Guild Wars 2

Because now may just be early enough in the dev cycle to make such suggestions…

I don’t mind airplanes.. and bobble heads were fun, but let’s cause some real chaos.

How about April 1st, 2016, you remove all cooldowns from skills and utilities (including elites).

Neural.1824:

Because now may just be early enough in the dev cycle to make such suggestions…

I don’t mind airplanes.. and bobble heads were fun, but let’s cause some real chaos.

How about April 1st, 2016, you remove all cooldowns from skills and utilities (including elites).

So literally make the game completely unplayable for 24 hours?

That sounds hilarious, and would have depth in how to exploit it so that it shouldn’t get old within a couple of minutes.

I’d also remove WvW from it though, as it’s a lot worse on balancing than unreadable animations were.

Also add a caveat that instant cast skills would have a half second cooldown or somesuch, to avoid people spamming them to the point where it causes people to crash.

Eponet.4829:

Also add a caveat that instant cast skills would have a half second cooldown or somesuch, to avoid people spamming them to the point where it causes people to crash.

that’s a good point. Something that would need to be taken into consideration.

Though I was thinking WvW would be all out carnage above what it usually is, I did not take into consideration the issue of points and ranking etc. Unforunate. I had visions of small 10man zergs of dagger-storm thieves just mowing down everything (which, if you think about it, is about all a thief could really do, since they would be the only class whose main skillset was unaffected by the change.)

Also, for those that think LB ranger is OP, I have two skills to pair: Quickening Zephyr, and Rapid Fire. Ranger LB Mini-gun.

In eight years, GW’s AFD jokes have never fundamentally affected gameplay mechanics. For that reason alone, I consider this extremely unlikely to ever happen.

And while this WOULD be a hilarious prank, it would almost certainly lead to more complaints than planes and bobbleheads combined. So even if Anet were inclined to consider the idea, the backlash would deter them from doing it in reality.

Even in standard PvE, the abuse potential would be ridiculous. Imagine Tequatl, for example. Or cheesing dungeons or story instances. And before you call that “harmless PvE fun”, consider that you earn AP from all those things, and are rewarded for your AP scores.

In the end, this would be opening a can of worms – only to find out that they’re siege wurms.

Yeah, something like this would legit break the game for the time it was in.

Duke Darkwood.4237:

In eight years, GW’s AFD jokes have never fundamentally affected gameplay mechanics. For that reason alone, I consider this extremely unlikely to ever happen.

And while this WOULD be a hilarious prank, it would almost certainly lead to more complaints than planes and bobbleheads combined. So even if Anet were inclined to consider the idea, the backlash would deter them from doing it in reality.

Even in standard PvE, the abuse potential would be ridiculous. Imagine Tequatl, for example. Or cheesing dungeons or story instances. And before you call that “harmless PvE fun”, consider that you earn AP from all those things, and are rewarded for your AP scores.

In the end, this would be opening a can of worms – only to find out that they’re siege wurms.

Well, for the record, I never claimed it would be harmless PvE fun. Was just a silly thought I had while reading a thread over on reddit about thieves.

If the major issues could be pushed out of the way, it would be neat to see just how fast people could kill the likes of Teq and Jormag, and how long it would take them to organize and find optimal dps.

Oh well.

urf mode, gw2 edition.