The only way I can see this being looked into is if the masses stop buying gems and I don’t see that happening because it’s clearly been working for them. Since the game was developed with a cosmetic endgame in mind they should’ve implemented a system where introducing new armors to the game isn’t extremely difficult from the very beginning since armor sets are generally most visible and desirable cosmetic (even though it did not seem like it took 9 months to develop each of the gemstore armor sets that were added to the game throughout the period Anet was doing that). They’ve expressed no interest in improving their efficiency in this area of the game since the focus is rightfully on new gameplay and delivering on what was botched or promised with HoT.
I got the impression that implementing new armor rewards via their needlessly complex collection system is what they wanted to do even though that’s what seems to be where all the difficulty comes from given their abandoning of new Legendary weapons and the fact that legendary armor still isn’t in the game. Hell, adding pieces to the loot table for new encounters or existing ones is enough for most people. If the content is fun and engaging people won’t mind grinding it out for something they want. It wouldn’t be the first time going back on a vision for the game.
I dunno if the team is lacking in resources or skill and that’s why things are the way they are so I won’t speculate but it’d be awesome if new armor sets were added at a pace comparable to literally any other mmo on the market, I don’t know of any xpac that had only 10 new armors sets (Bladed, Leyline, Guild, Mistward)
This was a release patch and bug fix, Balance changes will come soon most likely. They want to get everything else out I guess before major changes, if I recall they will do one once or twice a month now to stop spamming users with hotfixes?
They should do weekly patches.
That’s absurd. That’s not even enough time to determine if things need to be rebalanced
There are already a ton of faces that look soft and very-humanlike. They just all have plant characteristics because they’re plants and that’s Anet’s vision for them. They specifically redesigned the race because they were too human, I can’t see them going back to that because someone really wants to play a generic wood elf. Heck, female sylvari only have like four faces that look even look like wood to begin with. And the hair you posted is available to players. Both of Caithe’s hairstyles are. I don’t think her face should be available to players, important NPCs should have things unique to them.
Can you elaborate on specializations that are just getting an offhand weapon? Are they getting anything to compensate for that disparity? Engineers get kits but they need to sacrifice utilities for that and they are also unable to swap weapons so there’s actually balance their but with elite specializations your giving some professions 5 new weapon skills and others only 2, that seems very unfair.
I play mesmer so I realize that Anet’s idea of balance is to “nerf powerful things until they’re practically useless” but I really hoped something was learned in the years the game’s been out. I guess not though.
Aren’t turret engies already countered by condition pressure? I feel like making their turrets weak against condis would be redundant. Making them susceptible to crits seems like a good move but making them vulnerable to both crits and condis would make them ineffective against both direct damage and condi damage builds and I think that’d make turret builds almost useless.
Making it so they can’t be placed in unreachable locations and that they despawn if the engi moves far away along with the crit change seems like a better way to go about balancing them so that they’re not useless.
I think they should just reduce mesmer and necromancer dailies to zero. We have far too many as is. We need more thief and engineer dailies. They should both have dailies for half of the month instead of just a third :^)
I am very far from ultra conservative. Quite the opposite in-fact (being a feminist and being conservative doesn’t really work all that well together). Feels like you do have rather large issues with people not wanting games adding more objectifying things though.
I am not advocating to remove customization. I am advocating for changing customization to something, in my eyes, better. There are plenty of different armors that can be created without them showing off 75% of the characters body.
Feminism is all about creating equality between the genders, ergo gender equality.
You’re advocating for the removal of customization options that you do not like. That’s very different than adding things you do not like (“objectifying” armors), you aren’t forced to wear the armors but if you were to go and remove the options people currently have for something you personally consider better that’s unfair. I don’t understand how you’re failing to see this. Revealing armor is only a problem when there’s a clear disparity between male and females. If everyone has similar amounts of revealing and non-revealing armor it’s not a problem at all, it’s adding more optiosn for people
I support this! Male and female character should both have plenty of revealing and none revealing armor choices and while GW2 does alot better than other games in that regard it’s far from ideal. Especially with certain armor classes. Most female light armor is very revealing and most male light armor is nearly completely covered. Most medium armor for everyone is completely covered and females only get a few revealing options while males get none. Heavy armor does the best I think but things like Phalanx exist
Yeah it’s a shame, especially when some races are designed to have parts of their body shown off.
Oh you’re a male human and wanna showcase dem abs? Nope.
You’re a male sylvari and you wanna show off your glow and pattern? No.
You’re a male norn and wanna show off your tats and muscles? No.
Male or female charr? lol, we don’t give a kitten about you.
Asura? Can anyone even see you?
Basically unless you’re a female norn, human, sylvari you don’t get to show skin (with few exceptions obviously).
I love this armor. Not because of the star effect or because it’s very well designed (though it is a very nice set) but because the male and female versions actually look like the same set: they’re equally revealing and each part of the armor looks basically the same. Revealing sets are perfectly acceptable when they are revealing on both genders like this, but they’re not okay when they’re revealing on one gender but not the other like Phalanx, Arah, and pretty much any light armor. The faces kind of creep me out and I wish that they were available through playing the game rather than the gem store but I still think it’s a great set and I’ll probably buy it
They respond to this right away but not the male sylvari armor warping that occurs with 70% of armors…. I don’t want my sylvari to have birthing hips anymore
I like all of them! The lack of noses was a little disconcerting at first but the look grew on me. I think the pinecone face is cute on females and males but it only looks like it matches with the pinecone hair, I’m not sure how much you can edit the eye size but it seems like it’d be difficult to make a character that doesn’t look completely “kawaii” so unless your going for that look I guess the pinecone look isn’t for you. I think the rest are all incredible as well, I think Kristen got a perfect balance with planty-weirdness and more normal faces. The 1st female face is somewhat generic pretty but it still has that plantlike asymmetry and the 3rd face is wonderful and the glow pattern is gorgeous. The 2nd male face is very cool it has a serpentine/voldemort appearance and it’s a great menacing look for a sylvari. The final male face is great and the carved out look is really neat, familiar but still recognizably sylvari.
I’ve had the same issues starting around the Halloween update and now when I select a character it loads and then d/cs me after like 2 seconds with this error code 7:11:3:191:101
Keep getting disconnected with this error code. Everything but GW2 works fine and my internet connection is good. It’d be great to actually play the freaking game…. I didn’t have these issues before and I would love to know what the heck Anet is doing about it :/
Same reason I don’t have an asura, armor looks like crap on them. I love the looks and lore of the Charr but most armor is just SO ugly on them and I don’t care for their “look how spikey and kitten I am” cultural armor either. I’m pretty sure they have the best personal story writing too but can’t I can’t bear wearing warped armor all the time.
Yeah I’m disappointed by the male phoenix armor. Nothing about it implies that it would be related to a “phoenix” it’s boring and is just another ugly coat/robe thing that is rampant in male light armor. Oh actually it has those phallic shaped objects on the shoulders, I guess that’s worth the 800 gems. You know when Arenanet had that interview way before the game was released they said having armor variety was a big deal for GW2 and that they wanted both gender characters to have a variety of armors. Instead, male medium armor wearers get an infinite stream of trench coats and male casters get burkahs and clown clothes. I feel like I should just delete all of my characters and make them all human females.
I’ve pretty much accepted that if I encounter a good necro, I will die if I stay and fight fairly. So moa has become my necro-buster, if I can’t burst them down I get the hell out of there.
Open world mob CC in anywhere but Orr. I understand that Orr is supposed to be somewhat challenging (it’s not really) so the trash mobs being able to cripple and pull you is okay. But trash mobs in all of the low level zones crippling and immobilizing is freaking stupid.
Defiant/Boss AI: Makes control skills completely useless and renders away a leg of GW2’s supposed trinity. I understand stunlocking bosses would be way overpowered but when they’re nothing more complicated than giant health pools it doesn’t really matter.
DPS is King: Control is kitten by defiant and support is useless except for offensive boons and reflects(in high lvl fractals)
Not a mechanic but the lack of variety in armors. There’s so many fire-themed over the top skins. Light armor for the most part looks crappy or bland on anyone who isn’t a humanoid female. Medium armor is just trench coats. All armor types have this terrible “butt-cape” syndrome. The overall lack of new armor skins (not back-pieces) that are obtainable without the gemstore is annoying and the few new armor skins that are obtainable without the gem store don’t look good on light and medium armor wearers. Not a single new full set of armor has been added to the game that isn’t gem-store related and for a game which claims to be so focused on cosmetics for an end game I find it ridiculous. Hopefully some new armors are added into the game.
Woo more light armor that looks like garbage on anything other than humanoid females! Oh and another trench coat? Just what we all wanted! Heavy armor’s okay though, helm still removes beards but whatever: if it worked properly that would imply the armor designers listen to players.
Oh good, for a moment based off your title I thought you were making a build based on mimic/echo. If that were the case I would’ve had to insult you. But as that is not the case I like the build! Many people who try making mantra builds try running full mantra utilities, which never works but you avoided that so good. I would switch scepter for sword for the added mobility, which is what seems to be one of the build’s weaknesses.
Radiant armor is bullseye, it fits to every class…
Thematically, it doesn’t fit necro, engineer, or thief (could probably make a case for this). Making all the new skins obviously heavy armor should not be what ArenaNet does but they apparently don’t care, as long as the heavies get their armor and flaming equipment all is good in the universe.
Mesmer’s sword/pistol is one of the best weapon sets in the game for PvE, PvP, and WvW o.O Mesmers are just awful until you can get your traits, try again at like lvl 40 or 80
For a game supposedly focused on cosmetics as an end-game there isn’t much armor variety: either plain or firey/spiky/skulls for heavies, trenchcoats for mediums, and clown/concubine outfits for light armor wearers. Kudos, not like we don’t already have like a billion fire-based equipments…
Marj’s is Light. She’s a Necromancer. Kasmeer’s is probably Heavy.
Both are limited to NPCs though, like Anise’s T.T
Jory’s could be medium since she’s an NPC she can probably wear whatever armor she wants and it definitely looks more like a medium armor. Kasmeer’s doesn’t look like heavy armor at all, it’s made of feathers…
You could easily have given them “ripped” bodies during character creation. That would likely alter the armor designs enough to make it look like they got muscle beneath that cloth and leather armor.
That’s a whole other issue. If your character is muscled then light armor just ends up making them look fat. And for whatever reason all male sylvari with fairly normal body types get birthing hips when equipping any piece of armor. Anet seems to have issues with morphing armors to look appropriately sized for the characters.
So looking over some of the screenshots released it looks like the among the new armor skins there is once again something fire themed. Don’t get me wrong fire themed stuff is fine in moderation. But, hasn’t it been done enough in this game: Destroyer weapons, CoF weapons and armor, fused weapons, fused gauntlets, fused backpack, fire god’s vambraces, firey dragon sword, firebringer, and the TWO fire themed legendary weapons. I hope that the new skins aren’t just more firey things. I just think fire+black stuff = a 12 year old’s idea of cool.
Izerker got fixed, bouncing got fixed. These were two HUGE issues from Mesmers for the last months. The thread on I zerker is somewhere around 170 pages long. And now thakittens fixed the general Mesmer consensus is “whatever you should have fixed it anyways” Most people said “Just fix the bugs, before anything else”. Well they fixed the bugs.
People are over reacting as usual. In a day or two you will all be back playing your mesmers, trying the new builds. And there are new variety in builds. They buffed interrupts, and I know in the 2 hours since the patch no one has mastered this. But maybe give it a day or two to figure it out? Prismatic Understanding was buffed. I see a lot of possibilities with the new traits. If all you guys want to do is hammer, everything is going to look like a nail.
That whole paragraph could be summarized by saying . We are mad you moved our 5 point trait. Oh and we don’t like what you did with blurred frenzy. These changes don’t ruin anything. The sky is not falling.
Buffing interrupts is nice and all but those traits aren’t nearly powerful enough to be useful compared to a shatter build, in PvE at least where bosses have a crappy anti-control mechanic. Nerfing Illusionists Celerity makes it so that in order to get a decrease on our most used skills requires 25 points into a trait line that is useless to non-shatter mesmers. Adding torment to the worst weapon for mesmers is dumb and not reliable in many situations. They shouldn’t be praised for bug fixes because that’s how the skills should have worked in the first place. Making only one build optimal and the rest sub par or completely useless is not how you add “variety”
Edit: Oh and I don’t really mind the blurred frenzy nerf. I think just the CD increase would have been fine but I don’t think people think it’s the worst nerf of the update.
Blending in with clones isn’t the core of any viable build. A half decent player will be able to spot the real mesmer regardless of whether or not they’re dodge rolling. Most mesmers that run Dueling X are shatter mesmers and they just roll to get illusions out that they can shatter in just a few seconds. Clones are a temporary distraction or shatter fodder, they’re not long term. Give advice to thieves, not mesmers…
There are many skill and trait tooltips in this game that are completely misleading or just straight up incorrect. When this game came out there were tons of skills with misleading tooltips.
I think the place looks really ugly and by the time I got there I was sick of fighting undead, everything in the personal story after like level 30 is basically fight undead>fight undead>fight undead> fight undead>MORE UNDEAD>Oh look time to fight Zhaitan, the zombie Chuthulu dragon or something. I don’t mind that the entire region of Orr is hostile but it’s JUST constantly zombies, I think Orr should’ve had more variety like have each region around the god temples could have a different aesthetic and enemy types.
