A Huge MMO enjoyer. Generally I am playing at least 2 MMOs at the same time and rotate between them often. Even though I usually play GW2 mostly, I will often be playing WOW, BDO, FF14, ESO etc on or off stream. Join me on Twitch and hang out with me!
I would say so, if you want more survivability you can change a few traits to boost that but keep a glassy build. And then adjust weapons however you want to play... Like the 1v1 I would stay relatively similar but ZvZ I would go staff and axe/warhorn for range DPS and AoE fear
im a old player of gw2 got all the dlc. but i still can't decide witch spec to play or stay core.. for open world. i do mostly open world content. and play mostly dagger pistol and double pistol i like to have mobility i like to have the bonus of trickery. but if i go daredevil. either i loose the bonus for more damage or get trick to feel almost the same as core damage but a litle bit better ( and i don't really like staff.. either spam skill 2 and main skill is boring. don't know if dagger with daredevil is good or not for open world. but again problem stay i lost the ini and boff of trick. feel like steal feel pointless without the buff i try deadeye double pistol. it's good .. but getting boring to spam unload all day
A little bit but still strong, but power chrono is hitting a little harder so more elite players play it but I feel more comfortable on this because I'm not as good as them 😅
Was so happy when I finnaly got ledgendary weapons I know u got them at what lv 40 or something but I also tried to Smith my ass off too. I hope I can get back into my account when I finnaly find my computer
Honestly for dungeons something that would go a very long way with extremely minimal dev resources is to just buff the rewards to be competitive with fractals, on a once per day basis. And then maybe have a "dungeon of the day" that is competitive with a t4 fractal in terms of rewards. From what I've gathered in all my time playing, there's two reasons people don't play dungeons, and it's not because they're not fun. People just don't seem them as worth the time spent, so they don't do them in favor of other content that does reward them well, and then the other people that don't run dungeons is those that want to, but find it impossible to find groups. Fix the first issue, and you also fix the second.
id legitimately cream my pants for some new dungeons, honestly dungeons were so unique, i mean their going back to raids but the issue with raids for me is the community for raids feels so gate keepy, i like how ff14 handles more dungeons an raids where it funnels players into them or at the very least allows you to take your own premade npc squads
Great video but I’m having trouble getting cry of the chorus to reset my anthems to get two up initially . It just doesn’t want to do it . Am I doing something wrong ?
Logged in my minstrel after a long time. I'm playing around with the skills, and I am either missing something, or they've changed things so that you can no longer do all the anthems before the fight and then switch to heals?
1. I kind of see where you're coming from with introducing Fractals early on. However, i do see the current dungeons at this point as the entry level to the 5-man content. While not perfect, they do meet the requirements as a tutorial. They've been made easier to access thankfully through LA outside of the aerodrome, and i appreciate Anet for releasing dungeon rush to pull people in temporarily. 2. This i totally agree. More UI options are good. They've only dine minor changes, but yeah this a sound one. 3. I think they nail this often throughout many segments of the game. For this expac, they missed the mark, but thus is more of a hit or miss thing in general. They do a goid job often enough and seen good set pieces in the past. 4. To an extent, Outfits kind of do the job to make yourself look good while leveling. Its hides your equipment and makes you look pretty badass. However i do get the idea of just wanting to have your own persistent combination at all times. Kind of like the Prism system in FF14, which honestly would be nice. 5. We call this Low Intensity builds. Many people in the community have created guides to make those kinds of builds. Its a matter of searching them or asking others. 6. This is a given. Guild Systems nowadays are a bit lackluster and does need a refresh. 7. They've kind of created solutions for that: Wizard's Vault weekly objectives, and Rush Events. Many players flock to older content when these events arrive or rotate. 8. I like your spirit with this idea, but im not quite sure what Anet could pull off to get people intrigued. Technically with the expacs system, they do launch quarterly/seasonal updates now. Its a part of a strategy to release more content more often which i appreciate. Im glad they've learned from SotO their strengths and weaknesses now, so i hope JaW is an improvement. 9. This I 100% agree. More emotes or improvements to the system. Hell, i want a GPose style system for photo mode, like in FF14. 10. Yeah about that... XD
Get rid of transmutation charges they're archaic, add other ways of earning Mount skins than gem store and black lion chest. I agree UI customization would be good, I mean GW1 literally had it before WoW did.
Two important things for me : 1 - Reworking and updating old content and systems. Make the old stuff feel like it's new and corrected (cause there are definitely things that are... poorly done, or unfinished). This is a crucial part of long term video games imo and arenanet almost never does that, which is pretty bad ! Also unify and simplify some needlessly complex stuff. 2 - Actually it could just be a sub category of part one, but I think that part needs a special attention, even if the two actually have to be done together. Completely redo the new player experience, the early game and leveling. Just erase what has been done for the steam release, its just super bad and doesnt help for anything in any way (excepet getting xp faster which is not even needed, especially not for a new player). Give proper tutorials to systems and gameplay. Use the whole free to play part of the game to introduce players to the rest of the game. They need players to actually learn via active tutorials and gameplay how the game works in general, and then be introduced to strikes, masteries, and things like that. Those two things actually include so much stuff it would be hard to sumarize everything here. This should be a big project taken by a whole dedicated team.
Interesting video, i like it. Especialy Nr. 7., i have enjoyed so much in Retourne to Achievement, before EoD come out. That wos one of the best contents i expirienced. Its personal and Group, so good. Thanx
Gonna be real, I got tired of logging in every day spending time cleaning the bags of my bags of my bags. Literally not what I want to do most the time, specially when trying to pound out story. I also hate that some missions are still sucky long and I don’t have time for them all in one sit and I don’t know the length of them until I try. So I quit. 😢
Inventory management actually gets really easy and fast (seconds) when you learn the shtick, but the game of course never teaches you. I can't blame you for hating the randomly long story missions though, that does suck a lot when you're going in blind.
I think it'd be nice if they keep the story modes of the dungeons and get rid of explorables, rework them into fractals, completely get rid of the dungeon tokens and add the dungeon vendors into the fractals with fractal currency. The "easy mode" builds are called "low intensity" builds, I recommend to look that up for some very easy builds. (some are literally only auto attack and deal nearly 30k damage) I think the guild reward thing is kinda difficult to do because you can join 6 guilds. Might be overwhelming for people if they gotta do those guild missions for rewards in all 6 guilds. i think it's fine if the guild is just a social gathering kinda thing. Plus, with the WvW rework the guilds gain another function aside from the missions, guildhall and social aspect. Instead I'd want them to rework the guild vendors, put some skins or loot in there that's actually worth going for with the guild tokens you get from completing guild missions. Also gotta get those missions reworked because some of them are really tedious and just simply bad. force people to do WvW missions in groups of 3 but base the WvW pairing on servers, gotta be a joke, I'm so happy it's gonna be based on the guild you're in starting friday next week xD Other than those I agree on everything else, great video ^^ Btw did you know they got a Sims4 dev to do the housing? I hope if whatever comes out of it is better than what we have with the guildhall customization they also rework that with the same tech.
As a gw2 player who still does dungeons daily.....how dare you suggest they delete dungeons. What I would love to see is turn story truly into story. Make it a single-player instance. Explorable, don't touch them, leave them exactly as they are, but give dungeon tokens state selectable exotics through the vendor. Finally turn all the dungeon story bosses into lvl80 strike missions that also count towards dungeon frequenter.
@@jesseliddelow6409 that's fair, but what would change if you were able to run the exact same explorable dungeon (maybe a bit more streamlined to fit all the explorable stories into one path) as a fractal instead? It'd be a similar experience imo and we'd get some usage out of these beautiful instances, instead of letting them collect dust. Completely agree to make the story modes a single-player instance so new players can experience the story when it's relevant and keep it untouched otherwise. I'd also agree on having those exotics be stat selectable. Saves a lot of space on the vendors as well. They should also get rid of the requirement to complete the explorable paths of a dungeon six times before you can buy all of the armor pieces of that dungeon, ascalon is pretty much the only dungeon being run more frequently atm, because it's the easiest/fastest to do... It's just a content type barely anyone touches anymore even though it's so good, so I want people to interact more with it. Even if it means turning them into fractals.
Ah…. I see you are a “Mostly/exclusively” human player…… I myself am a “Mostly/exclusively” Charr player….. Your fashion is better, but my lore is better ;)
I literally forgot one of the major points I been thinking about for the last few months! They should definitely put mastery points that you can buy from the Astral Vault! That way people that are missing 1 or 2 mastery's can get them from there if they want!
I actually disagree with this point. I think having the Mastery Points locked behind an achievement or locked behind terrain puzzles in open world is great because it gets the player to interact specifically with that content. 🤷🏼♂️ Just my opinion 🤷🏼♂️
@@joshuaherring9674 I agree to big part, achievement hunting and doing deeds is a big part of the game but I think giving the players who prefer not doing so much of that content the option to drop like 500 Astral into avoiding doing a deed, allows player to play the game the way they want to.
There is a problem in our world for some time... catering to the absolut masses... and trying to please everyone only works to a certain point... You step over that line and you dig your own grave because it is not how any society ... not the society of a country nor and subgroup like gamers work... In the end you will loose more people to their disapointement then you gain... My estimate would be at least half... half of the player base is what anet would loose to putting MPs in the vault
in pvp i went to conquest in na with a free acc, now. in eu and from beta of gw2 , i main warr. and in eu i play SB. so when i made a free one in NA i had to use vanila warr, so i played him as i play sb macehammer cc build.. i broke ppls nerves... 5 games i finished with 0 deaths.... i took the same build. next day ( cause when i played in NA , it was really late in EU , and wanted to sleep) so next day afternoon , i did the same one in EU. they broke me in half. I could not do shit with it. So i think and believe that over all in Pvp Eu has more try hard , more skill if u will, and more passion for breaking each others skulls.
I'm definitely going to get back into pvp, want to play a mesmer build. Not 100% sure if we get the new weapon combos but I'll try shield dagger or scepter build... been thinking of it a lot
Been MMO'ing for ages and raiding in some great guilds in different games over the years. GW2 raiding has never got me excited and maybe thats being older now, but i sometimes get nostalgic and have got involved only back out again. My last raid experience on EU = Sign up with training guild. Sign up to raid as healer (Chrono FTW). Pre watch videos a few times. Turn up on time and have comms working. Raid gathers. Them "dude can you go dps". Me "OK, but im much better on SB as dps". Them "we dont like SB in raids, just stay as you are". Get going, my dps is mid / ok. Them "dude, your dps is low - you got to do 10k better next time". Me "I was supposed to be the healer" 😇 Everyone is nice, but raiding brings out weird behaviours in people e.g. In peak litch king wow raiding caused spectacular & very public guild disintegrations. GW2 raiding isn't that - people are GW2 chill :D. But its also not something you have to do at all to have fun
Funny cuz reading this when I got to SB, I was like Spell Breaker and Soul Beast absolutely rock in dps.... most of the time when people get too defensive on builds its cuz they average themselves... But atleast with gw2 there's so much content, raiding is probably less than 2% of player base, so I hope you've found a good line of content to enjoy
GW2 raiding just falls into content that I end up not doing, rather than something core to the game or something I feel excluded from. It's 2% of the player base because it's not essential to anything else, whereas most other end game content / currencies interlink e.g. legendary weapons Something to think about.... If Anet had made Lego weapons need x250 currency only obtained by killing raid bosses for say Gift of the Mists - the raid scene would be core and much more healthy than today
@@dixieflatline1189 Hmmm but raiding has legendary armor and a legendary ring you could work for! Before Soto you had to either do PvP/WvW or raid to get a legendary armor. I have to say I never raided so far but when that will happen I will probably only do it until I have one set and the ring.
It's funny, like 4 people were recording the run and no one posted it in the end... I think with t4 and t5 clears so quickly after, they got over the t3 footage
For me it was grind and the hard focus on end game. My enjoyment came from doing the new maps, exploring and doing achies. But the achies became way to grindy for me and the new mini expansion is not something i like. I have not bought this one, but i bet its very grindy to pad out time. My enjoyment was just downward spiral since IBS,.I usually return at new expansion or episode but i skipped this one.
Sorry this took so long for me to get back to, the traits are the same but the is "Reaper Ready", what I mean by this is that the gear and crit is balanced so it won't need to be changed when you unlock reaper, the reaper traits are 213 if you want to replace "Curses" line with that and you will be a full Reaper
I do wish that when i as a 80 level character go to a zone that is between 1 and 25 or 25 to 40 level or whatever i feel overpowered. I hate going to a zone that is level 10 to 25 and feeling like im at that level with the health drop and dps drop
They do that primarily so lower level players in those areas can join up with max level and still have fun. It would ruin the experience for many players if say 1 or a few max level players could show up to a map event and completely solo. Even still if you have the right build and good gear most enemies in the lower areas will die really fast.
@EpsilonKnight2 they do die fast but it would be fun to do and do events solo. Let's be real there aren't that many new players. You go to a low level zone it's mostly max level character and a few low level character peppered in. Most people this days that are playing been playing for some time and new players if they buy any expansion use the boost to get to 80. So I don't think it will have much of a effect on the game to let us feel powerful in low level zones.
@@artemhaight9791 I agree it would be nice if it was possible to have some kind of way to implement that but in the open maps it would be pretty disruptive. A fun thing they could do would be an option to unscale instanced content like dungeons and story content. Most content in the game is designed for max level anyways so it wouldn't be a big change. I also agree they could at least make legendary equipment 1 tier stronger than ascended JUST to make it feel extra nice and leave it at that.
There are 3 barrow dungeons that start at I think level 15, not 100% sure. And I'm ngl there are very few people leveling. So generally you'll probably find some level 150 who'll just run through and 1 shot everything
I play on EU and I have absolutly no issue with maps feeling empty. There are still HP trains happening on HoT maps pretty much every evening for example. You can definitly notice a diffremce in time of day though. The maps are much more pupolated in the afternoon and evening.
I think all of the points about GW2 for the most part are wrong. I enjoy the game for the very reasons you claimed as negatives, most of them anyway. I think people are quitting because this expansion just isn't good so far. I have hardly played at all since this expansion came out. It just doesn't compare to previous expansions, not even close.
Horizontal progression is amazing in so many ways but at the end of the day the end game needs some life pumped into it. Its unfortunate. I dont miss the gear treadmill but once you have completed the full horizontal progression there really is a void, a worse one than other popular MMOs.
I played a loooooooot before expansion came out( I had all legendaries and 12 alts with maxxed out agony for fractals), like month later Heart of Thorns dropped me and all my friends dropped the game. All the content we were doing was changed so much that it was no longer enjoyable or profitable like speedrunning dungeons and fractals being just bulletsponge
