Kori Jenkins.9017

I'm just here to pointlessly and needlessly dance on the grave of all the "sales are coming soon guys, stop being so impatient" people. 🕺

Was condi pirate ship meta more fun than the boon spam reflect block meta?

No one is rushing towards anything, they're simply comparing WvW reward gain rate to the other two methods of obtaining legendary armor, and it's absolutely horrendous. The only things that seem to take a relatively normal amount of time are Warbringer and Conflux.

it was fairly recent yeah, they said "more rewards" is something they want, but decided to prioritize alliances. My issue with that is, surely increasing the rewards in WvW is not hard at all. Why wait until after Alliances are finished to improve that part of the game mode? Just do it now and stop wasting our time.

Sorta begs the question as to why they can even be attacked/killed at all. All it does is lower the damage output in PvE and make the legend non-existent in WvW/PvP. (Though in PvP I've gotten some use out of them from people who don't kill/move away from it) Seriously, imagine if you could just kill Dragon's Maw. Sound dumb? Well that's the state of every Kalla ability.

The bigger problem is it takes 15-20 hours to cap for the majority of players. I don't believe either raids or PvP take as long to earn the weekly rewards in as WvW does, and both are way more rewarding in other ways as well. With that amount of time required, most are having to negate the rest of the game entirely to reach the cap. This also doesn't even begin to cover the fact that active play doesn't speed up the process at all. You'll cap just as quickly capping SMC over and over as you will running yaks to keeps with Netflix open. If it were up to me, you'd get pips for completing activities on top of the 5 minute ticks, maybe 1 for a camp capture, 2 for a tower, 3 for a keep, 4 for SMC with additional pips for x number of player kills. The simple solution is to reduce the amount of time it takes to reach and complete Diamond.

Just because you don't understand why someone else would care primarily about achievement hunting doesn't mean they should just arbitrarily delete achievements with no warning. Someone who is a completionist is going to be very bothered by not being able to ever go back and finish that last achievement of the bunch, and the only reason they can't is a complete failure to communicate on the part of the developers. Edit: You can spam confused all you want, it does not make it any less true, but certainly exposes your own lack of empathy.

I really don't think GW3 ever gets made with the industry as it is, heavily favoring low-effort live-service games. The upfront cost of an MMO is staggering compared to less expensive and more profitable games that can be made. Compare how much work is involved in a Living World story patch to that of the average Fortnite update. A handful of skins in Fortnite vs an entire zone, voice acting work, armor and weapon skins, mastery implementations, narrative work, etc. To put it plainly, there's a reason new MMO releases nearly ceased after Wildstar. There's a reason Valorant, League of Legends, GTA Online, Fortnite, etc. are smashing successes. The genre isn't overwhelmingly popular right now. The novelty of interacting with other human beings online has been replaced entirely by social media. What was once unique is no longer that.

Even better, add the coughing Asura from the fire elemental area in Metrica to Arborstone.

Rarity isn't all that tbh. Some of the most popular plate gear, for example, is the Revenant gear that is basically just given to you.

Absolutely want them to do this. Give life to the old aquatic weapons while also making underwater combat less irritating. Win win situation.

Sad that you're getting spammed confused on you when you're 100% right. Yeah, because someone being denied achievement points by the developers is definitely equal to you being a lazy.

The playerbase has absolutely grown. PoF was absolutely outsold by EOD. There are certain things they cannot legally lie about. Sure, maybe there's some weird metric they look at that shows players are engaging less with certain elements of the game, but I doubt it's related to a decline. I don't really believe expansion 4 would've been announced as early as it has been if the game was on the brink of death. Realistically as WoW continues to bleed to death, people get turned away immediately by the awful FF14 introduction, and ESO "balanced" the playerbase into quitting entirely, GW2 only stands to gain from that. I assume the executives are aware of that. The Steam release doesn't feel like it was particularly for any reason other than the industry having shifted from "each game has a launcher" to things like Steam or Origin or Epic long ago. GW2 was simply well behind in jumping on that wagon. It doesn't hurt that it will increase engagement with the game. It does seem a bit weird that there are no sales though. I don't think it's due to the in-game store being understaffed, realistically it probably takes them 5 minutes a day to manage.

Yeah you'd love for them to do that, wouldn't you? Reaction system on this forum needs to be thrown into the sun. Discourages discussion, encourages spamming them.

I just hit 300%, therefore I cannot support your petition for an increase as it would require me to go get more luck again.

No one hates GW2 more than the veterans themselves.

Confused reactions to this are funny given that it's absolutely true lol.

That's true, maybe they should straight up buff it to be more viable for that role, because it's certainly not seeing much use now.

THAT is the problem. It's not the removal, it's the fact that there was no warning whatsoever. A complete lack of awareness that there's a sizable portion of their game that focuses on achievement hunting, which they've now spurned. I'm not really an achievement hunter, but I fully understand how irritating it is to be told you can no longer get something after the fact. The worst part is, just because they added a new set of tutorial achievements doesn't make the old ones obsolete. They had no reason at all to remove them; the current game would not have been impacted in any way by having two sets. Absolutely baffling.

I feel like shield's main issue isn't just that it's terrible, but that it doesn't really have a main hand weapon that synergizes well with it. I guess you can just throw a sword on and alternate between shield and staff as a support Herald (hell, maybe people actually do that) but shield is still weak even as a swap during staff CDs and pretty much all other supports will outclass you. It's not an issue I expect they can fix either. If they were to add scepter or something in the future, it'd be locked behind an elite spec (and wouldn't be able to take a shield in the off-hand because shield is locked behind Herald). Sorta feels like the class lacks a bit of flexibility because of the core weapons available to it in HoT. One ranged option back then, no ranged condi core options, no support main hand weapon. The problem, obviously, is that if we didn't get it then we will never get it. They aren't going to add a main hand support core weapon in a random patch, so shield will just suck forever because Rev will always be more valuable with other builds.

Not for other players. This isn't a "I'm sick of seeing everyone else's effects >:(" post. This is mainly in reference to dual wield weapon loadouts that completely negate the footprints of whatever off-hand weapon you're using if wielding a main hand legendary. Say I really like the appearance of Eureka but prefer the footprints of whatever off-hand weapon I'm using, the only way I can have those footprints take priority is to transmute Eureka into something else. It seems like it would be extremely easy for Anet to just make a slumbering version of the weapon as a skin and grant it to players with the weapon unlocked in their armory, with footprints turned off to allow the player to either disable them for themselves, or have the off-hand weapon take priority without compromising whatever appearance they might be going for. Thoughts?

I think it sucks, but that's admittedly because the beta took me out of the ROFLstomp that was the Mag/FC link for a week and denied me easy first place pips. If I'd been in a mediocre matchup I think it would've been about the same. Was on Moogaloo for the record, it wasn't really that bad.

Good grief what a response lol. It's so true though. They've pretty much just been ignoring all content that isn't open-world PvE. LFG needed a revamp before the Steam launch. I think it's going to be viewed as a mistake that they didn't do this.

Why should he provide free solutions to Anet when they're the ones being paid? Ultimately, he's right. The initial levels in this game are obscenely boring. The story isn't even consequential and your choices in it don't have any meaningful impact. In a way it reminds me a lot of Wildstar (god help us) in that the leveling grind for a brand new player is so long most are burnt out by the end and just quit. That's just how the forums are at this point. People spam confused reactions to show their disapproval, and they usually disapprove of something not because they disagree, but because it offends them to think the game they've put thousands of hours into is flawed in a major way. The same phenomenon used to happen on the WoW forums a lot. People would confuse criticism of the game for criticism of them for playing the game. Essentially "if you're saying this game is bad, you're calling me stupid for continuing to play it."

The basic raptor isn't really that useful and won't allow him to keep up with any HP train he joins. He's already stated he doesn't have leveled mounts. Keeping up with any HP train is going to be impossible without them, as a large amount of people have finished their skyscales and fully mastered every mount. His realistic options are to do just the commune HoT HPs, whichever PoF HPs he can do without the mounts (and a fair amount require them for navigating the terrain, especially when you get to Elon Musklands), grind WvW for proofs, or simply do the slog of the PoF story without an elite spec. It's entirely understandable why he's frustrated if you've played on a brand new account recently. Basic raptor, which sucks, and no gliding. Navigating the terrain has become so easy with masteries that I feel a lot of us have forgotten just how painful it used to be.