Guild Wars 2

After showing the fractured preview to someone, I was wondering if anyone else got the feeling that the dev playing it had a practical joke played on him.

*Up until they started the fractal, he was in a transform which didn’t allow him to see any of his utilities/weapons.

*When he did get to see his abilities/weapons, he had SoS, Scorpion wire, and RfI, all of which are useless in terms of group utility.

*He did not use his RfI in the appropriate situations.

*He had just enough agony resistance to survive a single stack of agony

*He had celestial gear that was incomplete

*He had no weapon swap

*He got an achievement for a (single) combo kill which would not have been his first if they were play-testing regularly with those characters.

I just seems that either he had a practical joke played on him where someone else created his build. An alternative is that he got in a heated discussion before the fractal where he said something to the effect that thieves inherently bring high dps and are good at the trap parts of the dungeon and someone said if it’s so easy why don’t you do it. The discussion in minute 18 of the twitch video makes me think the latter was the case. The third option is that he accidentally chose a test bed thief there they were looking into improvements that could be made to lesser used/useful skills.

In any case, if you watched it before with a permanent facepalm (like I did), watch it again with the assumption that someone else created his build thinking it would be funny and it suddenly makes sense.

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/3299578

Thoughts?

First of all, test servers are often wiped after they release the patch, then recreated to match the current live server — so the achievement gained was understandable.

The build, skill, and weapon choices are probably to show that even a crappy build with crappy agony resistance can do the fractal.

Doing it well is another story.

It was kitten on purpose to show that even the worst class can get carried in the new fractals. He didn’t even have any underwater weapons or skills IIRC.

Who are we kidding here, devs don’t play thieves.

Excalibur.9748:

It was kitten on purpose to show that even the worst class can get carried in the new fractals. He didn’t even have any underwater weapons or skills IIRC.

Who are we kidding here, devs don’t play thieves.

That’s the word I was looking for. lol

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Excalibur.9748:

It was kitten on purpose to show that even the worst class can get carried in the new fractals. He didn’t even have any underwater weapons or skills IIRC.

Who are we kidding here, devs don’t play thieves.

That’s the word I was looking for. lol

>.>

I was looking for alternatives rather than showcasing a player being carried through the fractals. If it were planned you think they’d want to showcase how lesser used builds can fill a niche role in fractal group: i.e. show off the venomshare build they keep pushing.

All devs are terrible players. Some of them “mastered” healing signet warriors and shout guardians enough to not to die every minute. And there is no one dev who plays thief regularly.