Late Unpleasantness posted:

... momfights especially... checking for an active momfight...

AmericanGeeksta posted:

Are they rewards for the new PvP League stuff? (Cant go on the GW2 site at work)

HEVampersand posted:

^^ How do I become a PVP MASTA?

Blasphemeral posted:

WTF is a


???

CLAM DOWN posted:

I play the game doing whatever I want and the xp doesn't just rain down on me And my favourite thing to do, dungeons, has been nerfed to the ground for that.

Kajeesus posted:

mom is the last boss of the Dragon's Stand meta event. You fight it.


It hasn't actually. They nerfed dungeon gold rewards, but they still give buckets of experience.

Kajeesus posted:

It hasn't actually. They nerfed dungeon gold rewards, but they still give buckets of experience.

mike12345 posted:

Kajeesus posted:

It hasn't actually. They nerfed dungeon gold rewards, but they still give buckets of experience.

CLAM DOWN posted:

I don't know how people misunderstand me still, I've been pretty clear. I'm not against the mastery system, I actually like alternative advancement systems in MMOs quite a bit. I'm against the time and amount of experience currently required to unlock basic things that let me explore the world and do what I want, like jumping puzzles that are literally right there staring me in the face going "sorry come back in a year" like the example I gave yesterday.

Kenshin posted:

You know what would make it not so bad? If we could just select a single mastery and level it anywhere. I would be a lot happier if I could get XP for my HoT masteries when I go do stuff in Tyria.

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Treks:
The only people who can get credit for the trek are ones that either activate a point, or are standing extremely close to a point when it is activated. It can be worked around, but the system is unreliable. Large guilds like mine will have to get an entire group to one point and be sure everyone is in range, but the problem extends to any size guild when the entire trek is only five points (easy mission)

Puzzles:
In theory the instance is fine, however whereas before it was possible to port people in at certain points if they got left behind and locked behind a door, that system no longer works. The checkpoints are fine, but only seem to work if you die, not if you are behind.

End rewards are buggy, only a few people who complete the puzzle get personal rewards whereas before everyone who ran through was guaranteed a bouncy chest at the end. I haven’t sorted out what the game’s restrictions are for who actually gets credit, but it seems to possibly be tied to how many people are recommended for the puzzle. I do not understand why the system no longer rewards everyone who runs the puzzle to completion.

The instance map puts every puzzle in Lornar’s pass, which removes the minimap of the maze in the Proxemics lab. As this created confusion among my veteran players, I can only imagine what it must do for a guild of newer players.

Some people who didn’t accept/decline credit still got individual bouncy chests.

Rush:
The rush states a specific time for completion, but does not give the correct amount of time. We were supposed to have 11 minutes for our rush in the PVE opportunities slot, but only received 9. The guild behind us rolled 10 minutes 30 seconds.

On completion of rushes, many players have to run back and forth through the end flag to get popped out of form and receive individual credit toward the rush.

Unlike previously, when guilds could participate in other guild’s rushes, the system no longer allows for sharing. We attempted to go to another guild’s rush and did not receive guild or individual credit for running it.

Some people who were simply afk in LA got rush credit when they hadn’t run it.

WvW missions:
Good luck to any multi-server guilds completing these in an orderly fashion. Otherwise, they seem to work the best out of any of the missions.

PvP missions:
The timer does not stay open until the end to allow for many guild members to get individual credit for these missions. Unfortunately, the only people who get credit are the ones who contribute toward the total needed wins or rank points earned, and then the mission completes and closes, making getting individual completion for PvP missions for large guilds unpleasant. Additionally, there is a cooldown on the missions so they cannot be spam activated if more guild teams are in a match, so that is not a solution.

The solution to this would simply be to leave the timer open and allow anyone who got a win/earned rank points to get individual rewards, but that is not how the system works.

Liberatore posted:

I've noticed some goons who dislike the mastery system as it is — or rather, the time required to unlock certain things — expressing the opinion that this may change. I wouldn't get your hopes up. They changed the HP required for elite specs because people complained about it, but who's complaining about this? You? Go on Reddit and tell me how many pages you have to flip through before you find a thread on the subject; I would tell you myself, but I gave up after ten pages.

CLAM DOWN posted:

I'm not only going to raise my concerns about something if everyone else does, that makes no sense, other people's opinions have no bearing on mine If I don't like something, I'm not going to like it, regardless of what others think. I don't have any expectation this will change, the general direction of GW2 is changing and I'm just not on board I guess.

malhavok posted:

He's not talking about raising your concerns, he's talking about how people keep insisting that the exp requirements are going to be changed when there is very little indication that enough people have a problem with this to make it an issue that will addressed. Unlike the HP issue.

Stormgale posted:

Honest question, what would the mastery system lose if it focused on stuff like exalted assistance, the leaderships etc? Doing dragons stand without leyline (and poison) to some degree is so loving dull.

Kenshin posted:

You know what would make it not so bad? If we could just select a single mastery and level it anywhere. I would be a lot happier if I could get XP for my HoT masteries when I go do stuff in Tyria.

ItBurns posted:

I've never done DS with ley line. Do you mean updraft?

ItBurns posted:

Changes to fractals, including more money and XP but still gated behind a literal asura gate. When will Failnet learn?

jjac posted:

When elite specs used to cost a lot and every hero point counted I would have complained about mastery grind but now it's pretty much relegated to extra convenience and vendors/map completion for precursor collections.

This seems more like a case of "because I can, I have to" and yeah with that sanse of thinking you're going to have a bad time.

Kenshin posted:

Well, sort of. Not so much have to, but would like to, but instead of actually working on something interesting to get my (insert item that requires high-level HoT masteries here) I'm just stuck in the same zones doing the same thing over and over.

I honestly don't think CLAM DOWN and I would be complaining about this nearly as much even with the current XP requirements that we think are too high if you could just earn XP toward the HoT mastery levels anywhere. I don't see anybody complaining about the Tyria masteries, even with the same (similar?) XP requirements, because there is such a variety of things you can do to earn the XP there (and coming soon, fractals will get even better for that, as we see in the notes above)

ItBurns posted:

One issue with this is that you still need to do the meta for all of the collections as they all require map-specific currencies (lol) or specific meta events or other drops.

Kenshin posted:

These are good changes that I agree with.

Now, I need to start working on clearing up the 1-20 fractals I haven't done so I can actually use the drat LFG tool for 21+...

ItBurns posted:

Really it just boils down to the fact that some people want everything and they want it now because they're veterans and they deserve it.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

I haven't even found any jumping puzzles in the new zones. Minor things that lead to vistas or mastery insights, yes, but not proper Jumping Puzzles that give achievements and grand chests like the old zones had.

ItBurns posted:

Changes to fractals, including more money and XP but still gated behind a literal asura gate. When will Failnet learn?

Kerrrrrrr posted:

I haven't even found any jumping puzzles in the new zones. Minor things that lead to vistas or mastery insights, yes, but not proper Jumping Puzzles that give achievements and grand chests like the old zones had.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

I haven't even found any jumping puzzles in the new zones. Minor things that lead to vistas or mastery insights, yes, but not proper Jumping Puzzles that give achievements and grand chests like the old zones had.