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reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5clutz/please_nerf_tarir/

Discuss. Are there better ways to make farming fun? Should it even be fun?

Keep Tarir the same but make other options more appealing by giving them more unique loot options (rare skins etc) and reliable gold income.

Farming shouldn't be fun. Although I do think that daily one time bonus rewards hurt playability. At reset the game is brimming with worthwhile content but as I play it dwindles until I'm forcing myself to do Teq because the daily fractals are all terrible with PUGs. After that if I want to play more I can either make progress at a snails pace, grind tarir, or grind sw.

They really need to do something to make things rewarding more than once per day. I'd gladly take a nerf to daily one time bonus rewards if they buffed the regular rewards and got rid of diminishing rewards. They could also revive dead content by letting you convert currencies to other currencies in some way, maybe something like the ley-energy matter converter, or by bring newer items to older content as rewards.

>nerf Tarir
>add proper gold rewards for finishing raids

>once a week
>farming

>Guild Wars 2 pre-release: Game won't be about grind!
>Guild Wars 2 post-release: Game is literally all about grind!

>reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5clutz/please_nerf_tarir/

I think Anet is on to something with the way the LWS3 maps work: give people content that can be grinded-out, but reward in currency that can be used to get ascended stuff. With the way the meta shifts occasionally and all the alts that the really bored people make, giving them a way to work towards gearing their characters while not undermining the economy might be a good compromise.

I don't know what would be the best way to implement this--maybe repeatable dailies (like in EB) that reward a currency that could be spent on ascended mats from a map vendor. Important thing is to give people something that they can do every day that makes them feel like they're progressing towards some clearly defined goal (ie. crafting an ascended set).

Or maybe it doesn't have to be ascended stuff, just T6 mats; just make sure it's something useful for endgame that can be gotten once per day, if the player puts in the time.

Nah man, it's only what you want it to be. You can also live without Tarir grinding and have fun with the game. If you want to make gold you can also run Verdand Brink and open boxes, run the new map Amber Bay, run the molten factory fractal a few times, or play what ever and get moderately rewarded.

>5% content
>adding rewards

RP is the only potentially good renewable content in GW2.

Did somebody say guild missions?

>Nah man, it's only what you want it to be
>Proceeds to give me a list of things I would have to grind with an illusion of choice

Yeah nah.

>6:48 am on a sunday
>Guild Missions


You what?

Did someone say 'femcharr' ?

lots of qties, this is a nice picture user

Sssh, only tournaments now.

yes...

Only futadottirs now

>FUN is too shit to do a tournament
just kill me...

Honestly, I don't know at this point. Arenanet brought this by fucking up their game from all the beginning. Players should not be able to open the chests if they did not participate in the event (alts go the same way), and players should not be able to open the same chest in multiple instances of the same map on any map not only AB. Because it makes no fucking sense at all. But it's been like this since the release of this game, so it's purely retarded development fault here and not the playerbase.

And nerfing AB will resolve the main issue. People grind AB because legendary crafting is shit and ascended crafting is shit.

Btw, I'm surprised that reddit cucks are crying over AB, but it was totally fine for them to run in circles in labyrinth for 2 weeks straight for 5-6 hours a day on their guardians. Like grind in lab was good and high quality game design, but Tarir grind is meh - it's ruining economy and should be nerfed to the ground.

This will take a while

Fool, nobody is forcing you to grind but yourself.
The list I gave you are just an example of what's profitable and not mandatory to have fun.

>not crafting one of each time gated ascended mat a day

Why are you crafting an ascended weapon at all? You could go for a legendary or save the money and buy skins from the gem store.

I'm getting ascended on all classes. You profit from crafting ascended mats and selling them. I don't like any of the legendary skins. I don't like any of the gem store skins. Most of the skins in this game are over designed and don't match anything else that's in the game.

Anyone for power meta tryharding daily t4 fractals?

There's good individual pieces from gem store skins, like the Aether series.

fluffy

i stopped playing after the second map for living story 3 got released. i probably haven't missed much right?

Nah.

is playing gw2 akin to self-harm at this point?
I can't imagine the mindset of a cutter being that much different than a gw2 player

The entire design of the game forces me to grind. There's nothing else to do but grind. You either grind achievements, grind pvp, grind meta events or literally do nothing.

There's nothing worthwhile to do in this game but grind

Will this build work for fractals also?
metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_Staff_DPS_(R)

Yes! But try to fit certain traits and slotted skills to accomodate the situation. D/Wh is also better than staff in numerous occasions, and switching the warhorn for a focus can help in situations where more projectile defense is required.

You're implying I have other ascended weapons besides my staff... :^(
I'm poor.

>Vae copying florburz outfit
baka

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>tfw too intelligent for FHDs

too disgusting*
fify

Well, you could ask someone to lend you money, user. Or just make do with staff for now, because when it's the inferior option it's not that much worse.

Actually most trying to compensate a lack of something at themselves with a toon.

how do you live with the clipping of the hair on the goggles?

Generic mouse face: Check
Generic bun hair: Check
Bland color scheme : Check
Goggles clipping through hair : Check

what did he mean by this?

>race known for outstanding intelligence

It appears my superiority has caused some controversy.

best race and gender for thief?

Norn male

Seriously take the fucking goggles off so we can see how ugly your slider job is.

femcharr

I feel like Im on /b/ and nigger tries to argue about his "superiority" refering black porn videos as only "real" source.

i feel like gw2 has only gone downhill since HoT was released

Yup, it has.

balance wise: yes
comunity wise: no

Faggot always been faggots, no matter what addon we are running currently.

>I'm a new/returning player, how do I join the Veeky Forums guild?

NA [DORF]: Tarnished Coast, whisper Edarkness, Reignofpain, Unwarrior Chicken
NA [HOPE]: Tarnished Coast, whisper Master Ruseman, Awena, Valsi, Meyer The Shark, Surbrus Mindfang, Apothecary Beatus, Ancora Softpaw, Oren Nil
NA [SS]: Fort Aspenwood, whisper Jakey Gyllenhaal, Ayo Girl Cmere, or Double A E D
EU [FUN]: Seafarer's Rest, whisper Farfelu, Aktium, Nalynea, Mo Zing Miko, Togo Hornblower or Kealdrix
NA+EU [USA]: Fort Aspenwood+Seaferer's Rest, whisper Squatfu, Buzz Spankleaf, Togo Hornblower, Vuncia, Kerolastic
EU [Here]: Tarnished Coast, whisper Surbrus Mindfang, Ancora Softpaw, Vae The Spectre, Roxtar

-Guilds are cross-server, and the only real reason to choose the server above is if you want to be on the same WvWvW team.
-You can also send a mail asking to be in the guild, if nobody is online

Or, leave your name and server here so someone can check this post and invite you
Don't Join [FUN] or [HOPE]

Those are troll guilds made to trick members away from joining the real above official guilds.

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basic floose

put the goggles back on

Love it when raid fags think the team should dedicate more power to their niche content that isn't seen by the majority of their player base.

All they do is bitch about nerfs to their precious mirror meta that hasn't changed for the most part, only swaps out 1-2 pieces with class tweaks.

Well no matter what people will tell you, you will insist on the grind aspect. I would say maybe the game is not for you, but you will apply the grind shit on every game you touch. So the thing which is wrong is your attitude to games in the end.
My cousin was the same.

sylvari gardener pretending to be a topiary so he can spook passerbys

Its almost like they wanted to be a modern MMO but then tried to also adhere to design principals from gw1.

Fucking up both in the process. we do not get better gear after exotic. Ascended is nice, but its only 5%, no vertical progress, so we get skins. Skins are horizontal, cosmetic, meaningless but otherwise checkbox goals to do. Horizontal progression means everything is going to be a grind to ensure we keep playing.

Every map since living story 2 has been a reskin. Introduce new currency, add some difficult tasks to 100% the new content, ensure new content requires weeks of repeating the same behavior. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Without the increase in power, it makes it feel very unrewarding to the average player. Because once again, they get all the modern MMO signals, and then get told "lolno" at the "endgame".

how fluffy is his you know what?

I agree with the other user: it's about mentality. You can play PvP, for instance, because you find it fun and on top of that get some bonuses, or you can play PvP only because you want to grind a skin, a rank, a reward, etc.

>copy pasting reddit links because you're incapable of creating your own discussion
this place really needs to die already

Totally agree with this user. There are a lot of reasons to do content--I'm currently crafting Bifrost, and I need the Gift of Zhaitan, but I hate doing the Lost City of Arah so I'm doing the WvW reward track instead. I prefer to do WvW in this case, because I find it more fun than grinding dungeons, even if the dungeon route would theoretically be faster; and I'm not about to do content I don't like just for the grind of it if a more preferable option exists.

going to try this game out. from what I can tell warrior is probably the easiest profession. how boring does it get? if warrior is far too boring can someone recommend me a relatively easy but still fun profession?

Fuck me, everyone uses the same mousey face and the same long, weirdly modeled ears. WHY?!

because it's a cute face and people want to be cute

Because they don't want to have an ugly fat face like you.

When we're all cute, none of us are cute.

It really depends on what you enjoy, user. Warrior is a solid, easy-to-grasp class that has a lot to offer in group play. Whether or not it gets boring is a matter of debate, but I will say that depending on how much you want to play to the metagame, there are at least a couple of different styles of play with warrior--switching it up occasionally can be refreshing.

A class that I started with early and I found fun is Guardian: it has decent damage and good survivability. The thing I really enjoyed--and continue to enjoy--is the counterplay and support built into the class. With things like blocks, blinds, group condition cleanse, and reflects, it forces you to think tactically and to know the encounters to best deploy your defenses and support other players.

You're just jealous of my big beautiful body.

in just PVE content you can do mostly what you want. There is a learning curve to gw2, its shallow but can be punishing if you get complacent.

Warrior is easy to pick up and play, and has a high enough skill ceiling to be fun and challenging to master.

Viable in all modes and a staple in the current meta for fractals and raids.

The fun thing, see painful for solo, about the meta build is that it sacrifices personal dps to bolster everyone else around them. To absurd levels, so much so that the individual dps loss is microscopic vs the group dps gain by focusing on the phalanx strength builds.

tl;dr: its good, play what you like the look of in this game, nothing is too hard to master.

Literal chimps play mesmer. And thats a pain in the ass class to micromanage.

Guys, I've been away for a year. What's the meta?

metabattle.com

Thief still shit?

It's not that thief is bad in raids/fractals.
It's just that there are better options. Thief doesn't contribute anything but DPS and it can't even do that better than others.

In pvp it's the same as it has always been. Avoid fights, +1, decap.

Alright, is Ele one of the better options?

Ele is tops deeps right now.
Have to get good at a few rotations to pull it off but it isn't anything mindblowing and any retard can do it.
If you're into pvp, ele is strictly a bunker/support class.

play whatever you want, no one cares. Not even in raids. My group has been clearing them just as easily with non meta comps and any class can get you to legendary in pvp if you still want to play that.

There's only 2 active guilds, HOPE and FUN in the OP.Please don't troll new players with that bloated list, that info is almost completely false or misleading, and I see you are now trying to convince people that it's not.

But as others pointed out in many threads before this, you contradict yourself by posting FUN and HOPE, that's just one example. It's pretty obvious you're trolling, but it's gotten old.

>copy pasting reddit links
It's one link.

>because you're incapable of creating your own discussion
It's common for Veeky Forums to generate discussion off of what other people are talking about or doing, I made it my own by opening up the topic here.

>this place really needs to die already
Dramatic. I cringed.

You should stop posting. Thanks.

hey, I'm gonna try this game, is it well optimized or is it like TERA where you could have a monster build and still get shit fps?

No matter your computer, you won't get 60 frames in this game when other people are around or lots of things are happening on screen.

I am retarded and so are you

I am a femcharr and so are you

Big ears are a status symbol.

A face like yours hardly has any variation to it, all the Asura of that type look 100% the same.

Come and sit with me senpai.

youtube.com/watch?v=4_Kxmslwcko

>Literal chimps play mesmer. And thats a pain in the ass class to micromanage.

Yeah but it shows too, or at least it used to show. The difference between a great chrono and a chimp or even an average chrono was 100% quickness on 9~ players.

Now that you only need to keep it up on 4 the difference between good and shit chronos is less obvious.

i can see lani's panties

lani and calsi are the cutest asura pairing

fuck off calsi

I like the charr in the back. They're not hunched over in that pose.

Faetherinne is best waifu

Warmaster forgal is best mentor.

>You could have gone on LS1, LS2, and LS3 adventures with your order mentor
>ArenaNet writing stopped this

hunched charr are the fucking worst, they look so cool when standing up straight.