GW2 has no mandatory grind, i.e. no gear treadmill. No grind philosophy doesnt mean getting everything at once, and i merely gave a bunch of suggestions on how to gear up apart from crafting (whcih given AB multi mapping would be an easy alternative as well). It’s still ENDGAME content (so is fractals t4), so why should it be easy for someone new to the game?
You’re kinda missing the points in my posts completely. Im not saying all groups will have 50% of the enrage timer left upon kill(I’d estimate this to be 1-2% of groups), I’m opposing your claim that you need to play perfect to beat the encounters – which you do not.
You shouldnt try to find 9 experienced players to carry you, you should find players to learn with. Will you die alot? Will it take a significant amount of time? Will it require you to step up your game? Yes to all three, but its the same journey most raiders have done – its not like people magically became raid experts
Tried that. When I talked about banging my head against the initial or mid phase just to earn an opportunity to practice against the final phase, I wasn’t speaking theoretically. In fact, I was part of a guild group in the first weekend VG was open.
It was a sufficiently unpleasant experience that I told my guild that I’d consider subbing in when a regular can’t make it, but I would not be a regular. Partly because I have things outside of GW2 such that I couldn’t really commit to raiding every week at a specific time anyway, but largely because I simply don’t have enough free time to throw hours of my entertainment and relaxation time away on something that’s neither entertaining nor relaxing. I don’t know if you consider if fun spending hours eating dirt trying to get through an 8-minute fight that became repetitive hours ago, but I certainly don’t!
Now if there was an easier mode – call it story mode, training mode, whatever you like – maybe I, and others, wouldn’t have had such a bad first impression, and there’d be more people raiding now rather than complaining about raiding. An easy mode/hard mode split has been a successful model since it was introduced in Guild Wars 1, and I really don’t see a good reason not to use it here.
I’m not a new player – I’ve been around from the beginning of both games. However, I get bored by repetition quickly, and a large part of my interest in the franchise has been the idea – one that has been steadily eroded, the introduction of Ascended being GW2’s first big backlash that lead to the promise that Ascended would only ever be really relevant for fractals – that you can get in and play on a level playing field without having to spend hours in gear grind. Guess what! Getting to high level fractals is repeating the same content for loot – gear grind (fractals were originally introduced as a microcosm of the game for the players who DO like gear grind). AB multiloot is gear grind. Having access to ascended through PvP is a welcome alternative, but if you get to the point where you’re ‘losing your way to Ascended’ then this is gear grind, not to mention obnoxious to the people who actually want to progress in the league that end up with you on their team.
(For the record, I have got a few kills since while substituting. However, this doesn’t change my opinion. Nor does it change my observation that it doesn’t matter if experienced teams can clear the bosses with enough margin that they don’t need Ascended gear when those experienced teams generally don’t accept players who don’t have their raiding experience. You start out needing every advantage you can get – it’s when you’ve built up experience that you can start doing things like getting kills in greens to show you can.)
loot =/= gear ill leave this here oh and also do you know why the zhaitan fight was so bad ? it was because it was faceroll easy to.the point where its sad.The “amazing” lore raids have is becaise you get invested to the story through the challenging content its not that the challenging content block you from getting that lore it makes it even better…say u want raids to be another zhaitan fight?
Good luck with that. Even World of Warcraft isn’t releasing the figures for its active playerbase anymore. All people do with this “information” is use it to justify and validate whatever biased opinion they were already predisposed to. I mean… look how people still hold up the “manifesto” video and say, “SEE! SEE! THEY LIED!” even though it’s been like six or seven years and most of the people in that video don’t even work there anymore.
Don’t hold your breath on this one!
I cant scroll down the comments of that video without getting depressed, i liked it i wanted it but i knew it couldnt be done but kitten these ppl act like anet stole the joy from their lives.
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theres honeslty a little replayability value to most content pve wise the endgame is basically dailies and weeklys this and the fact that the cash shop in gw2 is very very playe firendly to the point that you can farmt he gems for what ever you like.
You want little replayability in PvE, try Blade & Soul. It’s an MMO on rails.
no, not really i like my self replayability
it drops from normal mode aswell, you don’t need to do challange mote do get it. A guildmate got it in his first clear on the first day.
yo delusional elitist is there any cm unique reward in the raid?
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Not nerfed—-exploit closed.
You say potato; I say, um, potato.
The economy was no longer a big issue: the market reached equilibrium ages ago, taking into account the abundant source of all sorts of things (not just ecto). The market will similarly reach a new, post-Snake-Head equilibrium (with lower leather prices probably, too).
The big remaining issue was that AB/ML was by far and away the most lucrative method of farming. Because of that, it diverted people from all the other economically important farms and gameplay-important events, including the metas in the other HoT maps.
So whether AB/ML was an exploit or an intended farm, ANet had little choice but to bring it in line with other events.
it was an exploit an it trashed ectos, Anet wasnt ok with ppl exploiting the meta and they fixed it end of story tl-dr
New Player, Sad Player. Expansion ruined it.
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“but the foot key is so satisfying”