Well so far i love it, its doomsday of dps, sure.. nothing “complex” or really new but it does what it does extremely well, bringing on the paintrain. Having all traits revolve arround the forge is…weird to say the least, but the synergy with the explosive line and firearms is there nonetheless, specially cause you can trait the forge auto to be an explosive projectile. Heck the “build your own kit” trait stuff going on is super fun the longer i think about it. While beeing equipped with a sword i personally rarely found myself using it, building more on the forge and using it till i explode on purpose for a last “thank you and good night” before jumping (with my elixir gun) back and going “semi” ranged, gonna try to use a rifle or pistol with it tomorrow prolly pistol\shield should do what im aiming for, cause i sure do like the shield skills. The utility skills are nothing too special imo, but i sure do love their power increase at 50% heat, the ult tho… yeap, having a frigging death star laser is a 10\10 from me
After i dropped my engineer and former main with the advent of the scrapper (long story short this spec kittenes me off for too many personal reasons to count) it feels good to be back and i cant wait for sep 22 to finally dust off my engi.
Put an npc to rez when Dragon's Stand resets
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orrr… hmm… crazy idea but stick with me… use the waypoint thats 10 feet away?
Well.. the nerf is as obvios as a blowtorch flame in a dark room, i just hope they dont…well scrapper nerf it. It can literally do one thing, unleash living hell in melee, leave it atleast some degree of that. But given its a-net i can just say.. i had a blast with it as long as it lasted.
Well, from what i saw of the map thats more like what i wanted. Exploration without having an entire village of angry assassin frogs on your back, the oasis is actually a functional hub rather then part of a meta event like tarir is. Gorgeous, just gorgeous.
Only negative thing on it is for me that i cant buy joko merch at the undead´s store, come on a-net, drop some stupid joko statue trophy in there or a guild hall statue.
Mounts.. or better said the raptor feels good to use, feels actually like it got weight to it and its essentially a 2 legged doggo. 10\10
Overall the only thing i really dont like is the unidentified gear. You hide exotics and rares in there? Seriosly? Come on, split it into rarity like green\blue UG, yellow UG and gold UG and its good with me.
eh.. im more on the charr side of tech so the holosmith crosses my usual view of gw engineering, thats about the only “complain” i got there. Already prepping an asura for it to fix my issue.
well you might get something skin-ish like that soon… atleast part of it check that_shaman on reddit
I wish I had a screen shot or remembered the NPC’s name, but in the clock tower JP staging/waiting area, there’s an NPC.. I think it was a char? It had a lantern on a pole. I would LOVE to have something like that as a staff skin!
its called the crossing, is already in game so get one on the trading post
Power of Faren obviosly
how about we start getting more sets to begin with…
It’s hard to imagine that they aren’t churning as many sets as they can already.
However, it doesn’t matter; no matter how many sets they produce, they’ll never come close to pleasing all of us — our tastes are just too diverse.
Call me a sceptic with some (hobby level) experience in 3d stuff… and weeeeeell… nope, i highly doubt its even close to what they could be capable of producing IF they wanted to of course … alone the “takes 9 months per set” line is certainly fishy and if you take in consideration the literal flood of outfits after HoT where most of them could easily fit a weight class and IF made with some consideration of cut off seams like skins they would have easily made atleast 5 times as many sets as we got with HoT itself but i digress. As for pleasing all of us? Yea aint gonna happen like ever, tastes are fortunally different else it would be boring. With a skinpack or packs tho.. you can just pick parts you like and mix em for a “realistic” look or the total opposide if thats your thing or something in the middle.. heck im not your mom. We can only hope that this time they actually could be bothered to make more sets with creative overall appearances and individual pieces for the upcoming expansion so that everybody (that partakes in the fashion wars) gets something out of it…thats as much as i can say to this.
how about we start getting more sets to begin with…
Whelp.. holo stuff.. this calls for an asuran engi. Ill prepare one just in case but i certainly will NOT make a legendary beforehand like i did with the juggernaut. Please let this one be good unlike its pvp addicted kittened brother
On a side note, I realized only now that the Beastslayer GS is made out of arrowhead scales. O_o
most of the set is made of some established beast´s body parts, thats why i personally love it so much.. especially the shield
Perhaps the next engi spec will use it and be epic…oh who am i kidding…
I believe he is referring to the pike/spear he uses in the finisher.
doubt it. Most likely this one
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Id like that one too.. but they didnt even give us the darn rev weapons from the beta so dont expect anything
Well.. i cant say i really did like HoT a lot, i mean sure.. parts of it i like, but there are many parts i utterly detested… and sorta still do. Not gonna lie, the LS3 calmed my anger quite a lot and if it keeps this level of quality i might be eventually just a bit grumpy at the end.. who knows, chances are good.
So yea back to the theme.
Since HoT i canned my beloved main, the engineer, i detested the trainwreck of an elite spec, especially cause i was looking forward to a hammer using engineer since years. This sentiment worsened as they kept removing more and more flavor from the spec…like the many stuns that actually where usefull at the end once i learned to appreciate the use of CC… since the mechanic itself is imho just a random trait. Seriosly.. put the function gyro into the invention traitline and i wouldnt be the wiser.
In other words.. the thing i looked forward the most was a trainwreck at the start and is now a burned out trainwreck… atleast for me, dont even bother to “educate” me, i dont like it, period.
The fractal changes where another thing i really didnt like a lot. Yea.. i know i know, it got a lot better for many people but i actually enjoyed beeing “forced” into 4 random fractals…well 3 cause everybody rolled swamp at the start. It had for me atleast a “we are stuck in this together” feel, like 5 guys going in and worked together to come out at the end. Now its too quick for my tastes, but like i said before.. i do see why people prefer the revamp.
Guilds… ho boy… Well i once had a guild, a small one, nothing special… just 11 guys that randomly met at the early levels goofing arround and eventually forming a guild. We did fractals and dungeons together and some open world stuff, heck we even build a legendary for one of said guildies as a b-day gift. Good times… Then HoT came and well.. lets just say the small guild went down the crapper. Everything we worked towards was obsolete and over the months the guild shrunk and eventually got disbanded. A few left the game, the others went on to bigger guilds and me.. well im a solo player now.
Skins… well lets just say i like to play dressup. Making looks is one of my greatest joys in the game, new skins mean for me (not always but very often) new looks or heck even completely new themed chars. HoT´s skin pool was pitifull for an expansion, we got like what… 9 profession themed armor pieces, a few backpacks, 3 sets per weight class and one extra for heavies.. that actually for once took charr in account, yea colour me surprised. Regardless.. it was not enough for me, not even close. Before HoT we where told that armor skins are now in game rewards, so i was obviosly looking forward to all the cool new stuff… yup.. thanks.
Raids… well i missed that train. My own fault really, was just not motivated to play much gw2 after HoT for a while and especially pugging them now requires knowledge of the encounters and legendary insights. Knowledge i can get from tutorial vids no issue…but insights and the actual “feel” of playing it? Well nah, so yeap, train went through and that i didnt board it is my very own fault. Shame.. they got some nice skins in it… and are heavy on lore like i heard, especially the latest wing.
But nonetheless.. i got some good stuff recently. Made myself a berserker and even a nice legendary mace to it.. eureka is for me a 10\10. Love it. Also so many ways to CC (i like to cc stuff a lot, lets leave it at this)… man i love the class and the spec, it takes all the game types in account too… unlike scrapper.
The new LS maps are very good, i especially enjoyed the first and last map they added and the story goes somewhere too, keeps me pulled in and i enjoy that they tie up loose ends from the personal story…like recently in the story.
My salt slowly gets washed away… still a lot of it to go but i could see myself eventually returning to the “good ol days” mood and feel wise…if they keep it up like this. Maybe next expansion i get all my nice things again, as for this one.. atleast they put a bandage on the stab wound HoT caused me and gave me a lollipop and a pat on the head.
Keep it up a-net.
Trenchcoats are not the issue, the issue is that there are MOSTLY trenchcoats for mediums, 3 classes that cant be more different in fighting style and need of protection.
Thiefes\daredevils are almost ninja like, sneaky and agile. A “heavy” trenchcoat would just be a nuisance for them if you think about it. How about some form fitting leather suit with throwing knives instead? The ranger\druid, a master of nature magic and survival could use some trenchcoat to protect from the elements… sure.. but then again why not something made of hunting trophies or actually made from wood or bark… ya know.. nature stuff to go with the tree hippie fighting style, how about extra quivers on the legs or some nice cloak with hood. The engineer\scrapper uses metric tons of explosives, flamethrowers, elixirs, turrets and other guff to battle. How about something with utility belts and pockets or into armor pieces crafted machines rather then a leather trenchcoat or a helmet with in build utility goggles or just more stuff along the lines of the scrapper helmet. Id prefer stuff like this by far over the darn coats. Just look at the spec armor pieces… yea.. thats more like it, shame its just one piece…
Sure there ARE other pieces like that available but not nearly enough. But whatever… just wear an outfit or something, thats a-net´s answer to fashion wars afterall…
^ mine is on power\support
And hopefully no a.i. Use the pylons you showed at the stream way back when and make em “banners” that heck i dunno… debuff foes and buff the allies. Sorta like turrets that dont suck…or attack directly
- ARMOR SKINS, lots of them and maybe even complete themed spec armors
- Elite specs that take all game types in account (looking especially at you.. scrapper)
- Longer story with less cut content (who are most of the guys at the mordemorth battle platforms???)
- No stupid grind to get the story going
- A balance between Ls3 style and meta focused maps… also more then 4 this time…
- New cool masteries that actually impact the gameplay (like gliding)
- Early enough open beta for everybody to check out the new specs and dev communication about them to fix issues and work on needed changes… (look at revenant´s pre-hot dev communication stuff, THAT is what i want for all specs in the next x-pac)
If it wouldnt be an Outfit = insta buy. But alas… i cant use parts oft it so its a waste of.money for me… like all outfits
WRT PvP. I think this is a pretty good balance patch, small changes are far better than wide sweeping yo-yo changes. That said, they should do PvP balance changes more than once per season and they certainly need to be entirely separate from PvE balance changes.
…wouldnt call removing the daze from gyros small… but whatever, not playing engi anymore so it only bothers me mildly..
got datamined as a (imho) worthless outfit… same for taimi´s new look…
Guild Wars 1 Scar Armor
Tribal Outfit (Or something similar with bare chest and arms, to keep the special snowflakes who have the original happy)
you can get your very own tribal set anytime by doing the wvw track for it, they added it recently.
Chaos weapon drops have been replaced with Ley Line weapons.
Balthazar weapon drops have been replaced with Mordrem weapons.
The Dye Pack and the Toxic, Metallurgic, Winter Chimes, and Mad King dye kits have been replaced with Glint’s Winter, Lion’s Arch Survivors, Lion’s Arch Commemorative, and Lion’s Arch Rebuild dye kits.
WHY does A.net remove items instead of just adding to the game? It frustrates me to no end.
You can get all of those mentoned items on the trading post right now , chaos weapons are on the TP and so are leystone ones…well not the dye bundles but whats in them, the dyes. Nothing got removed, just the chest drops got changed, thats all, usually i love to complain, but there is nothing to complain about here.
^ yea… and we dont get many reward armors so i hope everybody who wanted that change got a tiny stone in their shoe and cant get it out cause of one reason for the complete day tomorrow. Whelp… outfit salt comes after i got my fill of content. Toodles!
ehhh close to perfection (from what i saw up to this point) Only issue i got atm (relating to content) is the lack of an armor set for the map… but then again this was to expect… ah well… only a hint of salt right now… i of course will complain about it later on, now back to bashing the mantle over the head..
a-net making fitting charr armor…
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no A.I. anymore after that… gyro stuff. A banner mechanic would be nice though or how about a “buff field well” mechanic cause that would fit perfectly with blast finishers, a mechanic with a sort of shroud like the necro and now also druid got would be cool too, or how about they raid horriks armory and give the engi some heavy duty bazooka… or other kits that work more like summons of the ele with some sort of ammo count or a darn mech suit mechanic (think asura elite skills) so there is a bit of a.i in it but doesnt mess up everything. Basically ANYTHING but unrelyable a.i. You saw what they did to anything a.i the engi got, the turrets are nerfed so far down they are now in australia and the drones can barely keep up with the scrapper and i wouldnt even trust them with tilting a bucket of water over….but with the engi luck we might aswell get a.i. that attacks the engi if summoned… hey.. its not that far off
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HA! nope, would mean they make armor skins that fit perfectly on each and thats a no go arround here. Just ask for outfits, account bound weapon skins and gliders on the gemstore.. there is where its at.
they should do their “special ticket skin” bs with skins people want since ages… such as fused skins and stuff and not with simple (but totally good looking and i love em to death) skins like the privateer ones. But what do i know.. im just a gullible clown who actually bought gems till i got enough scraps together to buy me 5 of them. But seriosly.. screw you a-net. Wouldnt have done it if it wouldnt be a decent looking and not overkill pretentious set. Heck even the sizes are alright this time… and no shortsword daggers or anime claymores
whelp.. given how hot was i got a few fears…
- Pitifull amount of armor skins added
- Short and obviosly cut story without a proper conclusion
- Few maps and only focused on meta events
- All the seriosly cool stuff gated behind raids only
- Lame and rushed elite specs for certain classes that take months to make actually
work
- Grind galore to the max
- Too much mastery gated stuff
- Still no seperate balance between the THREE game modes
- Huge amount of gemstore stuff instead of in game content
- Even more self mayhem tactics that take all the nice things away
yep yep.. we done with the outfit milking and now we up the level on rng chest ticket weapons. Yay for a-net… seriosly why do i even still play this game
For me personally it certainly did ruin the game.
From the stuff i care about i dont got much, from the stuff i hate i got plenty.
- Only 4 legendaries (and i bought HoT to make some)
- Only a handfull of armor skins in the 50(!!!!) bucks expansion
- Elite specs that are a MUST nowadays if you want to do any content at all in groups
- No in game gliders, only through gem store in the 50(!!!!) bucks expansion
- Pathetic short story and only 2 short branching paths that amount to nothing at all
- Only 4 maps (that might be beautifull designed without a doubt tho)
- Still no balance split between the 3 very different game modes
(make a moba already if you wanna shoehorn everybody into a certain niche only)
- Messed up rewards to dungeons and fractals to promote raids
(fixed meanwhile… but still)
- Certain stats locked behind raids
- Heavy grind if you want any of the few skins added at all
- No lore on the revenant given at all (“later cub”… yeh almost a year later now)
Ontop of all that comes HoT unrelated stuff for me like outfits and constant mega nerfs to everything nice rather then good adjustments and the darn focus on esperts.
But whatever, im only online here and there anymore. My years of gw2 addiction are over already. Shame… i used to love the game from the bottom of my heart.
How to balance this without making it totally useless?
who cares? Like we gonna get anything epic like a bazooka or stuff anyways arround here
@ PlagueParade.
Yea you could say i resent them, in fact if it would be possible to physically hurt them id do so cause they ruin the amount of added skins for actual fashion wars and with that quite a lot of my playtime of gw2 so much. Just look at how many armor skins we get nowadays. But thats not my issue with legendary outfits. The issue is they said armor skins are in game rewards and for christs sake leave the in game rewards skins ONLY else we get flooded with that cancer even at the few rewards we do get. I can only speak for myself but i think if you earn your legendary armor then you should wear it as armor and NOT parade it arround as the defiled corpse of fashion wars. If the op cant bear to use skins then he just should slap one of the many outfit cancers over it and call it a day.
Why don’t just use… an Outfit? Why it has to be the Legendary armor?
cause we dont have enough of those darn things just yet….
Gotta love people’s reading comprehension…
OP is saying that, IN ADDITION to the armor PIECES, you should ALSO, as in, PLUS, get an outfit of the set you made. So you get your armor PIECES but can ALSO wear your LEGENDARY armor that you have CRAFTED as an OUTFIT if you want. That is what he is suggesting.It is not a bad suggestion.
still dont care. Its an in game reward, keep these outfit cancer free or we may end up getting that stupid nonsence as rewards alltogether…
yea how about no? Leave us atleast the few skins we get without the outfit cancer.
or they could make skins so people can replace parts they dont like…
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Macros are aginst the TOS. I wouldn risk it, woulb be a shame to loose your account over this
Colour me impressed… quality… a thing that vanished for a long time now. WvW reward tracks… with new ARMOR SKINS (bout time.. geez), visuals restored, a freebie thats overkill amazing, dailies that dont suck anymore and show more diversity, the darn fractal backpack is done, the new legendary bow that looks vastly better then in the official trailer, the HoT map rewards fixed, dungeon rewards fixed heck even the stupid rng chests are now worth more, balance that doesnt really destroy too much for once (eh.. cept the reaper thing with chill and the engi HT….but i kitten about that later, no salt right now)
There we go… back to the roots, would you look at that… never imagined id ever type a post again on this forum that does not crystalize the eyes of those who read it to pure salt…. good one a-net.. seems ima stick arround afterall
Most likely just the raid armors…or a new outfit. The latter is more likely at this point
looks like a hub for raids to me… kay then -trots back to dark souls3-
not sure why you guys complain, play charr for a while and then you will actually start to appreciate the skins on other races.
so yes… the shortbow legendary… the ONLY one that we get for a long time now looks like a gemstore skin with aura. Not sure if its irony..but i sure do get a chuckle out of it.
Look.. its not like i dont like it, in fact it does look great…but this isnt a legendary to me.
Lemme know when you make a set of them for the gemstore, id surely love a dagger in that style.
^ in my case said “raid help” was verbal abuse for even asking what build i should use and for a small question just to get sure what colour of the VG is the one that only can get condi damage. Oh well.. just throwing that in… not like i gonna get nice things anyways in this game, gave up on that long ago…
Both EU and NA have teaching guilds now. If you really want to get into it, there’s definitely an option to learn.
Nah, got my burn already. As cool as legendary armor might sound and as cool as the white mantle weapons and sabetha rifle\backpack might look.. its not worth the verbal abuse.
^ in my case said “raid help” was verbal abuse for even asking what build i should use and for a small question just to get sure what colour of the VG is the one that only can get condi damage. Oh well.. just throwing that in… not like i gonna get nice things anyways in this game, gave up on that long ago…
Coming to a gem store table near you soon TM for 2000 gems in a bundle of course…
But what would we do without the 1 piece outfits they can barf out faster then i can eyeroll? Make our own looks? Having more armor skins to mix and match in the 50 bucks expansion? Do you really consider this madness? Arent those 3 sets per weight and 4 for heavy enough? And weapon skins? You dont really want to suggest that they make em faster then you can blink. Come on man… its just 120… pitifull amount… pfff naaahhh. Gliders? Yeh.. we wont be needing those in the map metas as rewards… screw that, too much effort, just buy the exalted one and done, nice huh? Raid ghost glider? Yeh.. screw that noise. Outfit bundle! Not raid drop! YAY! Also buy the sabetha mini while you are at it! DO EEET!
Also legendaries? Dont you have enough with 1 set of them? So greedy… so selfish… man you really need to back down from your high horse. Could it be that you read the “released at regular intervals” thingy from the expansion page? How about you learn to read proper man…geez… it obviosly means “have 3….and later a 4th and then screw yourselfes”…people these days. Its almost like you bought something and want your money´s worth of it….but that would be madness.
(Yes indeed my salt levels could petrify a blue whale within seconds by a mere touch, im aware of it, no need to tell me)
So no one runs the dungeon story mode or paths anymore? How come? Those and fractals were my favorite thing to do. So what do people do these days to fill there play time. Just map events, wvw, spvp?
The dungeons got a massive nerf hammer bash to the rewards as the raids where dropped in, wvw is dying out.. and yeh.. cant say much about pvp, dont do it myself