Consider when building super tanky, as many will suggest, not everyone with you will be as tanky (or you wont have any damage). so when you are casually walking through damage or under pressure you tend to lose touch with what your ideal team can withstand, this reinforces bad positioning and tactics.
For me its the fact all the armor they can wear (besides cultural) is designed on a human model which creates very wierd looking disproportionate armor. Given that, i would prefer a more human proportioned model to make up for lazy armor design.
To play PvP for glorious armor
To play WvW for their newly added armor set
To do full map exploration for old legendary weapons
To do full HoT map exploration for new legendary weapons
To play events for Karma armor/weapons
To play AB for Auric weapons
To play VB for bladed armor
To play TD for chak weapons
To play DS for leystone armor
To do achievements for achievement armor/weapons
To win WvW seasons for Mistforged weapons
To do fractals for Fractal weapons
To do high level fractals for golden fractal weapons
To do fractals for the fractal backpack
To do Ranked PvP for the PvP backpack
To Play SW for luminescent armor
You might as well quit the game, everything seems to be exclusive…
And all of those are simply skins, with maybe the exception of a few stat combos, giving no advantage at all over anything you could buy off the tp or get in any game mode.
A hot key to turn it on constantly or off constantly? Im not really sure what your asking otherwise. You can now show all objects all the time through by a checkbox in options or you can hold ctrl/alt, but there is no hot key to keep it always on or off with a single button
Adding the old maps back will not save wvw like so many people seem to hoping, i think its nostolgia for the earlier days. While the old maps where nice, and the new maps are a poor attempt to force their playstyle of wvw on the population. more wvw guilds left before the new maps due to mechanics, poor balance choices (stability for example based around 5v5), and in general a lack of attention/understanding/concern/false promises from anet.
And when said beta test appears later this year, are they going to accept much player input? Given almost 2 years of development by that point with little input or communication about whats coming, i doubt it.
Good news! More commander tag colors! Only 100g EACH your welcome!
been on the communities list of requested features for a long time. They even appointed player representatives at one point but failed on the follow through.
More critical to whom?
WvW has far more people playing than their failed e-sport, or at least it did until they killed it, who knows now.
It doesn’t matter which is easier to fix, the fact is they are very clearly actively working on PvP and communicating with its player base. All we are getting is absolute kitten changes and vague rumors on reddit.
Make your own, get a decent set of quality cans and attatch an antlion modmic. I did this with a pair of Sennheiser’s. You get twice the quality at half the price
NO NO NO….don’t change anything. It’s meant to be hard, it’s like a side thing to do after you are finish the game, otherwise it would be so boring if everyone is running around with ascended weapon or armor.
Play with Exotic if you can’t afford damask, it’s only like 5% difference. Stop being lazy and asking Anet to give you handouts.
Also, how would it feel for players that has already crafted their ascended then it’s changed, they will feel jaded.
Hard =\= expensive. The only challenge you face is gold. With that you can skip the time gate, grind. Any “challenge” in getting ascended will be self imposed in most situations.
Because it is hard class for most people to play good. The Gwen classes are all pretty simple to pick up
No, they are not “pretty simple” you cant just play them with little knowledge of the class, improper gear and build setups and expect to do well in fights. They are meta classes because they bring the most to the fight, and because they are the most effective with excellent group synergy, there is a reason nobody asks for rangers and thieves in parties for example and their need in guild recuitment for wvw is always low or none at all.
That all sounds nice and good but there is a reason so many people run warrior and guardian for instance. Yeah they provide a lot, but they are also very forgiving in a Zerg environment. Let’s try to look at the pug Zerg not balanced guild groups.
While we are at it lets remove armor. It’s like a must, to be in the same level as the other players, and the buffs, at least some of them, are simply OP.
GvG is for a very small minority. Waste of development resources.
This.
Not to mention they put in obsidian sanctum area for them… Theres also plenty of other open places for GvG. Nothing will ever be good enough for them though.
An instanced OS would likely silence them a long time. Hating on them because people don’t understand/like/appreciate it probably won’t.
With sylvari the only exclusive leafy armor would be the cultural. Besides that they share all the human models. Same applies with norn, with the size and proportion exception.
I would suggest making some lvl 2 characters and playing around with the wardrobe menu to find what you like
It’s better to just take stuff? Its a matter of perspective. It’s more profitable to run and take stuff yes. it’s more fun to to wipe a Ktrain with 1-3 people than it is to ktrain for me
Taller does make you more visible up front but I’ve never had an issue. I recently made my norn the shortest possible out of curiousity and still have no issue finding him in a fight. Keep in mind also that the bigger you are the easier you are to pick out by the opposing team too.
Even the shortest model will still feel slow. And since theres no actual speed difference, just the animations, it remains the same lumbering norn. I will say though, my main is a norn and it did bother me for a little while. I don’t even notice it anymore though.
I think i know where our disconnect is. Anyone playing the current gvg doesn’t care what it’s called, I would be fine with calling it competitive baguette jousting, but that doesn’t change the actual description of what it is. People would be happy with even a red/green/blue OS as long as there was a chance to face a wider variety of people.
But, yes it is a sub game mode because it doesn’t impact the actual wvw maps/scores etc. much like unranked vs ranked etc within spvp. It was designed as sub-map for people to play on while waiting in the Queues when population was much higher. Also, the rewards are different, competing servers are different, scoring is different. In many ways it separates itself from wvw
