:

You have 2 minutes to reconnect before getting dishonor. This duration is a fine balance between load times, and how long someone can be gone without causing a loss.

what about someone who disconnected right before their team won?

for example,
evan was in blue team, leading at 490 team points, crushing red team at 100 team points.

the team score ticks 498 but evan was disconnected due to client crash etc.
evan gets a loss and branded as a deserter.

now tell me, how would evan feel?

You would still get a pip, as long as its not longer than 2 mins you wont get punished.

SteepledHat.1345:

Kuya.6495:

The difference between the way that this forum responds to devs and the way that reddit responds to them helps me understand why they prefer answering questions over there rather than in this nest of harpies.

Pucker up and kiss it guys. Your 50 bucks for the expansion that the devs promised, in the manifesto, was never going to happen entitles you to suck up every sweet drop of developer comments like ambrosia from the gods.

you proved his points, feel the aggressiveness and entitlement.

Oh im laughing all right, all the salt. This thread is why, evidence of why devs dont post on dorum right here.

Vayne.8563:

Black Desert was another game that seemed to have potential but they made it for some really hard core players. People complain about Guild Wars 2 being grindy. They’ll learn what grind really means.

Exactly, having played BDO beta, ESO and skyforge. I experienced actual grind, yet people calling GW2 grindy, just wait until they play those games. Hopefully then they would stop slap the word grind on every aspect of the game just because they don’t understand what actual grind is like in mmos.

What you mean carefully destoryed current meta, hundreds of new skill and traits were added what you think would happen?

Akachi.1352:

Totally agree with you, but with one change however.

Keep this legendary tied behind the raids, but then introduce more legendary armours that are tied to non-raid pve, pvp, and wvw respectively

That would take months of dedicated group to make, I would rather see the resources to be put into something eles. It’s not that big of an issue and legendary armor are hard to get and people just have to accept the fact they can not get them unless they are willing. And OP is not willing, so OP still wouldn’t get him legendary armor even with alternative ways.

Most people on FORUM are not happy with HoT. People that are happy with the game are playing it rather than posting on forum.

You get it by ranking up league, doing pvp achivement and a few mats(like less than 10 gold). So basically you get it by playing alot.

What you mean grind living story? do you know what grind is? you literally do it once.

No, first dungeon is dtill rewarding as long as you trade your token and salvage. Second liquid gold hurt gold to gem rate way too much. Third dungeon reward you way too much liquid gold for the skill and effort involved which is nearly 0. Actually I think the current liquid gold is still too much.

chrisnx.1674:

I’m really sorry, but the biggest joke Colin does is, that he typed it on reddit, not the official!! forum, just reddit some 3rd party forum crap.

Sorry but where is the communication, when you don’t use the official channels,
that sucks hard.
And for a warrior or thief you need to be kidding right? The mesmer is the most powerful block, evade what so ever class now and those two can’t stand a chance against any class..

Your lets call it “balance patch” did well for getting two classes totally out of pvp and make nearly all teams win with the most revs.. unbelievable, you call it ‘balanced’

Point prove, what a toxic and offensive mosh pit. Anet should never reply here. Just read your comments and others in this forum, how can devs communicate with these people

Why are pve titles in pvp? Why is legendary earned in pve aviliable in pvp? these are all clutters, also remove all pve skins while at it just make everyone standard model. smh.

/sarcasm

Burtnik.5218:

They always post on reddit instead of their official forum for kitten know what reason.

Oh yeah, read your own comments and others above you, feel the rage and madness. I wonder why.

NixiPixi.8320:

Check out reddit, plenty of responses from Colin on there. Why they choose that over their own forums is strange though.

Read the comments above you, feel the rage and anger and how they are ready to tear apart anyone who has different opinion. I wonder why devs dont respond here.

No, we don’t need that kind of feature in gw2. The amount of toxicity, take Lol as example.

Is it really that big of a deal? I really don’t think it affect too much

Torolan.5816:

Pandabro.8743:

People on the forum are usually more negative than the average gamer. HoT is a lot of fun, especially for the first 20-30 hours (It get’s a little tedious after you start going trying to gear up to raid and do harder content, but still fun). It’s well worth the $50.

Just be warned. The jungle is confusing and challenging, if you are into that you’ll have a blast, but if you’re expecting difficulty on the same level as central Tyria you will be frustrated.

I would have put that the other way. HoT is a really bad and boring salad of multilayered, confusing deathtrap maps at first, but it gets step by step better if you gain masteries.

And it’s not like forum is filled with complains since day1 launch of GW2, I mean if a player just read the forum for information they would think GW2 is one of the worst game ever made.

You are is seriously not telling the truth, The skill on your log took way more than 1 second to cast. Also if you got hit by whirling wrath you are is deserve the damage.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

Ashen.2907:

Vayne.8563:

What now? This is your quote…

“That’s OK. For some white knights ANet could sell an expansion with absolutely nothing in it for $100 and they would still defend an love it.”

So the implication…hell you’re just about saying it, is that this game is only liked by white knights who will defend Anet over everything.

Nope.

What he said is that some individuals (which he calls white knights) would love, “it.” Not that only white knights like the game, etc.

He did, after all, state that he likes the game (at least aspects of it).

Really? lol

This is the entirety of his FIRST post in this thread:

“That’s OK. For some white knights ANet could sell an expansion with absolutely nothing in it for $100 and they would still defend an love it.
For each their own.”

This is what I responded to. AFTERWARDS he said he likes the game. Do you get that from this post? Because I sure don’t.

Anyone who denies the implications of this post is not paying attention.

To be accurate… THIS is the entirety of his first post. (It doesn’t say he likes the game either, but it is his actual first post.)

“Probably still in the honeymoon phase.

After playing a bit more and realizing how little there actually is, you might feel different.

Sorry."

He edited it out.

BadBoyz.4153:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

That’s OK. For some white knights ANet could sell an expansion with absolutely nothing in it for $100 and they would still defend an love it.

That’s the problem, Anet actually thinks everything is ok because these small group are here constantly defending them. Meanwhile the majority of players hate it and Anet is oblivious to it. Not even a “guys we kittened up” and try to fix it…Anet is so blind sometimes.

Small group? Source please, fact is forum is the small group. Official forum only contain small minority of people, most people does not go here because 1. they having more fun playing the game than complaining on forum. 2. Forum has an extremely bad reputation in GW2 player base and people knows not to come here.

Celtic Lady.3729:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

draugris.9872:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

The irony is that Arenanet self created that environment with their refusal to communication. And it seems that they understood that they can´t fool the people here any longer.

Point proven, people here are just so much more toxic and complain about every little thing in GW2 since day 1 of launch. I mean if some new player just read forum and don’t play the game they would think GW2 is one of the worst game ever made.

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Kaiser.9873:

Grim West.3194:

Preorder only gave a small window into HoT.

It didn’t warn us that WvW would be decimated, dungeons abandoned, small guilds kicked to the curb, loot nerfed, etc, etc, etc

It also didn’t warn us that EVERYTHING would be gated. Time-gated, PvE-gated, Number-gated, everything is behind a gate of some kind or another. Want to gather ley-line sparks? Better have enough Chak acid. Chak acid that you better complete meta for or spend all your super special currency getting. Want auric dust, again, another gate.

All directly PvE gates as well. There are NO WvW gates, therefore WvW is gutted. All the players who would rather go WvW are forced to PvE for everything. Honestly I feel it’s spite on the part of ANet for all the posts reviling their boss about his “WvW players really like PvE” statement.

If you think these are gate, then you might as well say that to everything. Almost all rpg are level gated, gear gated, story progression gated. And if we go further then Dota is also level gated, item gated, farm gated. If that’s how you look at things everything in video games are gated.

JoeytheHutt.1742:

you have an opinion. So have others.

People can not hide behind it’s just my opinion in every argument, of course we know it’s opinion, can you imagine if everyone just use it’s just my/your opinion in every conversation? Then human conversation would not exist .

On another note, I agree with OP completely, forum always tries to make things look worse than it actually is. If you just read forum and not play the game you would think GW2 is one of the worst game of all time.

What are you people talking about, gold is just as easy if not easier to get if you know where to farm. Cursed Shore farm, you get a charged loadstone aka 3 gold per 3 events. SW farm is still good. And just by gathering wood nodes you can earn a lot of gold.

Do none of you actually play the game or use map chat, why no one here knows these.

Linken.6345:

warbignime.4610:

Kaiser.9873:

Astralporing.1957:

warbignime.4610:

Yeah still not seeing why anyone would want run them outside of raid.

You may not see it, but it’s rather obvious that other people do want to do exactly that. Just as before HoT people wanted to run other stats that Berserker.
Anet tried to make content-limited stat sets before, and it has never been met by a poitive reaction. Why would they want to repeat that again, and lock it behind content that is already generating a lot of negative responses in the community, i have no idea.

Anet’s gone whole hog against their initial, “Play as you want” philosophy. It’s really pretty sad.

The thing is Viper is way less effective in almost any situation outside of raid at a much higher price, why would anyone want that. Also if you really want to there are exotic version of them, although can not think of any reason anyone would want to use them outside of raid what so ever. It’s like buying a medium fries but wanting to pay large fries price.

Yes but if people want to be full ascended to start to raid why cant they get their viper and crusader ahead of time, why lock it so they have to do the raid to be able to have the stats they want?

Exotic is good enough for raid, if your group knows what they are doing. That 2% more dps of yours doesn’t really matter, raid is about getting good with mechanic and maximize your dps through being quick with mechanic and finding more dps opportunities.

Also the vendor will unlock once you defeat vale guardian, and vale guardian is not that hard now that most raiders knows what they are doing.

Linken.6345:

play for free i would like to guess

Ummm, isn’t that suppose to be F2P? Also if it means play for free the sentence doesn;t make sense.