I think I’m probably going to use the HoM staff since that sort of fits my charr’s look. If I can get another teq hoard I would use that staff also, but I don’t know if RNGesus likes me enough to give me another. lol.
There are no weeklies and monthlies were eliminated. There is the a daily log in reward, but you don’t even need to do that daily (all progress is saved so if you can’t log in one day, it’s not a big deal.) There are dailies and if you like achievement points and random goodies you can do them, or not. Those aren’t really a big deal either. I skip them when I’m being lazy.
Easiest classes for leveling are warrior, ranger and guardian. But since you said you don’t like guardian, then try warrior instead. If casters are your thing, the easiest of those to level is necro.
We don’t want the trinity. The whole core of this game is to NOT have that and most of us specifically play this game because we do not like the trinity. If you want the trinity there are plenty of games out there with it. GW2 just might not be the game for you. But I would say at least level to 80 and try to forget all the things you know from other mmos. You don’t need to rush to 80. Just go explore or jump into WvW or anything really.
This system just doesn’t feel alt friendly at all. Which is very surprising considering the direction that HoT has been taking with making things alt friendly (such as the way masteries will work). Anet, PLEASE take alts into consideration when you think about how you want this system to work. I do not want to be running around on every single character doing hero challenges over and over again for skills I already unlocked.
Not sure how it’s not alt friendly. Assuming you’re leveling your alts to 80 (and if you’re not going into higher level zones not sure why you need traits anyway), you’ll get most of the hero points you need just from that. You can fill in what you want by doing skill point challenges, now call hero point challenges.
Are you saying going and getting some skill points is a big deal.
And if you’re only PvPing it’s all unlocked anyway so in theory the only people for whom it wouldn’t be alt friendly are WvWer’s who don’t PvE at all.
a lot of people didnt level their chrs by map complete.
wvw
scrolls
eotm
crafting
while one skill challenge is easy, 65 is not so much.
65, PLUS the points you need to unlock the subclass stuff.
So that equals between 25% and 50% of known Tyria. With 19 alts (all leveled in PvP), that is kind of a big deal for me. If I have to run my alt through Tyria and do skill challenges, I can live with that, but I really, really don’t want to do it 19 times over.
Exactly. Certain people are trying to play this down and act like it’s nothing. It’s not nothing. This is a huge problem that Anet needs to address with this new system.
This system just doesn’t feel alt friendly at all. Which is very surprising considering the direction that HoT has been taking with making things alt friendly (such as the way masteries will work). Anet, PLEASE take alts into consideration when you think about how you want this system to work. I do not want to be running around on every single character doing hero challenges over and over again for skills I already unlocked.
Not sure how it’s not alt friendly. Assuming you’re leveling your alts to 80 (and if you’re not going into higher level zones not sure why you need traits anyway), you’ll get most of the hero points you need just from that. You can fill in what you want by doing skill point challenges, now call hero point challenges.
Are you saying going and getting some skill points is a big deal.
And if you’re only PvPing it’s all unlocked anyway so in theory the only people for whom it wouldn’t be alt friendly are WvWer’s who don’t PvE at all.
I have lots of alts, MOST of which I leveled in WvW. Unless you are saying WvW folks don’t matter at all. This IS a problem.
Not necessarily. If you have 400 points right there, you can grab everything you need, then bumrush several maps in PvE, rush straight for the skill points, grab them, and get out. By the way, did they say whether or not skill books and tomes will be useable after the change?
See if this was just one alt, I wouldn’t really care as much. But this is a lot of alts. And I know I’m not the only one with lots of alts. That adds up. Dragging them all around each map for hero challenges is going to be a tedious pain in the kitten .
Plus quite frankly the whole idea of taking away skills and things we’ve already earned in game is very repulsive to me in general. I should not have to re-earn these skills. Period.
This is way too mandatory for nearly all Mesmer builds, and not making it baseline limits the variability of builds Mesmers will be able to make.
Almost all Mesmers will have to take this Spec just to get this Trait. It should really be baseline.
I agree, DE should be made base line. I rarely see a Mes not running DE, and when I do they tend to die pretty quickly and horribly in PvP. Phantasms only builds may work better in group PvE, but in WvW and sPvP the rate your Phants are killed far exceeds the rate you can put them up.
I suggest making DE baseline, and replacing the trait with one that specifically removes clones on dodge for all 10 people who don’t want it.
I think you’re grossly underestimating how many mesmers run phantasm builds in PVE. And a trait like that sounds terrible, they would have to bake something else into it to make it interesting.
Where did I say that about PvE?
When you make that comment about how only 10 people don’t want DE that’s what you imply. Baseline DE would affect a lot of people.
This system just doesn’t feel alt friendly at all. Which is very surprising considering the direction that HoT has been taking with making things alt friendly (such as the way masteries will work). Anet, PLEASE take alts into consideration when you think about how you want this system to work. I do not want to be running around on every single character doing hero challenges over and over again for skills I already unlocked.
Not sure how it’s not alt friendly. Assuming you’re leveling your alts to 80 (and if you’re not going into higher level zones not sure why you need traits anyway), you’ll get most of the hero points you need just from that. You can fill in what you want by doing skill point challenges, now call hero point challenges.
Are you saying going and getting some skill points is a big deal.
And if you’re only PvPing it’s all unlocked anyway so in theory the only people for whom it wouldn’t be alt friendly are WvWer’s who don’t PvE at all.
I have lots of alts, MOST of which I leveled in WvW. Unless you are saying WvW folks don’t matter at all. This IS a problem.
This system just doesn’t feel alt friendly at all. Which is very surprising considering the direction that HoT has been taking with making things alt friendly (such as the way masteries will work). Anet, PLEASE take alts into consideration when you think about how you want this system to work. I do not want to be running around on every single character doing hero challenges over and over again for skills I already unlocked.
This is way too mandatory for nearly all Mesmer builds, and not making it baseline limits the variability of builds Mesmers will be able to make.
Almost all Mesmers will have to take this Spec just to get this Trait. It should really be baseline.
I agree, DE should be made base line. I rarely see a Mes not running DE, and when I do they tend to die pretty quickly and horribly in PvP. Phantasms only builds may work better in group PvE, but in WvW and sPvP the rate your Phants are killed far exceeds the rate you can put them up.
I suggest making DE baseline, and replacing the trait with one that specifically removes clones on dodge for all 10 people who don’t want it.
I think you’re grossly underestimating how many mesmers run phantasm builds in PVE. And a trait like that sounds terrible, they would have to bake something else into it to make it interesting.
Actually, they did not say Eagle Eye was baseline. Only after ALOT of prodding by us in twitch did they finally say (during the warrior segment of all things) that LB would still have 1500 range. They didn’t confirm whether the damage portion of Eagle Eye survived as well. Read the Wind is not baseline. Only the velocity portion is, the rest is in Lead the wind which has to compete against Predator’s Onslaught. They rushed through our segment and barely even seemed interested in it. Didn’t even properly explain what things were baseline and what weren’t and they totally got things flat out wrong. I’m guessing because they weren’t the actual people familiar with rangers and in charge of the changes.
I don’t mind the new system so far. It seems interesting enough. However, they REALLY need to grandfather all current 80s who have everything unlocked already. It’s just not acceptable for us to lose abilities we already earned and have to grind all over for them. I don’t have world completion on most of my alts so many of them do not have all those random skill point challenges done. The last thing I want is to have to run around on a ton of alts doing silly hero point challenges for unlocking stuff I already earned before.
you will be doing it for elite spec anyhow.
they said 60 challenges will get you enough to unlock everything. that means youll probably need like 140-180 to unlock the new spec.
They need to at least make it so that if you have one character with world completion then all your alts get the hero points needed to unlock all the core things.
I don’t mind the new system so far. It seems interesting enough. However, they REALLY need to grandfather all current 80s who have everything unlocked already. It’s just not acceptable for us to lose abilities we already earned and have to grind all over for them. I don’t have world completion on most of my alts so many of them do not have all those random skill point challenges done. The last thing I want is to have to run around on a ton of alts doing silly hero point challenges for unlocking stuff I already earned before.
But wouldn’t a phantasm mesmer only have phantasms out? Not familiar with mesmers, but I wouldn’t think phant mesmers would have normal clones out at all. So having DE baseline would screw them over.
The velocity from RtW is baseline, the attack speed is still part of the new Lead the Wind trait.
During the warrior segment they quickly mentioned that rangers would still have 1500 range on LB. They did not mention anything about the damage portion of Eagle Eye. I really hope it’s baseline.
I really didn’t like how they didn’t seem very engaged during the ranger segment at all.
IF I am not mistaken, the guys just verbally confirmed very quickly: ‘1500 range ranger? yeah……no, we’re not taking that away’
A very quick comment. In between discussion of warrior specs.
Yeah, it was a blink and you’ll miss it moment during the warrior part of the stream and only because a bunch of us kept bugging them over and over about it in the twitch chat. lol.
However, they did not confirm whether the damage portion of the eagle eye trait is also baseline. They really just skipped the ranger baseline bit completely.
This can’t possibly mean I have to do all the hero challenges on all my characters to get all the points right? Because that’s really silly. They shouldn’t take away things that we’ve already earned on our currently level 80s. I understand having us get the points to unlock the new elite specialization stuff, but I don’t agree with having to go grab hero points on every single map on every single character. That is not alt friendly at all. If I’ve unlocked it already, it’s mine. I shouldn’t have to re-earn it again.
What race are you? Racial armor is usually nice. Other than that, I find leather armor kind of lacking in the looks department. The gem shop has a few nice skins, but still overall leather could be better.
It’s mind boggling that people would be so stubborn and argue against something so simple as adding more choices. How does this affect you again? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. While such a change would improve QoL for others.
I am 100% sure that there will be no race because well because you have to make another personal story and I am very sure that the personal story took at least 20% of the game budget for the game.
Except:
“… but we absolutely are going to do sweeping new features that you would traditionally only get in expansions – large regions, content and progression additions to your characters in the form of growth and professions and races. Those are all things that you will see in the lifespan of Guild Wars 2.” http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2
They specifically say new races are on the table. So I do expect them at some point. Though I really wasn’t expecting one for this xpac.
Totally agree with OP. I really wish we could change out the headpiece at least for our armor piece. I understand the reasoning for keeping the rest of the set together, but that doesn’t really work for head pieces.
Is the daily thing on the right side of the screen viewable to lowbie characters/new accounts? I can’t remember and I also leveled before all this new leveling stuff occurred anyway. Because if it is viewable I’d say that’s a huge flaw and certainly not something s/he made up.
TWO fractal related daily options for the pve section today? This is exactly the reason why we need more PVE options. Some of us do not like fractals/dungeons. Now for me, I sometimes do WvW so I supposed I can complete my daily doing that. But I greatly prefer to just do pve for dailies. And there are people who don’t do WvW, they are pretty much screwed and can’t do the daily today. Please stop taking away our choices.
You’re making a kittenumption that those characters are one of the new Allies, just because they showed them in the trailer(along with several other civilizations) doesn’t necessarily make them ONE of the new Allies.
But in the trailer it shows the Mursaat (or whatever it is) and flashes “NEW ALLIES.” So obviously they are. Are they the only ones? Probably not, but they are definitely one set of allies according to the trailer.
No. Not sure why you want that back. It’s awful. Especially as dps sitting in a queue waiting and waiting for a tank or healer. It’s miserable. I mean part of me really misses being a healer. But in the end, it’s probably for the best to do away with that.
Tengu doesn’t make any sense right now story-wise. If you start seeing them dropping hints about Tengu then maybe you can expect it, but certainly not now. I doubt we will see that anytime soon. Maybe the next expansion if you’re lucky.
If you don’t have the money to just buy the gear off the trading post then I recommend farming some karma (you might even have a lot of karma from when you played before) and go to Orr. The temples in Orr all have sets of armor, including Berzerker (which is at the Balthazar or Grenth temple I forget which one).
Or do dungeons like the above poster said. But if you dislike dungeons then just get karma gear. Or save up money and buy from the tp.
I like and dislike some of the things about this new daily system. I love the log in and get stuff thing. Haha, who doesn’t? But for the actual dailies, I really wish we had more pve choices. Keep it so that you get your 10 achievement points when you complete the daily (and don’t reward achievement points for each option of the daily so that achievement hunters aren’t getting burned out). But give us more options again. It makes me sad that we are back to much fewer options. Before I used to get the daily done naturally just playing the game.
Oh and please change the events daily option. Currently it’s limited to one map and then there are TONS of people running around that map. Just make it “do 4 events in Kryta/Ascalon/Maguuma” instead. That way it’s spread across a region and you don’t have a million people clogging up one zone.
The Mursaat are not minions of elder dragons. They are ancient enemies of the dragons that allied with other old races to try to fight them. Though they then ran away and abandoned their allies.
God people are so cheap. -_- It certainly isn’t going to be $20 people.
It better be less based on the anemic content.
No, it’s obviously going to be more. And I don’t get why you think it’s “anemic” content. New zones, new class, new specializations, challenging group content (still unknown though), revamp of WvW and a new map, new PvP mode, Guild Halls. These are all expansion type content.
Have people not bought expansions for other games before? They typically cost the same as a normal game.
Stop being so kitten cheap people. There is no sub here.
I love Cantha, but I was totally not expecting it to be in this expansion. It would make absolutely no sense and be random/out of the blue. Maybe, just maybe we can get Cantha in another xpac….if Anet can convince NCSoft that is. I hope they can.
I see no “tail.” They look like they are floating to me. And in the second pic that’s not a tail. The Mursaat is being grabbed by a Mordy minion vine and is blasting at it. Plus, there are so many in-game hints that these are related to Mursaat. No way they are Forgotten, they don’t look even remotely snake like. Anet does redesigns but there is still some slight semblance to the original design. They don’t have extra arms of the seers, they aren’t snake-like to be Forgotten. To me they look the most like the Mursaat and with all the Mursaat hints that makes the most sense.
Here we have a full transcript of yesterday’s presentation (thanks to the guy who wrote all that down).
Interestingly, twice Colin mentions “our no-grind philosophy for Guild Wars 2”.
It appears ArenaNet really believes their own Manifesto, when the same Colin said, “We don’t want players to grind”.
We just need to let them know that, between Ascended items and slow dungeon rewards and Legendaries and the new level-based unlocks and the new trait system unlock and etc etc, well… Their “no-grind philosophy” has been extremely grindy.
But it’s all optional. I’ve been playing since launch and I have yet to have one character decked out in full Ascended. I don’t care for it and it’s not necessary to play the game. Would I rather Ascended did not exist? Sure. I was one of the vocal people against the introduction of Ascended. But now after all this time I do realize I just don’t NEED Ascended. It’s part of that old MMO type thing that makes you feel that you NEED to have it, but you really don’t. Try to forget the bad habits you’ve learned from other MMOs. Besides, MMOs without any grind whatsoever? Yeah, that’s never going to happen.
Why are so many people caught up on the old GW1 appearance? We’ve already seen time and time again Anet redesign creatures that used to be in GW1. They look like redesigned Mursaat.
I don’t understand people complaining about price and saying that they’ll only buy it for $20-30. People that’s most likely not going to happen. It will probably range from $49.00 and up. The price of a normal game. There is no sub so I don’t get the complaints. Hell, I’m ready to buy a physical CE if they have one (I hope they do).
They look like Mursaat to me. And saying they don’t look exactly like GW1 Mursaat, doesn’t mean they aren’t. Lots of creatures look different from their GW1 counterparts. I think these look enough like Mursaat that it’s safe to say they are. What I find interesting is that they are listed in the trailer as “new allies.” Mursaat as friendlies….interesting.
No, at least not until I read more info (GS on necro is a massive incentive but if we are going to have raid-like bullkitten, then no ty.)
This makes no sense. So don’t do the raids? Unlike WoW where you have to do raids if you want to progress your character because ofgear grind, we don’t have that here. Really, I don’t see any issue with having raids in the game for those who want raids. I would think that they wouldn’t be traditional WoW style raids anyway if they do have instanced group content.
Anyway, of course I will be buying HoT. I look forward to the new class and making my ranger into a druid!
I honestly wanted another gear tier. It adds on a ton of time onto an expansions lifespan. So they removed the gear grind but did not put something equivalent into its place. No matter how you spin it, masteries (more talent points) is not nearly equivalent to new gear. As far as I can tell, this expansion seems to be about two to three months of content for your average player. That is extremely bad as it is an incredibly short amount of time.
Overall, extremely dissapointed with this reveal. There is far to much shiny with very little substance.
Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2 has NEVER been about gear grind and never will be. That’s how the majority of us like it. Adding new tiers is just an artificial and cheap way of “extending” the life of a game.
They said that the expansion will pick up where S2 left off, so no there will not be any living story arcs between now and then. I imagine we’ll just get filler stuff. Maybe they’ll bring back dragon bash. Or now would be a good time for a SAB to distract people.
Well, on the HoT homepage note that it says “challenging group content” and it also has “test your mettle in new boss battles” as a separate line from challenging group content. So who knows….maybe there will be raid-like content, maybe not. Even if they do raids you can bet they won’t be like WoW style raids. They’ll be GW2’s spin on raid content.
