Ask 100 players if they had a legendary bit of gear and an ascended what one would they think best to put in a free slot. This discussion is beyond stupid.not one of them would pick ascended over legendary.Ie best in slot.
Then why are loads of people who are actually finishing raids using Ascended weapons and not Legendary? They must be doing it wrong.
Yeah it’s funny how I’m not seeing in the lfg, “LF2M LEGENDARIES ONLY.”
Now I see groups asking for “full ascended.” But never legendaries. Never.
We’ve explained countless times about how legendary and ascended are the same stats. What it comes down to is that he wants a prestige item. He even said before he wants the “bragging rights” that come along with it. Only he doesn’t want to put the work in it and wants to pay his way to prestige. It has nothing to do with work being invalidated, we’ve already proven time and time again how wrong he is on this point. He wants the shinies. End of story.
Pugs are already doing this event. Given time they will learn it and be more successful like teq. Stop asking for yet more braindead content when there is plenty of that for you.
If that was the case Anet would never have created TT and they would not have created this event. But they specifically said they were adding TT and teq like bosses to HoT. That means more organization and coordination. This event isn’t even that hard. With time people will learn.
This. I like having a ranged pet that actually hits hard. They aren’t going to let us have both a really hard hitting ranged pet and let it be tanky. It’s one or the other. Since we already have sort of tanky ranged pets, I’d like to have my machine gun.
You can’t throw money at this dear and expect to have everything handed to you. You have to work for it. This isn’t China. Honest, why bother playing video games if not to actually PLAY the game? You aren’t even really playing. Just throwing money to get digital goods. Why bother? You should not be able to faceroll your way to prestige items or throw money around to get them. That takes away the prestige.
Because this is what people want to do…use third party program in order to play one of the basic parts of the expansion….yaaay. /sarcasm off. Tripple trouble is the most similar to TD and look how many people are doing it. None. I killed that wurm just twice since it was released exactly because I don’t want to bother with 3rd party programs and the “wonderful” megaserver sys-not-tem
Except groups like LUCK have been able to organize TD runs without teamspeak and with plenty of pugs. It takes organization and people must listen. But it can be done in map chat. And of course, you must bring your dps gear/spec. Running around in nomads for this fight is just plain stupid. It’s a good fight and I hope they don’t touch it.
The physical fight against Mordremoth is in Dragon’s Stand. The mouth is NOT just a champion like claw of jormag or teq. The mental fight….I was very disappointed with his design. He did look very ridiculous. The fight itself wasn’t bad, but was pretty buggy.
So what about the best in slot promise made within mins of the no new tiers promise. i take it in your anet suck up deluded mind that legendary is not best in slot gear ether. absurd.
Of course it’s best in slot. So is Ascended. The Defense ratings and the stats are the same.
Today. However Legendary is promised to be the best tier tomorrow, while ascended isn’t.
Actually they outright said that ascended was the final tier and that there would be no tier higher. So that’s promised as well. Now whether you believe they will stick to that is another story….
I highly doubt they will refund you your money. They didn’t break any “contract” with you.
In all seriousness though, if you believe in sinking money into a game to get things you might want to try a Perfect World game or something. Perfect World in known for that. That seems more like what you are looking for.
Just because people disagree with him he insults them. But like you said, his position has no merit. Anet did not lie. When and if they add a new tier of gear with new stats THEN you can come out and say they broke their word, but they haven’t done that.
And believe me, when ascended gear was first announced I was one of the first people giving Anet the smackdown here on the forums. I was bloody furious. If you wanted to accuse them back then of breaking their word, then you would have better standing. But not for this. Should Anet introduce a true new tier of gear you better believe I will be here and I will be voicing my displeasure very loudly and clearly. Until then though….shrugs
You are the one that said that you think you should get high prestige items because you throw money at the game. The whole point of a prestige item is that you cannot get it easily and that it is rewarded for work. Getting around that with money would destroy the whole idea behind it. Even Anet admitted allowing old legendaries and precursors to be boe was a huge mistake and they said they will rectify this with all future legendaries. They will not be boe ever again.
Just because you chose to sink tons of money into this game does not mean you deserve everything in the game. Certain rewards require you complete certain content. If you want the new legendary back piece you need to do pvp. If you want that teq weapon you need to do tequatl. If you want the new legendary armors you need to raid. Now who knows, maybe they will come up with a legendary armor collection that does not require raiding. But if they do it won’t be the same as the one the raiders get, it would probably have a different skin. For now though, if you want that armor you need to get your kitten in raids.
Wow just wow. Good thing most western gamers disagree with this attitude. Otherwise p2w would rule here like it does in China. Thank god that will never be the case here.
You are the one ignoring the fact that there is no stat difference and that is what makes a kitten tier a tier. That is what creates a gear treadmill to begin with. NONE of your current work has been invalidated. This is especially true in your case where you admitted your warr has TWO sets of ascended gear, which is even more convenient then having legendary because you don’t have to worry about rune swaps. You want a shiny new skin, well you need to do the content that rewards it.
I mentioned that it’s the MMO standard for definitions of tiers of gear because that is the definiton Anet is using themselves. So people shouldn’t be shocked and accuse them of lying. They have still stuck to exactly what they said (so far…if they actually add a new tier of gear with better stats then obviously they will be breaking their word). You can bring up how they are special snowflakes in numerous regards but that doesn’t change the fact that they themselves use this particular term in this particular manner.
You keep repeating the same thing. Doesn’t make it any more true. It’s not a new tier defined by how tiers of gear are in any MMO out there.
We are playing, and speaking of, GW2, not, “any MMO out there.”
GW2 was purposefully created, and advertised, to not be quite like every MMO on the market. Sure there are similarities, perhaps those similarities have grown over time, but the intention and design are still there.
Is the armor reward for raiding in every MMO out there statistically identical to armor earned in open world content?
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When Anet is talking about gear tiers and gear grind and gear treadmills (as you see in the videos) they are NOT talking about treadmills for pretty skins/convenience. They are talking about the traditional gear treadmill that you see in most MMOs. Hence why they make the statement that they don’t want to invalidate your hard work and that your gear which was best in slot today will still be best in slot tomorrow. They are talking about stats people. STATS.
yes its a new tier of armor and only a very silly misled person would think otherwise
and at 16.40 on this video the top guy at anet said that they would not be adding new tiers and starting a gear grind treadmill and invalidating all our hard work.
but here we are with hot and a new tier of legendary armor that most of us are locked out of.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxLkfXwxLTs only word that describes this is LIES.
How is your hard work invalidated?
It isn’t. The hilarious thing about this is that I think this guy said he has two sets of ascended. That’s technically BETTER than having a set of legendary gear because then you don’t have to worry about switching rune sets out constantly.
If you kill the blighting pods less mobs run up the ramp to annoy people upstairs. Note that it does not get rid of ALL the mobs. Only the ones that run up the ramp. Also, you need a poison mastery group to do this if you do plan on it. It’s really not necessary though.
Tiers of gear in MMOs are always by STATS. You don’t need that legendary armor. Ascended gear is the highest stat armor in the game. If you are an extreme min/max person ascended works just fine. Shiny skins and a convenience item does not make a new tier. And it’s not even that convenient considering you still need to switch out infusions and runes.
To be fair if you are healing and have no intention of tanking you should NOT have a lot of toughness. You’l grab aggro from the tank. Doesn’t excuse the guy from being a jerk of course.
Legendary is not a god kitten new tier. Jesus. It’s the same stats as ascended. The same. The only thing the legendary armor has is the convenience feature of stat switching. But even then you still have to switch those runes out just the same too. Hell, if anything it’s more convenient to have two sets of ascended gear than to have the legendary.
What it comes down to is people being mad that they can’t have a new shiny skin and that they have to do specific content for such a reward.
Although I find it personally undeniable that casuals and non-meta-build players are not the target audience of Anet anymore, some posters still offer the argument that you can theoretically play all the content if you find people stupid, friendly or hardcore enough to carry you or your fingers are quick enough to give a world class performance with everything after memorizing it in and out of the youtube channel of some math-geek gamer who crunched the numbers. It´s up to everyone´s own opinion if that argument is valid or not, but it clearly gives you the option of being a shameless leecher or a person that just doesn´t get it if you don´t go down that road. Not very appealing if you ask me.
Just because you can’t raid doesn’t mean the world is ending and there is no casual stuff to do. There is plenty of casual content in this game. The majority of it is still very casual. Adding different types of content to appeal to different groups makes sense. It’s rather selfish to feel that hard content should not exist because you can’t do it. Not saying you feel that way, but I’ve seen people here pretty much say that and I strongly disagree.
Legendary gear has the same stats as ascended gear forever . /thread
Fixed that for you, Vayne. You´re welcome.^^
Fixed your fix for you
Actually, they said that Ascended would be the top gear level (save Legendary) until the end of… I believe it was the end of 2014. We’re a full year past the end of that. They could add in a new top tier at any time and not go back on what they’ve said.
Would it be a bad idea to do so? Most likely, yes. But it could happen at any time.
Actually no. They clarified later on that ascended is going to be the final tier forever. Now will they stick to this? I’d like to believe they will. But things change and people change their minds. But I’m going to try to stay positive on this for once though.
OMG, that’s such a long trip to the MF. God help you.
And you realize if you change your spec with the legendary you will lose anything you have slotted as well unless you extract. Since changing a spec will usually require a different rune set, etc. You would have to do the same thing with the ascended. It’s no different. Unless they’ve announced a new feature that allows you to just swap runes out with legendaries, but I haven’t heard of such a thing.
They need to fix the buggy parts of it like double hit or the hitting of more than 5 targets. Other than that, no. I don’t see why they should nerf it for the sake of WvW alone (because it’s fine in pvp and pve).
Legendary gear has the same stats as ascended gear. /thread
I can switch stats now for free on my ascended armor?
Haven´t read it in the patch notes…but this is an awesome news!
That’s for convenience. That doesn’t make legendary gear a tier above ascended. It’s the same kitten stats and you can change the stats on regular ascended gear, it just costs some gold.
Besides the whole HP rant I agree on the impact over the community… I also noticed how now people is less likely to res you during meta boss fights specially, now it’s extended to “in general” … there are still some noble souls out there…
Like others have said, it depends. If you are fully dead and we are in the middle of the meta. Yeah you better run your kitten back because you aren’t getting a rez and I consider you a jerk for sitting there expecting a rez under such circumstances. Especially if we are talking about the Chak Gerent. We don’t have time for rezzing the fully dead. It’s a dps race. This has always been the case though and not something new to HoT. If you are downed and I find I can rez you without getting myself killed then I’ll do it for sure. But if I feel I can’t rez you without getting myself killed then I might not chance it. Then again sometimes I take the chance and try anyway (and usually get downed lol).
I had one case not long ago where some guy was getting the crap beaten out of him by some chak mobs while a bunch of us were killing the champ chak HP in TD. He went down, I tried to get him back up but was taking a hell of a lot of damage almost going down myself so I had to back off. He went fully dead and started calling me names because I couldn’t rez him. He was some jerk who commands HP trains in TD apparently.
To be honest, I don’t think the community has changed. It’s a large community and there are nasty people in it and there are nice people. That’s just the way it is when dealing with the online world (or hell even the real world).
I just hate mastery points. Why isn’t filling the mastery bar with experience not enough to get your mastery?
Exactly. The whole idea behind mastery points is ridiculous. We are already stuck grinding for xp for mastery, why do we need these points as well? Just seems like another way to add more grind. I actually don’t mind the regular mastery xp grind. It’s the mastery points that I hate because it forces me to do something I really despise.
People should be able to use regen items to get this ridiculous HP. I don’t have adrenal mushrooms nor will I be getting it anytime soon (if ever) thanks to Anet not having enough mastery points outside of adventures (which I hate with a passion). You can have all the mastery point insights and strongboxes and you still won’t come close to getting maxed in all masteries without being forced to do adventures.
I agree with this. Now some people like adventures and that’s cool. You want to go for gold, great. But mastery points should NOT be locked behind adventures. There needs to be more ways of obtaining mastery points. I hate adventures with a passion. They bore me to tears. The only reason I forced myself to do some of them is for collections. But I’ve had enough of them at this point. However, now I don’t know if I’ll be able to obtain enough mastery points to max things out without resorting to adventures. Please Anet stop forcing adventures down our throats.
I just see a lot of things that need improvements to make it MORE interesting or at least playable (no one can kill Chak Gerent with 2 players).
You should not be able to kill the chak gerent with two players. Now the chak gerent fight probably needs some adjustment. I notice pugs have the most difficulty with nuhoch so that might be the place to start. And they need to fix it so that we have reason to break the bar. It’s kind of silly using the no cc strat. It works great yes, but it feels very wrong to do this. Very poor design.
I hated the TD map at first (and it’s still my least favorite) but if you have nuhoch wallows mastery it makes it pretty easy to navigate around the map.
Probably. ESPECIALLY if they do Cantha. I will prepurchase that in a heartbeat.
There are some issues with HoT, but this is their first expansion and hopefully they will learn from this for the next one. Overall I really love Revenant and the elite specs. They also better continue making gliding friendly zones because I love my gliding. I like all the new zones and enjoy the difficulty of them.
So for the past few days I’ve been trying to get the achievements for the TD Meta for my final few mastery points that I need to get to make the gift of insights, but this place is literally a ghost town.
Just today I waited 20 minutes and only myself and ONE other person turned up for the Meta. WTF!? I feel like I’m in Guild Wars 1 all over again, where, because there aren’t many (if any) updates for it anymore (or in this case, not enough frequent events), no one is there, and when no one is there, YOU CAN’T DO A SINGLE THING.
So right now I’m really frustrated because these are the final few achievements I need for my final few mastery points, and there’s not a single thing I can do to suddenly make this place popular.
Maybe raids is to blame and everyone has flocked there, but my money is on the fact that the TD Meta is so hard. So hard that you need a very popular, well organised GUILD team to actually get it done. Unlike Auric Basin Meta, where the place isn’t such a nightmare to navigate, and is easier to succeed in (been in 5 successful tarir city takeovers so far).
Heck, I don’t even see any TD Meta ORG lfg’s. Trust me, I’ve looked. THEY AIN’T THERE.
So Anet, is Tangled Depths going to be another wasteland where people simply cannot get their achievements because it’s so hard to navigate, and succeed in the Meta?
Something seriously needs to be done about this.
20 minutes? That’s nothing most people who do organized TD are on the map for an hour or even two hours before the event actually starts. Mainly to try to have enough time to taxi in their people to the map. Not sure you’ll find any successful TD only 20 minutes before the event. It is a pain in the kitten to be honest. And even if it’s organized it sometimes fails. I’m trying to get the hivemaster collection, it’s going to take forever…
This also happened to me after leaving water in EB yesterday. Facets literally wouldn’t stay on for more than 2 seconds. It was like trying to light a damp match.
(Henceforth this bug shall be known as the “damp match bug”)
Issue fixed once I switched stances though
This happened to me, it only goes away if I switch to another legend and back again. Very annoying.
How about no. Raids are elitist enough let’s not bring that into the open world. I don’t care if you want more rewards that casuals will never get, and I’m willing to bet most of the people on this forum will agree with me. Chak – specifically nuhoch lane – needs nerfing. Increase mushroom spore spawn rate, replace elite mushrooms guarding spores with veterans. This will be enough to make the event success rate shoot up to something closer to DS.
I’m confused why is rewarding with RMP elitist? These meta events SHOULD reward better loot. Especially the harder ones. Though chak gerent does seem buggy, so the fight is something Anet really needs to look at.
DS is one of the easiest, if not the easiest of the meta events. I rarely get a failed map. And I’m not talking about guild organized maps either, I’m talking about pug maps. Just use the LFG and find “Org DS” and you will be fine. Do this as the event is starting because if you try later on you won’t get a good map. Now Tangled Depths, that’s another story…I’ve managed to do that but only rarely. It’s annoying because I’m trying to get that hivemaster title and mini.
For the longest time I didn’t realize that was coming from my facets. I thought it was in-game music. Then I realized it was the facets. It’s annoying and I do wish I could shut the sound off. And not with the players instruments thing, because I actually like hearing people play instruments every once in a while.
