Guild Wars 2

I’m interested in student-ness.
My favorite aspect in the game are dungeons, and I know most of them, but I’m definitely not meta skilled.
I can just be a nice helping hand.
I was learning to duo Arah with my guildie, but he recently transfered from the NA servers to the EU servers, so that doesn’t happen anymore.
I’ll take an invite. I’m always willing to help out.

Total armor sets tied to stances.
This would truly feel like their role was suddenly changed in combat.
To compensate, have a higher cooldown on stance swapping.
You can go from DPS to actual tank if you so choose, but then you have to live with the consequences of switching.
This would be a bit expensive for PvE and WvW, unfortunately. Especially if you want all your ascended jazz (good thing those stay account bound, hey?)
This would require a bit more implementation for PvP (and obviously, some balancing fun, having such a powerful ability available).
And the part that hurts is Fractals, ’cause AR. And nobody wants to get 35+ AR for TWO ARMOR SETS. One is tedious enough.

Oh, and yeah, equipment breaking? Say your helmet breaks, then both helmets are broken (easier than having a bajillion parts to break.)

Just an idea.

I say leave it. Gives the rev some viability in a PvP setting.
“What, you want to condi burst me, and keep me immobile? To that, I say ha!”
Not as if boon stripping doesn’t exist. Just be a counter to it. ;p

An idea t make sure that stances feel different would be that the stances had a whole armor/weapon set linked to them. Would be annoying to get full ascended gear if that were the case, but then swapping stances would TRULY feel like a role swap, because your stats would change as well. Zerker gear with Shiro, but then group needs Healy…swap to Ventari, and there you have a hybrid zerker/cleric build.
PvP….glass cannon build not doing too hot, cause condis being a problem? Swap to Jalis with staff and Tanky gear.
To compensate, increase cool down of swapping legends to also make it so you have to be sure you want to change rolls. Maybe 20 seconds? Would definitely need testing in PvP where this type of gameplay could be major.

This is the kind of feedback we need.
I think I’ve already got the Rev down, and it is a fun class, but yeah, in dungeon settings, it is really bad. Maybe as a guide to teach new people dungeons…but warrior/ele/guard all do better group survivability as it stands.
I’ll prolly play Rev in PvE content, unless he gets some serious niche assigned to him. A jack of all trades, that’s sub-par at all of them isn’t very good in this game, with how it’s designed. Ele is similar to that, but they at least can stack might and fury like no one’s business.
they would have to overhaul a good chunk of system to make the current dungeons NOT DPS based. Why heal when you can kill stuff in the time it takes for them to attack? I don’t WvW much, but a jack of all trades feels like they would be better there.

I love how no one mentions that for most classes, it’s also possible to have a 75% swiftness up time, which cuts your travel time by a third!
If you can’t do that, see if a mesmer with a full set of centaur runes will run with you real quick. There’s your mount. ;p
Also, once you are inside the dungeon, you can turn around and walk right out. You come out at the entrance of the dungeon, and unlock the waypoint for the dungeon…so all you REALLY need to do, is get to the area with the dungeon in it, join a group, and walk on out.
Did that with my mesmer. Longest trek was to the Cursed Shore.

Tanks don’t exist in this game…because, well, why need it be, when you can run 5 dps characters and win everything? There are ‘other’ builds out there, that do just fine, just that no one wants them, because it ‘slows’ the game down too much.
Yes, there are kittenes out there who build crap that do jackkitten.
I don’t build crap that does jackkitten in groups…I’ve always been a team player in any type of game…I build my characters to be useful in groups.
But GW2 doesn’t care about those characters…because Zerkers can do it all themselves, anyway.
And as stated, no single targets heals, or the like, make this very dull in the long run.
I hear of a lot of players kicking thieves from dungeons runs, and engies from dungeon runs.
That’s what I mean by ‘other’ classes that no one wants to grab into the party. Same problem in GW1….running an assassin that wasn’t a/r, or a paragon was fine, but when it came to missions in groups…NO ONE wanted you, at all, period. Doesn’t matter how well you played.
The trinity takes away from those ‘other’ classes that are made to do other roles and fun things, but when the game is just more efficient by the numbers to play tank/healer/rest dps, why bother with the shenanigans that some players really enjoy playing?

This game really does suffer from the lack of trinity. :\ If the only thing worth playing is Zerker, ‘cause Zerker is just THAT good compared to everything else…well, then, there’s just no use for everything else in the game.
I prefer keeping the challenge alive, and not run the zerker build. Hell, my ele is a monk.
This game really just suffers from the lack of trinity, so everything is just….blah, because there’s no team work NEEDED to do anything. Just each person being somewhat competent to do EVERYTHING. Maybe not as fast as the ‘elitists’, but everything is still possible without any insight into team composition at all.
But then again, the trinity is the same thing that kills MMO’s. Play a class that isn’t tank/DPS/healer, and no one wants you in any of the game content.
The sad part of GW2 is that all you need is 5 Zerker DPS characters, and you are golden! Game done, over, fin. Lame sauce.