Guild Wars 2

John Smith.4610:

GW2 TP is awesome. Not only is it good for our game, it’s good for the industry.

Information brought to you by a completely unbiased source. :P

Seriously though, I love the way ANet is handling the TP. That they’ve brought economists onto their team to handle the economy in itself speaks volumes about them. I really don’t have any complaints about it, and I’m looking forward to continuing using it in the future.

Morthur.3894:

there are sooo many other, far more important things that this game totally lacks before we should start worrying about irrelevant cosmetic details that 95% of the MMO demographic don’t give a flying kitten about).

Holy generalization, Batman!

Morthur.3894:

I couldn’t possibly care less what my character looks like if I tried. After all I like to play MMORPGs and not dress dolls.

You are playing the wrong game.

Eddard.2930:

Why the heck would they go there? That place is DANGEROUS.

Because the Consortium is handling the relocation of those refugees. They were the ones that tried to make Southsun Cove into a destination vacation resort, so it wouldn’t surprise me they’re using this as a means to get people onto that island.

Apart from the glaring error of not putting backdraft back in, flame thrower has now been fixed back to broken status.
Previously a double detonation would pressure an invader and allow my little grp to use strategies to live and with luck succeed, ie the opposing thief insta jibbing everyone would have to think twice about his approach. Now Detonation is hitting for 2k crits in full zerker gear.
No food buffs mind you but yah, thanks for nothing. For the love of god, open a test server or go and play wvw with your fixed tweaks before giving us all a big cup of fail.

RIP Double Super Elixir. I will miss using your absolute superb ability to help me run away from people in WvW. I can not count how many times you saved me by removing an immobilize + cripple\frost. I never expected this…. Why do bad things always happen to good people!? [Warriors are not good people(JayKay!!! /SuicideOff)]
I’m interested to play around with KR for bomb kit in a DPS build but not impressed with that GC of 20s.
How could the devs be so careless and devastate multikit builds?

To be fair, the patch shows how much the devs are focusing on the engineer profession, and that they really want to reach their vision for the class. I don’t think it reflects well on their understanding of how to actually successfully play an engineer, though.

Major nerf with minor things that don’t make up for it. Large enough to break classes all together

Played this class since Beta, Ill switch over to my Elem now as main. Thanks for wasting my time. I normally don’t rage post but honestly what the hell are they doing

/agree

Take away the stuff that is most used and replace it with stuff thats barely worth using.

Wuffles.5319:

20 second static cooldown..not cool…not cool at all. Theres no way a -good- engineer who switches kits like crazy could ever keep track of and make use of kit refinement now.

Totally agree. I play 3 and sometimes 4-kit (depending on the situation) and switch like mad to use all the skills I want/need. It would help if there was some indication of how much time was left on the cooldown, but really…it’s just too long. Also, as far as utility and usefulness to a group, triggered super elixir was awesome. I feel naked and useless without it. Alas.

I’m ditching Kit Refinement for Acidic Elixirs.

Then I’m going to drink my elixirs…

Farewell, cruel world…

Once upon a time there was a humble trait called Kit Refinement. It came from a poor family of Adept traits, but overcame its lowly origins and rose to become a favourite choice for multi-kit engineers. Often these hard working patrons would put aside an extra 10pts in the Tools trait line just so they could hire Kit Refinement and its other Adept cousin, Speedy Kits, for their builds.

Then one day, instead of treating Engineers as merely an afterthought in their lofty schemes, the lords of the land, the ANet, turned the full might of their attention to the much maligned Engineers. “We shall help Engineers achieve their true place in the land of Tyria.” they said.

So the mighty ANet started to listen to the tales in the marketplace about Engineers, they tried sparring with a few Engineers, and even donned Engineer’s armour and tried out some of the Engineers tools in their mighty arenas. “Yes.” they said. “We finally see that some things are indeed not right with the Engineer. We will fix this.” And they started to make changes to the powers granted to Engineers.

But the prejudices of the mighty ran too deep for the fate of the lowly Kit Refinement. “What is Kit Refinement doing in so many builds?” the ANet asked. “Why is it that Engineers find it so useful? How are they getting such benefit from a mere Adept trait?” And so the fate of Kit Refinement was sealed.

The first warning Kit Refinement had of the change in its fate was when it received orders to slow down, to stop being so helpful all the time. But the orders were garbled and although Kit Refinement had to curtail its assistance to its more interesting but less powerful Engineer patrons, it was still able to do its work for the most powerful engineers.

The mighty Anet heard how their s instructions had been garbled, and how Kit Refinement was still helping the most powerful engineers, and they decided that was enough. “A lowly Adept trait should never be allowed such power! Return Kit Refinement to its lowly Adept status, and make sure it says there!”

Now Kit Refinement wanders the back alleys of Tyria, hoping for a visit from a kindly Engineer; hoping against hope that some curious Engineer will try it out in a build, at least for a little while, so that it can get a brief taste, a brief reminder, of the glory it once knew.

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As far as builds go, Kit Refinement is dead. There are now plenty of better traits to take than Kit Refinement – given the state of Engineer traits, that isn’t saying much.

OMFG just turn off player name visibility, it’s not a big deal not to see a name. If you’re interested in the player you can just get a cursor to them it’s not a big deal to see or not to see green crap text all over the screen.

MikeRocks.9243:

ContraBit.9174:

buffed? you mean nerfed

You didn’t know? Thieves are so overpowered that even their nerfs are buffs!

“What doesn’t buff you, makes you stronger.”

Pandabro.8743:

Xavori.3768:

I have three warriors.

Is this a common thing? Why would you need three of the same profession? Is the cost of switching traits really hitting your pocketbook?

Hello. My name is Xavori. I’m an altaholic.

I have 71 alts in Champs Online but not even 30 in GW2, so obviously I’m getting better

It comes down to three things
1) I like trying out differing stuff works through as much different content as possible.
2) It’s easier to just kit out a toon exactly the way I want it and never mess with it.
3) A lot of my toons ‘theme’ comes from how they look or their name, and I’ve carried these through lots of games.

For example, my main, Xavori is ALWAYS a rogue-type. He was actually born in pen and paper AD&D. He was well known in UO. He was in DAoC. He was in WoW. He was a witchhunter in Warhammer Online cuz that was as close as I could get. He started out as a scrapper in City of Heroes (again, as close as I could get) but was deleted and remade when City of Villains came out (how many people do you know delete complete characters just because they have to have the name and theme fit as close as possible…I’m so broken in the head). He was in WoW. He was in the Star Wars beta (both games…I never played past beta because while I’m broken, I’m also smart enough to spot train wrecks from way off) He’s in Champs and here. He’ll be in whatever game I move on to from here. Heck, if a single player game lets me create characters (ie. mass effect), he ends up there, too.

I am unreasonably excited for this.

I only buy stuff with gems that I know what I will get. Not this money sink through online gambling.

Arche.7489:

It’s amazing how many of you complain about how they do weapon skins in BL Chests WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME FOR FREE! My god, content doesn’t magically make itself.

We do not play the game for free we bought it and I dare say many of us have spent quite a bit of money in the gem store. Which is a BtP game’s main source of income.

The point is we would spend much much more if we could buy the things we want outright.
I really don’t understand this obsession with hiding things in gambling boxes, skins are great, we all want more skins.
Let people buy them already

Account bound eh? Now you guys know how I feel about endless mystery tonics… they have a drop rate of 1/1000 in black lion chests and are account bound. Utterly ridiculous. Harder to get them than legendaries.

It would be lovely if we had more hairstyles, especially longer ones and more for Sylvari (Male and Female, I like Unisex hairstyles more then anything.)

Some people are going to say that thieves will always win, others will say necros always win, and unless you already know the answer, chances are you won’t actually be able to tell who is right.

In reality, if you are holding all gear/situation/skill, etc equal, it comes down to builds and chance. My minion build can completely destroy burst thief builds, yet PD thieves and sometimes SB thieves will destroy me. I have other builds that can handle PD thieves really well, but get pooped on by full burst builds.

It just comes down to whose build counters the others, and if anyone gets a lucky move off.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

OP – You could always just make a Precursor using the Mystic Forge method. It’s a lot more fun than waiting for TP prices to drop. And it’s technically free if you farm a lot, and get Rares/Exotics of the weapon you want.

That’s not technically free since you have the opportunity cost of selling the weapon.

Your leaving because of Tybalt? Ok leave because of treherne leave because of logan but Tybalt

Hating Tybalt is like hating kittens

His hair looks like what happens when a huge mohawk gets wet and runs out of stiffener.

Anyone else notice that his wardrobe is backwards between the march banner and the ingame shot?

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/be46ffeature.jpg

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/92eabBraham-4.jpg

He has the one and only cool Mace skin in the freaking game.

Totally unfair.

Ryethiel.2637:

“Valiant young Norn”
“This young Charr”

Obviously, they were trying to make them look more “young” when compared to others, but tried a little too hard. :P (Braham isn’t SO bad)

I just hope that doesn’t mean… Mother of God… Their voices. >.>

Braham is essentially the human male model norn sized…which if this was an available bodytype for male norn ALL my characters would be norn. As it stands the current male norn bodytype is rediculous unless you are wearing the heaviest looking armor you can find.