Guild Wars 2

Okay, I don’t like what they did to the thief either. Feline’s Grace, Shadow’s Embrace, HP nerf, Armor nerf, etc. did not please me.

However, we did get some buffs at the same time: We got the double steal, which was a good edition (if you chose to use it), and Haste was buffed. I can’t remember what else at the moment.

Note: The patch came out yesterday, so they are going to be bugs, glitches, and balance problems.

A lot of our traits are bugged currently, and I’m sure they’ll be fixed, think about how powerful we’ll be with some of those traits fixed.

Finally, concerning balance: Anet is going to be tweaking and changing things as they see needed, and there’s a chance the thief might get buffed.

There is still a glimmer of hope, and right now, I’m still enjoying my thief a lot. So, we need to relax, and remember there’s still (hopefully good) things coming.

Bathos.6341:

I have no screen shots of this travesty. I do not wish to remember it. Nice job Anet while other games have hillarious joke game modes, spin off minigames, and stilly fake news posts. You take an old graphics bug from the game’s closed beta, slap on some kitten voice over. Then paste on an off the shelf screen filter anyone could do with a home video editor in 20 minutes. You REALLY put the effort in on this didn’t you? (sarcastic)

Hush. I hated it myself, but I’m not going to ruin the fun that those who enjoyed it are having.

I think the apple-stealing scene is hilarious. XD

I also like where the story is going, the execution is weak, though.

LS3, although I’m at the end of chapter 3, feels too short. They crammed way too much story together into a small timeframe. I’d like more development, more time.

Also, I do NOT like the way my character is going. My asura should NOT be dumbfounded by every invention Taimi makes (as much as I love Taimi).

My asura, she’s extremely intelligent (as shown in my fan story in my sig, and it’s only going to get better with the revisions). Later, she starts to invent things which makes her thief skills way OP. First, she invents a device (which is being worked on at the beginning of Chapter 1), which turns her invisible, called the Savant CD-100. The device has mana in it which is drained while it’s on, when it runs out of mana, the device automatically shuts off. The device also cloaks her heat signature, making her harder to find (good luck, Samus. Your Thermal Visor is useless!)

Other devices she makes: Dagger S.TO.R.M. (because, can you really realistically throw that many daggers?), which stands for “Storage of Tactical Object Rapid Manipulation.” (My guildie came up with that phrase). This offensive device has mana stored in it, in which my asura can produce mass daggers. She can either spin, or unload all the daggers on a single target.

Then, she makes a device much later, which, when activated, slows down her down when falling. Basically like Feather Fall from DnD.

Then, there’s a device which she doesn’t make until after the story, tentatively called the IMS (Industrial Magiteck Scanner) which is like Prime Samus’s Scan Visor—gives info on the target, race, gender, weaknesses, etc. It also allows Vini (my asura’s name) to scan objects.

Basically, she’s NOT DUMB. I was offended in LS2 when she had to put together an Inquest Device and one of the choices was “Instructions are for chumps.” … She wouldn’t say that.

I just feel like my PC is being dumbed down more and more.

Each race has 2 VAs (one for each sex), and yet every single one of them uses the SAME dialogue. Why? Why can’t we have them say different things? Each VA could make each race and each sex of each race say something different and say something they might say! A little more resource intensive, but Anet has the basic resources to do that!

It’s just so frustrating… I really want Vini to be Vini, or at least close enough to her.

Vanitas.2871:

Thanks for your response.

What do you mean by “not dodging properly”?
And as for your argument that people who mistakenly dodge are being punished – that is not the problem of the dodge mechanic but of the player specific hotkeys for dodging. That would also be all the more a reason to proceed with caution in fights instead of mindlessly stacking in a corner. At this point I see a little defensive investment to be a good choice. It would make dodging properly harder, but from another perspective it would also mean that it would require much more skills in terms of timing and positioning.

Did you just answer your own question? :P

I meant by you’d have to dodge at the exact moment, or get hit/get downed/die. That’s not fair to players, and I do not see how one dodge would stop the stacking. If anything, players would stack more often in order to avoid having to use the single-use dodge. It’s just not a good idea.

It’s working on your site, I’m just saying as you update chapters, it won’t show up in “recent posts.”

After about 10-20 seconds of patching for today, I get an error report where my game stops. It tells me to send an error report about what happened. I’ve sent 3 so far (the “don’t send” option is grayed out).

What’s going on? How can I get this patch working?

Vanitas.2871:

Isn’t the whole combat layed out for avoiding damage rather than healing through it? As a matter of fact, healing power seems to be as weak as it is right now just because of that.
I don’t know, what would you consider the opposite pole of dodging? I disagree with absolutely having to buff something else when nerfing a certain mechanic. If you had to, what would you buff?

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Since healing power is nerfed, that would make nerfing dodging all the worse for survival. If it’s laid out for avoiding damage, then why do you want to remove half of the mechanic that allows for avoiding damage?

Dude, did you notice that PoF’s minimum specs are higher than HoT’s?

I’m playing on a 2011 decent gaming laptop, but I do not have a source of income, and the chances of me getting a decent computer in the future are slim.

I feel like Anet is already going the way of Blizzard; making it impossible for older machines to run their games as expacs are released.

I’m hoping I’ll be able to run PoF at hopefully, the same settings I currently I have on GW2. Otherwise, I could be out of game for a very long time.

We posted about it, too. No response yet. :/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Custom-playlists-now-actually-worse

How many "Yoshi"s will we see? :P

To be honest, yes, it would be really cool.

I totally agree. I want to be able to remove Fear whenever Teq or Jormag uses their breath attacks with Blinding Powder. :/

Really, it seems like an unnecessary nerf.

NOTE: Please provide positive feedback, which is: what I did right, and what I can improve upon.

Updates:
08/14/2017: Prologue revised again, Chapter 1 being revised.
07/05/2017: Prologue revised
06/25/2017: Settled on a title.
06/12/2017: Some scene concepts written.
01/17/2016: Chapter 12 has been added!
11/20/2015: Chapter 11 has been added!
10/19/2015: Chapter 10 has been added!
10/11/2015: Chapter 3 has been modified a little. Some grammar fixes, word changes, and one of Teyo’s lines has been improved.
9/29/2015: Commission image added.

The Assassin of Rata Sum – Main Link

Vini’s Musical Theme

Note: Vini’s name is pronounced “Vi-KNEE”

There are lots of things to be changed from the typical GW2 storyline:

• While it starts out similar to the Asura Storyline, dialogue will be changed, and the main story arc will be different.
• The Inquest have a much bigger role, even after the ‘race arc,’ they are the primary antagonists.
• Vini will meet my other characters in my account, who will help her out.

Point of View:

• The Prologue is the only ‘chapter’ in first person, the rest is in third person.

Pictures of Vini:

• Vini Commission Image
• Hooded
• Hoodless

I hope you enjoy this fan story. I will update it regularly by posting that a new chapter has been released.