Guild Wars 2

Nike.2631:

Given their description I think they may be a mystic forge recipe. Or the Gambling Skritt.

“These gloves glow with memories of dust and ectos” if you preview then mouse over it in preview panel.

That’s because the original from the first game was crafted from Ectos and Dust.
It would be nice if we could craft them again with just ectos and dust but I’m sensing a BL-Skin.

The #5 ain’t bad for a little extra break-bar push, or for example, keeping the Oozes off the champ during his burn phases. Regardless if you stun or drag an enemy with you, you’ll always shadowstep backwards, so it’s nice for an emergency dodge on it’s own.
I also really prefer the sword offhand, too.

Confirmed. I have it bound to my Q key to it’s not really an issue for me. I just toggle it. I can understand why it’d get under other people’s skin though

The Nuhoch says ‘YOU ARE NOT WORTHY’ as you approach him.
That might be a hint to come back later after completing more content…

The underwater version of ‘Unyielding Anguish’ still has the same functionality as the original Unyielding Anguish, displacing enemies that enter the AoE and even crippling the user after application.

Shiro died in the Realm of Torment, after dying in Tyria, after resurrecting himself after dying to the Kurz and Lux champions.
I don’t think anyone can say for sure where Shiro is right now.

I thought Jalis and the Brotherhood of the Dragon were opposed…?
Jalis wanted all the dwarves to be one with the Great Dwarf (even physically forcing his Kin to perform the Rite) and most dwarves saw them as traitors. The Brotherhood were pretty… shunned, at least from my memory.

Hear me out but seriously, anyone think Assassin stance is very suited for hammers (if not all of Revenant’s weapons)?
-A backwards, stun-breaking evade
-Energy-burning quickness to spam Hammer-Bolt
-Short range 4-second stun.
-1200 lifesteal, powerful for 6 hits on top of Field of Mists combo steals and vulnerability lifesteal

With the damage boosts across the board, hammer is looking pretty tasty for a ranged weapon. Dying to try it in the next access event.

It completely steals whatever wind Embrace the Darkness has left.
Also, if the skill is ‘iconic’, I vote to leave it with the icon.

Jordo.5913:

Razah is not a demon.

“The protomatter that makes up the Mists strains toward creation, often spawning demonic creations in nightmarish forms. Not all creatures from the Mists are demonic, however. When the Mists come into contact with a suitable human template, for example, it can copy that form, creating a sentient entity with humanoid appearance and an almost human mind.

Razah is one such creation. It has sprung into being a fully-formed adult. It has the knowledge and capabilities of a human, but lacks common sense. As a result, it asks odd questions about human emotions, contemplates human motivations, and attempts to duplicate human mannerisms. Razah is a contradiction: more than human in some ways, and less than human in others. It needs an identity, a personality, and a purpose. Hopefully, it will find its purpose by working with a hero. Otherwise, it could degenerate into an abomination as monstrous and inhuman as its demonic brethren"

- The Guild Wars Nightfall Manuscripts

He is a sentient entity of the mists built as a human construct. It does say that if it does not have a purpose then it can degenerate into a demon.

Can someone go into the game and check if disease spreads between the palyer character and Razah?
That’ll settle it once and for all.

The bricks are -very- bright.
If they were duller it would be better.
I guess they are trying to show that it’s a field.

Also, warhorn’s noise makes me want to hurl. After three years of gameplay, it makes me physically sick lol

Belzebu.3912:

I think there was another topic about this … anyway, here it is.
Very likely to be the definitive look of my rev in the live HoT.

There was another topic about this but it got merged into a mega-thread when the sub-forum was made
Also, dig your Rev. Would fight Modrem with.

I agree, there needs to be some way to generate more energy, either from skills or traits.
In the original Revenant Livestream, they kept talking about ‘push and pull’, but there is only one of those. Once you deplete your energy, you have to wait for it to regen or swap legends.
I think energy replenishes far too quickly for it to be a concern, and removing energy from weapon skills is not a fix. We’d just have surplus, spammabale energy.
Borrowing ideas from the thief’s initiative or the Necro’s life force, I think we could make the Revenant’s energy management fun.

fluidmonolith.3584:

I would really like to see Hammer #3 not teleport the Rev back to the original location. It could really use the mobility.

This. It’s a ranged weapon that doesn’t have any way to deal with melee attackers. The chill is too low duration.
I’d prefer it just be a Leap.

I’ve had an enemy run from the secod explosion into the third before, but that was during the HoT stress test with Celestial gear.
Even then the numbers for CoR were kinda nice.

It’s probably interacting strangely from the pulsing glow on the tablet

Aurora Peachy got The Chosen on a video on her YouTube channel.

DiogoSilva.7089:

DocZed.6973:

Except League of Legends doesn’t have cliffs. I can see this being catastrophic.

I can understand that, but how often will that happen? Other classes have backwards leaps as well (elementalist’s staff on fire attument), and in most scenarios, you have plenty of space behind you. I rather have a context-sensitive drawback that is negligeble most of the time, than a weapon-wide drawback that will bother you in almost every single situation.

Forgive me, I actually read the statement wrong.
I thought when you meant by activated as when hit by an enemy rather than the skill being activated. With a bearbow ranger, that’d be catastrophic.

I agree, it’s odd that a ranged weapon that does it’s max damage at long range doesn’t have anything to punish melee attackers or to avoid melee attackers minus the low duration chill on a leap that returns you to your previous location.
Rangers and Mesmers have knockbacks on their 1200 weapons, many other classes feature cripple and immo to keep melee attackers at bay.

DiogoSilva.7089:

1. Have the projectile barrier make the revenant jump backwards for ~360 range as they trigger the barrier. This is what happens with Yasuo in League of Legends, and it feels good.

Except League of Legends doesn’t have cliffs. I can see this being catastrophic.

/15charrwalkintoabar

Named him Wrathful Was Zen and received a few compliments :P

My Revenant from the Beta.
Transmute Charges didn’t subtract any from my account, so I thought, meh, why the hell not.

starlinvf.1358:

If I had to make a simple suggestion, I would say give the Knock back to Shield of Judgement (which is easier to aim), and give Shield of Absorption pulsed protection for people fighting inside of it.

This make a TON of practical sense, as the bubble can be used to surround allies in a Melee fight, and the judgement shield’s cone is easier to aim.

This so much :’c

You’ve never really been able to hit structures with condis.
You’ve also never really been able to crit them either, only raw power can really DPS them down.

skowcia.8257:

DocZed.6973:

Revenant has access to a stun break in the Invocation tree, via legend swapping. A stun-break every 5 seconds sounds pretty decent to me

8* seconds. You have to trait for it and most important..will you swap at high energy? Not olny that but legend swap might put you into bad position, imagine a ranger swapping to longbow when a thief is in your face..so what if you stunbreaked when now a thief will eat you alive. Anyone can w8 as well for your swap and cc your after.

It’s still a stun-break, which you claimed he had none.
And that’s the nature of stun in general, buddy. They’re supposed to inconvenience you into doing something you don’t want to do, either burn a CD or put you into a position that favors the enemy.

Revenant has access to a stun break in the Invocation tree, via legend swapping. A stun-break every 5 seconds sounds pretty decent to me

It might just be your location.
I have to drive all the way down to Toronto to pick up a copy of GG:XRD over winter, it’ll be a little upsetting if I have to do the same for HoT

If 1 dollar = 3 reais then you’re not paying 3 times as much.
You’re paying the exact same amount.

Odyssey.2613:

January or February? JANUARY OR FEBRUARY?

Make up your mind!

Also: I like how quickly this careened off-topic and turned into e-kitten fashion war.

I bought the slot in Feburary.
It was first announced in January while I was out of province visiting family and friends.

BolkovonHarnfeldt.1372:

That’s five slots to experiment with when deciding which professions you want to play. The worst thing about character slot sales is that they are pure rent income for Anet since it costs them nothing to provide them (unlike say outfits that at least require effort to develop).
They are monopolists exploiting their in game “market power”. And it’s really poor showing that they use such a device to try to get an additional 10 bucks from players

Wow? Really?
Man, I wish I had five slots when I first bought the core game in 2012.

Zalavaaris.5329:

A character slot should not cost ANYTHING extra when you are getting an expansion with a new class. Not REAL money nor the time it takes to get FAKE money. It shouldn’t come out of our pockets.

New players are only going to have 5 empty slots at launch.
I currently have 9, all four extra slots being gold purchased, most of them maxed and ascended. Time and effort.
Cry if you want about character slots, you’ve had since January to sort out your priorities, expansion-price-fiasco or not

Back in February, when HoT was being announced, I saved up 150 gold and bought a character slot. That slot has been empty since February.
I don’t understand why people are crying about character slots at all.

Or maybe it was to give players a chance to grind up some characters to 80 at a discounted price of 10$.

The Ultimate Edition only adds 4000 gems.
If you have everything previous, you’d just be getting gems at at heavy discount.

… to read about Guild Halls, mind you, I only found about 4 topics.
I get that ya’ll are mad but did you have to make 7 pages of QQ about the exact same thing? They merge threads for a reason and I imagine you’re going to give someone a field day when they open their doors tomorrow morning.

I’m not touching this with a 39 and a half foot pole.

A Sylvari walks into a bar and the barkeep stops the Sylvari at the door, saying “we don’t serve ‘Salads’ here”.
The Sylvari sits down and says, "That’s okay, I’ll have a steak instead.
….
….
….
(and the the sylvari eats the barkeep)

Boing.

/15charrwalkintoabar

The amount of work being put into all the voice-over work coming with HoT is incredible! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it in action during the most recent beta event and the recent article on Revenant lore.
Even through voice-work, any small step towards more immersion and QoL is welcomed.

I was wondering if there were any plans to make the Legend’s VOs toggled? While I imagine most appreciate hearing the legends interact, for some it may be a bit annoying over time.

Someone hasn’t played a condi-mesmer decked out for burning.

Can we take a moment to celebrate Nolan North?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVYbAa_I-M

PS: while the Devs are monitoring this thread, was the choice based on his portrayal of “Vossaler Azelas” from FFXll?

The power at my house got cut for the last play session because of some wingbat crashing into a telephone post.
Have I called the power company asking for compensation? Have I emailed Anet to compensate me for the missing two hours that I earned?
No. Because kitten happens.

Mordrem Sniper fire a charge shot which leaves a trail on the ground like Terragriffs.
As bad as that sounds, you don’t get stun-locked and insta-killed by them.

The hammers were buggy for me, too.
They’d randomly cut out and the game was convinced that I never had enough energy to even start the skill half the time, regardless if I was 50% out of combat or with a full bar of energy.

RabbitUp.8294:

Rym.1469:

I believe it’s already set, but I have to agree.
Things like Bimbo Kasmeer staff will make it look ridiculous.

The same can be said for other weapons, like Pinnacle Greatsword.

There are plenty of options even with the current selection, before knowing what HoT might introduce:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/4/43/Ceremonial_Stave.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/f/f7/Bandit_Spire.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/3/39/Deathwish.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/3/3a/Legionnaire_Staff.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/7/70/Final_Rest.jpg

That’s just between the first 20 or so staves: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_staves

Also, https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Pillar
It’s what I’ll be running when/if Revenant gets melee staff.

macon.4065:

And just for the record the things I miss is the Monk class (a melee Holy fighter -hand to hand and a Healer)

Minus the Kilroy Stoneskin quest in EotN, there was no hand-to-hand fighting in GW1, let alone the monk who used holy staves which were ranged.

Orpheal.8263:

Why does Seeker firt as a proper name and Paragon does not?
- Because Paragon is just a made up name like Lightbow,

par·a·gon
n.
1. A model of excellence or perfection of a kind; a peerless example: a paragon of virtue.
2.
a. An unflawed diamond weighing at least 100 carats.
b. A very large spherical pearl.
3. Printing A type size of 20 points.
tr.v. par·a·goned, par·a·gon·ing, par·a·gons
1. To compare; parallel.
2. To equal; match.

Getting access to a PvE-focused closed-beta through PvP. Legit.

Rainsit Poors.2196:

Great deal of speculation through real-world definitions….
but it was a really interesting read. And you did put a bit of work into it, so kudos.

I face-palmed when Trahearne just started barraging an otherwise silent forest.
Like, did he even see anything vital to hit or is he just suspicious of all trees now?

They seem to be back to normal again, I think it was just a bug with the new camera positioning (though I’m not exactly sure how that’d affect it).

EDIT: Nevermind, I booted up the game like an hour later and now it’s back to that extra blank space