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Kerrrrrrr posted:This happens in every loving stream that they do. It's infuriating. Every time I tune in for a class changes stream it's 30 minutes of agonizing rambling over the first three professions and then a mad scramble to fit in the other five (six).
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No the stream is over. Besides mentioning severe nerfs for wvw banners there was no discussion of balance at all.
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Baron Von Pigeon posted:HUGE nerfs to wvw banners. god loving dammit Sprite141 posted:Who the hell would tell you to not waste your time on dragon's stand when you've never done it? It's legit actually cool sorta. Get out and explore/play the zones. The mastery grind isn't bad to get the required poo poo if you do metas like verdant brink and dragon's stand. Dragons stand is a stupid excessive time investment for a casual player so yeah no one should waste their time on it, and the mastery grind is stupid excessive time investment required as well.
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Blasphemeral posted:Beyond verdant brink, I've barely entered the other new zones. I've been into each one a couple times, but the only things that might compel me to go there are entirely blocked by the hassle. I wrote an extensive guide on HoT adventures, which includes instructions on how to get to them and a link to one of the many timer websites that are available to show you when you can play them: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/hot/Guide-Adventures-Silver-Gold-and-beyond
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AnacondaHL posted:I wrote an extensive guide on HoT adventures, which includes instructions on how to get to them and a link to one of the many timer websites that are available to show you when you can play them: Hey, thanks, I'll check this weekend.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Dragons stand is a stupid excessive time investment for a casual player so yeah no one should waste their time on it, and the mastery grind is stupid excessive time investment required as well.
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tyblazitar posted:I guess I'm just a silly nolife poopsocker with no perspective, but I was under the impression that even some casual players sometimes played for as much as 90 minutes in one sitting. I mean I think everyone who follows the thread gets that Anet killed the game for you because you're a ~~casual~~ but I don't think there's a need to tell people who want to check out new content that most people enjoy at least the first time to not bother just because you're jaded and disappointed. True, I apologize for that, but I hope you understand why I'm bitter and disappointed with the direction this expansion went. e: also I'm not poking at you for being a "silly nolife poopsocker" at all CLAM DOWN fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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To be fair about the 90 minutes thing, that's also 90 minutes if you happen to log in at the right time to catch the beginning of Dragon's Stand. Having to wait for the two hour map cycle to get to starting a map you like is really annoying, particularly because if you want an actually successful map you need to join an organized map that's taxiing people in and filling the map up, so you generally can't late-join a map that's going to succeed. If you don't care about what map you play it's not bad because they start about every half hour, but if you want to do a particular map then the hoops you have to jump through kinda suck.
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I'd rather they work like silverwastes honestly, set timers blow especially when the event is so long.
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I get what they were trying to do with the new maps cause this way you don't have everyone just looking for taxis for maps that are 90% done already, but yeah it blows. I think a better way would have been to do Silverwastes style stuff and emphasize rewards for 'opening' maps, like in Silverwastes someone has to do the poo poo job of sitting on a map defending Amber and sitting at 1/4 until the bar gets to like 30% and people start actually coming in and helping. Give really good rewards to those people
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I switched to a short bow to try it and accidentally put my old bow through the mats blender and it's horrible and I hate it. It's got no dps, partly because I went marksman, and it's also got no ranged AOE. I've just done the level 60 personal story line that took loving forever because the mobs are immune to stun and kept poisoning my pet and I couldn't get close enough to use the big sword because if I did they killed me. One part of it with the undead ship and the beach took so god drat long my 50% 2 hour XP boost had run out before I got the big XP reward. gently caress short bows.
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This is beautiful and this person is a complete moron at cooking. When things are over boiling, take them off the heat you dingus. Just yank the pot off the stove by the handle and it'll stop going crazy within a few seconds. Johnny Joestar posted:all i can say is that HoT really comes off as a 'first expansion' pretty hard, so it'll be interesting to see what they've learned for the second one.  And from what I remember people saying, the first GW1 xpac was pretty mediocre and the second one was really good, so here's to cautious optimism!
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CLAM DOWN posted:True, I apologize for that, but I hope you understand why I'm bitter and disappointed with the direction this expansion went. Yeah, honestly I understand as well. Truth is there has been a lot of stupid poo poo, but the dude sounded like he didn't even try. I mean, I'm casual as gently caress but by running around unlocking elite specs and doing the story I managed to get the basic masteries needed to do most of the stuff in HoT. But yeah yeah mastery gating, while a neat idea, is really loving poorly done and takes way too drat long. Hell I've kinda barely made any progress into anything other than the story. What anet has done with collections, and basically everything in the game now, being so hugely time and money gated makes this poo poo super hard for people who don't have time to play.
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Magres posted:And from what I remember people saying, the first GW1 xpac was pretty mediocre and the second one was really good, so here's to cautious optimism! You'll need a mastery to buy the 2nd expansion
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Magres posted:And from what I remember people saying, the first GW1 xpac was pretty mediocre and the second one was really good, so here's to cautious optimism! I think you'll find that the first GW1 expansion was in fact the best.
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Blasphemeral posted:Beyond verdant brink, I've barely entered the other new zones. I've been into each one a couple times, but the only things that might compel me to go there are entirely blocked by the hassle. When I got to Tangled Depths I was immediately like "I loving despise this sadistic hell maze", but really that's kind of in the name. I think the level design is actually really high-quality after getting more familiar with the maps. Getting more movement masteries and learning the shortcuts makes it really fast to cross the maps and it's actually mastering game mechanics, not just unlocking more teleports. I enjoy being engaged as I move through a zone and not just drooling on my W button. Even things like the elite mobs everywhere are good at evoking "hey there are serious threats in this zone gotta be careful". HoT feels like actual environments that are threatening and challenging instead of skins on a theme park where you teleport everywhere and hit dumb easy things. ANET definitely needs to unfuck their server sharding on DS though. DS is basically a map that's a huge, 2 hour world boss, and in the same way as the rest of the world bosses everybody just floods a few maps to capacity the second it resets and the megaserver just keeps spawning empty shitter instances. All the DS maps share the same 2 hour timer so you have to either snipe a spot in LFG really fast or actively fill your own map out through LFG, which takes like 5-10 minutes because everybody else is trying to snipe a spot too. It's dumb and once you know how to get into a viable map it's not even particularly hard, you just have to wait for the reset. DS itself owns bones and is super fun, it's worth doing at least once.
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CLAM DOWN posted:stupid excessive time investment required Can this be the new thread title?
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Another fun thing with dragonstand is (or was?) how it will think a map is too empty despite having 3 full squads running events and will ask everyone to leave and if you don't leave, in 1 hour it will reset to a fresh map. I've had it reset multiple times at mordremoth, right before his delayed death animation.
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Have Anet said what their plan is for elite specs in future expansions? Are they going to give every class another elite spec with each expansion?
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Shab posted:Have Anet said what their plan is for elite specs in future expansions? Are they going to give every class another elite spec with each expansion? Anet intends to add more elite specs at some vague point in the future, and they will definitely follow through on that. Probably. Maybe.
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Various Meat Prod. posted:Anet intends to add more elite specs at some vague point in the future, and they will definitely follow through on that. Probably. Sounds cool. It's a good way to still have character progression without invalidating Your Gearscore
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Another fun thing with dragonstand is (or was?) how it will think a map is too empty despite having 3 full squads running events and will ask everyone to leave and if you don't leave, in 1 hour it will reset to a fresh map. This might be related, but when I quest in Verdant Brink (maybe in all new zones), I get the "switch to a fuller map" more frequently than in the old zones. It's kind of annoying because sometimes I switch, then 10 min later (sometimes earlier) it wants me to switch again.
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Please don't whisper me about a secret goon raid guild that gear checks i'm not in it and have no control over it. -A thank you-
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That sounds like something someone who's in and has control over a secret goon raid guild that gear checks would say.
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Visidan posted:Please don't whisper me about a secret goon raid guild that gear checks i'm in it and we dont care about you subhuman casuals quoting it before the raiding goon Illuminati squelch the truth
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Poniard posted:Dude who runs that poo poo doesn't even have a forums account. Well I for one certainly would not advocate making use of this to plan shenanigans. I haven't griefed anyone in a very long time, because I now know this is wrong, and my previous actions in online games were reprehensible and I humbly apologize to anyone who may have been affected by anything that I may have done.
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learnincurve posted:Well I for one certainly would not advocate making use of this to plan shenanigans. I haven't griefed anyone in a very long time, because I now know this is wrong, and my previous actions in online games were reprehensible and I humbly apologize to anyone who may have been affected by anything that I may have done. Uhhhhhhhh
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Ping legendary armor or gkick. This is a no fun zone.
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