Guild Wars 2

This might be a bit of a long-shot, but while I was watching the animations on the legendary Assault Knights before they become hostile; I saw some very nice animations on the spinal blades backpieces they’re wearing. They have an animation where the blades fold back and also one where they (over)extend outwards… (not even talking about the fact that they can actually hover with those things).

Now my question is; would it be possible to get those animations on the character crafted backpieces? That would make them even more awesome! Animations could be linked to idle/normal/combat states or something (a bit like some weapons do).

As I said; probably a long-shot and not going to happen, but it would be awesome imho! :)

Ehm I hate to break this to a lot of people; but how can you call items like this P2W when you can directly convert RL money to ingame money? You can already get everything you could possibly want if you’re willing to pay for it.. Seriously, that ship sailed a long time ago.

Elbegast.6970:

So, you are the one.

“The story content itself is really good” ….you lost me there. There’s a story? Where?

Well I liked the story instance.. the explanations of and views on Scarlet’s plan (so far), the conversations between Ritlock and Rox, Braham, Taimi, Logan, Kasmeer and Marjory all were pretty nice, I thought!

And then there’s the bigger picture; what’s Scarlet’s ultimate plan? This is the first installment, so I’m curious to see what else there is..

All in all, yeah I think the story is very nice!

Sieg.8439:

Where do you go in LA to do the story content, or any of the story content (not the bosses)?
All I got was a letter saying to go check out the areas where the new bosses spawn. Standing around in Lornar’s Pass waiting for a boss that I’m told to expect to just DC from isn’t much fun.

I think you have to do (not specifically win) the Marionette fight (though I’m not completely sure). After that you’ll see a living story * in LA, just enter the instance and enjoy!

As i’ve read a few threads on how people do not like the new update, I must truly and honestly say:“I love it!”

The Marionette fight is one of the most fun boss fights I’ve done in a long time; while some say that it is a zerg fest, I really like mechanics, it takes coördination and a decent amount of skill. The defence is doable, the platform phase is pretty tough; but I think it brings out the best in a lot of people to try to defeat the challenge.

I can’t say much about the wurm fight; haven’t tried it yet and I think it was kinda bugged on our server, but I’ll get around to it, and it sounds like a lot of fun as well!

The story content itself is really good; I liked the story instance in LA very much, the optional conversations were awesome and shed quite some light on a lot of subjects.

And then there’s Taimi.. well who doesn’t love her? :)

All in all, GJ ANet! Really really nice update!

Okay, so let’s assume “DPS” gets nerfed… then what? 1st boss AC (everyone knows the spider queen), do you think that nerfing DPS will actually change this encounter, or will it still be LoS/Stack in the corner, only this time it takes a minute longer to down her? And what for all the other dungeons?

This is exactly where the problem is; nerfing or boosting will have no effect, stacking and DPS’ing, whether it’s direct or condi, or one “tank” taking the damage due to toughness/vitality or whatever.. it’ll reamin exactly the same, it’ll just take longer; unless the encounter itself is changed..

It would actually be nice to get this discussion back on track; right now there are people saying that DPS (zerker) specs should be nerfed and people defending this because of multiple reasons..

We can talk all we want about if the DPS meta should be “balanced” or “nerfed” or whatever. The fact remains that the “DPS meta”, the “Zerker builds” or even the “Players” are not at fault here.. and thus should not be changed or forced to change. Even the players that feel left out because they can’t or won’t play in a predefined way must see that “gear” is not at fault here..

What is? The game mechanics.. simple as that. No trinity (which I’m not saying is desirable) means that everyone is in fact a “jack of all trades”, this wouldn’t be a problem and actaully sounds good, if the encounters in game were made to fit that. The fact is that this is NOT the case. You don’t need a jack of all trades, you don’t need a trinity, you don’t even need toughness or vitality… You have dodge and DPS, you can stack/LoS, burn everything down and GG.

So nerfing or changing the Meta? This will just result in a different Meta or in another version of “trinity”.. Both of which will result in all the same problems you have now but with a different focus.. So quick fixes for this imagined problem are just not there, simple as that.

Can something be done? Sure.. Change the whole system, dodging, buffs, condi’s and AI. Change boss skills, trash mob skills the whole lot.. In essence, change everything..
Why? Because the the current meta is inherent to the system… There was no other outcome, never was, never has been..

So please, ANet, if you want to change something so there will be more build diversity, to move away from stacking and nuking.. fine! But don’t go for the easy way out here, because honestly, you’ll destroy a lot more than is good for the game.. I’m sure you guys are thinking this thing through and I think this thread is a testament of how important your decision is going to be.. This is one thing you CAN’T screw up guys..

My Norn Guardian