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In the early story they are more for the imersion imo. Later on they don't fight much better but they will rez you up if you are in downstate. Or they give you partial usefull buffs like Kasmeer in the Caudecus fight where she is throwing time warp bubbles like candy on helloween towards you.

Mhhm 2 years ago i would have been all in for GW3. But those days.... I left EQ2 after 10 years and struggled to get invested into an mmo again take me some time till i landed here. I love GW2, sure it has it's downfalls and flaws, i got over 5k hours on the clock but i don't feel there will be any sequel or other MMO where i will get into. I'm overall someone who is more of an all in personality. But i think i'm at a point where i wouldn't dive deep into GW3, heck i don't want to leave GW2. For me it feels like this is my thing and if they turn it down i will never get into in an other mmo again.

I highly recommend doing some collection archievments. I stupidly ignore them for a long time because i saw them as a generic dumb AP grind. But there are some great skins or other stuff at the end of them. My turn around was the otter's blessing enrichment. I saw it and fell in love with it. Have still some things to do for it but i also found a lot of other cool things i want to get so i have stuff to do for years.

My problem with EoD is that i feel they abandon the whole saga thing. I feel they miss a great opportunity to rebrand the LS into this saga stuff and create a new way/schedule to release content or other stuff. I have no big expactations about EoD but if i take a look from HoT and the following up LS into PoF i feel PoF is the much weaker expac. Also the Saga is okayish for me but i don't now how or why but the LS 3+4 kept me playing way longer than any of the Icebrood stuff. I really hope they step up their game once more because i really think a expac on the actual Icebrood Saga level will harm the game big time in a way they can't even make up for it with new especs or masteries. I'm really worried about what will be left at the end when the whole going back to cantha nostalgia is fading away...

>I just strongly claim that Anet knows what is played most and you can see that in what they put their attention on it. Living World. Whether you like it or not is of course the other thing ^^. This is a real good point. I honestly think LW is the main content and people which play this content are main player base of this game. I assume those are also the players which spend the most money on the in game store. Also i recognized there are not this much heavy complains about LS overall. To me it seems ANet delivers suitable content to the main player base which is reagarded at least as okayish. Also i think LS and how it works and is concepted attracts a lot of mmo hopper and just play the new episode type of players. Those kind of players are imo not that passionated about the game than players which plays comeptetive game modes or do the high tier pve endgame content. Also i feel that the raid/high end tier fractal runners/pvp/wvw population is shrinking overall. I see more and more really dedicated people not loggin on regulary or at all. I had a really big dip on those players on my friend list about 4 months ago and it seems to continuing that more and more people i know wich are or was really invested into this game take a really long break or just left to another game. Edit: I like the LS stuff. I would even promote to get more people into LS design in hope to get a better quality out of it. ATM it feels like they mainly focusing on the next xpac and miss the opportunity the get a big hit on the rebranding from LS into the saga stuff....

>Yeah its an odd complaint for sure... you need endgame gear for endgame content and he's going into endgame content to get endgame gear, so things is to hard. Which is of course, kitten backwards. The irony is you can get bis exo armor for an power build really cheap on the TP. The amount of gold which is required is a joke if you compare the overall value of an berserker exo set to the time and activities you can use it for. Aside from T4 fractals and CM you can participate on everything even raids. Also if one is smart and use the stat search on the TP instead of the attribute name berserker one can get it even cheaper. If you go for an yolo condi build it's ridiculus cheap. I used carrion gear on my condi weaver in frac/raid pugs for almost 11 months and got away with it until i changed to berserker fresh air weaver. >I still remember when my guild first went into Arah, half equipped with rares - some being the first rushed 80's in the guild - and not knowing kitten about the dungeon, there where little to no clips on others having done it. We got our kitten handed to us for 2 hours before we gave up because the dungeon was too kitten hard. Ohh the good 'ol times ^^ I wiped there too many times. Brings back nice memorys. Was playing necro as my first toon long before the condi stacks were revamped... Buildcrafting there was very interresting also no one of my game mates had a clue what we were in for and how things work. But somehow we did it in the end.

>but of course. i have played them for 17 years now. i have 5 of them installed . and i am subbed to one of them too. sometimes to more than one i know casual when i see it, and this aint it. exo gear isnt just "handed to you" either... if it was, then i would have more , than just a few amulets. I can proof it to you. You got regulary only for login rewards. One of them is a chest with exotic gear. You can even choose the profession and for wich the chest will contain a random exotic piece of gear/wepaon. And if you don't need/like them you can spare them and put them into th mystic forge and transform them to a new one. Also you get seven times Laurels in a month so you can even buy your way up on the amulet/trinket/ring side of things into ascendet. Just from login rewards. I don't know any mmo where you can obtain gear in this quality only for login. Also if you play the story you get from Chapter 8 The forgotten Temple onwards Lvl 80 stuff as reward. All of this is exo mybe not bis stats but you will gear wise nearly completly exo amored going into hot, where you can buy your way up to good exo stuffs by only participating on story or events. In the ratio from time to gear value this even beats WOW BFA dailys where scaled up gear was literally thrown at you. Edit: Source GW2 wiki Login Rewards. Leveling and Story rewards.

>wrong, i loved core tyria. and i hate the expansions with a vengeance. last time i played was when drizzlewood was new. and when a game wants me to WORK for the fun ( that i have already paid for) , then i want a guaranteed and SIMPLE way to progress. the expansions simply cant deliver that. pretty simple, right? Don't get me wrong but maybe mmo's aren't the type of games or entertaining you are looking for. I played almost every mmo out there and GW2 is the one with the least amount of work, grind or time you need to invest to finish any pve content at all. There is literaly no need for a grind in any way. The only progression you have are the masterys wich can be obtained easily, you can even choose how to get them because there are a wide array of activitys/ways to get them so you don't need to force yourself into something you don't like. That's why i ended up here because i don't need to run some dungeons over and over again in hope to get my bis sword dropped, just to got the same sword devalueded with the next big content patch. No need for rep grinds. No need to grind for some time gated empowerments wich comes obsolete with a new expansion. You even don't need to level a new toon because the game bombardes you with tomes. Exo gear is handed to you on a silver plate. A new story chapter took me and my RP group around a maximum of 2 hours and maybe 1 more for map completion if there are points wich are meta locked. Metas don't fail even if most of the people AA all the time. Only collections tend to be time sinks but the good thing about them is you don't need anything they offer to take part in any gamemode. I personaly hate them so i dont do them. I don't even own a skyscale because i just dont like the collection. The game is designed, is whole philosophy is the simple and easy way to progress. I don't want to white knight ANet becuase they really have big downsides on their view of their game imo but the one thing they really nail perfectly is the easy way to progress because this caters towards their main audience which are casual gamers with limited time. This players brings the most money into the game. An other take on the game feels like work would be taking a step back and make a break. That's what i do if i don't have fun in Tyria. And thanks to the the game design my toons are still relevant in any type of content even after a 6 month break, like my last one. And if this dosen't help i would walk away completly. I learned this the hard way on EQ2. I play trough boring times, logged in even if i really don't want it because i thought somehow/someday the fun will coming back but it never happened. The devs just take another way and take on the game that dosen't suited me anymore.

The first story parts Traherne was pretty anoying to me. He felt bland and overley characterized/pigeon holed into the scolar/book worm arche type. But after talking to the pale tree when re recived his sword i liked him more and more he evolved pretty good. Also i really liked that he was the Leader of the Pact. I think GW2 is overdoing that we are the super world saving hero to much. I don't know in FFXIV the whole warrior of the light thing works out fine for me but here i can't get into it. It just feels arkward so many times. I cringed so hard when my Charr was forced to join the pathetic shining blade dudes.... That's why we need more Trahernes. Let them be the leading super heroes. If they grow to strong you always can let them die or take their powers away by some story relevent events! I'm on team Trahearne! Also he summoned a bunch of necro flesh golems at one time! Gives extra style points!

>But people who don't like that will just avoid these maps and maybe even the whole game. And even if here in the forum the perceived majority are the hardcore players who would prefer a Dark Souls, I strongly argue that the majority who play GW2 are the casuals. Come on that's never been said in threads like this even on some kind of subtext. That's the same level of exaggerating like saying people who wants the mobs to be tuned down wants a walking simulator. >There is always a subset of players on any forum who claim any critisism is about difficulty and try to derail any and all such threads by shouting it out as many times as it takes. It doesn't matter how many times it's pointed out that it isn't about that. It is what it is. The question also is does tuning down the range of aggroing for mobs is part of the overall difficulty skaling of the game? For me it is. Because the game gives the player plenty of mechaniks to work around this. Is it always perfect? I don't think so but mostly it works pretty well.

>Except all evidence available is that it does the opposite because there's nothing drawing large crowds to those maps. Imo the lack of interresting/rewarding map wide meta events on those maps are the main reason for lacking players overall on the PoF maps. PoF maps looks for me like kinda abandond content from a lot of players. Even at odd hours (on EU side) i always find some coms doing the same old HoT meta events over and over again. Even Dragons Stand has still a surprisingly high participation rate of players. Sure on prime time there is the standart bounty com on the PoF maps but finding players for meta events can be quite challenging. Meanwhile in HoT maps i just need to put the com tag on, list it into the group finder and you easily get between 10 players to a full squad in no time.

We need also to take the power creep into acount if we are talking about orr. I remember a time even after the nerfs to Orr where those areas were still quite deadly to some builds/classes or if you were running without condi cleans. This together with mounts has trivialized these areas even more. Same happened to the HoT areas. One could play the devils advocate and say: You see you can skip or just delete the mobs in older areas so easy, it's time to tune them up...

>why should i learn buildcrafting, if im not supposed to use it? and a TUTORIAL would prolly be handy BEFORE i made my build ..an IN GAME tutorial but its all moot >anyway, theyre only making story content...and im not gonna touch that with ten feet pole >id rather retire my pact commander, while he still has a shred of dignity left in him There is literally no buildcrafting needed for OW/Story. Just adjust. Read up the traits and what they do and choose what seems right for you. Same goes with utility skills and the weapons. Ironicly even without adjusting you can clean all areas of the game with grren gear easily as long as you know how to dodge, read the tells, clean condis, break breakbars and how to prioritize some mobs over others to kill.

Condi FB is the condi version of power FB. He also provide quickness to group. The downsides are that the DPS is often lower in premade groups because he needs some ramp up time. It shines in groups where the bosses don't fall quickly so you can get the full potential of sustained condi dps out of it. I would still prefer power Qickbrand. Power shines imo more in short trash fights and for me it's easier to play. If you are lacking a renegade/mesmer for alacraty you can also put some more diviner trinkets on for better quickness uptime. Overall if you are not sure what to take try the basic builds in some lower fractals for a few weeks to get a hang of them just get some cheap exo gear from the TP or crafting and ascendet trinkets trough the LS Maps. Then choose wahts the most fun to you. You will get the most out of a class/spec which is the most fun to play imo. Maybe a long time guardian main can give you some more insights too i don't play guardian on a daily base and in fractals i just play it if the role is in need, i'm in a pretty casual oriented guild and there we don't have an premade meta comp often.

In T4 most players know the fractals and works overall well together so i would run the standart DH DPS build if pure DPS it what you want. I would use GS as main weapon and switching between sword/scepter/focus/shield depending on what is situational more usefull. But i would suggest to run Quickbrand overall. You get easier into groups and the support you bring is pretty strong even in unorganized groups. Your best bet would be to be flexible to switch between DH pure DPS and Qickbrand.