Guild Wars 2

Nicknobreak.7543:

Nemesis.6938:

when exactly is the druid reveal? since gw seems to have several spots at twitch con… is it on the 25th at 3pm pst or?

ArenaNet only has the stage for 15 minutes from 3-3:15 at TwitchCon on the 25th. They’ll probably show the trailer there. Druid reveal might be on the first episode of the newly assumed web series of streams. Don’t know when that will be. Probably won’t see druid this week.

Nicknobreak is correct. ArenaNet only has 15 minutes of TwitchCon live stage coverage, so they are unlikely to make any form of new announcement or reveal. However, they also have a booth for two full days of the convention that I am sure will be streaming some kind of content on the GuildWars2 twitch channel.

It is certainly possible that they will be streaming the detailed info on the Druid during that time if they do not hold that info over for revealing on this supposed new web series.

If they do happen to make some form of non-Druid related announcement of new content in their 15 minute live coverage window, they may then go into more detailed info on such content in their official booth stream.

Twitch rant:
It’s a shame that Twitch still requires Flash to display their videos instead of the safer alternatives. Many people no longer even have Flash installed on their systems as it is well on its way out of being used due to its persistent security issues. Perhaps they’ll finally move on from Flash one day and get with the times.

Even when I did use Flash, Twitch video streams would only display in their highest resolution and could not be made to display in lower quality so those with slower net speeds could actually watch and follow anything that is being talked about or shown.

This means needing to wait for a YouTube version of the stream so the video can be viewed with a non-Flash player that offers quality options.

Amante.8109:

Druid is being designed by the same person behind Scrapper, which—a couple of meh Gyros aside—looks fun, interesting, and borderline overpowered. So yeah, I think Druid will be ok

yeah the same guy that did the last balance patch for the engie and the ranger.
The engie become better than before with all the buffs and changes to traits and nades (it got one trait that reveal!!!) while the ranger suffered the biggest nerf of all his history.
The Dev talking about synergies and joking about the ranger profession insulting most of the players that use a ranger even just as casual.

He can say all he wants that he plays ranger, i’m pretty sure he does not. Otherwise we wouldn’t ended with a completely useless traits and trait lines, the only ones that work are the ones that did not get much changes. And didn’t fix any of the crippling bugs that the class has. And that’s bad, very bad.

Seriously i don’t trust that guy to deliver. I’m afraid the druid will be a deep disappointment with a lot of flashing trash and synergies were there is none.
My god i really hope to be wrong.

I’m inclined to agree with Anduriell here. I mean, I’m not counting Irenio Calmon-Huang out but he totally needs to redeem himself here. I was a little disappointed to hear we weren’t getting Roy as a developer and if we ever got Robert Gee to balance the Ranger we’d be the Top #1 class in GW2. Lol Robert Gee for Ranger please?

Make no mistake — the only thing about Druid that’s going to be in their prime spot is “We have now revealed all the elite specs for our upcoming expansion!” and a shot of the combined art for the new specs. Probably with some sort of “adventuring has evolved” tag line.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Looks like Scapper is the last elite profession to get a POI…

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/644904491263881216

I guess Anet really does hate rangers…

Will ranger still be getting an elite spec or has it been removed all together?

Drama runs deep in this one.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Irenio and Rubi are talking about the Druid on Twitch NOW!!!

And it sounds Sweet! I can’t WAIT to try this!

/Happy Dance

Well that was the complete opposite of why I picked to play Ranger for thousands of hours.

After finally seeing it, I will pay money to Anet to remove the druid.

StinVec.3621:

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what’s the weather like in the stone age ?

Gaile Gray.6029:

BooHud.2681:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Irenio and Rubi are talking about the Druid on Twitch NOW!!!

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And it sounds Sweet! I can’t WAIT to try this!

/Happy Dance

I know. As a lifelong Ranger, I’m stoked!

Hard to believe anyone plays ranger, but if it is true how do you feel about the core ranger now being completely dead and buried? I mean why would anyone take a core ranger over a druid?

Dont get me wrong if you like the arche type that the druid offers its absolutely great,
but wasnt the main idea that it offered a different way of playing while not being a straight upgrade to the class, because lets be honest here druid is both. I dont really like the arche type, its taste nothing can be done about it, but that also means there is no place for me if I wanted to stay the core ranger.

Frankly if i had any interest in playing a healer I’d be playing (name every other mmo).