Guild Wars 2

According to the announcement video it looks rather static: camp, target, destroy. I wonder how this would work in a fast paced and movement heavy game like GW2?

PvE? No problem.

PvP? Well there’s a lot of projectile hate right now, which is worsened the further away you are from your target. Depending on projectile speed and if they can be reflected and/or blocked, it’s not going to work very well.

We’ll have to wait and see.

I am just hopeing this means we get ricochet trait back as a trait ( and not attached to some ability like say shortbows trick shot.) and is a way for Anet to right that most grievous wrong. It appears the skills tailor around assault rifle rather then shotgun or lock and load single shot style rifle like say a hunting rifle which is a major plus if its true. Go full auto on there kitten .

disappointing…

they didn’t even show the traits… and we got the least stream time of all other professions! nice! TYVM

Pvp wise looks awful, open world and wvw seems that it could work, what has me worried is that trickery is still cored and the new trait will have to either replace DA(damage focused trait) or DD(utility trait)

Anklot.3274:

Pvp wise looks awful, open world and wvw seems that it could work, what has me worried is that trickery is still cored and the new trait will have to either replace DA(damage focused trait) or DD(utility trait)

We don’t know the traits yet though, either of these two being replaced could end up being completely fine.

Or it could be a disaster. Who knows…

In one of the short clips it looks like there’s some post up then a flip or blink back. The actual game play doesn’t look too far off from d/p and Dash dueling.

Anklot.3274:

Pvp wise looks awful, open world and wvw seems that it could work, what has me worried is that trickery is still cored and the new trait will have to either replace DA(damage focused trait) or DD(utility trait)

I’m pretty sure it will have to replace Daredevil since there can only be one elite spec traited at a time.

Anklot.3274:

Pvp wise looks awful

Why do you think so? I guess we will get some sniper kind of gun, so expect more than 1200 range, 1500 maybe?. It could be superior weapon for 1 vs 1, killing people from safe distance …we will see.

Not saying no one will use rifle in PvP. Its just the dead-eye trait line also buffs dagger/ pistol. so i think dagger /pistol will remain king in PvP. so instead of steal you get MARK which makes you do more damage and you have a cantrip that removes reviled. so… you can do 2 back stabs in a row and mark makes you do x2 damage so its like 4x damage back stabs. also rifle roots you in place kinda bad for pvp i think. but this might make trap thief a thing? just make sure you lay them down to protect your booty. also i guess you can gave a mez port you around that can be really cool.

There’s no ricochet…and there’s no unblockable (only stealth attack)…have fun killing yourselves.

Don’t get me wrong, some traits can be promising, but the weaponset itself is bad given how much projectile hate and blocks/invuls/evade spams there are in the game atm.

Did you guys seriously expect anything else? I mean I can understand hoping for something else entirely but this is what a sniper is gonna do: suck.

The sniper concept has so much wrong with it on the conceptual level that it’ll never be any good unless it’s completely overpowered.

Have fun with your snipes and mounts, I’ma pass on this expansion I think lol.

DeceiverX is just mad because Anet totally rejected his proposal yet took its name

naturesoul.3578:

DeceiverX is just mad because Anet totally rejected his proposal yet took its name

No, I’m mad the concept they released is bad for the game and bad for the class itself.

They could have released MH torch or make the rifle melee shotgun and called it the Deadeye and I wouldn’t have honestly cared. Stealth-sniping burst kits are objectively not good for competitive games akin to chained immunities and passives.

Quit your crying no one care you don’t like this new specializations you don’t have to run it you know right?

Im super stoked for a true sniper build been run warrior kill shot for years but after there nurf stop using it much. Now i get to have all that fun again with this new and improved Sniper class =D so kitten excited.

It will be a fun new exp, and ES isnt guaranteed spvp success same way with other builds. But it willbe new an fun, maybe even raid viable.