Guild Wars 2

First of all, I wanna say that I absolutely LOVE SAB and, surprisingly, Trib mode. Yes, I bought an Infinite Continue Coin, but I recognized that I was supporting all of the work that went into this recent release by doing so, and as such, I didn’t really mind dropping the cash for it. Trib mode is fantastic – the insane learning curve means that the weapon skins will almost always be really rare, and I’ve enjoyed soloing it every day since it’s been out so I can add all of the Trib weapon skins to my pvp locker.

As it is, though, there are two things that need improvement with Trib mode. One would be the movable boxes in W2Z2 – they have a very, very picky hit-box for moving them with the hand thingy, and this can make it absurdly difficult for when you’re trying to rush to avoid a Trib Cloud and push boxes around.

Which brings me to my next point – Trib Clouds should be axed from SAB and Trib mode completely. They’re utterly useless, they don’t add any depth to the game, and they serve purely as a luck factor that has made me feel like smashing my keyboard numerous times. They have funky AI that sometimes causes them to pursue me relentlessly, while at other times they barely acknowledge my presence. Most of the time, they spam their op and usually mostly-unavoidable attacks, but again, because of the randomness of their behavior, their influence in Trib mode is almost completely a luck factor. So yeah, they just cause frustration, and they don’t enrich the experience in any way, so I’d cut them out and figure out something else to make their areas difficult.

Also, don’t have it within Trib Cloud programming to get between you and a push box. That’s like a combination of awful, as the hard-to-hit box becomes impossible-to-hit when the Trib Cloud gets in the way, as your push is interpreted as an attack on the Trib Cloud instead of a push toward the box. This is also super frustrating.

But again, I love Trib Mode – I love SAB – please keep up the awesome, outside-the-box thinking work!

Funny, because the only real issue I had with trib mode was the trib cloud. I felt it was just an arbitrary way of making us lose lives. There is no skill involved when pushing those blocks in zone 2 while the cloud makes you his girlfriend. Just a means for us to lose lives and make the already long zone longer.

And perhaps maybe the annoying spam jumping in yeti and the inconsistent ice. One moment you can barely edge forward, next moment you’re propelled a 100mph into spikes, but those I suppose are more annoyances than anything else. The trib cloud though does feel out of place to me.

The only time I felt the tribulation cloud involved luck is during the run in Storm Top, along the icy edge with the mountains blowing. There isn’t much wiggle room, and several times he ignores me and then turns around with his hilarious expressions and tosses a bolt my way right as I jump, sending me off into the void.

In the pagoda of Pain Cliffs, you can hide behind the columns during the trib cloud’s bolt assault. Sometimes you’ll also lose aggro, which is handy.

The Trib cloud is incredibly annoying, but also quite entertaining, so I’d prefer he stick around.

Heh, something weird happened to me today that made me angry. In W1Z1 at that cloud spot I was jumping across the trees to the checkpoint… The same second I jumped off the ledge to the ground on other side of cliff the cloud fired bolts diagonal away from me right at the spot I jumped to and knocked me down cliff. .-. It was really random to me.