Guild Wars 2

Didn’t see any sticky topics, nor any in-game help.

Logged in at the recommendation of my friend to play a bit. First thing I notice is my traits are gone (as mentioned in a dialog that popped up). Problem: although this has happened with previous patches, the trait UI has changed and some of my traits are locked out.

Next issue, a bunch of my skills are disabled because of the new training system. Looks like I have to train up ranks in a number of areas. Problem: I don’t understand what this new system is.

I have a couple choices:

1. Jam the buttons to unlock my traits and skills and see what happens. A bit of a risk since I’m spending some resource. Also not really gaining any insight with this approach. It is the low-effort route though, and I can get to playing faster this way.

2. Google wtf has changed so I can make some informed decisions rather than button jamming.

Since I took the time to write this post, you can probably guess I’m going with choice #2 above.

Color me agitated.

What is this, I don’t even. So, you decided to make a post whining about changes in an MMORPG, that includes offering yourself advice on how to educate yourself about the game’s changes, while whining some more. Gotcha.

If you are level 80 don’t worry about it, you have enough hero points (the resource you’re speaking off – they used to be called skill points) to unlock everything. If you’re not level 80, just pick the traits and skills you like(d for before the change) and do hero challenges (used to be skill challenges) and level up to gain more points.

Anomander.9347:

What is this, I don’t even. So, you decided to make a post whining about changes in an MMORPG, that includes offering yourself advice on how to educate yourself about the game’s changes, while whining some more. Gotcha.

Yep, hence the note on “agitated” — it’s acceptable to voice a complaint about a User Interface and core mechanic change that’s presented to the User without any explanation.

Now that I wasted 20 minutes of my time “researching” it, I think the new system is good. Very impressed with the options on my Mesmer — my Ele not so much.

That is still 20 minutes where I could have been playing rather than researching.

EDIT: Since I can smell it coming… “without any explanation” means nothing in-game. Of course any gamer can google, visit a wiki, etc. The “we reset your traits” dialog in red was a nice start, but didn’t do much to help me figure it out. It was just a “go google it” type of message.