Guild Wars 2

This is the part I find most annoying, and a major reason why I don’t look forward to these patches. Existing Alts with existing traits, skills and story progression keep having their unlocks rolled back. It’s truly like losing levels — log in and find your characters only have the abilities they had 10 or 20 levels ago.

Has ArenaNet acknowledged this side effect? I don’t remember seeing a you will lose ground warning in the patch notes.

They definitely should have grandfathered in characters that were already made.

I’m missing what got “taken away” with this patch….the ability to progress your personal story until a specific level is reached?

I’m seriously asking to OP to explain specifically what was rolled back with this patch.

Loose ground? Like gravel and sand?

i feel ya on this one. i recently bought another account (my sfr acct) and only have one mid 40’s toon there and now dont even feel like playing on that account anymore because anet keeps doing this kind of stuff. all i play is wvw and to even jump in and play that i’m going to have to invest a substantial amt of time outside of wvw levelling each new character to get in and play (eu doesn’t ktrain eotm so that’s out). waste of money imo

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’m seriously asking to OP to explain specifically what was rolled back with this patch.

If you had a character below 80 with the previous patch, traits you had equipped could no longer be equipped. I had 4 Alts using Master Traits that were dropped back to Adept Traits.

If you have a character below 40 with this patch, skills you had equipped can no longer be equipped. Unlocked slots are locked again.

If you were part way through a personal story arc, you now have to wait for it to unlock again. If you had the misfortune of being on the Greatest Fear arc like one of my alts, it appears that progress is gone for good — the final chapters are reordered and this is maybe dropped (have to unlock to confirm).

How is this not like losing levels? Abilities and content you had unlocked and were using are once again locked and pushed 5, 10 or 20 levels into the future…

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’m missing what got “taken away” with this patch….the ability to progress your personal story until a specific level is reached?

I’m seriously asking to OP to explain specifically what was rolled back with this patch.

If im not mistaken slots you had already unlocked were relocked. i.e. utility and elite slots.
Also as was said by someone else they lost a weapon slot skill that was unlocked before patch.

Ninja’d Even worse than I posted.

dietzero.3514:

Loose ground? Like gravel and sand?

Well, if you had an elementalist of a certain level… your unlocked earth attunement might have locked again…

After viewing a video on the leveling changes, I get the OP being upset by this (any player pre-40 is getting some form of the shaft from this patch).

Obviously this move is to consolidate code (from NA/EU version & China version) so I’m not sure how they could “grandfather” in the changes to existing characters and truly consolidate the code. That being said, I think they have handled this aspect of the patch changes very poorly (in terms of hyping it as the best thing since sliced bread and offering no warning to existing players that are getting shafted).

Now veteran players being all “outraged” about this change (even those that were planning new Alts) have less of a reason to be so dramatic about it. Yes, many of the changes are simply idiotic, but once you get past LVL 40, the game has actually been improved (ok….they could still do some work on the Trait system).

dont trivialize what was one of the best leveling games to come out, and is now one of the worst grimm.