dace.8019

I think that they're always working on the engine and performance, and lawd, the game needs that and more. I'd expect the expansion will contain plenty of performance work, which may or may not be countered completely by new content and features. A big part of the problem is that ANet cater to huge zerg events and metas, because people like those (which is great and all) but those are the places that the game becomes a ridiculous migraine slide show. You'd think that performance might be higher up the list of priorities given their fervor for such events and how, as good as they sometimes are, show the game in the worst light possible. Which makes me think we're pretty much at peak performance for what this game can handle without substantial rebuild or something new. And that degree of effort (read: cost) is _almost_ certainly reserved for sequels.

When you complete Tarir and people proceed to the looting below and the 2 mobs. One of them always does an attack with a long wind up, a red circle that fills up beneath every player that has aggro'd him. Watch how many people out of the zerg are downed by this. It's easily upwards of 90%. It's like a 3...2...1...dodge/block! And they still fail it. Some of them have been killing this guy for years. The average player in this game (or at least in its OW) is a zero effort casual in a zerg of people who is relying on the sheer weight of numbers and the few who understand any extra mechanics/defiance/whatever to carry them. Thanks to this carrying, they do not need to learn, so they do not learn, and when those who actually do know how to do events/etc aren't there to essentially do them for them (or lead them), they will fail.

> @"nopinopa.4861" said: >Taimi is getting in our mind more often and effectively. Taimi corruption confirmed.

Normally I'd try to see past ArenaNet's creative process and commit to seeing the content for what it is but I struggle to do that with this one. It just seems like a time saver!

To the people having repeated disconnections in story instances: Are you in the UK and using Virgin Media? If so, this is an ongoing problem. It might be down to the security settings in the VM Hub (the router/modem device). You don't get any disconnects generally but in GW2 you get disconnects but only in story instances. You might get some success logging into the VM Hub (via the local IP 192.168.0.1), going to the security settings and disabling "IP Flood Detection". This deals with DDoS style attacks and for most virtually all users is a non-issue, and can be re-enabled at any time if needed.

> @"melandru.3876" said > > useless for you, because it excludes you most likely > You couldn't be more wrong in that. I've run them to death. They're useless because of the amount of dead weight that we need to carry that can meet these requirements. How many guilds carry people through Raids and help them fulfil their legendary farms? A whole bunch. And those people, even if they've done this content lots, still don't understand basic GW2 gameplay let alone high-level fractals/CMs. So because they're so poor at weeding out the weak players, and so many good players haven't got these requirements, we started advertising more openly, only requesting experienced. Guess what? It's basicaly the same. Except we fill the party in 1 minute instead of 15+.

The problem is the useless "250 KP" in the LFG ads. The answer is simple. MOAR STIPULASHUNZ. Advertise as "250 KP / 30,000 AP / 8 year title & GWAMM title (show both) / Pithy guild name /" feel free to pile on the exclusions until you, yourself may not participate.

I can't agree harder with the OP. The first thing I do when contemplating gem store (or any mtx) purchase is compare the value to the game itself. While almost nothing looks good in this light (which helps maintain a degree of prudence) when something looks particularly egregious I can't buy it. Like costing the same as the game or an expansion for a skin or effect. It reflects badly on the company because I wonder "Do they think I'm a sucker?" and that perception about a business asking me for money is bad for that business. And I do spend money on Gem store here and there, so ANet aren't all bad on this front but they do have some items in there that are, frankly, a rip-off.