Guild Wars 2: Is the TOWER OF NIGHTMARES Good? (My Thoughts)

[@cheese0069]

I just reached lvl 80 on my necro , I've been hooked on this game since it came to steam

[@silver_einherjar]

Same bruh, i played for like 9 days and already past 120+ hrs playing and just farming black lion key lol

[@angryscan2970]

Love to see it, glad your enjoying Tyria!

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

@@silver_einherjar 120+ hours in 9 days!?!?!? I love this game too, but take a breath man, get outside and walk your dog (or the neighbor's dog), and pace yourself. LOL Glad you're enjoying GW2, and welcome to Tyria. It's a great place to visit during your spare time, but don't neglect your Real Life family, friends and responsibilities. We wouldn't want GW2 to cause trouble in your real life.

[@silver_einherjar]

@@traveling.down.the.road56 i finished the story on human got a maxed lvl human and lvl57 sylvari but i deleted it to farm black lion key lmao. but yeah, im more than hooked and wants to see more and hope i can buy expansions cause i cant afford it rn xd edit: played gw2 cause i got tired of dota 2 which i had thousand of hours spent on

[@ghozter1]

@@traveling.down.the.road56 shut up bro

[@Abby_wa]

Agree about the rewards, I wish there was a rotating bonus 30% loot or w/e that changed to a different activity or world boss etc. every day. Just to add that spice.

[@BloomHD]

Rotating bonus for open world PvE stuff would be huge. Even just giving more things a flat ‘weekly bonus’ would be excellent tbh

[@RockandStoneVForKarl]

Hell could broaden it to regions instead of specific bosses and it would still be huge extra rewards this week for Kryta this week, or Maguuma or Crystal Desert or whatever.

[@imanolm.ibarra4007]

This is the type of youtube content that was missing from the GW2 comunity. Your videos are amazing.

[@RandomPlayIist]

This type of content has been done by youtubers for the game for years.

[@de_sherwin]

it's refreshing to see someone that hasn't experienced this stuff before, it really feels like everybody is a 10year veteran in this game

[@GunnGuardian]

The final things in Season 1 were some of the most unique content this game has ever received. Tower of Nightmares was a weird open world dungeon sort of idea. I'm glad to see it return as a permanent addition and improved with a private squad (previously it was only public). I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle the finale which had some crazy ideas.

[@DarkFlyder]

Thanks for showing us the weapon recipes, in previous seasons i salvaged the trinkets, didn't know they could be important 😅

[@JojoStokes]

I really enjoyed this. I was doing it solo to complete the mission and thought to myself how difficult this really was. I was thankful to find 2 players that invite me to a party. We ran past a lot of the veterans/elites, but we able to complete the side tasks and main mission. Very challenging, but a TON of fun. It can be a little intimidating, but you’ll get through it.

[@Ashendal]

The biggest mistake ANet made was not designing LWS1 to be permanent from the very beginning. They thought the "temporary" plan would work, but in reality they ran into the same problem that every studio that tries it runs into in that it sounds great but it's unsustainable. Thankfully they're fixing that now, but it never should have made it past the drawing board in the state that it went live.

[@Jerler91]

Congrats on 10k!

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

Great video! You deserve the 10k subs, and I look forward to watching more of your GW2 content in the future. GW2 is a fantastic game, right? So nice to see more people playing it now, and appreciating everything it has to offer. For me, it's the best game per dollar of any game available right now, and people who don't play it (also some who do play, but haven't figured it out yet), don't know just how much content there is available within GW2. That plus the extreme customization available for each of your characters play style abilities, gives the hard core gamer the creativity to try out different traits with different weapon skills. Build craft is very complex and can be rewarding for those who like crunching the numbers to see just how far they can push the envelope of what their character can accomplish. I was playing GW2 during the first release of Living World Season 1 and remember what a different experience it was from any other game ever created. It was great and very immersive, but for people who could not play as much as they would like, it felt a little bad because if you wanted to complete all, or most of the achievements for season 1, you had to play before the next patch came out, or you missed out. It was a bold attempt at a new way of playing, and it was fun for most, frustrating for some, but most importantly, I'm glad that they decided to figure out a way to bring it back as a permanent replayable part of the game. It's so much better to be able to play season 1, instead of just watching a short video about the events that happened and being thrown into season 2, not knowing and appreciating who the NPC characters are, and how you met them. Again, great video, and I look forward to seeing more in the near future. Glad you are enjoying this game and want to continue creating content about it.

[@Madd_Jack]

Events like those need possible infusion drops... People do trains where they hop around event for the slim possability of an infusion... That or do what D-Storm does and add a currency and an infusion you can buy with LOTS of said currency.

[@fargonthebrave]

one of the best events people need to remeber to this shit was hard back in the day there were only the 8 oringal classes if u were left behind you were a gonna

[@ianashmore9910]

Low rewards have been an issue for all the EOD maps too.

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

GW2 rewards have been a hot topic for a long time. My take is that the game itself is the reward, and if you are coming from another "vertical progression" game looking for the carrot that is going to motivate you to keep playing GW2, you're going to be disappointed. Sure, there are tons of achievements and legendary items that you can grind for and set as goals for yourself and your account, but for me, just playing GW2 with others is reward enough, and the actual rewards I get from killing mobs and bosses in the game are just "gravy". One thing I wish Anet would fix though, is the inequity of rewards for some events, compared to others in the game. I think that difficulty and time required to complete any part of the game should influence the amount of rewards you get. Higher difficulty and more time required to complete, should equal higher rewards.

[@ianashmore9910]

@@traveling.down.the.road56 Disagree nearly entirely. Rewards for certain maps are disproportionate. That's why people only farm 2 or 3 maps. If more maps had better rewards, people would have more variety in their game play.

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

@@ianashmore9910 you playing only content that you think has sufficient rewards is your choice. Not everyone plays just for the rewards and I already told you that I agree that Anet should adjust rewards so that the harder and longer content gets better rewards. But maybe GW2 isn’t the best game for you, if all you play for is rewards.

[@ghozter1]

@@traveling.down.the.road56 holy copium, “the game itself is the reward” bruh

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

@@ghozter1 You’ll understand some day when you grow up

[@Nayrethian]

I really would like this used as a template for "Fissure of Woe" for a hopeful LW6. I would like it to scale from solo to 50 players (Difficulty and Rewards) Call them "Vanquishes" Get rewards when you finish all events and kill all mobs :) My biggest issue with Gw2 is they don't have scalable instances that you can solo but you can also bring 30 people from your guild to do it. (Or how many friends you've convinced to play)

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

Actually, lots of events in GW2 are scalable, but the scaling is hard to gauge, because of the huge difference between noob players DPS and ability to dodge and avoid damage, and the elite players, who can do over ten times the DPS, and most can easily avoid most enemy attacks. I'm not kidding, if you use any of the DPS measuring apps, like ARCDPS, to measure the DPS outpput of a new level 80 player, you will see that many of them are doing around 2,000 to 5,000 DPS (mostly closer to the 2k number), and it is easy for the elite players to do 20k+ DPS. Just watch some of the elite player videos of them solo'ing dungeons or fractals, or Open World champions or legendary enemies. So, it's hard for the Dev's to know exactly where the best balance point is for scaling their events and bosses, when the player performance is so different. There's probably a list somewhere on the wiki, or elsewhere that shows you which events and boss fights are scalable, if you really want to know.

[@Nayrethian]

@@traveling.down.the.road56 I ment instanced content. and yes im a player who solos dungeons :)

[@void2258]

The execute thing was a big thing way back at the beginning of the game. You Used to have to do this EVERYWHERE and people hated it so it was removed (Around HoT). It's still here because this content was dropped in with as little modification as possible (not clear if this is rush or spaghetti issues), so it has many things that have seen changes since then.

[@MythXRaser]

Weird, I played at launch and I cannot recall encountering this mechanic ANYWHERE? Then again, it has been 10 years, so maybe I just can't remember it

[@mandodelorian4668]

IF you really do need *Tomes of Knowledge* I highly recommend running some WvW. I play it about 1-2 hours most days, running with a squad, and these things just pile up there! I keep a stack of 250 in the bank and then just consume the rest for the Spirit Shards (which I use to buy Banners). For anyone that may find WvW frustrating or intimidating, log in to a map, *look for a command tag* and then just do your best to stay as close to them as possible and you should generally be okay!

[@2Btoobee]

or make a high dps thief and run around killing sentries and flip camps in other borderlands, it kept the participation high for the reward track (tho only if u like soloing stuff), some ppl only see ebg tbh lol

[@jerryaural9929]

A wvw newb here, ty for the tips! :)

[@maximetauran3415]

Can't wait for the next episode of LWS1!!!! Played it when it first came out and it was amazing so i'm ecxited to see what's new.

[@ZianaSue]

When your screen looks like @10:40 you should use your special action skill to get rid of that effect. (in the case of Bloom's keybinds, "C")

[@skullwolff9442]

i was around for tower of nightmare's. never done any living world season 1 till the battle for lion's arch. wich was 1 or 2 chapters later. i was one of those who bought the beta test version for the core game. played gw1 so i was hyped when gw2 was revealed. not wanting to wait to play and back than, i wanted to become a full time beta tester, i bought the version of the game wich had the beta tests included. found out i am not a beta tester, not mutch of a bug finder and recreator. so i've been playing long before the tower of nightmare became a thing. was just never interested in the living world till the battle for lions arch. that is the reason that this current version, is my first time in the tower of nightmare myself.

[@Snebzor]

Bloom is a god.

[@Kevlord22]

My god, i straight up salvage the exotic rewards from the episodes, had no idea that you can mystic forge them...

[@jasonm5162]

You can get them back from a Skritt vendor in Lion's Arch (NW corner, 'Hooligan's Route', in the cave there.). They cost 10g each for the replacement copies.

[@Kevlord22]

@@jasonm5162 Ah that's so reassuring, thank you very much !

[@kohydx4305]

What armour is that or backpack at the beginning of the video xD?

[@FatalFist]

Tower of Nightmares was where I actually started to get interested back in Guild Wars 2.

[@silastw6097]

yo what character is it you are playing? it looks fun

[@moopliss]

this thumbnail is 🔥 it's so good that it makes me think you make videos for a living👀

[@mend0kuse101]

mind dropping your armor pieces ? :D looks awesome

[@barksona2366]

what is your armor and weapon if you could please tell?

[@alisalih97]

Is this a limited time event?

[@BloomHD]

Nope! In the game forever :)

[@novachroma]

Great video! Keep em coming!

[@arkanaloth2617]

S1 was pretty rough back in the day... now with more modern builds they are challenging but not TOO bad, however 9 years ago you *really* didn't want to bump into S1 mobs like Aetherblades or molten alliance, etc.. out in world if you could avoid them. in S1 getting isolated in the tower of nightmares was pretty much a death sentence due to their damage output... now, well... it's not so bad to me, but admittedly i've been playing for a decade and have solid builds / gear. anywho, just remember this level of difficulty because you'll be seeing it again real soon cranked up by about +5 (Heart of Thorns)

[@JojoStokes]

Heart Of Thorns has caused me so much hair loss.

[@TwistedSecrets777]

wait what you didn't think it would be that good ....dude this is guild wars 2 Everything is good :P as a person that has been on this game since gw1 and 10 years on gw2 i LOVE THIS GAME!!

[@joshuahng1]

👍👏❤

[@krzysztofczajka6752]

Mob rez won't get introduced. It was actually abandoned because players were really annoyed with all mobs having downstate state (it wasn't just in the tower of nightmare but in back then recent living world episodes).

[@Thebluewind3]

I am a little confused: 1. is the tower of nightmares public like Dragonstorm that you can only do it every 2 h ? 2. any one time daily reward?

[@BloomHD]

1) Yes public, except it’s 24/7. Always open. 2) I wanna say it’s the Tricolor Key but tbh I’m a little unsure

[@ohwhatworld5851]

The woeful rewards are a huge issue for this game. I have now completed all of my legendary gear. I found doing the achievements very enjoyable. But now.... I don't know what to do. The rewards are so bad from so much of the games content that it just isn't worth my time. I can feel myself getting bored with the game.....

[@Ashendal]

This is why GW2 isn't for everyone. You sound like the type of person that enjoys WoW's style of constant gear treadmill so you always have something to do and always have a set path for you instead of needing to figure out what you want to do yourself. That's not bad, that just shows why plenty of people try GW2, "finish it", and then become lost and leave for other games. Realistically the "end game" of GW2 is similar to what it was in the original. Make friends and do content with those friends. Tinker and make your own builds instead of just copying what the "meta" is. Find looks you want to go for and make those. It's more "you do what you enjoy" and less "face grind gear and repeat that every few months."

[@ohwhatworld5851]

@@Ashendal But there has to be a 'reason' for doing something. The reason usually comes in the form of a decent reward for your efforts. This game does a poor job of providing these rewards.

[@Ashendal]

@@ohwhatworld5851 There is a "reason" for doing things in the game. I even mentioned them. Playing with friends and having fun doing so. Experimenting with builds to become better. Things like that. Things that don't have a dollar sign blatantly attached to them. This is exactly what I meant when I said that not everyone will stay with GW2. You need the gear treadmill and to be showered in rewards to feel like what you're doing has merit. You can't just play the game to play the game, and as such GW2 probably isn't for you. A game with a gear treadmill or an ARPG that showers you with loot constantly most likely is.

[@ohwhatworld5851]

@@Ashendal So you are saying any kind of reward in GW2 doesn't matter? You would play the game if they gave no rewards?

[@saxonknight0]

@@ohwhatworld5851 and now you know what it’s like to play WvW. The whole community a decade on from launch fights for the fun of it, as there is no reason to play the game mode long term. It’s why zergs sit and fight each other instead of capturing towers behind each other’s backs for the rewards. If I want progression I don’t play GW2 as other games do progression better.

[@RockandStoneVForKarl]

Guild Wars 2 really needs a new TYPE of reward, I am not sure what it could be, the OBVIOUS would be in game mount skins but that isn't happening. But gold and things to sell for gold can only be stretched out over so much content before some of it just feels pointless. Infusions are nice but I think something genuinely new would be fun. What that could be? Idk. IF there was a housing system than things like decor and furniture would be perfect to scatter across the game Maybe some kind of trading card thing? Like I said I am not sure what it could be but some new thing to go towards besides what has already been in the game forever would definitely spice up the content.

[@BloomHD]

Weapon Infusions 😬

[@Aptonoth]

MEH. I think this is for end game player's only. There is no way on earth a new player like me could expect to have any hope of doing this right now even at level 80. I think all of S1 content was terrible and I now agree with the dev's why they never wanted to bring it back. I like the tower's design that was cool but I'm skipping it and going on ahead too much work to try get a group to do this right now. I want a blink dog and griffon way more as it will help me 100% stuff faster and in cooler ways.

[@Switch72nd]

ToN is hot fucking garbage for new players to be forced into with a bunch of randoms for the story. No one wants to actually make a group, no one will explain anything. So people who’ve done the tower just run by everything and know where to go and leave the poor noobs stranded surrounded by enemies they can’t deal with, they’re not full ascended, most likely not even full exotic. Anet should have put a solo instanced version for the story. Doesn’t help that ToN is also the first real place in the game where boons like stab are really important and that is something again that new players have never been introduced to, so not only are they left behind, have no clue wtf is going on, they also get to do their best pinball impression through most of the instance.

[@agriosbr]

Bad rewards? ANet's policy since 2005.

[@Eldar7431]

maybe with worse results the sweaty super capable ppl will do smth else and casuals like me will get to play it and not just run through it? Tho it sounds like it's balanced to be enough of a chalange for ppl to not kill everyting instantly skiping most mechanics.

[@Jynogre]

first c:

[@critical-thinker666]

dead or arival,gl finding public group in month or two.

[@Unapologeticweeb]

So basically like that part in icebrood saga