What sucks is that GW2 had so much potential because of the first one and instead of building on GW1 they just said "hey let's throw GW1 out the window and blow people's minds with something really unique! Let's call it the MMO manifesto and remove the trinity and hype it up to no end".
If I hadn't already quit some of those upcoming changes definitely would've driven me to. Gold bonuses removed from dungeon bosses and implemented as per-path rewards is pretty awful. That makes omnomberry/raspberry peach bars completely useless, as well as scavenging runes (a very costly investment) and gold find infusions. It also makes income almost completely dependent on item drops rather than dungeon farming. I guess that's their solution to the CoF p1 masturbation fest rather than an actual redesign of the dungeon, but it's gonna result in a serious decrease in gold earning potential game-wide.
I also used magic find gear exclusively on my main which I put over 1,500 hours into. I had about 125% MF through gear and could get up to 200% using a 50% boost and food. There's no way they'll be matching the 200% MF power of my gear + boosts as an account-wide bonus.
Seems to be all good for me.
I don't see how omnomberry bars become useless.
And they are adding a champion chest to every champion.
Also considering they have been giving achievement chests that reward 1-2g every day, and today I got the 5000 points ches that rewards 15g and 400 gems, it doesn't seem Anet is trying to reduce the in gold earning potential game wide - just the stupid same path farm.
Cause omnoms are really only used for the 40% extra gold, and it's only a worthwhile investment on boss kills that drop 10-15 silver. It's the main source of income when dungeon running due to diminishing returns on chest drops and the path completion bonus. Trash mobs drop like 60 copper at level 80 very rarely, nobody runs gold find food on trash, and the 30% MF is terribly cost inefficient for something that requires a semi-rare ingredient and a level 400 chef. Tarts and creams are much better foods for MF boosts. I guarantee bars will tank in value once that change is implemented. And those achievement chests give 1 gold per 500 achievement points, it's only "every day" until you reach your point cap which will happen very quickly as most players are under 5K points. You could earn that 1 gold in two 8 minute CoF p1 runs.
omnomberry schmomnomberry. what about the now useless 20 laurel infusion I have on my amulet? And what is going to happen with the 20 laurel MF infusions?
I'm glad they are addressing CoF--this is really only implemented b/c of the CoF retards--but this is a stupid means of going about it. Just fix the damn dungeon path.
Glad to see Magic Find gone from gear. useless junk, worthless in group play and especially useless in dungeons (can't believe people still run it where non-MF chests are the primary drop sources), and should have never been around. Took too long, though.
crafting ascended gear? bah.
Why do people like this game? Why do they find it visually stunning--it literally has terrible resolution on its textures, and looks marginally better than Rift (which looked like WAR, which launched in 2007)?
It drives me crazy that people think this game is somehow on a level above the current generation of MMO's, which i include WoW in. I just think people are hoping for something different, and trying to justify their purchase. I wish i could justify my recent MMO purchases, but they all feel like WoW retreads, and it is getting freaking old.
I bet there will be a solution for that infusion.
Why do people like this game? Why do they find it visually stunning--it literally has terrible resolution on its textures, and looks marginally better than Rift (which looked like WAR, which launched in 2007)?
It drives me crazy that people think this game is somehow on a level above the current generation of MMO's, which i include WoW in. I just think people are hoping for something different, and trying to justify their purchase. I wish i could justify my recent MMO purchases, but they all feel like WoW retreads, and it is getting freaking old.
The Hunger Games mini-game is pretty stellar f you like attrition based gameplay. Apparently this was in one of the beta's but I believe they've radically overhauled it for this living story section. You get a chest after each round, two if you win... rounds go by very quickly. Talk to Gnashblade at the Bazaar to enter.
Vote Gnashblade!
oh awesome--I was wondering when they would bring it back. Hopefully I get to try it out a bit before I take off again.
In the Beta, it was a 3 team event and every time one of the players died, they became one of those mini hovering golems that could drop boons to support whatever surviving members remained for their team.
It was hilarious at the end, when you had one survivor on each team, swarmed by mobs of their own player golems dropping boons. I think the only type of debuff you had as a golem was a radar beacon that the surviving players could use to see where players from the other teams were holding up.
This one is staying, if I'm not mistaken.