Guild Wars 2

Hello Robert and/or Mesmer team and/or Joe Shmo. Before I get into this I wanted to start by saying I love Mesmer and it’s one of the reasons I’ve stuck around. With that being said I’ve also stuck around for what GW2 could be for quite a while now.

I’ve always played rouge types or archers in games like this but mesmer was cool enough to break that cycle so here is my two cents and I hope the format makes the information easier to process, in hopes it will reach your eyes, Robert.

GW2 wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mesmer

Abilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqk6u-k5scI&feature=youtu.be

Specializations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNhvyBOLZBE&feature=youtu.be

Chronomancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZV_NOkNs5o&feature=youtu.be

- IR: Possible change, on shattering Continuum Shift with 1 or more illusions -generate a clone -furthermore: shattering 1 or more illusions while in Continuum Shift generates a clone.
This function would limit the strength of the trait to where it is needed, while in Continuum Shift

Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--g5AhH9Elo&feature=youtu.be

Builds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOcFl3OjS8&feature=youtu.be

For anyone interested I stream ranked q’s regularly @ http://www.twitch.tv/betterhappy and enjoy answering questions if I’m able. (stop by on your lunch break? <3)

Thanks for your time o/

I hate to break it to you, but let me put this bluntly:

Nobody on this forum, let alone Robert Gee, who I can assure you is incredibly busy right now, is going to watch 110 minutes of somebody talking. This is a bit more than your two cents, it’s more along the lines of the whole bank account.

If you want to give feedback, make it directed and to the point. Bullets work nicely for this. Headings do too. Mindblowingly long youtube videos do not.

I made it through 10 minutes.

Would it have killed you to be brief, man? There’s no way I’m wading through all the rest of that, and I’m a forum warrior!

Thanks Fay for continuing to be unable to differentiate between personal opinion and fact. o/

This information is worth the time of whoever feels the desire to watch/listen to it. You’ve made it very clear that you don’t like the format so please feel free not to watch/listen. I do not plan to cater to your needs and change what I’ve done.

Does that clear things up?

Dude, these are WAY to long. Some people might make it through your videos, but, I highly doubt there will be many. Mostly due to the fact that, while I can assure you there is a lot to talk about, it can be fit into a video 1/5 the time these videos take up. This leads me to believe that these are going to be full of rants. This makes me not want to watch or even listen. I personally spend 4 or even 5 hours a day listening to people talk on youtube. They are covering massive topics mind you, and the longest is 45 minutes. People want high content density thrown at them in a way that doesn’t bore them and yet doesn’t confuse them. Unfortunately, you fail at the everything but the last. A good method to hit all three, if done correctly, is a well managed text that goes through everything on a point by point basis.

While I respect your effort, its not in a format that anyone but a small minority will sit through.

I’m usualy skeptical about opening up a youtube even when I have an idea of the content. 110 min’s of talking I hear? err

-_-u

Here’s a better idea

• List your core concept with bullet points
• They’re really helpful
• I always read bullet points

Videos are nice when there’s actual visual stuff you want to show. If it’s just pure audio +/- a few static images, text would serve you better.

I do appreciate your dedication to the game and the class and trying to offer suggestions to improvement.

But I have to agree with the above that making very long video is not the most effective way of conveying your idea. Not only Robert won’t have time to go through your suggestion, neither will any of us has enough time to watch that.

BetterHappy.2517:

This information is worth the time

It might be.

But I think the point is this:
Why would anyone who has anything else to do at all (say, a developer :P ) spend nearly 2 hours consuming information in one of the slowest formats available, when it could be consumed in 5-10 minutes tops?

Text is nice. Imagine if all of our replies here were always videos of us blabbering. Imagine how slow and impractical that would be.

That is because the information/time density of videos is extremely low unless you are fully utilizing the graphics to a degree where pictures of short gifs or short videos at specific points in the text wouldn’t work.

I think that was Fay’s point. Video is a very bad format for conveying what is essentially textual (you, talking) information. It’s extremely slow, and even as someone watching this forum in their spare time I simply lack the time to spend on so little information. Now think about a dev who gets paid or this, and who is probably already pulling all-nighters so close to release. Really think he’d prefer 110 minutes video for 5 minutes worth of information?

BetterHappy.2517:

Thanks Fay for continuing to be unable to differentiate between personal opinion and fact. o/

This information is worth the time of whoever feels the desire to watch/listen to it. You’ve made it very clear that you don’t like the format so please feel free not to watch/listen. I do not plan to cater to your needs and change what I’ve done.

Does that clear things up?

You can take criticism or not. All he meant was that no one or near no one will give any consideration to any ramblings of such length unless the wisdom is coming from a very established source.

You stating that “it’s worth someones time” does not change that.

You now are faced with 2 options:

- adapt to your audience and revise your contribution

- be a shuned genious (or troll) who no one ever listened to

Only 1 of those two is the sensible approach if you want to get your point accross.