Anet is not at fault here. No company is at fault if some degenerate on a group decides to be toxic tbh but you cant find them all or keep them out of the game or im sure anet would have done it long ago. As for you op i dont know what to say man this its the lowest iv seen someone act and apologise on their behalf. What can i say man hope to see you in game in the future and have soe fun doing raids or w/e
ppl dont seem to understand one think, thats maybe this might be their first mmo. Expansions are not 1 time releases expansion are the whole period between expac 1 and 2 what ever comes after 2 or 3 months from the launch of the expac is paid with that expac. No game delivers an expac only with its on release content you pay for the months to come yet. Why hot failed was because for 9 months nothing came but not because it was poor on release
I confess I still can’t understand how people can value quantity over quality so much.
All the 4 initial HoT maps are incredibly beautiful, the only one I feel was lacking in content is Dragon Stand. The other three are just amazingly complex, full of tasks to do, lore-bits, npcs, stories and dialogues, challenging enemies, exploration puzzles, easter eggs, coordinated metas, etc. They are simply superior to any other “map” in the MMORPG market afaik.
The in other thread the correct word: Some people seems to be interested, not in all the fun things you can do in a map, but in mere “Landmass”. I can’t understand it.
I dont think many ppl dont apriciate them for what they are its just that for the next expac we could have 6 maps like the hot ones tbh ^^
i disagree, i love current necro build. blood magic is pathetic because it revolves around downed state, which is something nobody should be doing in the first place.
Totaly agree
I played necro back in the past before lichfrom Nerf and to me it was really boring.
Now I reageared up it again, and I falled in love with the new gs soul reapering rotation.
i would change deathly chill to make it so aplying chill aplies dmg and make it scale with power boom power necro is viable as kitten
Sorry, qT is too bad to kill the boss in Challange Mote so I made that reddit post so I can finally get Demons Demise
You shouldn’t take this thread personally. Your post in reddit was still good on some points. If anet decided they should changed it, it’s not because of you, it’s because they think it was needed, and this is where I disagree.
Don’t worry, I don’t take it personally. I still think it’s a good change. I have argued with people from my guild about this aswell already. Some people in the qT say that the change is good, others think it’s not.
The problem I see with tear stripping aegis are the following:
1. they have a weird projectile and it’s not always clear when the projectile hits you so its hard to dodge it
2. a lot of people in my guild say that controlling tears is part of this fight, but you can’t always controll them, since sometimes they spawn inside the black or on top of hands OR they spawn at the same time when deimos is doing mind crush.
Ofcourse a mesmer could use shield 4 to get the tear on the black but most of the player base won’t do it or think about it and stuff
3. There is so much stuff that strips your aegis anyway already like the auto attacks of the black sauls or prides and small prides hitting saul and exploding, that removing one of the things is ok imo.
I just find it funny that people mention qT, even tho I made this post. Yes I am a member of qT but it doesnt mean that everyone in qT has the same opinion as I do. Even on the reddit post, there were qT members making comments against my argument of tears stripping aegis. In the end anet changed it only for challange mote, which will help more people to get demons demise. All the members of hardcore raiding guilds like qT or Snow Crows had this title since week 1 anyway so nothing changed for us.
It cant be argued that they went the wrong way about it instead of making the projectile more clear as to when and who it hits they basically rekoved its importance from the fight. Tbh i didnt see you post but if you didnt present a good way to change it then you should have had tbh (constructive feedback). Regardless im glad its now easier for you or anyone but it shouldnt have happened in this way. And tbh a good group should always have a backup plan b if theres not 100% chance that their a plan will work against a mechanic.
The problem is, you can’t invuln mind crush and aegis doesnt stack. This means there is literally no possible back up plan. The only possible back up plan would be to bring blocks on every single class. Warriors would need to play Zerk, Druids would need to bring Signet of Stone (which doesnt work since the CD is too high to use it for every mind crush) and so on.
time the aegis spam for when the attack is about to drop and use invuln from the mesmers to further back itup?
heh, half expansion Mike. Yeah this should be interesting :P
I don’t know, missing legendary armor, so far, and a bit over half the legendary weapons. The only other thing even mentioned was Fractal Leaderboards. Everything else was delivered, so I’m not sure why people think that’s half.
Aside from that, I think Mo is doing a good job with the game. I agree he’s made some tough decisions, but I’m pretty sure tough decisions had to be made.
The real poof either way, will be the next expansion.
Sorry, qT is too bad to kill the boss in Challange Mote so I made that reddit post so I can finally get Demons Demise
You shouldn’t take this thread personally. Your post in reddit was still good on some points. If anet decided they should changed it, it’s not because of you, it’s because they think it was needed, and this is where I disagree.
Don’t worry, I don’t take it personally. I still think it’s a good change. I have argued with people from my guild about this aswell already. Some people in the qT say that the change is good, others think it’s not.
The problem I see with tear stripping aegis are the following:
1. they have a weird projectile and it’s not always clear when the projectile hits you so its hard to dodge it
2. a lot of people in my guild say that controlling tears is part of this fight, but you can’t always controll them, since sometimes they spawn inside the black or on top of hands OR they spawn at the same time when deimos is doing mind crush.
Ofcourse a mesmer could use shield 4 to get the tear on the black but most of the player base won’t do it or think about it and stuff
3. There is so much stuff that strips your aegis anyway already like the auto attacks of the black sauls or prides and small prides hitting saul and exploding, that removing one of the things is ok imo.
I just find it funny that people mention qT, even tho I made this post. Yes I am a member of qT but it doesnt mean that everyone in qT has the same opinion as I do. Even on the reddit post, there were qT members making comments against my argument of tears stripping aegis. In the end anet changed it only for challange mote, which will help more people to get demons demise. All the members of hardcore raiding guilds like qT or Snow Crows had this title since week 1 anyway so nothing changed for us.
It cant be argued that they went the wrong way about it instead of making the projectile more clear as to when and who it hits they basically rekoved its importance from the fight. Tbh i didnt see you post but if you didnt present a good way to change it then you should have had tbh (constructive feedback). Regardless im glad its now easier for you or anyone but it shouldnt have happened in this way. And tbh a good group should always have a backup plan b if theres not 100% chance that their a plan will work against a mechanic.
i cant w8 for the exoac to be anounced and to have nothing to do with elona ohhh the salt " this was supposed to be a crystal desert expansion, you lied to us anet" better make that popcorn in advance
Regardless, people tend to buy expansions for the new content . . . not features. But, again regardless, that’s another topic.
The hype is lacking because ANet is holding the next expansion close to their vest. After all, they don’t want people quoting them again when something doesn’t deliver as promised.
Besides, we’re assuming the expansion is close to being done. The opposite might be true instead. That’s a sound reason not to hype anything at this point.
gw2 is known for doing things in its own way why would that change for an expac? if they needed to put the groundwork for future expacs and have that as their first expansion then let them do it tbh
how ppl didnot see that the expansion was feature heavy instead of content heavy is beyond me x_x
Its because these people don’t stop and think about features. These are the people who will race through the content as fast as they can to finish it first, then complain about having nothing to do. Well yea, if you no life grind and max your masteries within a week, of course it seems like a small expansion, because you skipped most of what came with it.
It also doesn’t help that both the PvP and WvW offerings of HoT were not well received. DBL represents a metric kittenton of content, yet because the initial release was not well received (which is kitten, since it was what people had been asking for. Then again, that’s the story of HoT. GW2 players ask for something and then complain when they get it), people just ignored it and refused to play on it.
Ehhh i cant say ppl skiped through most content. Systems are not content, hot was not content heavy, hot was System heavy. These are all truths but also Systems that have been added in the game can work as the basis for content and that was the purpose of hot, to be that basis (or at least i hope it was).
I hope expac 2 will expand from it content wise and only add on in these systems instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Also food for thought, its not the lack of release content that made hot look poor or what will make expac 2 look poor should i not have plenty of it, it was and it still will be the months ofter the launch that shape an expac.
I went in hot abit after release knowing what was the expac and i treated it as such therefor i enjoyed it for what it was and critisized it for what it lacked. Also, wtf is DBL?
man kitten that festival (not really its so good but so soul crushing i hope we get to see world 3 next year ill also try to get the w2 infusion kitten me eh)
the deap sea dragon isnnever coming simply because you never gonna get any water ever again in the game. As for primo no being the last kitten you ^^ hes the PRIME he has to be the last
i believe his review of se3 in terms of content is kindoff biased and carried by the overall improvement in the story department other than that i mostly agree with his claims
Yeah because everyone gets to experience or build a well decorated guildhall. Because its a thing that one man can do alone and it doesnt require the capital and effort of an entire guild to build. Yes for sure that will be seen by more ppl rather than a personal instance that everyone has access to, the cost is normalised to that of 1 person and everyone has complete control over how they will make it. Oh and ppl can invite others to show them their own instances. No, way less ppl will get to see and play with it. Definitely. Because when someone is told they can condribute to build a guild hall or they can decorate their own house everyone will pick the former.
I wonder how placement works with the 5 different Home Instances? Either placement is dictated by ArenaNet, or only 1 Home Instance could be decorated.
i mean, they seem to be able tl pump out new maps every 2 to 3 months surelt tweakimg already made instances a little so houses could be made in them wouldnt be so big of an issue ^^
1 throw the gh decorations system in home instances
2 give us the ability to build our own jouse somewhere in the home instance for a kitten tone of gold
3 ………….
4 profit
(a step ahead would be to link various ppl together in home imstances and make it look like a neigborhood)
How about No? if you want a hardmode map then go to HoT maps :>
Salty much? As youay have read he asks for a hardMODE which means something specific a guild for a map would start or it would be personal. So yeah salty much?
However increased rewards for open world content like this could be a risk.
why? Open world events and meta are timegated and time consuming many of them take longer than doing your t4s. So yeah commitment for higher reward sounds good to me
Hype is a double edged sword… too much of it and you raise player expectations beyond what is humanly possible to satisfy. HoT hype was so huge people were expecting 25+ maps with 100+ hours of story content and dozens upon dozens of new armor skins to collect.
I can already see the same thing happening for Expac2… People look at the leak and automatically assume that because a single screenshot shows the name of one town in the desert that we will automatically get ALL OF ELONA. Those people are going to be very very salty when their expectations are not met.
no one was expecting that. We were told that we will get 4 maps but they will have the bioms which were presented as miltylayed maps to balance the lack of many diff maps. And tbh we got a flax farming spot.
The “people overhype stuff too much so we’re not saying a kitten thing” is the single most kittened policy ever. Do you know why the bits they threw out were hyped up so much in the past? Because there was barely any communication so when we got anything we assumed “oh, so that’s where all the effort went!”.
So now they “learned their lesson” and communicate even less? What kind of backwards false sense of logic is that?
With nothing to look forward for months then getting a patch that’s a hit or miss followed up by another 3-4 months of silence I almost completely lost interest in this game. I check the news, but don’t log in anymore and that’s sad.
Personally i think they should go for it and release some kind of video showcasing what they are aiming to release with a little caveat that they may not deliver everything. win win.
no kitten that gives dem old blogposts they used to do ;-;
i would prefer not to get a new lw update and instead get info on this they are planning or releasing and things that they are working on for the later future tbh
there are recipes and gudes to lvl up crafting profesions so you can follow those. The forums in this game are esp grim and can suck the joy out of you but atm theres some downtime w8ing for the next content patch and ppl getting restless
I don’t think the issue is the lack of communication or lack of hype. This game, with its current content release schedule, is just not working.
Big patches every three months isn’t working, they need to spread the content a bit, like, last big patch we got Caladbolg quest line, Bastion of the Penitent, the fourth episode of the LW3 and everything that came with it, and some fractal changes.
That’s it, they released it all in one big package, people are done with most of that now and now we’re waiting for the next release because there’s nothing fresh or different to do for a few weeks now. I literally only login to do Fractals because I happen to need relics at the moment and raids at reset and maybe when people I know call me to fill a group.
I try to avoid debates and discussions on this forum these days, but I’ll say this . . . you nailed it. The problem isn’t the lack of hype. The problem is the lack of interest. And the sudden change with how the game releases content is also a problem.
If you attracted your audience by doing something one way, and then you suddenly go in another direction . . . a direction other MMOs have done and your audience wanted to avoid? Yeah, you’re going to see your audience leave for other pastures.
The number one reason I’ve stuck with Guild Wars 2 was their ability to continually add new content on a rather frequent basis. I’m not interested in waiting months or years for an expansion much less new content. Been there, done that, and left those games because of it. And once an audience is gone, it’s near impossible to bring them back.
Yes, the lack of hype isn’t helping, but the lack of content in and after the expansion isn’t helping either.
Except that caladbolg quest was not added with lake Doric patch. I do agree that though releasing the living story at the same time as the raid is not a good move.
How would i rate the new maps? Complete and utter helltrash. No, im kidding astheticly they are alright but thats about it, as far as anything else goes i prefer the season 2 maps
This is a flat out nerf to a fight lol. You could also previously get 2 gaurds and do the same or have the 2 chronos most groups will have by default change the wells they run. Its not like ppl will stop taking chronos on deimos now. This was an uneeded change because a few ppl cant be bothered to monitor a mechanic on a challenge mode that is frankly a 1 time thing.
The bottom line is this: Hype is nice, but we want results. Given what happened with HoT before and after, silence is the better course. The next expansion will make or break Guild Wars 2 . . . and there’s no getting around that.
Why they put themselves in this position in the first place, especially given their earlier success with a different model, is still beyond me. But here we are . . . and time will tell if they survive it. Guild Wars 2 is the MMO I’ve played the longest, and even I can see they’re in trouble.
Hype isn’t going to save them, but an amazing expansion might.
I basically agree with this.
yeah i can already see a forum post from MO “next week the second expansion releases” ~and trailer drops at the same time~
And no a great expansion wont save them if nobody knows about it or expects it…
Are you saying that if players aren’t made aware of future content six months to a year in advance, they won’t play it when it arrives? How does that make sense?
If the existance or the arival of content in the near future isnt made aparent to ppl then why would these ppl go out of their way to search for it. Especially if it flat out drops with no reall buildup behind it.
