WindBlade.8749

I'm up for something like that, like the previous guy say, not even need to be related to endgame, it's will be a way to let players discover how the build/damage work, and let them try new things with new builds.

The devs did not intent that condi players should not be able to destroy the objets... It's just that before HoT Condi build was not really a thing since there was no real way to create them (lack of stats and skills from existings weapons), the only real condi class we got was burn gardien and the cap for condition was 1 by condi. That why object did not take condi, because they did not predict that they will be condi build in the future, they just forgot to update the objets when they introduce them. You can see that as most of objets that do not take condi are from core.

> @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > > @"WindBlade.8749" said: > > > @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > > > Really the biggest mistake they made I'd say is adding glowy kitten AND making it the most prestigious things in the game) > > Believe me even if the shiny item were not the most prestigious items most of people will still use them since it's what the majority of people prefer, you can already see that with all the shiny of the cash shop that are not prestigious at all but most of people use them anyway.. > > > > > @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > > > I'm also not sure what you mean by there aren't 'class gears' since there's 3 armor classes which I think is enough > > I speak about armor that take as a theme a class, like the weaver armors, the druid armors etc... in others mmo like ffxiv to take a game i play there is a lot of themed armors related to class... that why there is less people using flashy gears since they can find gears that suit their characters and their class. It's not the same for gw2, if you want to make a fashion for a weaver you only have a few gears that will fit the class, it's all personal flavor after all, i found one that i like (not to old school but not too over the top, a thing that fit well the weaver asthetic). > > > > I like colorful armors (not shiny just colorful) with a exotic models, i often go for the color scheme of the class (so my weaver is flaming dark red (in the style of my profile picture) with gears that make her look like a agile swordman) or my druid who is muscular norne carrying the team in raids (lol) my mesmer who like a purple demon (for lack of word it's fit more than the description rip) But when i can't do that i just make them look nice even if it's not class related. > > > > As for infusion, some of my character have them but never more than 1 (or 2 in the past for one my of char)) because it's still go well with some fashion (only a few infusion i don't like the infusion that change your skins .....). > > But the cash shop items ARE prestigious. They show you have money to throw at digital hats for a fictional character in a fictional world. I agree on the class armor front. THAT'S what they should be adding. What happened to kekai and their beautiful designs? Really ? i play 1-2 hours by day not even farming, only playing what i like and can still do 1 legendary item every 1-1. month and buying cash items with gold conversion. How is that prestigious.. And don't worry even if the next shiny will be really easy to get people will still use it...

> @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > Really the biggest mistake they made I'd say is adding glowy kitten AND making it the most prestigious things in the game) Believe me even if the shiny item were not the most prestigious items most of people will still use them since it's what the majority of people prefer, you can already see that with all the shiny of the cash shop that are not prestigious at all but most of people use them anyway.. > @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > I'm also not sure what you mean by there aren't 'class gears' since there's 3 armor classes which I think is enough I speak about armor that take as a theme a class, like the weaver armors, the druid armors etc... in others mmo like ffxiv to take a game i play there is a lot of themed armors related to class... that why there is less people using flashy gears since they can find gears that suit their characters and their class. It's not the same for gw2, if you want to make a fashion for a weaver you only have a few gears that will fit the class, it's all personal flavor after all, i found one that i like (not to old school but not too over the top, a thing that fit well the weaver asthetic). I like colorful armors (not shiny just colorful) with a exotic models, i often go for the color scheme of the class (so my weaver is flaming dark red (in the style of my profile picture) with gears that make her look like a agile swordman) or my druid who is muscular norne carrying the team in raids (lol) my mesmer who like a purple demon (for lack of word it's fit more than the description rip) But when i can't do that i just make them look nice even if it's not class related. As for infusion, some of my character have them but never more than 1 (or 2 in the past for one my of char)) because it's still go well with some fashion (only a few infusion i don't like the infusion that change your skins .....).

> @"Chrysaliss.8720" said: > > @"Cleopatra.4068" said: > > Why do people think switching from DX9 to DX12 is something that even can be done? > > > > Because it has been done before by other games like WoW. > > And yes it does improve performance massively. Only using the unofficial dx12 addon increased my fps by 20% > You mean the mod that work for only a part of the community and either crash the game for others, decrease the fps or just render black void ? sorry but an halfbaked solution like what this mod do will not work for a company standard, it's really fine for a mod since you either use it or not you can still play the game without but not for the official game. There is no real way to rewrite to update ithe dx version except to redo the whole render code base, even the sader of all models if it's not modular (which is surely the case with a mmo like gw2). And all of that for what ? dx12 will not magicly fix your fps, it's just different and better for new hardware that it without speaking about all the issue that gonna happend if they update it to dx12 because a change like that will implement so many bug for years, there is so many others way to optimise game.

Asking for an option to turn the effect is fine, but complaining that it's aenet fault that everyone wear glowy out of lore shits is stupid, yes they made it but it's the player that choose to wear them not areanet, and where you can understand that some prestigious items that people will want to wear them just to show of, nowday a lot of shits that glow is not even prestigious item anymore and are easy to get, (just look at most of wings, cat ears and all others). Specialy when there way more classic skins than shining one by a large marge. Sorry but one of the problem that this gave have for "lore fashion related to your class or character" is that there is only generic gear that look nice or not. There is no class gears or things like that, which mean that if you're lucky you can find gears that fit your character's lore with a lot of testing (choose the right gears and colors) or just make a set of gears which go well with your character for you even if it's not lore related. So it's cleary just the player that want to wear what they want, you don't like it ok but everyone is entilted to wear what they want. You complain about that it's not like the old style anymore but all theses old gears and armors are still here for players that want to use them if they want. And even the flashy stuff is still in the guild wars 2 style, maybe not lore friendly yes but it's still in the cartoon paint like style of gw2.

> @"Firebeard.1746" said: > > @"Ayrilana.1396" said: > > You don't have to do what is meta. Create your own group if you don't see any to your liking in the LFG. > > > > DPS has been the go to for just about everywhere in PvE over the past 8+ years. > > > > Meta is usually always fairly narrow to a degree and has been for 8+ years. > > Usually the people in PuGs don't care, but i think it's toxic some people feel they have to lecture people on how to play, especially with fractals which has a massive overhead to climbing (ar collection + ascended gear). If i was more fragile i might quit the game mode altogether. Honestly i have run some parties with almost all supports in lower tiers because of how sparse the player base is. You have to use what's available. > > I just would like some wind knocked out of the sails of the everyone is dps meta. > > Which by the way was how i started this character but because of lack of support while climbing, i swapped it into support before i invested too much into the character. More than lecturing i think people are just annoyed when in an content that is hard compared to the others contents of the game you don't pull your weight, as long your dps is fine or your boon uptime is ok, only people that like optimisation will complain, most of class in this game can be dps in cm with no real problem but the problem is more on buffer, there is no other buffer for 5 man content than fb, the game really need new one, we only have 10 man support that are not fit for 5 man at all (without even speaking about how broken fb egide is) same for alac, why only two specialization in this game can give it ?

Just playing them is funny for me, i always found sad that the most fun content (boss fight and others) are always the minority of gameplay in mmo you do (except when you have finished the rest i guess) .... Yes i'm a mecamaniac that love evading aoe and stuff and doing meca ... too bad the openworld is mindless My favorite moment ? i guess largos, dhuum green / kiting and maybe desmina pushing

Doing a daily reset will make burn out people way too fast (i already burn out of fractals because of t4 (will not have burnout if it's was cm only), i know that they will do it even without li reward, so maybe another system than this one, like people say the first idea you get are often the worst.

Honestly, the first half before everything got fucked up with NCsoft firing people and corona where really good, better then some others living world seasons, but after the firing and the corona, they pretty much throw it away in the trash bin with the drm and just placed every hope they had in their new DLC. Some people will find it stupid as saying, just delay the extension and finish the saga correctly. Others will find it's a good choice, think what you want.

> @"lare.5129" said: > > @"Cyninja.2954" said: > > What does this suggestion have to do with the lore and possible reasoning behind why raids are harder in comparison to say story missions? > it make raid valid content some time, and people can hold vision on it and extent in in any direction. > > > Again, this topic deals with how it can be explained lore wise. > author say that impossible touch that content as lore, and feel it. So it is my vision ho to make it accelerate for lore players. > > I just say my point of view on how Aenet explained that raids were way harder in gameplay even if the entities that we fight are less dangerous and powerful than the god like entities of the main quests. Which is because we are not the commanders in raids but random veterans adventurers.

> @"TaurusZA.5493" said: > Thank you everyone for the many helpful responses. I think I probably need to change my mindset and start with a other class, so am currently levelling up another character (guardian) to 80 to use condi firebrand to do this fractal. I still can't master the condi berserker and applaud those who can - the advice "get good" or "change class" is probably right! Thanks you for listening to feedback, most of people only rant on forum and never listen.

> @"JesterX.6730" said: > > @"sokeenoppa.5384" said: > > > @"JesterX.6730" said: > > > Is it possible to find people that takes their time in Fractal and Dungeons? > > > > > > Sometimes, I just want to know the story and learn the mechanics of a fractal without being rushed. How can I find people that wants to enjoy the story? > > > > Pretty often i see dungeons parties with an lfg title "chill, watching videos" do that yourself. > > Oh, that's just great! I didn't see such group, but I'll look for them and put it in the title as suggested! Thanks if you want something for your group, like waiting for watching dialogs, cinematic, or anything (like specific behavior and others), just ask in the lfg "X content | Chill, no rush to watch cinematics and dialogs" You can ask what you want in your lfg.

> @"Morokey.8534" said: > > @"TaurusZA.5493" said: > > I only have one character that I know how to play properly - a warrior / bannerslave. I was getting really good and accumulated over 100KP in fractals, well on my way to Fractal Prodigy. > > > > Unfortunately Sunqua Peak has ruined this completely for me, to the extent that I now no longer want to play fractals. This boss requires condi DPS, and at best the condi berserker's DPS absolutely SUCKS. I have tried and tried and tried, and I can't do this fractal. No matter what. So it's either learn to play some new character from scratch or quit fractals altogether. Nowadays it's impossible to find a decent group for the other fractals, since most parties start including 100CM. I just can't do this fractal. > > > > Thank you, A-Net, for ruining my favourite part of the game. > > "and at best the condi berserker's DPS absolutely SUCKS".. Oh really ? And why am I always first with 30-31, way better than firebrands and mirages ? You can't play it well that's why it sucks for you... Just learn your skills, their cooldowns and what they EXACTLY do.. Try to use leaps in fire fields when need to move, combo finisters from longbow in fire fields etc. and you will see. And the thing why is condi needed ? Condi isn't needed.. People look for condi because they found SC's video with full squad of condi classes, that's why. It doen't matter you are condi or power.. Well to be honest power can do it to, but mirage/fb compo are better and much safer. But yea, condi is not mandatory just better if played with the same skill.

Well honestly, if it's endgame content, you should at least know how to play multiple class, it's not healty in game design wise to create 9 class that each have 2 spec with each spec that can play power and most of the time condi to (bonus for the spec that can support to like fb, thief, ele, and minus for the niche class like mirage, druid, scrapper so it's go back to even), and to let players be able to play only one build of one spec of one class. The only thing that kinda suck is to ask AR for each build, they should have make it to an account progression :/, even if i undesrtand the argument for being character only (even if more build progression than character), but it's quite boring.

> @"AoTsuki.8675" said: > Can final bosses of the hardest raids get SOME guaranteed loot? > I am so kitten tired of getting shafted by the RNG. > Imagine doing Dhuum for weeks and leaving with an exotic + token every week, this crushes my soul, I'm sorry for ranting but this is ridiculous for the level of diffculty this boss is. > Same goes for both Quadim versions. > Please just make it worth the time it takes to kill them. Funny thing, it's the same if you keep the first chair that you drop and sell the second you drop or buy with crystal. So Pro tip, buy the chair when you can buy it, and sell when you drop it/buy it again with left over crystal, for your gold it's the same, but you have your chair way faster.

> @"Astralporing.1957" said: > > @"Ayrilana.1396" said: > > > As i see it, there's nothing wrong about the _idea_ of rotations, but there's indeed quite a lot of problems with how this got implemented in GW2. > > > > > > > You need to understand what a rotation is. Practically any way that a player commonly uses their skills is a rotation. Mashing their skills is a rotation. Removing rotations is practically impossible. > Then we understand the term differently. For me, random mashing buttons is not a rotation. It is random mashing buttons. Rotation for me is having a certain sequence of skills you need to follow in the right order. The alternative would be a dynamic system, where you use skills according to the current situation and certain priorities, and have no set rotation to follow. > > > > As we already know, this in itself is a highly debatable issue, big enough to be worth a separate thread. And, again, very subjective one. For me, i will say that you are just plain wrong. Sure, tiers would not resolve _some_ issues, but they would help with others. You not caring about those other issues doesn't mean they don't exist or would not be helped by tiers. > > > > > > > The mechanics don’t really have all that much scalability. This is especially true if you only add one additional “difficulty mode”. > > > > What will happen is that players will ignore the mechanics if it’s not dangerous enough to the party. You see this during world bosses as well as the ice construct strike mission. > Like i said, you caring only about certain issues doesn't make all the others disappear. You are still thinking only in the context of progression, of easy modes being a training ground for the modes above. That's not the only (or the best) use of the tiers idea though. > Just look at FF XIV, for example. They happen to use the idea far better. > Funny thing, we have one spec that is close to that, which is mirage which don't have a rotation but a priority list (still a rotation in some way, maybe more hard to use), and it's even more obvious on largos, where your priorities complety change depending on attack pattern.

> @"LordMorgul.9845" said: > 1 - no time So player can stack heal to the infinite ? it's supposed to be the most challenging content of the game, trivalizing it is not a good idea > 2 - fix damage system to avoid rotations you can't, there will always be rotation, simply because it's the way to do the most damage, there is no way to remove them > 3 - TIERS Why not a story mode and an hard mode > 4 - Story Mode -3 > 5 - Make Anet Guides by Dev to how to do a raid, (wiki is not helpfull and is ilarius how the game got tons of specs but is closed to 3-4 setups and all guides are for elitis and speedrun not common playerbase) You can definitly find offmeta build easely nowday, even snowcrow have ton of good off meta build. > 6 - Make legy weapon and armor more powerfull or make stat encreased on mastery base like 1% = 1 mastery No powercreep, it's just trivvalize the game even more > 7 - cm still activable on choice ??? not sure to understand > 8 - for speed clear run and elitis made some record table so they proper enjoy theyrself whit weakly reward for the first 5 team some like "clear time" "damage dealt" or someting like that Cool idea. > > so those are my point list to improve raids and make those enjoinable by all kind of players, so now can we argue about those point make your pov about and make Anet fix the situation There is no way to make a endgame content for everyone, even openworld or story are not enjoyable for everyone as people that like challenge, true cooperation and so much more don't like it to, same for story or any gamemode honestly.

> @"Lurana.7506" said: > If you are not shy of learning a few additional mechanics, then I'd advice Druid. It's much asked for in PUGs and it's always good to have several Druid players in a Static/Group. It class itself is not difficult. Then you cry when you need to do mechanics on Wing 5. (and maybe KC pushing)

> @"vardeleanu.8972" said: > > @"Hannelore.8153" said: > > Busted breakbars are near-permanent in high-level instanced content like Fractals, to the point where one of the most common sigils taken for all classes does the same thing that Stormsoul does, more or less. > > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Sigil_of_Impact > > Ah yes, the 3% permanent damage increase that occasionally turns to 7%. > There's this funny thing, called Superior Sigil of Force, and to my understanding they're usually used together, but if they're not someone would rather take force than impact. Wonder why that is ? Why is 5% permanent damage better than a 3 that turns to 7% when your enemy is cc'd? > First it's more than that since ele have others multipliers from traits and others multiplier from buff (sb, food, potion, fractal god), and theses multiplier multiplie between themself which make the bonus way more than 7%. To make your second point, with a good group, (not even really good, just good), you do so much damage with this trait, that the mob don't even have time to regain his breakbar, the phase chains really rapidly. And even if he get back the breakbar, except if you're you have low damage in your group from whathever reason like, Stormsoul is always better because of theses bursts and multiplier that multiple between them. This trait make the ele the best burster and damage dealer in fractals CM, so no it's not usless at all.

Stormsoul is what make the ele good in Fractals, without it, you can say goodbye to ele in CMs, so no.... ele already got deleted from wvw, don't delete it from another gamemode, if you want to delete an usless trait, inscription and lighting rod are here for you.

> @"lare.5129" said: > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > What do me having plenty of friends who got no commander tag, have anything to do with the mmo game concept? > find one more guild, and on squad creation already have some members for who you can delegate that. I do it always. > Even with that it's just a "fix" on a broken feature that shouldn't be there at the first point, the commander should be able to recruit everyone by himself, and what happend when he is playing wiht pug ? this should be fixed

> @"lare.5129" said: > > @"Carcharoth Lucian.1378" said: > > And nobody here said raid was the only high end content (fashion wars 2 :p ). > yes, nobody said. Except person who create that topic. > > > It just don't make any sense to block this content behind AP... > I sad that we not have this block. I want to eliminate player from raid to give them chance try a lot of other content .. Becuse some people do raid, close wings, and think for unknow reason that they complete that game. > > > But YOU can use it for your lfg ^^ > I use KP, not Legendary Insight > Skillwise in pve, there is not other content that oppose raid, so yea a player "completed" the game if his goal was to complete the hardest pve challenge, if he want more challenge, i guess spvp is a good start. And yes AP don't worth anything, farming ap is not realy skills and don't ask for knowledge of the game or understanding of your class. The hardest legendary to get are the Spvp, WvW and Raid one anyway because it's ask for the same component as the openworld but also ask for skill play in their gamemode. BTw there is not a lot of HL contents, there is raid, sPVP, wvw, fractals, and maybe strike (i don't know it'sb ordeline fullfil the HL definition)

The problem like other people say is that it's will just make the event even less played and people that come for collection will be not enough to complete anymore and will only make the problem bigger. And i don't know why you said that, but i never had any problem finding dragon stand group honestly (no more than 1, and it's not 100% time of the day), but i can do do it often for my legendary armors or my collections.

> @"lare.5129" said: > As for me raid should not give pass is not have some values achiv > for example 5k - win 1 open > 10k - wing 2 also open also > ..... > sad that any who **realy want** can start raid per one week after account creation. > > I have completed the story, do every raid every week, CM+ t4 every day, have multiple legendary, but don't even have 10k (i don't do daily). That why AP suck and mean nothing.