You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If Anet releases new content in the form of professions, crafting, regions, etc. people will bitch that they should have been working on fixing the bugs that have existed since well before launch instead of coming up with new content. I'm in no way defending them as they have certainly done things that left me scratching my head but I've been sitting here trying to think of what a proper route for them would be in order to invigorate more life into the game?
I don't know what you're looking for. He said they'll have a detailed summary up "within the next couple of weeks."
You can't zerg the dungeons, but they're so gimmicky it's more annoying than anything. The tank-heal-dps paradigm is much better than what they made.I just picked this up over the holidays. Tried a few professions - my highest at the moment is 26. My biggest pet peeve is the total zerg-nature of the group events. One example is the krait blood witch in Kessex Hills. People just zerg, die, rez, zerg, die, rez until the mob is dead. There is no strategy, no tactics, no teamwork... just zerg, zerg, zerg. This is not fun gameplay to me. Hopefully, the dungeons when I get to 30+ will be better. One can dream
PVE really isn't the games strong point (Fractals aren't awful but that is about it) . In the end they really fucked up what could of been a good thing by the way they implemented the events. First and foremost, events tend to spawn only when there is significant population. So now that the population has more in common with the over world of a Metro game many of the events simply will not trigger. Add to that they decided to make the events only show if you are painfully close to them on your map and it makes for a frustrating experience should you miss them. The way they handled it just feels like amateur hour and in the end people just pharmed a handful of FOTM events for the bulk of their leveling. Most of which are devoid of anything interesting.I just picked this up over the holidays. Tried a few professions - my highest at the moment is 26. My biggest pet peeve is the total zerg-nature of the group events. One example is the krait blood witch in Kessex Hills. People just zerg, die, rez, zerg, die, rez until the mob is dead. There is no strategy, no tactics, no teamwork... just zerg, zerg, zerg. This is not fun gameplay to me. Hopefully, the dungeons when I get to 30+ will be better. One can dream
That's funny. Yet they sat on their nuts for months and months and months while bots basically fucked the economy.
If there are any events that require a certain amount of people to be around, I don't think there are many. Like I said before, I've been running around various zones to work on world completion, and I haven't really seen any shortage of events. That's the nice thing about the events scaling - some scale downwards as well as up.
I'd say "painfully close" is a slight exaggeration. Yes, you need to be near them, but does that not make sense? I wouldn't want to see an event pop up half a zone away and have it be completed before I can get there. Also, there are a great deal of events that have NPCs associated with them that will notify you of a dynamic event. So, if you're selling in a camp, you might have a Quaggan run up and ask you for help in a nearby lake, and talking to him will place the event on your map.
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Fractals were not bad, but other than that they haven't done anything with new content and WvW has been keeping the game rolling but who knows how much longer. For a free game the pace of content isn't terrible. I'm not saying I expected anything more because I really didn't. I know they made bank on the cash shop and box sales and really that is all they give a shit about until the next expansion.
Events out there? Sure. However as someone that was trying to level a warrior during off time in PVE there aren't nearly enough to get you levels anything like what it was at release (unless you grind the circuits which noobs won't know anything about). They also are super slow to repeat unless you find the sweet spot hub and you can grind out the same event chain every 15 minutes. Assuming the noob doing it knows that it will repeat or not since most of them don't work that way. So while the centaur circuit will repeat the chains over and over assuming they can find it and the next chain in the event, most of the rest of the world is worthless and empty. That event you finished might not be up again for another 2 hours or if you hit the one of the VERY few hot spots maybe 10 minutes. They could of done a much better job with this.
That's more or less the point. This isn't WoW. They aren't trying to toss down breadcrumbs and hold your hand. They want to you run around andexploreand look for things, which is why there are so many events, puzzles, challenges, and chests hidden well off the beaten path. Hearts, if I recall, were a compromise to at least point people in a general direction and get them to move around the zone rather than sitting on a few events and waiting for them to repeat.
I understand that and I'm fine with it. Frankly I don't believe they give a fuck about exploration because their game is tuned for you to sit at an event chain for a couple hours grinding the same events out over and over for 10 levels and then move to the next area that repeats like that. Most of the world is just about worthless leveling wise besides those events and its completely unbalanced. Those chest are also just about worthless since they contain 99% of the time the same vendor trash you got 100x over again and with rares being dirt cheap on the AH playing loot roulette on mob drops are worthless, level 80 areas excluded of course.
If you just do the hearts in each zone of your race then you get more than enough xp to level. You don't even have to do the storyline or travel to other races zones. There is absolutely no need to camp a single event. Putting the events on the map is a good idea though.
The problem with chests and such is that Arenanet is so afraid of "grinding" that they depend on the RNGwaytoo much, but they don't do so in any meaningful way. It's not, "I have a 15% chance at this staff I really want!" but that you can basically get any weapon/armor from a chest and the only thing to hope for is that it is orange. And it's not even like those orange items are terribly rewarding in themselves since they're mostly generic. It's not like someone is going to run up to you and ask where you got those really cool looking boots, because they all look the same.