Anaide.8251

I will try to vent and provide feedback objectively as I can. I have read other opinions, but today I decided to see for myself. I can't stress this enough: who designed this meta and for which target audience? I raid (not a pro raider, but I pug most of the time) and raids are far easier than this. Anet, what in the name of Glint made you design this piece of content? I did not even try it out for the turtle, I just wanted to do the meta. I wasted two hours of my life and most importantly I did not pug, I actually joined Hardstuck (who are nice enough to help players out). You literally created 50 man raid content with awful RNG! That kitten dragon was moving head to tail like it was flipping a coin! We failed at 7%, and it was not the players fault. You need to go back to the drawing board and figure out this clusterfluck of a meta, you are putting pressure on players to create the perfect squad and subgroups. In what Universe is that normal? And how can this be called open world meta? I get it, you wanted to create the most epic battle, and instead you threw at it all of the possible mechanics that most likely make no sense when combined together. You threw every thing at it and failed completely. You managed yourself to divide your audience in two, and toxicity and hate surfaced like wildfire. I see enough toxicity in raid groups, did not need that cr@p in open world. Your options: reduce the length (insert ain't nobody got time for that) nerf the meta (if you are hardcore player, I don't care, play with your eyes closed, whatever - doubt you are the main source of revenue for Anet. Let's be real over here you are the 5% of the population plus you are referred to in point 4) don't nerf the meta but fix the Head - Tail limbo over here Make hardcore instance based meta, well slap all the Raid bosses if needed improve the rewards and give them a higher rate of drop: like slap all infusions as possible drops, and increase the drop chance put the kitten turtle outside of the meta, so people can get the silly turtle that hits like a wet noodle. The most unfun piece of content I have played in 20 years...that's an achievement.

I tried and tried and gave every chance to harbinger, I simply detest it,t it's clunky and a walking meme at this point. It's like the poor emo cousin of the engineer. While I completely understand Anet is trying to "spread the love" they simply killed previous specs damage wise. I am all for business, revenue and so on, but this is the wrong way to do it - nerf older elites to sell a new expac. Can't wait for tomorrow raid LFG where I might get kicked as scourge/reaper dps. What happened to bring the player not the class? With all these nerfs (not referring only to necro) you are forcing people to play a specific class. And since you removed the 10 man boons, you are forcing people to play the highest dps class when raiding. I just realized something, I am complaining about the raid comps, when I am pretty sure Anet completely forgot that game mode: just like wvw and pvp and fractals (not mentioning dungeons those are dead, buried and commemorated at this point). Come to think of it, was there any other reasons for these nerf despite pushing players to buy the expac?

This is what happens when Carl from the finance department is in charge of coming up with a new business model, completely and totally tone deaf towards the players. I mean we all knew it, they don't understand their game or their audience, this one was just like the final confirmation. And their aim is either pushing people to buy gems and converting them to gold, or multiple accounts for the log in reward (even though this is a one time purchase and not sustainable long term). Anet do you even know your audience? Do you even have social media people to pay attention to the reaction of your audience? Seriously go back to the drawing board and truly try to figure out a real business model and not this crap, this way you are alienating your audience. In order to promote a new expansion you are killing old content, while promoting love everywhere content wise (talk about hypocritical).

Of course you have a dog in this race, and you know what? That it is fine. But you still don't want to see that it is broken. Let me give you an example: I suck at thief, I am incredibly bad, and yet this build allowed me to win every match, engage and disengage as I pleased, and just kill my opponents easily, and like I sad I suck at thief. If you don't see an issue that a noob can go and destroy with a build like this, there is nothing anyone can say at this point.

The bot, the elusive creature that will oneshot you wit all the skills while you sit there amazed trying to figure out what the kitten just happened.

You are missing the point, the stealth is not the problem, the infinite stealth is the problem. Every player I have met so far said the same thing: remove stealth from WvW this came from engineers, mesmers and thieves included. Are you seriously comparing condition cleansing (which is easy an accessible) with a perma stealth bot? Think of this scenario you log into, do you thing then boom a thief, and you are like "oh yeah hold up let me switch to something else" seriously nobody has time for that pony show. Like I said it all they need to do is look at NCSoft and L2, that's it, and then maybe decide what they want their thief to do. At the current moment it is the master of ninja scenarios that hits from the shadow, barely gets hit, revealed taken down. You really see no problem with this? If so then we can assume you play the perma stealth, and at the end of the day it does not even matter, we are just players venting. Highly doubt Anet would even take this into consideration this: next patch "yes after hearing the community we do see the problems with thief" #doubt.

Thief is the only class that gets to chose when to start a fight and when to finish it or abandon it, and nobody sees a problem with that. I am not going to change on a million classes so I can counter thief. Does not matter how you look at it, it is a broken mechanic that Anet does now know what to do with it. Since they are under the NCSoft umbrella maybe have a look at their Ghost Hunter for example, it does not get to abuse stealth like a thief in GW2 but it hits hard like a truck. Instead we are stuck in a merry go round with port, hit, stealth, steal, port, hit, stealth. steal, prancing like a ballerina. I don't even bother with thieves anymore they are the ultimate pain in the kitten.

saw that bandwagoning already started on EU, fun times.

My sincerest condolences!

Is this the same guy who was trashing the team/map chat with how awesome GH is and how he moved to Piken for the memes and because someone gave him 100g? And giving advice to the "newbies" left and right?

I mean of course it is that players fault for trying to take that kitten sentry, that requires 10 gankers to defend. Who do you think is sadder in this situation? That lonely player, or the 10 mofos needing their daily gratification in an online game?

Yeah I mean condescending attitudes are everywhere in this game.

thief is ***** to play against 1v1, nobody really has the flippin time for this, do you really want to talk about carry? You going to pretend trailblazer thief does not exist? The other ***** next to Rev. Not sure what you are trying to prove here, soulbeast is easy to kill with pretty much any profession.

I am linked with Piken, and I have no clue what you are talking about (I can assume you might have a secondary account there to see what happens ie: James Bond-ing). "No, we can't fight this, they're twice our size" - every time this happened I always saw people try (but if we are 5 and you think we should face 30 people than it is different). Of course there is also the time when we are with 3 and we get killed by two rev's but that is a broken kitten class. "No, we can't fight this, they're sweaty gvg blob" - didn't see that so far. "No one wants to tag open" - nope, I actually followed open tag "10 scouts in every tower." - If only, we lose objectives because there are not enough scouts or reports in time. "roll through maps with 70 people on TS with zero opposition" - I play mainly in the morning and during throughout the day besides the weekend, I am non stop outnumbered, not sure where the 70+ people you speak of are. Bottom line, I have switched multiple servers, thinking I will find a nice one - nope, they are all the same. There is always the enemy trashing you on forums, players trashing each other in map chat and team chap, it is literally the same crap everywhere. Is WvW broken? maybe, but the entitled players are not helping the situation (GW2 has the most entitled players out there). You don't like the MU? Move, log out, do PVE, no one is forcing anyone.

Things definitely look weird, not sure if anyone noticed on EU, only Gandara is listed as full, SFR+BB Very high, and the rest high and medium.Looks like there is bandwagoning everywhere as in nobody wants to be stuck in a certain tier or MU. @kamikharzeeh.8016 ofc i swap maps, I was just shocked about the clown fiesta on EBG.