Guild Wars 2

Honestly, what I’d like to see in the future is attaching some new skills directly to each Core Specialization, which makes having three of them a stronger option, or possibly an Elite that is only available if you have three Core Specializations (“pure” mode").

Bumping since I encountered this as well, and reported it in-game too.

Can we please get a fix in for this? I know things are probably heavy on HoT right now, but this is central to progression in the game’s story.

Honestly, I love the pugilist idea, but it would need three things:

1. A pair of “sigil” slots to equip them somehow.
2. The elite spec would need to have rapid cooldown to compensate for no weapon swapping.
3. The elite spec would need to give big stat bonuses to compensate for no weapon stats or damage.

On top of that, it’d need to give some strong reason to make it worthwhile dropping a core specialization, and for not having any ranged option in combat.

Any comment from ANet staff on this? The big stat change is next week, according to announcements, and we haven’t seen any news of a respec being possible.

1) Players grind/craft for gear with Gear+Build stat pairings.
2) ANet removes Build stats, leaving only Gear.
3) Some players need to re-grind/craft gear to compensate for lagging stats, while others (zerk, for instance) are affected only by a reduction in degree of efficacy.
4) Market spikes on crafted Exotics as people try to purchase complete gear sets, and tiered crafting materials used in the construction of Ascended gear.
5) Existing players are very frustrated going into a pre-order period for the expansion.

The solution is pretty easy: why not add a Forge recipe that takes one of the new spirit shards + a piece of gear, and gets you back a “blank” of that gear type with selectable stats, exotic for exotic, ascended for ascended.

The market distortion works the other way too, and in a manner that negatively impacts players: massive price spikes in crafting materials due to speculators and the entire gamebase rushing to recraft all their existing equipment at once. That scenario is the one that concerns myself the most, since I don’t have near the funds to re-exotic all my characters even at current prices if I need to, let alone double or triple the cost.

Well, I can give a list of likely replies and my probable reaction to them.

1. The reply that I would like is: “Yes, unnamed soulbound exotics and all ascended items will get a stat choice.”
2. The reply that I would accept is: “We are aware of the concern, and are looking at ways to address player compensation for the changes we are making.”
3. The reply that I would understand, but be dissatisfied with is: “We can not discuss any ideas at this time due to possible impact on the market, but we have heard your concerns.”
4. The reply that would probably make me give up on ANet is: “We do not plan to compensate players for these changes.”

Knowing that it’s on ArenaNet’s radar and that they are concerned about how it impacts the play of their existing players directly correlates to how much actual, real money I generate for ArenaNet during the period leading up to the patch.

Basically, I’m waiting to see how ArenaNet chooses to handle this before giving them any more cash for Gems. A confirmation would mean that I’d have the confidence to continue sinking money into the game and could buy pretty-shinies on the Trading Post.

Can we get an official word on how this’ll be handled? It is a serious issue that will affect many players when the trait changes hit.

Details, yes, but until we hear a “Yes, you’ll get to respec your gear”, or “No, sorry, you’re screwed” we don’t know that the issue has been raised to the level of being a credible concern that they should plan to have ready before releasing the trait/skill/equipment rework.

Thus, the thread.

Vavume: You can say that a full of Exotics is about 15-20g right now, but when every player in the game is having to rebuild their gear sets at once? I can guarantee that the market will skyrocket, pricing it right out of range of the causal players.

Also, that 15-20g? I have eight characters (nine when Revenant comes out), and I have nowhere near 135-180g.

I’m hoping this issue won’t just fall into the fathomless pit of forum posts, and is actually raised to the attention of staff as a legitimate concern. Will you get many complaints from the hardcore/vocal players who often populate the forums? Probably not.

The way it stands, however, it is posed to hit us casual players hard.

Hello ANet!

Like many casual players, over the last couple of years I’ve spent a lot of time buying, crafting and acquiring Exotic and Ascended gear for my stable of characters. I realize that with the coming changes they won’t necessarily be rendered “obsolete”, but may well have to be completely scrapped regardless since the traits and skills on which they were based are going to be altered. That’s pretty harsh. It took me months to make one set of Ascended gear, and I don’t have nearly enough gold to re-outfit my other seven characters with Exotics. It could severely hinder my play going forward, which would really hurt just before Heart of Thorns hits.

So, as my request to go along with the new trait/skill system, could you please look at giving every Soulbound Exotic/Ascended item a free single stat-combination choice?

Thank you!
- ROMzombie

I really don’t want to be on a gear treadmill.

I want to be able to jump into WvWvW and have a chance.
I want to be able to play through dungeons without being dismissed from groups for not having raid gear.
I want to be able to survive combats that aren’t gauged for people wearing better gear than I am.
I want to be able to enjoy the game I bought (and continue to pay for, via Gems).

This system, as stated, sounds an awful lot like City of Heroes’ Incarnate additions, which more or less made the game into a have/have-not situation. Those who could grind out Trial after Trial could make top-tier powers that essentially put the rest of the game on easy mode. Those that couldn’t spend the time doing that were gated out of end-game content, which was decidedly not cool.

If you want to keep my Gem money rolling in ArenaNet, don’t make me quit playing.

“Bearson” is my Norn Warrior. ^.^

Definitely looking forward to a “make over” option!

I should probably make a sugguestion, rather than just complain about the situation:

Why not, as a quality-of-life improvement, put an auto-Map/Say silence in place for an hour if a threshold on Spam reports from five users is exceeded?

Player X posts (and links Items) to Lion’s Arch repeatedly trying to offload equipment, and players A, B, C, D and E get annoyed and report it. Player X automatically gets silenced for an hour as a punitive measure that also resolves the problem temporarily.

There are a number of features that didn’t make it into the release of GW2, and people often forget all the things that were added to GW1 over the course of years.

As far as I am aware, Guild Halls are still on their way, and I’d assume along with it would come more PvP modes, such as GvG.

Good evening!

Now that the Trading Post is up, I was looking forward to Map being used for questions and coordination, but instead it’s still crowded and moving too fast due to people trying to avoid the 15% service charge of the Trading Post.

I’ve pointed out that the TP is up for everyone now and that they should use it, but every response back has been indignant. Often they claim “one post isn’t spam!”, but when it’s one post from fifty different people, or a hundred, or even two hundred in Lion’s Arch, it very much is spam in the composite to me.

Is there a consensus? Am I the only one who is a hardass and upset about this? If possible I’m looking more for official word from the GM staff on what they would allow us to report. If the GMs don’t care I’ll just remove the Map channel from my window and deal with the silence, but I’d prefer not to have to cut myself off from the main portion of the community just due to people misusing the channel.

Thanks guys!
- ROMzombie.5196 @ Henge of Denravi