User talk:Wild Ranger Drizzit

Rant

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Ok, I'm not sure if Im in the right place or not, but I have been waiting for linsey to log on so I can talk to her for a while now. I am not sure why the recent changes to the game have been happening, but I and many others really are not happy. I fail to understand when many people are going back to wow or moving on to aion and other games, why anet/gw would make changes to the game that only cause more people to leave. I love gw, and have played for a long time, at this point Im having trouble staying loyal to the game and thinking that gw2 will not be a game I buy. It has alway been a complaint and a frustration for many that it is hard to make money and get things done in game do to the time and ability, i.e. zrank 20,000 keys. I have seen about 15 friend leave the game in the last month, not counting the people that I enjoyed playing with over the years leave cause they just get frustrated. With gw2 coming out soon and people trying hard to get there titles done, buy armor, get weapons, and other things. why would anet/gw make game play harder and much more costly. Most people have a hard time getting enough ectos at 4 to 5k, now ectos are costing even more. It's difficult to get one character elite armor from fow for the majority of the players, now you are making it hard, more costly, and to time consuming. Why would people want to play a game in which it is to hard to build there characters up and get the things offered in the game. One goal I had early on in the game was to get my sweet title, not knowing what I was getting into I spent a lot of time farming for sweets during the holidays. It took years and hours and hours of farming, and I still had to end up buying some of the sweets in game. If a title or something is offered, why is it unreasonable to spend time getting on days offering drops to be able to reach your gaol. Why play a game that makes it next to impossible to accomplish the things offered in the game for just one character, let alone if you want to build up many charaters. Anyone can create a character that can farm, making the game fair to almost all players, so why would you take away farm runs, or easier ways to get stuff or accomplish things in the game. Many people are just throwing up there hands and quiting the game cause the costs are being driven through the roof or it's being made harder to do it by playing the game. This is a game that is suppose to be fun, people like to build up the different characters they have, they like having certain weapons, mini's, and title. What is the time and cost of getting elite armor from fow, what if you have two or three character you like and want elite armor for, what if you want those charaters to have titles, what if you want this charater to have this weapon or that? Don't you think that 500 ectos for one weapon is a lot to ask or going to force people that want them to turn to buying gold and ectos from online companyies? Keg farming was taking away, which cause less characters to being able to farm, not finding ways to make more characters able to farm. So, should I, who wants to work on my ranger, sin, derv, and necro have to move to building up an ele, tracking down all the skill, spending more gold on armor and weapons this late in the game so I can keep working on sweets, wisdom, and tresure hunter titles? Why should I or anyone play a game that is next to impossible to do or accomplish the things in the game? I love gw, but I am at the point of giving up on the game, and Im tried of making friends with people in the game only to watch them get frustrated and quit. These seem like poor choices anet and all of you are making when the game is nearing its evalution to gw2. I thought that at the 4 year changes you were starting to see that for most of the people that play with the time they have, that the game was more then a bit unfair. I'm certainly glad I didn't buy any extra character slots at this point, for why should I when I can't even get the things done with the characters I have. I'm not shocked that people have stopped playing and moved on to other things. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Wild Ranger Drizzit (talk).

Nice Brick of text. If you dont like how the game works, dont play it. These things are there to give hardcore players something to strive for. Non-Hardcore players can strive for perhaps, rank 1 or 2 wisdom, or treasure hunter. People find new ways to farm, why dont you make one, and not tell anyone about it. Then anet never finds out, and it never gets nerfed. Sonic Sunday 21:51, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Why is this on a random IP's page? Moved ~Shard 21:54, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

LOL very much. You have no clue what you are talking about. What is a hard core player? Define please, because if your a talking about hours playing or certain runs or whatever ever doesn't matter. I have been playing the game pretty much from the start, no one person can master everything in the game, and we are not talking about changing something to up the stakes. We are talking about changing the game, so that things can not be done any more. Anyone can challenge them self in creating new builds or creating new farms, that is still not the issue. I am sure that anet has other way of finding out about new farms other then in game players or from pixwiki. But, am sure, the game revolves around just you hard core player, and that there aren't other people that play the game for any number of reasons. And since you are probably the only real hard core player out there that leaves all the other players that do have some say. With all the people leaving gw, I would think that this is an important issue. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Wild Ranger Drizzit (talk).

Well, regardless of whether you think it's an important issue, to place it on some random IP talk page is not appropriate, which is why I moved it here. I personally don't have any problems getting things done on my characters. I like the added challenges that they have introduced, and eliminating speed clear farms from Elite areas is, imo, the best thing they have done for the game overall in a long time. Elite areas are Elite areas because they are suppose to be difficult, not completed in 7-8 minutes by some gimmick build. -- Wyn talk 05:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, not at all. They haven't gotten rid of speed clears, then only got rid of one of the most popular. The only thing that has happened is that it has raised the price of everything for everyone. If all you care about is ripping people off, then yeah you would be happy with the change, but for the majority of the people (people that play the game to have fun, when they can, cause the have families or school or whatever) it just cause them to stop playing or buying things in game. There are people like me that can play long hours and put in a good deal of time, but there are many more people that only can play a couple hours a few days a week or on the weekends. Is gw only to be a game for the few people that can play all the time, or should it be geared for everyone. Yeah, those very few are happy that it takes six hours to farm the weekly traveler drops cause it means that they are going to get more gold, but for most people they just get mad cause it takes why to much time to do one little area of the game, so they stop playing. This was place many places for a reason. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Wild Ranger Drizzit (talk).

They have only done UW so far, because it was the one that was being most abused (or as you put it, the most popular). It was also the one that had the most drastic affect on the overall game economy, as ectos are the alternate currency in the game. The others will be done as well, you can bet on that. As for the Nicholas gifts, that is an optional addition, if you don't want to farm for the items, don't. For the most part, I've been able to get gifts every week, just from using things I've packratted away in my years of playing. I know that's not for everyone, but I HATE farming with a passion, it's the most boring, obnoxious thing I can imagine. I don't play all the time anymore, maybe a couple of hours a day, if that, and I have still been able to get all 3 protector titles on a new character in under 2 weeks. For those that choose to leave, well, that is their choice, and if they are no longer enjoying the game, they should. To expect the developers to leave the game in a static state indefinitely, and allow elite areas to be cleared in under 10 minutes, is just wrong. For them to add new challenges and to change skills and henchie bars so you have to make adjustments to how you play if you wish to be successful is a good thing, not a bad thing. -- Wyn talk 06:31, 16 November 2009

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Again, you seem to think this is about a certain thing. It's not, its an issue not tied to any one thing i.e. uwsc or the traveler. It's the point behind it and I am really sure that anet wants lots of people to stop playing there games that they make money on. The point is that most people, not you, but most want to be able to do the things in the game. This in not a game about one person. You say at one point, this is for hardcore people to challenge them self, then say its wrong when people learn to do a run. Anet said in a interview that they uwsc runs are great and good for the game. There is nothing wrong with playing the game well. There is no cheating going on, anyone can do it, and there is nothing wrong with it at all. But its not tied to anyone one thing, but to an overall effect on the game. Losing the uwsc run causes the prices to go up, which only help a very few, and hurts many more. Protector title is nothing. We are talking about a huge game with many area's of play. People don't just want to get protector title, they want to get many different title, they want to do pvp and pve, they want to help others in the game, have a way to support there play, show things off, hang with there guild, and many other things. No one wanting to sell a product can have the mind set that oh if people aren't having fum playing the game they should just stop. This has never been a static game, but they don't change the mission's, they add more, and we are not talking about changing an area so its a little different. The game is coming to its end, there is not reason to change the economy of the game drastically, changes should be made to help players accomplish there goals, not hinder them. Regardless, of what you want or anyone person, Anet wants people to buy there products and enjoy them for as long as possible. The changes they are making are doing the opposite.

this game is geared towards the young and jobless markets...we...people that work DO WORK WEEK ENDS do NOT benefit from the "special weekends" why not have it the ENTIRE WEEK? As for as elite speed clears....i dont really care either way what happens there i dont really do them when you finally do learn it NERF! oh well move to farming i say or accomplish your titles. Anet has stated that there will be no mmore new content unless deemed fit. true there are alot of story lines that could use a better ending or made more elaborate. but since Anet has pulled 100% OF THERE TEAMS TO gw2 unless UNLESS something really strikes their fancy then they might spend the 50 days and nights putting in something new. i do wish they would add alot more to the orignal GW because GW2 will not use a mouse just the keyboard. im not hip to that so when i accomplish all that i can in the original i most likey wont get GW2 unless they put the mouse back in. i really love GW and to be honest its the only MMO i ver played and been playing well over 4.5 years. i know they kinda screwed up on the game engines or they used what was available at the time of release and it cant be carried over or patched to GW2 that im sorry for. i wish it could be. i dont want to leave the game, but when i have had over 60 people i played with on a daily/weekly basis leave just this year alone i get a lil sad. i dont like WOW and i dont make enough to pay for a monthly subscription for aion. i have to work nearly 6 days a week full time and a second parttime job just to feed a family of 3, im not alone in this take a poll. for the working people we get left out of just about all the "good stuff" cause its offered on weekends only.....AGAIN why not make that the entire week, so many of us can participate. there more i like to say but i just got home from work and have to get 4 hours of sleep b4 going to the next job. maybe i can type more then.....