Let’s just remove all traits and make everything baseline /s.
The problem with warrior is that the rest of the class is garbage so being forced into discipline to take Fast Hands and have the class feel anything resembling good makes warrior mains feel even worse than they already do for being a warrior main.
It is quite clear that the goal is to make this elite specialization the auramancer that never happened with base elementalist. Fine. But make it fun.
Suggestions:
1. First of all, remove all trait auras in other lines and consolidate in the Tempest trait line. Take out from fire, air, earth and water (yes remove powerful aura as well and replace with something better. Tempest is already giving party wide auras so that grandmaster is redundant).
2. Give each line of the Tempest traits a purpose. Make one to be perhaps geared towards selfish builds, another designed around party-wide support and the last one geared towards the weapon and the utilities (warhorn and shouts).
3. Create an unique aura to come with the Tempest. Give the class that special something that is missing right now and an unique aura that made you go “Wow this aura is cool!” would really help sell this elite specialization.
I’d like to highlight this as something Tempest TRULY requires now. The traits for auras are such a mess all over the place that placing them in the Tempest line gives us very strong auras and a UNIQUE playstyle, something all the other elite specs have except for us.
I liked the idea I saw in another thread about replacing “Rebound” with a “Signet of Arcana”, passive is quickness procs on crit with an ICD and the active recharging Attunements on cooldown.
If they made the gun account bound I’d be pretty happy. I mean it’s the perfect thing for running around the open world leveling alts but since it’s soulbound I’m stuck with 3 of them on characters that I can’t give to some alts.
All the overloads honestly need to be instantly available on attunement swap.
I feel like the auras are great but the traits that are FOR auras are so spread out that I feel kitten trying to build around them which is honestly something I’d love.
You have auras grant fury/swiftness in air, protection in earth, sharing them in water and now the healing in tempest. That trait should be reworked into Powerful auras. I’ve always loved the aura playstyle and Tempest is adding a lot of that but the traits are so messy that you really can’t get that perfect build now without gimping yourself.
Warhorn /feels/ ok but I can’t see myself using it over dagger/focus depending on the content. Number buffs won’t really change anything, some position fixes for skills (warhorn 4 in air for the swiftness is one) or having Fire 5’s fire field actually be able to be blasted by Phoenix would aid warhorn as a whole.
Yeah this bug has not even been acknowledged by any dev or anet employ which is the worst part of it I think. I understand issues but to ignore it all day
On the forums, I talked to Rubi in-game and they are working on it. She said they will let people know when they can relog and access it.
Thanks for the update. Curious as to why you cannot reproduce some on your personal accounts.
If we end up getting a fix for this soon that would be spectacular.
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Ah well like others said, this started after the March 17th patch, maybe looking into the code if it affected anything story journal wise.
Thanks again for communicating! Any news on this is appreciated.
Thanks for the update. Curious as to why you cannot reproduce some on your personal accounts.
If we end up getting a fix for this soon that would be spectacular.
Yeah it’s literally blocking progress. Achievement progress. This is, like many others, last thing needed to finish the lumi set. I am hoping beyond all hope the next patch fixes it.
They default to Exotic weapon regardless of what you have equipped.
08. Equipped upgrades do not apply to phantasms
Damage multipliers such as Force sigil, Scholar/Ranger rune 6th bonus.
Stat bonuses such as Sigil of Accuracy.
Above all else I would love these to be fixed/added in/etc
Love the list! Hopefully this one gets attention like the last thread did.
The difference between this game and any other MMO ever made is that this game gives you lackluster content that dilutes a great base game while charging for almost everything on the gem store that should instead be things we get in the game world (outfits, armour sets, etc). If you try and complain about it you get blasted with people who say “It’s free!” and defend anet to the death instead of asking for actual content and not run around and press F on “clues” in a desert (props to the environment team though, it is a nice looking zone. Distinct and fun to explore).
I seriously hope no one would actually defend anet by doing this. Making dyes account wide would be great, but since this is Anet, you know it will be done in a way that kittenes the majority of people off. The current dye system is fine. I do not want to NEED gems to even simply unlock them, even the idea of an Unlimited Identifier is ridiculous.
Ah he wanted to test it regardless. I told him before they didn’t stack, but since he was looking into the runes and sigil in the first place, why not? Found some interesting stuff. Mesmer could actually get some decent damage if more than just scholar runes affected them like the force sigil.
Posting this for a friend
Me and a friend of mine were wondering which sigils/runes would affect the Mesmer phantasms. It turns out that only Scholar runes affects the phantasms from our testing.
Stuff we tested.
Nothing (to get base values)
1x Force sigil
2x Force sigil
2x Force sigil + scholar runes
2x Force sigil + ranger runes (Without party member)
2x Force sigil + ranger runes (with party member)
2x Force sigil + eagle runes
The general breakdown is that Scholar runes DO work with phantasms, while all other combinations DO NOT work with phantasms.
I haven’t edited out anything in the video, only added some fade through blacks when switching to a new testing method. This is to provide my viewers with an accurate testing sample.
The build used was 10/25/0/20/10 (I forgot to spend 5 points in illusions, but that should not affect testing.)
This also shows that other sigils like Accuracy/Night/Undead/etc should also not affect phantasms at all. I’m wondering if this is simply a bug.
Anyways, my general conclusion from this would be that scholar runes are the best choice for a phantasm centered mesmer. What do you guys think?
Link to the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcfraWmpNY
Proposal Overview:
Revamp of the Underground (Dredge) Fractal and the Reward System
Goal of the Proposal:
Everyone, seriously, hates this fractal. Coming from an avid Fractal player, the constant changes to this fractal in the opposite direction of where it needs to go has made sure that I haven’t stepped foot in a fractal since. This fractal, along with the extremely sub-par rewards have killed all motivation for myself and my friends to do fractals.
Proposal Functionality:
Pressure Plates
Lower the amount of dredge in the room, or completely remove their ability to respawn, allowing groups to clean the room and then channel.
Bombs
Not a bad idea for a room however the sea of dredge calls for stealth either from an engi or a thief (most groups use a thief) and this is simply bad design. Again, lowering the amount of dredge or simply allowing groups to clean/cull the room beforehand would solve everything. As it is right now, without stealth this room is simply impossible to do on a 49.
Door room
Again. An ocean of dredge. Stealth required, I’m just repeating myself.
Clone Car
Remove it. Seriously.
Dredge suit/Ice Elemental
Probably the only well designed encounter in the entire fractal.
Onto rewards -
For one, allow the skin box to drop. I know this has been said plenty of times in this thread already. Arenanet stated it would be in the patch, it is not. Put it in.
Doing basic dungeons like CoF path 1, AC all paths, CoE all paths allows players to gain just as much and more gold doing it in the same time or less than a fractal 49 run to get a pitiful 1.4g. Bump up the gold amount big time.
1-9: 50s
10-19: 1g
20-29: 1.5g
etc
Even just this little bit helps.
Reverting the skin drop rate back to pre-fractured drop rates would satiate a great amount of players.
Associated Risks:
Making your playerbase happy has no risks.
Yes, you can attach a different sigil without affecting its color, name, status, or anything like that. Transmuting on the other hand will change these things.
Not anymore. That was fixed. You can safely transmute your legendary.
My server is Tarnished Coast and we have been hit with a very large amount of guesting players. Naturally they all flock to the world events which creates so much lag that it’s impossible to play the game smoothly (server lag, not FPS). Since this is my home server I’m a little upset that I can’t even go to my own events without an extreme amount of lag.
With the patch that made doing the dragons and world events actually worth doing, the lag has only increased. My solution is a simple one and it would prevent people from double dipping the one-chest-per-day rule now.
Make rewards from world events bound to your home server. That’s it. So if I guest to Stormbluff Isle, I can still do the event but I will not receive any loot for it. This will force people to play on their home server if they want the rewards of dragons/temples/gates of arah/etc, while also discouraging guesters from flocking to these events and ruining the experience for everyone.
I hope this gets notice and eventually implemented because it does lag my entire server, even when I’m not in the zone where the event is happening.
I just want more town clothes! I took a break for the first couple of months in the game’s lifetime and I missed on getting a lot of things like the Winter’s Day dress!
What version of Combat Mode are you using? The last time I used it, it was working perfectly.
As for the topic, I agree. An official implementation would make combat much better in my opinion.
With Combat Mode I was able to simply bind auto-attack to my left click and dodge to my right allowing me to dodge a lot more easily and I think something like this will help every player.
