Guild Wars 2

Having the option to insta detonating the turret over another field is good, IMO. They should keep the “wait a little” focus. It creates more alternatives, and a more skilled gameplay.

IMO being super careful is a good way to make mechanics that need skill. I’m not saying I like the turret changes… but I like “super careful” challenges.

The problem is… I’m not sure most internet connections would really allow to be that careful with timing.

IMO the extra racial skills are more reasonable, because they hardly would mess the economy, PvP balance or gemstore sales… They still would be a lot of work for little impact…

Sartharina.3542:

The Greyhawk.9107:

Tekey.7946:

The Greyhawk.9107:

Yeah, pretty much. And its not just turning into just another clone, mounts simply don’t FIT in this game from a mechanical stand point.

What mechanical points are you referring to? Waypoints?

Waypoints, the Swiftness buff (and all the skills, traits, masteries, consumables, and runes affected by said buff), Asura Gates, Nuchok Wallows, Thermal Propulsion, etc. ect. ect.

“But it’ll only be in the Xpack maps!” Yeah, they said that about gliding too.

Swiftness is a combat buff, and good for short out-of-combat sprints – still useful even when we do have mounts. Speed Boost mushrooms aren’t on every map. Wallows and Thermal Propulsion are for fast transit across maps far faster than even mounts could ever be. Asura gates are for inter-map travel, not intra-map travel. Waypoints have been lacking ever since Season 2.

The “Maintain 100% swiftness on something other than Daredevil or Druid” rotations are simply an annoyance to tolerate getting from Point A to Point B, and will not be missed.

Swiftness is NOT a combat buff. Is a general buff, who some of us value OVER combat options. It is part of an intended design which adds oportunity cost to build options, making possible to create exploration builds separated from combat ones, therefore making the game more interesting, adding more diversity and playstyles to the game.

That “annoyance” is a great part of what make exploration fun and challenging.
Would you say “DPS rotations are simply an annoyance to tolerate getting from living mob to dead mob.” Of course not.

If Anet somehow (through speedy mounts, proliferation of speed mushrooms, or even due to wp excess), someday made swiftness builds obsolete, the game would lose a lot of what makes it good in the first place.

Legendary Armor

Medium and light armor now has fully covered asura toes, in and out of combat.
Fixed an issue with chest-piece sizing on asura and sylvari females.
Fixed an issue that allowed legendary armor to be salvageable.
Fixed an issue with light female armor for humans and sylvari in which portions of the back of the chest piece would clip.
Fixed an issue that caused the tip of the light-armor skirt to clip with the ground.
Fixed a clipping issue with medium armor and charr tails.
Fixed an issue in which players who unlocked a different class of armor for Refined Envoy than they did for Experimental would not receive the associated Experimental skins.
Fixed an issue with the Bobblehead Tonic and Bobblehead Laboratory when legendary armor is equipped.
Fixed an issue in which precursor recipes that became available after the first legendary armor set was obtained would not be account bound.
Reduced the distance between the left shoulder piece and the player model on medium armor.
Fixed an issue in which darker dyes would appear washed out and harder to see on legendary heavy armor.
Fixed recipe text on the pop-ups for Gift of Dedication, Gift of Prowess, and Gift of Prosperity.
Fixed an issue in which having multiple chronomancers generating clones simultaneously in an instance would cause a drop in performance.
Fixed an issue in which the effect from the legendary hammer Juggernaut was not properly applied to legendary armor.

I’m incredibly grateful, and at the same time, sadder than ever.

They DID fixed Asura toes clipping! They CAN do it! And FAST! This is amazing!!!

Yet most of the other boots in the game still clips! And now I’ll have to raid if I wan’t another decen pair of boots…

Thanks for the fixing… please fix the rest too. Please.

And… what is the supossed improvement? That we can use the toolbelt with the turret up? They seriously believe that was the reason why people exploded turrets right away?

santenal.1054:

Patch note says:
Turrets: Added a 0.5-second recharge delay to detonate-turret skills, when a turret is first placed, in order to prevent accidental detonation.

Well they ALMOST solved the problem of detonating before overcharging but I can still manage to detonate before the overcharge kicks in when I spam the healing button
if anyone knows how to inform the devs about this that would be cool because now is the time that most of such issues will be resolved (patches)
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Declare a bug in-game. IMO is probably the fastest way.

I used to manually pulse regeneration from a placed HT during longish group fights, detonating the field with another blast (not destroyng the turret) for AOE healing. Now I can’t do that. NOW I have no reason to have the turret up.
But they weren’t solving that. They were solving the fact that people only used the toolbelt skill. Aka, this change is for raiders that use rifle turret.

I used to manually pulse regeneration from a placed HT during longish group fights, detonating the field with another blast (not destroyng the turret) for AOE healing. Now I can’t do that. NOW I have no reason to have the turret up.

But they weren’t solving that. They were solving the fact that people only used the toolbelt skill, never deploying the turret at all. Aka, this change is for raiders that use rifle turret.

From your description it looks like a severe case of you needing to adapt a little. I’m not saying the turret is better now, and I think you could be facing a bug, but the turret is now supossed to activate the burst on deploy, just as you say.

Maybe I’m wrong and they put some kind of RNG in the burst timing… I hope not.

IMO one of the best part of the whole game were the first levels of the personal story, only because they explored, hands on, the different cultures from GW2 world.

A new race would (should) add that: tangible, close to the player lore. IMO that is totally worth the work it needs.

It is worth it.

My little Asura FT engie clearly like Talking Heads
Burning Down the House

They were talking about a modified comeback, were gyros only dazes when detonated, not when destroyed or expired.

Vayne.8563:

The “imposter” idea was only just revealed at the end of the last episode. It may be three months for us, but it’s not 3 months for the characters in the story.

We’re in the middle of a serial, not at the end of it. It wasn’t built up with foreshadowing because it’s not a mystery in the first place.

Agreed. The question is
WHAT the kitten WAS it, then?!
Its like they wanted to write something bad just for the sake of doing it.

Ashantara.8731:

There is a thread on this exact topic already:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lwd/How-would-you-rank-the-new-maps-so-far/first#post6574297

True.
My summary, anyway:
From really fun, beautiful and interesting, to lame, boring and repetitive.

Draconis Mons>>Ember Bay>>>Bloodstone Fen>>>>>>>Lake Doric>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bitterfrost.

I love Rata Sum, but I also park most of my characters in the Havoc’s Heir.

They already explained somewhere that we will only able to use 1 of the pool of available Elite Specs at a time. Less variables to control, easier to keep balanced, easier to make more, horizontal growth.

However, they also said the Elite Specs weren’t supposed to allow power creep, they should have been only new choices, equaly viable than the base Specs…

Totally personal opinion:

Typical D&D Dragons bore me to death. GW2 Dragons are closer to Lovecraftian ancient gods, which I like much more.
Classic demons are even more cliche and boring than normal dragons. And common Angels? GOD, please save me of that dull stereotype.

I would HATE for GW2 to go that overused, maniqueistic, excedingly unimaginative way. Really, please don’t do it. Balthazar gimmicks are already bad enough.

HOWEVER. Angels and Demons can also be done right. It requires a lot of creativity, raw talent and the willingness to not respond to the easier to use and sell stereotypes. There are some precious few examples out there …

Asur.9178:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Which one do you like best? That’s all that matters, not what someone else may think.

Good luck.

It is a good practice to read an entire post, and not just the title, before posting a response.

Sorry, I wasn’t able to understand your first post, or how it relates to the question in the topic title. Could you explain it in a more compact way?

Thanks for the advice, but I don’t believe I need it.

I will keep criticizing every single thing I think Anet is doing wrong, AND supporting the amazing game they have made (through recommendation and money) at the same time.

The first is not contrary to the second. They are part of the same interest in making GW2 grow.

Amaimon.7823:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Amaimon.7823:

The only mount I’ll ever approve of are the two coconuts from Monty Python’s

It would require having an NPC running behind us with the coconuts and the player character using the “riding a horsie” emote. (And they could sell more inventory space on the NPC’s backpack).

I’d be for that 100%.

would be great for next april fool’s
IF, and >IF< we get mounts, I would so pay for a mount that this is this (the coconut gig)

+1000 and full agreement with all of this.

The orange energy was from Primordus. The blue one was from Jormag. The machine exchanged them a few times, launching blue energy into Primordus and orange to Jormag, far in the north. Balthazar put himself in the way to absorb some of that.

What made the thing really confusing was to see Primordus right there, while not seeing anything about Jormag anywhere.

Jerus.4350:

For me FT is that kit. When I want to do some effortless PVE farming, load up the FT build and semi afk my way to victory.

While the FT can be very lazy if you just 111, it also requires a lot of things nades don’t, if you want to play it well: Knowing how to correctly plant Napalm in the floor so more mobs got caught in the burn, when and to which direction use air blast so your group get the most from the CC, where to put yourself so Flame Blast crosses the most foes and explode causing the more damage, where and what to combo with the blast, etc. You can use it smartly to attack through obstacles, but being medium range means to get close to foes, so you need to be moving all the time.

All the 5 grenades are the same attack, no positioning needed, no real CC, no interesting animations. In the end, Nades are nothing but damage. Best strategy is to find a good protected position and just attack from afar, whitout even moving, while the rest of the group holds the mobs in position.

Ryudnard.2587:

I’ve been raiding for little over a month. I find myself struggle at tier 2 fractals. So, there you go. I am an avergae guy.

As of now, I’ve killed every boss except Xera. I got wiped more than 50 times at Vale Guardian until I got the first raid boss kill.

I do not believe raiding needs EASY MODE. It is designed to be hard, thereby more rewarding. My only issues were accessibility. I found it very difficult spotting training groups.

There are indeed a lot of players willing to learn. However, there are only a few commanders willing to teach at the sacrifice of their own time and resources. They don’t get anything in return. I hope Anet can find a way to encourage more train runs by rewarding those friendly commanders. They are truly worthy of the raiding community.

What do you guys think about implementing in-game squad voice chat? This can be a huge change to WvW, Raids, World Bosses, etc.

How much uninterrupted time do you need for each attempt? How did you finally got into a group?

IMO it is possible the term “Deux ex Machina” is not the more precisely, canonically correct. What’s the word we should use to describe that ill staged, sudden, annoying Lazarus Mystery/Balthazar Reveal?

Totally agree, Draxynnic. While Grenades do require continued dedication to place the attacks, I don’t think that is enough to make them interesting (or the right way to do it). On the contrary, I think they are the second most boring skill set to use with Engie, only surpased in dullness by the bomb kit.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Not every goal needs to be specified as an in-game achievement.

Plus, the list of dagger skins constantly evolves (even excluding those that derive from the gem shop).

Maybe they could make it as ever evolving tiers? Every 50 skin a new tier, or something like that.

There was a dev created poll about it in the forums. Clipping voters were more by a good difference.

Anela.3867:

I want to keep both armor skins and outfits. Outfits are the only way my Asura Guardian can wear dresses. She doesn’t want to have to wear heavy armor all the time.

What we need is more variety of armor: some dresses for heavy asura, in your case, some pants for medium and light… Outfits are NOT a solution. They are only a cheap patch.

I like it. I would love to get a beautiful unique rifle skin after collecting all the rifle skins there are in the game. However I don’t think it could be a priority for Anet right now.

People keep saying raids require skill. I think it must be true… However, skill is NOT what defines raid difficulty.

- People whitout skill can still be carried. The mere fact that there is “selling” of raid completion is proof of this.

- Very skilled people are still unable to raid because factors not related to skill: access to 10 man groups; availability of long, uninterrupted, scheduled and frequent time periods for raiding; language and communication options; etc. Lots of skilled people are not being rewarded.

There goes the “reward for the skilled”. Change it for “reward for people with lots of time to play” and I’ll believe it.

IMO the raid’s entry level is too high, mostly due to needing people and time in quantities not easily affordable to everyone. Maybe they also require a lot of skill, but I don’t know. I have never been able to experiment with a group decent enough to really get into the “get better” level.

All the tries I’ve done consist of about 40 minutes of organization, profession & gear filtering, and specting “one more” to show; then 15 minutes of wipes; then someone goes away; then the cycle begins again. Then I have to go too, because it simply impossible to me to stay more than 1 hour and half totally dedicated to the game, due to real life reasons.

That being said, I don’t think the Raids or even the new Legendary Armor counts as real “Gear Progression”. They are somehow alike, but not even close to what other MMOs do with levels and power creep.

Even being inaccesible content for many, GW2 raids aren’t that evil.

zealex.9410:

you dont understand.. on th blogpost the medium set which was equiped by asura had diff boots which had 3 finger extentions so it would cove each finger. Now how did it end up in the game with these 2 extra extentions on the fingers missing is beyond me.

The medium set, ONLY when in fight stance, DOES have 2 extra toe extensions. AFAIK, they only cover the toes from a proper frontal angle, and don’t work at all when looking the toon from behind.

That’s the reason the boots seems ok in the blog photo, but clips in game.

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

I don’t know if MO acknoledged the veracity of the leaks, but in the last AMA they said the next episode will be the last one for this season, then the new expansion will be released within a similar schedule as the LS episodes, and Season 4 will begin inmediately after, also in the same cadence of 2-3 months.

Make some math, and you’ll see they have to be really close to a finished product by now. (I doubt they would risk another “unfinished” Xpac).

Considering Anet is so close to the new announcement, then looking at the way the leaks cleanly connect, and then examining the beautiful, detailed and very finished art in the last one, we can suppose the leaks must be true. I doubt someone could make a hoax so detailed and well timed just to… what? Made fun of people?

We all know war is bad. 99% of the time, it is just mutual killing motivated by economic interest and concerted by a very well guarded group. We all know this.
But wars still get fought, and soldiers still are convinced they are fighting in the “right” side. Why? Because there IS honor in war. Most of the time, honor is all there is in war.

The point is we don’t need to question if war has honor. The point is we should question honor, in the first place, because when it is not a grave mistake, it is a blatant lie…

Why “raid people” has to get anything “special” for them? Because raids are hard? Why isn’t there something special for people who discover JP routes, then? Or for people who do the “ironman mode”? Or for good WvW commanders? There are lots of hard tasks in the game, some I would argue harder than raiding. Why are raiders treated with such privilege?

There are like 3 or 4 medium boots in the whole game that DON’T make asura’s lateral toes clip through. Ascalonian Sentry is a good one, and the Prototype (cultural tier 3) too.

I truly thought they will make correctly the Legendary ones, because, well, it is the kittening LEGENDARY ARMOR!

But no. So there died my only possible motivation to make Legendary Armor.

I don’t think it is “that bad”. It still has a wrong approach, that robs control from the player, becoming both inferior to other alternatives and harder to truly balance. RNG is always poor approach for combat mechanics, even more in PvP.

There are some technical criteria you can use to make more objective evaluation of writting. The “not foreshadowed, not relevant, hastily presented plot twist”, for example, would be without any doubt classified as bad writing by any serious, objective and detached professional critic. Its just that bad.
The rest can be argued about, but the literal deux ex machina twist was really bad.

I’m so glad my commander is an Asura. I can dismiss all this mess as mere human (even divine-human) incompetence. It all makes much more sense this way.

I think the only mistake this time was to involve the human gods again. Everything was going fine without the need to AGAIN rely on GW1 reference (Almost fanservice, IMO). Lazarus was already a little forced to begin with, then he suddenly turns to be another old character with even less reason to be there?

RNG will never work.

As long as you keep thinking in terms of “farming”, it will never be fast, comfortable or efficient enough.

As far as I remember, those stairs are too steep to climb them, because the whole floating rock is tilted sidewise. I may be wrong, though.

IMO they should stop for a moment and truly take the time to repair whatever is working wrong in their armor production process.

I’m not saying that making armor is an easy task. I’m just saying that is very obvious to me that for Anet is WAY harder than it should be. It is very clear that something is not right from the baseline, and they should aknowledge it once and for all, and fix it.

If they take a year just to make the basics work properly, I would gladly support them. If they take a year to make another half adapted, bulky, weird fitting, not cultural armor, I can’t.

AFAIK needs are tied to things and people. They aren’t floating in the nothing. I need air to survive, and I need company to not feel alone. I also need money to buy groceries, and I need a little plastic shovel to clean my cat’s litterbox.

I could question the “we” in Blaeys declaration. But IMO, the “need” requires more elaboration to criticize. IMO Blaeys need for more information about the oficial standing Anet has about Guild Missions is legitimate. He needs it to quiet an uncertainity that bothers him(her?). I need it too: I need to know if Anet will ever work on Guild Missions again, to feel better, to placate the doubt. Does all this banter about the use of words has any real value? IMO, no, it doesn’t. Blaeys still needs to know.

And do so I. We (more than one people) still need (to feel better and to make choices in our guilds) to know what Anet is going to do about the very stale condition of Guild Missions. Do anyone here have an opinion on the topic?

I would prefer some level of clipping. (on the Backpieces, NOT IN ASURAN TOES)

I choose this only because you aren’t offering us a better alternative. IMO, at minimum, the distance between backpieces and character model should be adjusted in a case to case basis. Some backpieces look good floating, some don’t make sense. This should be the minimum.

Not other outfit, please.

In my opinion:
1) Yes. Is important.
2) Yes. You need to.