Is Hard Mode destoying my current achievements ?

I like the idea of Hard Mode. It will give players chance to do lot of stuff they did before once again.

The thing that worries me is decrease in dificulty in Normal Mode. I think it is very unfair to older PvE players.

This difficulty decrease will cheapen titles achieved so far. I don't talk only about Protector titles. Of course theese are affected the most (anyone who ever swear at Thunderhead Keep or Gate of Madness know what I mean).

It will also affect the GMC title. Especially GMC of Tyria (since you had to explore during missions).

I don't know yet if it will work in all the areas or only during missions. If it works everywher then all my GMC titles can go to hell. It wasn't only about going with one arm scrapped and bruised by the nearest wall. Sometimes it required fighting through lot of enemies (Sothern SPeaks).

Also it will cause more players to do "chest runs" as they were easier in high content areas. This affects Wisdom and Trasure Hunter titles.

Since there is lot of players who are only PvP oriented, I will give you a comparision: It is like introducing fame points in Random Arenas.

I wich I could be more articulate, because I can't even describe how disapointed I am.

Maybe it is time to start playing other games, where loyal players are rewarded instead of robbed.

To me, it doesn't sound like they're making it too terribly easier.
We'll have to wait to see the list of everything they changed, but I don't think it'll be that big of a deal.

if you think that the hard mode will cheapen your current titles then just let the update go un-noticed, for the rest of us it will be something fun and challanging to do.

Seriously fun things to do>vanity any day of the week

damn i am sick of this shit.its hard enough in torment to do quest, i dont need this crap to be 3 times as hard.

Then... don't play hard mode O.o

I don't understand. How does it cheapen the cartographer title?

If I got it correctly, it goes like this: Everything will stay as it is, but if you want, you can make things harder for yourself.

^Read what I quoted from Gaile in the second post.

Ohhh...

Time to get me a cartographer title!!!

Smart people wait until opportunity presents itself.

Aye, From what Gaile says it sounds to me as though they're removing some of the "Just to piss you off..." factor a lot of mobs have like the monks continually kiting. They're GOING to die in the end...and by kiting they're just delaying the inevitable. Normal mode will just have some of the annoyance factor removed while hard mode will be more interesting and challenging. Least that's what it sounds like to me.

I have to agree i would guess and say there going to return gw to similar to how it was before eg. with less AoE evasion on normal mode, while keeping it in for Hard mode etc. which i actually think will make it much more fun, This will make the game easier for new players you can play through the normal game like before with only a few changes that will make enemys less annoying at times such as Gailes mentioned AoE explosions on Afflicted that cause problems for Melee chars etc. I look forward to Hard mode, and the fun it will bring including more xp and gold for me yey its about time tryia got some better money making methods like the other campaigns rather than farming

What's wrong with people? No matter what ANet change, some people will always find a reason to whine about it. Even if ANet improve something or fix an obvious flaw, often by popular demand, some people will still complain about it, asking for some kind of refund for all the "hard work" they had to put into dealing with the problem until it was "nerfed". I'm so sick of this.

they do NOT decrease difficulty in normal mode

they will alter death explosions of the afflicted creatures and fix the crazy mofo endless running away thing from area of effect spells

You just hit the nail on the head there, all this whining... Can't people just play the game and be done with it?

Well the adjustments to the mob scatter should help those of us that like a small farm now again

Ha! Give them a hard mode and they will ask for an easy mode. Half full or half empty? Enough is never enough for some people.

I shall attempt to explain your query with the picture below:



Welcome to MMOs .... in general.

__________________________________
Trolls: Our posts will block out the sun.
Mods: We shall ban you in the shade.

will 55hp monks be seen farming elona reach & the troll cave outside droks again in normal mode since they're changing the mobs' behaviour to AoE?

mobs won't stand in aoe and do nothing but anet wil adjust their AI or someting I guess, plz stop the omg we will all die posts

Oh my !!!!

This made me larrf out loud and everyone in my office is now giving me funny looks.


edit - I had to come back to look at this again - I can really hear the voices of the characters saying it as well.

Im laughing again.

You really should post that on every thread!