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The opinion that the initial use of Storybricks in EQN will be primitive and crude is spot on, simple because ANY feature will get better after the developers work with it for a few years more. You cant say you expect them to deliver "year 5" quality Storybricks implementation at release because...

That's my current beef with their new team, really. they say they want to have diversity in things to do but I dont see them implementing anything that's actually new. Greater rifts are just rifts, now with more boredom because they are being streamlined into a racing event that doesnt allow for...

Yes - the reason for rotating cards out (and possibly in again) is to switch up the general play environment to keep the game interesting. That's as valid for hearthstone as it is for MTG. Although rotating cards is really step 2. Blizzard is still stuck on step 1, which is keeping the...

There's really no reason that they cannot do a release like Naxx three times per year. Alternate that with a small set of 80ish cards and you have bi-monthly releases that add up to 330ish cards per year. Now that isnt close to MTG, but I would say it's good enough. I have no idea why they...

If anyone expects something more then your wins increasing the wedge your house claims on a pie chart then they are kidding themselves or have not followed this project long enough. The part I bolded especially is something PGI would take a decade to implement at their current pace and ability.

I see they are still doing their best to make channeling spells unfun. I wonder if they realize that those numbers make people drop the spells out of their skill bar just as fast as the upfront cost they tried before.

I'm enjoying the occasional evening of stomping robots, but the cluelessness of the team and the constant delays of features that could make the game MUCH better is very annoying. I did leave last fall because I was sick of it, and for now treat like a quake arena matches, because that's all it...

My post had a subtle hint of sarcasm, yea... Putting that aside, is there any chance for some form of community warfare in 2014? Friend of mine is following this much closer then I am (fed up with PGI herpderping) and from his opinion that's a NOPE. He's expecting another round of gold mech...

They specifically said the set changes in 2.1 will be retroactive (currently the other legendary changes are not).

Maybe I missed a post but nobody claimed it was vastly different then WoW - there are several posts that state they prefer the WoW/TOR/FF14 hotbar combat style over many of the recent action-like games (Tera, GW2, Wildstar, Neverwinter). And then you jump in with "ermagawd wow is betterer". Wut?

Yea it's almost as if they dont know about world of tanks and how fitting their background lore would be for some kind of map-based faction warfare. I mean, we're coming up on 2 years since the founder offers, if they wanted something like that at the core of their game they would have added it, no?

The game is too far away from shipping to really judge that, but the ships do not have any performance advantage. Early on the ships came with automatic lifetime insurance but they stopped that offer long ago. All the millions that have rolled in since then only allow people to start out in a...

The sandstorm is a cool idea, as is the quicksand area. Would be nice if more traps and environmental hazards make a comeback. My main gripe would be that the area is too small for the initial release of the season. And that's assuming that they expand it 1-2 times per month (which isnt certain...

Nah playing at 20, 40 or 60 is similar, game pulls the usual bait'n'switch at the cap. It's just that in other games you switch from soloing quests to level to grinding dailies or pvp for tokens, and in GW2 you switch from exploring the zones to level (you skipped that, too bad) to grinding the...

It really isnt. I've been wondering how bored some folks must be considering the amount of attention this still gets. Attention of any kind mind you, from yelling I was right to going over the lame KS again to reading it for the lulz. I know there's some irony in me reading this as well, but I'm...

There are only few engaging quests/personal stories/hearts in GW2 and WoW and probably all games in between because the boring shit is easier and faster to make and the masses gobble it up. I subbed WoW in Nov/Dec'13 and went through WotLK, Cata and into MoP for the first time, and all of them...

I would have prefered any kind of matchmaking that pitches clans against IS (with a decent numbers and/or tonnage balance) instead of the current random affiliations. That supposedly wont work because the wait times would go through the roof. Given that I'm not sure they have enough players to...

Ascended gear was the result of Anet being lazy and/or dumb about the availability of exotic gear and very basic player behaviour. Again, they expected people to just frolick through their world doing events, maybe a dungeon a day and eventually get full exotic after half a year, then start on a...

Given how GW1 works I was honestly expecting more like this, with situation- or environment-specific skills playing a much larger role and also more skills being added over time, some vital and easy to get and some especially good for their niche and hard to get (speaking about PVE here). In...

For anyone that played in the Nov'12 patch, I'm hoping that exploring the new zone works similar like the event chain that established the southsun cove outposts and points of interest. Lag and overcrowding aside it was pretty cool to arrive on this basically empty island and then build an...

GW2 events are the next step up from WAR public quests imo. Before release and for the first few months they would talk about adding more events in all zones so they all repeat less often, which would drastically improve the illusion of a living world. They dropped those plans in favor of the...

WoW is just an easy comparison for most people, pretty much everyone has some knowledge of it. But like someone above said Anet could take several things from GW1 to improve GW2. That post was mostly pvp-related but I'll throw out elite skill capping and rep tracks as two longer term GW1...

Well I would not assume SoJ to get a fifth primary - I expect that they pick and choose which items get that treatment instead of letting a database search assign them. If they do the latter then yea SoJ would go from best ring to bestest ring (set needs aside). Still no change in actual items...

Ring feels locked in tight between RoRG, SoJ and Unity, Amulet has plenty of choice where I would pick the special affix over a simple stat affix. Depending on availability of course, but you have the new Hellfire one and the whole range of immunity necks. Personally I was hoping for a...

That sounds unlikely, I'm hardly finding room for 'vanilla' items with an interesting special effect because of set requirements, and in most cases those would outweight being able to pick an additional primary. Talking about Aughild 3-piece + Tal Rasha or Vyr here for my wizard, or...

It's not Jeckyl and Hyde, it just means (most) people make up their own minds on what they like or dislike instead of creating an echo chamber of positive reinforcment like most game subreddits or the closed pantheon forums. GW2 is among the best MMOs I've played, ever. It's also my top 5 for...

Not as much as we'd like. I've said it in a few replies but my impression is that they are continually short on manpower/time, which isnt that surprising if you consider they have a very tight release schedule and at the same time have to find the resources to fix the stuff they should've...

Hopefully it's Dagobah, fuck planes and tanks.

Love me some Wh40K, but their site looks a bit amateur. Has anyone followed this enough to pass a premature verdict?

That is a brilliant summary of the forum. I would express my appreciation with a picture but <<effort>>

I would have a more positive view about the grind you mention if it happened in new locations. if they want to use old areas (which I'm fine with, also love the downleveling feature) then they need to use event chains, scavenger hunt-style stuff or story steps. Grinding at the same ground spawn...

I keep seeing that comic book analogy, but that's not what they did for the last year and a half. Unless in your country the comics you buy are all confiscated and destroyed when the next issue comes out. I would love to read me some marionette fight comic right now but duh. That's a huge issue...

Cant wait to see what they cook up for the introduction to their keynotes this year. It's gotta be tough to find something that rivals the awesomeness of a 15 minute sand drawing show.

That was one of the best parts about the game they released imo, and they nearly completely dropped that approach in late 2012. The october patch still added various bits like mini dungeons, puzzles and new events to the open world, then we had southsun 1.0 (decent event with lasting...

I do not dislike the idea of bi-weekly content updates, just their implementation of it. I'm hoping they had the time to learn from it and apply those lessons, because often during season 1 it felt like they were under pressure to just get something out in time. I'm looking forward to trying out...

Is it likely to eat a nerf soon? Global xp is hard to come by without spending money. I nearly have the 15k but dont want to spend them on something that will become mediocre soon.

I doubt they are working on an expansion - they went all in with regular episodic content but dropped the ball on actually *adding* things, they just flash some new shit every other week and throw it off a cliff a few weeks later. Well they did during season 1. Season 2 seems to keep the...

You are spot on with that description. And Anet believes what they offered during the last 20ish months is actually worth as much and as attractive as the quick expansions like GW1 or EQ1 had (both felt like 6-12 months for full expansions, not sure if that's really correct), while in reality it...

Bottom right hidden between the damage and heat management info. The currrent UI is the worst I've ever seen, to the point that I run sub-optimal fits or just log out instead of refitting some stuff like modules back and forth.

It takes alot of time and practice to fold money hats, so the less important things like game quality are left behind.