Guild Wars 2

So with todays patch, ANet released a feature that allows you to CHANGE SKILLS in COMBAT.

First of all, if we are allowed to do this what is the point of having a ten max skill bar?
Second, it makes it difficult to discern between in-combat and out-of-combat.
Third, apparently this patch made it extremely difficult to keep adrenaline, because mid fight you break combat and lose it all, basically making warrior not be able to do anything.

In my opinion, this wasn’t a good add to the game as people do macro key combos, so it is extremely easy just to press one button and adjust yourself to counter exactly what’s going on in the fight, even after you’ve entered the fight. This change does not encourage people to try new builds, or make any new builds, because they can basically just change their stuff whenever it suits them no matter what is going on.

In short, you shouldn’t try to “fix” what wasn’t broken in the first place. This change makes the ten max skill bar a useless thing.

Since it wasn’t in the patch notes I would presume it is a bug.

Turamarth.3248:

Since it wasn’t in the patch notes I would presume it is a bug.

People in WvW are saying it was intented to be this way, so I’m just going by word-of-mouth. Other than that, if it is a bug, it needs to be corrected quickly or you will have a lot of people getting fed up with people abusing it and not wanting to play anymore. (speaking more for WvW, which does make up roughly a little more than 1/3rd the game)

None-the-less, again, if it is a bug I hope it gets fixed rather quickly, because combat shouldn’t be extremely easy to break.

It’s a bug, almost certainly. There was no announcement, it’s not in the patch notes. And it’s not the proper time for such change.

This would certainly be a bug. It would have so much QQ on the pvp forums I would become obese eating all those tears.

On the upside they fixed the bug with the bank and double-click to stow items that aren’t already in the bank as a partial stack.

I haven’t played much enough to test since the patch dropped, but I was on earlier and noticed that while the change skill icon now remains even while in combat, you still could not change skills in combat.