Tempest is awesome. You need to look it up.
Don’t need to. I’m well aware of the various meanings of the word tempest. I’m also aware many people like it. Still… in my opinion is sounds like a marvel superheroine.
You are not alone with this opinion..Tempest is same as horrible garbage, like Dragon Hunter, to name a elite specialization after a weather effect /facepalm.
however, theys are not the topic her,e thats why you see no discussion about it here,. this thread is solely about the majority concensus of the community here in the forums which think, that DH belongs to be renamed, because nothing of its concept really fits at all to the name. DH is a mary sue concept, where the dev responsible for this crap wanted to put too many different ingredients into 1 thing at the same time and thats the reason, why he totally screwed up the whole concept.
The gameplay is ok, but what it screws it up is, that nothign of the name fits at all to the game play mechanics, and that the name it selv is so massively overgeneralized, that it totally stantds in itself agaisnt the gameplay design of Elite Specializations
Something, that feels uniquely tied together to a Main Profession, but is in itself something, that only that Main Profession, in this case the Guardian, can become.
But Dragonhunters are everyone, each in their own way, style and methods being used for it.
Dragonhunters in itself are nothing special, they aren’t more effective in hunting dragons, so there is zero reason to call themself a Dragonhunter, when everybody around them from other professions are Dragonhunters too in their way. thats it, what makes this name sound rather like a “title” and not like an Elite Specialization and thats something, that Anet finally has to grasp.
Anet concepted the whole E-Spec in first line after their idea of having an overly righteous “Witch Hunter”. The whole gameplay and their skills screams out loud for 99% that the E-Spec has been from begin on Witch Hunter-inspired through the complete bank.
Everything that doesn’t belong to that concept should get changed:
To that belong:
- That the Big Game Hunter spec gets renamed.
- That the Elite Skill Dragon Maw gets replaced with somethign with an other name and different animation
- That all specs where the term “hunter” is in get renamed.
If Anet would do these 3 simple steps and renames then the Class into Seeker, Inquisitor or something else, everythign woudl be instantly fine, there would be directly no reason anymore to complain , because then the whole class and concept around it would be finally like all other so far presented E-Specs completely congruent with their Main Professions, instead of forcing upon everyone of us a stupid personal revenge thing from Braham, whose mother most likely died, causing him to become an avenging “Dragonhunter” that uses from now on his mothers longbow in her honor … what is for 100% sure the ridiculoius stupid reason, why Anet called this E-Spec a “high concept”, that isn’t possible to grasp for the simple GW2 player >.> rolleyes – and they simply didn’t want to spoil us with that info, but we naturally found it out anyways …
if that whole Braham thing is seriously the whole reason for the screw up, then they should gve that NPC simply that unique term, but leave us the players alone with this garbage reason for the name and give the E-Spec a name, that seriously fits to the original “Witch Hunter” theme. An Inquisitor would be the most fitting thing besides Seeker for that simply. Both good fitting terms for over righteous Witch Hunter like soldiers that would be more aggressive forms of the Guardian.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
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