Guild Wars 2

Water combat was a thing—people cried—now it’s not.

Remove water breathers. They were never fully implemented anyways. You can breathe underwater naked and the itemization is silly.

Problem is you currently do NOT wear your helmet underwater, so you wear only 5 runes and the 6th effect doesn’t work, except if you put the same rune into your waterbreather.

Which meant having to buy a 7th rune, which was stupid (imo)

I like the waterbreathers, they were a nice touch.

I would suggest simply making the waterbreather a simple cosmetic that visually replaces the helmet underwater (maybe by choice?)
Can have it if you want, but don’t have to and don’t have to buy that 7th rune.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Which meant having to buy a 7th rune, which was stupid (imo)

I like the waterbreathers, they were a nice touch.

I would suggest simply making the waterbreather a simple cosmetic that visually replaces the helmet underwater (maybe by choice?)
Can have it if you want, but don’t have to and don’t have to buy that 7th rune.

Exactly this. Time to de-commit to water combat, since that’s what’s been going on the last 3 years anyway. :\

Seeing as we have no idea what is in HoT, we can’t say water combat is dead. There might be a big lake in HoT for all we know.