Syncline

Hello guys.

So I've been complaining alot lately about the grind on endgame etc, and I have been receiving lots of messages regarding Grind being optional and the easily accessible crafted Exotics.

Turns out all of this was true and I'm here to apologize to the community as a whole and to ask people to stop complaining about grind. I took the time to spend 4-5 hours today doing DEs around Orr with some CHEAP (2s each piece) magic find gear. Turns out I raised about 6 gold and could be even more if I had magic find food. I also raised about 30k karma, which almost buys one piece of fugly Orr exotic.

I am now, 12 hours after I started my intensive play test, decked in full level 80 Exotics in Dolyak Runes, and sporting also a level 80 exotic Greatsword with Accuracy Sigil. All of those were my desided stats and my just true complaint is the fugly skins. But I transmuted my HoM skins into that and solved this for now.



I only need the Trinkets set now but that is a non issue, since the +% magic find greens are still good to make some quick buck.

The grind IS THERE, I do not back off on my statement, but I do agree now that it is entirely optional. Dungeon gear is not needed, but since Dungeons are great to make Gold as well, I think the grind is lessened.

So, there it is my conclusion:

There is grind? YES.
Is it obligatory? NO.
The game kicks ass? YES
Was I stupid for complaining more than actually playing? DEFINITELY.

There, you can all bash on me now.

Have fun and regards,
Knuckledust

Spent most of my BWE3 Ogling my NORN Female ranger.....may change her slightly.....but I was "pleased" by her looks.

Enenion, on 16 August 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:

There is one DE that was heartbreaking for me in I believe Kessex hills. There is a guy who if you fail his event he will capture people and execute them. They say things like "help me! Please!" and they beg for him to not kill them. You see him execute them one by one unless you kill him. It's part of a failed event. I hated it because I couldn't kill the guy alone very sad.

MaZt, on 15 August 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:

saw this earlier on Twitter I bloody love it!

in the hood we call this

SWAG!

Guild Wars 2 straight up mocking WoW with a gravestone

....btw, the metaphor is not lost to me and making me smile non-stop.. WoW IS DEAD

cidbahamut, on 15 August 2012 - 05:47 PM, said:

Is that a Baldur's Gate screenshot?

Darkobra, on 14 August 2012 - 11:57 AM, said:

Sadly yes, and fortunately those aren't the games shooting fans run to play.

Syncline, on 14 August 2012 - 11:58 AM, said:

If GW2 had WoW's system, or just a vertical progression system then why do DEs? Why go back and do the previous dungeons?
It's not for this game thankfully.

Honestly when I reached lvl cap for SWTOR and found out that the story was done, that Bioware wasn't going to release more story content soon, and that my only chance at having fun was to hop on the gear treadmill I bolt from that game faster than Usain.

Also I enjoyed PVP, I really did...but once again I hit 50 and put into a different bracket and now I have to take my lumps in PVP to get gear. No thanks.

Player 1: OMG Player 3 u suk dumb@ss!
Player 2: Yeh retart, ur dps is rly bad
Player 3; I resurrected both of you 3 times in that fight.
Player 1: So? ur DPS is lower than ours, u suck *kicks player 3*

Syncline, on 05 August 2012 - 09:40 PM, said:

You have pointed out that ArenaNet is an honest company.  Developer integrity is HUGE when it comes to the quality of the game.

'Bads' worry about others under-performing to deflect attention from their own mistakes.  Good players focus more on themselves and wouldn't imply their greatness by implying they are elitist dicks.  Call me old fashioned. Time spent on negativity is wasted energy.

Syncline, on 26 July 2012 - 09:52 PM, said:

+1 If they really want to improve their English then this is the best way to do so.

When I first played at Comic Con I sucked so bad. And its on youtube. Now I'm leading raiders in WvWvW and holding my own in sPvP. Getting used to the game might take some time for some people. Be open to change and be willing to learn and theres a possibility you'll improve!

If that post about "sorry to break it to you, you'll suck forever if you aren't good at the start" was a person, I'd slap the snot out of it. (Upon reading further, I think they're trying to say time won't make you better if you keep doing the same things over and over...but obviously the idea is to change how you play and do it over time to develop and strengthen your skill...so that you don't suck...so yeah.)

Good luck to you, OP. You'll love the game, you'll get better at it.

Isms, on 25 July 2012 - 11:10 PM, said:

Lol your not alone. This game seems simple on the surface but there seems to be a very high skill cap. Its kind of scary and exciting at the same time. And as a fan of the original GW and someone who is tired for simpler games like WoW and TOR, I am very happy about this.

A decent pvper(or player in general) knows when they "suck" because they are able to see all the things they could do better and realize how much potential there is for them to improve.

The people who are so quick to put the OP down with comments like "its just you" are simply too bad at the game or ignorant to see that for every fight they were in, there were X number of things they could have done better to improve as a player.

Syncline, on 17 July 2012 - 09:34 AM, said:

Don't worry about your profession, you'll get a whole new set of weapon skills as with other environmental weapons we've seen already (clubs, fish, planks, rocks, etc.) - and there won't be "health" either if you were worried about being squishy - because I assume I assume you drop the keg if someone manages to tackle/kick you once.

Should be a bag full of fun and then some.

CaptainAwesome, on 13 July 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:

I don't think you get it. Legendaries don't do more damage than other rare or masterwork weapons. It's just a badass skin.