Abefroman
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Abefroman
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Mist
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You realize that that many elementalists would have permanent protection and infinite healing/cleansing right? It wouldn't be like 1 ele vs 1 mesmer scaled up...I'd love to run into your ELE group with my group of mesmers
Abefroman
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IMO I think they found out in beta the casual PvE players were eating up what they were making & rather than delay 6 months to bring both forms of PvP to an adequate state (which once Custom Arenas get released I think they will be at) they released to take advantage of the two major money maker holiday events on they've had on the PvE side. (I guess the current one would be the 3rd)
Can't speak to how the PvP pop was but on the PvE side it certainly doesn't seem to have fallen a lot. They've done a good job at catering to their casual PvE player base. Which is ironic given how many people said & still continue to claim GW2 is a PvP game
Hex
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Transfered to Sanctum of Rall a few weeks back after realizing Fergusson's Crossing was total dildos. Friend picked the server for everyone and I guess he chose wrong
Just curious if they fixed the end game dungeons.
My group streamed our first run of the dungeon where you shoot firecrackers at the dragon for 10 minutes to kill it. We called the encounter "embarrassing" several times and the video made its way back to Arena.net. Rather than either (a) fixing the encounter so it didn't suck, or (b) standing behind the quality of the encounter, they pulled a 1999 and filed a complaint with Twitch.tv to take the video down because we violated the Terms of Use by disparaging the game. The video made its way around other gaming companies, so I understand that they weren't too happy about it, but it was unedited footage of actual play, contained no exploits, and was on the live servers significantly after release.
I'm not much of a "they are out to defraud the public" kinda guy, but I think you should stand behind the quality of the content you put in your game....good or bad. If its bad, admit it and fix it. If you think its good, then trust that other customers will see it your way.
I wouldn't go back to the game because I basically think they are douchebags. But out of curiosity I would like to know if the content actually got better since we played it. Anyone know which dungeon I am talking about and if they improved it? You fought waves of mobs on a ship, then went to a turret to shoot what looked like golden fireworks at a dragon. Did they clean up the encounter to make it more fun?
My group streamed our first run of the dungeon where you shoot firecrackers at the dragon for 10 minutes to kill it. We called the encounter "embarrassing" several times and the video made its way back to Arena.net. Rather than either (a) fixing the encounter so it didn't suck, or (b) standing behind the quality of the encounter, they pulled a 1999 and filed a complaint with Twitch.tv to take the video down because we violated the Terms of Use by disparaging the game. The video made its way around other gaming companies, so I understand that they weren't too happy about it, but it was unedited footage of actual play, contained no exploits, and was on the live servers significantly after release.
I'm not much of a "they are out to defraud the public" kinda guy, but I think you should stand behind the quality of the content you put in your game....good or bad. If its bad, admit it and fix it. If you think its good, then trust that other customers will see it your way.
I wouldn't go back to the game because I basically think they are douchebags. But out of curiosity I would like to know if the content actually got better since we played it. Anyone know which dungeon I am talking about and if they improved it? You fought waves of mobs on a ship, then went to a turret to shoot what looked like golden fireworks at a dragon. Did they clean up the encounter to make it more fun?
No.
But they've added other content that is entertaining to hop in and play some more. The problem with GW2 is that there isn't a lot of stickyness with the end game. Even if you ignore all the PVE, I've surprised the WvW popularity lasted as long as it did.
But they've added other content that is entertaining to hop in and play some more. The problem with GW2 is that there isn't a lot of stickyness with the end game. Even if you ignore all the PVE, I've surprised the WvW popularity lasted as long as it did.
Mist
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Fractals are super well done as far as instanced PvE content is concerned. Difficulty progression, both statistical and mechanical, loot progression, reward progression, pretty good. The original dungeon encounters got fixed up a bit but they're not really designed to be hard.
Pyksel
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Knowing how popular the WvW as launch I'm still shocked they waited so long to fix the culling and they still haven't added any meaningful content to it. I'm starting to think that part of the problem with the core of WvW was just the sheer disposable nature of it where after 7 days your work was essentially wiped. Hell, even the world bonuses didn't really start stacking up until the latter part of the week which means you had fewer days to enjoy the benefits.