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1. Thief (specifically reworking stealth mechanics)
2. Ranger
3. Engineer
I also agree the trait is quite good. I think people don’t realize how many conditions are avoided by having this trait. I don’t even think it’s exclusively anti-condition builds either.
A lot of power classes open up with a condition like immobilize. These get ignored with diamond skin.
You can also walk through necro marks. (I ran a 0/0/30/20/20 and 0/0/30/10/30 build).
Ultimately I went back to 0/10/0/30/30 because I’m more of a reactive player and this build felt like I had to plan my offenses a bit more than I care to, but it’s far from useless and does introduce build diversity.
Unfortunately I am unable to log into GW2 until late night PST: about 7:30-9PM PST every day. Generally play until 10-12 at night. Would love to do guild missions, but haven’t actually found a guild that runs guild missions during this time frame (though I’ve found guilds with helpful and friendly members!).
Looking for a guild that runs guild missions somewhere from 8-11PM every week or more. Basically a late night PST based guild. Willing to guest or transfer servers.
I have 4 level 80’s (elementalist, thief, mesmer, necromancer) and one level 73.
I don’t like people who are rude or vulgar.
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Currently I’m a member of a small guild with 2 other close friends. One of them usually logs on at 10PM PST, but since we’re all PST based it works out for us; we can play together for a bit. For reference, I usually log on at 8PM PST and the other member is on and off all day.
With guild missions coming up, we really want to participate in them, but being a 3-man casual guild we don’t have nearly enough influence to get there. We’re looking for a larger guild planning to run guild missions late night; even just one night of the week would be fine for us.
We do general PvE/dungeons/WvW
Hi! I’m looking for some help in completing my thief’s build; I’ve got a few things worked out, but not sure yet on runes/sigils or traits.
Race: Human.
Weapons: I just like the way these play the most.
Dagger/Pistol
Shortbow OR Pistol/Dagger
Utility Skills I like:
Shadow Refuge
Roll for Initiative
25% movement signet
Shadowstep
Blinding Powder
I don’t like venoms or traps in general.
Elite Skills:
ANY of the 3. However basilisk venom would only be paired with a rune that activates upon elite skill…
Not quite sure what to do with my traits, so I’m open to suggestions.
Healing Skills:
Hide in Shadows OR withdraw. Like them both.
Could any expert thief help me fill in the blanks?
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention. I like WvWing and PvE (dungeons, events, the whole shebang).
I’m all for a compulsory poll, but just because they’re not complaining in map chat doesn’t show an overall consensus. It was one of the tenants of the game’s design; I haven’t heard of anyone quitting because they maxed out exotic armor, either. Only seems to exist in the odd forum post.
Not only that, but the point is to get better feedback. It does not mean that if more than 50% or less than 50% of the player base wants something they will act/not act on it. It is simply better feedback for Anet to get a better general feel of the community, and not just a handful of select groups: QA testers, forum posters, etc are all extremely select groups of people and are not representative of a whole. And I somehow doubt metrics will do much to show specific opinions about things that don’t even exist in game yet.
There are certain things that should not need to get feedback in before implementation. Stuff like new content, bug fixes, etc, do not need feedback before getting added in.
This is mostly for things that would be controversial issues; I’m sure they knew it would be controversial before they even added it in. Player metrics would not tell Anet exactly HOW controversial it would be; a poll would, and would be a valuable form of feedback.
Most people do not think deeply on anything. That doesn’t make their opinion less valued than those that do. Especially since this is a game and as thus, does not suffer any kind of odd moral ambiguities between data and implementation.
Let’s keep the discussion to the topic at hand, hmm? Do you think implementing a system (besides forums) to get better player feedback is good, do you think a poll is good or not. Let’s keep away from discussions as to whether the game is good or not to another thread.
On a side note, I personally agree with a DR. However I know the majority of people are not. shrugs My won suggestion would have strayed from my own preference. This is not a bad thing.
Nope. I don’t agree with the OP at all. The biggest problems introduced into an already released MMO always seem to come from the vocal minority of players in forums. The latest upcoming changes to GW2 appear to not be an exception to the rule. Why would any company host a poll that might result in bad changes and be forced to respond with, to use the OP’s words, “you asked for it”? Anet would be better served if it didn’t read these forums at all; if it just stated as a matter of policy that anything said on these forums will not be used to guide game development.
The point of a poll is so that the vocal minority does not get a significant say regarding policy. Putting it in the launcher would mean everyone who plays the game gets exposure, not just those that frequent forums.
So we all know there’s been major backlash over some of Anet’s decisions so far. Namely, diminishing returns and ascended armor actually being better than exotic armor.
Both of these mistakes could have been easily avoided by getting feedback BEFORE the changes were announced.
A simple “Hi everyone, we’ve been thinking about adding in a new tier of gear for a new zone we’re introducing. What do you all think about that prospect?” would have saved a lot of grief.
In fact, since forums are not even representative of the player population as a whole; I would suggest they put the suggestions on the launcher.
A simple poll, “Hi everyone, we’ve been thinking about adding in a new tier of gear for a new zone we’re introducing. What do you all think about that prospect?” with choices:
1) Yes, I would like new powerful gear!
2) No, I don’t want to be forced to upgrade!
3) I don’t care
This way, even IF the community wanted to get new powerful gear as a whole, Anet can point to the results of their poll and legitimately say “you asked for it”.
I’m sure you will be considering other game-changing issues in the future; please get feedback from us, the player base before implementing them. It shows you care and keeps you from making big mistakes.