tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post2609441235457354773..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Fasten Your Seatbelts: GW2Bhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-21389291503498645652015-10-22T22:23:18.221+01:002015-10-22T22:23:18.221+01:00Yes, I imagine it will vary a lot, both by Command...Yes, I imagine it will vary a lot, both by Commander and by server. I would expect most of our regular commanders to use it though. Guess we'll soon find out!Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-53502052931963261062015-10-22T20:36:27.087+01:002015-10-22T20:36:27.087+01:00While Im a little nervous about some of the chang...While Im a little nervous about some of the changes to Wvw ,the squad issue is not one of them. One of the commanders I follow wont even get on TS most of the time, I cant see him worrying about squads. While I can see it becoming a nice tool, I dont foresee it become a required system for pugs currently, unless your commanders are a lot more strict then ours are.I think ours are just happy to have people on tag. <br />Abbygale13Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440670518026631971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-42617336971726727432015-10-21T20:29:19.743+01:002015-10-21T20:29:19.743+01:00The real key to defense is having a core of obsess...The real key to defense is having a core of obsessive individuals who think a fun way to spend five hours is to sit in a tower refreshing siege and staring at the map. There have been times when Yak's Bend has had someone doing that in every tower on our home borderland all day long, with roaming scouts checking the camps and spawns as well. That way it's hard for anything short of a 15-strong small zerg to get siege up and a gate down before word is passed and a defense team arrives. Also, with every tower and keep properly sieged up with superior quality siege engines correctly placed to cover all the entry points and usual approaches its possible for two or three people to take offensive siege down faster than it gets built. <br /><br />That's how it was in the glory days. One of the unexpected and disappointing side-effects of going to Tier 1 has been a significant reduction in YB's defensive play. We still do the massive multi-hour keep defenses but the days of taking other people's keeps, sieging them up and holding them for a day or more seem to have passed. Not sure if that's a change of policy, a lack of capacity or just that the whole tier is so far in the doldrums now that no-one really cares. I hope HoT really shakes things up - it's pretty much bound to I think.<br /><br />I should do a post sometime about how the whole approach to WvW changed over the years, at least on Yak's Bend. I can very clearly remember the long, slow process as commanders learned how to place siege effectively, where to put it, what to use, how to "throw" it so it was harder for enemies to target and so on. How scouting and guarding became codified. How routines were established for the "tapping" of siege. All the changing trends and fashions from door trebs and laurel portals to Omegas holding the ring. <br /><br />How much will survive the coming wholesale re-writing of the rules remains to be seen. I'm looking forward to watching a whole new set of behaviors develop. Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-69449900180287188512015-10-21T15:07:56.311+01:002015-10-21T15:07:56.311+01:00About Economy : the economy is really buyer orient...About Economy : the economy is really buyer oriented : the price are as low as possible which is the good position for the casual gamer. Luxury object are higher priced, so people can dream of them - and rich player show them ;-)<br /><br />As a casual gamer I love the economy of GW2 : I do not have to mess deeply with it to have most of its benefit (= selling and buying at a correct price). I can understand that for those who love to 'play' the economy an efficient one is not very fun.<br /><br />About Raid : Booh !<br /><br />About WvW : in my server nobody was ever defending, and the few times I tried, the 3 defender has always been killed after having been ignored by the crowd of attackers at the gate. I know (with envy) that on your server the defender were there and defending, and my understanding is that they are trying to bring this fun to the rest of us. We will see if this will work !<br /><br />PS : It's too late now, but I would have been very interested by a tutorial on how to defend as a small group (or individual) in WvW. Any tips ? Ettesiunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12910627709133317584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-59680006059766395432015-10-21T06:17:03.900+01:002015-10-21T06:17:03.900+01:00Yup, yup, yup and hells yup.
--7'yYup, yup, yup and hells yup.<br /><br />--7'yAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-15459980383440917692015-10-20T09:20:32.344+01:002015-10-20T09:20:32.344+01:00I think there's some law that says no MMO can ...I think there's some law that says no MMO can ever go more than 18 months without a full skill revamp.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-33379706643404965842015-10-20T09:18:44.585+01:002015-10-20T09:18:44.585+01:00I can't see how non-HoT players are going to p...I can't see how non-HoT players are going to prosper in WvW for exactly that reason. I imagine there will be a new hierarchy of denial: no uplevels, no-one who doesn't have HoT, no-one who won't join a Squad. Of course there's little anyone, Commander or not, can do to prevent people turning up and playing if they don't conform to the standard so at least there's that.<br /><br />If there's one good thing that might come out of the WvW changes it's a shake-up of the established order. I was right behind the push for T1 (not everyone was) but I never wanted to stay there. Just to say we'd made it, you know? Playing the same two servers every week month after month is just soul-sapping. Fingers crossed the changes break the status quo somehow. <br /><br />The EQ2 expansion just looks better with every new reveal. The new options for xp gained at level cap look excellent. I'm going to pre-order this morning.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-62828921895170701462015-10-20T09:02:46.283+01:002015-10-20T09:02:46.283+01:00The action camera allows you to turn the game into...The action camera allows you to turn the game into the exact kind of game I try to avoid so it's no draw for me...but I do like the way they've been able to add it in on top of the existing control system so players get to make the choice. There are several MMOs I'd play a lot more if they retro-fitted a tab-target/hotbar UI on top of their action set-up.<br /><br />Otherwise I'm largely where you are. I see the expansion as "better than nothing" and not much more than that. It's going to be more work than play as far as I can see. <br /><br />It's a sharp contrast with the upcoming EQ2 expansion which has me quite fired up, not just over the new mechanics, which as 7rsly says should add a lot to playing at the level cap, but especially over the new lands and how they fit into the lore. Can't wait to explore an ancient dwarven city we'd all thought lost to time and save it from an existential threat. Fighting frogs in a jungle really doesn't cut it compared to that.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-27473625006070549032015-10-20T02:49:55.862+01:002015-10-20T02:49:55.862+01:00I've taken a couple days off myself. I'm m...I've taken a couple days off myself. I'm mostly expecting chaos and things breaking left and right, but I have that sort of crusty cynical mind protecting my soft squishy emotional insides.<br /><br />There are things I'm looking forward to with the expansion - action combat camera, minion changes, overall new content and progressing storyline; things that sorta sound interesting, even though they'll take 'work' to grind or learn them - masteries, guild halls, legendary precursor quests, new legendaries, even *ulp* raids...<br /><br />...but I'm oddly feeling very immune to expansion hype right now. There's no 'dreams' to me being sold, if you'll excuse the weirdly put turn of phrase. It's like some people buy a new car and imagine themselves gliding along the highway with shiny glossy paint and think 'freedom' and 'speed', and here I'm seeing the car loan and road tax and time/effort of maintenance alongside and feeling just a bit over-grounded in reality.Jeromaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02206083433625986970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-23117228941647773392015-10-20T02:31:21.106+01:002015-10-20T02:31:21.106+01:00...Meanwhile, there's entirely too much going ......Meanwhile, there's entirely too much going on over in Norrath, still. Dem bunnies! Helms! Explosions! <br /><br />TLE! Nostalgia woo-hoo!...<br /><br />Yeah, all that, yeah yeah right right. Today: EQ2's version of "infusions". Well, they <i>did</i> say they were revamping the deity system. The bit I like is having other things on which to spend XP, especially when you're max'd. So far, I haven't been likewise impressed with Anet's solution to that.<br /><br />Anywho, my curiosity extends about as far as the Borderlands post-HoT without having bought in. Offhand, doesn't the Elite system suggest otherwise well equipped players are more likely to end up as rally bots? hmmm...<br /><br />-- 7rlsy<br />AB, Stormhold, and BG<br />"Welcome to the stagnancy that is Tier 1 (until further notice)."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-15561782208229251262015-10-20T02:23:08.949+01:002015-10-20T02:23:08.949+01:00You're in good company, basically. I have been...You're in good company, basically. I <i>have</i> been playing but... plenty of "meh" to go 'round. Nope, I'm not buying the expac either...<br /><br />-- 7rlsyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-35178841183701483302015-10-19T21:31:36.489+01:002015-10-19T21:31:36.489+01:00I haven't played for a couple of months (logge...I haven't played for a couple of months (logged in a few times to grab rewards). Sadly there were nothing in Heart of Thorns which sounded interesting to me. Combine that with the fact that last time I logged in, it appeared that they had completely redone the skill system for no apparent reason. I can't be bothered figuring that out, so enthusiasm is at an all-time low.<br />Carson 63000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10900682924502279486noreply@blogger.com