Guild Wars 2

@Fearchara: It needs no gliding mastery investment past basic gliding and I guess it was just assumed that you almost get that instantly You don’t need any of the upgrades for it anyway.

I don’t actually remember if i glided when i went up there via the roots, though… hmmm…

I’m in the same boat. Also, the runspeed increase. <.<

Most surprising aspects to enjoy was the wells in general. I really like the visuals, the feel and such. With necro wells, they are cool but you are kind of /shrug about using them many times, but I never have that with these.

I’m not a big fan of the shield though. Its focus feels to narrow, when I can have say offhand sword, torch or focus to balance defense and offense.

Almost everybody loses track for at least a small moment, and if you pvp in any game you probably know even half a second can matter. I think there is a certain confusing quality with mesmers.

But yes not saying it’s an ideal situation, especially with the alacrityflames (which look awesome, so i wish the clones would have it!) which is a bit too obvious. Still, kind of hard to balance it i suppose. Pose that you have two classes that deals similiar damage, and one can completely blend in with several clones. How do you ever beat that character except by guessing (multiple times in the fight mind you) or swarming it?

I’d love this, perhaps different colourings/subspecies of smokescales, like the drakes?

I really like having the attack on f2, since you can control what to burst down with it. But at the same time having a controllable smoke field is awesome as well.

Your Revenant sisters and brothers back our thief staff brethren fully in this regard! Our cause has the same origins, the accursed hammer idle, ready stance, walk and runs. Let us unite and make our voices heard… and so on… but mostly hope!

I actually like the Warhorn concept, I love that they have less traditional devices and such as weapons. However, it did not feel like it had much of a place next to dagger or focus when i tried it. I also think it has to do with not feeling like there’s enough synergy compared to the others, and longish cooldowns.

On a personal note, I actually take cooldowns into account when i select weapons – shorter means more fun, usually.

I think it’s great as a general utility weapon, but i think it should do a bit higher damage in its basic attacks, because of the fact that you want to use it along with something else as main in another slot. Swapping to it already takes away specialized skills of the other weapons, so also losing a chunk of damage in addition feels like an unfair tradeoff to the weapon. I think that mostly is because it has very little trait support compared to for example sword or condi weapons in the damage department, widening the gap.

I mean, it’s ok that it’s not the most focused dps weapon, but I think its auto (or the #2) should at least keep it pretty competitive vs other autos.

i think he’s working on becoming our next legend. Roy stance :O

Still think that embrace the Darkness should treat all torment stacks you applied as if the enemy is moving while they’re in range, even if they are standing still.Then you have more justification to use it as a toggle.

This was definitely my main sad with shield being added…

Anybody know how much damage you lose by swapping to staff for certain tasks like the cc break bars? I’m kind of annoyed with how damage traits focus on the sword either through a direct buff or to dual wield; not that I hate sword and it’s a great primary but it is annoying that it doesn’t affect the Hammer or staff if you have those on swap.

Anyway, I suppose the damage isn’t all that important if you swap to it to smash that bar, but I still wonder…

Mallyx and Jalis does the best grunts, really. But still, they’re grunts… :P

Would really love some extra iteration in this area but since there are voice actors involved I’m not sure how feasible it is.

Demented Yak.6105:

I want a spear on land.

This, too. I actually found an exotic today in Verdant Brink that turned my staff into a bladed one. Lightward battlestaff or so… although it seems extremely highpriced on TP. Anyway it made me happy for the quoted reason… at least it’s got the looks

Ranged throwing spear would be cool too. Not sure why these weapon types are dead-set for underwater…

I think a condi ranged weapon is the main thing I feel missing.

I don’t mind it as such, as it kinda displays what you have active, but i hate when it clips really badly on sloped terrain. It looks so wonky then XD

Not going to lie, it would be the coolest weapon in the game if it was a melee auto, or had impactful auto chain throw animations.

Now it’s just awesome.

I’ve been pondering, what if Embrace the Darkness actually empowered the torment condi (or applies a player-specific version next to) that modifies its power when a target isn’t moving? That way you could weave it in for stationary fights more, giving it more of an impact.

You really notice it a lot if you run around collecting map completion, a good way to test it for sure.

100% agreed with AgitatedFox.

I can’t actually see it, maybe because I don’t yet know what the new FX looks like. Or… i guess it’s just too obscure. :P

I only think the very long cooldowns are silly (like staff 5) given how rapidly we use up energy; In a vacuum perhaps it would be too strong if it had say 4 sec cooldown, but in actual combat you have so many ways to spend the energy that any weapon skill mostly becomes a filler before you swap stance, or else if you camp a stance you’re still conserving as needed. In that way energy already functions as the general cooldown buffer it is.

The only time I could see it break is if you did go with a 0 Cd and if one weapon skill would trump almost all the benefits you could get with that energy on its own. Let’s use staff #5 again as an example, and in that example it would simply do more damage than everything else, including things like impossible odds or glint facets. In that case it’d feel broken. So i’m not sure if the removal of cds, while it’d feel more natural, would be worth the potential headache considering the amount of skills the energy fuels. Remember initiative isn’t as all-encompassing for thief, they typically use utilities standalone.

i would like to see reductions on the longest though, 10 seconds or so I think should be the very max for a weaponskill.

The second one is really weird after opening with a lunge, otherwise it’s ok in my book. would love some work on the 2nd. Other than that i hope they will give us a real staff idle/walk/run since it looks so weird with the Hammer one.

I think they are very different but the Glint heal is one of the best in the game in my book, the passive is great and the heal is incredible provided you can time it. I think Ventari should have an even shorter recast timer tho. it should be when the tablet stops moving, that’s it. It still costs energy and it doesn’t heal op amounts, if it’s a problem in raid stacking just make it have to move a short distance to heal at all rather than have the clunky feel cooldown.

But it’s also correct that the fact we have tos wap legends at times for only the heal, is an actual drawback of the class and should be factored in the overall balance (i hope it does) since it locks out other things you might have been doing.

i think this is a problem for both Revenant and Thief. They shouldn’t have the same stance perhaps but the Hammer idle/run is really not that fitting.

I also get this randomly, not sure exactly why. It’s sometimes when I get CC’d (but i don’t know if that is related), sometimes randomly and I have no idea what happened, and sometimes of course due to reaching 0 energy, hehe.

it doesn’t happen very often but i did start to notice it and try to take note when it happens… still not good enough to point a finger at a cause though.

Would love more dialogue and less grunts!

Every thread I read here due to coriosity/interest in its topic seems to lead to a pair of people not able to stop arguing with one another, rather than discussing the topic?

Anyway, I’m having fun with my Reaper; I can’t really give any numbers though. I feel like while Gs and such is melee, Necro can handle melee range better than most classes in the game.

I only dislike stuff like this if it has a high chance to fail if you put in a lot of time. I think it’s more than fine to put in 3h, if you know that by the end you’ll have your shot at a pet. but regardless that’s personal opinion and i’m pretty ok with things, except…

Over time these types of events tend to fail more and more because less people need them. That means it will get harder and harder for alts to get access to the pet. That’s my one sad about long group chains.

I just keep a keybind handy to toggle it. When travelling around i turn it off… it’s a nice feature despite some technical hurdles as this

revenants has more than 1 heal with any two legends, it’s how the class is designed. they are individually slightly weaker than average, and they require you to change stance to use the second heal quickly (which can lead to your failure anyway in itself).

If anything is op about Rev I don’t think that part is it.

I have a condi spear with the throw set to autocast in one slot and melee autocast with a power spear in the other, saves bagspace i suppose.

I am more concerned with the empty legend bars, particularly since the only way to have a working swap seems to be Shiro + Mallyx and yet it doesn’t save for underwater so you very rarely have an actual swap in there. The spear melee auto is so good that it doesn’t matter i guess, but still it’s really clunky.

One of the coolest things with HoT for sure.

Some of his thread O_o

/strategically scatters cookies and some kittens around it

I fully agree, the expansion has absolutely amazing soundtrack.

As a roleplayer, I kind of wish I hadn’t trained Pact Commander now due to those trails while walking. Lack of foresight I suppose… would love a toggle. I guess my hopes aren’t high but… I’ll still hope.

for me it’s an outfit thing. I like the glow, but I can’t deny that Mallyx goes 500 times better with my outfit than Shiro does. To be honest I think it would be a lot cooler if it only glowed when you’ve entered combat and/or have weapons drawn.

It would actually be super-awesome if each class had a “FX toggles” section in their char pane, where you can just tick or change visibility for them; I assume some may want them on for pvp visibility and such to spot what the class is doing.

No, gems shouldn’t allow shortcuts like that. I could see maybe an item like an experience scroll for alts sometime, but it should be gained through playing if so.

My mesmer is near max possible right now, and the other 4 are from 125-200 I think.

Laosduude.1690:

Do people even play games to build up their characters anymore? Guess not, lets get everything on a silver platter.

I’m actually one of those who love building up the character as you get a kind of bond to them, that is hard to get if you say, instantly recieve a max level character in a game – feels like a stranger. however, I’ve never quite enjoyed having parts of a class locked away for long, since that’s a pivotal part of building up that unique character.

Now, i don’t think it’s that bad in HoT, I’ll definitely be working on them with my alts – I’ll start small with only the favoured one and the new Revenant, though.

If it’s like other games, we already have the majority of the data. No idea if a-net is doing it like that though.

I really wanna pick Acrobatics but it’s so hard to warrant it with all the conditionals to everything.

Norn that reveres the Raven spirit, obviously.

It’s awesome for any nature or shadowy theme, imo Maybe not the sturdiest-looking for tapping things on the head with…

Nothing, because I will still have my other characters… I’m not a one main type anymore I think (I used to be, but then I realized I can’t do all I want then).

But what I would miss while playing Revenant, that’s probably accessible invisibility or stealth, or clones.

It’s pretty hard to make a correct statement about places specisalizations have right now, since when they add the new spec it looks really shiny in a vacuum but the older ones won’t have that glamour ( :p ) of newness that makes it stand out in our minds.

However, I think it’s safe to say that the speed-based boons and effects are very powerful.

Yes, remember that energy is essentially a visual representation of cooldowns. It’s similiar to thief initiative which is just a shared cooldown pool for thief weapon skills visually represented.

Anyway, can’t wait for the Revenant.

Really dislike the effect when trying to colour coordinate (it’s a thing of mine…) but I can live with it I suppose.

I just wanna say that GS #2 is the sexiest animation in the game.

I am not sure if I would call it a flaw so much as being unflexible. Revenant is flexible in one way when it comes to having two playstyles on hand, and in another very much not. You have to make a judgement call and decide when you can swap, but I also find this seemingly to be the main drawback with the class. If you picture a scenario where you are ‘tanking’ or healing your team and absolutely must have something up to counter a certain mechanic or player skill, then you are very unflexible and have to sit in your legend even if the situation otherwise doesn’t warrant it.

The question then becomes, is it balanced to run only part your class for periods, or not? I’m sure the balance team keeps that in mind though.

If I had more funds right now I would go Zealot… but since I don’t and alt too much it’ll be a mix of Cleric armour and Zerker accessories for me, in the short term.

I wonder if it’s a form of tax for the clones. Like, in the Necro forum just now there’s a thread about axe and how it’s designed due to special mechanics. Maybe Condi just can’t be very top of the line for Mesmer, because we can hide and let them tick a little (or a lot) more easily than other classes?

That’ll impact PvE of course but… it’s pretty much the only thing i can think of since even if the numbers are tuned there is just less support for Condi in the mesmer setup than power.