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Would you be open to Biracial NPCs?

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nah i wouldn’t

honestly this just seems like a bait thread to get people to say “i don’t like race mixing” or something like that

Nalhadia – Kaineng

[Suggestions] Physique Options for Community

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I wouldn’t mind new body types. I don’t see why we’re flinging around shots like ‘fatphobe’ though. That seems like a quick way to get the thread locked.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Collaborative Development

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Would in game polls affect the immersion for the player?

That is a very good question. Obviously for me, the answer is “no”, but this could be a real concern for others.

I wonder if it’s possible to have an in-game poll initiated by an NPC? Or if that would be overly complicated? I’m interested to hear what others have to say on the subject of in-game polls.

I had a thought about this not long ago.

We have the Living Story framework and development cycle. It wouldn’t be too hard to expand the Living Story into its own window, I imagine. You could tuck the poll into there. Menus are naturally unimmersive, and you don’t really open them unless you’re not actively engaged.

So yeah. Create a Living Story window which basically outlines the current Living Story stuff in the same way that the Heralds and the thingy in the top right and the letters you receive do. Tuck a “report card” feature into it so you can give ANet your thoughts on what they’ve put out. Naturally, attach a few checks onto it to make sure that you’ve actually done the content. Maybe add a little perk to filling out report cards (achievement points would be pretty much perfect for this), and donesies. If you’re like me, you’ll probably chew on the content and form a few thoughts on it; whether you’re a fan, whether you thought that boss was too hard or tuned just right, whether you think a character is a complete train wreck, and then you’d go either to the forums or to hypothetical the poll to fill out your feedback.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Do you think Raids in GW2 were a bad idea?

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LOL, so far I have read several people mention paying for a Raid completion.

Never gonna happen.

I’ll quit this game long before I’ll pay some stranger to carry me through it.

That’s not a problem- and frankly it’s a pretty far tangent. That runs are bought and sold is only a good sign. That people are capable and willing to sell runs means that the content is tuned with wriggle room. That people are capable and willing to buy runs means that the rewards are accurately tuned.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Suggestions Wasted effort?

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Even using canned responses is at least a token acknowledgement that it was worth the effort to post.

Specific problem here is that you’re creating a slippery slope.

Today, silence isn’t enough. You want canned responses tomorrow.
Tomorrow, canned responses isn’t enough. You want proper community management team responses.
Then community manager responses aren’t enough. You want direct developer responses.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Revenant finisher hidden speech

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“Ventari is the real meta, Mallyx and Shiro are just a phase”

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Mixed Borderlands Update

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Why are you bringing back a map that makes most players groan when it’s mentioned in WvW?

because they ran a poll and the vast majority of players did not want DBL deleted and the vast majority of players wanted the model which they are implementing now

we knew this was going to happen for many months now

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Listening to nobody actually (title change)

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seems like i am wasting my time tho since a lot of people think i am an arrogant prick that only wants attention -.-’

At last, something everyone can agree with.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Gift of Battle Reward Track

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6-8 hours of WvW to finish the track. That’s way more time than I and many others want to put into WvW. And its called the Gift of Battle not the Gift of WvW. So I see no reason to not put it into PvP.

And how many hours are you putting into PvE to get your legendary?

Nalhadia – Kaineng

New Legendary Shield (Shooshadoo)

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Just make sure you don’t accidentally put Bolt in it!

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Jon peters: you will probably be pretty happy

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Would be funny if all they fixed was the health bug in downed mode :P

Yes.

Funny.

/sharpens axe

(seriously though high hopes low expectations)

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Is Ascended Gear too Hard to Get?

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No it isn’t. It really isn’t.

Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust and Emp Shards are all trivially easy to get in Silverwastes chest farms.
Gold is not hard to get; farming runs in t2-t4 zones produce massive amounts of cash.

This is even assuming you’re crafting it. If you get lucky and get an ascended box, you get free gear and didn’t pay a thing. Maybe pay a couple gold to get it swapped to stats that you like.

For me, ascended materials seem inflated in price.

They are inflated due to one-time costs associated with guild upgrading, not long-term costs associated with getting multiple sets of ascended gear.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Suggestions Wasted effort?

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As someone who has a very good working knowledge of computers, their capabilities, games, having done some programming and even work on game maps for FPSs in my spare time; my suggestions don’t come without a lack of forethought.

…Perhaps proofread that again.

More seriously without going into quite what suggestions you’re speaking about it’s difficult to really make any kind of analysis of the merits of your suggestion and you seem to be laboring under the assumption that simply because ANet doesn’t respond to your suggestions that they aren’t reading the forums and taking notes.

We know they read the forums, they have a community management team and Gaile is actually a very frequent poster compared to competing MMO community managers. The last three WvW design polls were pulled very specifically from what people were calling for in the WvW forums. Simply with that in mind- that they’d even entertain the idea of permanently pulling DBL out of rotation- I find it extremely difficult to connect the idea of them not listening to the forums with their actions.

Just because they are not actively participating in every single suggestion thread doesn’t mean that they’re not paying attention to suggestions. It’s simply a matter of manpower and effective application of their time.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Brainstorming - Healing-related boons

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More healing boons is kinda pointless.

Just make Regeneration stack in intensity.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Why the unrelenting pressure to do JPs?

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if you don’t want to do the JP if it procs on a day you have 11 other dailies to complete

Nalhadia – Kaineng

In game marrige

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why not just RP it

i mean i could ask for a pizza party feature on the forums

or i could just rp it

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Epilogue: That's it? (spoilers, obv)

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We’ve reached the end. Judgement can now be passed.

LS writing was horrific. The only thing found in abundance was not wonder and excitement, it was the rotten characters and second grade dialog.

Stop the living story experiment and build an expansion with permanent content.

I agree with your summation of the living story but I don’t agree with your plan going forward.

Living Story can work. We’ve seen it work in some places, most notably Bazaar of the Four Winds.

Even if they did dump the LS and make an expansion, it would still be plagued with the same problems that the Living Story has. Their inability to write is not magically solved by changing their pipeline; it might have an effect, but it won’t be that big.

It might sound boring because it’s not really that big of a change, but the best solution is to Stop Being Bad. The problems with the story are not inherent to the format but just the fault of bad writing.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

WvW and PvP Ascended Armor Upgrades

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This is a big middle finger to those who like PvE but hate the raid content.

The mode which everyone says gets the least development time and is usually made fun of, said to be on life support, etc. gets something nice and all of a sudden it’s a big finger to PvEers.

Come on guys. You get new content and new rewards every two months. You got a legendary trinket just with the last patch. WvWers don’t get much. Let them have their day.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

It's Bold and the Beautiful: the GW2 edition

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And I thought we were clear in that we didn’t like Scarlet at all, but here she is. Again. She’s dead and this entire first chapter was once again wasting time explaining her. We don’t care. Scarlet was a crappy character. It’s time to move on from trying to get us to like or understand her, Angel. We don’t want to do either.

Something I really would have preferred here;

I would have liked it if it wasn’t a 10 minute segment with enough VA to choke a cat. I don’t think that entire block of stuff should have been required reading; a lot of it was waffling about the metaphysics of the universe when, while it is nice to know, isn’t necessary to understand the plot at hand. It should’ve been;

Bust down the door
“wow look at all this junk”
“oh here’s her diary”
braham tries to read it and he can’t because he didn’t finish elementary school
he gives it to taimi
“okay so apparently something happened in the mine isn’t that super cool! let’s go”
everybody except taimi piles out of the house because taimi is a scarlet fangirl

Then you can either stick around and read all of scarlet’s junk and talk it over with Taimi, or leave because you’ve got places to be and people to kill. The entire (mandatory) scene should have taken 2 minutes.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Dulfy note: ...working on the next expansion

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5. another Elite spec (I’m doubtful)

I’d be very surprised if they didn’t have ideas on the board. They’re just waiting for the current meta to settle before they introduce new elite specs and ruin it again :^)

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Are people having fun? Or are they robots?

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the same thing we do everyday pinkie

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE file not found

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Hypothetically Speaking... New Worlds?

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I can see how this benefits you but I am not sure what benefit I would get from such a system, and I don’t know how this would meaningfully encourage the top 4 servers that you’ve previously noted as being heavily stacked to break up.

I don’t dislike the idea, I think it would help if it did succeed, but I don’t see it succeeding. If you found an appropriate incentive that would actually pull players and guilds from the larger servers onto the new servers, that could work, but I can’t immediately think of an appropriate incentive that would convince people to go through the hassle.

Question specifically to T1+JQ players; what sort of thing would actually make you and your guild want to leave your T1 server+community and take a chance on a new world? Will enabled transfers be enough?

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Terrible Trailers

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I’m just confused about who this is for.

Is it for new people? It’s pretty vague about what actually happens.
Is it for people who did the content? We’ve already had half a dozen recaps, in videos, in game cinematics, ingame NPCs…

Nalhadia – Kaineng

More dailies needed per day

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But why should I have to learn a whole different game mode, and all new maps, for a daily?

But you don’t have to do it. It’s a bit of gold, a few spirit shards, and a few AP, not a mandate from the president. I’m pretty regularly missing dailies myself just because I couldn’t be bothered filling them.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Can we just go Trinity already?

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Ok, who else here thought this thread would be about getting to Ft Trinity?

/driving through sparkfly fen

are we there yettttt

Nalhadia – Kaineng

One thing I'd like to see gone forever...

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why is any of this, at any point, ok? who let this through the development process? why were skills with ridiculous utility also given ridiculous damage while weapons like Thief’s shortbow only offer passable utility at a steep cost of damage?

I wanna know why they thought Rocket Charge was fair and balanced. Screw Daredevil’s bonus dodges, the real dodge MVP is Scrapper.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

My god, what have you done to thief?

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if they’re so good, play one

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Unholy Sanctuary: Pointless

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Unholy Sanctuary’s new mechanic is pretty much exactly what a Grandmaster trait should be- A big, build-defining trait that fundamentally changes how a key aspect of your class works.

Buffing the regen wouldn’t be unappreciated, and buffing some of the other traits that seem like they’d synergise would be great. You’d think Deathly Invigoration would be a natural tie-in with this trait, but the amount of health it actually returns is quite pitiful, unfortunately.

You can see the potential there. There’s a build waiting just under the surface for other changes which would make it an incredibly meaty build- things just need to be fiddled with for it to become a real contender.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Suggestion- Raid Difficulty Settings [Merged]

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That’s fine, but you do not represent everyone. Whether you personally choose to coexist with the current form of raiding has no impact on whether the community as a whole continues to coexist with the current form of raiding.

That’s not what you said. You said you want to be able to coexist peacefully with raids. I am coexisting peacefully in raids and I am in a worse position as you are. Therefore you should be capable of coexisting peacefully in raids.

You said it yourself: you are choosing to not coexist peacefully with raids.

And as usual, you != the community as a whole.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

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Help ArenaNet balance the professions

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Nerf chill it shouldn’t do as much as it should compared to everything else in the game

But Chill is only a problem when Reapers are using it.

Nobody complains about Elementalist chill.
Nobody complains about Revenant chill.
Nobody complains about base Necromancer chill.

Let’s put our thinking caps on for a minute: Is the problem reapers, or is it chill?

Nalhadia – Kaineng

[Suggestion] Resilience: The cure to condition problems

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So basically it’s Aegis except less useful.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Dear ArenaNet, let's talk about Death Magic

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Problems:
1. Soul Comprehension is garbage.
2. Spending 3 traits on minions does not even make you good when you have a full bar of minions.
3. Many traits are passive, do very little, or both. Putrid Defense and Deadly Strength have no active effect or active play. Shrouded Removal is okay but does not have throughput.

Gold star to Corruptor’s Fervor and Reaper’s Protection, you guys are actually good traits. Beyond the Veil isn’t horrible either.

Fixes:
1. Beyond the Veil eats Soul Comprehension and becomes the new Master Minor.
2. Jam MM effects into one trait or baseline:
Minion damage and health increase baseline.
New trait; minions grant their master increased Toughness and explode when they die. Probably an Adept trait.
3. Add some active goodies to effects:
Putrid Defense creates a 4-second CPC with 40 second CD at your feet when you’re critically struck.
Delete Deadly Strength.
Buff Shrouded Removal to 2/3s or 1/2s.

This leaves you 2 Master Majors, a GM Minor, and a GM Major. Take this with salt, because it doesn’t actually matter, so long as they get something in there:
“When the number of conditions on you exceed the threshold, lay a Well of Power at your feet.” 5 conditions, 60 seconds
“Retaliation causes Bleeding. Beyond the Veil applies when you enter and leave Shroud, and also grants Retaliation.” 1 bleed 3 seconds, 1 retaliation 3 seconds
“Toughness and Protection reduce the damage you take from conditions.” 1%/100toughness, 15%
“Share boons, stunbreaks and condition clears you gain from entering Shroud with nearby allies.”

Nalhadia – Kaineng

WvW Poll 14 June: Desert Borderlands (Closed)

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A proper poll would have been one that was email invite only to WvW players past and present over a certain rank. Not a poll non WvW players and people who have 20 accounts can vote as many times as they like. I pointed that out in the first poll they chunked on forums like this, we have not seen a proper poll as of yet. IF you have 20 accounts, you can vote 20 times.

I mean if someone really wants to win all they have to do is go to Busy PvE centers and start offering gold for people to prove they voted the way they wanted them to. It isn’t like PvE players care what happens in WvW. But that would have to mean people still care enough to do that. LOL

Most people I know are not even voting.. and I didn’t bother telling them there was a poll at this point when I realized how many times I could vote.. There are more than you realize. The thing is people are tired. If you have to tell developers that the purpose of updates is to increase game population, increase player satisfaction, and increase game longevity and they still choose to run off their existing population with the unprofessional way they conducted these polls, ( They didn’t even have to have an option to remove it entirely, they could have just agreed to take it back to beta until players vote on when it is ready as was suggested as a compromise to make sure neither side leaves the game.), taking upgrades away from guilds that some guilds never were able to obtain again, breaking up friends, families, and guilds by server merging/ locking, adding a ton of lame PVE gimmicky crap to WvW that makes more players leave the game than it brings in, it is not worth wasting my time on.

Basically what Anet is doing now is sloppy and ridiculously too little too late, and still in the wrong direction.

EDIT: I did not ask or tell a single person on this game that there was even a poll this time. Not going to bother.

So basically

The people who disagree with you are going to massive efforts to buy votes, and use extra accounts to make extra votes to make themselves seem bigger

And the people who agree with you are tired and apathetic and couldn’t be bothered expending the effort to vote in the poll.

…Huh?

Nalhadia – Kaineng

GS needs massive buff

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Greatsword in all other professions is a viable weapon choice in all game modes.

The necromancer shouldn’t be the only profession with a PvE-specific greatsword.

That’s just making excuses for bad design.

also worth noting that greatsword is the only elite spec weapon that’s considered trash
warhorn and torch are marginal but they do see some use and they are offhand weapons, not 2h weapons

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Limit Champion Boxes to 20 per day

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Please no more timegating. If people want to pursue the drudgery of farming champions for hours on end, then have at, folks, enjoy your champions. If you’re going to change anything, maybe push up rewards elsewhere.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Collaborative Development

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I’m genuinely curious what posted ideas were actually actioned on.

At any rate, I don’t see anything really changing because a CM posted something on the forums. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to take away from this. That you’re listening?… I don’t see it. That you’re going to start listening more in future? Well, some real discussion would actually go a long way to that.

We’re apparently giving you ideas, but we really have no way of identifying which of our contributions are beneficial and which ones are wasted time on our part. Do we have a real impact on the development of the game, or not?

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Anet, when is DBL back in the mix?

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That’s a shame, I was really hoping we’d be seeing it in this coming update. Still, thankyou for the heads up. Hopefully we can see it again ASAP.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Misconceptions regarding Level gating.

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Personal Story starts at level 10, all of the mobs/encounters were balanced for that level 10. You have all of you main skills for weapons 1-5 at level 10. Its just fine doing Personal Story. Maybe if you actually tried the patch you’d know this instead of making baseless arguments.

Mesmers are actually REALLY BAD at low levels. You have next to no clone generation. Not having Decoy and Mirror Image (which you won’t have because no utilities yet!) and only one weapon set generating clones (no weapon swap yet!) is really, really painful.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

CDI- Guilds- Guild Halls

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I don’t remember saying locked. I said how would you change some of the current functionality to be more integrated with guild halls? I don’t think functionality has to go away to do this and I’d like to see what value you all might envision a guild hall could bring to things like Guild Missions, the current Guild upgrade system, etc.

Jon

Let’s go all the way.

Your guild instance map is seperated into four sections: Politics, economics, art of war and architecture. As you upgrade these things through the I-VI lines, the sections will get grander; for example, if you have level 0 politics, you have no building on that section, if you have level 1, you have a basic lodge, all the way up to a palace at level 6.

The other smaller upgrades have smaller effects on the plot. For example, if you build a guild workshop, you have an actual workshop on your architecture plot. If you have Outsource Asuran Contracting, an Asura hangs out in your Politics building and you can talk to him. If those upgrades are actually doing something then they’re doing something in the guild hall; for example if you’re building something at the workshop, the machinery is running and you have a few NPCs running about working, if you have the Asuran Contractor working, he’s fiddling about on one of those computer things they have. Every upgrade should have something along these lines actually happening in the guild hall to correlate with it.

Also a few upgrades could have added functionality, or new upgrades that come out of them. For example, you can upgrade your Guild Workshop to have crafting tables.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Thoughts/criticisms about the recent changes

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Cmon dude, it’s great.

JQ ticks at almost +600 this morning because BG (#1 NA) has less than 30 people in total between all 4 maps. I’m sure they were all just sleeping this morning and it has nothing to do with the bloodlust buff.

BG’s taking this boycott thing seriously? Fantastic. Good to know I’m not the only one.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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One step forward, two steps back.

Yeah, this does make it easier to make quick purchases through gems. But the price categories line up with very few of the items actually available on the gemstore. And converting gems into an amount of gold makes NO SENSE at all.

How about this: change it back to what it was, and allow people to buy specific items directly through the gemstore. There’s a button which says “buy with gems” and then you put a button that says “buy with gold” and it shows you how much gold you have to spend and you click on it and you buy the thing. One click, no muss, no fuss.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

MD's music sounds more "memorable" than JS's.

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I find Jeremy Soule’s music to be very… Jeremy Soule.

He makes pretty music, don’t get me wrong- but it’s the same music in every game he does. You can transplant TES music straight into GW2 and it doesn’t feel out of place, for example, and I’m worried that he’s kinda generic simply because he’s so popular in fantasy RPG space.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Stop with Time Sinks / Dailies

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They have already said they are going to be adding new ways to obtain them.

How about you just be patient, and maybe even realize that ascended stuff isn’t the end game, its an optional path to take in gearing up your character.

Why’s it taking this long?

No really. Here’s how you make Ascended items far less painful to attain. You make a vendor in the wuvwuv starting locations who sells each Ascended piece for 500 Badges of Honor.

BAM. Done. I have fixed the game.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Death of daily rooms

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Simply put: this is a good thing.

The issue is not that players were using the daily rooms to try to get their dailies completed on each class.

The issue is that players would be bringing in classes that they are unfamiliar with to rated matches to try to clear their dailies and throwing matches because of it.

Side bonus: you can now complete your daily completionist just by winning one Rated match, without relying on the class daily. This is good for the dedicated PvPers, you get the Completionist achievement that bit easier.

If people can’t earn rewards by not actually playing the game anymore, all the better.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

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It's Bold and the Beautiful: the GW2 edition

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Allow us to proceed with the content without forcing us to stop to listen to their girl issues.

Marjory. MARJORY. Stop chatting up your girlfriend and GIVE ME THE KITTEN CRYSTAL.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Dear ArenaNet, let's talk about Death Magic

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What are you talking about? Procs are the worst trait designs out there. They trivialize fights so much with unpredictability and high-impact with no tells.

The others may not be super strong, but their design is way better than most of the others.

I’m afraid I disagree.

A tree that isn’t on the map because it’s filled with garbage isn’t a choice. Build strategy is based around making choices between trees.

If Death Magic is so garbage that it isn’t taken, it doesn’t matter how much you say “it’s well designed because it doesn’t have procs!”, it’s still not taken. It’s not a choice. It’s not good for the build strategy layer.

I would rather have a Death Magic tree that is designed like absolute garbage, but presents a meaningful alternative to Soul Reaping as a defensive line, than an immaculately designed Death Magic tree which never sees play.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

My opinion about the game ? (A rant)

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A little about you? Half of your rant is about you.

You spent a lot of mats on stuff. Yep. Not seeing how that has anything to do with warriors.

Dolyak Stance, Balanced Stance and Last Stand don’t work properly? Uh. Pretty sure they do. Might have something to do specifically with the tower.

Why are you playing with a two-decade old machine? If you like it and want to keep it for nostalgia’s sake then go ahead and keep it, don’t throw it out, but if you want to run new software then you’re gonna need new hardware to match. :x

Nalhadia – Kaineng

WxP/Ranks and Silence.

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Why are they completely silent on the issue?

Because they’ve backed themselves into a corner by making a hard stance that contradicts player sentiment. They know that their position is wrong, but they’re too proud and stuck up to admit it.

Nalhadia – Kaineng

Your perfect patch

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PvE:
-Story mode dungeons will now reward appropriate tokens for the dungeon in question at the end of the run.
A. This incentivises running story mode several times, making it much easier for newer players to complete them
-Dungeons can now have their difficulty tuned on a scale similar to Fractals, with a similar reward/difficulty scale. It is possible to elect to tune down the difficulty scaling after wiping at a boss.
A. Allows the group to place the dungeon’s difficulty at an appropriate place for them
B. Tuning the difficulty down can allow a subpar group to continue through without wasting the run
-All zones have an end boss which drop a chest; all end bosses are related to 3-5 chains across the zone like Temple of Balthazar is dependent on North/Central/South invasions.
A. Encourages participation in all zones
B. Invalidates online timers
-Magic Find, Gold Find, Karma Boosts, Experience Boosts on gear are no longer available; instead added to an account-wide level/talent system which affects drops (like those levels you get in D3 when you’re already 60). MF already on gear will be converted to an equivalent amount of +healing, except for Wayfarer’s, which will be converted to +Condition Duration. MF/GF/Karma/EXP infusions will be converted into Simple Infusions and refunded.
A. Nobody likes carrying an MF-geared player
B. Adding it to a secondary, account-wide system offers a progression system for players without directly affecting power output. May affect economy; advise.
-Ascended trinkets can now be created in the Mystic Forge using those crappy green and yellow trinkets that drop from dungeons, and from BoH gear in wuvwuv.
A. More means to get ascended goodies, possibly unique ascended goodies from particular dungeons
-Altered the DE mob calculations; the game will now favor spawning Veterans and Champions a bit earlier.
A. Moving to veterans over huge masses of normals lowers network requirements and makes it easier to tag
-Damage calculation for certain abilities and traits has been changed to normalise damage done by player characters in PvE.
A. Players in PvE content’s worth is currently measured by their outputs
B. PvE-specific so that it doesn’t affect PvP balance which can be addressed seperately
-Most dungeons have been adjusted to reduce the amount of skippable trash. TAKE THAT COF1
A. lol COF1
B. lol
-That kitten hole in the last boss of HOTW1 has been removed. The beam, too. You have to actually do the boss now suckers
A. This needs to be fixed across the entire game; there are other, similar glitches, but this is the most grievous one that I can find

Wuvwuv:
-All locations can now be upgraded to a new structure once their upgrades have been maxed. For example, Borderlands Garrisons can be upgraded into Castles. These upgrades will remain even when the structure is captured by an opposing team.
A. Games will ramp up as they run their course
-Shrines can now be constructed in certain structures on each map, at the end of upgrade paths. Shrines grant the benefits of runes to all players on that team in WvWvW and in PvE, and can be improved by gathering environmental objects around the zone. Shrines will remain even when the structure is captured by an opposing team, though can be destroyed at the discretion of the guild occupying the structure.
A. Less powerful, more granular replacement for orbs
B. Unique, more interesting effects
C. Help to make wuvwuv objectives more fuzzy than simply CAPTURE ALL THE POINTS
-The green and blue teams’ Borderland maps have been changed; they are now a coastline, Sparkfly Fen-styled area and an Ascalon-styled region respectively.
A. Variety is the spice of life! One map style is boring
B. These maps might be able to be slanted in the favor of red and blue. Arguable whether this is a good idea
-Neutral parties, such as Skritt, Centaur and Krait will carry out sieges on locations, preferring to attack targets held by the teams with the most players on the field and the most held objectives. They will automatically destroy shrines in any location they capture.
A. Help to offset the advantage an overmanned team has against its enemies
B. Give players something to do in dominated maps
C. Randomly destroy shrines to help reduce snowballing
-A new upgrade has been added to the end of each non-camp site’s upgrade tree; the Orb of Command. Any player may take control of the Orb of Command after a long cast time, granting them an overview of the immediate surroundings of the structure, allowing them to cast very powerful class-specific spells- For example, Necromancers can summon a horde of minions to defend the site.
A. Gives high-upgraded sites more survivability against quick raids, but CDs will quickly dry up if reinforcements don’t arrive quickly
B. Can’t reach Trebuchets; still reliable siege weapons to wear down highly upgraded sites
C. Cool buttons for each class to press

Nalhadia – Kaineng

(edited by Sarrs.4831)

swap mainhand & offhand weapons in combat

in Profession Balance

Posted by: Sarrs.4831

Sarrs.4831

Not a good idea. It might be nice to have a way to easily set it up so the same items are in the second weapon set for the sake of saving money, but actively allowing certain classes to have more weapon spreads by swapping their weapons over would be a huge unfair advantage.

because they can?
it is already possible to do this in hotjoin / PvE / WvW as long as the warrior is not in combat.

1. Nobody cares about hotjoin balance.
2. Yes, you can swap out of combat. You’re asking to be able to change in combat, which is a completely different thing.

Nalhadia – Kaineng