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Dipping A Toe Into the Game's First Raid (And Having It Bit Off) - Guild Wars 2 Column
SBFord
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Dipping A Toe Into the Game's First Raid (And Having It Bit Off) - Guild Wars 2 Column
What's in a name? Well, when your name is “Gorseval the Multifarious,” chances are that you're not a kind and cuddly teddy bear. Instead, you're something of a cross between a mutated tree and bloodthirsty zombie, which makes you the perfect candidate for a major boss fight in the first wing of Guild Wars 2's first raid.
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I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
I don't hate much, but I hate Apple© with a passion. If Steve Jobs was alive, I would punch him in the face.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Lots of gating in this expansion which was never what they were known for.
Shame they are going down on their knees and are doing raids and gating.
Now more WoW players will come in and GW2 will be offering more of that content in the future instead of staying the unique game it was.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
I would never copy a single idea from any Blizzard game and why devs keep doing it is beyond me.I also cannot stand Raiding at all,i prefer 5-6 man grouping and non instanced.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Dungeons have also been seriously nerfed even if there still is a few paths that can be challenging.
"I just spent the last 20 game hours repeating the exact same thing I did in the previous 20 game hours. But look! I have a 1.9% increase in dps output against a non moving dummy! If I'm really good, I might be able to realize half of that in real game combat."
The difference between the easy to get orange gear and the red/purple is really not that much but then some guilds really don't care and demands all members must have top ranked gear anyways. Only times when it matters is in the higher level fractals and only because you needsome ascended runes on your gear to not get constant damage there.
Heck, my main still have an exotic helmet, shoulderpads and one earing... Never really bothered with filling out those because the difference is hardly noticeable. I will probably eventually but I usually have better use for my materials. As for getting the crafting level up I accidently put the Bifrost collection on the wrong character and had to level up the characters artificing from 0 to 450 (500 is max), took me less than 30 minutes but then did I have my mat storage pretty full.
They have actually changed the crafting of ascended gear so getting silk is far easier but you need more crafting mats to make them. I am not sure if the time to make them have gone up or down due to that, havn't bothered actually crafting any ascended armors or weapons since HOT came out.
GW2 is clearly more gear centric than the first game but it is still far less so than any other modern MMO I can think of.
Gw2 with expansion so far its a good 8.5/10 to me.
They made it harder, and that's what I've been begging for for 3 years.
The new zones are really challenging. It will still take a few months before more people really get good at beating the zones and meta events like Tequatl.