Guild Wars 2

This isn’t really a big deal, just something I noticed. I like to run without a tag when Commanding in WvW, so I don’t attract to many militia to me and my guys (that way we can be super organized.) One way I liked doing this was to stick out as much as possible, and sometimes being the big fat Norn I am just isn’t enough! So I spent a decent sum of money (it’s a lot to me since I’m a poor Commander that just does WvW xD) on buying/making the item: Potion of Ascalonian mages. It used to be that when you used it you would just transform, but none of your skills got altered, so I could still use my utility skills 6-0, AND stick out for my guys. But since the recent patch(es), that has changed. I can still use my weapon skills (not bad [staff Guardian]), but I am unable to use any of my additional skills (6-0). I was wondering if someone could shed light on if this was intentional, or just a side-effect from something else, and if there is any way to get this fixed?

Thanks!

-Gismor

Must have been part of the change that made Mist form and Elixir S unable to use 6-0 skills.

They fix things like we call it here “a lo bruto” (brutally) so it looks like it affected that too… sad to know it

Please revert this change. This potion is really helpfull..

Try to use the Hylek color potions, it will give you a nice color glow.

This was the most pointless nerf I have ever seen in a game ever. Guess only pve commanders and carebears afking in LA are allowed to enjoy aesthetic transformations.

To be fair, devs have said repeatedly that they want players to be identifiable when you see them on the field. That’s one of the main reasons why you can’t wear armor appearances outside of your class of armor. Using a transformation and keeping all of your skills makes it impossible for anyone to know what you are or could be at a glance, so that kind of goes against what the devs stated they wanted.

Rising Dusk.2408:

To be fair, devs have said repeatedly that they want players to be identifiable when you see them on the field. That’s one of the main reasons why you can’t wear armor appearances outside of your class of armor.

I don’t get this. When I want to know what class someone is, I will tell by the buffs they have, or the skills they use. When you see a big group of players, you will first see them in the stand-in manakin model until they get loaded anyway. The choice of wearing different class armor than yours is purely cosmetic, it has nothing to do with wvw. It would also increase transmutation stone sales…

Whether you see the stand-in models or not is dependent on your machine and how fast you can render the full model of the player in question. Not every class has passives that they keep active forever, and not every build on those classes that do use said signets or other skills. I know that in small scale skirmishes against a number of foes where I don’t have the time to cycle through them all and identify them, I definitely identify the class they are as best I can by what they are wearing.

Regardless, even if not everyone does it, ANet’s said that is one of their biggest reasons for splitting the armor appearances up between class weights.

It is really helpful. Just can support the idea to revert the changes :/
tbh I hoped Anet would add more of them :P

I feel potentially responsible for this, having complained about it , but had I known the fix would be to render this potion completely useless in WvW I would kept my frikkin mouth shut.

Yes, please revert if possible, I used this potion to mitigate a bug with my Norn Guardian, where using Greatsword Leap of Faith completely misses targets if they’re slighly lower elevation than you. Doesn’t happen with my Asura guardian, just a frustrating bug with the Norn model.

I also much prefer the movement mechanics of Human/Sylvari to Norns – they feel quicker, more alacrity. Norns feel so sluggish and unresponsive by comparison.

PS – ANet I would pay real money for a race change, even if it required completely resetting the personal story. My norn guardian looks awesome, but I much prefer him in human form.

kurtosis.9526:

I feel potentially responsible for this, having complained about it , but had I known the fix would be to render this potion completely useless in WvW I would kept my frikkin mouth shut.

Yes, please revert if possible, I used this potion to mitigate a bug with my Norn Guardian, where using Greatsword Leap of Faith completely misses targets if they’re slighly lower elevation than you. Doesn’t happen with my Asura guardian, just a frustrating bug with the Norn model.

I also much prefer the movement mechanics of Human/Sylvari to Norns – they feel quicker, more alacrity. Norns feel so sluggish and unresponsive by comparison.

PS – ANet I would pay real money for a race change, even if it required completely resetting the personal story. My norn guardian looks awesome, but I much prefer him in human form.

You can adjust the height of your character for now using a total makeover kit if you already haven’t. But yeah, I agree. I’d love the ability to change the race of my character. If they were to ever implement that though I’m curious to see what they;d do about cultural armors.

Yeah, unfortunately a short Norn isn’t enough, the movement mechanics and sluggishness are still the same.

And yeah, cultural armors are another issue, but since they keep the name even when transmuted, theoretically they could be converted to the new race’s equivalent T1/2/3 cultural armor skin.

honestly a-net? like people complained about these because they can hide what class you are but REALLY? you nerf these? what the kitten?

i really liked these things for jumping puzzles ( im a charr) and i just thought they were cool looking.

please change this back, i’d really like to have a use for my stack of 250 of these