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Okay folks, hoping to get a little insight and maybe some help from you.
I want to play with a hammer… so that means I am looking at rolling a warrior or a guardian (I haven’t played GW2 in probably six months, so I am starting over fresh).
I am mostly a loner. I just run around and kill things, join events when I seen them, some sPvP here and there… and probably won’t WvW much unless I am alone and gank bait or find a zerg to follow around list a lost puppy.
So for general PvE solo play, just screwing around, with some occasional pvp thrown in, would a warrior or a guardian be a better choice?
Thanks for any insight!
Yup, it’s more of just something at your bank.
I still am a WoW customer. I have a recurring subscription with them still. Have had it for years.
Pre-MoP, me and my wife bought Battle Chest accounts to get RaF levels to grant our new monks up to 80 fast. Even though every month we get charged by Blizzard, those transactions still got flagged as potentially fraudulent at our bank.
If you bought the game, then you know it is isn’t fraudulent.
I’m sure you are your friend would have no problems being the last two in this group to get their legendaries, right?
See… I would do something like this (if I knew the people well). I’d even sacrifice me getting a legendary to get a friend theirs.
The problem is… I can’t honestly say whether I will be playing still in two months, let alone two weeks (just due to real life issues that take far more precidence). I can’t say that the work and grinding I could do today would be the same I could do in a few weeks.
And that is where the system will break down.
The first person in the list will get lucky and get it done faster and everyone else… it’ll collapse on.
It’s like trying to get a ponzi scheme setup in game.
The thing is with a lot of forms of the ‘meaningless progression’ (i.e. nothing that makes you stronger / more efficient i.e. ‘fluff’, I’m going to assume you’re referring to. Correct me if I’m wrong though), as long as you put a solid system in place for it, it’s something you can easily add to over time.
Meaningful progression and unmeaningful progression are personal. Yuu can put solid solid systems in place for it, but if the player ultimately doesn’t find it meaningful, then it doesn’t matter. And what you find meaningful and what I find meaningful may be the same but they might be different.
Me and my wife are good examples of this. Me and her are polar opposites when it comes to what we find meaningul and what we are willing to do for it.
Fractals for example… I love the concept of going further and further for the challenge. The challenge alone is enough of a ‘carrot’ to make me want to do it. I don’t need anything more than that. My wife on the other hand wouldn’t just do it for the challenge… she wants the shiny at the end (that’s her carrot). Now, as long as both of us are getting are carrot, that progression there would be meaningful. But if you took the challenge out of it, if it was just infinite levels of the same difficulty, I probably wouldn’t do it once I hit the bored point. Just as if you took the shiny away, my wife wouldn’t do it.
Housing (going by my assumption you’re referring to as meaningless) is another one: we already have a Home Instance. With a bit more work, adding:
- Somewhere that you can display accolades (i.e. HoM)
- Redecorate to your liking
- Expand upon (i.e. Asura could get new lab equipment, while Norn could build their own Brewery)Is something that can be done over time, when they have time, and therefore doesn’t alienate someone.
Housing is one of those things that I actually miss in a lot of games. My first online game a long time ago back in the 90s, was The Realm. You got a house that was your own. You couldn’t really do anything in it other then sit and drop your loot on the ground, but it was mine and I enjoyed it.
It’s been one of the draws of mine to EQ2 for a long, long time.
I’d love it for Blizzard to implement it. With Trion putting in a very nice Housing system (from what I have seen), I have hopes that Blizzard will try to copy it.
To me, it would be meaningful. To my wife? I honestly don’t know. She doesn’t really care for the whole transmog thing in WoW, so I can’t imagine she would want to decorate a house either.
Again, you would never see me starting anger threads if ArenaNet or Blizzard decided to implement Housing.
As for your comment on ‘blind progression’, I’m not sure I follow. Are you referring to progression you HAVE to do (‘blindly following’, to use that phrase) in order to access content? Or is it progression that has no tangible evidence (for lack of a better word)?
Blind progression probably was a poor word choice from me. I probably won’t even explain it any better here, but I’ll try. Blind progression is basically just progression, in a vaccuum, with no player input.. so no one to define whether it is meaningful or not. What the developer says you can do with your time to keep you playing.
But if the player in the end finds all that stuff stupid and worthless, then it matters for not.
It’s a hard road to walk to put meaningful progression into the game that catches the most amount of players… because let’s face it, they are a business and they want more and more dollars. They aren’t doing this out of the kindness of their heart…
I miss character progression in GW2 and since character progression is thing driving me to log in and play the game, I have no will to log in.
So you have your acended and lagandary gear than?
Please enlighten me. What actually makes legendary legendary? The staff looks ugly and reminds me of pony rainbow stuff. Why on earth would I want my character to have that?
Plus I already have exotic staff that has the same stats (actually much better, since legendaries stats are totally useless for majority of players) as the legendary so getting it wouldnt progress my character anywhere.
To some people, that is progression though.
But people need to realize… gamers are different and the online gamer pool is bigger then it has ever been.
That’s why developers have all sorts of varieties of carrots to dangle in front of the players. They aren’t just limited to vertical progression gamers.
For me, if the skin looked cool, I would go for it and probably enjoy it and be happy (like I do hunting down transmog pieces in WoW). My wife… she’d just keep doing what she always does… looks like a ragtag mismash in the best gear she gets and laughs at me for playing dress up and called me a nerd.
No I wouldnt as has been stated by soo many too many bugs and Anets throws in new dungeon and new tier of gear instead of fixing the game content they have out there. They think telling you we are working on that issue be patient will surfice. I see alot of talking and nothing being done except new content. Yes nodes are made available but the amount of materiel you need is excessive. Its just too grindy and the one feature I would have recommend to friends is gone that everyone was on even footing now to be the best you have to grind a dungeon. So just too many negatives in the game not enough positives there to sell the game on
I’ve only been playing since Sunday. I haven’t hit any bugs yet, so what kind of stuff do you encounter? One of the things that recently annoyed me greatly in WoW was the fact that throughout MoP there are tons upon tons of quests that completely bug out badly if you do them in a group (me and my wife level characters together so we hit tons of them).
One of my rules of online gaming these days is actually simple… I don’t seek to be the best anymore. No matter what gear I have there, there are always going to be people that are better then me… just as there are going to be people that are worse then me. Most of the time, changes in how I play will make a more significant difference in what happens then changing around my gear to be slightly better.
You don’t need to be the best. I know that Blizzard balance the first raid around having an ilvl of 463, even though it is possible to have a much higher ilvl (so better gear).
I would hope that ArenaNet would balance along a similar lines. I would hope that if they add more Acended, that future content additions are still balanced along the lines of a player having Exotic (what I would consider the average player to have). The people will full Ascended… maybe it will be slightly easier for them.
Yep… and the gear will effect PvP. But again, there are going to be people that are going to be better then me and there are people that are going to be worst. I will never be the best.
Once I got out of my head that I had to be the best, all the grinding and all the other stuff, stopped being an issue. I just played for fun.
