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On second thought it seems odd to give a specialization traps and call it a ‘dragonhunter.’ Don’t traps not work against any of the dragons currently in the game because they are objects?
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A couple notes on Dragonhunter. We went with this name because we felt it was evocative of the medieval witch hunters. Guardians consider themselves protectors of the innocent. Followers of their faith be it in honor, valor, etc. The origin of the dragonhunter is a more subtle nuanced version of this. Guardians fight for justice and the dragonhunter faction believes justice is the eradication of dragons and their minions. I understand this is a lot more high concept than Mesmer but at the end of the day we felt like we wanted to try and push a more mature theme here. I hope this helps explain our thinking. We had other generic names in mind but felt like it was important to have a mix of spec names that are generic fantasy, more Tyrian fantasy, and more high concept. This one falls more in the third category.
Thanks,
Jon
Dang that reasoning is even worse than I thought it would be. Really? ‘Dragon Hunter’ is more akin to High Concept than generic fanatasy? lol ‘Dragon Hunter’ is nothing but generic fanatsy. What’s next adding Dwarves and Elves and calling them ‘High Concept’. At this point you couldn’t possibly get more cliche than ‘Dragon Hunter’ is in the fantasy drama.
More subtle and mature theme here? There is nothing subtle and mature about ‘eradication of Dragons and their Minions.’ By that logic I guess we should start burning down the Pale Tree. Or does that not count because they aren’t strictly under the Dragon’s power? Or maybe ‘eradicating Dragons and their minions’ isn’t a subtle and mature theme at all but a immature one devoid of nuance.
After watch the Ready Up it seems like the devs still don’t get it. The reason something like “With Hunter” evokes something is because not everyone is out there hunting witches or something similar in fashion. It is unique. Whereas in GW2 we see literally entire fleets are hunting Dragons or their minions. Some uniqueness there. Pointing out that “Dragon Hunter” extends to hunting Dragon minions too really only further waters down an already poorly themed specialization.
I can confirm none of ectos, philosopher’s stones, crystals or obsidian shards are in the last slot. So either shard of mists or gift of ascension would be my guess.
I thought the whole event was awesome except for one thing…
WHERE IS MISTER GUMDROPS?
Small follow up but after a harvesting run through of frost gorge sound on sorrow’s furnace I can safely state that there are more than 100 bots there alone. They out number real players on in that zone at least 10:1. That is without even looking for them.
ANET’s response to bottling has been absolutely pathetic. Many people I play with and myself included have simply stopped reporting them as that doesn’t seem to accomplish anything. It doesn’t take any fancy software garbage. If they played their own game for 5 minutes they could easily find a dozen bots. There really is no excuse for the state of this game when it comes to bots ATM.
I agree. This has been the most poorly implemented part of the Halloween event. I do fe sorry for those who crafted or were in the process of collecting parts to craft any of the exotics. I really don’t think ANET put very much thought into this. They never should have released it as a very expensive crafting item and had it on a chest loot table that they knew they were going to implement days later. This sorta thing reinforces people’s mindsets that crafting is becoming the red-headed stepchild of this game.