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Allowing people to keep their legendary armor in a sequel would be self-defeating. MMOs require carrots to chase.
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I don't mind the grind but...
Gibson.4036 replied to Gwynnion.7364's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
That's, unfortunately, MMOs. The only way to keep people playing regularly for years is to have long grinds, because no team could ever generate enough new content. I wish there were more multiplayer (not MMO) RPGs. Unfortunately, they are few and far between, and ones that are milder than M rating are even rarer. -
Legendary Relics are Coming Soon
Gibson.4036 replied to Rubi Bayer.8493's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
I'm not a fan of the fact that legendary relics won't be an alternate way to access relics that are locked behind content I'm not interested in doing.- 503 replies
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He didn't have any progress yet. No progress lost on mine.
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My son and I have all the same expansions, all PVE selected, and now have different sets of weeklies. We've always had the same.
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I can run old zones at highest settings, but the newest zones are more taxing and I need to turn settings down. And then, of course, when there are a lot of players in a small area for WvW or Metas, settings need to get reduced. The highest/autodetect/performance settings are really crude. There are excellent guides on line for tweaking your settings so that you can max the ones that don't impact things much but tweak the ones that do. Unfortunately, though, every time I need to go "performance" I lose the dialed in settings and have to manually reset. It would be amazing if we could set a few templates and easily switch between them for the various parts of the game that tax our systems differently.
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She makes me laugh every time I do the Drizzlewood meta. Props to both her writer and voice actor.
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Question regarding wizard vault specials
Gibson.4036 replied to Luranni.9470's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
How long does it take you to do the dailies and the weekly? The vast majority of dailies and weeklies happen while doing other things in the open world, so there's no opportunity cost there. And the remaining can be knocked out very quickly, often while doing other rewarding things. -
Question regarding wizard vault specials
Gibson.4036 replied to Luranni.9470's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Why's everyone so down on the 1g for 30 wizard bucks? That's 32 gold a week for pretty minimal effort. -
Not seeing any mesmers out in OW and it's not surprising
Gibson.4036 replied to SparklingMalibu.6328's topic in Mesmer
I've been playing Virt for the past several weeks. Long range is nice for not having to chase after all the mobs in the first stage of rifts. I might have to give st/axe Mirage a try again, based on reports above. It's one of my favorites, but at some point in the past I realized it just felt like a wet noodle, so I've been playing other things. Both Herald and Renegade felt so much stronger. -
September 2023 Studio Update
Gibson.4036 replied to Rubi Bayer.8493's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Okay, sure, people are dramatic people. But you were talking about smaller guilds working together, how would alliances make it any different. Other than that with restructuring, they need some way to make sure they are on the same side, which Alliances do. With restructuring but no Alliances, you're guaranteed not to be able to have smaller guilds work together because they never know if they're going to be in the same match up, let alone on the same side. Back to your post I responded to, with the 500 player limit, how would Alliances make the huge WvW guilds more dominant? -
So whats yall thoughts on Soto's Masteries?
Gibson.4036 replied to Knighthonor.4061's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
I stopped the Flight Training mastery shy of Ley-Line Acclimation. I love zooming around the new zones on griffon way too much to take it. Disappointing, because it'd be nice to have Rising Spirits. Enhanced Updrafts are awesome. Enjoy Combat Launch. Fireball does more damage than I thought it would. I can't tell that Wall Spring did anything for me even though it's supposed to launch farther having trained the original Wall Launch. Just finished Ley-Loom Operation on the Research mastery. Haven't used it yet, but maybe it'll still be useful for gliding, since I'm not taking Ley-Line Acclimation. Once again, feels bad to have to advance a mastery just to open chests. Astral Ward seems like a waste of a line. Two mastery points to enable the resting mechanic? And the rest of the line is just more gates that I knocked down as soon as possible and felt no better for having done so. -
September 2023 Studio Update
Gibson.4036 replied to Rubi Bayer.8493's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Alliances, according to the 2021 blog post, were going to be capped at 500, the same size as a max guild. That means if you have a 100% participation, max sized mega-WvW guild, Alliances do nothing for you. There'd be no way to form a bigger meta guild. Alliances, as presented, would help those smaller guild work together. You could have 10 guilds of 50 people assured of ending up together every reset because they'd formed an Alliance. -
Ranged/Melee Imbalance is a Fundamental Problem.
Gibson.4036 replied to Linnael.1069's topic in Professions
Jzaku helped with their cooldown explanation. I get it now. Unfortunately, it doesn't feel like Anet generally respects these considerations recently, though they may have in the past. Some of my favorite builds used to work this way, but no longer do. I used to St/Axe Mirage, but Solar didn't like Axe. I also have enjoyed condi renegade, but shortbow hits so hard it doesn't feel all that helpful to switch to mace most of the time. I mained staff daredevil for a good long time, and used P/P as my alternate set for when things got too heated, but staff stopped hitting like it used to. I think my big disconnect was that I don't play content where I need optimized rotations, so I'm rarely weapon swapping just to get to the ideal skills off cooldown. Jzaku was helpful identifying that's where the ranged/melee weapon swapper would be paying a price for not going melee/melee. This of course assumes access to two good melee weapons of the same damage type. Thanks for sticking with me until it clicked! -
enough with the loincloths...
Gibson.4036 replied to Arianth Moonlight.6453's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Since Asura are a weird cross between children and little wizened old people, makes sense. -
Would you like a new Race?
Gibson.4036 replied to SoulGuardian.6203's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
I'd like a new race. I'd also like my house paid off, a trust fund that provides a comfortable yearly income, and free tuition to the university of my choice so I can retrain into a new career. Out of those four things, the 2nd is the only one likely to happen, and it'll be another 10 years or so before it does. -
For what it's worth, as a casual player, I got my last two pieces of Astral Ward Armor last night. So 4 weeks. It was probably the second week before I started doing the Incursion weekly achievements. I haven't really done any rift farming, apart from what was required in the story, weeklies, and occasionally scooting over to a T3 orT2 announced in chat. I've done both metas a handful of times. I do consider myself a casual player, but I have been playing this game for a long time. So I benefited from having the crafting level to refine the essences and a stockpile of trophies and ecto. Said stockpile also helped in making things to research. Which is all to say the cost in trophies, ectos, and clovers is pretty crazy if all you want is a unique look and 6 exotic armor pieces. But the essences, stardust and lightning are easily attainable. _________ Also, do we know for certain if we'll need those 6 exotic pieces in the crafting of the legendary or not? It'd be great not to take up the storage slots waiting to find out.
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I'm lost - what do people want from GW2?
Gibson.4036 replied to Hesione.9412's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
FTFY Many, many requests stated it could be as difficult as other modes. -
I'm lost - what do people want from GW2?
Gibson.4036 replied to Hesione.9412's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
What I want from GW2 is an immersive, open world, and some interesting rewards I can chase via a variety of content. On the whole, over the life of the game, it has provided this, which is why I'm still playing. -
Ranged/Melee Imbalance is a Fundamental Problem.
Gibson.4036 replied to Linnael.1069's topic in Professions
Okay, that makes sense. I hadn't thought about that. Much appreciated. That would require access to two viable melee weapons of each damage type though, right?