[How long till broken EoD Elite Specs go back to normal?]

• Release power crept specs.
• Slowly power creep old expansion specs to the new level of elites.
• Even more slowly power creep core specs to the new level of elites.
• Claim your game has no power creep and is horizontal progression.
• Have content creators talk about how good your games horizontal progression is, while old content like Chak Garent dies in 1 phase, old raid bosses become a joke, old fractals become a joke, etc.
• Repeat next expansion.

[What do you think about increasing radius of all buffs?]

1 hour ago, kharmin.7683 said:

DE meta is like instanced content tossed in to open world.  It's a one-off and not a valid comparison.

Yes, but you ignored the fact I said holy trinity games don't force it in open world. There's zero downsides to holy trinity, as I said, GW2's "holy trinity" is just a much worse version of the holy trinity.

[Thoughts about how to improve the PvE instanced content in GW2. Maybe I am wrong? I don't know.]

On 11/2/2022 at 5:15 PM, KasiCair.5760 said:

FF14 so successful at instanced PvE

Has unquestionable the worst PvE in the genre.

if you want to play FF14, go play FF14. FF14 is the worst MMORPG I've ever played and a plague on this genre.

Stop making every game into that trash heap of a "game".

[What do you think about increasing radius of all buffs?]

27 minutes ago, kharmin.7683 said:

That may be true for instanced content like strike/raids, but I very much prefer there being no trinity for PvE as it allows me to play any profession and still be successful without having to rely on specific roles to get by. 

Name a current holy trinity game that you need "specific roles" to do open world content in.

 I can name one, actually, this very game! GL doing DE meta without proper support!

What you don't want, is already in this game, because it's "holy trinity" system is actually worse than a real holy trinity.

[[Suggestion] Let's do something about Guild wars 2’s over-reliance on collections]

On 11/4/2022 at 3:50 PM, Gibson.4036 said:

Players expect MMOs to occupy them for hours a week over years of time.

There is no way to produce enough content to keep them busy.

EQ and FFXI(11, not 14) accomplished this fine.

The issue is GW2 has very little difficult grinds and even less rewarding grinds.

On 11/4/2022 at 10:22 PM, Linken.6345 said:

Yea there is also that option to not look at a guide like the one writing said guide had to do.

Easter egg hunts aren't fun.

On 11/4/2022 at 8:14 PM, Drakz.7051 said:

Tbh my biggest issues are that almost everything you do are gold sinks. My favourite parts of collections usually come from map exploration or doing the content that isn't spammed for gold.

Agreed. We need more account bound rewards or requirements for good rewards that aren't just "make/spend gold".

[What do you think about increasing radius of all buffs?]

Won't happen, Anets vision for the game is everyone stacking on top of each other with zero self positional awareness.

  

7 hours ago, Ubi.4136 said:

The game launched with the premise that there was no trinity and that everyone was self-sufficient.  Now, we have a half-assed trinity and the boon creep is ridiculous, especially in some modes, like wvw.  Honestly, I wish they would just go all in with a proper trinity, or remove boon sharing completely.

Yeah, instead of no holy trinity we have the worst group gameplay in the genre.

I'd rather have a trinity.

[You removed tradeoffs from the other classes so give mirage back its second dodge, and daredevil swipe back to 1200 range]

1 hour ago, Leonidrex.5649 said:

he is so delusional he things interrupting 3s block as daredevil is a waste of swipe.
he and people like him were the reason why thief could singlehandedly decide games outcome for so long 😄

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sleight_of_Hand

Isn't this unblockable?

[Tower of nightmares = dead content]

3 hours ago, Hindenburg.3415 said:

 

Dunno we just did it with 5 people ( 3 mechanists )

So you did it with a full raid.

[How hyped are you for the next episode?]

5 hours ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said:

For many players, possibly even the casual majority, the story is repeatable rewarding content. Leveling alts for XP and story rewards, doing achivements, and completing the associated maps and so on.

 

For these players, the lack of LWS1 ruined the game for them and many quit as soon as they finished Personal Story. It became such a big issue that the devs had to go back and re-introduce an entire season and do another New Player Experience (NPE) to stop bleeding out from losing all their new players.

 

There's still alot more work to do (story mode dungeon streamlining, etc.), not less.

 

What veteran players don't seem to understand is why parties keep getting harder to fill in LFG, and why alot of content gets abandoned (DRMs and so on), is because of this. People get tired of content after a while and stop doing it, so you always need to be rotating in fresh blood for a sustainable end-game.

 

That player who quit because of LWS1 being missing might've been a Fractal God a year later.

I don't think most people who play MMO's actually care about the story in them. It's an extreme minority.

MMO stories are also all really bad. SP games are much better for it.

Any new player I've brought to GW2 has quit due to terrible balance, snails pace updates, and lack of end game. Not a single one quit due to story.

[When I buy ArenaNet...]

On 10/31/2022 at 5:12 PM, Crab Fear.8623 said:

If I win powerball, I'm talking to NCSoft the next day lol.

You can e-mail them right now.

[get rid of rewards for pvp]

On 11/5/2022 at 9:18 AM, Bazsi.2734 said:

See, this guy gets it. All those problems with premades turning matches into boring onesided stomps, wintrades, long queue times, class stacking... just remove that 30 silver and it all gets magically fixed!

People do not bot if there's no reward. See: BGs in WoW before and after WoD.

Good gear? Botted.

No gear? Zero bots.

[You removed tradeoffs from the other classes so give mirage back its second dodge, and daredevil swipe back to 1200 range]

On 10/29/2022 at 7:15 PM, Crab Fear.8623 said:

Be fair, no tradeoffs. 

Seems funky.

Swipe isn't even a trade off, it's gaining zero.

[How hyped are you for the next episode?]

On 11/3/2022 at 3:42 PM, Hindenburg.3415 said:

I am waiting for it.

Having more or less coherent story IN GAME is very good thing.

I remember being very confusing playing it first time.

Like why Lion's Arch is different in the cutscenes ? Why there are references and content "from the future' on maps ?

The story doesn't matter in MMO's, they live and die by repeatable rewarding content. Sacrificing an entire year of content updates to have a story "make sense" is Cyberpunk levels of bad decision making.

[Tower of nightmares = dead content]

1 hour ago, IAmNotMatthew.1058 said:

Maybe because they are re-releasing old content people have been asking them to do? PoF took ages to have the rewards adjusted to be good as well. 
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

No one told them to remove all repeatable rewards from LS1 when re-releasing it.

Their """""rewards team""""" chose to do that all on their own.

PoF content still isn't done, they never fixed it. 

HoT zones, Fractals and Drizzlewood is still the entire game.

[engineers with robots is out of control]

It's funny how mechanist is ruining every single game mode and it's getting minor nerfs at a snails pace. Even gatcha games have faster balancing.

[Is everybody okay with Specter being garbage?]

On 11/3/2022 at 7:40 AM, Kodama.6453 said:

An elite spec made unviable is always a bad thing.

Not really. Sometimes the one weird kid ruins all your fun and you simply ban them from your sandbox.

[get rid of rewards for pvp]

On 11/3/2022 at 11:54 PM, Nihil.9817 said:

you get mmr that is enough, rewards attract the wrong kind of player to pvp

Or, get this, Anet could moderate and police their game....

[It just isn't what it use to be....]

9 hours ago, Xenesis.6389 said:

This game just isn't as fun as it use to be, really sad.

Time for a longer break I guess, good luck with whatever.

 Game hasn't been fun since the Dhumfire patch.

[Developers, What's Your Perspective of Gandara?]

4 hours ago, Riba.3271 said:

they're too lazy to fix the system

sums up the entire game nicely

[So when are you going to change the meta, ANet?]

On 11/1/2022 at 5:53 PM, Corabelle.3254 said:

it's because defense scales way too well compared to offense and it does not promote skillful play

This is their grand vision for WvW.

[New Hairstyles, Hair & Eye Colors]

4 hours ago, Caille.7214 said:

And lastly the fact that you need a Commander Tag (300g) to organize your dungeon party or squad is beyond ridiculous.

Arenanet doesn't seem to know the basic functionality/utility of an actual mmo.

Yeah I got told I'm stupid for saying this a while ago, gate keeping party forming is silly.

[Tower of nightmares = dead content]

2 hours ago, illuminati.8453 said:

do devs even think about content longevity in this game?

Nope, they seem to be trying their hardest to make this game FF14.

[Tower of nightmares = dead content]

1 hour ago, Konig Des Todes.2086 said:

How is "developing new maps and an expansion while having monthly releases of old content returning" equates "maintenance mode"?

Everything since EoD is bare minimum and zero replay value. They don't even fix the issues with EoD/Strikes complete lack of replay value or rewards. They're spread too thin and it makes GW2 look like it's in maintenance mode and not being supported as it should be.

[Honestly speaking, the November Patch needs a coherent vision]

The vision is to make GW2 into FF14.

Btw the FF14 player base is very unhappy with it's class design.

[New Hairstyles, Hair & Eye Colors]

On 11/1/2022 at 10:02 AM, Yunari.9065 said:

When will we get some new? The last bunch exclusives we got are now years ago.

We got "Free" ones at EoD release but they're not very good. Expect more not very good ones in the future .