Guild Wars 2

Automatic unlock weapon skills in WvW

Nope. Or sPvP. It takes less than one hour to unlock everything with a new character, laziness is not an excuse.

1 hour is a long time in WvW….

1 hour in pvp is just as long as 1 hour in pve. Stop being so lazy.

They are already giving xp and karma in WvW. So why not let the weapon skills unlock? I see no problem there. Only that more new players that just started to play a class go into WvW without even having unlocked skill slots and other stuff. But that problem we already have – they have designed it to be played at level 1 by scaling everyone up to 80.

Y dont we just ask the dev to take away lvling and just give us max lvl characters :P

Luthan.5236:

They are already giving xp and karma in WvW. So why not let the weapon skills unlock? I see no problem there. Only that more new players that just started to play a class go into WvW without even having unlocked skill slots and other stuff. But that problem we already have – they have designed it to be played at level 1 by scaling everyone up to 80.

because you are in PvP where you are playing against PLAYERs not stupid AI.

Auto attacking with 1 wont cut it.
and in most cases you wont get credit for kills since you cant deal enough damage fast enough using a single auto attack on a weapon.

which means, you may have damaged the player or npcs in the keeps but wont get any progression in leveling up the weapon.

Nothing is keeping you from killing some mobs in PvE to unlock the weapon skills you want. You won’t be helping your team that much by going in WvW right after the prologue/tutorial.

WvW isn’t pure PvP, it is their answer to world PvP. In the traditional sense world PvP is a fusion of both the PvE environment and the players for combat. They made WvW as another world to engage content in NOT simply as a battleground. That’s why they have skill points on the map, that’s why they have NPCs. It’s another world and so must be treated the same as the “PvE” world.

Giving everyone all the weapon skills does just sound lazy to me in all honesty. If you want those skills soo badly their ARE mobs (simple as a moa) that can unlock all your weapon abilities easily.

Lets just say they do unlock all your weapon skills, (people are almsot NEVER satisfied) the next step they will want is “just give me all my utilities and elite skills too, this doesn’t make sense”. After that who knows maybe they’ll be wanting armor from the beginning like SPvP.

What I don’t think people understand is WvW is a alternate way to progress your character through means of “open world PvP”. If they remove the progression in that aspect then it would just feel like another game mode, no progress, no satisfaction. It’s more fun when you earn things than when your given it by default. I both like and enjoy ANets decision in WvW.

P.S. if you don’t want to fight PvE mobs to gain your weapon skills, I have run into a TON of lone players who either haven’t unlocked their skills either OR haven’t quite gotten their bearings on the game yet and are relatively easy to take out (even with auto attacking).

I think unlocking weapon skills is easy (and I’m an ele, so I have twice the amount to do). If you’re a low level, just join a large event. It’s easy to get lots of kills and get all the skills. If you’re a higher level (10~20), then its much easier because the % you get for each skill goes up with level. At around lvl 30, you can get the 5th skill with one kill.

Stop being lazy, it takes no more than maybe half an hour to unlock all of your skills.

poochythedog.6749:

Stop being lazy, it takes no more than maybe half an hour to unlock all of your skills.

I would say 15 minutes tops.

I go the opposite direction of this post. Too many kitten players in WvW is not good. I’d rather see ANet discourage players with zero experience/traits/gear/etc from diluting the server. Such players are no fun to fight against or fight with!

Maybe they could remove the need to unlock that stuff completely. I already noticed it in PvE that it really is fast. So would not make a difference probably. And everyone would be happe. Seems not like an important part of the game to me. The skill points are more important and take more time.