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I don't think agony was all that bad and it's not an impediment to playing fractals. An exotic geared player can run all of tier 1 without an issue. I highly recommend everyone try it. Personal fractal level also limits your progression, but that only becomes a problem when you're right on the cusp of unlocking the next tier LFG. If you're trying to min/max your gold/hr or can't stand the FOMO on the tier 4 rewards you can spend a night like tonight with Sunqua Peak as the daily and join 10 groups in a row to push your personal fractal level into the next tier. DARPA fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 18, 2023 |
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Jedah posted:basic stuff that would meaningfully improve the game for new players arenanet would prefer you to buy things from the gem store than worry your silly little head about all those things!!
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tarbrush posted:Because breakbars didn't appear til HoT I mean that's an issue, so much old content is just left languishing in its 10-year-old state because it still runs so that's good enough
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Speaking of 10 year old content: I found a new minor skip on Accusation (first Kessex mission) and saved about a minute on claw island itself from somehow getting to the mentor cutscene faster. Mostly just better execution all around, and I still fumbled a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tNbXXZ4Zk I went through and identified just over 10 minutes of potential time savings which means I guess I have to push for sub-1:30 now. Xerol fucked around with this message at 16:34 on May 18, 2023 |
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Totally agree with you. A personal story chapter which requires breakbar training is a perfect jumping off point. Like you said, just pepper the whole dang early/mid game with this kind of content, it can't be that difficult to add. A strong example I can think of was watching Preach stream, and experience GW2 with totally fresh eyes. You've got an experienced MMO player, naturally curious to learn about game mechanics, and how to eventually get into raid groups, end-game, etc. Preach did not know that boons were critical to party-based play, and that it can potentially triple your DPS. During his Teatime episode with Teapot, Preach called the game out for this, and he's 100% right. You can't have core mechanics which are key to success and not educate the player base. A person shouldn't have to go down a Youtube rabbit-hole of research just to learn how it works. It's almost as if Anet has already preemptively thrown in the towel, and thought, "our hardcore players who like our MMO already know how this stuff works, so why bother" and didn't consider educating their next generation of players. You'd have thought that with the Steam launch, they had a golden opportunity to give the game a fresh coat of paint. There's also the Special Forces training area, and its training golem, which could be utilized way better. I didn't even know the Special Forces training area was a thing until I started watching Anet partners/content creators, who explained everything. The game never pointed me in that direction, it's this area of the city which is basically sequestered away. Sorry for the long post, but you hit upon a lot of important topics. To your point about two distinct groups of players in GW2 - I guess that's to be expected of any MMO, and to some extent, can't be helped. That's why I spend most of my time training new folks, helping, contributing where I can - I don't want new folks to be discouraged. Usually if you're able to exercise a little bit of patience, people will eventually get it, and overall, I've had more success stories than horror stories. The main horror stories I've experienced were trying to join advanced groups/CM groups. The hostility has skyrocketed to 10/10, accusations go flying, people starting vote kicking, etc. There are bad/immature players in any game, sure, but it's just downright dumb to join a PUG on LFG, whether you're in Training or Experienced, and expect everyone to magically play like a gamer god who is immune to making mistakes. That's what killproof and static groups are for, super high level gameplay. I've had someone kick me from a strike because "they weren't getting enough quickness uptime," but that same person ran away from me, and made zero effort to stack together as a party. It was as if I was supposed to psychically know where they were going to go at all times, and what their position was going to be. I've also had commanders announce "separate, separate!" during phases of boss fights, but people would still complain that they aren't getting boons. Why, exactly, do you need quickness when your focus should be jumping over waves of death that will downstate you? Unfortunately, I have to blame things like ArcDPS for this, a lot of PUG players will read the data in it and go from zero to irrationally judgemental in a heartbeat. But that's a whole separate can of worms and an effort post for another day.  where the red fern gropes posted:arenanet would prefer you to buy things from the gem store than worry your silly little head about all those things!! For all my criticisms, the gem store has incredible mounts. They know their audience, and they know how to get us to swipe, I'll give them that. Jedah fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 21, 2023 |
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Preach literally spent loads of money trying to gamba a mount skin he really wanted instead of a small amount to get it guaranteed. Like, he got ALL the mount skins from the gamba license thing before getting the one he actually wanted. Yeah, they know their audience.
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Jedah posted:I've had someone kick me from a strike because "they weren't getting enough quickness uptime," but that same person ran away from me, and made zero effort to stack together as a party. It was as if I was supposed to psychically know where they were going to go at all times, and what their position was going to be. I'm obligated to point out that 1. Arc has the boon table that could be used to show someone if they're the only one missing uptime by being off the stack, rather than relying on how much quickness they happened to think everyone had (plus the 'average distance from commander' statistic in actual logs) and 2. before meters, people used to just not take necros and rangers or things that aren't warrior or ele into groups because... eh we're pretty sure they do bad damage. Also didn't come up as directly but the launch era qualification for some dungeon pugs was your achievement points, so raid decoration kp is an upgrade there.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:I'm obligated to point out that 1. Arc has the boon table that could be used to show someone if they're the only one missing uptime by being off the stack, rather than relying on how much quickness they happened to think everyone had (plus the 'average distance from commander' statistic in actual logs) and 2. before meters, people used to just not take necros and rangers or things that aren't warrior or ele into groups because... eh we're pretty sure they do bad damage. Ah, thanks. That's totally a fair point and, and to be honest, I don't have experience with ArcDPS, so I'll defer to you here. Maybe the PUG player in question did not know how boon tables functioned in Arc, I couldn't say. Perhaps the lesson learned here is to have the lowest possible expectations of PUGs. I'm on the Steam version of the game, and kinda scared that I'll be flagged for running a third party app like Arcdps with GW2, then end up getting banned. Maybe that's going overboard and too paranoid. I haven't heard of any serious negative consequences using it. Still, better safe than sorry, I guess.
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Jedah posted:Ah, thanks. That's totally a fair point and, and to be honest, I don't have experience with ArcDPS, so I'll defer to you here. Maybe the PUG player in question did not know how boon tables functioned in Arc, I couldn't say. Perhaps the lesson learned here is to have the lowest possible expectations of PUGs. the day people get banned for running arcdps is the day the entire raid community disappears
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where the red fern gropes posted:the day people get banned for running arcdps is the day the entire raid community disappears You're probably right. Is there a reason it hasn't been officially sanctioned by Anet, or integrated into the existing game? ApeHawk posted:Preach literally spent loads of money trying to gamba a mount skin he really wanted instead of a small amount to get it guaranteed. That video is hilarious, and I don't think there's anything wrong with paying for cosmetics. He knew what he was doing and it was very entertaining. Preach got the Point-Tipped Corvus Griffon early in that video - that one is virtually striking and gorgeous. Locking quality of life upgrades behind the gem store is not great, though. Even Teapot, one of Anet's biggest advocates, was super annoyed that extra Build/Equipment slots remain locked behind a gem price. Jedah fucked around with this message at 15:54 on May 21, 2023 |
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Arcdps was sanctioned years ago, they don't really advertise it or anything though. The head of security had the addon developer remove some features (gear inspection, build/equipment templates, showing stats from people outside your squad/party) to get it accepted sort of under the table. There was another meter (BGDM) whose creator got permabanned for continuing to support gear inspection and giving out the means to enable it to their friends, or something like that.
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Jedah posted:Like you said, just pepper the whole dang early/mid game with this kind of content, it can't be that difficult to add. Someone did reply with the fact that I didn't know (because I'm new) breakbars weren't a thing until HoT. This is valid, if in a dodgy why-bother-updating-old-content way, except they did update a bunch of old stuff with breakbars. So they felt the mechanic should be in the game with zero explanation of it. It certainly explains a lot of what I see in open world scenarios and it sucks that "abuse by the rest of the players" is their standard learning mechanic. quote:Unfortunately, I have to blame things like ArcDPS for this, a lot of PUG players will read the data in it and go from zero to irrationally judgemental in a heartbeat. But that's a whole separate can of worms and an effort post for another day. I don't blame arcdps. I use it to monitor my lovely performance because I want to improve. Using it to be a dick is just indicative of the playerbase. In my first few runs of DE I got a failed run where immediately all mechs and the people who played them were blamed for the ills of the world and that's without stats. People are going to throw their fits regardless of data to back it up.
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Jedah posted:You're probably right. Is there a reason it hasn't been officially sanctioned by Anet, or integrated into the existing game? Anet has extremely dysfunctional management, and the core of the game was built around 10 to 50+ dumbasses showing up and dogpiling whatever big boss with as minimal toxicity as possible. Everything in the game is all about 'working together' so you basically can only help other players and can't compete for resuorces/can't investigate their gear/what skills they're using/etc. these two factors combined means the game was never meant to have something like arcdps nor would management ever give approval for developing it. The closest you've got is the training golem as a result. also generally even if they could put in the dev resources, the real problems are things like insufficient group finding tools, unacceptably high deviance in build performance, and the 'normal' mode for raids being too difficult relative to the skill floor of the game. adding in a DPS meter outside of a 'improve your own performance' cave just gives people license to be a dick and wouldn't be a huge benefit, especially since players in the know can already grab it themselves. a personal dps meter outside of the cave also wouldn't really. help. at all, since it just tells you what your number is, not how to improve number. and it probably won't ever help because the core problem is that guild wars 2 lets you very easily make a bad build, and something like 90% of the decisions you can make are automatically incorrect and in a big way. and even when you do make a good build, the difference between 'new player' and 'person who grinded out the rotation' for most builds is unacceptably large. there's a reason you saw such a huge flock of players to power mech, and now to reaper - getting even passable DPS at a baseline level is simply way, way too difficult for most builds in this game. and then CC adds a extra wrinkle to that because the game hands it out pretty inconsistently and numerous builds on like snowcrows etc dont even have much, if any CC.
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Arcdps has a place just because it's really hard to tell what anyone else is doing while you are doing your own thing in a fight and afterwards you look at the logs and see "oh, the person who is supposed to give a boon isn't really specced right" or "this player we brought on to fill for dps is doing 2k damage and just using staff guardian auto attacks" which is a actual thing I've seen. But that of course comes with the downside of people being able to use numbah low as a blunt instrument and an excuse to be toxic, otherwise though you'd have a lot of situations of just not being able to tell where the problem is and why everyone is struggling or which player is doing the same damage of 3 of your other players combined. In the end most problems with the game could be summed up as Meeko posted:Anet has extremely dysfunctional management
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Arcdps was fun to use years ago when I still raided just because when you're doing weekly runs with the same people for ages the challenge kind of goes away so competing for that 0,5% dps increase over the next person while still doing mechanics is really the only thing left to do  Like the extra dps never actually mattered and carrying deadweight isn't that hard from what I remember and was only a difference in beating the enrage by however many extra minutes.
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Is it worth it at all to buy the complete collection on steam for the living world content, currently $93.97, or just get the 2 main expansions?
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All this raiding/strike discussion is kind of deflating when I was thinking about coming back to play for a while  None of it is stuff I didn't already know, it's just always sort of sad to get a reminder about the game's missed potential.
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Praxis Prion posted:Is it worth it at all to buy the complete collection on steam for the living world content, currently $93.97, or just get the 2 main expansions? Isthereanydeal.com says the Complete collection has gone as low as 21% off ($78.97) on Steam, so it isn't the best discount ever, but still. The value for money is kinda absurd. Since there's no monthly subscription, your hundred bucks could translate into thousands of hours of game time. That kind of value proposition is hard to pass up. Where they'll finally get you is when you're hooked on the game, and seeing 10 irresistible cosmetic items (on sale!) in the Gem Store. Who is gonna say no to a gigantic plush turtle mount? Overall, though, the game is not pay-to-win, and easy on your wallet (for an MMO). Meeko posted:Anet has extremely dysfunctional management, and the core of the game was built around 10 to 50+ dumbasses showing up and dogpiling whatever big boss with as minimal toxicity as possible. Everything in the game is all about 'working together' so you basically can only help other players and can't compete for resuorces/can't investigate their gear/what skills they're using/etc. There is so much truth in this post. Particularly your comment about Anet having extremely dysfunctional management. If I'm not mistaken, for the longest time, wasn't one employee assigned to be their community manager, while wearing like 10 other hats at the same time? I'm a bit torn agreeing with you so much, while also endorsing that another goon should totally buy the complete collection. Is this Stockholm syndrome? 100% agree you about insufficient group finding tools. Fixing that alone would have a ripple effect and correct so many other aspects of the game. Just based on hearing other folks' experiences, the European server is better when it comes to the LFG system. Although it's a scuffed system as a whole, there's still a ton of PUG stuff going on of various skill levels. I personally haven't had this experience at all on NA. The NA LFG system is the wild west and unpredictable, the best experiences I've had were starting my own groups, or joining Trainings groups of new players and spending time with them and teaching them the encounter. On a rare occasion, a Hardstuck commander might be hosting something and coaching over discord, but it's by no means the norm (for me, anyway). As a slight change of topic, I got brave and messaged Sneb over the weekend, since I'm considering joining Skein Gang on NA. He was incredibly nice and chatted with me way longer than I expected. I only have positive things to say, dude was super inclusive and you can tell he cares. I think after looking back at a few of my negative posts on here, I need to step away from PUGs, and should probably join a community like theirs. Harrow posted:All this raiding/strike discussion is kind of deflating when I was thinking about coming back to play for a while Sorry, I'll take the lion's share of the blame for that. Describing it as "missed potential" is so true. As long as you're willing to avoid PUGs and focus on end game content with a static group/guild, I don't see any major reason why you shouldn't come back. The overall state of PvE is very good, there's like a dozen different specs which are viable and performing well. If you were ever thinking about an alt, this is the perfect time to jump back in. Jedah fucked around with this message at 20:00 on May 22, 2023 |
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Jedah posted:I think after looking back at a few of my negative posts on here, I need to step away from PUGs, and should probably join a community like theirs. To be fair, I bitch a lot about the in-game tools specifically because I don't live in one of the two timezones supported by raiding Discords. If I did you'd never hear from me because I'd be busy raiding. It'd be better if there were in-game tools (also removing the comm tag) and would lift the game up universally, but there are extremely easy options if you're in God's chosen regions. Strikes... eh, you still get asshats who think they're running some sort of turbohard content and desperately need to minmax it for normal modes. It's still all LFG unless you've got buddies, like how Goon used to run the dailies before everyone burned out. If you camp it you will get your strikes in, but in 2023 if I have to sit and refresh a list waiting for an hour (or sit trying to form a group for an hour) I'm just going to go do something else. Praxis Prion posted:Is it worth it at all to buy the complete collection on steam for the living world content, currently $93.97, or just get the 2 main expansions? Either way it's a gamble on if you'll like the real game or not. I just bought the expansions, and then spent nearly five months kicking myself until the LW segments went on sale on the gem store. If I hadn't gotten into the game I guess it would have felt better saving money, but then the game pulled a nasty trick and was actually fun to play. Plus everyone in [GOON] rules, so that helped.
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Mailer posted:but in 2023 if I have to sit and refresh a list waiting for an hour (or sit trying to form a group for an hour) I'm just going to go do something else. It is unfortunate but the way GW2 group roles work you can't really have an automated group finder.
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I think ANet still likes to think of group content being 'above' the standard cookie cutter healer, tank, buffer, etc, and that worked until they added specializations with those roles and then added content which "required" those roles. I liked the game better when everyone could be their own healer, which is still maybe possible if you do all the dodging and movement mechanics perfectly and don't stack on top of every fight.. I guess?
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Yeah the pre-EoD content was not balanced around having all boons permanently and it shows.
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Jedah posted:I'm probably the millionth person to suggest this, but maybe they could add filters (similar to the Trading post) where you can sort players by some kind of metric, maybe it’s based on their achievements, gear, personal fractal level, agony resistance, completion of quests, some kind of character data, etc. I realize this could divide communities and ruffle some feathers, but it could work. Terrible idea unless you can also sort people by how fancy their outfit is.
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Mr. Neutron posted:Yeah the pre-EoD content was not balanced around having all boons permanently and it shows. I genuinely don't think that's true, the methods of distributing these buffs as well as the removal of stuff like spotter, banners, assassin's presence has change group comps but since hot day 1 group content has always wanted those boons with as much duration as possible
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Oh I have no doubt they were wanted, it's just that(apparently; I was not playing the game back then but from I heard/old videos I watched) 100% duration on everything was not realistic. Especially the really strong ones like protection, or even 25 might.
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Mr. Neutron posted:Oh I have no doubt they were wanted, it's just that(apparently; I was not playing the game back then but from I heard/old videos I watched) 100% duration on everything was not realistic. Especially the really strong ones like protection, or even 25 might. unless I'm misremembering badly the trio of stm chrono, ps warrior, and gotl druid provided 100% uptime on all that stuff
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Eltoasto posted:Terrible idea unless you can also sort people by how fancy their outfit is. IBS Fast 5 - Need HS. Maid outfits ONLY or kicked. orcane posted:You mean sort them by how many infusions they're stacking? Sorta, I realize infusions are used for many things - but mostly it would be good to know a party member's Agony resistance for running fractals in LFG. Someone with zero/little agony resistance shouldn't be in certain fractals, so I think that's reasonable.
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Jedah posted:IBS Fast 5 - Need HS. Maid outfits ONLY or kicked.
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Just a general heads up that the Twitch drops have started.
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AmbientParadox posted:Also, tanking raids gives you a better perspective on the mechanics Healing, too! Having the game go from "if I don't internalize a dozen different time periods and hit them all perfectly I'm literal trash" to "I just need to strategically aim circles" meant I had a *lot* more time to adjust to the fight and watch for mechanics.
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