Brizna

where they went wrong was monotonous armor design, each armor type revolves too heavily around single themes
light: skirts
medium: buttcapes/overcoats
heavy: bulky legs/thighs

there are a few good sets per type and that's it. need moar pretty armor sets please!

Xephenon, on 14 April 2013 - 01:22 PM, said:

I have to strongly disagree with the quote "This is a very simple MMO".

I really hope anet decided to blow up CoF and redo it like they did AC this past patch.  All the above screens show is how unbalanced the difficulty is between dungeons and certain paths, and how the scrubs migrate to the most unbalanced one and then complain that 1 warrior not in full zerker took an extra minute out of their life.  It's ridiculous, and as ridiculous as after anet decided to allow perma-shadow form in GW1 to take over most forms of PvE farming in elite areas.

Anet drops a hammer on CoF (especially path 1), the tears are delicious, and then the mindless pugs wait a week and cry the whole time until they find the next fastest dungeon run for mindless pugs.

If the 5-man in question was something people regularly did, it might be fine. The fact that it's a story mode people do once per character and never again, as the repeatable reward is nil, is significantly more inconvenient.

I came into this thread thinking it was going to be about having random world chests that require lockpicks and/or keys to open them for good loot, like in GW1.  Which honestly I would endorse, as long as the loot scaled well and was worth the risk to get to, unlike current JP chests that are entirely worthless 99% of the time.

What is proposed in the OP I don't think adds "flavor" or another play style or really anything other than a new skill that all classes would have to buy with SP that literally has no use other than in very specific situations, that would never be on your bar other than in that specific situation because otherwise it has no use.  It would change absolutely nothing in the game other than "oh hey, there's that locked chest thing over there, lemme swap a skill real quick and go open it and get on with my life."  Basically, it would add an annoyance that most people would probably end up skipping anyways unless the reward was significantly better than anything else in the instance/world.

Honestly, making a mechanic out of this just seems like a waste of time. Originally this trap mechanic comes from tabletop RPGs (like the whole genre obviously), there every character had their own role and finding traps / picking locks was one of the things the rogue could do. Having a mage character use a "knock" type spell that opens up locked containers is another option if you don't have a rogue.
Since you have to give every profession the opportunity to do it kind of defeats the purpose. It just becomes that pointless extra hoop you have to jump through to get decent loot and we probably have more than enough of those already.

I could maybe see this kind of thing as a gimmick in a dungeon or other kind of content (like one of the players gets a thief kit and the others have to protect him while picking locks / finding traps), but as an extra mechanic it doesn't add anything imo. If everyone can do it anyway, it doesn't even add much flavour to the professions, since it just becomes another generic thing everyone does.

Alex Dimitri, on 15 February 2013 - 04:05 PM, said:

QFT.

I still don't know what they were smoking when they decided on the prices for ascended backpieces and especially the upgrades.

"Ectos should be part of the deal as well"
"How many of them?"
"What do you mean? Why a STACK of course!"

It's like they don't have other measure units but stacks for some things which is just a bit ridiculous. It's especially bad because when confronted with it in one of the AMA's they have done when everyone was raging about ascended gear to begin with - they clearly said that that "might be a bit steep".

I don't know, maybe they should let everyone work off the most important stuff on their lists  but then have like a 2 person team that just tackles the list from the rear end, because there a quite a few little stuff, that really kinda sour your gameplay experience for how dumb they are.

Serris, on 18 February 2013 - 11:21 AM, said:

Yes you really don't. Dungeons were only a small part of EoTN and yet despite being the main 'end game'and instanced content in GW2 there's only a similar level of variety. Despite this they're also still just DPS checks.

My point is that this is real content, whilst the whole leveling aspect is purely forced. In GW1 you only just started at lvl20, and to be honest it's basically the same as hitting 80 just means you can start acquiring proper gear and make a proper build. Most lvl80's still have a whole lot to learn, and the whole process is just drawn out. Frankly it's a bit patronising and a middle finger to any competent gamer.

Lordkrall, on 18 February 2013 - 01:27 PM, said:

So let me get this straight here: playing for rather limited amounts of time for two weeks and then leaving the game alone for six months and then coming back and picking up your character (which still is level 80 of course) means that you have a better idea of what you are doing than someone who is on their 9th alt but happens to be level 60 because they just started over?

Wait let me think about it for a while.







Ok, I've thought about it, and I came to the conclusion that you are wrong. Levels as an indicator of actual skill is completely meaningless. Only some sort of braindead *ing retard would consider levels a status symbol.

"Check it out, I'm level 80"
"Heeeeyy me too."
"Yeah but my levels are better than your levels"

Strawberry Nubcake, on 18 February 2013 - 09:47 AM, said:

I don't understand this at all. A level cap of 20 would have actually made it better for those people who don't "live in Orr or camp dragons" because all the other zones would have been properly adjusted for the new level cap. So the player can go to any zone without it being a complete breeze and get relevant rewards for playing.

Sandpit, on 18 February 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

By "easy" I hope you mean "it takes no skill" rather than "it takes no time".

The level cap should have been 1.

I'd play on an "every zone is upscaled to 80" server.

If 20 was max level, I'd be playing GW2 right now instead of bitching about it on the forums.

But seriously, my fondest memories of GW2 were in areas where my character was down-levelled. Playing there allowed me to just focus on the game instead of constantly looking at the level of the foes - I was in locations that I wanted to be in for as long as I wanted to be in them, rather than being stuck in certain locations because some number prevented me from being able to move forward.
And it wouldn't be just levels - it would mean less gear to worry about, it would mean faster access to dungeons, it would mean faster access to WvW, ... it would completely open up the game. And with the lack of content in it - this is exactly what the game needs.

Yes.

Leveling has always been the most boring part of GW1 and 2 and still is. No matter what they do, they cannot change the fact I don't have all my attribute points or maximum stats available before 80, so there's no point planning any build, anything looks wise or buying/crafting nice armour until you're 80, thus it's a waste of time.