Guild Wars 2

I very much agree. Would love to have different weight armor skins available to my Characters.
Most of the time people cite ‘clipping issues’ as the biggest reason it’ll never happen. Though whenever anyone says that, I have to laugh because the clipping issues already around within same weight sets and even some of the Outfits.

Lightning/Air, imo. Kuunavang was technically a saltspray dragon that used air magic

So I’ve been trying to restyle my necromancer yet again. Trying to achieve a unique (as far as you can get currently) look for myself between 4 different armor sets.
Thing is previewing all the different combos From the wardrobe, I am constantly frustrated at the limited styles available in the light armor weight class.. It’s all pretty much skirts and buttflaps that move awkwardly or don’t sit right with other pieces that I like… or they’re just not nice at all (IMHO as style is personal).
So I ventured out of the Light section and started comparing things from medium and heavy and matching them up in my head…
So many possibilities!

Basically, I would love to see the restrictions of weight class removed from armor skins. This would mean people have way more options when it comes to mix matching armors and would probably stem the clamour for more armor sets .. at least for a while.
I wouldn’t even care too much about potential clipping issues, because those exist already when mixing sets (or even sticking to one set).

Wryscher.1432:

Major wvw over haul
-golems are now free to build
-golems now move 100% faster
-golems now do 100% more damage
-golems can now use gliders.

Done and done

Players from opposing worlds are no longer hostile to one another.
To earn points for your World, you must participate in and complete dynamic events across the map. something we like to call ‘competitive PvE’

no real announcement has been made. this is a vague, broad offhand comment given as a reason for not fixing something else that’s been missing from the game for years..

It should work in shroud, Yes. Force doesn’t apply any stat changes afaik and so wouldn’t be reflected on your character sheet.

Lets also not forget that Spectral Wall is an ethereal field and we will have a couple whirl finishers with reaper (GD from GS and SoulSpiral from Shroud). It also gives us access to Chaos Armor using Death’s charge. Lots and lots of cheese

notebene.3190:

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Gotta be one of those kitten ed irritating super minis I find at every bank and merchant I ever go to >.<

Ahh i see them on my alt account, but not my main which already bought one of each at the slightly more expensive price.
Would never have noticed! Thanks!

I don’t see the bump or jump in the gemstore any more? Has it been pulled?

Flashy Noodle

Going to need a lot more work so it can really shine, but I’m seeing signs of decent synergy in traits and skills.

Skill effects/animations are a little ott in some situations. some guildies played Rev in WvW yesterday amongst the usual group and the constant roadworks were funny at first, then just got irritating.

So with the most recent feature patch, we now have the ability to create separate builds for PvP, PvE and WvW, and have those builds load up when we enter a zone designated to one of these activities. Fantastic! I love it because it means I don’t have to keep messing about swapping builds between WvW and PvE, seeing as PvP was always segregated.

One thing that stands out like a sore thumb to me now though, is that I can’t edit these build variations unless I am actually in a zone for which I want to build. What I feel would enhance the feature we already have is letting us access all three build varieties wherever we are and give us the ability to then edit these too.

Sounds simple enough, but not being a programmer, I wouldn’t know.
Am I the only one thinking this would be handy to have or are there others who would like this feature too?

The problem discussed here could potentially be part of the problem if you run with Heightened Focus
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/I-will-love-enemy-chronomancers/first#post5250406

I spent an hour or so this morning compiling a new look for my warrior who has been running around in Primeval Armor since launch. I am really happy with the result, because I was looking for something feminine/sexy yet ‘practical’. Mix and match has so much potential I actually dropped 1600 gems just for two pieces of this combo.

Basaltface.2786:

well seems a-net was reading my dairy on these… love em all 10\10 will buy em. Now just add a backpiece that fits the theme and im good

how about
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Synergetic_Tempered_Spinal_Blades
or
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Slickpack
or possibly even
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Antitoxin_Injector_Skin

so many possibilities!

Am I misunderstanding something? I thought that with the trait updates etc we will start to benefit from healing through our DS?

Sebrent.3625:

What is wrong with hips?!

/snip

Nothing at all is wrong with hips themselves. It’s the oversized/overscaled armor that sits on them. Seer’s Pants have a similar effect to WoW shoulder pads for example.

I do still love my Femme Norn though and to restore balance, My Mesmer will be reborn as a Revenant.

I’m sorry but trying on every other armor set in game, all I get is ‘Dem Hips’

Had my Female Norn Mesmer since just after launch.

My only real gripe is that some armor models have some daft scaling on the Norn frame.

That said, I am currently waiting for the removal of the NPE to make a sylvari mesmer instead.

I actually can’t play sylvari female characters because ‘this rose has thorns, here they are!’ ¬_¬

Was playing around with the wardrobe yesterday and I really REALLY want a non smurf version of zodiac armor so this will look awesome:
(Zodiac Helm, T3 Cultural Shoulders, Ascended Chest, Drybones Gloves, Zodiac Legs, T3 Cultural Boots)

What I really want is the armour the shroud demo character was wearing; Mix n matching that would be fun!!

anyone know if it’s something we’ll have access to if we don’t already?

There’s a few reasons really, mostly aesthetic like female animations and armours usually being, subjectively, better. Big one for me though is that I enjoy the idea of a strong female character kicking kitten and taking names. I enjoy the narrative more because in my head a male in the same situation is just ‘Generic muscle Dude McGuy beats things because he’s just that awesome.’ which just bores me to tears. I think probably because that is the scenario I’ve grown up with through the late 80s and 90s. I loved Lucy Lawless as Xena way more than Kevin Sorbo as Hercules for the same reason.

Picard is still >> than Janeway though. Sorry, not sorry.

I’ve got a Twilight already crafted. Done.

I believe this was implemented to prevent item duping where multiple people have access to the same stack of items simultaneously.

nGumball.1283:

Psychol.5783:

Shifu.4321:

You must not have played World of Warcraft

You can adjust interface in WoW, it’s much more clear. In GW2 I’m just smashing buttons in zerg because there’s nothing you can do.

WoW’s interface can never be adjusted to the level to could be called clear or even close to it.

Gonna have to disagree with you there. My old Raid UI provided me with all the information I could want, easily and readily without obstructing my view. Couple that with better camera options (further zoom options) and the fact hat you can pretty much tweak ALL of the UI to be where you want it and have it look how you want means it has far more potential than the GW2 UI. The attached screenshot is mine from before I quit. A quick google search for clean wow ui gives a plethora of sleek and simple UI that users have built from themselves. The power of modding I guess.

I’ve only just noticed that the scaling of the BLTC UI is working properly now so if you have your UI scale set to small, you can still read and use the window without issue!

Thank you for getting on this QOL fix and keep ’em coming

I’m all for separate ‘raid’ style instances for groups bigger than 5. More easily accessible permanent content that you don’t have to wait around for, potentially more easily balanced because the devs know what numbers will be attending rather than having to get some kind of scaling system right, no AFKers or trolls to make things difficult or harm the experience.
Some might claim this will exclude and alienate some players of the game, but then current content does too. Having to deal with overflows, getting split from your party because one is full. Not being able to play the content because the population spread is hard to pin down and everything seems built around the big numbers requirement.

Openworld zerg bosses just don’t work. I see both Tequatl and the Wurms as dead content, simply because the mass organisation required to get everyone ready, into the same overflow and on vent etc. just to have a good shot at a kill is unreasonable and some would argue, not worth that effort.

if you have access to the Hall of Monuments, try the heritage pants dyed white for a nice regal looking wedding dress

Just received one too. I’ve made sure to change my passwords etc just in case.

If Snake Plissken isn’t there, I will be very disappointed!

While i don’t agree with the bonus this item provides over the older infinite tools, I bought one because I want infinite tools and I missed the kitten ed one day sale of the triple pack.

I for one would be more than happy to not get sprockets, especially as i have a node for those in my home instance should i ever feel daring enough to craft power precision healing power gear….

I’m getting this and the only thing that’s changed recently is an nvidia driver update. I smell culprit

same here except it doesn’t ask me to repair files. just sends the error report and that’s it.

This is probably where I’d take it.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8clwzyoHTzmGb9IiJFEnvR6hpxanWJF82FC-jkCBYfCyUEw0yQECA5mFRjtkqIas6aYKXRWDDQFLpSBwkwI-w

I’d probably also argue switching out Chaos III for chaos V, but in the end it comes down to personal preference.
I’d also bring a second offhand sword for when I’ve maxed your stacks. Battle, Fire or Generosity would be my first choices depending on what I feel I’m lacking.
Could very easily drop Thievery for Mantra of Resolve. Again, depends on how well I think I could handle condi pressure. Against condi Necros, Mantra wins because thievery would just feed them.

Given my gear, I’d also feel comfortable enough to drop Chaos X and take VIII, just because BI is glorious and perfect for a build with high interrupt capability.
(pretty much all credit for how I’d set up this would have to go to ChaosArchangel and the Mind Crush build)

azizul.8469:

how is “joining a group, but then found that the group is not to your liking and then leave the group” considered an abuse ?

If I recall correctly, the LFG tool shows how many people and what professions are already in the group before you join. So the only thing you can’t see is AP. Feels scummy to me.

It is something carried over from GW1, where you could tell who’s casting what and if it’s worth interrupting just by looking at the spell effect(s). It worked really well but hasn’t carried over well into GW2 simply because so many spells are massively flashy and interrupting key skills is more niche than it was back then.

Easiest way to identify a Profession now is to select them. you can then see their buffs, which can often give away what type of build they’re running too, especially when you take a look at the weapon set they’re sporting. Observation on that scale makes a much larger impact than what colour the butterflies or fire trails are.
If anything, allowing more customisation of our UI layout and size would help much more with that, even if it is just something as simple as being able to move elements around and resizing them as we see fit, much like we had in GW1.

Colour changes to skill effects is something I can get behind for deeper character differentiation. It would be something to get used to, but in the end you’ll always know that a guardian can’t cast a feedback nor can an elementalist channel cleansing flame.

I’d give this build a go, curtesy of BlackDevil:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Maximised-Hybrid-Phantasm-Build-Roaming/first

It is something I’ve been toying with and really enjoyed. It plays a little differently to what I’m used to but all the Mesmer principles are there. In a 1v1 or somevsome situation you can really focus a single target and make their life difficult with stuns, condition pressure, mobility control and being hard to catch.

You can then apply this focus to ZvZ. Pick out a few people and keep them distracted and pressured. Phantasms don’t usually last long, but throwing out an iZerker into a clumped bunch of reds is satisfying and effective. Could even swap in the new signet to get a second one immediately after the first for a nice spike. You can quickly build might stacks through Bountiful Interruptions using GS #5 on a group of people. you can then share them with a signet of inspiration along with any other buff gained from PU.

Combine these elements with the suggested Centaur runes, and PU and you’ve got a fairly solid solo/group roaming build that can add to large scale battles too.

Regarding the choice of /sword or /pistol, I generally favour pistol in roaming situations for the range on magic bullet, making it feel that much more flexible than /sword. But then again I haven’t run it with CI yet, so it is something I’ll look into to see if sword doesn’t win out after all.

I’ve been running the 30/20/20/0/0 version of Mind Crush for a little while now, and I love it. It even works nicely in Dungeons with signet of Inspiration for sharing those Boons from BI.
The only thing I miss with this is run speed for WvW, so I either switch to focus and back a lot or I try to stick to people giving AoE swiftness where I can.

Carighan.6758:

Really, Traveller runes are sorta a must have for all classes which don’t spec a passive +25% runspeed, at least for PvP.

There’s really little way around it. Expertise, Concentration, Runspeed, all in one set of runes.

Now ofc you’ll say “But but, the other classes have +25% speed signets! :’(” (well, four do, two more can spec +25% passive, and one has it the same as us but their swiftness weapon was fixed to at least somewhat stack!). To which I say: If your utility slot isn’t worth more than your set of runes, you are either doing a pure dungeon berserker build (and runspeed no longer matters) or you need to rethink your setup.

There are exceptions ofc. As always. Example Blackwater, where you need the +confusion power. But those are few and far between. Runspeed is close to the strongest stat you can run in any PvP format (but more so in WvW), and you really don’t want to sacrifice potentially game-changing class utilities to get it.

I agree whole heartedly, which is why I’d love to see Compounding Celerity changed to give us run speed outside of combat rather than in. Call it Illusionist’s Burden. It gives us a 25% boost whilst NOT having any clones or phantasms.

I want to love mesmer in WvW, but being tied to certain rune choices which limit my build choice if I want out of combat mobility is a massive downer. Especially when one of those rune choices sets you back at least 54g for the set.

In sPvP i don’t mind the lack of run speed too much. Smaller maps and more frequent skirmishes between objectives means I never feel like I’m just sight seeing.

For now, I’ll keep levelling my engineer. Speedy kits is immense and easily incorporated into most decent roaming and group builds.

IGN: Theurgical Atra
Server: Yak’s Bend (US)
Playstyle: Mainly PvE and WvW, usually 3 to 5 man roaming.
Play time: Mostly Evenings and during days off from work, EU timezone.
Role: Scholar/Tester
Always looking to improve my Mesmer-Fu

Yak’s Bend + Ehmry Bay……

… Still a better love story than Twilight

The problem is that acquiring the skins isn’t hard by any stretch of the imagination. It just takes a little love from the RNG gods. Sure, doing a higher and potentially more difficult level gives you a better chance, but it’s still RNG.
If they implemented a set of tokens that you get from one of each different fractal at level 50 and you needed them all for one weapon, then we might be talking difficult, because it requires player achievement, not luck.

I would really hate to see a passive speed buff on one of our signets. It wouldn’t feel much better than what we have now with having to switch or swap in a focus for curtain, because there are far too many utilities that a Mesmer already wants to take.
I switched my build and gear around a bit to freshen up my game and try something new, and I already miss my runes of the air for swiftness on heal.

My first thought would be a minor trait that grants 25% movement speed when we don’t have any clones or phantasms up. That makes it great for out of combat movement, but is a boon that would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain in combat. Call it an Illusionist’s burden.

The question then becomes what trait line to put it in and what to either take out, or buddy it with.
Personally (and I know I’ll get a lot of shtick for it) would pair it with Critical infusion and change it’s functionality for it to give you vigor when your clones/phantasms crit.

If they do tie in Tequatl’s evolution to the LS, then it’ll be something terribly contrived.
Scarlet Finds the ‘corpse’ of Zhaitan, absorbs his power and then buffs Tequatl with it as a test. This then leads on to what she’s doing in TA.

I would have preferred a simple ‘the beast is learning and adapting’ explanation to anything Mary Scarlet Sue related.

Would love an invite please! Great idea to keep the guilds together for future events like this!

EDIT: Got my invite and my first kill! Thank you very much

I’m using the default bindings of V and space for dodge and jump respectively. I rest my thumb over my space bar and on the V key so that i can press them together or individually as i choose. Works for me with 100% reliability

My Guardian is in Cultural T3, though with the arrival of the Radiant skins, I just had to switch out the gloves and shoulders.
Dyes are Silver for the panels and Celestial to give that glowy white shine

Iron Asura Prototype :P

I’m sure this must have been suggested somewhere already, but either I’m not searching for the right things, or it doesn’t exist, so here’s a little QOL addition I’d like to see.

Either a template system or an Alternate Traits tab that I can switch between Either as and when I like for a one time premium or a smaller fee for each switch.

I’m currently running around with a Mesmer as my main character. Most of the time I stroll about in PvE as a Shatter/Zerker, but when I jump into WvW and sometimes when I just want to switch it up a bit, I like to change to something with a bit more staying power and different style of play.
Along with having to run to the bank to swap out my gear, I also need to change up my traits every time I switch, and this could be a few seeing as I could go from Eventing to WvW to Dungeons and Fractals and around again, meaning I’d be holding up my group.
The cost doesn’t bother me too much, though I’m sure I grumble about it at the moment as it is on top of a time inconvenience. The time required however, does.
I’ve thought about rolling a second Mesmer just so I can trait them separately and only need to relog, but where’s the fun in that. Also, I’d like to be able to use my legendary once I’ve finally gotten it crafted.
I can’t see any balance issues, as you can’t change traits in combat anyway.

Could even make Trait tabs a Gemstore item akin to bank tabs. I’d buy at least one.

What say you? Do you like to switch it up, or have you got a few builds you like to run for specific things? Would something like this help your enjoyment?