Guild Wars 2

Personally I’d be fine with some level of clipping.

My main is an asura ranger and I tend to use things like spinal blades or little backpacks as my back skins – you know, things that actually touch her back. With how back items attach lower on the back and scale down with asura, the floating due to the legendary armor makes it look extremely strange, to the point where I ended up just toggling my back item off because I couldn’t find one that looked like it actually connected with her body. :c

(As a note, I’m not complaining about the attach point on asura – I think the tiny back items are very cute – just about how far out things float when coupled with the legendary armor.)

Ragnar Stormcaller.6253:

Try getting a mesmer who isnt a chrono into a raid, or a ranger who isnt a druid. The power creep designed into the Elite specs made the core professions obsolete, forever changing their identity by saying that if you don’t go Elite you can’t compete.

Though I 100% agree with you for classes like elementalist->tempest, warrior->berserker, or the worst offender – revenant->herald, there are definitely some situations where you see base classes, in raids, being more effective and/or fulfilling a different role entirely from their elite specialization.

For example, base condi mesmers are disgustingly effective dps against Matthias, and back in the day when necro/reaper used to be more of a raid staple, I’d see people swapping out of reaper and going base necro for things like Slothasor. Also also, main reason I’m writing this – base, no elite-spec condi ranger is right up at the top of the dps charts at the moment, second only to expert-pianist base condi engies. So, it’s extremely easy to get a ranger who isn’t a druid into raids, because they’re everywhere atm. :O

tl;dr: Depending on the situation and what class we’re talking about, the base class can be more of a benefit than the elite-spec.

I’ve never really seen anyone have any major issues with Quip noises, they fit with the silly over-the-top joke weapon style so I mean really? It’s exactly what you’d expect and I don’t think it needs to be touched at all.

The Dreamer, however…

Literally every time I’ve been near someone using it, I see people complaining about it. Personally I find the noise amusing more than annoying (though it IS very shrill and grating after a while). However, when you look in LFG and see something along the lines of this, you start to realize that maybe there’s a problem somewhere: http://i.imgur.com/dEbAg28.png

I really like the idea of a slider or tick box or something for people to adjust weapon volumes, either their own or other players’ or both together. Or as some other people suggested, the idea of only playing the weapon’s sound for the owner of the weapon. Restricting the special sounds to a rare chance seems unfair to the people who made those weapons specifically for the sounds. :c

For people saying that legendary armor should be cultural – though I agree that cultural legendary armor would be nice, do keep in mind that this is specifically the Envoy Armor, and our ‘legendary journey’ (a la the precursor weapon crafting journeys) is tied directly into our actions in the Forsaken Thicket. Therefore, the story of the raid will influence the theme of the armor set visually, across all races.

I feel like cultural legendary armor could and should be a thing, but not acquired from raids. That’s a different journey to be had.

(Also kind of sad that the medium female asura armor will be changing, but the masses have spoken. No wee tummies this day, it seems. At least the horrid female light armor is being axed as well~)

Honestly? For the light armor 100% yes, it’s absolutely hideous on female charr and asura and just doesn’t work at all. The medium armor is super cute on female charr and asura though so I’d actually suggest leaving that armor more or less the same (maybe some tweaks on the female charr?). I’ve almost never seen my little asura’s tummy before, what with all the medium armor trenchcoats out there. And heavy is just nice looking in general so I don’t think it needs to be changed at all, for either race. :O

Seems related to the Heart of Thorns patch. The Living World chapter Point of No Return, in ‘Pact Assaulted’, when you have to free pact soldiers from the vine pods, only 2 spawn instead of 3, making the event and the entire instance impossible to complete. There’s a couple people saying it’s only happened post-HoT update – my friend and I were playing it for the first time just after the patch hit because we wanted to finish it up before moving into HoT story, but now we’re stuck. 8/

My friend and I are having the exact same issue. We wanted to finish up the living world story before HoT, but it came out just as we were finishing up the story step before this one and now we’re stuck here in limbo. :c

Got my wee rev’s name back! Thank you so so much, I picked it out back when revenants were first announced and it would have been such a loss to not be able to get it back! <3

I can confirm the same thing is happening with all four of the beta names I’d used, as well as with at least one of the beta names my friend had used (she only tested one). It’s been more than 24 hours since I noticed the slots being removed, so it’s definitely not a timeframe-related thing. I think it might just be that the slots are inaccessible but the characters/names are still filled in our accounts? It’s the only thing I can think of at the moment. Hopefully they free up before HoT drops, one of the names I’d used is for my future revenant.