Guild Wars 2

First of all, I know that the naming of skills and traits are merely shoutouts to their GW1 variants and not all of them function exactly the way they do in GW2 as they did in GW1 (I hope that made sense).

However, something that has irked me about the name for the legendary Mallyx stance on the revenant is that, well, the Unyielding Anguish skill doesn’t do anything related to it’s GW1 variant, which in the Polygon interview, was stated to have a similar effect…

There’s just one itsy-bitsy problem though:

Yeah! Down with the man!

But no I follow what the OP is getting at, that UA was pretty different.

GW1 =/= GW2.

Mesmers don’t have the same profession mechanic they did in GW1, does this mean ArenaNet has to up heave the whole profession, so it follows some sentimental congruency? No. It can stay the way it is.

It’s unnecessary.

Normally I wouldn’t care about what the name of a skill is but in this case, Jon Peters mentions this:

“Unyielding Anguish was actually the name of one of Mallyx’s skills when you fought him in Guild Wars 1,” Peters says. “And it had a similar effect!”

Which, as the OP states, is false. The skill should be renamed “Shadow Smash” but I guess Unyielding Anguish sounds way cooler!

The word here to note is ‘similar’. It’s not ‘identical’ to said gw1 name, therefore it shouldn’t be changed and nothing was wrong in the first place.

/thread

Zaoda.1653:

The word here to note is ‘similar’. It’s not ‘identical’ to said gw1 name, therefore it shouldn’t be changed and nothing was wrong in the first place.

/thread

But Unyielding Anguish was a resurrection move, it’s not similar to this skill at all.

OP is right, Shadow Smash is the original version of this move as it does almost exactly what this move does.

Zaoda.1653:

The word here to note is ‘similar’. It’s not ‘identical’ to said gw1 name, therefore it shouldn’t be changed and nothing was wrong in the first place.

/thread

So… a move that resurrects the dead but doesn’t hurt enemies is similar to a skill that shadowsteps enemies and hurts them? How is that similar again? Did you take a look at the entire topic post and click on the links?