Guild Wars 2

Item: Any shoulder armor
Race: Norn
Profession: Any
Gender: Female

Details:

On female Norn characters, most shoulder armor pieces are tilted outward/up by several degrees more than they should be when compared to human female characters. However, when viewing your character in a Makeover or Self-Style Hair Kit the shoulders are oriented correctly. Attached is a screenshot of the Revenant Elite Spec shoulder piece in preview window compared to makeover kit window.

Please fix this Anet it would make my day/month/year/life!

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Simplest solution isn’t necessary the best solution, I still propose lowering cost on essential skills. but here is one when you think outside the box:
Reduce legend swap CD from 10 seconds to 5 seconds

Couple of benefits from this change:

• Reduce chance of energy depletion even under the current energy costs. Given that each swap gives you energy at 50%.
• Prevent spamming utility skills as you can still deplete energy in each legend, thus impede your attack flow. You still won’t be able to spam weapon skill due to CD.
• Promote legend swap and inter-legend combo.
• Less likely to suffer adverse effect due to legend specialties etc. So you’re less likely to die from condition in while you’re waiting 10s in Shiro; or you can swap to stun break legend much faster while in Ventari or Mallyx. You can still suffer if you swap carelessly, but it won’t immediately means a death sentence.
• Extremely high fury uptime as a reward if you swap constantly at the expense of changing skills and upkeeps. Also beneficial if you like to stay in particular legend due to low CD, thus promoting both styles.
• Cleansing channel will finally be useful in keeping revenant alive from conditions. It’ll be good but not OP, just like warrior’s brawler recovery with fast-hands. Revenant can still die of condition if condi bursted or piled enough condi, but at least players won’t die of minimal condi pressures.
• Traits that effects when invoking a legend can finally be more appealing to choose compare to their competitors.

Ofc some balancing needs to be addressed:

• Add 10s CD to empty vessel (stun break when swap legend), which may seem intimidating at first but given you can swap to stun break legend much more easily every 5s it’s not that horrible.
• Perhaps slightly more CD for low CD weapon skills.

I had this exact thought, and I’m sure we aren’t the only ones. 10 seconds for legend swap feels like a bit too much. It would of course need to be balanced, but the changes you outlined are a good start.

Maybe Anet could possibly consider this and see what if any effect it has on the energy management situation. It could be a better starting point for solving energy problems and would definitely make the class less frustrating to play sometimes.