flog.3485

February 12, 2019

@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@flog.3485 said:No offense,

No offense taken, dont worry.

but I think you overestimate far too much how fast a casual player might complete these achievements. And the general casual player might not see any value in playing a >map only to get the achievements and never return again.
I mean personally, I still have stuff to do in Jahai bluffs.

Idk. I dont play that much anymore. Most of the time i only log in for raids with my static and even im done with the new map. I´ve probably spend 10 hours on the new map including the story. Im pretty sure that there are people not done with the achievements yet, but i assume that the majority of the people actually playing the content, is.

Yes, a fair point you bring up. I mean you could farm the resources of the maps efficiently with lots of alts but then again you already have quite a hardcore mentality behind it no matter how casual the content might be. And I don’t think the general casual player is into that if so much items in the game are account based anyway.

But anyway I digress. Let’s get back at topic.The best way to deliver content for Anet imo, would be to alternate raid/fractal for each major release to avoid burn out or make the player base freel like there is only quick content to get through living world.Given the thin resources allowed to fractal/raids, getting easy mode raids outside of the already implemented challenge motes is a bad idea.

February 12, 2019

@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@Astralporing.1957 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@flog.3485 said:Well I am pretty sure they wanted to time the release of raids/fractal with each living story update from now on. It was actually the reason why they merged both team.

Yeah, Ill believe it when i see it.I still remember 6 wings per year.

Btw. is there a way to change what i voted for?

Yes, sadly there is no way to be sure it is in fact gonna happen. But there is a higher chance it is gonna happen if the teams are not seperate like before.Nah, having the teams not separated just makes it easier to use the formerly "raid devs" for other stuff instead of raids. It is also a clear sign that raids are no longer important enough to have their own dedicated team. It's probably good for fractals, though. We do see more of fractal stuff lately.

I understand your position but really I will just never be able to agree with you.

Honestly it is just not raids that had problems: it is the basic concept that they always had issues, since the beginning, to develop instanced group content (let’s remember the dungeon team and the lack of instanced content in open world ever since after core game content).

I don’t think it is a lack of importance, but rather a lack of resources; obviously they identified that, spreading their resources too thin between two teams working on a really slow pace to deliver content every 10 months, is not the best way to support the release of instanced group content.

Its not only instanced content. Right now anet doesnt support a single game mode properly. Not even open world.One new map every 3 or 4 months isnt enough to cut it. After 1 or 2 weeks you are done with the achievements and will probably never go back to the new map again. Why would you? After you have done youre achievements theres nothing to do for you anyway.

No offense, but I think you overestimate far too much how fast a casual player might complete these achievements. And the general casual player might not see any value in playing a map only to get the achievements and never return again.

I mean personally, I still have stuff to do in Jahai bluffs.

February 12, 2019

@Astralporing.1957 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@flog.3485 said:Well I am pretty sure they wanted to time the release of raids/fractal with each living story update from now on. It was actually the reason why they merged both team.

Yeah, Ill believe it when i see it.I still remember 6 wings per year.

Btw. is there a way to change what i voted for?

Yes, sadly there is no way to be sure it is in fact gonna happen. But there is a higher chance it is gonna happen if the teams are not seperate like before.Nah, having the teams not separated just makes it easier to use the formerly "raid devs" for other stuff instead of raids. It is also a clear sign that raids are no longer important enough to have their own dedicated team. It's probably good for fractals, though. We do see more of fractal stuff lately.

I understand your position but really I will just never be able to agree with you.

Honestly it is just not raids that had problems: it is the basic concept that they always had issues, since the beginning, to develop instanced group content (let’s remember the dungeon team and the lack of instanced content in open world ever since after core game content).

I don’t think it is a lack of importance, but rather a lack of resources; obviously they identified that, spreading their resources too thin between two teams working on a really slow pace to deliver content every 10 months, is not the best way to support the release of instanced group content.

February 11, 2019

@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@flog.3485 said:Well I am pretty sure they wanted to time the release of raids/fractal with each living story update from now on. It was actually the reason why they merged both team.

Yeah, Ill believe it when i see it.I still remember 6 wings per year.

Btw. is there a way to change what i voted for?

Yes, sadly there is no way to be sure it is in fact gonna happen. But there is a higher chance it is gonna happen if the teams are not seperate like before.

February 11, 2019

@Astralporing.1957 said:Yeah, sure. The raid team working now on other things doesn't mean they are devoting less effort to raids than they've done before. Nothing has changed, Anet interest in raids doesn't wane at all.[/sarcasm]

Well I am pretty sure they wanted to time the release of raids/fractal with each living story update from now on. It was actually the reason why they merged both team.

What is so different between a raid encounter and a fractal encounter at this point according to you ? Don’t you think the original fractal designers can also bring their expertise to some raid encounters ? And vice-versa ?

February 10, 2019

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Sure, but remember, that "raid team" is now also helping out with fractals. Which they haven't been doing initially. That means they have less time to devote on raids. Additionally, lot of work is done by the core team, which also can shift priorities (and probably already have done so). All those things are going to have an impact.

Honestly it doesn't really matter. Whether the team in charge of instanced group content releases fractal or raids, it would be in Anet best interest to make sure that all the players who participate in instanced group content also participate in raids imo, rather than trying to create raid easy mode for open world players.

And in that persperctive, it makes perfect sense to have only team in charge of both raids in fractal, which could easily introduce players to raid mechanics through fractal tiers, if necessary.

October 30, 2018

I would rather say for these reasons personally:

for legendary collections
for F2P to get some loot and get a hang of the game on a global point of view

September 9, 2018

@kharmin.7683 said:
@maddoctor.2738 said:
Honestly if LOADS of players can do it, the problem isn't with the content.We don't know the statistics. I could also be true that LOADS of players can't or don't choose to do this content for the reason of the difficulty they have with it.

If the story was really challenging then the LFG for Living story section would ber filled with lfg group requests.

September 7, 2018

@Klipso.8653 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@Klipso.8653 said:They aren't hard, but they ARE health sponges that discourage you from playing anything other than full DPS.
Did joko fight with my PvE Condi reaper and it only took a few minutes.
Did the joko fight on my WvW support FB and it was 45 minutes.
What they need to do is stop giving bosses a billion HP and pretending it's a challenge, all it really ends up being is obnoxious to complete on any spec not built for raids

Why would you play a support build in a solo instance ? You make it sound like guardian can’t play DPS.You don’t even need to play a spec built for raids. You wouldn’t even need to have full try hard ascended armor.

And by the way, of course they need to have that sort of health pool, have you seen how generally speaking, we can do a lot more damages due to the elite specs ?

Simply because I have duplicate classes with different builds for different modes.

Unfortunately my 'main' happens to be the support FB, and I make sure he gets full completion in maps and story.

My DPS DH could have done it just as easy as my Condi reaper, but my support scourge would have had a problem as well.

Support FB has legend armor, and my DPS DH, Condi Reaper, Support Scourge, Chrono tank, DPS Holosmith are all full ascended. Swapping gear and builds just became a pain so I made multiples of the same classes for different roles

And so ? You mean that with your support firebrand with leg armor, you can’t switch the stats to grievers and get yourself some Balthazar runes or any other condis ones to no longer be a full support firebrand ?

September 7, 2018

@Klipso.8653 said:They aren't hard, but they ARE health sponges that discourage you from playing anything other than full DPS.
Did joko fight with my PvE Condi reaper and it only took a few minutes.
Did the joko fight on my WvW support FB and it was 45 minutes.
What they need to do is stop giving bosses a billion HP and pretending it's a challenge, all it really ends up being is obnoxious to complete on any spec not built for raids

Why would you play a support build in a solo instance ? You make it sound like guardian can’t play DPS.You don’t even need to play a spec built for raids. You wouldn’t even need to have full try hard ascended armor.

And by the way, of course they need to have that sort of health pool, have you seen how generally speaking, we can do a lot more damages due to the elite specs ?

August 7, 2018

@Ashantara.8731 said:
@flog.3485 said:These two advantages are really only relevant for single player game.

Story missions = single player

I really don't mind repeating dialogues if the quality of the story have highly increased overall from the beginning of season 2 and forwards.

Talk to me again after doing it for the 13th time (or twice as often for achievements). :s

Can we stop with this nonsense? Story missions will never be truly single player in an mmo, because if it was, then we would be locked out of grouping up.

I have already done it many times (5 to be precise and I guess it will go up to 9 times if I decide to play every professions) but I don’t really understand why playing it 13 times with so many stuff being account bound in this game. So agree to disagree ?

August 6, 2018

@Dante.1763 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@Ashantara.8731 said:
@flog.3485 said:Nah it just breaks the immersion and the pace too much imo.

While this might be true, there were two extremely positive things about those dialogue cutscenes that are missing now:

Your character's face was actually emoting and
the lips were moving to adequately match the words
, which is no longer the case during dialogue.
You could skip them if you didn't want to listen to the dialogue for the x-th time, something you can no longer do.

Well agree to disagree then.

The two advantages you bring up are really fluffy imo. We just really needed a good story, not solely a good presentation of story. These two advantages are really only relevant for single player game.
You could skip but there wasn't any incentize to so imo, because any optional achievement in story were only made at the start of season 2 of I recall correctly. I really don't mind repeating dialogues if the quality of the story have highly increased overall from the beginning of season 2 and forwards.

the incentive was being able to get through them faster and not being forced to listen to things youd heard before, i have 15 characters i dont play very much, having to watch all the cutscenes after the core game is going to be painful. It was painful having to do it on my 3 that i play the most :/

Forced cutscenes are terrible IMO, forced Dialogue that drags on and on is also terrible IMO: theres no need for it and it doesnt add anything other than wasted time if youve listened to it more than once.

Well sure. They could always improve the current situation, so that we can skip the story if we need to. I just want point out that, imo, it is much less terrible to be forced to replay a good story with optional achievements than to have the ability to skip a story that was largely being criticized for being sort of weak.

August 6, 2018

@Ashantara.8731 said:
@flog.3485 said:Nah it just breaks the immersion and the pace too much imo.

While this might be true, there were two extremely positive things about those dialogue cutscenes that are missing now:

Your character's face was actually emoting and
the lips were moving to adequately match the words
, which is no longer the case during dialogue.
You could skip them if you didn't want to listen to the dialogue for the x-th time, something you can no longer do.

Well agree to disagree then.

The two advantages you bring up are really fluffy imo. We just really needed a good story, not solely a good presentation of story. These two advantages are really only relevant for single player game.
You could skip but there wasn't any incentize to so imo, because any optional achievement in story were only made at the start of season 2 of I recall correctly. I really don't mind repeating dialogues if the quality of the story have highly increased overall from the beginning of season 2 and forwards.

August 6, 2018

Nah it just breaks the immersion and the pace too much imo.Don’t worry the art of Gw2 will forever be relevant through open world content. And frankly from now on, it would be better to stick with what they have created in the cinematic with joko (if possible).

July 12, 2018

@battledrone.8315 said:
@lokh.2695 said:
@battledrone.8315 said:
@"Kheldorn.5123" said:
@battledrone.8315 said:
@"Cyninja.2954" said:The Caudecus fight is actually quite well crafted. A well played build on a player who knows what they are doing will have no issue clearing the fight.
That is the main issue though. 90% of all players will:
not know what to do and are lacking or unwilling to spend the time to understand the fight (or at least read up about it online if you can't be bothered to figure it out yourself)
have craptastic builds or copied raid/fractal builds not understanding how to play them or adapt them to the fight
have been breezing through the personal story, living story and open world content without ever being exlposed to challenge
lack a seveer understanding of their class and game mechanics (partly because some are never explained or never needed before this fight)
lack understanding of visual clues about attacks and proper positioning
So yes, the fight is not well implemented for a majority of the player base. It would have required a lot more build up and practice to bring casual players up to speed. The actual fight though is quite well designed.
Luckily there is an ambudance of guides, videos and hints on this matter by now and the option to have people help you.

if 90 % of the consumers have trouble with it . that would make it a BAD fight/product

Problem is before HoT anet breeded the community of uninspired bots who only care about autoattacking and looting, with 0 awareness of combat mechanics or the ability to read boss animations. It's good they stepped up their game with HoT and so on but many players are too lazy to adapt. It's good Anet works on some tutorials in the background, maybe finally some people will learn how to use their skills.

those "uninspired bots" paid for the game, if you think they would had invested this much for a niche population , then you dont know how business workswithout the casuals to fund it, this would had gone the same way as wildstar

You give the casual player not enough credit here. You can be casual and still know your class. You can be casual and still adapt to a given situation. I like that GW2 is a very casual friendly game but that doesn't mean there can't be some kinda demanding content every now and then. A casual friendly game does not need to be like candy crush or fruit ninja to be a casual game. Casuals have dem skillz too u know

you are missing the point, and you are wrong toowhenever i chose to adapt and get better(if its even possible)..im not a casual anymore, since the game has MOTIVATED me to IMPROVEthat is the exact OPPOSITE of casual

Hmmm that rather shows that you don’t like what the game has to offer imo. You will always be expected to improve at some point because the game relies on skill rather gear treadmill.

May 16, 2018

@mortrialus.3062 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@mortrialus.3062 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@"coro.3176" said:... but the maps though! It'd be so much fun to fight in Rata Sum, or Caledon Forest, just for the interesting terrain..
.. or any map with a large event that spawns at a certain time. Think of all those people just sitting afk waiting for some boring world-boss to show up so they can go press 1 at it for 5 minutes. Why not spice it up with a little dueling while they wait?
I really cannot see ANY downside. Make it opt in, and you can already block players if they annoy you. Any potential problems are solved!

But here is the big problem: numbers of players allowed in a map. If you allow dueling in a map where a major meta event spawns and some players can’t join the instance because their place is taken by players who are dueling and are not contributing, then what do you do ? It just deincentivizes players using the LFG.

You also certainly don’t want to recreate the problem of having raid portals only in open world where events of one map were massively scaled because there was a bunch of players afking in front of the portal.

In the end here is what would happened: you would have a specified instance where players would go to duel, which is very much what we already have with guild halls or hotjoin 1v1 servers.

There's always people in meta maps not contributing whether they're just afking with just enough participation to get rewards or gathering nodes, or doing hero points or whatever. A couple of guys having a duel isn't going to destabilize the meta event system.

I personally don’t agree with you because dueling is far more impactful and draws a lot more attention than having a few solo players gathering nodes or whatever.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not here to say that dueling is bad. I did have have some duels from time to time in the guild hall, in hotjoin arenas and in WvW.

I just think that because it will be impactful, it will be abused and therefore it will need support of not only implementing dueling in open world but also regularly updating it. Do you really think that the devs can do this ? How much time before you see threads pop up saying “dueling is unbalanced, dueling is bugged bla-bla-bla?”

Imo they can’t because their teams are already stretched enough. And here is the most important thing: dueling can already happen without any devs further resources used in the process. It is also way too late (after 6 years) to implement such a groundbreaking development when devs have put so much effort into making PvE a full cooperative and supportive-uncompetitive area.

What meta events with full maps are struggling to get done now a days? I mean heck there's always 30+ people in every full Auric Basin map AFKing at east. The Domain of Istan and Sandswept Isles metas have huge quantities of AFK turret engineers. These events get done just fine. Dueling isn't going to render open world PvE unplayable.

There's already systems for enabling players to attack each other and to switch allegiances and make players hostile to each other on the fly already built into the game, which would be the bulk of the work required to make this system work. The rest adding a "Accept duel" menu, a timer when the duel is accepted, and a system that ends the duel when one player reaches 1 HP. WoW's dueling system is pretty basic and that's really all we'd need and I really don't think it would take a developer more than a day or two's work to implement this.

Players upset about 1v1 dueling not being balanced would be barking up the wrong tree and I would have zero sympathy for them.

Maybe. But still I don’t want dueling to be implemented in open world. I have provided my feedback and you have provided yours. Let’s see whose feedback they want to listen to.

May 16, 2018

@mortrialus.3062 said:
@flog.3485 said:
@coro.3176 said:... but the maps though! It'd be so much fun to fight in Rata Sum, or Caledon Forest, just for the interesting terrain..
.. or any map with a large event that spawns at a certain time. Think of all those people just sitting afk waiting for some boring world-boss to show up so they can go press 1 at it for 5 minutes. Why not spice it up with a little dueling while they wait?
I really cannot see ANY downside. Make it opt in, and you can already block players if they annoy you. Any potential problems are solved!