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Old Nov 27, 2006, 12:47 AM // 00:47   #721
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power and gear effectiveness is equalized heavily in GW PVE
-- *I hope it stays this way*

Styles and looks are not

I'm not as concerned with looks and it gives people goals to pursue for rare/elusive "appearances" (hard to get armor, rare skins, etc)
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 12:50 AM // 00:50   #722
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@ Ernada and Ninna: this game always had the spirit of equality and balance since the start. It was for over a year and half like that but people had a greater gaming experience before the latest changes. Even the ones that rushed through content could keep themselves busy in between chapters. What you fail to understand is that a lot of that fun or options are taken away now or give less enjoyment.

It was fun to farm for rare golds or whatever which are no better than collector's or greens. It was a way to keep people busy, same for chestruns and whatnot.

And about the new ai, I already adjusted. Being a monk they target me all the time. I rush in first and just stay alive and my heroes are safe and will kill them in no time, target by target. It all depends on my skill. This works even in the hardest endgame places. Solo farming takes longer as most will run away and come back when they're healed up. The ai is more predictable than ever, not really an improvement imo. I'm the bait and they take it. But whatever, going for PKM now as the loot sux anyway.

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Old Nov 27, 2006, 12:53 AM // 00:53   #723
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i didnt read the entire 37 pages, tbh i only read the first post, but just to respond to that:

I have finished the game 3 times, (paragon, necro and warrior) im about 80% with my monk and elementalist, and about halfway with my dervish. You're right, it isnt as much fun as the first time, especially since i can almost talk all the cutscenes with the characters, i know nearly everything they are going to say... but its still fun! im just going to finish the game with my last 3 characters, and hopefully by then the elite mission(s) are ready! i cant wait for it . Untill then i'll just keep playing and perhaps a little green farming (got nearly 30 Chor's Axes, 30 other greens) so i'll be fine till then :P

by the way, i do not know if you own the other two chapters (prophecies and factions), but you might consider playing those chapters again, but this time with a dervish or paragon!
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 12:58 AM // 00:58   #724
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@ Ernada and Ninna: this game always had the spirit of equality and balance since the start. It was for over a year and half like that but people had a greater gaming experience before the latest changes. Even the ones that rushed through content could keep themselves bussy in between chapters. What you fail to understand is that a lot of that fun or options are taken away now or give less enjoyment.

It was fun to farm for rare golds or whatever which are no better than collector's or greens. It was a way to keep people busy, same for chestruns and whatnot.

And about the new ai, I already adjusted. Being a monk they target me all the time. I rush in first and just stay alive and my heroes are safe and will kill them in no time, target by target. It all depends on my skill. This works even in the hardest endgame places. Solo farming takes longer as most will run away and come back when they're healed up. The ai is more predictable than ever, not really an improvement imo. But whatever, going for PKM now as the loot sux anyway.
/agree

i was saving for my incorrigable alehound title (im at around 65% now) but ill never have enough money now the farming (or the easiest/best farming) is nerfed to bits i was also saving for FoW armor, but i can totally forget it... i loved farming or finding a different build to farm with . I really spent a lot of time in farming, and i got a lot back

there are still things we can enjoy ourselves with till the next chapters comes out (replaying old chapters, replaying nightfall, elite missions, pvp) but i really loved farming since i could buy things that made me "special"
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 01:27 AM // 01:27   #725
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The fact is, that a lot of the fun things people like to do in game. Cost money, which you can't make fast enough, to consider those fun things..fun anymore. So there is no reason to play this game.

What we are asking for is, for Anet to simply fix that and it will hurt no one and keep a lot of people who were bored, happy.

I'm still playing it, I have 10 PvE characters, and I'm working on getting them through NF slowly. I rushed my tank through it and well that was a good idea for the most part..it's always fun being first or at least 1 of the first.

Competition is what this game is about, but equal competition. To bad there is no such thing. There is always someone better, always someone who can beat you, that's not equal at all. Some person has 5 sets of FoW, another has 10. Some person has Koabd..another has PKM. Some person has r5 chest, another has the max tier. You can't win no matter what you want to do and that's what a lot of people strive to do, especially in PvP. The difference there is that, skill and or friends. If you have 5 friends who are good, you don't need to be usually, you can get carried along and get rank. I'm sure that's happened a lot in the past.

So this game is a Competitive game, with equality only in the skills/character and weapons to some extent. Nothing else.

Anyways I"m around 5000 hours of game time, I'm not bored yet. If I am I go sit in Grotto or play a different game and come back just fine. Yet I don't like reptitiveness so, after a while this game will become that. I don't want to stop it, I want Anet to do the little they have to, to make it great for a long while again. It's totally possible and it will not hurt any of you guys who are siding with them.
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 02:40 AM // 02:40   #726
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Competition is what this game is about, but equal competition. To bad there is no such thing. There is always someone better, always someone who can beat you, that's not equal at all. Some person has 5 sets of FoW, another has 10. Some person has Koabd..another has PKM. Some person has r5 chest, another has max tier.

How can you assume someone with 5 sets of FoW is worse than someone with 10?
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 02:49 AM // 02:49   #727
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I want my trollsies back!!!

(Sucks thumb in the corner of my mind)

This thread hits me hard...
Just makes me think how bad the next thing is gonna get nerfed... then the next.. Just wondering where anerf is going after the SECOND AoE nerf...
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 02:55 AM // 02:55   #728
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How can you assume someone with 5 sets of FoW is worse than someone with 10?
I didn't say they were worse, and what I meant was, the guy trying to compete armor wise with 5 sets of FoW will lose to the person that has 10 sets of it. Which is a case in Guild Wars as I do know some people compete armors. Now they might think they are better cause they have 5 sets or 8 sets or something. But skills wise in game that might not be true. So the person with 10 sets is better armor wise, than the person with 5. That's what I was trying to get across, the only equality in this game is caps (level, armor caps etc)and their availability and skills available.

Regardless this is kind of off topic and has nothing to do with being bored as competitive equality will always be there.

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Old Nov 27, 2006, 10:38 AM // 10:38   #729
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The fact is, that a lot of the fun things people like to do in game. Cost money, which you can't make fast enough, to consider those fun things..fun anymore. So there is no reason to play this game.

What we are asking for is, for Anet to simply fix that and it will hurt no one and keep a lot of people who were bored, happy.

I'm still playing it, I have 10 PvE characters, and I'm working on getting them through NF slowly. I rushed my tank through it and well that was a good idea for the most part..it's always fun being first or at least 1 of the first.

Competition is what this game is about, but equal competition. To bad there is no such thing. There is always someone better, always someone who can beat you, that's not equal at all. Some person has 5 sets of FoW, another has 10. Some person has Koabd..another has PKM. Some person has r5 chest, another has the max tier. You can't win no matter what you want to do and that's what a lot of people strive to do, especially in PvP. The difference there is that, skill and or friends. If you have 5 friends who are good, you don't need to be usually, you can get carried along and get rank. I'm sure that's happened a lot in the past.

So this game is a Competitive game, with equality only in the skills/character and weapons to some extent. Nothing else.

Anyways I"m around 5000 hours of game time, I'm not bored yet. If I am I go sit in Grotto or play a different game and come back just fine. Yet I don't like reptitiveness so, after a while this game will become that. I don't want to stop it, I want Anet to do the little they have to, to make it great for a long while again. It's totally possible and it will not hurt any of you guys who are siding with them.
Competetive? Since when? I mustve missed the notice, but thats ok, because Ive never really felt I was "competing".

That sounds alot like real life. Always someone better, someone always has more something than you... If you have friends who are good(at a job for example), they can carry you(till youre better). Youll have to just deal with it, preferably in a constructive manner, as you seem to be doing now.

You have to consider that "One mans pleasure is anothers poison".
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 01:59 PM // 13:59   #730
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Some of you people play these games too fast...

You rush through all of the beautiful content, finish the game, and then get bored.

There is no solution a company could make for people like this. No matter how much content they include, you will rush it and then find yourselves with little to do..
I agree.

And about auction house, I've heard a million times that would come. But I think that is rumours. Anyway, what Anet should do, is to make something like the system FlyFF (Fly for Fun) has. I've seen my friend play it, and its really awesome: You set up a small shop, with 24 slots. You fill them with the items you want to sell, and set the price on them. When a buyer come to your shop, he can only buy with the price you made yourself. It's a chat there so people can leave a comment too. After you have written the shop text, you can go afk while people are coming to your shop to buy. A text will appear over your head.
I don't mean that Anet should copy Flyff, but something like this should be made, but also keeping the old trade.



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Old Nov 27, 2006, 02:46 PM // 14:46   #731
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[QUOTE=Zedd Kun]I agree.

And about auction house, I've heard a million times that would come. But I think that is rumours. Anyway, what Anet should do, is to make something like the system FlyFF (Fly for Fun) has. I've seen my friend play it, and its really awesome: You set up a small shop, with 24 slots. You fill them with the items you want to sell, and set the price on them. When a buyer come to your shop, he can only buy with the price you made yourself. It's a chat there so people can leave a comment too. After you have written the shop text, you can go afk while people are coming to your shop to buy. A text will appear over your head.
I don't mean that Anet should copy Flyff, but something like this should be made, but also keeping the old trade.



Holy crap thats an awsome idea, I could see that working in GW for sure. They need to make an auction house followed buy custom merchants for selling your stuff. That would be great. Although might get hard with constant nerfs, people wont have anything to sell
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 03:36 PM // 15:36   #732
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FlyFF!!! but even that game has people shouting to sell their wares in the global chat
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 03:44 PM // 15:44   #733
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Not much. Atleast 90% less than GW.. ><
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12   #734
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Hmmm why do people say we rush through the game? I play about 3 hours per day, and now I completed nightfall with 3 characters, and with 2 of them I did every quest I could find.

Why do I beat the game so fast? Cause there's NOTHING else to do except questing/missioning.

In Prophecies/Factions, I used to chest run, farm a bit, buy some stuff, explore, work on titles, and then a quest/mission. There was alot to do and there wasn't a single moment i was bored.

Now, every second I'm playing Guild Wars I'm doing a quest or a mission. The number of Quests and missions in the game is limited, and with heroes that pwn everything, it's not a problem to do them.

Besides, what was the friggin problem with farming in the first place? It wouldn't hurt anyone if it was possible again. Heck stuff would even become cheaper again, and people wouldn't be as bored. Also, the game would seem longer cause there's SOOOOO much more stuff to do (chest run/working on titles/farming in Elona)
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 06:55 PM // 18:55   #735
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ROFL! It looks like a pink version of GW!

and yes, an auction house is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue in GW.

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Old Nov 27, 2006, 07:01 PM // 19:01   #736
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Why do I beat the game so fast? Cause there's NOTHING else to do except questing/missioning.
Did you buy some strange kind of 'budget' version that I never heard of before?

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In Prophecies/Factions, I used to chest run,
There are chests in Nightfall. I've opened about 300 so far. Quality seems down but I'm still making a marginal profit.

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farm a bit,
What's stopping you in Nightfall? I've made about a quarter of a million off greens so far.

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buy some stuff,
Nightfall disabled your trading interface? File a bug report.

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explore,
Yes... what's stopping you?

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work on titles,
Nightfall has more chapter specific PvE titles than any other chapter!

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and then a quest/mission. There was alot to do and there wasn't a single moment i was bored.
And all those things you seem to be missing are actually present in Nightfall as well. So what's the problem?

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Now, every second I'm playing Guild Wars I'm doing a quest or a mission.
Why? For the love of god, why?

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The number of Quests and missions in the game is limited, and with heroes that pwn everything, it's not a problem to do them.
Of course they are limited, they are limited in every chapter.

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Besides, what was the friggin problem with farming in the first place? It wouldn't hurt anyone if it was possible again.
It is possible.

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Heck stuff would even become cheaper again, and people wouldn't be as bored.
I don't think anything at all could fix these kind of baseless boredom issues. You're bored because you somehow believe things that are there aren't? Nothing short of psychiatric help will fix that. No offense, but nothing you've posted makes any sense at all. None whatsoever. It looks like the ranting of someone who heard of the game yet never played it.
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 07:11 PM // 19:11   #737
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-Sure there are chests in Nightfall, but I don;t have gold to buy keys
-Farming is impossible, greens are nearly worth nothing nowadays and farming with Wurms or Djinns just isnt worth it.
-Buying stuff is impossible cause I have no gold
-exploring is rather boring now cause of the sucky AI
-Most titles are gold-based, so I cant get them. As for the non-gold based - I already have these.


I'm playing missions/quests cause there's nothing else to do. Sure, I can farm greens/Djinns for a 'smashing' 5K per hour, but that just isnt worth it.

So don't say farming is possible unless you actually farmed stuff like Trolls/Shiro'Ken/Snake Dance cause that stuff is actually worth it.

Before nightfall came out, I farmed about 30K a day, and spent 25K on stuff like titles, chests, titles, skills etc.

Now I get about 1K a day, and I spend 2K a day. I'm losing money.
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 07:20 PM // 19:20   #738
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So what you're really saying is, you haven't adjusted to the changes yet?

I'm really inclined not to believe you're only making 1k a day, unless you're not really trying. I easily make more than that per casual walkabout with a group of heroes/henchies. And an hour or 2 of Exuro farming costs me nothing and lands me anywhere between 15k and 100k, depending on his generosity. The rare scrolls he drops alone add up quite nicely. There's other easy greens but I prefer Exuro since I get LB points for it as well. Great huh? Making gold and working on a title at the same time. You gotta love Nightfall.
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So what you're really saying is, you haven't adjusted to the changes yet?

I'm really inclined not to believe you're only making 1k a day, unless you're not really trying. I easily make more than that per casual walkabout with a group of heroes/henchies. And an hour or 2 of Exuro farming costs me nothing and lands me anywhere between 15k and 100k, depending on his generosity. The rare scrolls he drops alone add up quite nicely. There's other easy greens but I prefer Exuro since I get LB points for it as well. Great huh? Making gold and working on a title at the same time. You gotta love Nightfall.

Except that I already have the best Lightbringer Title... And when farming trolls, I always killed the boss, and 3 rare scrolls dropped for me in total - of over a 500 runs. Besides rare scrolls are only worth 400 gold? And Greens rarely drop. And I don't have the time to sell a green with the sucky marketing system in GW.

I can't even remember when I last sold an item to a real player with succes.

Back when farming was still possible, I made 800 gold per run (which cost me about 2 minutes). Or when I had time, 50K worth of Materials when I farmed Snake Dance (2 superior salvage kits completely used, got about 500 iron in the end).

That doesn't compare with:

1: farming for 1 single item (takes a long time, since i am VERY unlucky when it comes to drops)

2: Actually selling it for a reasonable price (takes a long time as well)

Besides, it's only a matter of time before the green weapons in NF start dropping in price. Farming greens is just impossible to do for me - since I only have 3 hours per day.
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Old Nov 27, 2006, 07:35 PM // 19:35   #740
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Ok, I can't argue when you're saying farming has become much slower, but that doesn't mean all the other things you mentioned a few posts ago don't exist at all. That was my point.

Farming greens is somewhat boring and subject to the luck of the draw, but I'm usually chatting away over guildchat while I do it and that makes it bearable. I'm usually doing pretty well when it comes to green drops and I can sell them in a minute because I sell them a few k under the rate of the day.

I do that because I HATE the trading system with a passion and the less time spent with it the better. So we do agree on some things.
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