Guild Wars 2

Strang.8170:

So basicly…..
let´s do what we already do but without the hassle of learning to attunement swap?

Not quite. Let us use the abilities we want to use, not what happens to be off cooldown.

So here’s how I think Ele should have been designed to allow it to be a versatile and flexible caster

Attunement should have been replaced by custom decks of 5 of those weapon skills chosen in exactly the same way utility skills are currently.

Example: If you equipped 2 daggers you could have:

Any element of dagger 1 skill on slot 1 Example you could have Vapor Blade or Lightning Whip
Any element of dagger 2 skill on slot 2 Example you could have Cone of Cold or Drake’s Breath
Any element of dagger 3 skill on slot 3
Any element of dagger 4 skill on slot 4
Any element of dagger 5 skill on slot 5

Weapon swapping allowed

This would allow elementalists to use all 4 elements without being obligated to use all 4 all the time to be at their most effective.

Obviously traits would have to be reworked.

My gripe with elementalist is that if we assume perfect balance between all classes, a class that needs you to use 25 skills to be at 100% effectiveness is worse off than a class that requires you to use 15.

As an example.. Its like if in target shooting I fire 25 bullets, and my opponent fires 15 bullets. Is it harder for me or my opponent to get a perfect 100% score?

That sounds close to wilful sabotage of a person’s computer and is legally shaky if they ban some rich gamer with a good lawyer.

Maybe the Gods are dead and we could collectively absorb their power to be better, faster, stronger. Instead of having one chick hog the lot for her greedy self.

Interesting.

I’d say part of my discontent is how all fantasy races tend to be ‘aspects’ of our real human race and humans in the games are just ‘one’ of those.

So even though our species is by far the most technologically adept that we know of humans in fantasy settings are children with swords compared with the dwarves/gnomes/asura in a given setting. So on for basically everything. We’d win everything going except for maybe the ‘close to nature’ prize, but we tend to have never gone down those ‘paths’ in order for the made up species to have their own superior niche. Leaving game humans without one.

So it can rub me the wrong way when all the things humans are known for are somehow well behind the made up races.

Then the old human vs elf thing. Where even if you can argue that humans are equal/superior the elves just go ‘well we live forevor’ (No-ones seen the end of a Sylvari lifetime)

Humans kind of get all ‘real’ humans flaws (Weaker and less nimble than say a chimpanzee, for example), and usually nothing ‘special’ to differentiate.

If I can claim to have a superior culture though, that’s something I hadn’t considered. Versatility would be good, if there was one prohibited class for all races except humans that would be a good argument. But.. Asura warriors?

Well, there were always going to be Asura warriors. They fit the same ‘Kawaiii!’ memetastic niche as pink haired female gnome main tank or greatsword PvP killing machine did in WoW.

So all humans have is what amounts to sheer feral desperation to make up for their crushing inferiority in every area. They should be the best at at least -one- thing.

There’s nothing glorious about being the least fit species in every measurable term and winning because your special trait is rigging natural selection on a quantum level.

From playing a human and checking out the lore and RP’ing with a Sylvari I have to say that humans seem to be missing any sort of love whatsoever.

Near extinct, worse at engineering than the Asura and Charr, vastly worse at magic than the Asura

Seemingly less warlike and numerous than the Charr. Vastly physically inferior to the Norn. Less all round intelligent than the Asura and the Sylvari have a hive mind that allows them to share knowledge and be perfectly unified.

(Relevant because i’ve personally killed about a thousand humans that decided to turn on us)

How can humans survive in the GW2 world with no allies, backed into their last city and completely inferior to all other races?

I’m finding it hard to have any rebuttal to other races claims that humans suck, I mean even our Gods don’t want us anymore..